And that was Brian's (uncredited) contribution to the song.

Didn't he also write the part that goes "What a day...what a day...ooh what a beautiful day this is?"

I think so too. Ever since then, he's looked shell-shocked.

Some really weird sh*t went down behind the scenes, gangster sh*t.

Oh, that Brian...

Wow, that's probably the best latter day Brian interview I've read.  Its so rare now to hear him talk at length about things and give thoughtful answers like he did here.

He was a lot more articulate and less of a zombie back then, for sure.

I've heard differently, that it was recorded around the same time as "Oh Lord" and such. Considering the timbre of Brian's voice and the presence of Dennis on drums, I think MBE is right.

i remember reading that she was good with her hands

Something I've always wondered...

What happened to Carolyn Williams after Landy took over? Did she ever talk about her time with Brian, and where is she now?

Whoa..wait a minute...he re-made DWB for GIOMH?

I can hear his voice crack on that note though. I think it is doubled with someone else, though (Marilyn or Diane), but I still hear Brian on that high part. The voice cracking gives it away.

What did that alternate intro sound like?

I just listened to it again...talking about during the chorus. I think it's Brian.

Top of my list is California Feeling from 1974 and Wouldn't It Be Nice To Live Again.

Release those two officially and I will die a happy man.

Those & Lucy Jones, for me. I've been dying to hear them.

Any song that Brian and Stanley Shapiro wrote new lyrics to in the early 70s (there was a third guy too I recall, but I've forgotten his name)

Tandyn Almer.

Medication is a two edged sword.  Anyone who has used something as common as zoloft or prozac knows there is a blunting of range of emotion.....the person may be less miserable in a way but they sometimes loose their edge, their sparkle.  Some choose not to take it for that reason.

That's why I stopped taking my meds some years back.

sh*t, I love both.

Three, the high parts are all backgrounds, and are multitracked even more ridiculously than the leads. Again, it isn't to say he isn't hitting the notes, but a group of 10 voices kind-of hitting a part comes through more impressively than one voice slightly missing.

I distincitly recall AGD saying a long time back that Brian's BVs for Imagination were doubled about 6 times (sorry if I don't remember this exactly AGD!), and as Brian does 4 or 5 part harmonies constantly, as well as doing inserts like crazy (stuff like "Runnin', runnin' runnin'" or "dit dits"), it really adds up. Someone posted on the vocals only mix of "Your Imagination" on Youtube that he's singing 72 different parts. While he didn't have a source credited, I can certainly believe it.

Not 72 different parts.. there's not enough harmonic variations for that.

Hm I didn't know he did the patch.

Yeah, he mentioned it in an interview promoting IJWMFTT.

1994,via the patch.

That is Brian. From 1978 I think.

Brian does the intro, Al the rest.

Also, notice how part of it jacked from Winter Symphony.

May 1965:

From 11 Oct 1990:



From 1995:


From the Landy era:

Carl looks mentally handicapped, Dennis looks like a zombie Jesus, Al looks like a pedophile, Mike looks like a Meth dealer, and Bruce...no  comment.

[although more are on the way.]

I still consider Endless Harmony to be the best BB's documentary, although more are on the way.

[/b] Really? Tell us more!

Personally I believe his voice is just about where it should naturally be at his age. I really do believe it recovered nicely and sounds like "Brian". My ONE problem with his current day vocals or singing is I believe their is no more emotion in his voice when he sings. It's devoid of emotion in almost any way. Go back and listen to his original vocals on "Surf's Up" and then anything from the last few years. Emotion is gone. Yes, it SOUNDS like a modern day Brian's voice should--Just the vocals ring cold to my ears.

Regards,
Cal aka "Beatle Bob"

I personally disagree. I think he's singing with more emotion now in 2009 (well, in 2008) than he has since the Paley Sessions. Only problem is his vocal range has deteriorated to the point where he has about as much range as Dennis did on POB (range-wise, not timbre!).

I think we'd be lucky to still have the 1976 version of Brian around. Watch the Lorne Michaels produced Its OK TV special, in those interviews from his bed, or the other interviews in that time period its so obvious that Brian was still present. The difference between those days and now are huge. he was probably still 80% or more there. Admittedly he was overweight and very troubled, but today the Brian we have is much much less present and much less Brian...I'd say he's operating at 60 % on his good days in comparison to '76. Don't take my word. Look at a filmed interview from '76 and look at one from the last 10 years. In '76 he was nervous, weird and unhealthy...but he's there...he's present.  Now he's completely on auto-pilot most of the time, maybe he's healthier physically, he's still nervous and wierd...but the guy that used to be Brian is diminished, partial, vacant. Anybody who thinks he's more "back" now than he was in '76 is fooling themselves. And I agree with SJS that the songs he wrote in '76/77 were closer in spirit to the real Brian than most things since. I guess that's the last time we weren't receiving Brian's offerings through a giant filter.

That is some hardcore truth .