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Basically, our forte is harmonics,
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'cause there's a certain family blend.
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Three brothers: Brian, Dennis and Carl,
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a cousin, Mike Love,
and our good friend Al Jardine.
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That's family to me.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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would you please welcome,
from Southern California,
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America's band, The Beach Boys!
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I like it. I like it.
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There is no other. There is only one.
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They've broken records everywhere.
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Ladies and gentlemen, The Beach Boys!
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♪ Well, she got her daddy's car ♪
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♪ and she cruised through
the hamburger stand, now ♪
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♪ Seems she forgot all about the library
like she told her old man, now ♪
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♪ And with the radio blasting ♪
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♪ Goes cruising
Just as fast as she can, now ♪
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♪ And she'll have fun, fun, fun ♪
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♪ Now that Daddy took the T-bird away ♪
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The Beach Boys
just represented some sort of fantasy.
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It was a pure California phenomenon.
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We've known each other
for a really long time.
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And there really is a great deal
of fellowship in the group.
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And we've been through an awful lot.
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♪ Wouldn't it be nice if we were older? ♪
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♪ Then we wouldn't have to wait so long ♪
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♪ And wouldn't it be nice
to live together ♪
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♪ In the kind of world where we belong? ♪
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It's kinda miraculous that
it's lasted for 60 years now.
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But the fact that it was a family,
that's where the success came from.
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♪ You know it seems
the more we talk about it ♪
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♪ It only makes it worse
to live without it ♪
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♪ But let's talk about it ♪
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♪ Oh, wouldn't it be nice? ♪
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♪ Good night, my baby ♪
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♪ Sleep tight, my baby ♪
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♪ Good night, my baby ♪
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Here we go.
Play hard and strong all the way.
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And watch me on that part now.
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Twenty-eight.
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When I assess the totality of it all,
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The Beach Boys are a family story.
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There has definitely been ups and downs.
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We've probably been counted out
as a group, um, half a dozen times.
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When I was young,
I learned to sing harmony with my family.
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That was a long time ago.
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I remember the songs,
the lyrics, and a lot of fun.
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I'm very proud of my brothers.
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Let's try it
one more time from the top.
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One, two, one, two...
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♪ M ♪
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♪ I say M-O ♪
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I had two things
I wanted to do in my life.
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One, I wanted to be a psychologist,
you know?
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And two, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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♪ Mop, mop, mop, mop ♪
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But I never really set music as my goal.
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My dad and my mom always put on records.
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And I said,
"What's that? I love that sound!"
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My dad was a songwriter,
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and he had a minor R & B hit.
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But, you know,
my mom was actually the musician,
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so she would play and my dad would write.
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So there was a lot of music in the house.
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My mom and dad
both really loved older tunes.
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But I was more interested
with rock and roll.
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♪ In the heat of the day
down in Mobile, Alabama ♪
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And I'll never forget
the feeling in my body.
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It was like electricity.
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I'd never experienced
that kind of excitement.
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Chuck Berry was the reason
I started playing the guitar.
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♪ Payday coming when my work is all done ♪
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On a social level,
I never really spent any time with Brian.
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I spent more time with Carl.
Because I could beat Carl up.
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♪ Everybody's scrambling
and jumping around ♪
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♪ Picking up their money
Tearing the teepee down ♪
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Brian's influence on me
was his love for the music.
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♪ You have to let it roll on ♪
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First time I realized it was--
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We used to sing three-part harmony
in the back seat of a car.
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And that's the birth
of the three brothers singing together.
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When I was about seven,
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we moved into a house on the borderline
between Inglewood and Hawthorne.
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And across the street from our house
was the Wilson house.
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As we were moving in, Carl and Dennis
were throwing garbage and old car parts
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across the street.
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And saying,
"Inglewood sucks. Hawthorne rules!"
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That was our introduction.
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And I didn't like my parents very much,
so I hung out at the Wilsons'.
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The Wilson household
was a tract home in Hawthorne.
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And the garage was converted
into a music room.
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And we would spend hours
listening to music and singing.
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And the big event of the year
for us would be to go over to Mike Love's
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at Christmastime because the Loves
would have a big Christmas caroling party.
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Growing up as the first cousin
of the Wilsons,
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it was such a family hobby
harmonizing together.
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And we had a grand piano,
an organ and a harp in our living room.
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Brian and I hit it off
because we were about a year apart in age,
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and we liked a lot of the same music.
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A lot of the doo-wop. The Everly Brothers.
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The Four Freshmen.
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The Four Freshmen were probably
the greatest four-part harmony group
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that ever lived.
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The notes were close together,
which gave it a warmth and a vibration.
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It was a lot of fun singing together.
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But Brian somehow figured out the chords
the Four Freshmen were doing just by ear.
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That was--
That was a whole different world.
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Brian was spending hours every day
at the piano
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just going over and over
these Four Freshmen arrangements.
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♪ It's a blue world ♪
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I never quit.
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To where I knew that what was on
my piano was exactly on their record.
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♪ It's a blue world ♪
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I went and did that on, like,
20 different songs,
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which was my entire harmonic education.
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Later on, he started making up
his own arrangements.
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He would ask me to sing a harmony part
that he'd make up.
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And I remember wanting to go out and play,
and he'd say, "Mom, make Carl sing."
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Brian and I
were on the football team in high school.
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And I'd heard his band
at the high school assembly,
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and that's really
what got my brain going, "Wow!"
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I was a guitar player, and I was
very impressed with his little quartet.
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Including his brother Carl,
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with Brian taking the falsetto.
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And I thought we should hook up.
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We bumped into each other
after graduation.
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Brian said, "You know, I think
I should introduce you to my brothers
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and my cousin,
because we need more voices."
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So he invited me over to the house,
and we all just clicked.
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We were like notes on a keyboard.
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Now, this time
let's sing it out naturally.
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- Don't hold back.
All right.
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Al Jardine, actually, was
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the one person who could maintain
perfect pitch and changing harmonies
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that were derivative of the Four Freshmen.
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Forget time and beat
and everything.
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No! We don't want to forget beat.
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We assembled around the piano
as Brian and his brothers.
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Plus me and his cousin Mike.
That was our band.
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Our first thing we ever learned
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was a tune called,
"Their Hearts Were Full of Spring."
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♪ There's a story told ♪
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♪ Of a very gentle boy ♪
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Brian would sing
the high part beautifully.
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And I would sing the bass part.
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And then Carl and Al Jardine
could sing really well and blend.
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See, it wasn't only about the note.
It was about the blend.
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You sublimate your individuality
to create this group harmony sound.
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♪ Their hearts were full of spring ♪
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After that, we'd go,
"Hey, look out for us.
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We really harmonize here."
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Then we kind of went the other way.
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Carl and I would hang out
every day after school.
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And we were listening
to a lot of current surf stuff.
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The Ventures.
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The Marketts.
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Dick Dale.
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Kids would go to the high-school
auditorium to watch surfing movies.
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And that's what they were using
as background music.
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Surfing was a big deal
in Southern California.
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You dressed a certain way.
You talked a certain way.
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They had a certain attitude.
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We all tried to surf,
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but we could just
never really get the hang of it.
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I went surfing down
on Manhattan Beach Pier.
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It was a big day on the pier, man.
There were great big waves!
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And the first thing I did
was lose my board.
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And I almost drowned.
Brian was the same way.
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I tried the one time, and the board missed
my head by that far.
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I never tried again.
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We were landlubbers,
but Dennis was the guy.
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I was into surfing.
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I was into cutting class,
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sneaking off to the beach.
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I love the ocean.
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Dennis and I went
to the beach one time
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and we came back to the Wilson house,
and Dennis brought it up to Brian,
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he said, "Why don't we do something
lyrically about surfing?"
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At the time,
surf music was primarily instrumental.
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The bands were instrumental bands.
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So, I just got with Brian
and came up with...
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♪ Surfin' is the only life
The only way for me ♪
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♪ Now surf
Surf ♪
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The first time The Beach Boys
got together as a band to rehearse...
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my folks went to Mexico City on business.
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They left us 200 bucks for food.
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The money ran out immediately.
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I said, "Brian,
we can't just sit around and sing.
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We gotta rent some instruments."
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So I said, "Well, I think my mother,
Virginia, would probably help us out
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if we audition for her."
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We sang
"Their Hearts Were Full of Spring."
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That was our go-to song.
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And she was spellbound.
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She gave us the $300
to rent the equipment,
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and she said, "Go for it."
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Gives me chills just thinking about it.
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Put the monitor on.
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♪ Surfin', surfin' ♪
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Hey, you're wasting tape.
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Keep your heads up,
and stay on it.
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♪ Surfin', surfin' ♪
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Murry and Audree were only gone
for about two or three weeks,
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but we-- we were a band by then.
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He goes, "I thought that money
was supposed to be for food.
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What are you guys doing?"
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So we played him a song and he goes,
"Hey, I like that."
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My uncle Murry was actually the one
who got us in the studio.
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♪ So come along, baby, and surf ♪
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Okay, boys. Slating.
This will be take one, "Surfin'."
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♪ Surfin' is the only life
The only way for me ♪
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♪ Now surf ♪
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The first session,
Al played acoustic bass.
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I played an acoustic guitar.
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Brian played a drum with a pencil.
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And Michael was on vocals.
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♪ I got up this morning
Turned on my radio ♪
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♪ I was checking out the surfin' scene
To see if I would go ♪
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We were calling ourselves
The Pendletones.
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Those were shirts that all the surfers
were wearing at the time.
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And then somebody from the label
said, "The song is called 'Surfin'.'
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What about The Beach Boys?"
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None of us really liked it.
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And we got stuck with it.
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We put out "Surfin'"
on a small, independent label.
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A month later, we heard it on the radio.
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There was a radio station
that premiered, like, four songs a week.
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And the one that got the most call-ins
won the contest.
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Well, we had a big family.
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And they go, "The pick
of the week, 'Surfin'' by The Beach Boys!"
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And we were out of our minds.
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♪ It's the latest dance craze ♪
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♪ We're going surfin' ♪
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"Surfin'" went to number two in LA,
and then we started getting gigs.
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Played our first show on New Year's Eve.
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In the midst of it all,
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Dennis was learning the drums
quite proficiently.
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I was really impressed.
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The way it started out real fast,
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we didn't have a chance to sit around
and think, "Hey, what happened?"
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We were already heading towards something
without really knowing it.
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♪ Surfin' is the only life ♪
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♪ The only way for me ♪
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We had a hit record. Went to top 10 in LA,
and we were excited as hell.
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But I felt like I-- I don't know.
248
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I had to finish my education.
That's what I thought.
249
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My brother is a lawyer.
250
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My father has a business master's degree,
and my mother is--
251
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You know, they all had degrees.
252
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Just felt like I was out of place
for a while.
253
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So I left the band to finish college.
254
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It's the only time Brian
ever got upset with me.
255
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I wasn't in the band,
but I'd been hanging around.
256
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I was, like, 12.
257
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And Carl and I would play guitars
every day after school.
258
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We were developing our own style.
259
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And Brian, his ear picked up on that.
260
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So, all of a sudden...
261
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I was a Beach Boy.
262
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After "Surfin'" was a hit,
Brian really wanted a career in music.
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So my dad sold his business
and cleared the deck,
264
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and then went about getting us
a record label.
265
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He went around all the record labels
in Hollywood.
266
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Every one of them turned us down.
267
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Eventually, a man named Nick Venet,
who worked at Capitol Records,
268
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heard the tape of our stuff.
269
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They had a demo
of "Surfin' Safari."
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And every once in a while, you know
that the record is a number one record.
271
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And he goes, "Oh, God.
These records are goddamn smashes."
272
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We were able to sign with
Capitol Records, which was a big deal.
273
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Some great artists on it.
274
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The Four Freshmen were on, and
Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, you know?
275
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I said, "I quit college."
276
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And my brothers said,
"We quit high school."
277
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You know, we quit!
278
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I was the only person
who didn't need the court approval.
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I was 21 and everybody else
was quite a bit younger.
280
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And Capitol Records got us
in the studio immediately.
281
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Yeah. Hey, Dennis.
Don't forget that last verse, okay?
282
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That first recording session
was in the basement of Capitol Records.
283
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Here we go, 38221.
284
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At first, it was really
quite overwhelming, you know?
285
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Just to watch the recording process.
286
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We're speeding it a bit.
287
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We're rushing it.
Slow it down a little bit.
288
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Get the feel on the bass guitar.
Get that groove going.
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There we go. 38221.
290
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Brian's brilliant harmonies, and me
and Carl playing garage grunge guitars.
291
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People never heard anything like that.
292
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All right. This will be take one.
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♪ Let's go surfin' now
Everybody's learning how ♪
294
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♪ Come on and safari with me ♪
295
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♪ Come on and safari with ♪
296
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♪ Early in the mornin'
We'll be starting out ♪
297
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♪ Some honeys will be coming along ♪
298
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Murry was our manager,
and he was good at promotion.
299
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He would be handing out
pictures to kids in the parking lot.
300
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♪ Come on, baby
Wait and see ♪
301
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I mean,
he was promoting the shit out of us.
302
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Here they are with a big new
hit, The Beach Boys with "Surfin' Safari."
303
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♪ Let's go surfin' now
Everybody's learning how ♪
304
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♪ Come on and safari with me ♪
305
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♪ Come on and safari with ♪
306
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I grew up in Los Angeles,
but I never identified with beach culture.
307
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And when I first heard
The Beach Boys' music,
308
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my response was to reject it.
309
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They were part of a marketing blitz
310
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for a culture that
I wanted nothing to do with.
311
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The song selection.
The way the album covers were shot.
312
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It was a concocted image.
313
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♪ Let's go surfin' now
Everybody's learning how ♪
314
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And that image of the white,
blond Southern California teenager
315
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took off.
316
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♪ If everybody had an ocean
Across the USA ♪
317
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♪ Then everybody'd be surfin'
Like Californ-I-A ♪
318
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But the more you listen
to the records they made,
319
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it wasn't about that.
320
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They went beyond surfing.
321
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They were participating in the creation
of a California dream.
322
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- ♪ You'll catch 'em surfin' at Del Mar ♪
- ♪ Inside, outside USA ♪
323
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I grew up in Detroit.
I had a paper route in the wintertime.
324
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I walked to school in the wintertime.
325
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And then on weekends,
I'd go see Beach Blanket Bingo,
326
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or one of those movies.
327
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So, I was aware that there were places
that were warmer.
328
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♪ Surfin' USA ♪
329
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But the most articulate spokespeople
for the California dream
330
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were The Beach Boys.
331
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Man, they made me wanna go
to that place where they had cars
332
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and girls in bikinis and surf boards.
333
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And sun and warmth.
334
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I really wanted to be a part of that.
335
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- ♪ Haggerties and Swami's ♪
- ♪ Inside, outside USA ♪
336
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I grew up
in a very religious home,
337
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so I was predominantly only allowed
to listen to gospel music.
338
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But my mom was okay with me
playing The Beach Boys
339
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because she thought
they're positive, they're uplifting.
340
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That was huge for me, um,
because I was obsessed at an early age
341
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with getting out of Oklahoma.
342
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I think particularly landlocked states
dead center of the country,
343
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the appeal was even greater
because it was, like, foreign.
344
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It's a foreign sound.
345
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♪ Everybody's gone surfin' ♪
346
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Their music takes you someplace.
347
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You can listen to "Surfin' U.S.A.,"
348
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and geographically your brain
goes to sunny Southern California.
349
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♪ Everybody's gone surfin' ♪
350
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♪ Surfin' USA ♪
351
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It just hit America
like a big wave.
352
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They were selling an image, and the music
was alive and vibrant and exciting.
353
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All around the world,
people were listening to Beach Boy music.
354
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I was having this, like,
"Gosh, maybe I shouldn't have quit."
355
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Then I got a call.
356
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Brian was frantic.
Says, "I can't do this."
357
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He says, "You gotta come.
You gotta come back to the band."
358
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Brian didn't like touring,
359
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'cause all he wanted to do was stay home
and produce records and write songs.
360
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I was the only one Brian could
reach out to because I knew all the parts.
361
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I thought, you know,
the guys really need me.
362
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I miss the music.
363
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So I said, "Okay, Brian.
364
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I'm back."
365
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♪ Little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got ♪
366
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The next day,
we were on the road touring.
367
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♪ Well, I'm not bragging, babe
So don't put me down ♪
368
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I can remember
getting to Lake Minnetonka.
369
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People were breaking the windows
trying to get into the place.
370
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And there's still a line of cars
about a mile or two down the road.
371
00:24:08.031 --> 00:24:10.241
I remember the first time
we heard girls screaming.
372
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We thought there was a fire.
373
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We looked around.
374
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We were all just,
you know, having a ball.
375
00:24:19.376 --> 00:24:22.796
And, meanwhile, Brian was able
to stay home and do his thing.
376
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He was writing a ton of songs.
377
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And because we were on tour,
378
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I wasn't the only person writing with him
at that time.
379
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So he co-wrote things with others.
380
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♪ She's got a competition clutch
with the four on the floor ♪
381
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♪ And she purrs like a kitten
'til the lake pipes roar ♪
382
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I enjoyed the road.
I thought it was fun.
383
00:24:43.650 --> 00:24:46.403
But Murry wasn't a very fun road manager.
384
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♪ I got the pink slip, Daddy ♪
385
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On many levels, Murry had a lot to do
with our success.
386
00:24:52.701 --> 00:24:55.453
But Murry started to infringe
on the music.
387
00:24:55.453 --> 00:24:56.913
Oh, he would critique, all right.
388
00:24:56.913 --> 00:24:59.165
He said we didn't know what we were doing.
389
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And we would have a certain sound in mind,
390
00:25:01.459 --> 00:25:03.294
and he'd want it to be different.
391
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He would actually come onstage
and adjust my amp.
392
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Of course I'd go back
and put it the way I wanted it.
393
00:25:09.384 --> 00:25:13.221
And he'd call me over, and he ripped me
a new one for not smiling onstage,
394
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or not having enough treble on my guitar.
395
00:25:16.516 --> 00:25:20.020
Eventually, I just got mad at him
because he was yelling at me,
396
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so I said, "I quit the band."
397
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And Murry goes, "Everybody hear that?
He quits the band."
398
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I loved Murry a lot,
but that wasn't really fair.
399
00:25:32.490 --> 00:25:35.744
I was some arrogant 15-year-old.
What the hell do you expect?
400
00:25:36.745 --> 00:25:40.832
And so, after four albums as a Beach Boy,
that was over.
401
00:25:42.167 --> 00:25:45.587
Brian was totally upset, 'cause he knew
what the consequences were gonna be.
402
00:25:45.587 --> 00:25:49.090
He would have to be on the road more
if I left.
403
00:25:58.266 --> 00:26:00.268
When I was in high school,
404
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my friend says,
"I know these guys called The Beach Boys."
405
00:26:03.355 --> 00:26:05.899 line:5%
"Would you like to see their show?"
406
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♪ Little surfer
Little one ♪
407
00:26:12.489 --> 00:26:14.616
I grew up in West Hollywood,
408
00:26:14.616 --> 00:26:17.786
and there was this coffee house
called Pandora's Box.
409
00:26:18.661 --> 00:26:20.246
We were sitting in the first row,
410
00:26:20.246 --> 00:26:22.415
and I remember Brian looked at me
and he went,
411
00:26:22.415 --> 00:26:24.834
"Hey, can I have a sip
of your hot chocolate?"
412
00:26:25.919 --> 00:26:27.671
I gave him a sip of it.
When he gave it back to me,
413
00:26:27.671 --> 00:26:29.923
it spilled on me.
