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Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson - Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE Premiere - Royal Festival Hall - London 2004
The Story of "Smile:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=13pw5v4pRco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H0Orfkaqf4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbsbvOoyutM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTifX3mpnV4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpM2lE1EJ4g
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiykTknz51U
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVvLEdK1s4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXTqsNzevuk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tl76KA_DOw
Van Dyke Parks: “I knew [The Beach Boys] didn’t surf.…I felt some resentment about [them], and I had been a fan of Four Freshmen and 5 Trombones.…Instinctively, I was not a Beach Boy fan. ‘Something really dumb about it.’” He added that, “I loved Pet Sounds, you see. I came back to love them, and thought they had done a great job. It seemed to me that they would be fine in fighting spirit to take on this challenge of wresting that trophy out of the hands of those interlopers [The Beatles].”
Parks has gone on to call Brian Wilson “the biggest event of that era,” and adds, “He was the force. Real convincing. He made music that could be enjoyed beyond its time. Phil Spector meant nothing to me—I thought his sound was just smoke and mirrors. People who said Pet Sounds was bastardizing classical music led very sheltered childhoods. That’s a bunch of bullshit. Brian Wilson was not imitative, he was inventive; for people who don’t write songs, it’s hard to understand how inventive he really was.”
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Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson - Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE Premiere - Royal Festival Hall - London 2004
The Story of "Smile:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=13pw5v4pRco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H0Orfkaqf4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbsbvOoyutM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTifX3mpnV4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpM2lE1EJ4g
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiykTknz51U
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVvLEdK1s4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXTqsNzevuk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tl76KA_DOw
Van Dyke Parks: “I knew [The Beach Boys] didn’t surf.…I felt some resentment about [them], and I had been a fan of Four Freshmen and 5 Trombones.…Instinctively, I was not a Beach Boy fan. ‘Something really dumb about it.’” He added that, “I loved Pet Sounds, you see. I came back to love them, and thought they had done a great job. It seemed to me that they would be fine in fighting spirit to take on this challenge of wresting that trophy out of the hands of those interlopers [The Beatles].”
Parks has gone on to call Brian Wilson “the biggest event of that era,” and adds, “He was the force. Real convincing. He made music that could be enjoyed beyond its time. Phil Spector meant nothing to me—I thought his sound was just smoke and mirrors. People who said Pet Sounds was bastardizing classical music led very sheltered childhoods. That’s a bunch of bullshit. Brian Wilson was not imitative, he was inventive; for people who don’t write songs, it’s hard to understand how inventive he really was.”
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