His review of Wichita Lineman is an absolute must-watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDLpfVmHufU

Well I mean we can't do everything forever. Surprised all the remaining BB's haven't all flat-out retired already.

Best of luck Bruce!

Don't know how many here know about Charles Cornell's Youtube channel, but he does a really great job of musically analyzing stuff and really, really gets into it. On his channel he has a really great review of Wichita Lineman.

But yesterday he came out with an analysis of California Girls, and like his Wichita Lineman review he really gets into it. He says he hadn't really given the BB's much attention until recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHTyeoEB1W8

:-(

Are acetates this old, like ... still any good anymore? If you stuck them on a record player would you get anything besides a bunch of noise and scratches?

I saw the first 2 questions and I was like, "Forget it."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/brian-wilson-cause-death-revealed-175854173.html

🥺

Wow, he was in really bad shape! :-(

I’m struggling… no way to sugarcoat it. There was a time where I wrote more about Brian in a day than I did anything else in a month, at least . Those who have been around the BW online for the past 30 years know exactly what I mean. Yet I find myself at a loss for words right now . Been wanting to say exactly what Brian meant to me but it’s hard.  I’ve buried both parents and lost two babies and this ranks up there . But I gotta try.

It’s no hyperbole for me to say if it wasn’t for me discovering Brian’s music, I wouldn’t be here right now. That’s putting it mildly. But even more than his music, I was a fan of Brian Wilson as a person. The man was my hero, full stop, and a huge inspiration to me on a personal level. He was a fighter. As he loved to say, he was a Wilson… he had a lot of will. A pure force of nature to be reckoned with, for sure, but also one of kindest, gentle people the world has ever known. I’m so blessed to have lived in this timeline with him in it, and the world is a little darker now without him in it.

I love you Brian, and I will miss the hell out of you .

Hang in there Billy, all good things must pass, including all good humans must pass. The world is a better place because of Brian, and that's all that's ultimately important.

When Brian and I were 24-years old, we met. He, an accomplished songwriter/producer with a well-established career, and me an audio engineer new to Hollywood. Our chance meeting became an entanglement going on 59 years … and the rest is history. Now, the Wilson brothers are reunited and I'm certain are making transcendental celestial harmonies, as life is eternal -- God Only Knows.

I remember Brian being a humble, yet complex person. Easy to be creative with, but harder to be with; a man of few spoken words, but of many written to song.

He was always respectful of my ideas, while I was in awe of his. Yet, he made me, and my contributions feel welcome, appreciated, important and maybe useful.

My love to all those whose lives were influenced by Brian's incredible and far-reaching touch. Close or far, direct or just-tangible the attitudes toward the good times of life and memories we all have experienced through Brian's music is unquestionably supreme. 

I know I will be thinking and reflecting on all those many times I spent much happiness in friendship with Brian and on the creative level with both of us having the best times ever. Until I too meet up again with the brother's Wilson . . .

Brian !    It’s the big Take Two !!   RIP my dear friend ~ Stephen W. Desper

Thank you so much Stephen for dropping by. Your thoughts are wonderful. The world has lost a bit of its soul.

Are there any words any of us can say to express our feelings?

Not really.

But ever since he was put under care I think we knew it was probably coming fairly soon.

Thank you Brian for everything you've done for us, and the world. I hope you, Dennis and Carl are jammin' away right now.

This song is very appropriate now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46IQu0yuJzU

:-(

Probably AI? There's tons of AI stuff out there on Youtube lately so when you look at something you have to read the video and/or channel description carefully and use your own judgement. If it doesn't seem real, it probably isn't.

Oh no! RIP! :-( My heart goes out to her loved ones.

LOL!

Why not?

Is there any way to make these smaller?

You have to remember that TSS version was just from a demo Brian sang. He might not have been playing super-duper close attention to the lyrics when he sang it.

Happy Birthday Brian!!

That's a really cool video!

Read about this a short while ago, have no words. :-( My heart goes out to Brian and his family.

Frankly, after Melinda passed I was halfway wondering if Brian might be going downhill, sooner if not later.

Seiji Ozawa, longtime conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has died at 88

https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2024/02/09/329884586/seiji-ozawa-conductor-boston-symphony-orchestra-dies-age-88

Oh no! :-(

Oh no! RIP Jeff.

I guess I kinda hate to ruin a thread about a great interview with Bruce, but after reading the interview I decided to check out a Youtube version of Manilow's version of I Write The Songs, and I learned by reading the comments in the video ... that it looks like there are people out there who think the song was written by Satan, about Satan!  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHIdHIWfnl4

That's a great interview!

I like this: "I’ve been called one of the great all-around schlockmeisters in terms of songwriting." LOL!