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I'm currently reading Wouldn't it be nice: My own story, (yes, I know Brian didn't have much to do with it) but I thought it would be interesting nonetheless. It mentions some of the apparent punishments Murry dished out to Brian. He tied Brian to a tree, beat him with a 2x4, and perhaps the most disturbing, forced him to poop on newspaper in the kitchen like an animal, and then clean it.

Oh yeah, how could I forget him taking out his eye and forcing his kids to look inside.

What are some other things this monster put the guys through?

AKA "The most depressing thread in Smiley Smile history"

One time, Murry asked the three boys if they wanted to take a ride in the car. They all said, "Sure!" They took a spin over to Murry's local bank branch. He said to the boys, "I'm just going to be a few minutes. Brian, why don't you sit behind the wheel and take charge of the music. I know how you're 'into' that kind of thing." The boys hung out in the car and waited. Several minutes later, Murry came running out of the bank with large sacks with dollar signs on them. He got into the passenger seat and said to Brian, "Drive! Drive! I'll explain later!"

One morning, Murry woke the boys up at a staggeringly early 4AM. "We're going fishing!" he said. "We need an early start." The boys got showered and got dressed and marched downstairs with their fishing poles. Just as they were about to go, Murry looked in the fridge and said, "Oh, sorry, I forgot I just got some fish yesterday. Go back to bed."

Everytime the family were out, Murry would make the boys stop and watch whenever they encountered an old man eating a sandwich.

At Brian's birthday party, Murry tried to impress Brian's friends by showing them how he could literally cough up a lung.

Murry once filled a boot with horse manure and forced Dennis to hold it and go door-to-door asking if it belonged to anyone.

Once Murry tried to get Brian to mould for him an ashtray using nothing but his ass and some mud.

Murry convinced Carl that he was Mexican and then made him wear a fake moustache.

The stories are endless, really.

Murray once told Brian "I got you a puppy for Christmas but I got hungry on the way home and ate it. Just kidding son, I'd never buy you a puppy".

Is this all true actually true?

I pretty much believe anything at this point.
Nothing was too crazy for Murry.

Murry once forged a fake birth certificate and told the boys that Mike was not actually their cousin but their secret older brother and that they would inherit his receeding hairline.

Especially the Mexi-stache for Carl.

In 1961, Murry told Brian, "You may think you're a great songwriter now but I just teleported to the future and it turns out you write this." He then proceeded to play "Smart Girls", and did some futuristic breakdancing to it while Brian watched, horrified.

I thought Murry showed Brian that in 1967 (just before Brian became reclusive)....

Sorry - typo.   :lol

Once, Murry stopped cutting the lawn for three months, letting the grass grow really long and then he forced Brian to go out there with the mechanical lawn mower and cut it. Brian came in, after hours of hard work, exhausted. Murry said to Brian, "That lawn was in pretty rough shape but it's nothing in comparison to the hellish situation that has been taking place inside my nose since I turned 30." There was a long pause and then Murry said, "You ever see pictures of the fields in Vietnam?"

Nevermind!

At Brian and Marilyn's wedding reception, Murry yelled out, "Look at me! I'm Brian Wilson!" Then he proceeded to unzip his fly, put the spout end of a wine bottle into his pants and went, "Glug, glug, glug" until the bottle of wine emptied.

It's amazing how many variations of the sh*t story are out there. There's what, Murry forcing Brian to sh*t -- which is ridiculous! What kind of weirdass punishment is that? There's Brian sh*tting and putting it near Murry's food, and Dennis sh*tting and putting it near Murry's food. Lorren Daro's view on the Scatological Rashomon is that Dennis did it, he said Brian told him.

Is there a version of the story where the sh*t was analyzed and proven to be AL JARDINE'S!?!?

Brilliant.

This made my sides ache.

Thanks! Just thought of another one:

Once, Murry gathered all three boys into the living room and sat them on the couch and said, "It's time we addressed the elephant in the room." Then he pointed to a man sitting in the corner who suffered from elephant-man syndrome.

