Last known pictures of Dennis and Carl

[donald]

Here's the funny thing. In all my meetings with any of the Wilsons, they have always made me feel comfortable and valued as a fan. The two main culprits are the one's who live up to their infamy. No love lost there at all and absolutely no desire to support their post BB musical efforts. It is amazing how deep those feelings still run. maybe I need to see a psychiatrist??

I'd love to hear your stories...... 


I guess this must be from near the end, too, right?

That tour shirt is very early eighties and dennis often wore the current tour shirt.  I think that one is 81 or 82.

[slp22]

1983 at some point in the year. I found this on a file sharing site

[Jay]

Something about that doesn't look right...

[dennyschild]

Something about that doesn't look right...

I'm looking at the photo for 10 minutes. What don't look right? Just curious.

[c-man]

Something about that doesn't look right...

I'm looking at the photo for 10 minutes. What don't look right? Just curious.

He looks too good in that photo for it to be '83.  My guess would be '81.

[Jay]

Something about that doesn't look right...

I'm looking at the photo for 10 minutes. What don't look right? Just curious.

Look at the edge of hia jaw, and the beard on the left side of the picture. Notice how blurry the beard is? It looks photoshopped. Badly done, too.

Edit: It looks like the picture was taken down. I can't see it anymore.

[dennyschild]

Something about that doesn't look right...

I'm looking at the photo for 10 minutes. What don't look right? Just curious.

Look at the edge of hia jaw, and the beard on the left side of the picture. Notice how blurry the beard is? It looks photoshopped. Badly done, too.

Edit: It looks like the picture was taken down. I can't see it anymore.


I can still see the picture.  It does look blurry around the beard.

[kirt]

 Dennis looked different in nearly every picture in 1983. Some pictures in early 83 he might look worse than in June of 83.  Then worse in July.  My guess he was having health (liver) issues.  Bloating up and then thinning down.  It's those last three months or so, that I've not seen pictures of and that's the time ,I'm assuming, James Taylor saw him and described him as looking green and unrecognizable.
 

[dennyschild]

Dennis looked different in nearly every picture in 1983. Some pictures in early 83 he might look worse than in June of 83.  Then worse in July.  My guess he was having health (liver) issues.  Bloating up and then thinning down.  It's those last three months or so, that I've not seen pictures of and that's the time ,I'm assuming, James Taylor saw him and described him as looking green and unrecognizable.
 

I was told he was really bad. He was tore up from the floor up.

[c-man]

Something about that doesn't look right...

I'm looking at the photo for 10 minutes. What don't look right? Just curious.

He looks too good in that photo for it to be '83.  My guess would be '81.

Sorry, thought you were talking about the most recently posted photo in this thread...from the remarks about the beard looking blurry, I surmise you actually are referring to the one with Mike playing the saxophone and Bruce holding a mic to it?  Yes, I gotta say that one looks like Dennis has been photo-shopped.

[Runaways]

alright, let me break up this sad morbidity for a post





dennis was kind of unreal.  i'm saying this in as straight a way as possible but damn

[Jay]

Something about that doesn't look right...

I'm looking at the photo for 10 minutes. What don't look right? Just curious.

He looks too good in that photo for it to be '83.  My guess would be '81.

Sorry, thought you were talking about the most recently posted photo in this thread...from the remarks about the beard looking blurry, I surmise you actually are referring to the one with Mike playing the saxophone and Bruce holding a mic to it?  Yes, I gotta say that one looks like Dennis has been photo-shopped.

No, it's a black and white picture of dennis. It's a fairly close up shot. I can't see it anymore...I don't know what happened. Denny'schild says she can still see it though.

[dennyschild]

Denny'schild says she can still see it though.

I can see it. You can't?

[Jay]

Denny'schild says she can still see it though.

I can see it. You can't?

Nope. It should be right after the picture of dennis at the drums. It was posted by slp22.

[dennyschild]

alright, let me break up this sad morbidity for a post





dennis was kind of unreal.  i'm saying this in as straight a way as possible but damn

The middle photo don't look like Denny. The face is to round. Are you sure that's Denny.

[SBGIRL]

Middle photo is Carl

[dennyschild]

Middle photo is Carl

Ok. now that I look again.

