Compare this to his 67 telephone interview promoting Pet Sounds- he sounds and thinks in exactly the same way- and this has got to be either late 76 or early 77 since he mentions "15 Big Ones" as being released and "Still I dream of it" as being written but not recorded, but which he would record in 77 for "Adult Child". This is an amazing find, and possibly the last time we would hear such a lucid and natural, full of life Brian.
Well....considering what Brian was like and how he looked at 350 lbs. .....Landy took him to Hawaii for six months..and he lost weight/quit drugs/smoking/....and looked great!!...then I think Brian relapsed.......but around 1997-2000..he was still very coherent, athletic shape...but unfortunately he has put the wight back on, and sounds troubled, at least in the "Long Promised Road" film just released....
Age is also a factor. He's only 34/35 here. I don't deny Landy messed him up but there are interviews with him after all that in the late 90s where he talks more freely and openly. I get the feel that his one word answers are mainly because he's talked enough and doesn't feel like discussing things any more. And he's still on a lot of medication for depression, anxiety and sleep.
@@DenkyMannerAge has nothing to do with it. Even by 1984, Brian was a shell of his former self. Watch the group's appearance on the Tonight Show, when Joan Rivers hosted. Brian couldn't follow the conversation at all and would blurt things out that were completely unrelated to the topic. Very sad.
He does sound great here, and so lucid and clever. However, upon repeat listening, I am now thinking it may be *slightly* sped up, which would account for Brian's unusually high speaking voice. I'd like to put this audio into a sequencer and drop the pitch very slightly and see if it sounds natural.
Definitely slightly sped up. Listening back slowed down to around 95% sounds more like Brian's usual 70s voice, but still a lot less gruff than it often was around that time.
Brian's voice and cognition sound great. Very lucid. Good vocabulary. His voice doesn't sound gruff. A 1982 interview done only a few years later begins to show effects of early antipsychotic drugs. Were definitely not used to hear him sounding like this. I'm almost thinking he's possibly coked up here. The 1975 Mike Douglas interview shows some similarities in his mental cognition.
This is a very informative interview. Love Brian's spirit and positive philosophy. "As soon as you get the notion that when you touch something it turns to gold, usually it does."
Feel like drugs definitely messed with Brian but I think the misdiagnosis and the medication that followed truly did him in very bad maybe even more so than the cocain, weed, alcohol, and lsd.
@@AnalogLanguageThis interview was after the drugs he took, but before Landy really got his hooks in him. Whatever Landy did, he turned him into a zombie.
Along with all the musical talent, he is simply a very intelligent man!!! What he did musically took more than just musical talent, it took know-how, moxie and real intelligence, so let's get that established.
Brian is such an enigma...here he is in 1977 sounding completely lucid and normal, and you wonder why we hear stories about him completely disintegrating after Pet Sounds, and how shorty after this period he would appear to barely be able to talk or appear normal in any way...maybe his current condition was the sacrifice made to save his life, maybe it was an unnecessary result of malpractice. So strange.
TBF, he had just finished his treatment with Eugene Landy, at least his first intervention. He was probably a bit more regimented at this point because he was regularly working on music. Touring, writing, and releasing music. It was really around 1978 that he went back off the rails, up to 1982, when he was 300 pounds, and was likely near death
I believe Brian lost confidence during the Smile Sessions. Perhaps a combination of negative input from band members, pressure for Capital records, and paranoia related to drugs. He probably also had mental health that had a bad reaction with drugs. But I think it wasn't until around 1998 that he began to talk sluggishly. I think he was finally on medication that he needed, but the side effect is that he doesn't think as fast as he used to. Perhaps it makes him a bit expressionless. Although at times he seemed the same in 70s on stage. But you listen to interviews like this and he is exactly like he was in a 1974 interview. But it could also be from years of drugs followed by speed and whatever else Landy was giving him finally took it's toll.
It's a big misconception that Brian went completely downhill like right after Smile. Wild Honey and Friends still have a major Brian presence. The beginning of the 20/20 sessions he was very involved like he was with Friends but once he was institutionalized in late 68 his involvement decreased. His all over the arrangements and production of Sunflower despite not singing much lead. Surf's Up is really where he's barely involved minus like two tracks.
Ha, I have that Kenny & the Cadets 45. Interestingly enough, I probably acquired it in '77 about the time of this interview. Hmmm, what could it be worth in 2020? Time for some investigation.
Would you happen to know the date of this interview? My friend just found a reel to reel tape Brian Wilson interview from 1977. Wondering if this may be the same one
Brian speaks of his love for the ballad, the torch song, and he's certainly written some of the greatest. From the first song he takes credit for writing, Surfer Girl to ...I Guess I Just Wasn't Made for These Times so many of his greatest songs are pathos laden. The Ballad of Betsy, In My Room, Don't Worry Baby, All Summer Long, The Warmth of The Sun, The Lonely Sea, Summer Means New Love, Please Let Me Wonder, Kiss Me Baby...goes on and on. Thanks, Brian
He doesn't sound crazy at all here. This interview is kind of sad. Brian wanted to do so much in the 1970s but it was shot down and their only good album that got released was "Love You". And "Still I Dream of It" is a great song that would have been a great Sinatra song but I think Brian sings it great (on Adult Child), because its his song.
Hey! My friend Star Shields made Brian that shirt. He also has made some for all sorts of crazy rockstars. Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and some of the Lef Zeppelin dudes. Just a crazy thing to me.
Well, I am astonished how much clarity has here! Must be the last time he was fully congnisant. Before he started talking out of the side of his mouth as if he had Tony from the Shining living in his mouth.😢
I see in the comments section that some blame the late Dr. Landy for Brian never being quite the same as he is in this interview. I fully disagree. Somewhere between this interview and 1980, Brian Wilson had changed drastically and that’s why Landy was brought back in. I remember Brian saying in an interview once, his biggest regret was taking acid because it tore his head off. There is plenty of footage on RU-vid that shows Brian performing in 1980 and 81 and he is completely off the rails. Somewhere between this interview and just a few short years later, he obviously got into some very heavy Drugs that left him permanently scarred. Dr. Landy salvaged all that he could in bringing Brian back physically and mentally. I’m not saying that Landy didn’t cross the line and taking advantage of Brian financially.. however, after Landys departure, Brian again went downhill with putting on weight and never being as confident as he was under the baton of Landy. Again, there is plenty of footage of Brian performing in 1980 and 81 and that is before Dr. Landy was brought back in.
He sounds similar to '66 Brian here. His speaking voice has little timbre to it, and the speaking voice is the voice at its most relaxed and natural. I'm convinced the gruff vocals and rough approach to singing between 75 and the 80s was an arbitrary decision because he questioned his masculinity a lot. Somebody clearly said something to him at some point that deeply affected the way he perceived himself and his high falsetto vocals.
Nah, the pitch is the same as his normal voice - this is pre-digital, analogue and it couldn’t be sped up without changing the pitch. I’d guess (yes it’s a guess) that he’s coked up.
@@edwardmeradith2419 it's a higher pitch than his normal speaking voice. It runs fast. You can tell because when the snippet of Add Some Music To Your Day is played it is faster and almost a half step up.
"Still I Dream of It" was first hitting reports of songs being worked on at this time. This was right after Love You, the album, was released in April '77.
well to be honest (as a sag, lol, we are very honest) Sag/Gems DO get along when its the opposite sex. But same sex, irritate each other. Try finding the opposite sign yourself, same sex, and its very irritating, and wonky. Yeah, I have alot of fun with Gemini men, they can be a riot, my best guy friends are Gems!
