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| From | "Jake Beamer, OverlookedCreations.com" <overlookedcreations1@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Oooops -Better formatted (hopefully) version of BW Interview |
| Date | Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:48:55 -0400 |
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Yep - I tried to send it to the list and thought the same thing. My mail got
caught up somehow. Anyway.. the reporter was ignorant, rude and just plain
stupid. I was offended - Brian seems amused ;)
Jake
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Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 4:13 PM
Subject: Oooops -Better formatted (hopefully) version of BW Interview
> Summer Fun, Anyone?
> Questions for Brian Wilson
>
> Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, The New York Times
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> NYT: Your album ''Smile'' has been called the greatest rock record that
was
> never released. It's the Beach Boys' lost masterpiece.
>
> BW: We started it in 1967, but we never finished it.
>
>
> NYT: But it is scheduled for release in September. Why did you decide to
> finish recording it now?
>
> BW: I wanted to get it out before I died.
>
>
> NYT: Are you dying?
>
> BW: No.
>
>
> NYT: And you also have a new solo recording that just came out, ''Gettin'
In
> Over My Head.'' Is it any good?
>
> BW: Each song is different. They're not all the same like the Rolling
Stones.
> You know, Rolling Stones songs all sound kind of the same.
>
>
> NYT: Mick Jagger probably thinks Beach Boys songs all sound the same.
>
> BW: Probably so.
>
>
> NYT: Do you think that the Beach Boys were more artistically adventurous
than
> the Rolling Stones?
>
> BW: I think we're about even. The Beach Boys were a pretty good singing
> group, but the Stones played their instruments better.
>
>
> NYT: It has been a fairly long time, six years, since you last released a
> studio recording.
>
> BW: I can't explain it. I had writer's block for a while. Sometimes you
sit
> at the piano and play around, and if you can't get a melody you quit.
>
>
> NYT: It's hard to imagine you as thwarted in any way. Most of us think of
you
> as a poet of surf-filled afternoons and fast cars. The Beach Boys turned
> summer into the quintessential American season, a time of innocent fun and
> wildness.
>
> BW: Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the
beach,
> going to Disneyland, having fun.
>
>
> NYT: But isn't that all a perfect fiction? You have led what seems like a
> haunted life.
>
> BW: Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I
can't
> understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been
diagnosed
> as a manic depressive.
>
>
> NYT: When did you last experience an auditory hallucination?
>
> BW: A year ago. I was writing music and I heard voices at the piano. I
just
> jammed on my head and said, ''Stop, stop, stop.'' I take Klonopin and
Luvox.
> They help me relax and keep me from being scared.
>
>
> NYT: What are you scared of?
>
> BW: I think about death a lot. I think about my brothers' deaths.
>
>
> NYT: Your brother Carl died of lung cancer, and your brother Dennis died
in a
> drunken drowning accident. Do you think of them every day?
>
> BW: No, not every day, but about once every two weeks I will think about
them.
>
>
> NYT: Is it true you are deaf in one ear?
>
> BW: Yes, my father used to beat the hell out of us.
>
>
> NYT: I guess your songs help carry you away from the memory of your
father.
>
> BW: Right. That is probably why I wrote those happy songs. I try to get as
> close to paradise as I can. I try to steer clear of heartbreaks.
>
>
> NYT: Do you listen to rap?
>
> BW: I don't like it because I can't hear the lyrics of the damn songs.
They
> say them so fast, and you can't understand what they are saying.
>
>
> NYT: Plus they curse. The Beach Boys never cursed.
>
> BW: I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
>
>
> NYT: Are there any musicians under the age of 60 whom you admire?
>
> BW: Not at all. I don't listen to any younger musicians.
>
>
> NYT: It sounds as if you are stuck in a time warp. Who are your heroes?
>
> BW: Paul McCartney and Phil Spector.
>
>
> NYT: But Phil Spector was just charged with murdering an actress!
>
> BW: I think he will get off. I think it was an accident.
>
>
> NYT: Who came up with the name of the Beach Boys?
>
> BW: A promotion guy for Candix Records, which was the record company we
were
> on. I didn't like it. I didn't like the word ''boys.''
>
>
> NYT: Do you surf?
>
> BW: I never learned how.
>
>
> NYT: It's not too late. You can learn now.
>
> BW: I don't want to. I am afraid. I am afraid I would get hurt. I haven't
> been to the beach in a decade.
>
>
> NYT: Is summer your favorite season?
>
> BW: No. I like fall.
>
>
>
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