414
00:26:29.923 --> 00:26:32.759
It was funny.
415
00:26:36.388 --> 00:26:39.057
You know, before long, I was dating Brian.
416
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♪ I will make your dreams come true ♪
417
00:26:43.061 --> 00:26:44.479
He had a great personality.
418
00:26:44.479 --> 00:26:46.064
I mean, he was so much fun.
419
00:26:46.898 --> 00:26:49.693
But he was very cerebral
when it came to music.
420
00:26:50.402 --> 00:26:51.444
And, at the time,
421
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I was singing with my cousin Ginger
and my sister Diane.
422
00:26:55.365 --> 00:26:58.326
So we started making records with Brian
and for Capitol.
423
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♪ Girl, surfer girl
My little surfer girl ♪
424
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Music was our whole life.
425
00:27:05.417 --> 00:27:06.668
It was everything.
426
00:27:06.668 --> 00:27:11.006
♪ Girl, surfer girl
My little surfer girl ♪
427
00:27:11.006 --> 00:27:13.967
Brian would tell me that he just wanted
to be home and make records,
428
00:27:13.967 --> 00:27:15.301
you know, and write and all that.
429
00:27:16.011 --> 00:27:18.179
And the guys had a hard time
understanding that,
430
00:27:18.179 --> 00:27:20.432
because, you know,
going out on the road was fun.
431
00:27:20.974 --> 00:27:23.226
But it wasn't fun for Brian.
432
00:27:25.812 --> 00:27:28.606
I mean, I've tried to work
around people, and I can do it.
433
00:27:29.482 --> 00:27:31.026
It's a little hard, you know?
434
00:27:31.026 --> 00:27:33.445
But when I go alone, I can think.
435
00:27:33.445 --> 00:27:35.280
You know,
and I can get some stuff together.
436
00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:45.957
♪ There's a world where I can go ♪
437
00:27:45.957 --> 00:27:51.713
♪ Tell my secrets to ♪
438
00:27:51.713 --> 00:27:57.802
♪ In my room ♪
439
00:27:58.511 --> 00:28:01.514
♪ In my room ♪
440
00:28:01.514 --> 00:28:03.516
I think that music
is very healing.
441
00:28:04.142 --> 00:28:05.810
It puts me into a quiet place
442
00:28:05.810 --> 00:28:08.063
to create or to do
what I'm supposed to do.
443
00:28:09.481 --> 00:28:11.358
I've worked with Brian,
444
00:28:11.358 --> 00:28:15.111
and the way to talk with him
is through the language of music.
445
00:28:15.779 --> 00:28:17.280
You can get close to him that way.
446
00:28:18.990 --> 00:28:20.408
That's a secret language.
447
00:28:21.368 --> 00:28:25.038
And I think Mike understood
the complexity of Brian.
448
00:28:26.247 --> 00:28:29.334
♪ In my room ♪
449
00:28:29.334 --> 00:28:32.754
Whereas Brian
was innately gifted musically,
450
00:28:33.296 --> 00:28:35.632
I was more into the lyrics
and the concepts.
451
00:28:36.299 --> 00:28:38.385
And so it was a good partnership there.
452
00:28:39.511 --> 00:28:43.932
Some people maybe denigrate them
for those early songs being simple.
453
00:28:44.557 --> 00:28:45.975
But I think that's a virtue.
454
00:28:46.518 --> 00:28:50.313
Songs about having fun and love
and unrequited love.
455
00:28:50.313 --> 00:28:53.191
It was perfect music for a teenager, man.
456
00:28:53.191 --> 00:28:55.735
They could understand that.
They could relate to it.
457
00:28:55.735 --> 00:28:56.820
They could feel it.
458
00:28:57.362 --> 00:28:59.823
Simplicity is what got us going.
459
00:29:05.954 --> 00:29:09.207
With Brian's wonderful ability
to write melodies
460
00:29:09.207 --> 00:29:11.960
and Mike's very clever way
of writing lyrics,
461
00:29:12.460 --> 00:29:13.962
we found a perfect formula.
462
00:29:14.754 --> 00:29:17.215
But when it got to the point
of going onstage,
463
00:29:18.216 --> 00:29:19.634
Mike was lead singer.
464
00:29:19.634 --> 00:29:20.802
♪ Giddy up ♪
465
00:29:22.178 --> 00:29:24.014
He developed that persona quite early.
466
00:29:24.014 --> 00:29:27.100
♪ Well, I'm a long, tall Texan ♪
467
00:29:27.851 --> 00:29:30.186
♪ I ride a big, white horse ♪
468
00:29:30.186 --> 00:29:34.190
♪ He rides from Texas
on a big, white horse ♪
469
00:29:34.190 --> 00:29:37.277
♪ Well, I'm a long, tall Texan ♪
470
00:29:38.028 --> 00:29:40.363
♪ I ride a big, white horse ♪
471
00:29:40.363 --> 00:29:43.033
Ultimately,
I think Brian was melancholy.
472
00:29:43.033 --> 00:29:47.120 line:5%
So I complemented Brian's melancholy
with my upbeatness.
473
00:29:48.413 --> 00:29:50.832
♪ Hurrah, hurrah
Is that your hat? ♪
474
00:29:50.832 --> 00:29:52.959
♪ He rides from Texas
with a ten-gallon hat ♪
475
00:29:52.959 --> 00:29:54.169
♪ Yeah ♪
476
00:29:54.169 --> 00:29:56.921
All the guys
loved that Mike was so funny.
477
00:29:56.921 --> 00:29:59.549
You know, I mean, they would really
give off of each other.
478
00:30:00.633 --> 00:30:03.053
And Brian thought
that Mike was the greatest front man.
479
00:30:03.803 --> 00:30:08.266
I, personally, always preferred live music
to the studio.
480
00:30:09.100 --> 00:30:11.019
There's no feedback in the studio.
481
00:30:11.019 --> 00:30:16.566
But in live music, you see the effect that
the music has on the people immediately.
482
00:30:17.233 --> 00:30:20.403
It's so positive. So much joy.
483
00:30:20.403 --> 00:30:23.656
♪ My spurs jinglin' down at my feet ♪
484
00:30:25.033 --> 00:30:29.454
♪ I seen a man a-comin'
Comin' with a gun and ♪
485
00:30:29.454 --> 00:30:33.583
♪ I just can't be beat ♪
486
00:30:46.721 --> 00:30:50.558
♪ Now here we are together ♪
487
00:30:50.558 --> 00:30:54.062
♪ This would've been
worth waiting forever ♪
488
00:30:54.771 --> 00:30:59.776
♪ I always knew it'd feel this way ♪
489
00:31:03.863 --> 00:31:07.200
The Beach Boys
came into the popular consciousness
490
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:11.454
with the mythology of surfing
and the California lifestyle.
491
00:31:12.580 --> 00:31:15.917 line:5%
That fueled a lot
of young people's imaginations.
492
00:31:15.917 --> 00:31:21.464
♪ Baby, please let me wonder ♪
493
00:31:21.464 --> 00:31:24.217
Those of us who lived up
in Northern California
494
00:31:24.217 --> 00:31:29.222
tended to be somewhat opinionated
about Los Angeles.
495
00:31:29.222 --> 00:31:34.644
But what made the group transcend that
was they had this guy Brian Wilson.
496
00:31:35.812 --> 00:31:41.109
I was quite taken with him as a craftsman,
as a producer.
497
00:31:41.985 --> 00:31:44.821
And as much as I've been influenced
by Brian's music,
498
00:31:45.530 --> 00:31:51.119
Brian was equally influenced by
the amazing songs coming on the radio
499
00:31:51.119 --> 00:31:52.287
at that time.
500
00:31:52.287 --> 00:31:55.040
♪ For so long I thought about it ♪
501
00:31:55.832 --> 00:31:59.044
Phil Spector is 25 years old.
502
00:31:59.044 --> 00:32:03.048 line:5%
He owns record and publishing companies
valued in the millions.
503
00:32:03.048 --> 00:32:04.883
Dozens of hit records since
504
00:32:04.883 --> 00:32:09.387
indicate that Spector's beat
is closely tuned to teen desire.
505
00:32:10.972 --> 00:32:13.475
Was Spector a big inspiration to you?
506
00:32:13.475 --> 00:32:15.560
Are you kidding? Are you kidding?
507
00:32:16.186 --> 00:32:19.189
He was like a-- He was it.
508
00:32:20.982 --> 00:32:24.819
I was in my car with my girlfriend.
All of a sudden, this radio station goes,
509
00:32:24.819 --> 00:32:27.906
"Here we go with
'Be My Baby' by the Ronettes."
510
00:32:27.906 --> 00:32:34.037 line:5%
♪ The night we met
I knew I needed you so ♪
511
00:32:34.037 --> 00:32:40.377
After he heard "Be My Baby,"
he played that record every single day.
512
00:32:40.377 --> 00:32:42.837
Drove me absolutely nuts.
513
00:32:42.837 --> 00:32:46.216
♪ So won't you say you love me? ♪
514
00:32:46.216 --> 00:32:48.760
Phil Spector's music
was intangible.
515
00:32:48.760 --> 00:32:52.097
He knew how to mix,
who knows, probably 25 instruments?
516
00:32:52.722 --> 00:32:56.935
He mixes 'em all into one sound, and
that was what he called the Wall of Sound.
517
00:32:56.935 --> 00:32:59.396
♪ Be my, be my baby ♪
518
00:32:59.396 --> 00:33:02.315
- ♪ Be my little baby ♪
- ♪ My one and only baby ♪
519
00:33:02.315 --> 00:33:03.692
It got to my soul.
520
00:33:03.692 --> 00:33:05.944
♪ Say you'll be my darling ♪
521
00:33:05.944 --> 00:33:09.781
- ♪ Be my, be my baby ♪
- ♪ Be my baby now ♪
522
00:33:09.781 --> 00:33:12.367
♪ Whoa, oh, oh, oh ♪
523
00:33:12.367 --> 00:33:14.953
When Brian heard "Be My Baby,"
524
00:33:14.953 --> 00:33:17.914 line:5%
he says, "I gotta have that band.
Those are the guys."
525
00:33:18.998 --> 00:33:20.750
I played on "Be My Baby"
526
00:33:20.750 --> 00:33:23.920 line:5%
with a group of session musicians
called the Wrecking Crew.
527
00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:27.007 line:5%
We were the band
that was making those hit records.
528
00:33:27.007 --> 00:33:31.344
Before that, most of the studio musicians
were all in the suits,
529
00:33:31.344 --> 00:33:32.303
and nobody smoked.
530
00:33:33.096 --> 00:33:36.933
Here we came
and everybody was making jokes, relaxed.
531
00:33:36.933 --> 00:33:39.561
The story goes like, "These guys
are gonna wreck the business."
532
00:33:40.687 --> 00:33:45.650
Phil Spector had three keyboard
players all playing the same part.
533
00:33:45.650 --> 00:33:49.362
Five guitar players. Three bass players.
534
00:33:49.362 --> 00:33:51.906
Everyone's bleeding
into all the microphones.
535
00:33:51.906 --> 00:33:54.617
And he built this monolith of music.
536
00:33:54.617 --> 00:33:57.370
♪ Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
537
00:33:58.371 --> 00:34:00.790
I was unable
to really think as a producer
538
00:34:00.790 --> 00:34:04.044
up until the time I really got familiar
with Phil Spector's work.
539
00:34:04.044 --> 00:34:06.796
Then I started to see the point
of the whole game.
540
00:34:06.796 --> 00:34:08.673
It's the overall sound.
541
00:34:08.673 --> 00:34:10.675
It's what they're going to hear
and experience
542
00:34:10.675 --> 00:34:12.427
in the two and a half minutes that counts.
543
00:34:12.427 --> 00:34:15.805
- ♪ Be my, be my baby ♪
- ♪ Be my little baby ♪
544
00:34:15.805 --> 00:34:18.391
Brian really wanted
to produce his own records,
545
00:34:18.391 --> 00:34:20.101 line:5%
and that was a big step at that time.
546
00:34:20.101 --> 00:34:22.479 line:5%
Capitol Records really resisted it.
547
00:34:22.479 --> 00:34:26.149
They weren't certain that
he'd be able to really deliver.
548
00:34:30.653 --> 00:34:34.908
When you're 21, especially in that era,
you needed to have an adult in the room.
549
00:34:34.908 --> 00:34:36.201
There was a method to things.
550
00:34:38.244 --> 00:34:40.997
Capitol wanted
to have their person in there,
551
00:34:40.997 --> 00:34:44.668 line:5%
and so Nick Venet
was assigned as our producer.
552
00:34:44.668 --> 00:34:47.045 line:5%
But that was very unsatisfactory.
553
00:34:47.545 --> 00:34:48.546
Especially to Brian.
554
00:34:49.130 --> 00:34:51.549
He didn't really do much except just,
555
00:34:51.549 --> 00:34:53.718
"Okay, fellas. Take one and take"--
You know?
556
00:34:53.718 --> 00:34:56.262 line:5%
The tower's three recording studios
557
00:34:56.262 --> 00:34:58.098 line:5%
are the most modern in the world.
558
00:34:58.098 --> 00:34:59.891
They want us to use
their recording studio,
559
00:34:59.891 --> 00:35:02.394
and we didn't care too much for the sound
at the tower.
560
00:35:03.520 --> 00:35:08.191
I preferred a studio called
Western Recorders on Sunset Boulevard.
561
00:35:08.191 --> 00:35:12.237
So my dad told Capitol that we're leaving.
562
00:35:12.237 --> 00:35:16.658
I remember Murry argued
with Capitol for five straight months.
563
00:35:16.658 --> 00:35:21.496
I could hear his voice just screaming,
but Murry got his way.
564
00:35:22.580 --> 00:35:24.332
Had he been unrelated
to the group,
565
00:35:24.332 --> 00:35:27.168 line:5%
I could've probably seen
my way through the arguments.
566
00:35:27.168 --> 00:35:29.337 line:5%
But because he was blood related,
567
00:35:29.337 --> 00:35:32.090
whenever I told him
he was wrong or foolish,
568
00:35:32.090 --> 00:35:36.011
the entire band took it
as a slander against the family.
569
00:35:38.638 --> 00:35:41.391
And from then on,
we produced our own records.
570
00:35:51.735 --> 00:35:53.570
Growing up in Kansas City, Kansas,
571
00:35:53.570 --> 00:35:57.991 line:5%
my grandmother would go to thrift stores
and get all these dusty vinyls.
572
00:36:00.035 --> 00:36:06.291
And I just remember seeing The Beach Boys,
and I'm like, "What the hell is that?"
573
00:36:06.291 --> 00:36:09.544
♪ Well, it's been building up
inside of me ♪
574
00:36:09.544 --> 00:36:14.215
♪ For, oh, I don't know how long ♪
575
00:36:14.215 --> 00:36:15.592
When I got into songwriting,
576
00:36:15.592 --> 00:36:18.636
that's when I really started
to listen to The Beach Boys,
577
00:36:19.637 --> 00:36:21.598
'cause I was so obsessed
with the harmonies.
578
00:36:21.598 --> 00:36:24.684
- ♪ Ooh ♪
- ♪ But she looks in my eyes ♪
579
00:36:24.684 --> 00:36:27.354
They really show what it's like
580
00:36:27.354 --> 00:36:29.939
when everybody understands the part
they have to play.
581
00:36:29.939 --> 00:36:35.779
♪ Don't worry, baby ♪
582
00:36:35.779 --> 00:36:40.116
- ♪ Everything will turn out all right ♪
- ♪ Don't worry, baby ♪
583
00:36:40.116 --> 00:36:45.205
♪ Don't worry, baby ♪
584
00:36:48.124 --> 00:36:55.048
♪ I guess I should've kept my mouth shut
When I started to brag about my car ♪
585
00:36:56.257 --> 00:37:00.762
There's something about those individuals
and the way they blended together.
586
00:37:00.762 --> 00:37:02.847
They're all part of it.
587
00:37:02.847 --> 00:37:05.016
You take any one of those guys out,
588
00:37:05.016 --> 00:37:07.894
and you don't have
that sound or that feel.
589
00:37:07.894 --> 00:37:11.898
♪ And makes me wanna drive when she says ♪
590
00:37:11.898 --> 00:37:14.150
♪ Don't worry, baby ♪
591
00:37:14.150 --> 00:37:17.654
- ♪ Don't worry, baby ♪
- ♪ Don't worry, baby ♪
592
00:37:17.654 --> 00:37:19.489
♪ Everything will turn out all right ♪
593
00:37:19.489 --> 00:37:21.783
I remember the recording session
for "Don't Worry Baby."
594
00:37:21.783 --> 00:37:23.702
I go, "Holy shit. This is beautiful."
595
00:37:24.285 --> 00:37:25.787
Definitely a turning point for us.
596
00:37:26.871 --> 00:37:27.956
And for Brian.
597
00:37:30.125 --> 00:37:31.543
He knew exactly what he wanted.
598
00:37:32.127 --> 00:37:34.379
He was really learning to be a producer.
599
00:37:34.379 --> 00:37:36.673
But his dad began to be an obstacle.
600
00:37:40.260 --> 00:37:41.636
Sit up straight, Carl,
and you can play.
601
00:37:41.636 --> 00:37:43.179
- You're laying down.
That thing's on.
602
00:37:43.179 --> 00:37:45.849
It's tough to manage your sons,
so I don't know how you can...
603
00:37:46.433 --> 00:37:49.352
...travel with them
and be their road manager.
604
00:37:49.352 --> 00:37:52.939
And their manager manager.
It just-- It just was very difficult.
605
00:37:54.774 --> 00:37:56.609
He would come to a concert,
606
00:37:56.609 --> 00:38:01.322
then told Brian to not use the sound
on the bass that he wanted to use.
607
00:38:01.322 --> 00:38:03.491
He'd give us these signals
from the back of the hall.
608
00:38:03.491 --> 00:38:04.743
He'd have his flashlight too.
609
00:38:05.660 --> 00:38:08.830
But the flashlight under his face,
and he looked like Boris Karloff.
610
00:38:10.749 --> 00:38:15.086
We're young guys in a rock band
who wanna have a certain sound onstage.
611
00:38:15.086 --> 00:38:17.839
And here's the dad over there.
612
00:38:17.839 --> 00:38:21.092
♪ The sunset at night ♪
613
00:38:21.092 --> 00:38:24.429
He would literally go like this,
it means T for treble.
614
00:38:24.429 --> 00:38:25.513
Treble up.
615
00:38:25.513 --> 00:38:29.768
Treble up, and also we had to humble up.
That was another one of his big sayings.
616
00:38:29.768 --> 00:38:32.645
What's the matter?
You made too much money, buddy?
617
00:38:33.146 --> 00:38:35.607 line:5%
- Let's sing from your hearts. Let's go.
All right.
618
00:38:35.607 --> 00:38:38.318
If they didn't do something right,
he would fine them.
619
00:38:38.318 --> 00:38:40.362
Or if someone swore, he would fine them.
620
00:38:40.362 --> 00:38:41.488
It was so stupid.
621
00:38:42.947 --> 00:38:45.116
Brian did always
want his father's approval.
622
00:38:45.617 --> 00:38:49.204
But it got to the point where he really
didn't want Murry to tell him what to do,
623
00:38:49.204 --> 00:38:53.625
because, you know, Murry's making music
from the '30s and '40s.
624
00:38:53.625 --> 00:38:57.545
Brian said, "Oh, he's so corny
all the time. I can't. He's corny."
625
00:38:58.338 --> 00:39:00.298 line:5%
The boys just really weren't happy.
626
00:39:01.049 --> 00:39:04.052 line:5%
And Murry wasn't happy either.
