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From the very beginning, the Beach Boys had a sound that was
unmistakably their own, but without resident genius Brian Wilson pushing
them into deeper waters with his songwriting and production talents,
songs like “Surfin’ Safariö and “Surfin’ U.S.A.ö might have been their
greatest legacy. While the rest of the band toured during their mid-60s
heyday, Wilson lost himself in the recording studio, creating the music
for an album—Pet Sounds—that is widely regarded as one of the all-time
best, and a single—öGood Vibrationsö—on which he lavished more time,
attention and money than had ever been spent previously on a single
recording. Brian Wilson rolled tape on take one of “Good Vibrationsö on
February 17, 1966. Six months, four studios and $50,000 later, he
finally completed his three-minute-and-thirty-nine-second symphony,
pieced together from more than 90 hours of tape recorded during
literally hundreds of sessions.
Brian Wilson began “Good Vibrationsö that February night in 1966 with
the intention of including it on Pet Sounds. Harmonica player Tommy
Morgan recalled how those sessions would work: “You’d sit with a music
stand with a blank piece of paper, waiting for Brian to give you your
notes. He knew exactly what he wanted. He had every note in his head.ö
The problem was that Wilson had an awful lot of those notes in his
head—notes for different keyboards, different strings, different
percussion instruments and, most famously, notes for the most
“differentö instrument ever to appear on a pop record: the otherworldly
electric theremin, an early electronic instrument previously heard only
in movies like It Came From Outer Space. Emulating and ultimately
outdoing his idol Phil Spector, Brian was building “Good Vibrationsö
into a massive wall of sound, and the further he went with it, the more
it became clear that his vision for the record was too great to rush.
Pet Sounds was released without “Good Vibrations,ö which Wilson returned
to in earnest several months after his initial sessions.
When the rest of his fellow Beach Boys finally heard the track that
Brian Wilson had been working on in seclusion for more than half a year,
they were extremely enthusiastic, and “Good Vibrationsö went on to
become their third #1 hit single. It also turned out to be the last
Beach Boys recording that Brian Wilson would fully participate in for
years to come, as drugs, depression and mental illness derailed his
career in the late-1960s.
73 de Scott KF5JRV
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