Brian Wilson & TRP smoking dope?

[pynchonoid]

Saturday August 19, 2006
The Guardian

Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the
Beach Boys' Brian Wilson by Peter Ames Carlin (Rodale,
£18.99)

Brian Wilson was the man whose way with vocal
arrangements and avant-garde orchestration forced the
Beatles into new artistic pastures in an effort to
keep up. Carlin describes brilliantly the
claustrophobic sonic psychodrama that followed, as
Wilson locked himself away in the studio working on
Smile, his "teenage symphony to God", only to be met
with blank incomprehension from the rest of the band,
who thought they should stick to happy surf music.
There followed decades of insincere music, drugs and
drink, and then near-slavery at the hands of a
psychologist who kept the musician on a
life-threatening cocktail of psychotropics, before
Wilson finally broke free, returned to touring and
finished the most legendary unreleased album in pop
history. Carlin has interviewed Wilson himself as well
as other surviving band-members and collaborators, and
the result is a compelling tale of fragility, leavened
by the conditionally upbeat ending and the odd amusing
tableau, as when Wilson sat in a tent smoking dope
with Thomas Pynchon, each man too nervous to talk to
the other. You will want to put on Pet Sounds out of
respect.

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