He was miserable most of the time.
627
00:39:07.138 --> 00:39:08.973
We went to Australia for a tour.
628
00:39:10.642 --> 00:39:12.394
That might have been the turning point.
629
00:39:13.645 --> 00:39:16.731
Just a lot of arguing.
A lot of arguments that we had with him.
630
00:39:16.731 --> 00:39:19.109
We finally said,
"Look, we can't deal with you anymore.
631
00:39:19.109 --> 00:39:21.861
We gotta let you go
and get a new-- get a new manager."
632
00:39:22.862 --> 00:39:27.575
Brian and I made that decision,
and Murry took over the publishing.
633
00:39:29.077 --> 00:39:30.745
But he was no longer our manager.
634
00:39:32.497 --> 00:39:34.582
Murry protected them from day one.
635
00:39:34.582 --> 00:39:38.211
You know, if Murry wasn't there
and wasn't protecting them,
636
00:39:38.211 --> 00:39:40.839
I don't think they would be anywhere
where they are right now.
637
00:39:40.839 --> 00:39:42.007
In fact, I know they wouldn't.
638
00:39:43.383 --> 00:39:46.302
And so he was real, real hurt.
639
00:39:47.387 --> 00:39:49.180
That was traumatic for him.
- It was terrible.
640
00:39:49.180 --> 00:39:50.932
It hurt his feelings very much.
641
00:39:52.767 --> 00:39:55.186
The firing was very hard on Audree,
642
00:39:55.186 --> 00:39:58.732
because Murry would, you know,
come down on her all the time.
643
00:39:58.732 --> 00:40:01.526
You know,
"Because you were too soft with them."
644
00:40:02.777 --> 00:40:04.779
I just wanted them
always to be better.
645
00:40:05.321 --> 00:40:07.073 line:5%
Always to be stronger.
646
00:40:07.073 --> 00:40:08.742 line:5%
Always be honest.
647
00:40:09.701 --> 00:40:11.119
God, they heard that enough.
648
00:40:12.954 --> 00:40:14.414
I was never scared of my brothers.
649
00:40:14.414 --> 00:40:16.249 line:5%
I was scared of my dad though.
I'll tell you that.
650
00:40:16.875 --> 00:40:19.878 line:5%
He'd clobber me right in the face
for not getting the dishes done.
651
00:40:22.589 --> 00:40:25.425 line:5%
- At times, he was extremely--
- Depending on what he was hitting you with
652
00:40:25.425 --> 00:40:26.760
at the time, you know?
653
00:40:27.385 --> 00:40:31.139
He used a little thin board on Carl,
and he used a big one on me.
654
00:40:32.182 --> 00:40:33.767
Carl was the baby.
655
00:40:33.767 --> 00:40:36.978
And Brian.
"Well, Brian is different, Dennis."
656
00:40:36.978 --> 00:40:39.064
You know, and he said,
"You can take it." Boom!
657
00:40:40.315 --> 00:40:41.524
He was very abusive,
658
00:40:41.524 --> 00:40:46.237 line:5%
and I think that dealt some
severe self-worth issues to his sons.
659
00:40:46.946 --> 00:40:50.325
Showed up in Brian in one way,
and showed up in Carl another way.
660
00:40:50.325 --> 00:40:53.244
He developed a real guarded personality.
661
00:40:53.953 --> 00:40:56.122
And then Dennis was a rebel.
662
00:40:58.083 --> 00:41:00.543
When he grew up
into The Beach Boys,
663
00:41:00.543 --> 00:41:03.463
man, let me tell you,
he was really a spark plug.
664
00:41:03.963 --> 00:41:05.173
A real spark plug.
665
00:41:10.053 --> 00:41:12.472
In a sense,
the spotlight was on Dennis.
666
00:41:12.472 --> 00:41:14.391
He was the sex symbol of the group.
667
00:41:14.391 --> 00:41:16.685
So a lot of us had to take it
right where it hurt.
668
00:41:16.685 --> 00:41:19.646
It's like, "Mob the stage. Look out!
Get out of the way. We want Dennis.
669
00:41:19.646 --> 00:41:22.691
- Will you please move that bass, Brian?"
670
00:41:22.691 --> 00:41:26.111
♪ Do you wanna dance
Under the moonlight? ♪
671
00:41:26.111 --> 00:41:28.780
♪ Hold me, baby, all through the night ♪
672
00:41:28.780 --> 00:41:34.786
♪ Oh, baby, do you wanna dance? ♪
673
00:41:35.704 --> 00:41:38.540
The way Dennis played
the drums, it was Dennis's drums.
674
00:41:38.540 --> 00:41:40.917
I think that made a lot
of the records too.
675
00:41:41.710 --> 00:41:44.713
He was energetic, boy.
A lot of power.
676
00:41:44.713 --> 00:41:45.714
Whoo!
677
00:41:47.132 --> 00:41:49.592
He was a real beach boy.
He really surfed.
678
00:41:49.592 --> 00:41:51.720
He really did what we were singing about.
679
00:41:51.720 --> 00:41:55.223
But that issue was that he'd rather be
in the water than in the studio.
680
00:41:55.223 --> 00:41:58.476
♪ Do you wanna dance
Under the moonlight? ♪
681
00:41:58.476 --> 00:42:01.312
♪ Kiss me, baby, all through the night ♪
682
00:42:01.312 --> 00:42:07.819
♪ Oh, baby, do you wanna dance? ♪
683
00:42:12.574 --> 00:42:15.869
Dennis had all the cars and all the girls.
You know, the whole thing.
684
00:42:21.666 --> 00:42:23.376
He enjoyed being a beach boy.
685
00:42:27.088 --> 00:42:30.258
We're The Beach Boys,
and we'd like to thank all the guys at...
686
00:42:30.967 --> 00:42:32.969
We were in New Zealand for a tour.
687
00:42:32.969 --> 00:42:35.388
We were doing some spots
for the station there,
688
00:42:35.388 --> 00:42:38.600
and the deejay said,
"Hey, there's a new band from England
689
00:42:38.600 --> 00:42:40.393
taking over America."
690
00:42:40.393 --> 00:42:42.520
We go, "Well, it's okay."
691
00:42:48.068 --> 00:42:51.488
3,000 screaming teenagers
are at New York's Kennedy airport
692
00:42:51.488 --> 00:42:53.156
to meet The Beatles.
693
00:42:53.156 --> 00:42:54.949
This rock-and-roll group has taken over
694
00:42:54.949 --> 00:42:58.703
as the kingpins of musical appreciation
among the younger element.
695
00:43:00.789 --> 00:43:02.874
I first heard 'em on The Ed Sullivan Show.
696
00:43:03.792 --> 00:43:04.959
And I was flippin' out.
697
00:43:06.503 --> 00:43:08.004
Pretty jealous. I remember that.
698
00:43:08.797 --> 00:43:11.549 line:5%
Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles.
Bring 'em on!
699
00:43:14.511 --> 00:43:16.721
Here we are
in this remote part of the world,
700
00:43:16.721 --> 00:43:18.473
and they're on The Ed Sullivan Show.
701
00:43:19.224 --> 00:43:20.975
We were completely caught off guard.
702
00:43:22.644 --> 00:43:28.066
It was very humbling, because we had been
on top there for that year or so before.
703
00:43:28.775 --> 00:43:30.527
Think I was just as amazed as anyone.
704
00:43:32.028 --> 00:43:34.447
Couldn't understand
how something like that could happen.
705
00:43:35.365 --> 00:43:36.449
The Beatles.
706
00:43:40.954 --> 00:43:42.372
The music they made--
707
00:43:42.372 --> 00:43:45.625
"I Wanna Hold Your Hand," for example,
wasn't really that great a record.
708
00:43:46.251 --> 00:43:48.503
But they-- But they got screamed at.
709
00:43:50.338 --> 00:43:54.259
They were selling an image like
we were, but we had different approaches.
710
00:43:55.176 --> 00:43:58.763
They were a little crude,
because we were so, you know, refined.
711
00:43:58.763 --> 00:44:02.017
Everything with us was pitch-perfect.
You know?
712
00:44:02.892 --> 00:44:05.311
We were singers. They were players.
That's what it felt like.
713
00:44:06.396 --> 00:44:08.398
It was just
a different level of energy.
714
00:44:10.525 --> 00:44:11.776
It got us off our asses.
715
00:44:12.986 --> 00:44:15.155
It got us right off our asses
and in the studio.
716
00:44:15.822 --> 00:44:16.823
We started cuttin',
717
00:44:16.823 --> 00:44:18.908
and said,
"Look, don't worry about The Beatles.
718
00:44:18.908 --> 00:44:20.785
We'll cut our own stuff.
Don't worry about it."
719
00:44:21.327 --> 00:44:23.663
Let's hear it for The Beach Boys!
720
00:44:28.752 --> 00:44:30.503
♪ Well, she got her daddy's car ♪
721
00:44:30.503 --> 00:44:33.214
♪ And she cruised through
the hamburger stand, now ♪
722
00:44:34.924 --> 00:44:39.012
♪ Seems she forgot all about the library
like she told her old man, now ♪
723
00:44:39.971 --> 00:44:42.223
The music business
is so competitive.
724
00:44:42.223 --> 00:44:44.726
Always has been. Always will be.
725
00:44:45.894 --> 00:44:48.730
And you always hope
the song is gonna be number one,
726
00:44:48.730 --> 00:44:50.440
but there's too much competition.
727
00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:52.275
♪ Fun, fun, fun, 'til her daddy takes... ♪
728
00:44:53.777 --> 00:44:59.324
♪ She loves you
Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
729
00:44:59.324 --> 00:45:02.285
The four lads from Liverpool
are off again
730
00:45:02.285 --> 00:45:04.704
against the background
of thousands of screaming fans.
731
00:45:05.789 --> 00:45:08.708
♪ You think you've lost your love ♪
732
00:45:08.708 --> 00:45:11.878
♪ Well, I saw her yesterday ♪
733
00:45:12.504 --> 00:45:16.091
We'd put a song out.
Brian would hear it, then he'd do one.
734
00:45:16.091 --> 00:45:18.885
And we ended up--
It was kind of like a rivalry.
735
00:45:18.885 --> 00:45:21.429
You know, you kind of try
and top each other all the time.
736
00:45:22.389 --> 00:45:25.225 line:5%
- Here are The Beach Boys!
737
00:45:25.225 --> 00:45:28.978 line:5%
♪ Round, round, get around
I get around, yeah ♪
738
00:45:28.978 --> 00:45:31.481
- ♪ Round, round, round, I get around ♪
739
00:45:31.481 --> 00:45:34.234
- ♪ I get around ♪
- ♪ Round, round, round, I get around ♪
740
00:45:34.234 --> 00:45:36.277
- ♪ From town to town ♪
- ♪ Get around, round, round ♪
741
00:45:36.277 --> 00:45:37.362
♪ I get around ♪
742
00:45:37.362 --> 00:45:40.865
♪ I'm a real cool head
I'm making real good bread ♪
743
00:45:40.865 --> 00:45:44.285
On the West Coast
of America, a new sound was born.
744
00:45:44.285 --> 00:45:47.330
The surfing sound.
A tremendous rage over there.
745
00:45:47.330 --> 00:45:49.374
And it's been
quite a big success here too.
746
00:45:49.374 --> 00:45:50.959 line:5%
Here they are with their big hit number,
747
00:45:50.959 --> 00:45:53.837 line:5%
"I Get Around," The Beach Boys!
748
00:45:53.837 --> 00:45:56.631
♪ My buddies and me
are getting real well-known ♪
749
00:45:56.631 --> 00:45:59.926
♪ Yeah, the bad guys know us
and they leave us alone ♪
750
00:46:00.427 --> 00:46:02.470
- Mike Love.
- Brian Wilson.
751
00:46:02.470 --> 00:46:04.556
- Paul, Ringo.
752
00:46:05.807 --> 00:46:08.893
- ♪ I'm a real cool head ♪
- ♪ Get around, round, round ♪
753
00:46:08.893 --> 00:46:10.228 line:5%
♪ I'm making real good bread ♪
754
00:46:10.228 --> 00:46:13.898 line:5%
There's a lot of groups competing with us,
and I feel that competition.
755
00:46:29.247 --> 00:46:31.958
♪ We always take my car
'Cause it's never been beat ♪
756
00:46:31.958 --> 00:46:34.878
♪ And we've never missed yet
With the girls we meet ♪
757
00:46:37.881 --> 00:46:40.884 line:5%
♪ None of the guys go steady
'Cause it wouldn't be right ♪
758
00:46:40.884 --> 00:46:44.220
♪ To leave their best girl home
Now on Saturday night ♪
759
00:46:44.220 --> 00:46:47.140
- ♪ I get around ♪
- ♪ Get around, round, I get around ♪
760
00:46:47.140 --> 00:46:49.476
- ♪ From town to town ♪
- ♪ Get around, round, I get around ♪
761
00:46:49.476 --> 00:46:52.270
- ♪ I'm a real cool head ♪
- ♪ Get around, round, I get around ♪
762
00:46:52.270 --> 00:46:56.316
- ♪ I'm making real good bread ♪
- ♪ Get around, round, I get around ♪
763
00:46:57.233 --> 00:46:58.234
♪ Round ♪
764
00:47:05.617 --> 00:47:07.118
Sure, most everybody knows,
765
00:47:07.118 --> 00:47:10.330 line:5%
but for anybody who might not,
may we introduce you by name?
766
00:47:10.330 --> 00:47:12.040 line:5%
- Al Jardine.
- Thank you, Al.
767
00:47:12.040 --> 00:47:13.291 line:5%
- Dennis Wilson.
- Thank you.
768
00:47:13.291 --> 00:47:14.668
Brian Wilson.
769
00:47:14.668 --> 00:47:16.586
- Carl Wilson.
- Mike Love.
770
00:47:16.586 --> 00:47:18.838
- Now, I think, uh-- Whoop. What happened?
771
00:47:18.838 --> 00:47:19.839
There you are.
772
00:47:19.839 --> 00:47:22.550
You know it's an amazing thing
because you have hit after hit.
773
00:47:22.550 --> 00:47:25.637
Who determines, Brian,
what will be done next?
774
00:47:26.429 --> 00:47:28.598
- Well, I guess I do. I don't know.
775
00:47:28.598 --> 00:47:31.768
I write the songs and produce them,
so I have a lot to say about it.
776
00:47:31.768 --> 00:47:33.019
Do you have a...
777
00:47:33.019 --> 00:47:36.690
There was so much
on him all the time as he got older.
778
00:47:36.690 --> 00:47:38.525
Because Brian could write.
779
00:47:38.525 --> 00:47:40.568
He could arrange.
780
00:47:40.568 --> 00:47:41.903
He could sing.
781
00:47:41.903 --> 00:47:44.322
He could play instruments.
782
00:47:44.322 --> 00:47:45.615
He could do everything.
783
00:47:46.533 --> 00:47:49.119
But the other parts of life
were hard for him.
784
00:47:54.624 --> 00:47:57.794
Being on the road,
it's ever-changing.
785
00:47:59.713 --> 00:48:01.339
He just wasn't cut out for that.
786
00:48:02.632 --> 00:48:03.925
He was more of a homebody.
787
00:48:06.428 --> 00:48:11.182
The toll that it takes on your body,
your family, your mental health,
788
00:48:11.182 --> 00:48:12.767
your physical health,
789
00:48:13.309 --> 00:48:14.561
it's not natural.
790
00:48:15.145 --> 00:48:18.314
And if you're a homebody whatsoever,
it will destroy you.
791
00:48:19.274 --> 00:48:21.443
I remember him crying one morning.
792
00:48:21.443 --> 00:48:24.029
And he said, "I can't take it anymore."
793
00:48:25.447 --> 00:48:28.950
December of '64,
we were taking a flight to Houston,
794
00:48:30.160 --> 00:48:32.495
and he had
a nervous breakdown on the flight.
795
00:48:33.788 --> 00:48:35.707
We were sitting next to each other.
796
00:48:37.751 --> 00:48:39.502
I was terrified for my brother.
797
00:48:39.502 --> 00:48:43.840
To see my brother in a position
where... [sighs] ...he was frightened.
798
00:48:45.008 --> 00:48:47.677
By the time we landed,
he wanted to go home.
799
00:48:50.555 --> 00:48:53.975
We were already
married, but it's funny he didn't call me.
800
00:48:53.975 --> 00:48:55.143
He called his mom.
801
00:48:55.769 --> 00:48:57.520
You know, and he went to their house.
802
00:48:58.646 --> 00:49:00.482
By the next day, he was fine again.
803
00:49:01.107 --> 00:49:03.360
He just went, you know,
"I just can't do it anymore, Mar.
804
00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:04.444
I just can't do it."
805
00:49:05.195 --> 00:49:07.447
When we got home
from the 1964 tour, I quit.
806
00:49:07.447 --> 00:49:10.075
I told them I was gonna stay home
and write music for them,
807
00:49:10.075 --> 00:49:12.160
and they can go out and tour.
And they didn't agree.
808
00:49:12.160 --> 00:49:15.246
I remember Michael was very upset.
He had tears in his eyes.
809
00:49:15.747 --> 00:49:20.794
It was not fun to deal with,
but, as a cousin or friend,
810
00:49:20.794 --> 00:49:24.714
you don't want him to have to do something
if he doesn't want to,
811
00:49:24.714 --> 00:49:27.884
or if he's not capable of doing it
without harming himself.
812
00:49:28.718 --> 00:49:32.013
So we agreed he was gonna depart
from the touring group,
813
00:49:32.514 --> 00:49:35.266
and focus more on--
on the recording part of it.
814
00:49:35.266 --> 00:49:36.643
Take six.
815
00:49:36.643 --> 00:49:39.187
The idea was that Brian
would have the tracks
816
00:49:39.187 --> 00:49:41.272
- prepared for us all ready to sing.
817
00:49:41.272 --> 00:49:43.566
So that we could just come home
and do the vocals.
818
00:49:44.442 --> 00:49:47.028
We were pretty damn busy.
So he hired the Wrecking Crew.
819
00:49:48.113 --> 00:49:50.782
That's super intimidating as a producer.
820
00:49:50.782 --> 00:49:53.243
Especially if you're dealing
with the Wrecking Crew.
821
00:49:53.243 --> 00:49:57.872
It's like everyone in this room
is a better musician than me.
822
00:49:58.915 --> 00:50:02.961
But we were all maybe 12,
15 years older than Brian.
823
00:50:02.961 --> 00:50:06.881 line:5%
And we thought, uh, you know,
it's a great account. Capitol Records.
824
00:50:07.632 --> 00:50:10.385
Brian, though,
had something special from the start,
825
00:50:10.385 --> 00:50:13.471 line:5%
'cause we didn't have to make up
as much stuff
826
00:50:13.471 --> 00:50:15.140 line:5%
for him as we did the other groups.
827
00:50:15.140 --> 00:50:16.725 line:5%
And-- And he brought in parts.
828
00:50:16.725 --> 00:50:19.227
I mean,
they weren't written out very well,
829
00:50:19.227 --> 00:50:21.646
which made me believe that
he was not schooled or anything,
830
00:50:21.646 --> 00:50:23.440
but the other groups didn't do that.
831
00:50:24.566 --> 00:50:27.569
Brian, for some reason,
knew how to manage us.
832
00:50:28.153 --> 00:50:30.030 line:5%
How to get the message across.
833
00:50:30.030 --> 00:50:31.406
He just took over.
834
00:50:31.406 --> 00:50:32.741
That's all. He was the boss.
835
00:50:33.867 --> 00:50:37.412
I couldn't believe
how much greater making music was
836
00:50:37.412 --> 00:50:38.913 line:5%
when I did have the time.
