![]() The other Beach Boys – Brian’s brothers Carl (guitar) and Dennis (drums), plus Johnston, Love and Al Jardine (guitar) – may have barely contributed instrumentally ( That’s Not Me was one of their few showcases as musicians), but their harmonies throughout are stunning: on the hymnal You Still Believe In Me they sound like a choir. Wouldn’t It Be Nice may have been the opener but side one’s closer Sloop John B was the first track completed – a cover of an old folk song, it was the anomaly on this song cycle about love and hope, regret and sorrow, and yet its lustrous orchestration was typical of the record. ![]() ![]() But he focuses in fits and starts as he recalls the highlights of that momentous period. At times he can seem like a fidgety, barely interested kid at school – Adult Child is the name of an unreleased album that Wilson worked on simultaneously to Smile (another unissued Wilson album came out in bootleg form in 1992, its title: Sweet Insanity). Wilson talks in terse monosyllables, eager to be anywhere but here, being interviewed by Prog about his most famous work. After that, the influence of LSD made him withdrawn, a recluse almost.” “He was totally in command up to Pet Sounds and Smile. “I used to refer to him as the Stalin of the studio,” laughs Mike Love, Wilson’s cousin and singer on many of the Beach Boys hits. And despite being something of a mad professor, and his later reputation for dysfunction and mental debility due to prolonged drug use, the Wilson you can hear barking (no pun intended) commands on the 1997 Pet Sounds Sessions box set, on which you can hear the tracks evolve, is in full control of proceedings as he marshals the multitudes before him. But they were used to most spectacular effect on Pet Sounds.
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