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Now the reunion news is out of the bag, he has to make up more barefaced lies to tell journalists?  :lol


http://bahighlife.com/News-And-Blogs/Notes-From-A-Traveller/Notes-from-a-traveller-Brian-Wilson.html

Funny stuff...

What the f***....  :lol I want a Sweet Insanity tour in 2013...

Nice little feature.

And, wow, what I'd give to hear a 70-year-old rapping Brian.

Clearly, Brian considers GETTING IN OVER MY HEAD to be the SWEET INSANITY redux.

BWPSI- Brian Wilson Presents Sweet Insanity. :lol

Brian's Beatles jealousy has to be fake, he can't really think those things

I bet he does - for the same reason he thinks people recognise him for his 14 dogs rather than the fact he's Brian sodding Wilson, or says, 'I'm not a genius, just a hard working guy', I guess.

I'm trying to imagine Brian walking 14 dogs around L.A.  Or anywhere for that matter.  Or anybody walking 14 dogs.
I try to walk 2 and the leashes get tangled.

We need a picture of this.

Maybe he could hook them up to The Little St. Nick and have them pull him around LA husky style.

:lol

I agree. Even the most hardcore Beatles fan will admit that at least The Beach Boys' group harmonies were better than The Beatles'.

LOL.

My friend Galen has seen BW + a friend walkin along Ventura blvd in the valley in jogging suits..Without the dogs + people recognize him .! He is kinda hard to miss. What is he 6" 3" or so..?

I know several who wouldn't. Hardcore Beatles fans are like hardcore religious nuts IMO. They are incredulous that the whole world doesn't think as they do, and get very threatened / defensive when challenged. I know of no other fan base with that attitude. Not all of them obviously. There are a few decent Beatles fans out there I'm sure.

Well, in a way Gettin' In Over My Head was the released version of Sweet Insanity (or Sweet Conspiracy as the lyrics of Rainbow Eyes re-wrote it).  Plus, Spirit of Rock and Roll and Country Feeling have both turned up on compilations.  And the remainder of the tracks that weren't re-recorded should stay in the vaults, unreleased, where they belong.  I mean, some of the tracks that were re-recorded for Gettin' In Over My Head were bad enough.

We don't know what the hell's going on.  Maybe Brian wouldn't re-record Smile if he couldnt' finish Sweet Insanity as well.  He might have insisted on it.  Maybe that's why several have popped up, he re-recorded the entire album (AGAIN). 

Brian Wilson Reimagines Landy

I have a feeling if they did a live concert, only the members of this board (me included) would be in the audience. ;D

Ha ! Ever talked with hardcore Presley-fans ? I guess it's the same with most artists.

Every song is about how much of a Bastard Landy was.

I don't believe brian said it — Brian can be hard to understand, and the interviewer or transcriber of the audio probably assumed he said "Sweet Insanity" — but it was more likely something like this: "I couldn't believe the standing ovation I received when I re-recorded Smile — it was just insanity."

He's obviously just referring to GIOMH.

Either parts of that interview are heavily edited/made-up or it's not Brian at all...

Nah, it seems like Brian was on a good day.

I also agree with Pong Hit.

Why would the average Brian interview have ever heard of Sweet Insanity enough for them to mishear Brian saying something else as Sweet Insanity? also, GIOMH could arguably be referred to, off the cuff, by a mentally ill old man, as a rerecording of Sweet Insanity.

I don't see how this is possible. Most of the best(?) material was already re-done on Gettin' In Over My Head.

Yeah, probably meant GIOMH.

I feel like no one even read the interview. Read this: "I couldn't believe the standing ovation I received when I re-recorded Smile and Sweet Insanity and played at London's Royal Festival Hall for the first time." Obviously he was referring to Gettin' in Over My Head when he said that. 

Maybe he realised how bad his singing on GIOMH is, and he decided to do it right, with his backing band?  ;D

Interesting point. Most of the time I think that we're somehow a unique bunch, with all our total devotion and our obsessions. But when I contemplate this a bit deeper, I come to the conclusion that any major artist has a hardcore following like us, with those debates about mixes, remixes, mono vs. stereo, lost treasures, boots, and the endless bickering about lost nanoseconds in the coda/fade-out of a song.

Must be genetically determined. And it is a psychiatric disorder predominantly linked to the male gender.

It's clear that these are not direct quotes. They're probably distilled from what Brian said. For example: "One day I may go back there and play again for the older hippie crowd, as it's set in a beautiful part of Surrey."  That construction "as it's set" is a British thing more than an American thing. A few Americans use it, but it doesn't sound like Brian.
Maybe Brian said something about "Smile and Gettin' In Over My Head" but the interviewer didn't hear the second one, so he went home and looked up (relatively) recent BW albums and took a guess that Brian had said "Sweet Insanity."