837
00:50:38.913 --> 00:50:43.418
I didn't feel like I was being pressed
to make something in an unnatural way.
838
00:50:45.962 --> 00:50:48.465
But we still had to find
a replacement Beach Boy.
839
00:50:49.090 --> 00:50:51.509
And Glen Campbell was
in our Wrecking Crew band.
840
00:50:52.177 --> 00:50:54.596
Why don't we call Glen
and ask him to come out?
841
00:50:54.596 --> 00:50:58.350 line:5%
I said, "What you want me to do?"
He said, "Play bass. Sing the high part."
842
00:51:00.310 --> 00:51:03.438 line:5%
I didn't know all the words,
but it seemed to work out fine.
843
00:51:04.022 --> 00:51:06.232
He was a studio-trained musician.
844
00:51:06.232 --> 00:51:08.234
So he had no idea what fame was all about.
845
00:51:08.818 --> 00:51:10.737
As he steps outside
of the dressing room door,
846
00:51:10.737 --> 00:51:14.407
all of a sudden this gaggle of girls
scared the living crap out of him.
847
00:51:15.658 --> 00:51:18.036
I was just moseying back to the car,
848
00:51:18.036 --> 00:51:20.663
and, boy howdy, here come
a bunch of screaming teenagers.
849
00:51:20.663 --> 00:51:23.750
And they tore my shirt off
and got a few locks of hair.
850
00:51:24.626 --> 00:51:25.960
And it was really weird.
851
00:51:26.753 --> 00:51:29.756
From that day on, I was the first one
in the car. I can tell you that.
852
00:51:32.926 --> 00:51:34.928
We were happy
Brian had the Wrecking Crew.
853
00:51:34.928 --> 00:51:37.931
'Cause then if we'd come home
from a 30-day tour,
854
00:51:37.931 --> 00:51:39.599
I could at least get a little rest.
855
00:51:40.225 --> 00:51:41.851
We were exhausted.
856
00:51:41.851 --> 00:51:44.354
I'm ready now. I'm sorry, Brian.
857
00:51:44.354 --> 00:51:45.438
Is that a good tone?
858
00:51:46.606 --> 00:51:48.942
Carl used to come
and play with us quite often.
859
00:51:48.942 --> 00:51:51.027
One, two, three.
- But Carl was the only one.
860
00:51:51.027 --> 00:51:53.405
♪ Hi, little girl
It's me ♪
861
00:51:53.405 --> 00:51:56.324
♪ Don't you know who I am? ♪
862
00:51:58.910 --> 00:52:00.078
♪ I met you last summer ♪
863
00:52:00.078 --> 00:52:01.496
I was very in awe of them.
864
00:52:02.247 --> 00:52:03.748 line:5%
And it was a great thrill,
865
00:52:03.748 --> 00:52:07.252
because we rehearsed a lot more
in the early days.
866
00:52:07.252 --> 00:52:12.090
But by then, it became more of
an experimental type of recording,
867
00:52:12.090 --> 00:52:13.174
trial and error.
868
00:52:14.134 --> 00:52:16.803
Things would evolve in a
real organic sort of way.
869
00:52:17.595 --> 00:52:19.597
I just really loved being a part of that.
870
00:52:20.432 --> 00:52:22.976
Carl was very musically inclined.
871
00:52:23.601 --> 00:52:25.603
Of course, he was lead guitarist,
872
00:52:26.855 --> 00:52:29.274
in addition to having
the voice of an angel.
873
00:52:29.274 --> 00:52:31.651
♪ Said I'm the guy ♪
874
00:52:31.651 --> 00:52:36.823
♪ Who left you with tears in his eyes ♪
875
00:52:36.823 --> 00:52:38.408
♪ You didn't answer my... ♪
876
00:52:38.408 --> 00:52:42.412
Carl was the sweet one.
And, you know, shy.
877
00:52:43.079 --> 00:52:44.748
But he had a heart of gold.
878
00:52:45.790 --> 00:52:48.001
And he became the glue in The Beach Boys.
879
00:52:49.169 --> 00:52:52.839
My role in the band
has always been a support role.
880
00:52:52.839 --> 00:52:54.549 line:5%
And it's changed
through the years because,
881
00:52:54.549 --> 00:52:56.593
with our evolution
and Brian leaving the road,
882
00:52:56.593 --> 00:52:58.928
I kinda took over
as the leader of the band.
883
00:52:59.846 --> 00:53:03.933
The Beach Boys
effectively became two groups.
884
00:53:03.933 --> 00:53:06.478 line:5%
The recording group and the touring group.
885
00:53:09.439 --> 00:53:10.940
Brian was happy as a lark.
886
00:53:10.940 --> 00:53:13.526
He didn't have to be
under all that pressure anymore.
887
00:53:13.526 --> 00:53:17.405
The next call I got from him,
he couldn't wait for us to get home
888
00:53:17.405 --> 00:53:19.532
so he could go into the studio
and do the next album.
889
00:53:19.532 --> 00:53:23.995
♪ Well, since she put me down
I've been out doin' in my head ♪
890
00:53:23.995 --> 00:53:25.747
What's the matter?
- We doing a sing-along?
891
00:53:25.747 --> 00:53:26.831
I don't know.
892
00:53:27.749 --> 00:53:30.752
We went into the studio
to record "Help Me, Rhonda" vocals.
893
00:53:31.878 --> 00:53:34.005
Well, I was having trouble with--
with this one part.
894
00:53:34.005 --> 00:53:36.883
- ♪ Well, Rhonda, you look so fine ♪
- ♪ Ooh ♪
895
00:53:36.883 --> 00:53:38.593
- ♪ Look so fine ♪
♪ And I know I-- ♪
896
00:53:38.593 --> 00:53:40.637
Hey, Al.
You missed the synco pretty bad.
897
00:53:40.637 --> 00:53:42.347
Let's go.
Do it one more time.
898
00:53:42.347 --> 00:53:43.723
You've got it. Okay.
899
00:53:43.723 --> 00:53:45.684
Now loosen up and be happy.
900
00:53:45.684 --> 00:53:49.312
Murry came in
and wanted to produce the band...
901
00:53:49.312 --> 00:53:50.397
♪ Since you put me down ♪
902
00:53:50.397 --> 00:53:51.898
...and, uh, it got real uncomfortable.
903
00:53:51.898 --> 00:53:53.692
♪ Since you put me down, baby ♪
904
00:53:56.152 --> 00:53:57.529
- Got it?
I got it, Murry.
905
00:53:57.529 --> 00:53:59.447
You're laughing,
but you know what I mean.
906
00:53:59.447 --> 00:54:01.157
Syncopate it a little.
907
00:54:01.157 --> 00:54:02.826
He was drunk, you know?
908
00:54:02.826 --> 00:54:05.620
And Brian was masterful
in the studio, okay?
909
00:54:05.620 --> 00:54:07.789
Give him the track, Chuck.
910
00:54:07.789 --> 00:54:09.582
Don't sing with it.
Let him sing it once.
911
00:54:09.582 --> 00:54:10.917
You want me to leave, Brian?
912
00:54:10.917 --> 00:54:12.544
No, I just want you
to let him sing it.
913
00:54:12.544 --> 00:54:15.088
Your mother and I can leave.
Did you really get drunk?
914
00:54:15.839 --> 00:54:18.091
They were both trying
to produce me on the song.
915
00:54:18.091 --> 00:54:20.593
And that's when they
kind of went to loggerheads.
916
00:54:21.219 --> 00:54:23.930
Trying to get me to--
So I kind of feel responsible in a way,
917
00:54:23.930 --> 00:54:25.640
but what the hell. I don't know.
918
00:54:25.640 --> 00:54:28.309
Chuck, turn it down.
I'm a genius too.
919
00:54:28.309 --> 00:54:29.686
Let's go, huh?
920
00:54:31.521 --> 00:54:32.856
Turn down his playback.
921
00:54:32.856 --> 00:54:34.691
Murry was jealous of Brian.
922
00:54:35.525 --> 00:54:37.402 line:5%
I didn't realize that for a while.
923
00:54:37.402 --> 00:54:40.488 line:5%
And when I did, I thought--
I was kind of shocked.
924
00:54:41.072 --> 00:54:44.826
Brian. Forget who you are,
will you? Let's go. Let's roll.
925
00:54:44.826 --> 00:54:46.619
I'm just thinking about
who you are.
926
00:54:47.454 --> 00:54:52.334
Murry had such a great desire
to be a songwriter and to be recognized.
927
00:54:52.334 --> 00:54:54.502
Can we run it?
You guys get too much money,
928
00:54:54.502 --> 00:54:57.672
you start thinking
you're gonna make everything a hit.
929
00:54:57.672 --> 00:54:59.090
- Brian--
Let me ask you this.
930
00:54:59.090 --> 00:55:00.842
- Uh...
Come on now.
931
00:55:00.842 --> 00:55:03.345
I don't wanna start...
I just wanna make sure this is on tape.
932
00:55:03.345 --> 00:55:05.680
No, I'll never help you guys
mix another song.
933
00:55:05.680 --> 00:55:08.058
Why?
When you guys get so big
934
00:55:08.058 --> 00:55:10.852
that you can't sing from your hearts,
you're going downhill.
935
00:55:10.852 --> 00:55:13.021
Downhill?
Downhill!
936
00:55:13.021 --> 00:55:15.523
- Son. Son, I'm sorry.
937
00:55:15.523 --> 00:55:18.109
I've protected you for 22 years,
but I can't go on
938
00:55:18.109 --> 00:55:20.445
if you're not gonna listen
to an intelligent man.
939
00:55:21.654 --> 00:55:22.822
Are you going now?
940
00:55:22.822 --> 00:55:25.158
If you wanna fight for success,
I'll go all out.
941
00:55:25.158 --> 00:55:27.369
No. I don't--
We don't want to do that.
942
00:55:27.369 --> 00:55:29.746
You think you got it made?
No, we don't.
943
00:55:29.746 --> 00:55:31.915
Chuck and I used to make
one hit after another...
944
00:55:31.915 --> 00:55:35.126
...in 30 minutes.
You guys take five hours to do it.
945
00:55:35.126 --> 00:55:36.920
Times are changing.
You know why?
946
00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:39.172
- Because you think you have an image.
Times are changing.
947
00:55:39.172 --> 00:55:40.924
Don't ever forget.
948
00:55:40.924 --> 00:55:42.550
Times are changing.
949
00:55:51.226 --> 00:55:54.979
We have learned
at a terrible and brutal cost
950
00:55:54.979 --> 00:55:57.899
that weakness does not bring peace.
951
00:55:58.900 --> 00:56:02.821
And it is this lesson
that has brought us to Vietnam.
952
00:56:02.821 --> 00:56:05.615
♪ Baby, please don't go down
to New Orleans ♪
953
00:56:05.615 --> 00:56:06.866
♪ You know I love you so ♪
954
00:56:07.492 --> 00:56:11.121
The culture was changing
in all kinds of ways.
955
00:56:11.121 --> 00:56:14.165
The psychedelic experience
is a voyage
956
00:56:14.165 --> 00:56:18.420
into the countless galaxies
of your own nervous system.
957
00:56:18.962 --> 00:56:20.422
♪ He had his shackles on ♪
958
00:56:20.422 --> 00:56:21.965
♪ Baby, please don't go ♪
959
00:56:21.965 --> 00:56:25.885
The repeated use of LSD may
permanently alter the brain's function.
960
00:56:25.885 --> 00:56:27.095
Liftoff.
961
00:56:27.095 --> 00:56:28.805
I feel like a million dollars!
962
00:56:28.805 --> 00:56:32.434
Freedom march from Selma
to Montgomery finally gets underway.
963
00:56:32.434 --> 00:56:35.395
♪ I make you walk alone
Baby, please don't go ♪
964
00:56:35.395 --> 00:56:38.815
The mid-'60s
was an incredibly rich time musically.
965
00:56:39.816 --> 00:56:41.317
Just really opened up.
966
00:56:41.943 --> 00:56:44.529
Also the awakening of consciousness.
967
00:56:44.529 --> 00:56:49.200
Society not wanting to let the status quo
go on just because it's the status quo.
968
00:56:50.994 --> 00:56:53.079
♪ Baby, please don't go ♪
969
00:56:53.580 --> 00:56:54.956
♪ Baby, please don't go ♪
970
00:56:57.042 --> 00:56:59.169
We were on tour
and got back home.
971
00:56:59.169 --> 00:57:03.381 line:5%
We started getting indications
that Brian was taking some hallucinogens.
972
00:57:03.381 --> 00:57:07.093
LSD and stuff like that, which a lot of
the writers were doing at the time.
973
00:57:08.303 --> 00:57:11.056
He drove me around the parking lot
about 20 times.
974
00:57:12.015 --> 00:57:14.476
Explaining about this great trip
he'd just taken, you know?
975
00:57:16.644 --> 00:57:20.023
Oh, yeah. I did LSD,
and it just totally tore my head off.
976
00:57:20.023 --> 00:57:24.027
You just come to grips with what you are
and what you can do and what you can't do.
977
00:57:24.027 --> 00:57:26.488
And you learn to face it,
you know?
978
00:57:28.239 --> 00:57:30.658
Pretty soon,
the music was changing. Evolving.
979
00:57:31.326 --> 00:57:33.995
Here we go.
This is real good now. Take 43.
980
00:57:40.335 --> 00:57:43.672
Brian was hearing
these arrangements in his head.
981
00:57:43.672 --> 00:57:45.507
Who knows where they come from?
982
00:57:45.507 --> 00:57:48.510
Who knows where any arranger hears?
983
00:57:48.510 --> 00:57:52.472
But most arrangers are guys
who have studied, studied, studied.
984
00:57:52.472 --> 00:57:54.641
They know just how to put 'em on a score.
985
00:57:54.641 --> 00:57:57.977
Brian used to explain it to us.
986
00:57:57.977 --> 00:58:03.358
Here's the whole secret of this
whole thing is if we can go...
987
00:58:03.358 --> 00:58:05.276
If we can have that emphasis there, okay?
988
00:58:05.276 --> 00:58:10.198
It was a matter of us tuning in to what
he was saying and playing what he wanted.
989
00:58:10.907 --> 00:58:13.243
We felt
a little bit more at home with Brian.
990
00:58:13.243 --> 00:58:15.120
He knew that we were jazz players.
991
00:58:15.120 --> 00:58:20.458
And took after Phil Spector, in the sense
that he'd use the three or the four hours.
992
00:58:20.458 --> 00:58:22.919
And he'd do, like, one whole tune.
993
00:58:22.919 --> 00:58:24.504
Whereas on the other record days,
994
00:58:24.504 --> 00:58:26.965
we would do three or four tunes
in the same time.
995
00:58:28.258 --> 00:58:32.887
The big difference between Phil and Brian
was Brian was still inventing.
996
00:58:32.887 --> 00:58:35.181
He was constantly rewriting himself.
997
00:58:35.849 --> 00:58:38.184
He knew where it was going, but we didn't.
998
00:58:38.184 --> 00:58:42.397
And if you're a creative person,
he'd let you have that freedom to create,
999
00:58:42.397 --> 00:58:43.898
and he knew how to use it.
1000
00:58:43.898 --> 00:58:45.900
It's great talent to be able to do that.
1001
00:58:45.900 --> 00:58:48.486
Sorry, but that drags.
I hate to say it, really.
1002
00:58:49.070 --> 00:58:50.196
That-- That drags, Carol.
1003
00:58:50.196 --> 00:58:52.949
We appreciate your loyal support.
See you next week, I hope.
1004
00:58:52.949 --> 00:58:56.619
In the meantime, it's Shindig! finale time
with Glen Campbell. Right over there.
1005
00:58:56.619 --> 00:58:57.704
Thank you.
1006
00:58:57.704 --> 00:59:00.749
By that time,
Glen Campbell has his own hit records.
1007
00:59:01.291 --> 00:59:03.043
He can't come out on tour anymore.
1008
00:59:03.043 --> 00:59:06.671
♪ Dream, dream, baby ♪
1009
00:59:06.671 --> 00:59:09.382 line:5%
Mike called me up.
He said, "You're in the record business."
1010
00:59:09.883 --> 00:59:13.845 line:5%
"Who do you know that could come out
for the weekend to fill in for Glen?"
1011
00:59:13.845 --> 00:59:15.805
So, I called about ten people.
1012
00:59:15.805 --> 00:59:18.641
I called him back.
I said, "I can't find anybody.
1013
00:59:18.641 --> 00:59:20.226
But, honest to God, there's still time.
1014
00:59:20.226 --> 00:59:23.104
I can go to the airport,
and I'll bring a keyboard,
1015
00:59:23.104 --> 00:59:25.273
and I'll just fill in for the weekend."
1016
00:59:26.149 --> 00:59:27.317
And that's how it started.
1017
00:59:29.486 --> 00:59:31.321
One of my first memories of Bruce,
1018
00:59:31.321 --> 00:59:34.824
I went into his hotel room,
and he was learning the bass,
1019
00:59:34.824 --> 00:59:36.284
so he could play it onstage.
1020
00:59:36.284 --> 00:59:38.161
He'd only ever played keyboard.
1021
00:59:40.580 --> 00:59:44.668
My dream was to make $250 a week.
1022
00:59:44.668 --> 00:59:46.002
I thought, "Wow."
1023
00:59:46.002 --> 00:59:48.797
And Carl calls me.
He said, "Could you come back out?"
1024
00:59:48.797 --> 00:59:50.382
So I came out for two weeks.
1025
00:59:51.341 --> 00:59:54.344
Carl says, "We can cut you a check.
What do you want?"
1026
00:59:55.762 --> 00:59:57.097
Two hundred and fifty dollars.
1027
00:59:57.097 --> 01:00:01.226
And so I get a check for $3,000,
'cause he thought I was asking per night.
1028
01:00:01.226 --> 01:00:02.310
I said, "Okay."
1029
01:00:02.894 --> 01:00:05.939
So,
that's how I got into the band.
1030
01:00:10.610 --> 01:00:12.320 line:5%
My best friend was Terry Melcher.
1031
01:00:12.320 --> 01:00:15.115 line:5%
And so Terry calls me up, and he said,
1032
01:00:15.115 --> 01:00:18.743 line:5%
"My mom, Doris Day,
she's got the best stereo system."
1033
01:00:18.743 --> 01:00:21.663 line:5%
So we go over,
and there's John and Michelle Phillips,
1034
01:00:21.663 --> 01:00:24.791
Mike Love, Brian Wilson, me,
Doris, Terry Melcher.
1035
01:00:24.791 --> 01:00:27.252
And we listened to Rubber Soul.
1036
01:00:29.671 --> 01:00:32.173
Now, that was a turning point
in The Beatles' world.
1037
01:00:32.173 --> 01:00:34.300
It was also a turning point for Brian.
1038
01:00:34.300 --> 01:00:36.636
♪ I'm looking through you ♪
1039
01:00:37.137 --> 01:00:39.139
♪ Where did you go? ♪
1040
01:00:39.139 --> 01:00:40.682
When I first heard that,
I flipped.
1041
01:00:40.682 --> 01:00:42.767
I said,
"I want to make an album like that."
1042
01:00:42.767 --> 01:00:46.021
Where all the songs seem to be
like a collection of folk songs, you know?
1043
01:00:47.313 --> 01:00:49.816
He saw Rubber Soul
as a thematic album.
1044
01:00:49.816 --> 01:00:52.110
A little light went on,
and he started dreaming up.
1045
01:00:52.110 --> 01:00:55.363
Conceptual album. Front to back. Thematic.
