on June 12, 2025, 2:38 pm
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/brian-wilson-beach-boys-dead-1234810073/
You hear one note of a Brian Wilson work and you think Beach Boys and California. This titanic force in music didn't succumb to the British Invasion. He taught the Beatles how to extricate themselves from the three chord, twelve bar blues quagmire of rock and roll.
A bag of sea shells as a percussion instrument?
A theremin as the sixth voice of the band? Before him, the theremin was used in sci fi film scores, which made this Russian thing highly Californian too.
You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony
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