wow this was great so many facts and answers i didn't kno dennis drowned before it was said somethng told me because i am a sensitive i was shocked ty..
Though he’s been diagnosed with dementia, Brian’s presence in his California home, in the intermittent comfort of his children and grandchildren has been pleasant. I’m so glad!
Murry Wilson was a cruel and sadistic father who beat and tormented the brothers regularly as children. How Carl stayed sane (albeit a cruel end by cancer) I'll never know.
I'm one of three brothers myself, my dad was just about the same way with us, he made us do things we didn't want to do but he forced it on us, my dad had a gardening route and every weekend we had to help him as well as every school break, it was work, work and work, and once I got my own job, he resented it and tried every means to get me fired but luckily my supervisors told him off. And then once I got a better stable job, he pretty much left me alone but still harbored a lot of resentment.
@@briansam2524 Thats a toxic father. Parents shouldnt have full authority over their kods. It shpuld be split between the teachers, doctors, peers, police, and parents. Most parets either smother, coddle, abuse, or neglect.
@@Blinki18284 Exactly. Another gem was when he's talking about getting back on the road, he says he feels if he doesn't get his butt in gear and get on that stage & do his songs, he should quit the business. Interviewer: "When did you start to feel that? Brian: "Yesterday".
7/24/2023: Now age 81, Brian must have the strongest constitution in humanity. After abusing LSD, marijuana, tobacco, alcohol, food, sloth, hygiene, & God knows what else, he's survived many of his contemporaries, including his brothers.
Brian is a strict vegan that's why he's still with us just proves NOBODY can break Gods laws of nature and not suffer, i too am a strict vegan since 1985 i'm 73, i guess we all have to learn the hard way!
Landy may have started out trying to help Brian but in a short time he was more like a dictator involved in every personal detail of Brian's life including finances, investments--he was a master manipulator. I am convinced he was totally negative, a corrupt bad man. Brian was lucky to survive him.
In 1976, if you went to Las Vegas and placed a bet that Brian would be the last surviving Wilson brother, you would have eventually made a LOT of money.
One big similarity is they both lived with unrelenting guilt - Dennis over his relationship with Manson and his decision not to alert the police about his criminal activities; Moon and his guilt over having killed his driver/bodyguard Neil Boland by running him over trying to escape an angry mob leaving a bar in 1970.
Keith never lost his wealth after becoming successful. Dennis had close to nothing when he died. Keith is a legendary drummer that many consider one of the top 2. Dennis isn't even mentioned in best drummers conversations. But..., Dennis was a better singer than Moon.
Saw The Beach Boys September 21, 1964 in concert with Brian, Dennis, Carl, Mike, and Al onstage wearing red and white striped shirts. Played at the Civic Coliseum in Knoxville, TN. Fabulous performance!
One of my favorite rock legends is when they gave Murray a fake sound board to shut him up. Sad how their lives fell apart, but they made beautiful music that will be around forever. With friends like Charlie Manson.....
My very first concert was the Beach Boys. City Park in New Orleans, I was 12 years old. My mom would play their music especially on road trips to the Gulf Coast. It was 1986 Good Times with beach balls bouncing throughout the crowd. Good Vibrations was always my favorite. I can remember they used it for an old Sunkist commercial. Great memories!!
As Hunter S. Thompson said, "you can turn your back on a person, but you can not turn your back on a drug." So, I can understand the Love/ Dennis Wilson problems. Drugs and Alcohol have ruined many families and friendships.
Brian is a prime example of genius and madness often coexisting. Many people don’t realize how much pain drug addicts suffer. You’re not blowing pounds of coke or shooting suitcases of heroin because you’re happy with life…and no, money doesn’t solve those issues. In fact, it often appears to make them worse. Scott Weiland, Layne Staley, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse…they all died rich and miserable…thankfully, Brian has managed to beat the odds and experience old age.
Murry was a drinker. He kept two glass eyes, a clear one and a bloodshot one. One morning after Murry had been drinking, Denny took the bloodshot eye to school. 😂
Great video. Very good narration. Dennis was such a tragic alcoholic. Wonder what made him so 😒 unhappy. Too bad he could not get the help rehab therapy ne needed. 😢😢😢
Dennis was a wild child from the beginning; it has been theorized he had undiagnosed ADHD. That, and the near constant abuse he suffered at the hands of his father made for a volatile personality. Most likely a genetic predisposition to alcoholism was a factor as well.