1046
01:00:57.866 --> 01:01:00.618
They're competing
against The Beatles,
1047
01:01:00.618 --> 01:01:03.288
but these guys are still wearing
striped shirts?
1048
01:01:03.288 --> 01:01:05.415
♪ I wish they all could be... ♪
1049
01:01:05.415 --> 01:01:08.918
I think Brian saw the need
to grow out of that identity.
1050
01:01:10.003 --> 01:01:15.759
Not to be defined by the external labels,
which had been now placed on the band.
1051
01:01:20.013 --> 01:01:23.933
This is what you did last
time, and we want you to do that again.
1052
01:01:23.933 --> 01:01:27.020
I can hardly wait to get out there
and hang ten.
1053
01:01:29.189 --> 01:01:31.316
Hey, maybe you guys
would like to join our club.
1054
01:01:31.316 --> 01:01:33.818
Your surfing club, huh?
That sounds real cool.
1055
01:01:33.818 --> 01:01:35.737
Evolution is
absolutely necessary,
1056
01:01:35.737 --> 01:01:38.740 line:5%
but you have a hit
with a certain style of song.
1057
01:01:39.282 --> 01:01:42.118 line:5%
And you will have guys in the band
who will just be like,
1058
01:01:42.118 --> 01:01:45.372
"Guys, this is well-tread territory.
We know it works.
1059
01:01:45.372 --> 01:01:47.123
Let's do another one like this."
1060
01:01:48.166 --> 01:01:51.586
♪ We wish they all could be
California Girls ♪
1061
01:01:51.586 --> 01:01:53.129
A lot of artists,
1062
01:01:53.129 --> 01:01:55.632
when they have they have to make
these kind of choices,
1063
01:01:55.632 --> 01:01:58.468
don't often make the choice for art.
1064
01:02:02.555 --> 01:02:05.934
Al Jardine had this great idea
for The Beach Boys
1065
01:02:05.934 --> 01:02:09.938
to record a version of this
folk song called "Sloop John B."
1066
01:02:09.938 --> 01:02:13.441
♪ We come on the sloop John B ♪
1067
01:02:13.441 --> 01:02:16.903
♪ My grandfather and me ♪
1068
01:02:17.862 --> 01:02:20.115
It was recorded
by The Kingston Trio.
1069
01:02:20.115 --> 01:02:23.034 line:5%
Basically a template
from my own musical upbringing.
1070
01:02:23.868 --> 01:02:25.704
I was in a folk group in high school.
1071
01:02:26.496 --> 01:02:29.332
We replicated The Kingston Trio
note-for-note.
1072
01:02:29.332 --> 01:02:32.085
But when The Beach Boys formed,
I left my folk group behind.
1073
01:02:32.085 --> 01:02:34.170
I feel kinda guilty about it,
to be honest with you.
1074
01:02:35.380 --> 01:02:37.882
Anyway, I played Brian a song
called "Sloop John B."
1075
01:02:37.882 --> 01:02:39.926
♪ Hoist up the John B's sail ♪
1076
01:02:39.926 --> 01:02:42.387
Growing up,
he didn't like folk music really.
1077
01:02:42.387 --> 01:02:44.639
He was more music-driven
than story-driven.
1078
01:02:44.639 --> 01:02:47.559
♪ Call for the captain ashore
Let me go home ♪
1079
01:02:47.559 --> 01:02:49.060
But we sat down at the piano,
1080
01:02:49.060 --> 01:02:52.480
and I suggested we add a few chords
to give it that Beach Boy influence.
1081
01:02:53.231 --> 01:02:56.234
And he liked it. It fit our vocal style.
1082
01:02:57.527 --> 01:03:02.032
And then Brian went into the studio when
we were away touring to finish the song.
1083
01:03:03.324 --> 01:03:07.078
I remember being in Japan,
and Brian sent a mix of "Sloop John B."
1084
01:03:07.829 --> 01:03:11.875
- ♪ Hoist up the John B's sail ♪
- ♪ Hoist up the John B's ♪
1085
01:03:11.875 --> 01:03:15.337
- ♪ See how the mainsail sets ♪
- ♪ See how the mainsail ♪
1086
01:03:15.337 --> 01:03:18.214
♪ Call for the captain ashore ♪
1087
01:03:18.214 --> 01:03:21.718
♪ Let me go home ♪
1088
01:03:21.718 --> 01:03:26.097
- ♪ I wanna go home ♪
- ♪ Oh, let me go home ♪
1089
01:03:26.097 --> 01:03:28.975
- ♪ Let me go ♪
- ♪ Hoist up the John B's sail ♪
1090
01:03:28.975 --> 01:03:30.685
♪ Hoist up the John B's ♪
1091
01:03:30.685 --> 01:03:33.021
♪ I feel so broke up ♪
1092
01:03:33.021 --> 01:03:35.899
♪ I wanna go home ♪
1093
01:03:35.899 --> 01:03:37.901
He produced a masterpiece.
1094
01:03:37.901 --> 01:03:40.403
If I'd produced it,
it would still be a folk song.
1095
01:03:40.403 --> 01:03:41.905
But now-- now it's a classic.
1096
01:03:44.282 --> 01:03:46.201
Brian was really growing
1097
01:03:46.201 --> 01:03:50.622
way beyond the three-,
four-chord format of doing pop tunes.
1098
01:03:50.622 --> 01:03:52.123
It just wasn't gonna do.
1099
01:03:52.707 --> 01:03:54.167
♪ Let me go home ♪
1100
01:03:54.167 --> 01:03:55.919
All of a sudden,
1101
01:03:55.919 --> 01:03:58.630 line:5%
I began to realize
that I had a lot of music to make.
1102
01:04:06.846 --> 01:04:09.182
Here we go.
"Wouldn't It Be Nice." Take one.
1103
01:04:12.435 --> 01:04:15.814
I wanted to write some songs
that reflected how I really felt,
1104
01:04:15.814 --> 01:04:20.235
rather than just car songs, surf songs,
something more introspective.
1105
01:04:21.069 --> 01:04:23.488
So I said, "Mike,
I'm writing with another collaborator."
1106
01:04:23.488 --> 01:04:26.074
And he goes, "What?
But I thought I was your collaborator."
1107
01:04:26.074 --> 01:04:29.327
I said, "Well, for this one album,
Tony Asher is my collaborator."
1108
01:04:30.954 --> 01:04:33.540
I was so overwhelmed
by what Brian was playing
1109
01:04:33.540 --> 01:04:35.291
and coming up with and singing,
1110
01:04:35.917 --> 01:04:37.752 line:5%
I didn't think that much about the fact
1111
01:04:37.752 --> 01:04:41.798 line:5%
that lyrics were quite different than
the majority of the songs they'd done.
1112
01:04:41.798 --> 01:04:47.012
♪ I keep lookin' for a place to fit in ♪
1113
01:04:47.012 --> 01:04:51.850
♪ where I can speak my mind ♪
1114
01:04:54.185 --> 01:04:56.479
I knew there were lots of things
that he heard in his head
1115
01:04:56.479 --> 01:04:57.856
that I had no idea of.
1116
01:04:57.856 --> 01:05:00.275
"I Just Wasn't Made
For These Times." Take one.
1117
01:05:02.277 --> 01:05:05.530
That's when we started realizing
there's some genius here.
1118
01:05:05.530 --> 01:05:10.285
You got one, two, three-- boom.
No. It's one, two, three... boop!
1119
01:05:10.285 --> 01:05:12.704
They kept getting better
and better and better.
1120
01:05:12.704 --> 01:05:14.539
Take two. "Let Go of Your Ego."
1121
01:05:15.790 --> 01:05:19.544
I think not being schooled, like he was,
was a great thing.
1122
01:05:19.544 --> 01:05:21.629
You know,
because he didn't know the limits.
1123
01:05:21.629 --> 01:05:23.965
He didn't know
he was not supposed to do things.
1124
01:05:27.302 --> 01:05:28.553
Let's make it real tight, okay?
1125
01:05:28.553 --> 01:05:31.222
Phil Spector records,
marvels that they are,
1126
01:05:31.222 --> 01:05:33.850
they're kinda--
They're still like in black and white.
1127
01:05:33.850 --> 01:05:39.939 line:5%
Brian got the same guys
but wrote songs and arrangements
1128
01:05:39.939 --> 01:05:41.941
that put the thing in Technicolor.
1129
01:05:43.777 --> 01:05:44.778
Nice.
1130
01:05:45.695 --> 01:05:47.072
We were still in Japan
1131
01:05:47.072 --> 01:05:50.742
while he was recording a lot of the tracks
for Pet Sounds.
1132
01:05:51.868 --> 01:05:55.455
Then when they got back, the
tracks were ready for 'em, ready to go.
1133
01:05:55.455 --> 01:05:58.375
All they had to do was go
and learn their parts, sing.
1134
01:05:59.376 --> 01:06:01.127
A lot of the lyrics were strange.
1135
01:06:01.127 --> 01:06:03.380
Especially to Mike,
who's more sensitive to lyrics.
1136
01:06:03.380 --> 01:06:04.923
Here we go. Take 11.
1137
01:06:04.923 --> 01:06:06.341
Take 19, please.
1138
01:06:06.341 --> 01:06:08.134
Okay. Take 27, please.
1139
01:06:08.677 --> 01:06:13.765
Brian had an obsession
with getting things absolutely perfect.
1140
01:06:14.432 --> 01:06:15.850
Like on "Wouldn't It Be Nice,"
1141
01:06:15.850 --> 01:06:18.728
we must have done the backgrounds
30 times.
1142
01:06:19.854 --> 01:06:23.692
♪ You know it's gonna make it
that much better ♪
1143
01:06:23.692 --> 01:06:29.906
♪ When we can say good night
and stay together ♪
1144
01:06:29.906 --> 01:06:33.993
I started calling him "dog ears,"
because it was perfect vocally,
1145
01:06:33.993 --> 01:06:37.664
but Brian could hear something
that most human beings cannot.
1146
01:06:37.664 --> 01:06:41.584
♪ And after having spent
the day together ♪
1147
01:06:42.711 --> 01:06:45.380
You listen to the vocals
on Pet Sounds,
1148
01:06:45.380 --> 01:06:47.382
they're some of the best ever recorded.
1149
01:06:47.382 --> 01:06:50.468
♪ Happy times together
we'd be spending ♪
1150
01:06:50.468 --> 01:06:57.308
♪ I wish that every kiss
was never-ending ♪
1151
01:06:57.308 --> 01:07:00.228
♪ Oh, wouldn't it be nice? ♪
1152
01:07:02.397 --> 01:07:04.482
To us it was more than a record.
1153
01:07:04.482 --> 01:07:06.484 line:5%
It was a new place.
1154
01:07:07.110 --> 01:07:10.321
It was popular music
coming to a new level.
1155
01:07:10.321 --> 01:07:16.286
♪ Baby, then there wouldn't be
a single thing we couldn't do ♪
1156
01:07:16.286 --> 01:07:20.540
- ♪ Oh, we could be married ♪
- ♪ Oh, we could be married ♪
1157
01:07:20.540 --> 01:07:24.586
- ♪ And then we'd be happy ♪
- ♪ And then we'd be happy ♪
1158
01:07:24.586 --> 01:07:27.672
♪ Oh, wouldn't it be nice! ♪
1159
01:07:30.133 --> 01:07:32.969
But when we played it
for Capitol Records,
1160
01:07:32.969 --> 01:07:35.138
and they said, "Geez. This is great, guys.
1161
01:07:35.138 --> 01:07:36.723
But couldn't you do something more like
1162
01:07:37.390 --> 01:07:40.060
'Surfin' U.S.A.'
or 'California Girls' or 'I Get Around'?"
1163
01:07:47.817 --> 01:07:49.903
Capitol Records
didn't really understand,
1164
01:07:49.903 --> 01:07:55.575
they were concerned about selling
albums and having commercial success.
1165
01:07:56.576 --> 01:08:00.080
And, uh, we were growing up.
1166
01:08:02.082 --> 01:08:06.461
We'd allowed Capitol Records to do our PR
and public relations and stuff.
1167
01:08:07.253 --> 01:08:09.339
And they didn't know how to treat it.
1168
01:08:09.964 --> 01:08:14.969
So, we needed somebody who got the idea
of Pet Sounds being an evolution.
1169
01:08:17.555 --> 01:08:21.142 line:5%
Derek Taylor was brilliant.
He was The Beatles' publicist for a while.
1170
01:08:21.142 --> 01:08:24.562
Then he moved to America,
and he became our publicist.
1171
01:08:25.605 --> 01:08:30.610
Derek Taylor is the one that came up with
the "Brian Wilson is a genius" moniker.
1172
01:08:31.778 --> 01:08:33.697
If you look
in The Beach Boys' history,
1173
01:08:33.697 --> 01:08:37.534
there is that constant struggle
between Brian and everybody else.
1174
01:08:38.201 --> 01:08:43.039
And, I think, perhaps the genius label,
in a way, gets linked to him
1175
01:08:43.748 --> 01:08:46.835
in part
because of his psychological struggles.
1176
01:08:50.255 --> 01:08:51.589
The solitude of Brian.
1177
01:08:52.215 --> 01:08:53.466
The loneliness of Brian.
1178
01:08:54.217 --> 01:08:59.639
I think that's gone a long way
to fleshing out his musical genius
1179
01:08:59.639 --> 01:09:01.474
as part of a larger sense of,
1180
01:09:01.474 --> 01:09:06.396
"Well, he's a lone-- a lone figure
separate from the group."
1181
01:09:07.397 --> 01:09:08.815
And that's not fair to them.
1182
01:09:10.734 --> 01:09:13.486
I'm president
of the Brian Wilson fan club.
1183
01:09:13.486 --> 01:09:17.907
But the musicality of every Beach Boy
is essential.
1184
01:09:18.950 --> 01:09:24.039
If we didn't have the ability, we wouldn't
have been able to sing these parts.
1185
01:09:28.251 --> 01:09:31.671
Brian was lucky to have our voices
to sing his dreams.
1186
01:09:36.134 --> 01:09:39.721
When we were done with the album,
I'm talking to Derek Taylor,
1187
01:09:39.721 --> 01:09:43.224
and he said, "Why don't you come
to England to promote Pet Sounds?"
1188
01:09:44.225 --> 01:09:45.727
I said, "But it's not out there."
1189
01:09:45.727 --> 01:09:47.062
"Bring it anyway."
1190
01:09:48.104 --> 01:09:49.856
There's a guy who was getting famous
1191
01:09:49.856 --> 01:09:52.692
and dying to become one of The Beach Boys.
Keith Moon.
1192
01:09:53.568 --> 01:09:55.737
So he shows up at my suite.
1193
01:09:57.072 --> 01:09:59.532 line:5%
He says,
"I'm gonna guide you through England,
1194
01:09:59.532 --> 01:10:01.451
and you're going to meet everybody."
1195
01:10:01.993 --> 01:10:03.745
And I probably did 20 interviews.
1196
01:10:04.454 --> 01:10:05.914
I was a hero.
1197
01:10:05.914 --> 01:10:08.625
"Hey, I've got the new Beach Boys' album.
It's Pet Sounds."
1198
01:10:10.418 --> 01:10:13.505
And then, at the end of the week,
I come back to the hotel.
1199
01:10:13.505 --> 01:10:15.840
"Hey, man.
You better get up to the suite."
1200
01:10:15.840 --> 01:10:17.092
"Why?"
1201
01:10:17.092 --> 01:10:20.679
"Lennon and McCartney are waiting
for you. They wanna hear Pet Sounds."
1202
01:10:20.679 --> 01:10:23.807
"What? I-- I haven't been
in the band that long."
1203
01:10:26.017 --> 01:10:29.104
So, they're dressed in Edwardian suits.
1204
01:10:29.104 --> 01:10:31.356
And they play the album a couple of times.
1205
01:10:32.315 --> 01:10:35.110
I just thought, "Oh, dear me.
This is the album of all time.
1206
01:10:35.110 --> 01:10:37.028 line:5%
What the hell are we gonna do?"
1207
01:10:37.028 --> 01:10:39.864
Just 'cause the musical invention
on that is, like, wow.
1208
01:10:41.408 --> 01:10:44.703
♪ I may not always love you ♪
1209
01:10:45.286 --> 01:10:48.623
♪ But long as there are stars above you ♪
1210
01:10:49.541 --> 01:10:52.794
♪ You never need to doubt it ♪
1211
01:10:53.420 --> 01:10:57.048
♪ I'll make you so sure about it ♪
1212
01:10:57.549 --> 01:11:00.552
When I first heard "God Only Knows,"
I remember crying.
1213
01:11:01.386 --> 01:11:04.889
I remember tearing up
thinking about those lyrics.
1214
01:11:06.182 --> 01:11:09.436
♪ If you should ever leave me ♪
1215
01:11:10.020 --> 01:11:13.440
♪ Though life would still go on
Believe me ♪
1216
01:11:14.065 --> 01:11:17.819
♪ The world could show nothing to me ♪
1217
01:11:17.819 --> 01:11:21.406
♪ So what good would living do me? ♪
1218
01:11:22.490 --> 01:11:26.911
♪ God only knows what I'd be without you ♪
1219
01:11:28.496 --> 01:11:30.999
When we listen to something
like Pet Sounds now,
1220
01:11:30.999 --> 01:11:34.044
and the orchestration on that,
people go, "Yeah, cool."
1221
01:11:34.044 --> 01:11:36.629 line:5%
What they forget is, he did it first.
1222
01:11:38.214 --> 01:11:43.762
Brian put together textures that no one
had ever put into popular songs before.
1223
01:11:52.562 --> 01:11:56.149
♪ God only knows
what I'd be without you ♪
1224
01:11:56.149 --> 01:12:00.737
Brian made that decision
to thwart the listeners' expectations
1225
01:12:00.737 --> 01:12:04.574
for the sake of his art,
and it did not go unnoticed.
1226
01:12:05.492 --> 01:12:09.079
Paul McCartney said
"God Only Knows" is like the perfect song.
1227
01:12:09.079 --> 01:12:11.373
And then they got busy
on their next album.
1228
01:12:14.167 --> 01:12:17.337
I think it's more interesting
to think less of the competition,
1229
01:12:17.962 --> 01:12:20.131
and more of it as a collaboration.
1230
01:12:23.968 --> 01:12:26.805 line:5%
Together, that healthy collaboration
was advancing the music.
1231
01:12:26.805 --> 01:12:28.098 line:5%
It was advancing the culture.
1232
01:12:28.098 --> 01:12:31.518 line:5%
It was advancing
what rock music meant and could be.
1233
01:12:32.435 --> 01:12:35.814
And I always wondered,
if one of them didn't have the other,
1234
01:12:36.564 --> 01:12:38.942
would their music
actually be what it became?
1235
01:12:41.361 --> 01:12:45.198
But Sgt. Pepper's was more
of a commercial success than Pet Sounds.
1236
01:12:46.950 --> 01:12:49.494 line:5%
This is one of the great accomplishments
of The Beatles
1237
01:12:49.494 --> 01:12:52.914 line:5%
was they evolved
and thwarted over and over again.
1238
01:12:53.581 --> 01:12:55.750
But they did it gradually.
1239
01:12:55.750 --> 01:12:59.421
They did it as a group
who all wanted the same thing.
1240
01:12:59.421 --> 01:13:03.591
But with Pet Sounds,
there was kind of a jump from here,
1241
01:13:03.591 --> 01:13:05.051
all of a sudden they're, you know,
1242
01:13:05.051 --> 01:13:07.929
something snapped, and you are over here,
unlike The Beatles.
