Photo of Brian holding record in pool

[Wirestone]

The other issue here is that most folks who make albums, even well-received ones, don't make much money. It's one of the reason so few artists are shedding tears over the slow death of major record labels. One of the best essays on the subject:

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

So touring is pretty much where folks make their bucks. And if Brian doesn't make bucks touring, he sure isn't making it from recent work,

[Andrew G. Doe]

The other issue here is that most folks who make albums, even well-received ones, don't make much money. It's one of the reason so few artists are shedding tears over the slow death of major record labels. One of the best essays on the subject:

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

So touring is pretty much where folks make their bucks. And if Brian doesn't make bucks touring, he sure isn't making it from recent work,

If you're a songwriter, the really big bucks is in the publishing: if Brian still owned his own catalog 1962-69, he'd seriously rich as opposed to just comfortably so.

[Shady]

The other issue here is that most folks who make albums, even well-received ones, don't make much money. It's one of the reason so few artists are shedding tears over the slow death of major record labels. One of the best essays on the subject:

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

So touring is pretty much where folks make their bucks. And if Brian doesn't make bucks touring, he sure isn't making it from recent work,

If you're a songwriter, the really big bucks is in the publishing: if Brian still owned his own catalog 1962-69, he'd seriously rich as opposed to just comfortably so.

Damn shame what Murray did.

What kinda world do we live in where a man can't undo what his abusive father did,

I'm starting to think Prince was right! 

[The Heartical Don]

This one?

I have that one as a cover shot for a SMiLE bleg, on the Chapter One label. In fact, this CD is simply a copy 'taken' from the first Japanese 'true' SMiLE bleg from 1989, you know, the one that for the very first time released the long sessions of Good Vibrations and Heroes And Villains to the world. Oh, those were the high points in my collector's life... at a fair I could grab both the 1985 SMiLE LP on Brother and that Japanese CD. Needless to say I 'shuffled' back to the train home, constantly eyeing that plastic bag lest one ignorant idiot would steal it from under my nose, inspecting the contents, seeing 'nothing of interest' in there (no money or drugs, that is) and throwing it in the river... the horror... the horror...