One Christmas, the family sat around the Christmas tree. Dennis saw that there was a big box with a note attached saying, "To Dennis. With Love From Your Father, Mr. Murry Wilson." Dennis grabbed the carefully wrapped box, and looked at his father, and asked, "What is it?" Murry said with a grin, "Remember that toy robot you wanted?" Dennis eagerly and gleefully unwrapped the present, opened up the box to find, not a toy robot but A SWARM OF BEES!!!!

I'm thoroughly enjoying this thread. Well done guys, keep going.

Someone needs to do a one man show as Murry Wilson. "A theatrical tour de force! The glass eyeball scene will have you spellbound."

Once, Murry paid a local artisan to craft a mask that looked like Brian and then went out with it on and mooned a bunch of nuns.

1975- 1982 "Brian" was really Murry! :o

Once, Murray syncopated Brian's dog to death.

Yes, Murry locked Brian in a cellar in 1973, and then faked his own death in order to take on Brian's identity.  He got away with it at first by mostly hiding in bed, but by the mid-'70s people were beginning to notice that Brian's appearance, behaviour and voice had all changed somewhat.  Still, though, Murry persevered with this prank, eventually giving the game away in 2004 by finishing Smile.

You're all flatting!

One time in the spring of 1963 Murry Wilson was coming 'round the mountain when he comes. He was driving his daddy's car now taking Carl and Dennis to a nearby diner called the Columnated Ruins Diner-o because they were gettin' hungry on graduation day. Outside the diner he saw a homeless man with new school threads who was devoted to you.

"In fifteen minutes I'll be on the train beause I just got my pay", whispered the homeless man who lived in an apartment just a few blocks down the street.

"Land ahoy", Carl greeted - right before the homeless man started to melt away. Melt away.

Murry then told Brian, who was not there at the time (he was in my room), to stop taunting the beaded cheering indians behind them.

Every week, The Wilsons would sit down to watch The Twilight Zone together. No matter what the episode was about Murry would yell, "Actually, they're STILL on Planet Earth!" every three minutes. This wasn't necessarily a punishment but it was really annoying.

Murry used to creep in his boys room at night while they were sleeping, pull down his pants and fart in their faces.

Such behaviour is of course not acceptable!

Believe it or not, Audree predicted to Murry than one day in the future, after they are dead and gone, a whole generation of fools and deluded malcontents would rise up and create a whole foul smelling Beach Boy mythology full of lies, half truths and vulgar jokes and innuendos. Murry of course beat her senseless and then proceeded to Capitol Records where he hid under Nik's desk until he died of love for his boys. Dave Marks and Mike Love were hired to clean up the mess on Monday mourning.

Is it true that Murry killed Elvis Presley?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THoYNZPNDq0

Murry once replaced all of Brian's copies of Be my Baby, with Two Step Side Step.

Sometimes he would pop out of the closet as it played doing the dance step that he created for the song.

Carl broke a string in '61 and when he approached his father to fix the problem, the penny pinching and ever resourceful Murry extracted a combination of his own asshair and Carl's eyelashes to weave together a new string (This was likely the reason Carl never soloed with his teeth in the early years).

And shortly after, Murry died in mysterious circumstances.

Once Murry woke the boys up in the middle of the night telling them he had got them a puppy. The boys rushed downstairs only to find a dead dog that Murry had run over with his car.
"Clean it up" Murry whispered before he returned to bed

Murry punished Wilson brothers many times. That's why Brian is insecure. Carl & Dennis left with scars.

Murry was no fool, was the following


 ::) : "I´m Murry and I Hit Brian with 2x4 and left Deaf"

After eating a hearty helping of chili and extra-strong smoothlax, Murry put on Brian's newest pair of pants and told an unsuspecting Carl to pull his finger.

Murry was the worst! He:

--made Brian stay in his room

--sold Brian's surfboard

--cut off all Brian's hair in his sleep

--tacked up boards on Brian's window (gosh it's dark!)

