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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian has passed away!!!!
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on: June 17, 2025, 10:28:24 PM
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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.
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Smiley Smile Stuff / General On Topic Discussions / Re: Brian has passed away!!!!
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on: June 12, 2025, 10:21:04 PM
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 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.
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Non Smiley Smile Stuff / General Music Discussion / Terry Kirkman, the Association Singer and Founding Member, Dies at 83
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on: September 26, 2023, 03:42:23 PM
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Surprised nobody's posted this yet. Terry Kirkman, the Association Singer and Founding Member, Dies at 83 Singer-songwriter Terry Kirkman, a founding member of the 1960s folk-rock band the Association, has died. He was 83.
Kirkman’s death was confirmed on Sunday through a statement on the Association’s official Facebook page: “We’re saddened to report that Terry Kirkman passed away last night, RIP Terry. He will live on in our hearts and in the music he so brilliantly wrote.”
Kirkman was born on Dec. 12, 1939, in Salina, Kan. In 1965, he formed the Association in L.A. alongside Jules Gary Alexander, Russ Giguere, Ted Bluechel Jr., Brian Cole and Bob Page, who was quickly replaced by Jim Yester. The group consisted of a large ensemble of vocalists and instrumentalists known for their intricate vocal harmonies. My favorite song of his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qKPYEdYB1g
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