Brian Wilson has passed

[David Houck]

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/brian-wilson-beach-boys-dead-1234810073/

[Quasar1]

Wow Dave 

Very sad

No one lives forever, but, man we are getting hit hard lately 😪 💔

[keith_h]

Not more sad news. More and more folks from my younger years as we are reminded that time keeps creeping up behind us.
 
A bit of trivia. Brian lived pretty close where my wife's folks live in St. Charles for several years.

[lbpesq]

A true musical genius of a level equaled by few. 

May the Four Winds Blow You Safely Home.

Bill, tgo

[David Houck]

In My Room (Remastered)

[cozmik_cowboy]

As I heard (or maybe read) Bill refer to him, the Bach of Rock.

While maybe not so much a lyricist, an unparalleled composer & arranger.  But perhaps his greatest impact was as a producer.  Over the course of about one year, 3 albums came out that, together, redefined the studio from merely a place to capture music into an instrument in its own right; Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Anthem Of The Sun, and - of course - Pet Sounds.


The first was the pinnacle of the amazing partnership between the erstwhile Mersey Moptops & Sir George Martin, the second the group-mind explosion of 7 of our favorites madmen - but the third was 100% Brian Wilson!


We shall never see his like again.  And now his watch has ended.


Peter

[StephenR]

Sad news. I was a big Beach Boys fan in the 60s. Brian's bass lines and Chris Hillman's work with the Byrds were my inspiration to start playing bass in 1965.

Not much I can add about how important a musical force and visionary Brian was and how great a loss this is. Interesting aside, my father was a big fan of the Four Freshman so I grew up listening to their music, that probably ensured that I would like The Beach Boys when I finally heard them, the vocal harmonies were obviously inspired by the Four Freshman.

[DistillaMatto]

Sly and Brian in one week. Too much. I miss the days when I wouldn't know until it was published in the newspapers or over the radio. I'm getting sick of "Liking" posts on instagram for these things "I don't like" just to aknowledge their passing. Brian Wilson did soo much for creative recording and an important part of the background music of my childhood.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Something that hit me last night; I think we have to count among his amazing accomplishments managing to live 82 years as Brian Wilson. No mean feat right there.

Peter

[bigredbass]

That he was gifted beyond reason goes without saying, and lived an unfortunately tortured life in his middle years (ANOTHER one . . . . . . ).

The two things that stand him apart for me from just about anyone else that stick out:

1) In THE WRECKING CREW, IIRC, maybe I saw it somewhere else, here's all these hard professional session players that had seen and heard almost everything and were rarely impressed by much, was Hal Blaine and Carol Kaye talking about how 'this kid' had come up with all these amazing songs and arrangements, and they were all in as they rarely were on most of the dates they got called for, it was that good.

2) Paul McCartney said they were caught flat-footed and knocked off their game by how amazingly good PET SOUNDS was, and realized they had better get back in the game right now. The result? SGT. PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND.

IF just these two things don't qualify BW as an almost unearthly talent, I don't know what does.

We will not see his like again.

[pauldo]

Yep, legendary.