I think Dennis’ mental health was tipped into a spiral by his childhood trauma and exacerbated by the constant turmoil and political unrest within the band, add hard drugs and booze and an addictive personality on top of that and it’s not a recipe for a happy and stable outcome, very sadly. Dennis was a magnificent songwriter, at his best every bit the equal of his brothers. Pacific Ocean Blue is a glorious record that deserves more attention.
Great video. I saw the Beach Boys in Rhode Island in 1977. They started playing and were clearly off their game. After two songs they said goodbye and walked off the stage. Lots of pissed people that night.
I saw the Beach Boys in 1974 or 75. Dennis Wilson was more a nuisance than anything else. He did not play the drums. He kept leaving the stage for minutes at a time. Every time he came back on stage he would randomly try harmonizing at different microphones before leaving the stage and going someplace. A total distraction.
But in fairness Dennis Wilson was no fool. There is a early 1970's beachboys concert in New York where he played his song from the Sunflower album. He also made solo album in the late 70's.
Dennis was an excellent songwriter, second in the group only to Brian. Perhaps more importantly, in the early days Dennis was the embodiment of everything the Beach Boys sang. He was the surfer, the car guy. He lived the life.
I lived a few miles from their childhood home where a plaque now stands. Grew up listening tonthem and attended their 50th Anniversary tour concert. Got to seentheir sound check as well. So glad that David got to be a part of it 😊
@@filmretrospective5334 I dreamed of living in LA when I was a teenager in the 1970s-80s but not anymore,alll the American cities are going to Hell now......I eventually went there for a week in 1992 and was very very disappointed and I could see it was already going downhill fast.
Don’t usually comment on videos but I’ve watched this at least 10 times lol. So informative but also kinda funny? Your deadpan delivery and some of the editing cracked me up. Especially during the parts talking about Murray. Idk if that was intentional but regardless, amazing video ! Subscribed.
Actually The Beach Boys put out some fine songs from 1976 to 1980.Their 1976 album 15 Big Ones was a hit,their 1977 album Love You had a cool song Honking Down The Highway and their 1979 album LA Light album is fine.Then of course The Beach Boys in the mid or late 1980's they had another huge hit Kokomo.The Beach Boys also had a big tv special in 1976. The Beach Boys perfomances on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964,1965 and 1966 were outstanding.
@@sarah2.017 It's a mostly John Phillips and Terry Melcher song with the a few lines of the usual banal Mike Love lyrics - Surfin USA with islands instead of surfing beaches. The movie was a big hit and it pretty much drove the song.
Brian has said one of those mid 70’s albums is his favorite, The Beach Boys Love You maybe? Sorry, I forget which one. I also think their early 70’s albums are all good and under rated.
@@skooter6235 Also, the culture had changed and people were listening to other music and bands by that time. Doesn't mean their music wasn't great, it just wasn't as popular.
They always mention Manson when they talk about The Beach Boys. In reality Manson only had real interaction with Dennis who was more of a drug friend of his. Dennis probably let Manson be around him because it was a flow of young girls.
Dennis introduced Manson to Tex Watson and also was a massive fan of Manson’s music trying hard to get him signed to Brother recording company .Also the song “ Cease to Exist “ by Charles Manson was added to the Beach Boys 20/20 album as “ Never learn not to love you “ and Manson not only didn’t get paid he wasn’t credited .
@johnmiller5679 Dennis and Manson were far closer than history portrays - In fact he was so obsessed with Manson that his publicist had to shut him up .
When the brothers were growing up, whenever Murry got his paycheck, the whole family drove home singing "We're In The Money" and "Happy Days Are Here Again." 😊
it was to trick him into agreeing being treated by Landy again, according to Rolling Stone in about 84 quoting Dennis' widow Shawn, Dennis would never have agreed to sign a document 'firing' Brian if he'd known what it was, they either faked his signature or he didn't know what he was signing.
Murray the father who really should never have become a father. So abusive. Wonder if he was abused by his father. A person filled with rage and anger. Too bad they did not have child protective services in those days. Lock him up
The Sunrays had two Billboard Top 100 singles. 'I live for the Sun' #51 (Aug '65) and 'Andrea' #41 (Dec that year) . Andrea was drivel, but 'I live for the Sun' is a bonafide, genuine absolute gem of a tune..and you can hear the Beatles and George Harrison on Abbey Road 'Sun ,sun, sun..hear it comes' all over it. Besides that, check it out folks..the chorus alone 'Sun, sun, sun, sun' is an example of how just one word can paint a million pictures in a good tune.
