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
A sad day...Sly Stone, too!
Posted by greenman on June 12, 2025, 4:02 pm, in reply to "Brian Wilson dead" Valued Poster
He was another prodigy, playing multiple instruments at a young age, merging jazz, funk and rock, playing with an integrated band when that was a new thing. He had problems in his life, but also had a vision..
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Yes, sad day because both are now gone. RIP guys! Make some music together if