I like Sweet Insanity. The sequence of songs Do You Have Any Regrets, Thank You (yeah, I know, the lyrics ...), Hotter, Spirit of Rock & Roll, Rainbow Eyes and Love Ya kicks ass (granting of course that much of the remainder is beyond horrible). Back me up, somebody.

Just listened to Sweet Insanity all the way through, still in shock about how bad this album is. :thud

I agree with Don And i like Sweet Insanity...And no im not deaf..Those recordings are better than the re recordings scattered across BW albums. and i like most of the songs. Dont let her know she"s an angel is brilliant.!

There's nothing wrong with the songs themselves, but the album is seriously let down by its horrible production /instrument choices. No BW 88 is synthy too, but it's quirky and has Brian's stamp all over it. Sweet Insanity sounds so horribly late 80's as to render it nearly unlistenable to me.

If you can, check out Darian's '65 style version of Do You Have Any Regrets. I don't have it, so don't ask, but you'll hear what a great song it is when given better production. Classic BW.

Do You Have Any Regrets is on youtube, and it is Darian saving that song, turning it into another BW classic.

You're right, thanks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ndMltIVTJc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ndMltIVTJc)

"concert tonight" on the other hand is a piece of crap.... ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk_8BwvmN6g&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey1_BOGLIO0&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

There's some great songwriting on Sweet Insanity. "Do you have any regrets" is a favorite of mine and the ballads "Rainbow eyes" and "Don't let her know she's an angel" are phenomenal. Unfortunately Brian totally destroyed the former on GIOMH while doing a good job on the latter one.

But they never performed SWEET INSANITY at Royal Festival Hall, nor anywhere else.  It's not obvious to me that he meant GIOMH; I'd be surprised if he remembered the SI title — and I wouldn't assume he'd draw a connection to GIOMH — the track-lists aren't terribly similar to each other.

He has his problems, but a bad memory isn't one of them.

I love the production/arrangement of "Rainbow Eyes" on GIOMH, a big improvement over the synthetic sterility of the original...however, Brian's vocals are quite bad. I know folks don't care for the drums on the "Don't Let Her Know She's An Angel" remake, but I think it's a decent job all around.

Are you serious? He says he has zero memory of doing lots of major things.

I don't know the man personally, thus have never spoken to him 1 on 1 but I've always assumed what Brian Wilson remembers and what Brian Wilson says he remembers are two very different things.

For example, he was recently asked if he remembered making GV, and any parts of SMILE, and his answer was no.  Why would he lie about that?

I'm not saying he's lying as such, but I'll give an example relating to me, in real life (outside of the WWW) I've learned to play dumb with certain things, if one person knows that I know something, suddenly everyone knows and I constantly get asked the same questions regarding it, thus I deny knowing that specific thing, now put that over the course of 40 years in the context of a mentally ill man who has a lot of pain tied up in certain memories, the last thing he is going to want to do is answer the same questions about something like that over and over again, it's easier to deny knowing about it.

He lies to interviewers all the time if he doesn't want to answer a question. Seriously. He has total recall on all things musical and mathematical (same thing). He can remember every note of music he's ever written. He can remember any phone number. Some of the stories about his memory are uncanny.

That's ^ intriguing.  Do you have any links to examples?  He apparently also has synesthesia, which might be connected(?) 

One example would be in 2003, where he decides to call Van Dyke.... and whips his phone number out of thin air.

Synthesisa is probably a stretch, because if Brian isn't just chatting **** in the one interview this is mentioned, he has a 'palette' of about 4 colours. Most keys are red.  :lol

I can't find it on YouTube, but I once saw a video where a fan asks him how he got the percussive sound on Do It Again. At first he says he can't remember. But pressed on it, he relates exactly how it was done. (I assume-- unless he was just making it up.)

Classic example came very recently: seemingly he was told to say nothing about the in-progress "reunion" plans, but being Brian he took it a step further and was denying it to everyone who asked... then blew it by saying he was glad it was out in the open as he was running out of things to say. Brian lies but there's no malice in it: it's just a defence mechanism.

Sweet Insanity has definitely improved in my reckoning...biggest weakness for me is probably Brian's vocals rather than the dated producction.

If he said he got the DIA drum sound by leaving Stephen Desper in the studio while he went out for lunch, then he speaks the truth

Might I add:

"I wrote a number down
But I lost it
So I searched through my pocket book
I couldn't find it
So I sat and concentrated on the number
And slowly it came to me
So I dialed it"

Ah yes, but that's a wrong number  :lol