Very open minded of you. Considering you know nothing about his music. Did you consider that every one of his children were brilliant singers and song writers? Maybe they got it from him.
Dennis was way more than a decent song writer. Pacific Ocean Blue was phenomenal. Forever is a great song. He was a very soulful singer. He would have been a superstar solo act if it wasn't for his mental health issues.
too right. nothing loveable about mr love as you can see when he tried to capture the beach boys' name for his own tour. al jardine stayed with brian and they had great success
Everything is well covered great job except. The Beach Boys original name for the band. "THE PENDELTONS" The brand name of the best flannel shirt ever made.
Never a huge or even big Beach Boys fan, my musical tastes came from a older teen sister as I grew up in the 70's. She was a big Beatles, Beach Boys, Creedence, Jefferson Airplane type fan, and it would be all leftover 45's and albums that would lead me on. Later, a two year old brother would change those tastes to Zeppelin and Sabbath, or Deep Purple, but you get it. It was the surfing music that I just didn't dig. We were a Chicago family and maybe that was it, but either way I couldn't get Barbara Ann or I get Around type stuff. But when I came across Sloop John B, In My Room, Wouldn't It Be Nice, and most of all Don't worry Baby, God Only Knows ......... Man their ballads were beautiful. It was the Pet Sounds album that i found under my sisters dresser that I fell in love with, probably at 13 years old. For a short time I thought it was part of a double Sgt Peppers album. My sister had stuck pet sounds in with the Beatles work that had likely been done in part due to Pet Sounds. Anyway, I listened to the two albums over and over during that 13th summer of my life. Pet Sounds had been out for a decade by then, but if your are too young to get it, it would be hard to explain how you didn't hears a variety of music in the 70's, LOL, unless you had that deep access. To this day I put them at one and two in my list of greatest albums, but that's just my opinion. Hey, I fuckin' loved this little retro. I have watched all the stuff out on the turbulent live and careers of the band and the family (The Wilson's and the Manson's) and this was just so well put together and produced. Awesome job, bud. Murry Wilson would have been proud of you. I am now a subscriber.
it's absolutely crazy to think that there's another timeline where manson becomes a famous musician. makes me wonder how many people in the entertainment business have more incommon with manson behind the curtain than we think
Manson did not know where they all lived. He knew where Brian, Dennis and their mom Audree lived, but beyond that there's no evidence that he knew where the others lived.
It was a side effect of Murry hitting him in the ears when he was a child, violently. Brian went deaf in one ear, and began to favor speaking more on the side of his mouth, a common symptom of someone who is deaf in one ear. Being deaf in one ear is why Brian was not impressed with stereo.
I've followed them since a teen and now in my seventh decade. I and my wife had been to many concerts. AT EVERY ONE Mike LOVE was the perfect gentlemen, always interacting and acknowledging those in attendance, even signing off on album covers with a black marker. while performing. That was just his way. Not saying the others ignored the fans they did not. Everybody has a different vibe to them when performing. Mike Love was always KIND to the fans at any concert we attended, I believe he is a KIND SOUL. SO I am inclined to give him some slack. No one really knows what the other guy or gal is going through, meaning all of the stuff and crap, in that industry from say 1961 to the present. SO perhaps he made some people uneasy. SO WHAT. He's paid his dues.
Nice to read a positive report about Mike. I've been a fan for 50 years, and I know that Mike Love can be an arrogant a-hole at times, but I've argued for years that the hate against him simply isn't justified. Had it not been for his steadfast professionalism the band likely would have fallen apart after Brian's withdrawal and seclusion.
@@jakemitchell1671 Ditto I'm sure it's a tough life, despite all of the luxuries. You're life is not your own, unless you withdraw to some string of islands.. Even then i'd wager you'd be walking along the beach picking up a cocunut to enjoy, and some one comes running over to you asking for an autograph..that they intend to sell on line.. LOL LOL. Not for me..
No band has EVER reached the brilliance of the Beach Boys, not even the moptop 🐞 s. The only other band that carried that spirit respectably were the Ramones!
Maybe initially but he also gave him a horrible lifelong illness and destroyed much of his mental state with his abusive and controlling nature not to mention his over prescription of drugs to keep him in a zombie state. He was an evil sadistic man
