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“Psychedelic music will cover the face of the world and color the whole popular music scene. Anybody happening is psychedelic.”
-Brian Wilson (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
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“I think there will be more and more adventures into spiritual music-chants, choral prayers, hymns and all that. But it’s difficult to predict.”
-Brian Wilson (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
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“I used to have to work at writing and producing. While we were on the road, I’d sit down and say I’ve got to write a song. Just got to. But that’s over. Now I just wait for the ‘feels’. The strange thing is that they come more often, they get better and all of a sudden complexity has become a pleasant exercise.”
-Brian Wilson (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
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“This LP will include ‘Good Vibrations’ and ‘Heroes and Villains’ and ten other tracks. I’ve written them all in collaboration with Van Dyke Parks, who’s been a studio organist in Los Angeles for ages-he also records on his own.”
-Brian Wilson (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
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“It makes Pet Sounds stink—that’s how good it is”
– Dennis Wilson (“The Beach Boys & The Southern California Myth” by David Leaf. 1979) |
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“The album will include lots of humour-some musical and some spoken. It won’t be like a comedy LP-there won’t be any spoken tracks as such-but someone might say something in between verses.”
-Brian Wilson (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
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“1967 should bring a series of surprises for everyone from the Beach Boys.”
-Brian Wilson (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
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“Spiritual…I think pop music is going to be spiritual. White spirituals, I think that’s what we’re going to hear. Songs of faith. Anyhow, that’s the direction I want to go. I’m very religious. Not in the sense of churches, going to church; but like the essence of all religion. Yeah, the essence of all religion.”
-Brian Wilson (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
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“I got to the piano and play ‘feels’. ‘Feels’ are specific rhythm patterns, fragments of ideas. Once they’re out of my head and into the open air, I can see them and touch them firmly. They’re not ‘feels’ any more.”
-Brian Wilson (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
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“I’m writing a teen-age symphony to God”.
-Brian Wilson (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
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“You know we’re not going to release ‘Heroes And Villains?’ It’s all finished and ready, but we’re not putting it out. In a way, we feel that we’ve released the title-and that’s good enough for the moment.”
-Dennis Wilson (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
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“So that’s what I’m doing. Spiritual music.”
-Brian Wilson (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
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“About a year ago I had what I consider a very religious experience. I took LSD, a full dose of LSD, and later, another time, I took a smaller dose. And I learned a lot of things, like patience, understanding. I can’t teach you, or tell you, what I learned from taking it. But I consider it a very religious experience.”
-Brian Wilson (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
ABOUT H&V:
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“I was completely satisfied with the record two months ago. I haven’t done anything about it after that time. I see it like this: every Beach Boy record has it’s own story, not only musically, but also the lyrics. This story has to be told in 3 or 4 minutes, it’s just like a book. The persons come alive, they speak, and have their wants. That’s why we need so much time for every record.”
-Brian Wilson (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
ON H&V:
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“A new improvement of Brian’s capacities in this job. Once again, he knows exactly what we can and what we can’t. There’s a lot of things happening on the record, just like on ‘Good Vibrations’. We sing in 3 different ways: barbershop, quartet, and opera choir. It’s really fantastic. The flip side is incredible. The title is ‘You’re Welcome’. No other lyrics. I don’t know how Brian did it, but there’s no accompaniment.”
-Mike Love (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
ABOUT THE ALBUM:
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“We are finishing it now. We knew the title and the songs months ago already. Only Brian played the tapes again a few times and found it necessary to skip some songs. That’s what happened. Capitol finished the sleeve in April already. I don’t know how many sleeves they can throw out now, just because the lineup of songs and some songs have changed completely.”
-Mike Love (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
WHY THE SINGLE WAS DITCHED?:
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“Oh, we got a little frightened. We’ve got a lot of songs recorded, but we got nervous about whether they were good enough.”
-Dennis Wilson (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
ON THE NEW ALBUM:
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“Yeah, ‘Smile.’ It’s going to be great. We’re 50% done with it.”
-Dennis Wilson (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |
HEROES AND VILLAINS:
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“a three-minute musical comedy. I’m using some new production techniques that I think will surprise everyone. I can’t actually describe the effect-you have to hear it.”
-Brian Wilson (“Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile” Domenic Priore, editor. 1988) |