Brian's Autobiography

[c-man]

It was the first Beach Boy book I ever got. I then bought Smile: the Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece. As you can imagine for a while I thought Mike Love was Satan reincarnate. It was only when I read Catch A Wave that I finally got a more balanced perspective.

Timothy White's "The Nearest Faraway Place", while also not perfect, gives a pretty balanced perspective as well.  Recommended to anyone who hasn't already read it by now.

[TdHabib]

#2 is open to debate - after the first Landy era, Brian was seeing someone else, Steve Schwartz, and getting along pretty well. Sadly he was killed in a climbing accident and Brian ended up being looked after by Stan Love & Rocky Pamplin.

Do we have a date when Steve Schwartz died?

It's interesting to trace Brian's replase b/c I have some shows from later in the year where he's putting forth and sounds good but from what I've understood he started to decline around the summer of 1977. This picture is from the summer and about as good as I've seen Brian after the Brian's back era:

[rab2591]

#2 is open to debate - after the first Landy era, Brian was seeing someone else, Steve Schwartz, and getting along pretty well. Sadly he was killed in a climbing accident and Brian ended up being looked after by Stan Love & Rocky Pamplin.

Do we have a date when Steve Schwartz died?

It's interesting to trace Brian's replase b/c I have some shows from later in the year where he's putting forth and sounds good but from what I've understood he started to decline around the summer of 1977. This picture is from the summer and about as good as I've seen Brian after the Brian's back era:

sh*t that beard is badass! Okay it's settled, I'm growing a beard.

[Andrew G. Doe]

#2 is open to debate - after the first Landy era, Brian was seeing someone else, Steve Schwartz, and getting along pretty well. Sadly he was killed in a climbing accident and Brian ended up being looked after by Stan Love & Rocky Pamplin.

Do we have a date when Steve Schwartz died?

Spring-ish 1977