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  Brian Wilson's work in '65 and '66, as anarranger, songwriter, producer and studio performer is so far above anythinganyone else was doing, including all my english heroes, that it boggles themind. Maybe that's the brain damage referenced.

  It took 4 Beatles, George Martin, and the beststudio in England to create their albums while Brian created Pet Sounds andSmile pretty much single handed. Those two albums make everyone else's worklook like high school amateur productions. Okay, so Smile wasn't an album atthe time, probably because the effort of trying to drag his band and familyinto such brilliant new terrain was so painful and the public and recordcompany seemed to want more cheap songs about girls, cars and surfing. And whothe hell said that the lyrics to "Surf's Up" were inane?! Why, it'simpressionistic poetry of a high level, a Monet level if you insist, thatperfectly dovetails with the music and production.

 The Beatles did get a chance to hear the Smilesessions in late '66, it's a shame the rest of the world didnot. "Revolver" and "Pepper" might not have happenedwithout Brian's influence and sure would have been received differently if theystood beside Smile.    

  I wish I could be listening to Dennis Wilson's"Pacific Ocean Blue".

   PT M400 #1226

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Yeah Tony...it was Jan and Dean...song was loosely based on Jan's own
experience in his sports car in So. Cal.
It was Dean who sang the lead on Barbara Ann. (Wilson could't give
him credit though...because he was not suppose to be crossing record
labels...he was at the party when the party lp was recorded.)
My brother and I had a High School surf band in Vegas. We were on of
three real popular Friday night dance bands on the Vegas High School
circuit, the othere two being, the MIsty Souls (Stones Cover Band),
and the Misty Souls (top 40 band)
We were the Outcasts,
To answer the other questions about brain damage or getting waqcked
with a board... or do you need to be mentally stable to play in a
surf band...yeah, I got hit by my own board a few times...and I don't
think I suffered any major brain damage,...if you will... excuse me
for a moment,,,I need to answer some questions from those voices
inside my head...and yeah Jonesally... it is chance there
is "scientific correlation" and you hit the board right on the head.
and bty...there is some tron violins on Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean
Blue.
Well...gotta go hang 9...(Somehow, ...I lost one!!!)
Lee '
PS
have one long board, and two shorter "fish" boards.
Will probably go to Sandy beach today,,,waves are around 6-8 feet.
Will probably listen to Al Jardine Live in Las Vegas ( with the
Wilson Daughters, Billy Hinchie, and Jardiines Sons.

Yeah...that all takes brain damage.

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> Hi people!
> This is another off topic question, but that seems to be tolerated,