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Where's that 1980s photo of Brian wearing a Speedo-type bathing suit, standing on a piano bench & making a muscle-pose?  It used to be easy to find, but now I can't.

This is the cover of the issue of Pulse with the photo you're after - best I can do.

(http://991.com/NewGallery/Brian-Wilson-Pulse-369482.jpg)

Those are some defined calves he's got there.  :o

Actually, here's the referenced magazine cover( I'd have replied sooner, but I reorganized my mags into absolutely no order at all, it seems) : 

(http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww302/bgasnow/scan0003-3.jpg)

My GOD, that's frightening. I blanked that picture out. D'oh, Doe!

That's the one I meant, thanks!

Thanks!

 :-D :-D :-D

Ye gods....

*runs away screaming*

I was looking on the magazine cover for a possible date, but I only found September  ?  Any ideas as to what year this was taken, and was this a Landy idea for Brian to pose that way?  In the one where's he standing on the bench, he's straining way too hard, especially in his face.

wow, it seems like someone would have said "bad idea".

I picked up a stack of these (free) from the magazine rack at Tower Records in September, 1988.

Yikes, those photos are scary! :o

They're rather anti-Brian, imho. (What was Landy thinking?) And all before Photoshop; doctoring photos was a lot more hands-on back then.

He looks like Ronald Reagan in those pictures -_-

This was a magazine cover, with a Beach Boy, that I must have missed (I did not miss many!)

Seems Brian was proud of all the working out...

Dennis could pose like that and get away with it.

He just had that, as they say, «Je ne sais quoi.» (Denni, those are French quotation marks!)  :lol

Although metaphorically, Brian was/and still is a "He-Man" at the piano!  ;)



 

 

 :lol

how many magazine "covers" would you say "they" have been on, and how many of "those" have you "missed"?  

This doesn't make me think "Brian" is proud of his "working out" but more "embarassed" that Landy is "making him do it"

Probably 1988 to promote the album?  This was after he lost a lot of weight via Landy, & there may be mention of the photo session in the WIBN book, but I don't remember for sure.

As mikie pointed out, it was September 1988. It was simply a quick scanner shot ( what a difference an inch makes)

i've seen this as the cover of Sweet Insanity, I think it was the Dumb Angel Rarities that's responsible.

Just one more reason the album wouldn't sell.  ::)

But if you collect great photos of Brian, you'd have to buy the cd to get it!   :lol

bgas -

That is a tough call of your question for many reasons...

First, and before I became a fan, they were on all the teeny bopper magazines, at least in the US.  Is it possible to know how many magazine covers they graced?  I don't know.

Second, I do have a few of the now-rarer magazines since the mid 1960's, say, post Pet Sounds...(I don't have what is posted above.)

Third, the whole Landy thing is still so ethically troubling on many levels, more to do with how, he, as a professional, breached the relationship, in terms of provider-patient, which, nowadays, would have had him quickly barred from practice as he took advantage of his position, from what I have read, even if it was by only a dollar; it would be symbolic as unethical, because his job was to take care of Brian, and not have Brian take care of him!      

It was an apparent abuse of of his position as caregiver.  

But, if you go back to square one and try to look at the entire picture, and balance both sides, at step one, does one say thanks to Landy for keeping Brian alive?  You must.  

Then, step two, does one ask, whether Landy crossed the line? I think so.  In fairness, you have to look at both sides...

We (I) only look from a selfish perspective, of keeping him alive, even though something tells me that Brian may have been persuaded to strike such a pose.  

Brian looks great to me, and very comfortable in a one of those piqué cotton Ralph Lauren shirts that he often wears for his summer shows...

Speedos are designed for competitive swimmers!  :lol

Denni - "Stay the course" - You are doing just fine!  ;)

Thanks!

 
' heard that before, haven't we buddy ?   :afro

 :lol - it's such a mystery why the guy/girl ratio on this board is incredibly off-kilter  :lol

Two boys for every girl.

More like 100 boys to every girl LOL  :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow :bow  :whatever

Maybe the lyrics should be changed!  (only kidding!)

I think it is a beautiful thing!  :lol

Just a question...how can that ratio be determined? 

I don't remember a specific and mandatory gender ID thing...

and what's to stop someone on here from representing themselves as a person of the opposite sex, if only to see if they can...
 how to tell?  does it even matter ( you ever seen Mikie in a dress? )

Not trying to take this thread even more off the topic of Brian's chiseled abs, but it seems like the two other message boards I visit regularly have a lot more male members.

Though I guess if I was on a parenting forum or the Lady Gag(a) forum, it would be the opposite.

The Coldplay forum I used to frequent was fairly equal in genders.

I'm sure that if the internet were around back in the early 60s this board would be swarming with women trying to talk to Dennis. But instead we live in the year 2011 where we are fawning over a mid-80s magazine photo of Brian Wilson posing in a speedo while standing on a piano....so again, it's no mystery that more women don't sign up to be members here  ;D

(ps, I was just kidding that we were all fawning over his photo - though I must say he is rather fetching in it :lol)