If you could ask Brian any question...

[The Shift]

Taking this a bit further...I've sometimes thought what it would be like to hang out with Brian for a night without any of his "handlers".  I would love to sit in my living room with all of my Beach Boys vinyl and just pick tracks to listen to and talk.  How cool would it be to listen to Love You, Friends, or even Adult Child with him!?  I'd also have to do some jamming with him on piano, guitar or my micromoog.  I wonder what he'd charge for that experience?  There has to be a price for a "personal appearance" like that.  I wonder if $50,000 would do it?     

I bet he'd rather spend the night talking about his kids n' family.

I'd hate to sit around of an evening chatting about the day job.

[Rocky Raccoon]

How are Bruce Johnston's massages?  You seem pretty unenthusiastic about them.  Judging by Bruce's face, David Marks gives better ones.



I just needed an opportunity to post this picture.

[shelter]

Your brain has given the world some of it's most beautiful music, but it also gave you some really hard times. Do you consider yourself blessed or cursed?

[Melt Away]

I'd ask him if he wants to write a song with me.

[pixletwin]

I would ask him to add "When Girls Get Together" to the C50 set list.

[PhilSpectre]

I would ask him if he gets another 10 years to record and produce anything he wishes (beyond a rock n' roll album ), what old unreleased BW/ BBs songs would he be interested in revisiting/ finishing off either solo or with the Beach Boys, ie from the Paley Sessions, late '90s Joe Thomas sessions the unreleased '90s songs with Tony Asher,  and anything else from earlier or recent decades he really wants to go back to, complete and officially release before he checks out/ retires.

Obviously, I would suggest he finish off songs such as It's Not Easy Being Me, You're Still a Mystery, Some Sweet Day, Oh Lord, Chain Reaction of Love, Proud Mary, My Solution, Drip Drop (Teardrops on my Bed), Smart Girls and I'm Begging You Please (with Jeffrey Foskett on lead falsetto) 

[Sound of Free]

I would ask him what kind of stuff he thought about when he used to run out of blow after binging for days and was too depressed to write any music. Did he just watch TV and smoke cigarettes? What did he watch?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fdkg_sNRKc&feature=related

[EgoHanger1966]

Wanna party?

[GuyOnTheBeach]

I'd catch him off guard, by asking him where I can get the best steak in L.A, and after he's relaxed a little, I'd ask him about the keyboards on the BW88 album, whether he enjoyed using the Fairlight CMI, stuff like that, the other big users of it (I'm thinking Gabriel, Bush, Jarre etc) all gave their opinions of it back in the day, but BW has never (as far as I know) spoken about using one. I would then ask him if there is a brand synth he sticks with (I think he has mostly used Korgs in the last few years, so that one may already be answered  )

[HeroAndVillain]

Brian WHY will you not resume using the moog in your music? Cant answer yes/no to that!

My guess is that because a Moog can't play chords, he doesn't play it that much himself, and therefore it rarely occurs to him to use it in his arrangements.

The Moog voyager can be chained together with other voyagers to make a polyphonic Minimoog.

[Jason]

Rare, medium, or well-done? Do you want birthday cake with that?