[Runaways]

yeah i sandwiched carl in there

[Rocker]

Dennis looked different in nearly every picture in 1983. Some pictures in early 83 he might look worse than in June of 83.  Then worse in July.  My guess he was having health (liver) issues.  Bloating up and then thinning down.  It's those last three months or so, that I've not seen pictures of and that's the time ,I'm assuming, James Taylor saw him and described him as looking green and unrecognizable.
 

I never knew James Taylor did meet Dennis again after TLB. In fact I've never heard anyone talk about the other, which surprised me, because I thought they would hit it off as musicians and Taylor liked the Beach Boys (I remember an interview where he said he loved "Surfin' safari"). Do you got more infos? I would really like to know more about that. I was going to start another thread for that topic, but maybe another time

[kirt]

Dennis looked different in nearly every picture in 1983. Some pictures in early 83 he might look worse than in June of 83.  Then worse in July.  My guess he was having health (liver) issues.  Bloating up and then thinning down.  It's those last three months or so, that I've not seen pictures of and that's the time ,I'm assuming, James Taylor saw him and described him as looking green and unrecognizable.
 

I never knew James Taylor did meet Dennis again after TLB. In fact I've never heard anyone talk about the other, which surprised me, because I thought they would hit it off as musicians and Taylor liked the Beach Boys (I remember an interview where he said he loved "Surfin' safari"). Do you got more infos? I would really like to know more about that. I was going to start another thread for that topic, but maybe another time

I'm trying to find the article I read with little luck. To my recollection ,Taylor said he was broke down on the road in his car, a flat tire if I recall correctly. A bum looking guy walked over to him and started talking. He said he was Dennis. Taylor didn't recognize him at first and in the article said he looked green. 

My guess and only that, is he probably was looking like he had jaundice.
I'll keep looking for the actually article.

[Jon Stebbins]

Dennis looked different in nearly every picture in 1983. Some pictures in early 83 he might look worse than in June of 83.  Then worse in July.  My guess he was having health (liver) issues.  Bloating up and then thinning down.  It's those last three months or so, that I've not seen pictures of and that's the time ,I'm assuming, James Taylor saw him and described him as looking green and unrecognizable.
 

I never knew James Taylor did meet Dennis again after TLB. In fact I've never heard anyone talk about the other, which surprised me, because I thought they would hit it off as musicians and Taylor liked the Beach Boys (I remember an interview where he said he loved "Surfin' safari"). Do you got more infos? I would really like to know more about that. I was going to start another thread for that topic, but maybe another time

I'm trying to find the article I read with little luck. To my recollection ,Taylor said he was broke down on the road in his car, a flat tire if I recall correctly. A bum looking guy walked over to him and started talking. He said he was Dennis. Taylor didn't recognize him at first and in the article said he looked green. 

My guess and only that, is he probably was looking like he had jaundice.
I'll keep looking for the actually article.

The story was that Taylor got into a fender bender near the Santa Monica pier on PCH. He was surveying the damage and some shirtless, shoeless bum walked up to him and said "Hey James!" He just ignored the guy thinking it was some creepy street creature. The guy got closer and said "hey, don't you recognize me...it's Dennis!" Taylor said he was shocked when he finally realized it was DW...unrecognizable, bloated, green. He didn't know what to say, i think he just turned away.

BTW, there are photos of the Two Lane Blacktop shoot that show Dennis and Barbara hanging out with James Taylor and Joni Mitchell. I have heard there were some moments of singing and guitar playing etc... I've also heard that Dennis and James didn't really get along, perhaps some jealousy and tension through competition. I've also heard that Taylor had a serious heroin problem around that time, which doesn't make for an open social environment. The truth is probably a little of each of these things, they had some fun, they hung out a little, they grew weary and paranoid, they each had their own issues to deal with...and probably never got close.

[kirt]

THANK YOU Jon!!   I've spent the last hour googling  James Taylor and Dennis Wilson.
 You're great, thanks again....kirt

[Rocker]

Yes, thank you !

[dennyschild]

Thanks Jon. Great Info.

[Jay]

The story was that Taylor got into a fender bender near the Santa Monica pier on PCH. He was surveying the damage and some shirtless, shoeless bum walked up to him and said "Hey James!" He just ignored the guy thinking it was some creepy street creature. The guy got closer and said "hey, don't you recognize me...it's Dennis!" Taylor said he was shocked when he finally realized it was DW...unrecognizable, bloated, green. He didn't know what to say, i think he just turned away.
[/quote]That probably happened to dennis a lot in the last few weeks/months of his life, which probably just made him feel even more depressed and desperate.