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I'm beginning to think this is a viral marketing campaign from Capitol — perfect timing for the Smile box, some big shots are 'Murry's' friends, and they have an official-like URL. Plus it's hilarious(!):

http://Facebook.com/MurryWilson (http://Facebook.com/MurryWilson)

LMAO :lol

I see AGD is his friend! Murry doesn't appear to be friends with Brian, though I suppose that mightn't end well (or at least as well as it did in real life anyway)!

H
 knows about the "Rhonda" session.  :-D

Hope Brian doesn't find this....

Do you know if it's official, Andrew?

Where are The Sunrays?  :-[

Anyone can get an official url. My page is facebook.com/danscarpa (don't add me).

I really don't think anyone in Capitol would think this was a good marketing idea. It's obviously a fan just trying to be funny. I reported this page to facebook though because facebook profiles are only supposed to be for real people. Myspace was full of this sh*t and that's why it lost a lot of respect.

I'm really over Murry humor just taking quotes from the Help Me Rhonda session, by the way. Hasn't been funny to me in years.

Ah, yeah, but this 'Murry' appears to have studied the 8-page letter he wrote to Brian too.

 You actually reported the page?  What a busybody thing to do.   Why not just not visit the page if you don't like it?   

Yeah, I kinda agree. If hundreds of people are enjoying it, what's the big deal?

Aegir is... MURRY WILSON

Someone's feeling sociable  :lol

"Murry likes The Lawrence Welk Show"

;D

Too bad. You seem like you're lots of fun.

I'm not over Murry humor yet.  Ratting the poor guy out?   :P

Why should Myspace or Facebook be respected anyway?  They're just stupid social networking sites that waste peoples time.

In some cases you may be right (that's certainly true of many users), but the ability to easily and conveniently stay connected with people all over the world is hardly a waste of time.  Social networking isn't all bad.

Sea of Tunes
1959 to 1964

Inaccurate details like this just ruin it for me.  :lol

Back in the day I bet there were people that lashed out against postal-mail services. I agree with Chris Brown - it can be stupid and a waste of time (gossip and drama), or it can be a convenient way to set up a social gathering, a study group, keep up with the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson, or whathaveyou. Times are changing...social networking is the new telegraph.

I report people all the time on facebook, mainly for hate speech.

Ugh.

You both make very good points, and thinking about it I realize that it's actually been a key source for me to keep in touch with much of my family.   Like anything I guess it comes with its good and bad points.  

Why do you hate America?

And for thought crime too, presumably.

Thing is, the guy seems to have a vocab derived exclusively from the "Rhonda" session, and it wears thin real quickly. Plus a few folk have been weirded out by it.

Turn me on, dead man.

So many other "wonderful" Murry quotes to use....

"Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeee !"

"Brian, Forget who you are will ya!?"

ABWPS "child is the father of the man" makes that quote so scary.

All I know is I unfriended "Murry"....just getting kinda weird.

Did the same thing.

You could easily and conveniently stay connected with people all over the world before "social networking" sites with something called 'email'.

Email is nowhere near as convenient on a large scale though, i.e. for sharing pictures and videos with a large number of people. My sister can share a video she took of my niece on her iPhone with a few hundred people with one click. Email sure as hell can't do that.  Get with the times dude, social networking is, for better or worse, here to stay. 

It's true. Here's recent example 'murry' posted:
 
Knowing how intelligent you are and how fertile your mind is, I know that you have come into almost an automatic way of thinking that you can succeed in life by taking the easy route or the "cool" way and I state flatly that you may get away with it financially, but you can't escape the eventual understanding that will come to you that you are and were wrong.

What happened?

Hilarious page, makes me wish I had a facebook page.

If I did it would quite literally be about 16 friends and my girlfriend on it  :lol

 :lol  :lol  :lol  :lol  :lol  :lol  :lol  :lol  :lol  :lol  :lol  :lol

Same here - it was amusing for maybe three days, then got very boring very quickly.

I am going to stay with Brian's dad for the short term.

Well, nothing, really...just that someone is operating a Facebook account and spitting out semi-random Murry Wilson quotes, and nothing else...tells me that either someone working it is kinda mental, or is carrying a joke WAY too far to the point that it's not funny anymore. (Which, come to think of it, is basically the same...)

Aegir totally predicted how lame this was going to get. Going to my facebook to delete this creep from my friends list. Ghost hasn't been posting the last couple of days, so maybe he is doing this on facebook.

Well, Mr. Fred Vail is a fan of the Murry page who hasn't given up (yet ;)) — he posted this there today:

"It's possible that I'm the only member of this site (page) that was honored--and blessed--to work with Murry. It's a small club who indeed appreciate his efforts in those early years. My friend, Rick Henn, and I, continue to honor him--and not beat him to death when he can't defend himselt. You literally 'had to be there' and I seriously doubt if any of you were. Thanks for the page. RIP, Murry, Audree, DW and CW--you were all like family."

Fred's a sweetheart - never heard him say a bad word against anybody in the BB world.... or anyone at all, actually.

Fred seems super-nice, yes, but I'd be willing to bet that Murry was in fact charming and likable much of the time — especially if he wasn't your dad or husband.

When you added 'Murry' as a Facebook friend, what did you expect it would be?

I'm sticking with Murry.   
Without him,  we wouldn't all be here today on a forum for a band called The Beach Boys.   ;)

Fred and some of the members of the Sunray's actually got me to really look into some of the positive qualities in Murry in my own writing. For one thing he did like Rock music as it evolved in the sixties including The Beatles. I concur Fred is a fantastic guy!