1243
01:13:16.646 --> 01:13:19.107
Pet Sounds was so radical
1244
01:13:19.107 --> 01:13:22.277 line:5%
compared to the really
nice commercial albums
1245
01:13:22.277 --> 01:13:23.319
that we'd been making,
1246
01:13:23.319 --> 01:13:27.699
that Capitol had been so successful
in selling that they just wanted more.
1247
01:13:28.283 --> 01:13:31.619
So, instead of promoting Pet Sounds
here in America,
1248
01:13:31.619 --> 01:13:34.497
Capitol put out
the first Best of The Beach Boys
1249
01:13:34.497 --> 01:13:35.874
and promoted that.
1250
01:13:35.874 --> 01:13:37.417
And it went gold quickly.
1251
01:13:37.417 --> 01:13:41.504 line:5%
And they didn't promote Pet Sounds because
they said that it wasn't commercial,
1252
01:13:41.504 --> 01:13:43.089 line:5%
and the people wouldn't understand it.
1253
01:13:46.968 --> 01:13:49.429
They called us "the number one
surfing group in the USA,"
1254
01:13:49.429 --> 01:13:51.765
it was completely ridiculous,
1255
01:13:51.765 --> 01:13:54.893
in light of the fact that there was things
like the Vietnam War,
1256
01:13:54.893 --> 01:13:58.563
and student demonstrations,
and the Civil Rights Movement,
1257
01:13:58.563 --> 01:14:02.150
and all these things that the youth
of society was completely caught up in.
1258
01:14:02.650 --> 01:14:07.739
It certainly wasn't the idyllic culture
that we sang about in the early '60s.
1259
01:14:15.538 --> 01:14:17.374
He couldn't understand it.
1260
01:14:17.374 --> 01:14:21.795
The thing that he put his heart and soul
into more than any record he'd ever done,
1261
01:14:22.504 --> 01:14:25.340
and people didn't think it was that great.
1262
01:14:27.342 --> 01:14:31.930
Pet Sounds was not commercially
received as it was critically,
1263
01:14:31.930 --> 01:14:33.765
and I think it hurt Brian.
1264
01:14:34.432 --> 01:14:37.644
I think he was at a very vulnerable stage
in his life.
1265
01:14:40.939 --> 01:14:44.109
My whole life depended
on the success of The Beach Boys,
1266
01:14:44.109 --> 01:14:46.528
and I'm very deeply affected
by what people think.
1267
01:14:48.613 --> 01:14:51.533
I said, "Look, I want to do something
that people will respect.
1268
01:14:51.533 --> 01:14:53.868
And not just industry people,
but the public."
1269
01:14:55.870 --> 01:14:56.955
Let me hear the organ.
1270
01:14:58.748 --> 01:15:01.209
"Good Vibrations"
was very schizophrenic.
1271
01:15:01.209 --> 01:15:04.379
It was recorded in many different studios.
Uh, three to be exact.
1272
01:15:04.379 --> 01:15:05.547
Stop, please.
1273
01:15:06.631 --> 01:15:10.176
I'd bet you it'd be a half million bucks
just for the track now. Just the track.
1274
01:15:11.594 --> 01:15:14.514
He really was going after
what he was going after.
1275
01:15:15.098 --> 01:15:18.351
I mean, who in their right mind
ever thought of putting a theremin
1276
01:15:19.185 --> 01:15:21.688
on a-- on a pop record?
1277
01:15:24.607 --> 01:15:26.985
Let's go from the top.
You got that. Okay.
1278
01:15:26.985 --> 01:15:29.029
All right. This will be take 25.
1279
01:15:30.155 --> 01:15:32.824
"Good Vibrations."
We were in for three months.
1280
01:15:32.824 --> 01:15:34.451
Nobody does that.
1281
01:15:35.702 --> 01:15:37.829
A lot of guys would say,
"He's out of his mind."
1282
01:15:37.829 --> 01:15:38.913
I never said that.
1283
01:15:38.913 --> 01:15:41.666
I always respected
the genius of Brian Wilson.
1284
01:15:43.126 --> 01:15:47.630
Eventually, Brian made it studio worthy
for us to sing on.
1285
01:15:48.298 --> 01:15:51.885
But Mike's driving to the session,
but he hasn't written the words.
1286
01:15:51.885 --> 01:15:54.846
So his wife, Suzanne,
in the passenger seat.
1287
01:15:54.846 --> 01:15:58.600
Mike's driving, dictating words to her
as he goes to the studio.
1288
01:15:59.809 --> 01:16:03.021
♪ I'm pickin' up good vibrations ♪
1289
01:16:03.021 --> 01:16:06.358
♪ She's giving me the excitations ♪
1290
01:16:06.358 --> 01:16:09.611
- ♪ I'm pickin' up good vibrations ♪
- ♪ Oom-bop-bop, good vibrations ♪
1291
01:16:09.611 --> 01:16:12.947
- ♪ She's giving me the excitations ♪
- ♪ Bop-pop, excitations ♪
1292
01:16:12.947 --> 01:16:15.742
- ♪ Good, good, good, good vibrations ♪
1293
01:16:15.742 --> 01:16:18.578
- ♪ She's giving me the excitations ♪
- ♪ Bop-pop, excitations ♪
1294
01:16:18.578 --> 01:16:22.665
- ♪ Good, good, good, good vibrations ♪
1295
01:16:22.665 --> 01:16:25.085
- ♪ She's giving me the excitations ♪
- ♪ Bop-pop, excitation ♪
1296
01:16:25.085 --> 01:16:26.461
♪ Close my eyes ♪
1297
01:16:26.461 --> 01:16:28.380
It only took us
two nights to sing.
1298
01:16:28.380 --> 01:16:31.049
It took Brian several months
to put it together.
1299
01:16:31.633 --> 01:16:35.595
He spent a lot of time on that,
and I couldn't figure out why, you know?
1300
01:16:35.595 --> 01:16:37.681
But that was Brian.
1301
01:16:37.681 --> 01:16:43.186
♪ When I look in her eyes ♪
1302
01:16:44.771 --> 01:16:47.899
When I heard the thing, I said,
"Whoa! That's it, man.
1303
01:16:47.899 --> 01:16:49.150
That's the monster hit."
1304
01:16:49.150 --> 01:16:50.568
And it was the monster hit.
1305
01:16:50.568 --> 01:16:53.697 line:5%
♪ I'm picking up good vibrations ♪
1306
01:16:53.697 --> 01:16:56.825
♪ She's giving me excitations ♪
1307
01:16:56.825 --> 01:16:58.076
Once again,
1308
01:16:58.076 --> 01:17:02.706
our writing relationship proved out
to be extremely successful.
1309
01:17:06.584 --> 01:17:10.463
The problem was,
Brian was being hailed as a genius,
1310
01:17:10.463 --> 01:17:13.133
but there was no credit
for the rest of the band,
1311
01:17:13.800 --> 01:17:15.552
or Mike Love for writing songs.
1312
01:17:16.594 --> 01:17:21.725
It would've been nice
had that reality been put forward.
1313
01:17:21.725 --> 01:17:26.771
It might have been a little bit easier
for Brian to handle the "genius" label.
1314
01:17:34.696 --> 01:17:37.532
In 1966, we were on tour.
1315
01:17:38.199 --> 01:17:41.369
And even though
Pet Sounds didn't do that well in the US,
1316
01:17:42.162 --> 01:17:44.497
England really came through for us.
1317
01:17:45.832 --> 01:17:49.836
We were voted the number one group.
Number two being The Beatles.
1318
01:17:56.259 --> 01:17:57.677
They just loved us,
1319
01:17:57.677 --> 01:18:00.472
and "Good Vibrations" broke in
at number one over there.
1320
01:18:00.472 --> 01:18:03.475
So there was this pressure
to deliver something great
1321
01:18:03.475 --> 01:18:06.061
with the next album, Smile.
1322
01:18:10.398 --> 01:18:14.986
We were busy touring and stuff,
so I wasn't writing with him at that time.
1323
01:18:15.612 --> 01:18:17.864
It was Van Dyke Parks.
1324
01:18:18.448 --> 01:18:20.700
Twenty-one. Take 250. Marker.
1325
01:18:21.826 --> 01:18:23.161
All music passes with me
1326
01:18:23.161 --> 01:18:27.415 line:5%
but The Beach Boys, I like
because of their essential modesty.
1327
01:18:28.541 --> 01:18:30.210
So, I wrote some lyrics for Brian,
1328
01:18:30.210 --> 01:18:32.587
and I think that that's been my best shot
in town yet.
1329
01:18:32.587 --> 01:18:36.466
♪ Well you're well
You're welcome ♪
1330
01:18:36.466 --> 01:18:39.594
I met him on the lawn
of Terry Melcher's house.
1331
01:18:40.512 --> 01:18:43.598
I thought, "Wow. That guy has
a great style of talking." You know?
1332
01:18:43.598 --> 01:18:46.726 line:5%
And I said, "Hey. Would you like
to write some lyrics with me?"
1333
01:18:46.726 --> 01:18:48.687
He goes, "Sure. I'll give it a try."
1334
01:18:50.605 --> 01:18:53.942
Those were the days
of considerable drug abuse.
1335
01:18:55.151 --> 01:18:58.321
♪ Well you're well
You're welcome ♪
1336
01:18:58.321 --> 01:19:00.907
I was into
taking a lot of stimulant pills,
1337
01:19:00.907 --> 01:19:03.535 line:5%
'cause I didn't think I had any energy
of my own, you know?
1338
01:19:03.535 --> 01:19:06.246
So I would take these pills,
and they would--
1339
01:19:06.246 --> 01:19:08.164
You know... [exclaims] ...there it is.
1340
01:19:08.164 --> 01:19:09.207
I took the pill.
1341
01:19:09.207 --> 01:19:10.417
I feel great.
1342
01:19:11.251 --> 01:19:14.713
And Van Dyke Parks and I used to take
uppers and write songs together.
1343
01:19:14.713 --> 01:19:16.339
We'd write our heads off.
1344
01:19:18.091 --> 01:19:19.759
This was way ahead of our time.
1345
01:19:19.759 --> 01:19:23.013
This was the most advanced
musical experimentation
1346
01:19:23.013 --> 01:19:24.806
in the popular music industry.
1347
01:19:24.806 --> 01:19:30.562
♪ Well, you're welcome to come ♪
1348
01:19:39.863 --> 01:19:41.865
He started
to get into deep water then.
1349
01:19:42.449 --> 01:19:46.244
I should say he started
to get into difficulty inside of himself,
1350
01:19:46.244 --> 01:19:48.413
and, yet, the music was fantastic.
1351
01:19:50.290 --> 01:19:52.500
I was getting pretty far out
by that time.
1352
01:19:52.500 --> 01:19:54.544 line:5%
I had the musicians wearing fire helmets.
1353
01:19:54.544 --> 01:19:56.838
I had a guy bring in a bucket
with burning wood
1354
01:19:56.838 --> 01:19:58.882
to smell of smoke in the studio.
1355
01:19:58.882 --> 01:20:00.050
I mean, I was crazy.
1356
01:20:02.344 --> 01:20:04.429
It so happens that a building burned down
1357
01:20:04.429 --> 01:20:06.848
the same day
we were doing that down the street.
1358
01:20:07.932 --> 01:20:11.102
I began to think that we started that fire
somehow mystically.
1359
01:20:12.771 --> 01:20:14.689
I had a lot of money, of course.
I'm a millionaire.
1360
01:20:14.689 --> 01:20:18.026
And I was able
to get ahold of all these drugs, you know?
1361
01:20:18.026 --> 01:20:20.487
And they fucked--
1362
01:20:20.487 --> 01:20:23.490
I was able to get ahold
of all these drugs and they messed me up.
1363
01:20:23.490 --> 01:20:26.493
They, uh-- They messed my mind up.
1364
01:20:28.453 --> 01:20:31.956
He was pretty paranoid
and ultra sensitive.
1365
01:20:32.499 --> 01:20:35.960
But I was there as one of the troops
to go in and do backgrounds.
1366
01:20:35.960 --> 01:20:38.630
I sang on many of those songs.
1367
01:20:42.717 --> 01:20:45.220
It's been said
that Michael was not supportive.
1368
01:20:45.220 --> 01:20:49.057
And there were certain things
that he was not supportive of.
1369
01:20:49.724 --> 01:20:51.726
The heavy drug taking
1370
01:20:51.726 --> 01:20:55.730
and the acid alliteration,
I used to call it, of Van Dyke Parks.
1371
01:20:56.773 --> 01:20:58.858
I wasn't close enough
to the other guys.
1372
01:20:58.858 --> 01:21:01.403
I was in a position
of defending my lyrics.
1373
01:21:02.070 --> 01:21:05.365
Mike Love said to me one day--
He said, "Explain this.
1374
01:21:05.907 --> 01:21:09.202
'Over and over,
the crow cries, "Uncover the cornfield."'
1375
01:21:09.202 --> 01:21:11.538
"Van Dyke, what does that lyric mean?"
1376
01:21:11.538 --> 01:21:13.623
He says, "I don't know. I haven't a clue."
1377
01:21:13.623 --> 01:21:14.791
I said, "Exactly."
1378
01:21:15.792 --> 01:21:18.461
He thought
the lyrics were not relatable.
1379
01:21:19.295 --> 01:21:20.672
Personally, I loved it.
1380
01:21:20.672 --> 01:21:23.258
So artistic and abstract.
1381
01:21:23.925 --> 01:21:26.678
♪ Hung velvet overtaken me ♪
1382
01:21:26.678 --> 01:21:29.597
♪ Dim chandelier awaken me ♪
1383
01:21:29.597 --> 01:21:34.561
♪ To a song dissolved in the dawn ♪
1384
01:21:34.561 --> 01:21:38.815
I realized that Brian and Van Dyke
were expressing a new poetry.
1385
01:21:39.441 --> 01:21:44.612
But it could be that it was not
an appropriate project for The Beach Boys.
1386
01:21:44.612 --> 01:21:48.033
Maybe that would have been most fitting
as Brian's album.
1387
01:21:48.033 --> 01:21:55.123
♪ Columnated ruins domino ♪
1388
01:21:57.167 --> 01:22:01.254
I wanted to do my kind of music,
and they wanted to do their kind of music.
1389
01:22:01.880 --> 01:22:03.631
So, it was a tug-of-war.
1390
01:22:04.466 --> 01:22:06.384
I felt like I was getting pulled
to pieces.
1391
01:22:06.885 --> 01:22:08.053
♪ Surf's up ♪
1392
01:22:12.015 --> 01:22:15.769
♪ Aboard a tidal wave ♪
1393
01:22:16.603 --> 01:22:19.356
Very chaotic,
very turbulent time for him,
1394
01:22:20.857 --> 01:22:23.860
and he was just not able to finish
the Smile project.
1395
01:22:25.695 --> 01:22:28.698
He took the Smile tapes
and shelved them.
1396
01:22:30.992 --> 01:22:32.744
It was too much for him to finish.
1397
01:22:33.328 --> 01:22:35.246
He just put it away.
1398
01:22:41.086 --> 01:22:46.758
It was, primarily, he had this fear,
I think, that the music would be rejected.
1399
01:22:48.009 --> 01:22:50.553
I thought that it was inappropriate music
for us to make.
1400
01:22:50.553 --> 01:22:52.931
Inappropriate for you,
Brian Wilson, or for The Beach Boys?
1401
01:22:52.931 --> 01:22:54.474
For The Beach Boys, yeah.
1402
01:22:54.474 --> 01:22:56.101
What was inappropriate
about it?
1403
01:22:56.101 --> 01:22:59.020
Well, it was just the ideas
behind the songs were too weird.
1404
01:22:59.020 --> 01:23:01.356
It was like fire and elements and,
you know?
1405
01:23:01.356 --> 01:23:03.024
I just threw it away. I junked it.
1406
01:23:06.277 --> 01:23:07.946
We were pretty exhausted by then.
1407
01:23:07.946 --> 01:23:11.282
And so, we decided to build a studio
inside Brian's home.
1408
01:23:12.117 --> 01:23:14.119
And we were able
to come back together socially,
1409
01:23:14.119 --> 01:23:16.538
and actually enjoy doing
what we were doing again.
1410
01:23:17.580 --> 01:23:18.915
It's almost like starting over.
1411
01:23:19.624 --> 01:23:22.544
And so we made this little album
called Smiley Smile.
1412
01:23:22.544 --> 01:23:25.588
♪ I'm gonna be around my vegetables ♪
1413
01:23:25.588 --> 01:23:27.382
♪ I'm gonna chow down my vegetables ♪
1414
01:23:27.382 --> 01:23:29.342
There's crazy stuff
on that album.
1415
01:23:29.342 --> 01:23:32.095
We had a song
about your favorite vegetable.
1416
01:23:32.929 --> 01:23:34.389
I know it sounds crazy.
1417
01:23:34.389 --> 01:23:36.266
♪ My favorite vegetable ♪
1418
01:23:38.018 --> 01:23:41.730
Smiley Smile shows a lot
of psychological cracking,
1419
01:23:41.730 --> 01:23:43.523
and strangeness and oddballness.
1420
01:23:43.523 --> 01:23:46.067
That's when I was like,
"Whoa! This is quite different."
1421
01:23:46.067 --> 01:23:49.195
For someone who's hungry
for experimental sounds,
1422
01:23:49.195 --> 01:23:51.698
or unpredictable musical experiences,
1423
01:23:51.698 --> 01:23:54.200
that whole album
is an unpredictable musical experience.
1424
01:23:54.200 --> 01:23:57.662
♪ I'm gonna keep well, my vegetables ♪
1425
01:23:57.662 --> 01:24:00.498
♪ Cart off and sell my vegetables ♪
1426
01:24:00.498 --> 01:24:04.461
Brian's innovation and obsession
with pushing the envelope musically
1427
01:24:04.461 --> 01:24:07.297
is what helped take them to another level.
1428
01:24:08.006 --> 01:24:11.968
But there is an inherent risk
when you take those big swings:
1429
01:24:11.968 --> 01:24:16.806
To swing and completely overshoot
your fan base because you went too far.
1430
01:24:24.898 --> 01:24:26.900
I created my head off.
I made a lot of records.
1431
01:24:26.900 --> 01:24:28.568
And sang my face off.
1432
01:24:29.194 --> 01:24:33.823 line:5%
I reached the point of exhaustion,
and, uh, I did retreat.
1433
01:24:33.823 --> 01:24:38.328
♪ Your favorite vegetable ♪
1434
01:24:41.581 --> 01:24:44.167
He was at this point
with The Beach Boys
1435
01:24:44.167 --> 01:24:48.755
where they weren't as happy
with the music he wanted to create.
1436
01:24:48.755 --> 01:24:52.175
You know, there was a lot
of squabbling going on all the time.
1437
01:24:52.175 --> 01:24:55.095
And Brian just said,
"You know what? Let them do it.
1438
01:24:55.095 --> 01:24:57.597
Let them do it.
Let them see how easy it is."
1439
01:25:02.477 --> 01:25:04.813
Even though
he was the mastermind,
1440
01:25:04.813 --> 01:25:08.066
he, suddenly,
did not have their full support.
1441
01:25:09.484 --> 01:25:14.656
And, I think, because it was his family,
it made that much more difficult
1442
01:25:14.656 --> 01:25:19.911
and, perhaps,
much more demanding on his psyche.
1443
01:25:21.162 --> 01:25:26.751
So many artists who have very,
very significant commercial success
1444
01:25:26.751 --> 01:25:30.505
forget why they got into the business
in the first place.
1445
01:25:30.505 --> 01:25:32.132
Why they do music.
1446
01:25:32.132 --> 01:25:38.096
And now, you are judging your validity
through commerce
1447
01:25:39.180 --> 01:25:40.473
more than anything else.
