Members Only #263 -- We’re All Brian Wilson Now

Look, you people (OK, like five of you) demanded it, so now yer gonna get it, good and Californian: A cassingle on the late, great Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, and some perhaps under-known ways in which he and they shaped the music industry and culture that we continue to live in today. Along the way we get into garages, punk rock, 12-strings, the benefits of boosterism, the perils of nostalgia, and much more. Then I close it with some selections from obits written by pals.

Some referenced/relevant links:

* “Brian Wilson Was an Exemplary American,” Brian Doherty, Reason

* “A Salute to Brian Wilson,” Darian Sahanaja, Variety

* Clip from “God Only Knows What’s Happening,” Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em:

* Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of ‘SMiLE’

* Trailer, Love & Mercy

* “Happy Father's Day Weekend From #DavesCarIDService, With a Confession,” Dave “Iowahawk” Burge

* “Brian Wilson Was a Foundational Influence on Modern Music,” Steven Hyden, Uproxx

* “A Beautiful Mind,” Jeffrey Blehar, National Review

* The Beach Boys, Part 1 and Part 2, Political Beats

* My Beach Boys Spotify playlists of 20 songs each from their three main eras: Cars, Waves, Girls (’63-65), Peak Vibrations (’65-66), and Too Close to the Sun (’67-73)

* Trailer, Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times

* Instrumental Hits, The Beach Boys

* “The Beach Boys' SMiLE: Even Better than Advertised,” Henry Rollins, LA Weekly

* Trailer, Backbeat

* “Wishing You Were Here,” Chicago and the Beach Boys

* “Watching Dave Hansen,” Matt Welch, The Baseball Analysts

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