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Beach Boys Mastermind [Brian Wilson] Placed Under Conservatorship in Old Age
Epoch Times ^ | 2/21/23 | Juliette Fairly

Posted on 02/21/2024 1:25:00 PM PST by Duke C.

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1 posted on 02/21/2024 1:25:00 PM PST by Duke C.
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To: Duke C.

The Beach Boys were making music in th 1950s.


2 posted on 02/21/2024 1:29:29 PM PST by Fai Mao (Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: Duke C.
Probably never considered this..."When I grow up to be a man".
3 posted on 02/21/2024 1:30:03 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Duke C.

He’s needed a guardian most of his life.

He’s had some serious mental breakdowns.


4 posted on 02/21/2024 1:30:09 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Duke C.

Sad


5 posted on 02/21/2024 1:31:51 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: TheThirdRuffian

He was an Acid casualty by all accounts. They dosed him up bigtime.


6 posted on 02/21/2024 1:32:27 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: Duke C.

I was over at his house 6 months ago, I haven’t been able to understand what he says for a few years now, he has been going downhill for quite a while now. pretty sad.


7 posted on 02/21/2024 1:34:50 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: Duke C.

The Beach Boys are still touring.

I’ve seen them in the 70’s, and again a half dozen years ago with Wilson at the Piano.

Probably time to hang it up :)


8 posted on 02/21/2024 1:35:23 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Duke C.

"Brian, we have a citation here for you sir under Section 936A of the California Catch a Wave Statute. Brian, you’re in violation of Paragraph 12: failing to surf, neglecting to use a state beach for surfing purposes, and otherwise avoiding surfboards, surfing and surf."

9 posted on 02/21/2024 1:37:09 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Duke C.

Brian has had mental-health issues for decades, and his drug use in ‘60s and ‘70s likely exacerbated that, combined with all the legal meds that his looney-toon psychotherapist Gene Landy pumped into him in the ‘80s.

And yet no one can deny, that despite all his issues, the man was (and probably on some level still is) an incredible genius of musical composition, production and arrangement. Truly in his own category of talent. In the documentary on the “Wrecking Crew” musicians, the late Leon Russell, no slouch himself as a musician, states flat out that Brian was the greatest genius that he ever worked with.


10 posted on 02/21/2024 1:37:37 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Duke C.

Brian Wilson - Barenaked Ladies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch84fmOa414


11 posted on 02/21/2024 1:39:49 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Freedom4US

Acid has no correlation to causing dementia.

In fact, they are now using acid to TREAT dementia.


12 posted on 02/21/2024 1:41:05 PM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: irishjuggler

We watched that movie/doc on the Wrecking Crew—amazing. That fat bass line in Wichita Lineman has no rival..


13 posted on 02/21/2024 1:45:03 PM PST by abigkahuna (Honk Honk. It’s Clown World Out There. )
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To: Fai Mao

Yeah, they were a big part of my early childhood pre-Beatles.

Brian Wilson had a great quote about the Beatles when they exploded in late 63-early 64.

“Suddenly, four guys from England were so right, and everyone else was so wrong.”


14 posted on 02/21/2024 1:45:11 PM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Eccl 10:2

Far out, man.


15 posted on 02/21/2024 1:46:07 PM PST by gathersnomoss (Clown World)
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To: abigkahuna
Glen Campbell borrowed the 6-string bass from his fellow Wrecking Crew member, Carol Kaye, to play the break lead.
16 posted on 02/21/2024 1:48:58 PM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: irishjuggler

Surf rock is my favorite genre of music even though it was a little before my time. I frequently listen to surf instrumentals including work done recently by newcomers.


17 posted on 02/21/2024 1:49:16 PM PST by MachIV
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To: Duke C.

Brian Wilson in action with the Beach Boys, recording “I Can Hear Music”, with Kathy Troccoli singing the lead. Timeless, and there’s no question this is Brian’s band:

https://youtu.be/pXjvnunC0Cs?si=rzpJvDgVnGj76SdK


18 posted on 02/21/2024 1:50:38 PM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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An aside ... When Brian has a breakdown on the road in ‘64, they called in Glen Campbell to fill in for him. At least, that’s what I saw on TV yesterday. So it must be true.


19 posted on 02/21/2024 1:59:37 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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To: irishjuggler

Your comment makes me wonder if the term savant can be applied to him. Maybe a high functioning one but still someone with mental health issues but yet had a natural brilliance in, in his case, music that was a step above other musicians.


20 posted on 02/21/2024 2:02:45 PM PST by uptowngirl
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