1448
01:25:44.894 --> 01:25:48.815
At that time
the Monterey Pop Festival was going on.
1449
01:25:49.733 --> 01:25:53.111
They were supposed to headline
Saturday night, but they dropped out.
1450
01:25:53.820 --> 01:25:56.156 line:5%
I couldn't believe it.
Nobody could believe it.
1451
01:25:56.698 --> 01:25:58.199
This was such a turning point.
1452
01:25:58.700 --> 01:26:00.076
Who knows what would've happened?
1453
01:26:00.660 --> 01:26:03.997 line:5%
♪ Why don't you all fade away ♪
1454
01:26:04.664 --> 01:26:09.336
- ♪ Don't try to dig what we all say ♪
- ♪ Talkin' about my generation ♪
1455
01:26:09.336 --> 01:26:10.670
♪ I'm not trying to cause ♪
1456
01:26:11.338 --> 01:26:13.173
- ♪ A big sensation ♪
- ♪ Talkin' about my generation ♪
1457
01:26:13.173 --> 01:26:17.218
- ♪ I'm just talking about my generation ♪
- ♪ Talkin' about my generation ♪
1458
01:26:18.136 --> 01:26:22.807
You know, that was The Who,
Janis Joplin, along with Hendrix.
1459
01:26:23.433 --> 01:26:26.102
Jefferson Airplane,
and, of course, The Dead.
1460
01:26:32.317 --> 01:26:36.321
Psychedelia had kicked in and, all
of a sudden, it was a whole different era.
1461
01:26:44.245 --> 01:26:48.166
Monterey Pop was seen
as a culture-changing moment,
1462
01:26:48.166 --> 01:26:49.167
and they weren't there.
1463
01:26:50.877 --> 01:26:55.840
Because we were in such disarray,
we missed that train, so to speak.
1464
01:27:00.887 --> 01:27:02.389
They weren't with the times,
1465
01:27:02.389 --> 01:27:05.183
and they weren't pushing
to where things were going.
1466
01:27:06.017 --> 01:27:10.897
In the early '60s, they became
the poster boys for the California dream.
1467
01:27:10.897 --> 01:27:14.734
But at the end of the '60s,
that dream changed,
1468
01:27:14.734 --> 01:27:19.823
and they never made enough
of a public-facing shift
1469
01:27:19.823 --> 01:27:22.283
to change with the times.
1470
01:27:22.283 --> 01:27:24.744
♪ Well, East Coast girls are hip ♪
1471
01:27:24.744 --> 01:27:29.958 line:5%
♪ I really dig those styles they wear ♪
1472
01:27:29.958 --> 01:27:33.962
♪ And the Southern girls
With the way they talk ♪
1473
01:27:33.962 --> 01:27:37.465
♪ They knock me out when I'm down there ♪
1474
01:27:38.299 --> 01:27:42.929
At that time, you have some
of the most culturally-relevant music
1475
01:27:42.929 --> 01:27:44.055
in American History.
1476
01:27:44.597 --> 01:27:48.268
Songs about the struggle for civil rights,
around identity,
1477
01:27:48.268 --> 01:27:49.936
around political freedoms.
1478
01:27:49.936 --> 01:27:54.774
And their image was as far as you could be
from the changes in the culture.
1479
01:27:54.774 --> 01:27:59.279
♪ I wish
they all could be California girls ♪
1480
01:27:59.279 --> 01:28:03.116
♪ Wish they all could be California ♪
1481
01:28:03.116 --> 01:28:10.206
♪ I wish
they all could be California girls ♪
1482
01:28:11.958 --> 01:28:13.293
And then there's Dennis.
1483
01:28:14.336 --> 01:28:17.047
Hi. My name is Dennis Wilson.
1484
01:28:17.589 --> 01:28:19.174
I make rock-and-roll records.
1485
01:28:23.011 --> 01:28:26.097
He became more of
a quintessential '60s LA rock guy.
1486
01:28:26.097 --> 01:28:30.894
♪ Oh, hello, Mr. Soul
I dropped by to pick up a reason ♪
1487
01:28:30.894 --> 01:28:32.812
Dennis was part of the scene.
1488
01:28:32.812 --> 01:28:35.982
He was part of the Laurel Canyon world.
1489
01:28:35.982 --> 01:28:38.693
Part of the counter-cultural world
of the Sunset Strip.
1490
01:28:39.819 --> 01:28:41.488
He was just a wild person.
1491
01:28:42.405 --> 01:28:44.240
Interestingly enough, though,
1492
01:28:44.240 --> 01:28:49.079
he is actually the one who got us
interested in things like meditation.
1493
01:28:49.704 --> 01:28:51.956
Even if he was drunk,
he'd say, "Let's meditate."
1494
01:28:56.002 --> 01:29:00.548
One afternoon, Dennis picked up a couple
of hitchhikers on Sunset Boulevard,
1495
01:29:01.091 --> 01:29:02.175
and he took them home.
1496
01:29:02.801 --> 01:29:07.263 line:5%
He told the girls he had a guru,
which was Maharishi,
1497
01:29:07.263 --> 01:29:09.849 line:5%
who had taught all of us how to meditate.
1498
01:29:10.684 --> 01:29:12.769
And then they said, "Well, we have a guru.
1499
01:29:15.772 --> 01:29:17.190
His name is Charlie Manson."
1500
01:29:20.151 --> 01:29:21.569
I only met the guy once,
1501
01:29:22.654 --> 01:29:23.905
and that was enough for me.
1502
01:29:26.282 --> 01:29:28.868
Manson was actually
an aspiring songwriter.
1503
01:29:29.494 --> 01:29:32.247
So, Dennis and Charlie
started to write together.
1504
01:29:33.123 --> 01:29:37.544
And at that time, The Beach Boys released
a Charles Manson song as a B-side,
1505
01:29:38.670 --> 01:29:39.921
"Never Learn Not To Love."
1506
01:29:41.589 --> 01:29:43.591
There's lots of ways to talk about Manson,
1507
01:29:43.591 --> 01:29:46.720
and one of them is that he's still part
of the California dream.
1508
01:29:46.720 --> 01:29:48.722
He wanted the dream.
He wanted the Hollywood dream.
1509
01:29:48.722 --> 01:29:49.889
He wanted to be a rock star.
1510
01:29:49.889 --> 01:29:53.143
He wanted to go through Dennis
to get to Terry Melcher.
1511
01:29:54.477 --> 01:29:57.897
Dennis introduced Manson
to Terry Melcher.
1512
01:29:59.232 --> 01:30:01.317
But he was turned down by Terry.
1513
01:30:01.317 --> 01:30:04.404
And what happened next, happened next.
1514
01:30:04.404 --> 01:30:06.906
In a scene described
by one investigator
1515
01:30:06.906 --> 01:30:08.950 line:5%
as reminiscent of a weird religious rite,
1516
01:30:08.950 --> 01:30:12.829 line:5%
five persons, including actress
Sharon Tate, were found dead.
1517
01:30:13.621 --> 01:30:18.001
Manson went to Terry's house
that he used to rent, but Terry had moved.
1518
01:30:19.169 --> 01:30:21.379
That's where he had those people killed.
1519
01:30:22.088 --> 01:30:23.340
It was just awful.
1520
01:30:24.632 --> 01:30:27.302
And I think it weighed
upon Dennis pretty heavily,
1521
01:30:28.303 --> 01:30:32.807
because he had a hand
in introducing him to our world.
1522
01:30:35.518 --> 01:30:37.520
He's always felt bad about it
ever since.
1523
01:30:38.063 --> 01:30:39.314
It wasn't his fault.
1524
01:30:42.275 --> 01:30:46.946
We were in a rough patch,
and Murry must have thought it was over.
1525
01:30:48.573 --> 01:30:50.575
Murry was the publisher, remember?
1526
01:30:50.575 --> 01:30:52.994
He actually took over
the publishing catalog.
1527
01:30:53.620 --> 01:30:58.458
He, at one time, told us
he was gonna sell us back the publishing,
1528
01:30:58.458 --> 01:31:01.378
but he didn't.
1529
01:31:04.172 --> 01:31:08.176
Brian got a call,
and his father said, "I sold the catalog."
1530
01:31:09.219 --> 01:31:14.224
And Brian went, "You sold my songs?
How could you do that to me?"
1531
01:31:15.392 --> 01:31:17.894
Brian was real, real hurt.
1532
01:31:18.478 --> 01:31:20.063
It was very hard for him.
1533
01:31:21.606 --> 01:31:25.443
Murry just thought,
"The guys are gonna go so far for so long,
1534
01:31:25.443 --> 01:31:28.488
and then they're gonna die off,
just like all these other artists.
1535
01:31:28.488 --> 01:31:30.031
So I might as well cash in."
1536
01:31:33.535 --> 01:31:38.123
I wrote the words to many songs
Murry did not credit me on.
1537
01:31:39.541 --> 01:31:42.043
So I got cheated by my uncle.
1538
01:31:42.544 --> 01:31:45.046
But my cousin was going
through mental issues,
1539
01:31:45.046 --> 01:31:47.632
and he had no control over his father.
1540
01:31:49.050 --> 01:31:52.220
And, so... [stammers] What can you do?
1541
01:31:53.680 --> 01:31:55.682
Brian was a half owner with Murry.
1542
01:31:55.682 --> 01:31:58.476
And what are you gonna do?
Go sue your own father?
1543
01:31:58.476 --> 01:32:00.395
No. He wasn't gonna do that.
1544
01:32:01.187 --> 01:32:06.359
It really hurt him, and I don't think he
got out of bed for three days after that.
1545
01:32:11.239 --> 01:32:13.241
There were reflashes of LSD.
1546
01:32:13.241 --> 01:32:16.411
It was said I'm insecure.
I can't face this. I can't do this.
1547
01:32:16.411 --> 01:32:17.912
I'm gonna hide in my bedroom.
1548
01:32:18.705 --> 01:32:20.790
You know, Brian, he was troubled.
1549
01:32:22.751 --> 01:32:25.920
The guys would all be there,
and he says, "I'm just gonna stay in bed."
1550
01:32:27.297 --> 01:32:30.300
While we were recording
at his home in Beverly Hills,
1551
01:32:30.300 --> 01:32:34.346
he was reluctant
to come down and participate.
1552
01:32:39.100 --> 01:32:42.562
I would go to his house daily
and beg, "What can I do to help you?"
1553
01:32:43.229 --> 01:32:44.564
For-- Forget recording.
1554
01:32:45.148 --> 01:32:48.318
I'd give up everything
just as long as my brother would be okay.
1555
01:32:50.278 --> 01:32:53.782
It was very painful at times
to see Brian go through that.
1556
01:32:54.991 --> 01:32:56.201
And it was at that point
1557
01:32:56.201 --> 01:32:59.746
that Brian asked me
to become more involved in the production.
1558
01:33:02.874 --> 01:33:04.793
Carl was Brian's protégée really.
1559
01:33:06.044 --> 01:33:09.089
And after all those years
attending the Wrecking Crew sessions,
1560
01:33:09.798 --> 01:33:10.965
Carl was ready for it.
1561
01:33:10.965 --> 01:33:14.135
Two. One, two, three. Go.
And I, of course, had led the band
1562
01:33:14.135 --> 01:33:16.137
from when he stopped touring back in '64.
1563
01:33:16.137 --> 01:33:18.098
So, I think it was kind of natural.
1564
01:33:18.765 --> 01:33:21.768
♪ This is the way ♪
1565
01:33:22.811 --> 01:33:25.063
♪ I always dreamed it would be ♪
1566
01:33:25.980 --> 01:33:28.316
♪ The way that it is ♪
1567
01:33:28.316 --> 01:33:32.112
♪ Oh, when you are holding me ♪
1568
01:33:33.196 --> 01:33:34.989
When Brian stopped producing,
1569
01:33:34.989 --> 01:33:40.078
it opened the door to more
of a democratic process in the studio.
1570
01:33:40.662 --> 01:33:47.544
♪ I can hear music ♪
1571
01:33:48.294 --> 01:33:50.088
You've got Dennis writing songs.
1572
01:33:50.088 --> 01:33:52.841
Bruce Johnston producing.
Al Jardine producing.
1573
01:33:52.841 --> 01:33:55.468
Of course,
I wrote many of those songs as well.
1574
01:33:55.468 --> 01:33:58.638
♪ I can hear music ♪
1575
01:33:59.222 --> 01:34:02.892
♪ Sweet, sweet music ♪
1576
01:34:02.892 --> 01:34:06.521
♪ Whenever you touch me, baby ♪
1577
01:34:07.022 --> 01:34:09.232
♪ Whenever you're near ♪
1578
01:34:11.943 --> 01:34:17.782
But, of all of us, Dennis's music
began to evolve really quite amazingly.
1579
01:34:21.828 --> 01:34:25.415
"Forever" was one of the great pieces
that Dennis created.
1580
01:34:26.082 --> 01:34:29.419
It just blew--
I mean, it just blew us away.
1581
01:34:30.712 --> 01:34:36.509
♪ If every word I said
could make you laugh ♪
1582
01:34:36.509 --> 01:34:42.307
- ♪ I'd talk forever ♪
- ♪ Together, my love ♪
1583
01:34:44.184 --> 01:34:47.604
♪ I ask the sky just what we had ♪
1584
01:34:48.146 --> 01:34:52.484
♪ Mmm
It shone forever ♪
1585
01:34:52.484 --> 01:34:54.986
Dennis had all this hidden talent.
1586
01:34:55.653 --> 01:34:56.696
I used to watch him and go,
1587
01:34:56.696 --> 01:34:59.074
"God. I didn't know
he could play the piano like that."
1588
01:34:59.741 --> 01:35:00.784
He kinda hid that.
1589
01:35:01.368 --> 01:35:03.787
I think it was very hard for him
growing up.
1590
01:35:03.787 --> 01:35:07.707
He would be behind Brian
and try to match up to him musically.
1591
01:35:08.333 --> 01:35:11.419
But as Dennis got older,
he felt comfortable enough
1592
01:35:11.419 --> 01:35:14.631
to start bringing out, you know,
who he was musically.
1593
01:35:17.509 --> 01:35:22.347
♪ I've been so happy loving you ♪
1594
01:35:26.476 --> 01:35:29.729
You listen
to those late-'60s records and early-'70s,
1595
01:35:29.729 --> 01:35:31.272
they sound like a different band.
1596
01:35:32.440 --> 01:35:35.443
And I do think maybe that's part of why
they weren't as popular,
1597
01:35:35.443 --> 01:35:37.153
is people didn't know
what to do with them.
1598
01:35:37.153 --> 01:35:43.952
♪ So hard to answer future's riddle
when ahead is seeming so far behind ♪
1599
01:35:43.952 --> 01:35:47.872
The Beach Boys as a sound
was so cemented on those early records.
1600
01:35:48.415 --> 01:35:50.709
It's almost like boy bands or kid actors
1601
01:35:50.709 --> 01:35:54.295
who can't shake
that first period of success.
1602
01:35:55.296 --> 01:35:56.798
It haunted them,
1603
01:35:56.798 --> 01:36:00.760
because your sense of self
starts circulating with that artifice.
1604
01:36:00.760 --> 01:36:04.806
♪ But I hit hard at the battle
that's confronting me, yeah ♪
1605
01:36:04.806 --> 01:36:07.684
My sense of their career
has always been,
1606
01:36:07.684 --> 01:36:11.771
"Well, we needed that to become
who we are, but who are we really?
1607
01:36:11.771 --> 01:36:13.231
Who are we as artists?"
1608
01:36:13.231 --> 01:36:15.400
And I don't think that struggle
ever left them.
1609
01:36:16.568 --> 01:36:19.571
♪ Long promised road ♪
1610
01:36:19.571 --> 01:36:21.906
We thought
the songs sounded great.
1611
01:36:22.490 --> 01:36:24.159
The public didn't think so.
1612
01:36:24.159 --> 01:36:27.829
We were down like $5,000 a night
for a gig. Can you believe that?
1613
01:36:28.538 --> 01:36:29.998
We were just slugging it out.
1614
01:36:29.998 --> 01:36:32.375
Doing what he had to do to survive.
1615
01:36:32.375 --> 01:36:35.628
♪ Long promised road ♪
1616
01:36:36.463 --> 01:36:37.964
We were no longer Beach Boys.
1617
01:36:38.673 --> 01:36:39.841
We were beach men.
1618
01:36:40.425 --> 01:36:42.218
In fact, we even tried to change the name.
1619
01:36:42.218 --> 01:36:44.429
I said, "Let's call ourselves 'Beach.'"
1620
01:36:47.223 --> 01:36:49.642
That would never work,
but Al was right.
1621
01:36:50.393 --> 01:36:53.188
The Beach Boys became uncool to listen to.
1622
01:36:55.899 --> 01:36:58.401
We became determined
to reinvent ourselves.
1623
01:37:00.070 --> 01:37:02.322
Let's get out
of this Beach Boys thing, you know?
1624
01:37:03.198 --> 01:37:06.409
♪ Don't go near the water ♪
1625
01:37:07.327 --> 01:37:09.746
♪ Don't you think it's sad? ♪
1626
01:37:09.746 --> 01:37:11.873
That album has "surf" in the title,
1627
01:37:11.873 --> 01:37:15.293
but Surf's Up is not about the surf
being up and everything's being good.
1628
01:37:15.293 --> 01:37:18.880
The first song on that record is,
"Don't Go Near the Water."
1629
01:37:19.381 --> 01:37:23.259
♪ Oceans, rivers, lakes and streams ♪
1630
01:37:23.259 --> 01:37:25.637 line:5%
♪ Have all been touched by man ♪
1631
01:37:25.637 --> 01:37:28.056
We felt like
we were doing serious music, you know?
1632
01:37:28.056 --> 01:37:31.267
But, uh, it didn't help sell
the album particularly.
1633
01:37:33.812 --> 01:37:35.647
So we decided we needed a new sound.
1634
01:37:36.189 --> 01:37:40.151
In the past, Brian was the leader,
musically speaking.
1635
01:37:40.151 --> 01:37:43.571
But he didn't show up very much anymore
for the sessions.
1636
01:37:43.571 --> 01:37:47.909
In order to save the group,
sometimes things had to be done,
1637
01:37:47.909 --> 01:37:49.953
like more people getting involved.
1638
01:37:51.705 --> 01:37:56.710
Ricky Fataar and Blondie Chaplin
were in a group called The Flames,
1639
01:37:56.710 --> 01:37:58.420
and we met them in London.
1640
01:37:58.420 --> 01:38:00.505
♪ Here she comes ♪
1641
01:38:01.798 --> 01:38:04.676
♪ Breathing life into my thoughts ♪
1642
01:38:04.676 --> 01:38:07.303
They had this idea
to have me and Blonds join the group,
1643
01:38:07.303 --> 01:38:09.597 line:5%
and I just thought
it was just so ridiculous.
1644
01:38:09.597 --> 01:38:10.974
It just didn't seem possible
1645
01:38:10.974 --> 01:38:14.102
because it seemed
like such a tight-knit family thing.
1646
01:38:14.102 --> 01:38:17.272
And when we first joined the group,
it was weird adjusting.
1647
01:38:18.314 --> 01:38:21.276
♪ Wherever she goes
You know the devil dances ♪
1648
01:38:21.276 --> 01:38:23.778
♪ And the gods lay down in defeat ♪
1649
01:38:23.778 --> 01:38:26.156
Being around them,
when we were working and stuff,
1650
01:38:26.156 --> 01:38:28.324
that was just a lovely experience.
1651
01:38:28.908 --> 01:38:31.536 line:5%
Of course, it wasn't as funky
as what we were used to.
