http://pleasekillme.com/glen-campbell-brian-wilson-beach-boys/Some here will have read Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s oral history of punk rock Please Kill Me. For a while they’ve been at work on a new book focusing on LA from 1964 to the Manson trial, of which the article linked above seems to be a result. It’s billed as an oral history of the period between Brian’s breakdown with Glenn Campbell replacing him on the road, up to the recording of CG. Most of the quotes are from previously published books and articles, but McNeil and McCain did do an interview with Loren Schwartz, which covers ground he’s talked about before but has a detail or two that seems new to me. It does make me wonder who else the authors might have been talking to for their book.
PS Reading this idly made me wonder if any music forums online had new posts about Schwartz/Daro. So I put his latter day adopted name into Google and the first thing to come up was this
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/lorren-daro-obituary?pid=1000000183395277&view=guestbookWhich if not a hoax indicates he died early this year. Don’t remember reading about that anywhere before now. I guess the quickest way to determine if Lor(r)en is really gone is to look him up at familysearch.org
Pps- just checked that site, put every variant of Loren or Lorren Daro or Schwartz into the search, and no listing of him at Social Security Death Index or any similar database comes up. If there were a paid death notice or obit in any paper, it should have shown up at Legacy.com but I can find nothing of that kind.
However the funeral home named in the link exists and is near Cobb California where he lived so I’d guess this is for real.