Bri and the family Wilson, a name in an alternate reality where it wouldn’t have taken their same-week deaths to connect him with Sylvester. Thanks for these thoughts and Robert’s inviting them.
You say a lot in very few words, and. There’s a felt connection I haven’t found in anyone else’s writing of this. A book on Brian and Sly? Why not you? I know a publisher who wants that book.
It was amazing and downright thrilling to hear the Beach Boys coming over the loudspeakers live at the Mayday 1971 antiwar demonstration against the Vietnam War.. They were first in the lineup of performers in the encampment.
Thanks, Tom and Robert. I love the Why the Beach Boys Matter book as well as David Leaf's The Beach Boys and the California Myth (although I have yet to read his new one Smile: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Brian Wilson.) What's your opinion of the Peter Carlin book Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and/or Timothy White's The Nearest Faraway Place: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys and the Southern California Experience if you've read those also?
Tom Smucker intensified my interest in The Beach Boys back in the early 70s with a 2 part story in Creem magazine. Great stuff.
Bri and the family Wilson, a name in an alternate reality where it wouldn’t have taken their same-week deaths to connect him with Sylvester. Thanks for these thoughts and Robert’s inviting them.
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Dear Tom
You say a lot in very few words, and. There’s a felt connection I haven’t found in anyone else’s writing of this. A book on Brian and Sly? Why not you? I know a publisher who wants that book.
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It was amazing and downright thrilling to hear the Beach Boys coming over the loudspeakers live at the Mayday 1971 antiwar demonstration against the Vietnam War.. They were first in the lineup of performers in the encampment.
Thanks, Tom and Robert. I love the Why the Beach Boys Matter book as well as David Leaf's The Beach Boys and the California Myth (although I have yet to read his new one Smile: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Brian Wilson.) What's your opinion of the Peter Carlin book Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and/or Timothy White's The Nearest Faraway Place: Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys and the Southern California Experience if you've read those also?