1652
01:38:32.871 --> 01:38:34.414 line:5%
Well, in our way of funky.
1653
01:38:38.543 --> 01:38:42.339
When we got involved,
the music got a little harder.
1654
01:38:47.927 --> 01:38:52.640
For live, we pumped a whole lot more
than they used to.
1655
01:38:52.640 --> 01:38:55.602
And I'm not knocking you guys,
but whatever.
1656
01:38:55.602 --> 01:39:00.732
♪ Mama, I'm tellin' you
as sure as I am standing here ♪
1657
01:39:02.233 --> 01:39:03.985
♪ She's my girl ♪
1658
01:39:03.985 --> 01:39:07.322
♪ Now that's the way I'm keeping it
Now, Mama, dear ♪
1659
01:39:08.156 --> 01:39:10.992
But things weren't going that great.
1660
01:39:11.868 --> 01:39:15.538
It wasn't at the big beach-- I mean,
things had calmed down quite a bit.
1661
01:39:17.540 --> 01:39:18.958
Beach Boys were hurting.
1662
01:39:22.462 --> 01:39:24.297
We were kinda on our last leg.
1663
01:39:25.131 --> 01:39:28.009
We all just felt we needed to get away
and reinvent ourselves.
1664
01:39:28.009 --> 01:39:32.013
And we had never been outside of
the United States in terms of recording.
1665
01:39:32.555 --> 01:39:34.432
And so, we went to Holland.
1666
01:39:35.684 --> 01:39:38.978
We were true to our music,
but we were on a downward spiral.
1667
01:39:40.063 --> 01:39:43.775
They go from being
one of the most globally-known pop artists
1668
01:39:43.775 --> 01:39:45.610
to, some degree, falling off the map.
1669
01:39:46.528 --> 01:39:50.573
There's no thought process
that was governing the group
1670
01:39:50.573 --> 01:39:51.950
that made any sense at all.
1671
01:39:52.867 --> 01:39:55.036
And then Capitol,
unbeknownst to us,
1672
01:39:55.036 --> 01:39:57.789
decides to release
kind of like a big "Best of."
1673
01:39:58.331 --> 01:40:01.334
Twenty of your favorite
original Beach Boys hits are now together
1674
01:40:01.334 --> 01:40:04.045
in a fabulous two-record set,
called Endless Summer.
1675
01:40:04.045 --> 01:40:10.135
♪ Do you love me
Do you, surfer girl ♪
1676
01:40:10.135 --> 01:40:12.679
The songs
were all from the early albums.
1677
01:40:13.471 --> 01:40:15.390
♪ Get her out of my heart ♪
1678
01:40:15.390 --> 01:40:18.143
It represented an era of positivity.
1679
01:40:18.143 --> 01:40:21.312
♪ And she'll have fun, fun, fun
'til her daddy takes the T-bird away ♪
1680
01:40:21.312 --> 01:40:25.025
And Endless Summer
became a number one smash album.
1681
01:40:26.026 --> 01:40:29.779
All of a sudden,
there's a new generation of record buyers.
1682
01:40:29.779 --> 01:40:32.073
So to them, it's all brand-new.
1683
01:40:32.073 --> 01:40:35.660
♪ I wish they all could be
California girls ♪
1684
01:40:35.660 --> 01:40:39.414
It was funny. That image we were
trying to get away from...
1685
01:40:39.414 --> 01:40:40.832
It's what saved us.
1686
01:40:42.625 --> 01:40:44.669
And that reenergized our career.
1687
01:40:45.503 --> 01:40:46.963
We got a second chance.
1688
01:40:46.963 --> 01:40:50.175
♪ If everybody had an ocean... ♪
1689
01:40:50.175 --> 01:40:54.054
You gotta remember,
they've been a touring band forever.
1690
01:40:54.054 --> 01:40:58.224
♪ Then everybody'd be surfin'
Like Californ-I-A ♪
1691
01:40:58.224 --> 01:41:01.644
They're one of the few bands
that could reproduce their sound.
1692
01:41:08.985 --> 01:41:10.820
The Beatles stopped touring,
1693
01:41:10.820 --> 01:41:13.114
largely, in part,
because they couldn't play the stuff live.
1694
01:41:13.114 --> 01:41:18.661
♪ I hear the sound of a gentle word ♪
1695
01:41:19.371 --> 01:41:23.041
I can't imagine pulling off half
the stuff that The Beach Boys recorded.
1696
01:41:25.085 --> 01:41:27.253
And then
we started doing stadiums.
1697
01:41:27.253 --> 01:41:30.090
♪ And after having spent
The day together ♪
1698
01:41:30.090 --> 01:41:33.843
♪ Hold each other close
The whole night through ♪
1699
01:41:35.804 --> 01:41:38.598
And that's when
the 8-to-80 thing started happening.
1700
01:41:39.099 --> 01:41:41.851
We had the eight-year-olds coming,
and the 80-year-olds were coming.
1701
01:41:48.900 --> 01:41:50.318
We benefited by the fact
1702
01:41:50.318 --> 01:41:54.948
that our songs resonate with young people
no matter what generation they're in.
1703
01:41:57.200 --> 01:41:59.202
It's so great to be a part of that,
1704
01:41:59.202 --> 01:42:03.373
and the fact that my cousin Brian and I
got together and wrote some great songs
1705
01:42:03.373 --> 01:42:04.958
that people still like to hear.
1706
01:42:05.875 --> 01:42:10.130
However, because my uncle Murry
sold the publishing,
1707
01:42:10.130 --> 01:42:11.548
we didn't own the songs.
1708
01:42:12.966 --> 01:42:16.302
So he screwed his own sons
and grandchildren.
1709
01:42:22.350 --> 01:42:24.853
At the beginning,
they depended on Murry.
1710
01:42:24.853 --> 01:42:28.064
And if there was no Murry,
there would be no Beach Boys.
1711
01:42:28.815 --> 01:42:33.862
But Murry didn't have the vision to see
what the catalog would bring in.
1712
01:42:34.612 --> 01:42:36.614
The hundreds of millions of dollars.
1713
01:42:37.782 --> 01:42:40.201
You know, and he sold this thing
for, like, 700,000.
1714
01:42:44.205 --> 01:42:48.626
Because Murry did not credit me
on the songs I cowrote with Brian,
1715
01:42:49.669 --> 01:42:54.049
the only avenue I thought that I had
to get credit was to file a lawsuit.
1716
01:42:56.760 --> 01:42:58.803
I think that was kinda where we lost it.
1717
01:43:03.641 --> 01:43:07.937
I go, "Wait a minute, guys.
Hold on here. What's the deal?" You know?
1718
01:43:10.398 --> 01:43:15.070
After that,
we sort of got separated a little bit.
1719
01:43:22.827 --> 01:43:25.663
There have been ups and downs
in our relationship...
1720
01:43:30.126 --> 01:43:33.004
and, these days,
we don't really talk much.
1721
01:43:38.718 --> 01:43:42.305
But, you know, if I could,
I'd probably just tell him...
1722
01:43:48.061 --> 01:43:49.145
that I love him.
1723
01:43:52.023 --> 01:43:53.024
And nothing...
1724
01:43:55.151 --> 01:43:57.904
anybody could do could erase that.
1725
01:44:05.203 --> 01:44:10.291
♪ Gotta keep
Those lovin' good vibrations ♪
1726
01:44:10.291 --> 01:44:12.377
♪ A-happenin' with you ♪
1727
01:44:12.961 --> 01:44:17.966
♪ Gotta keep
Those lovin' good vibrations ♪
1728
01:44:17.966 --> 01:44:20.468
♪ A-happenin' with you ♪
1729
01:44:20.468 --> 01:44:25.557
♪ Gotta keep
Those lovin' good vibrations ♪
1730
01:44:25.557 --> 01:44:27.142
♪ A-happenin' with you ♪
1731
01:44:27.767 --> 01:44:31.855
I asked Brian one time,
"Why do you think we succeeded?"
1732
01:44:33.148 --> 01:44:36.651
He said, "Well, I think the music
celebrated the joy of life
1733
01:44:37.736 --> 01:44:39.863
in a real simple way.
1734
01:44:40.572 --> 01:44:43.158
Just a real direct experience
of joyfulness."
1735
01:44:50.665 --> 01:44:54.002
Their music was part
of a widespread desire
1736
01:44:54.002 --> 01:44:57.839
to believe in the possibility
of a California dream,
1737
01:44:58.506 --> 01:45:01.092
even if it doesn't seem to line up
in neat ways.
1738
01:45:09.976 --> 01:45:12.645
A band who's known for surfing
who didn't surf.
1739
01:45:14.022 --> 01:45:16.024
A band that's synonymous with the beach
1740
01:45:16.024 --> 01:45:18.943
that record songs
about staying in your room.
1741
01:45:23.114 --> 01:45:28.745
They represent much more complexity than,
I think, most people give them credit for.
1742
01:45:29.287 --> 01:45:31.289
There's someone with us tonight.
1743
01:45:31.289 --> 01:45:34.542
He's responsible for us being here, period.
1744
01:45:34.542 --> 01:45:36.961
Let's hear it for Brian! Come on!
1745
01:45:36.961 --> 01:45:40.173
They soundtrack
the best parts of life.
1746
01:45:40.757 --> 01:45:43.343
And their sound is one of one.
1747
01:45:44.928 --> 01:45:48.348
But I think none of them would have been
able to shine without each other.
1748
01:45:57.774 --> 01:46:01.569
A lot of people
have a favorite in the group, you know?
1749
01:46:01.569 --> 01:46:04.656
But a group is a group.
1750
01:46:09.953 --> 01:46:12.414
The Beach Boys are a family story,
1751
01:46:14.124 --> 01:46:16.292
not without its ups and downs,
1752
01:46:18.003 --> 01:46:21.006
but the positivity
far outweighs the negativity.
1753
01:46:46.448 --> 01:46:47.615
Welcome!
1754
01:46:47.615 --> 01:46:52.162 line:5%
Welcome all 400,000 of you
on this beautiful day.
1755
01:46:52.162 --> 01:46:57.834 line:5%
We are proud to present
the one and only Beach Boys!
1756
01:47:00.920 --> 01:47:03.173
♪ Oh, d-d-d-d-darlin' ♪
1757
01:47:03.173 --> 01:47:07.552
♪ Ooh, ooh, my darlin', you're so fine ♪
1758
01:47:15.185 --> 01:47:17.187 line:5%
♪ Don't know if words could say ♪
1759
01:47:18.313 --> 01:47:20.565 line:5%
♪ But, darlin', I'll find a way ♪
1760
01:47:21.107 --> 01:47:24.277 line:5%
♪ To let you know what you meant to me ♪
1761
01:47:24.903 --> 01:47:27.906 line:5%
♪ Guess it was meant to be ♪
1762
01:47:27.906 --> 01:47:30.992 line:5%
♪ I hold you in my heart ♪
1763
01:47:31.659 --> 01:47:34.371 line:5%
♪ As life's most precious part ♪
1764
01:47:35.121 --> 01:47:38.208 line:5%
- ♪ Oh, darlin' ♪
- ♪ Oh, keep dreamin' of darlin' ♪
1765
01:47:38.208 --> 01:47:41.002 line:5%
- ♪ I dream about you often, my darlin' ♪
- ♪ My darlin', you're so fine ♪
1766
01:47:41.002 --> 01:47:43.880 line:5%
♪ I love the way you soften my life
with your love ♪
1767
01:47:43.880 --> 01:47:48.051 line:5%
♪ Your precious love, uh-huh, oh ♪
1768
01:47:50.053 --> 01:47:52.389
♪ I was feelin' like half a man ♪
1769
01:47:53.306 --> 01:47:55.642
♪ Then I couldn't love, but now I can ♪
1770
01:47:56.309 --> 01:47:59.604
♪ You pick me up when I'm feelin' sad ♪
1771
01:47:59.604 --> 01:48:02.649 line:5%
♪ More soul than I ever had ♪
1772
01:48:03.191 --> 01:48:05.402 line:5%
♪ Gonna love you every single night ♪
1773
01:48:06.277 --> 01:48:08.571
♪ 'Cause I think you're too outta sight ♪
1774
01:48:09.864 --> 01:48:13.118
- ♪ Oh, oh, darlin' ♪
- ♪ Oh, keep dreamin' of darlin' ♪
1775
01:48:13.118 --> 01:48:15.620
♪ I dream about you often
My pretty darlin' ♪
1776
01:48:15.620 --> 01:48:18.748
♪ I love the way you soften my life
With your love ♪
1777
01:48:18.748 --> 01:48:21.835
♪ Your precious love, oh, oh ♪
1778
01:48:24.838 --> 01:48:28.258 line:5%
♪ Every night, oh ♪
1779
01:48:30.051 --> 01:48:33.471
♪ Every night
Oh, darlin' ♪
1780
01:48:34.514 --> 01:48:38.059
♪ Gonna love you every single night
Yes, I will ♪
1781
01:48:38.059 --> 01:48:41.396
♪ 'Cause I think you're too doggone
Outta sight, outta sight ♪
1782
01:48:41.396 --> 01:48:43.356
♪ Yeah, yeah, my darlin' ♪
1783
01:48:43.356 --> 01:48:46.776 line:5%
♪ I dream about you often
My pretty darlin' ♪
1784
01:48:46.776 --> 01:48:49.904 line:5%
♪ I love the way you soften my life
With your love ♪
1785
01:48:49.904 --> 01:48:52.782
♪ Your precious love, oh ♪
1786
01:48:53.324 --> 01:48:55.744 line:5%
♪ Oh ♪
1787
01:48:55.744 --> 01:48:58.830 line:5%
♪ Every night, oh ♪
1788
01:48:58.830 --> 01:49:01.124 line:5%
♪ I keep dreamin' 'bout darlin' ♪
1789
01:49:01.124 --> 01:49:04.336 line:5%
♪ Every night
Oh, darlin' ♪
1790
01:49:09.632 --> 01:49:11.051
Thank you very much.
1791
01:49:12.385 --> 01:49:14.095
Enjoy the fireworks!
1792
01:49:18.725 --> 01:49:19.976
Thank you again.
1793
01:49:28.401 --> 01:49:30.820
♪ Aruba, Jamaica ♪
1794
01:49:30.820 --> 01:49:34.866
♪ Ooh, I wanna take you
Bermuda, Bahama ♪
1795
01:49:34.866 --> 01:49:36.951
♪ Come on, pretty mama ♪
1796
01:49:36.951 --> 01:49:41.081
♪ Key Largo, Montego
Baby, why don't we go ♪
1797
01:49:41.081 --> 01:49:47.003
♪ Jamaica
Off the Florida Keys ♪
1798
01:49:48.088 --> 01:49:51.591
♪ There's a place called Kokomo ♪
1799
01:49:52.217 --> 01:49:57.722
♪ That's where you wanna go
To get away from it all ♪
1800
01:50:00.642 --> 01:50:03.978
♪ Bodies in the sand ♪
1801
01:50:04.479 --> 01:50:08.316
♪ Tropical drink melting in your hand ♪
1802
01:50:08.858 --> 01:50:15.031
♪ We'll be falling in love
To the rhythm of a steel drum band ♪
1803
01:50:15.031 --> 01:50:16.408
♪ Down in Kokomo ♪
1804
01:50:16.408 --> 01:50:18.493
♪ Aruba, Jamaica ♪
1805
01:50:18.493 --> 01:50:22.622
♪ Ooh, I wanna take you
To Bermuda, Bahama ♪
1806
01:50:22.622 --> 01:50:24.666
♪ Come on, pretty mama ♪
1807
01:50:24.666 --> 01:50:26.793
♪ Key Largo
Montego ♪
1808
01:50:26.793 --> 01:50:30.922
- ♪ Baby, why don't we go ♪
- ♪ Ooh, I wanna take you down to Kokomo ♪
1809
01:50:30.922 --> 01:50:35.301
♪ We'll get there fast
And then we'll take it slow ♪
1810
01:50:35.301 --> 01:50:39.764
♪ That's where we wanna go ♪
1811
01:50:39.764 --> 01:50:41.558
♪ Way down in Kokomo ♪
1812
01:50:41.558 --> 01:50:45.562
♪ Martinique
That Montserrat mystique ♪
1813
01:50:46.187 --> 01:50:50.108
♪ We'll put out to sea ♪
1814
01:50:50.108 --> 01:50:53.778
♪ And we'll perfect our chemistry ♪
1815
01:50:54.529 --> 01:50:59.743
♪ By and by we'll defy
A little bit of gravity ♪
1816
01:51:02.829 --> 01:51:06.916
♪ Afternoon delight ♪
1817
01:51:06.916 --> 01:51:10.795
♪ Cocktails and moonlight nights ♪
1818
01:51:10.795 --> 01:51:12.922
♪ That dreamy look in your eye ♪
1819
01:51:12.922 --> 01:51:17.052
♪ Give me a tropical contact high ♪
1820
01:51:17.052 --> 01:51:18.720
♪ Way down in Kokomo ♪
1821
01:51:18.720 --> 01:51:20.722
♪ Aruba, Jamaica ♪
1822
01:51:20.722 --> 01:51:24.851
♪ Ooh, I wanna take you
To Bermuda, Bahama ♪
1823
01:51:24.851 --> 01:51:26.895
♪ Come on, pretty mama ♪
1824
01:51:26.895 --> 01:51:29.022
♪ Key Largo
Montego ♪
1825
01:51:29.022 --> 01:51:33.151
- ♪ Baby, why don't we go ♪
- ♪ Ooh, I wanna take you down to Kokomo ♪
1826
01:51:33.151 --> 01:51:37.530
♪ We'll get there fast
And then we'll take it slow ♪
1827
01:51:37.530 --> 01:51:41.951
♪ That's where we wanna go ♪
1828
01:51:41.951 --> 01:51:43.787
♪ Way down in Kokomo ♪
1829
01:51:43.787 --> 01:51:47.749
♪ Port au Prince
I wanna catch a glimpse ♪
1830
01:52:05.100 --> 01:52:08.937
♪ Everybody knows ♪
1831
01:52:08.937 --> 01:52:12.691
♪ A little place like Kokomo ♪
1832
01:52:13.316 --> 01:52:18.738
♪ Now if you wanna go
And get away from it all ♪
1833
01:52:19.364 --> 01:52:20.990
♪ Go down to Kokomo ♪
1834
01:52:20.990 --> 01:52:22.951
♪ Aruba, Jamaica ♪
1835
01:52:22.951 --> 01:52:27.038
♪ Ooh, I wanna take you
To Bermuda, Bahama ♪
1836
01:52:27.038 --> 01:52:29.124
♪ Come on, pretty mama ♪
1837
01:52:29.124 --> 01:52:31.251
♪ Key Largo
Montego ♪
1838
01:52:31.251 --> 01:52:35.380
- ♪ Baby, why don't we go ♪
- ♪ Ooh, I wanna take you down to Kokomo ♪
1839
01:52:35.380 --> 01:52:39.467
♪ We'll get there fast
And then we'll take it slow ♪
1840
01:52:39.968 --> 01:52:44.222
♪ That's where we wanna go ♪
1841
01:52:44.222 --> 01:52:45.849
♪ Way down in Kokomo ♪
1842
01:52:45.849 --> 01:52:47.809
♪ Aruba, Jamaica ♪
1843
01:52:47.809 --> 01:52:51.938
♪ Ooh, I wanna take you
To Bermuda, Bahama ♪
1844
01:52:51.938 --> 01:52:54.024
♪ Come on, pretty mama ♪
1845
01:52:54.024 --> 01:52:56.276
♪ Key Largo
Montego ♪