Posted on 03/23/2011 10:05:24 AM PDT by NYer
Will be praying for him. I hate that anyone has to suffer; I hate even more when children suffer.
He’s come a long way. Don’t know if you’ve seen this. I admit there’s some image building going on here. I’m a rough, tough old man. I teared up watching this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PISkFEzC5XE
Thank you for posting. It’s almost impossible to believe he is the last one standing in his family!
When I sat very close to him at this L.A. restaurant about 6 years ago, there was a piano player in the bar area. Brian got up out of his seat and politely listened to the music. He obviously wanted to be able to sit down and play but the pianist did not recognize him and so completely ignored him! Eventually, Brian went back to his chair and I went back to eavesdropping shamelessly on the conversations!
I’m not certain what happened to Dennis. I mean, it had to be tough growing up in Murry’s house. I don’t mean the man needed a little help. I believe the guy was just purely insane. But Dennis. I know the writers say that he was diving for stuff. But I think he was either too physically bankrupt to be doing that, or else he just gave up. And I have to admire Carl’s loyalty. Thanks for the little story about Brian. Makes me a little sad and melancholy.
Don’t be sad. I can tell you for sure that Brian was a very happy man that night. He was with his wife and his two young children (adopted, I think). He entertained them during dinner by telling them the plot of the Danny Kaye Walter Mitty movie! He seemed very gentle and nice.
I’m not that big of fan of Dennis - the crazy Manson connection and all that. I assume he drowned while loaded with booze and drugs. Didn’t the father sell the Beach Boys songbook for something like $70,000? What a maroon!
Shouldn’t they be called now the Love Boys?
He was a true nut case.
Johnston , while not an “ original “ Beach Boy, joined in early 1965 . He’s been part of the BB family for 45 years . That qualifies him as a BB in my opinion .
Did you order your tickets? ;-)
I don't know if there's any way I can make it, the past few months have been incredibly busy and are probably going to get busier.
I'm pretty sure that Lesforlife went last year and had a great time.
Dennis died a long, long time ago. He fell in the water by the boat in the Marina and never surfaced:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Wilson
I did go and it was terrific!! I’m not even a Country fan but Randy Travis
was great. I plan to try to squeeze it in this year as well.
Terri’s Foundation is needed more now than ever!
www.terrisfight.org
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