Brian Wilson
Brian was the other guitarist in our little basement band trio, COW (see also Robert Orsino: www.flickr.com/photos/48593922@N04/6403960115). we played & went to the same schools together from kindergarden on until i bailed & it was he who wrote the few original songs we played, the only one of which i can remember being Ellie Blue Yannie {sp?}(who "sat upon her fanny with fatso — skinnybones!"), a sort of a bluegrassy shuffle in C7 & G9aug. in the corner, Tony Kay was – with his twin Steve – in the next casual assemblage of people i played music with regularly, though they tended to stay relentlessly folk-oriented & acoustic. i liked the move to acoustic but still wanted to play electric-sourced material – though i'd dropped rock'n'roll for the more ambiguous & ambitious music of the Mahavishnu Orchestra & Frank Zappa – which only began to happen finally when i began busking in Vancouver in '77 with Banjo Dan, mixing in a lot of standard bluegrass repertoire tweaked to our amusement.
Brian Wilson
Brian was the other guitarist in our little basement band trio, COW (see also Robert Orsino: www.flickr.com/photos/48593922@N04/6403960115). we played & went to the same schools together from kindergarden on until i bailed & it was he who wrote the few original songs we played, the only one of which i can remember being Ellie Blue Yannie {sp?}(who "sat upon her fanny with fatso — skinnybones!"), a sort of a bluegrassy shuffle in C7 & G9aug. in the corner, Tony Kay was – with his twin Steve – in the next casual assemblage of people i played music with regularly, though they tended to stay relentlessly folk-oriented & acoustic. i liked the move to acoustic but still wanted to play electric-sourced material – though i'd dropped rock'n'roll for the more ambiguous & ambitious music of the Mahavishnu Orchestra & Frank Zappa – which only began to happen finally when i began busking in Vancouver in '77 with Banjo Dan, mixing in a lot of standard bluegrass repertoire tweaked to our amusement.