What exactly happened with Joe Thomas?
♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇:
Brian hinted in several interviews that he just produced the vocals, much like on Stars & Stripes.
Heck in one issue of Open Sky, there was an interview with Paul Zallo where Brian basically disses the album. I don't have it nearby, but he said something on the lines of "It's not my kind of music at all-well, vocally it is" and implies what I said above.
Sheriff John Stone:
Yeah, Fear 2 Stop, I remember reading an article where Brian disses his 1988 solo album. He said something about not really liking the songs - which he wrote! I wonder if that's a trend with Brian? When he releases an album, he talks about how hard he worked on it, how proud he was of it, and that it's some of the best work he's ever done. Then, as time goes by...
♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇:
I think that had a lot to do with the situation he was in at the time...probably brings back bad memories. With Imagination, it sounded like he was geniunely displeased with the songs. Maybe AGD or someone can shed light on just how much input Brian had with the writing. My guess is "not much".
the captain:
Quote from: Sheriff John Stone on January 13, 2006, 09:51:27 PM
And if the production of the instrumental tracks was so bad, why didn't Brian say or do something about it. He is credited (along with Joe Thomas) as the producer and the arranger of the album.
I think that the key to this thought is what Ian said, that sometimes Brian has terrible taste. It isn't that the production is BAD, exactly, but more that it's in bad taste. It's yet another attempt at modernizing the sound at Brian Wilson, but it comes up with a too-late take on styles of music and production that had already fallen out of favor with most people by the late 90s. It sounds like nauseating, easy-listening adult contemporary music. That isn't to say that Brian ought to have gone metal or something, but just that it's like the easy way out in many cases. I agree with some of you that his vocals are better on this album than on some of the others, but the instrumental tracks are just disgusting. The guitar sounds, the keyboard sounds...ugh. They aren't bad--expertly played, of course. But it's just bad taste to do things that way. Listen to Lay Down Burden live, then on this disc. It's a difference in taste, and I strongly believe this one shows bad taste. Maybe it was Thomas', maybe Brian's, maybe both's. But it's rancid at times, and unfortunate.
Howdy Doody:
Imagination is not a cd that I like that much. I wish he was allowed to do the new cd he is working on without the EXPERT help that always seems to seek a chunk of credibility by being associated with Brian Douglas Wilson. Brian as well seems not to care as much about the final mixes he does. Darian is a great person creatively for BW to work with. I do agree that Brian still does beautiful vocal arrangements, though constantly comparing everything he does to yesterdays music is unfair and unhealthy for him.
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