--jerked Brian's phone right out of the wall

--(apparently with an accomplice...maybe Audree?) gave Brian breadcrumbs and a little glass of water while they ate steak

--took Brian's radio and used it in his own room

Bruce Johnston, prior to his tenure as a Brian fill-in on tour, had to endure a bit of Murry hazing before he was given the job.

Late one night in early Spring 1965, in Western studios, Murry and Bruce were alone, talking about the upcoming tour.  Murry positioned a portable microphone stand and microphone in front of Bruce.

With Bruce and Murry on opposite sides of the microphone stand, Murry stared angrily at Bruce, forcing him to look directly into Murry’s glass eye.  Murry then slowly unscrewed the mic fastener, and the mic began to slip down the stand. 

Bruce was confused and unsure of what to do next.  Murry screamed at the top of his lungs: “FIX IT!!! IT’S SLIPPING!!! GET IT BACK UP YOU F’ING PREPPY PANSY!!!”

Bruce nearly sh*t his pants and quickly adjusted the mic stand.  Murry berated him: “If you’re going to take my son’s place and sing his parts, then you have to make sure this microphone never drops on stage!!!”

Murry again stared into Bruce’s eyes and loosened the screw again.  Bruce was ready this time, and quickly grabbed the slipping mic and put it back into position.

“Good, good” Murry replied.  “Never, NEVER let this happen on stage.  ALWAYS be aware of the mic stand and never let it out of your sight!”

To this day, Bruce is always adjusting his mic stand on stage, still recalling that fateful and frightenting day with Murry.

Any of these jokes is in poor taste & /or outright unfunny/dumb. IMHO!

1. Murry invented Duophonic and forced Capitol to use it, tormenting Brian who wanted his 1965-7 albums released in mono only.
2. After poor Murry was humiliated at the Help Me Rhonda session, he made off with one of the song's vocal overdubs, ensuring a proper stereo mix could never be made in the future.
3. Murry stole the multi-track of Do It Again from Carl's convertible.
4. Murry tormented Brian during the 'Til I Die sessions. "Think of every punishment I doled out to you," he told Brian, which resulted in a great song.
5. Selling Sea of Tunes, of course (this one's true)

Any of these been confirmed?

in 1966 after Pet Sounds Brian needed some ideas so he went to his dad and his dad gave him a song called "Good Vibrations" and it became a hit so he went to Murry after that for more tunes and Murry slowly, over months and  months gave him bits and pieces of songs and told him how to piece them together like a puzzle,Murry hired Van Dyke Parks to pass his lyrics to Brian as if they were his and then one day fired him after Parks complained abut how Mike was complaining about Murry's lyrics and it pissed Murry off so bad that he burnt down a building down the street from where Brian was recording Murry's new instrumental called "Mrs.O'Leary's cow" and so one day when Brian asked him if he could help him finish the album, Murry said no and took the tapes and hid them and Murry started bootlegging the songs in order to make money. then Brian remembering what they sounded like re-recorded them but they were not as good as the original because Brian didn't know how Murry arranged the songs and it embarrassed Brian so much he told the Beach Boys just to say that they produced it and not him. This is the true story of Smile/Smiley Smile...

There was one time when Murry met with Phil Spector at a bar and got drunk with him and he said to him "you know what would be a funny prank to play on Brian?"  "What's that?" "We should like little microphones in his house, you know in the walls and such and listen to everything that goes on in the house. then we can place little speakers in the wall and also talk to him as if we are in his head." Phil agreed and the rest is history.

One time Murry walked up to Brian, this was in the late 60's and went "Knock Knock." for which Brian responded "Who's there?" and Murry walks away never to answer it.....

Once at a Sears, Murry forced Brian to arm wrestle a mannequin. After a small crowd gathered, Murry kept yelling out, "My money's on the mannequin!"

Murry wilson tempted me beyond the grave to post in this thread when i really had nothing to say

 :lol

I think that murry is alive and deleting youtube videos

Oh boy. Murry was something else. No wonder Brian was afraid of his dad.