Alice Cooper Speaks on Bizarre Brian Wilson Story..

[Newguy562]

http://warnakeysbeachboysblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/this-story-comes-from-groovyrick-who.html

[Chris Brown]

I'm pretty sure I've read that one before somewhere - granted, Brian wasn't well at the time, but the whole thing sounds like one of Brian's practical jokes to me.

[Mark Dillon]

I'm pretty sure I've read that one before somewhere - granted, Brian wasn't well at the time, but the whole thing sounds like one of Brian's practical jokes to me.

Certainly that story's been out there. Alice recounted it to me again for my book. One of Brian's practical jokes? Maybe.

[Rocker]

But then how many times have Brian and Lennon met ?

[pixletwin]

I always thought it was intesting that of all the 60's icons Lennon ever slagged off, Brian was never one of them.

[Sheriff John Stone]

In this story, John Lennon says "I've met him (Brian) hundreds of times".

When?

[tony p]

Alice Cooper gave an interview to Rolling Stone where he spoke a bit about his drinking days. He mentions BW aswell:

But, as you say, some of them couldn't be stopped.
I think the early guys, the Jim Morrisons, the Janis Joplins, just did not want to see 30. Twenty-seven was the expiration date. And it really came up a lot of times, 27, and I guess they said, "That's too close to 30, I'm just gonna burn out." First of all, rock & roll and heroin, it's not gonna work. Anything with a needle involved is not gonna work, and you add that to a little schizophrenia and a little bipolar, you got Syd Barrett and you got Brian Wilson. Two geniuses. Brian's producing and I've always loved him, I consider him a genius, but what could he have been doing now? He would've been doing amazing stuff. But on top of being schizophrenic and bipolar he's doing acid and speed. That's just like pouring coals on the fire.

link:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-alice-cooper-plans-classic-rock-covers-album-20130313

[Jason]

Cue the Alice Cooper bashing...

[Lowbacca]

Cooper is a kind man and a brilliant musician. And he's (obviously) right.

[KittyKat]

In this story, John Lennon says "I've met him (Brian) hundreds of times".

When?

I've read other stories about Brian and John being at the same parties during John's "lost LA weekend" time when he was estranged from Yoko. Van Dyke Parks was a friend of Harry Nilsson and Nilsson was close to John Lennon. Micky Dolenz was also in the same social circle. I'm sure that Brian and John were in the same room at the same parties, at least. Whether they had any meaningful interaction is something else. Hal Blaine has said there were times that he met Brian during that time when he couldn't even remember his own songs. I'm not sure any of it was a practical joke, he just had days where he was really out of it, by more than one person's description.

[Sheriff John Stone]

In this story, John Lennon says "I've met him (Brian) hundreds of times".

When?

I've read other stories about Brian and John being at the same parties during John's "lost LA weekend" time when he was estranged from Yoko. Van Dyke Parks was a friend of Harry Nilsson and Nilsson was close to John Lennon. Micky Dolenz was also in the same social circle. I'm sure that Brian and John were in the same room at the same parties, at least. Whether they had any meaningful interaction is something else. Hal Blaine has said there were times that he met Brian during that time when he couldn't even remember his own songs. I'm not sure any of it was a practical joke, he just had days where he was really out of it, by more than one person's description.

Lennon, Nilsson, Parks, Dolenz, Wilson - would've been a helluva cool jam session, especially in the state they were in.

[Mr. Cohen]

Dolenz had a story on Youtube up somewhere wherein he mentioned having some tapes of jams with Brian Wilson.. Supposedly, the story roughly went, Wilson came to Dolenz's house in his bathrobe ready to jam. Everyone was there - even Lennon, I believe. Brian launched into a classic Beach Boys feel, and everyone was loving it. Except, well, for the fact that he kept repeating the same part over and over. It was just one long chorus, but I'm sure it was an amazing one.

[SMiLE Brian]

BW  is the man!

[Mikie]

There's two stories I remember.  May have been from the same party in Malibu. One from May Pang's book and one from Dolenz's book.

Pang:

"Brian, we [Lennon & Pang] saw a couple of times. We saw him once at this birthday party…in fact, that was the first time that we had seen him. I think it was for Ricky Martin - Dean Martin's son - it was like his 18th birthday or something. I remember seeing this guy - and this was at a time when he was really heavy - and I saw him coming towards us and went, "Oh my god". And I whispered under my breath, as I did quite often with John, "The man that's about to come over to us is Brian Wilson. Remember, we saw Dennis Wilson, his brother, the other day? This is Brian…Beach Boy". And John turned around and he was like, "Ohhh". Just as Brian was about to speak, John spun around and said, "Hi Brian". And you could see this look in Brian's eyes as he said, "Hey man, you have any reds?" John looked at him and said, "Don't do that stuff, sorry man". And he walked away. That's where Brian was at that moment in time."

The other (I think Dolenz or Hinsche) said that he was at a party in Malibu and saw Brian and John standing next to each other by a large window, not saying a word, staring out at the Pacific. He was pretty sure they were both on something.