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Post by ironhorseapples on Mar 12, 2024 4:27:56 GMT -5
"It’s groovy on the road with them. They never hassle. It’s a gas and I just dig them.”
Did Bruce EAT Brian's copy of 'How to Speak Hip'?
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Post by ian on Mar 12, 2024 15:50:10 GMT -5
By the way just found a photograph that proves Brian also played the show on San Jose on Feb 26, 1965. One has to assume that Glen's outside commitments made it hard for him to fill in at all the Beach Boys appearances or Brian just chose to play a show that did not require him to travel far.
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Post by Mikie on Mar 12, 2024 18:38:26 GMT -5
I was going to start another thread on this, but this thread is as good as any to ask the question:
I read right here in this forum a few weeks ago......and I guess it's probably someone's opinion or maybe it's been brought up in some book or article before? I think it was Gaines who said in his book that at the airport in L.A., Brian saw Mike making eyes at Marilyn and that stressed Brian out and started the ball rolling to the breakdown. And then when he got home, he and Audree went to the old house in Hawthorne and he unloaded there about the past.
Question: Did Brian really have a breakdown or did he fake it to get out of touring?
Ian: "Glen Campbell was still playing bass for the group and told a reporter, who inquired about the Beach Boys’ leaders whereabouts, that Brian was home suffering from fatigue because “Brian writes and arranges all our songs and in addition, he manages recording sessions, acts as a public relations man and works 15 or 16 hours a day. Add to this public appearances and one show stands and it’s no wonder he became sick.”
So there's Glen's take, and we know what Al and Carl and Dennis have said in the past about the incident. Al was right there with Brian on the plane. Dennis supposedly threw an ashtray when Brian told the group that he wouldn't tour with them any longer.
Is there any evidence to support the fact that Brian was a damn good actor during that late '64/early 1965 period? He did continue to work on the Today album in early January '65 and did show up to various concert venues in early '65. Assuming that the breakdown was real, and I think it was, he didn't need to fake it to get his point across that he wanted to stay home and make records. But why would someone think it wasn't real; that Brian was just acting?
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Post by west on Mar 13, 2024 1:44:52 GMT -5
I'm going out on a limb and say that the other Beach Boys didn't want to 'air their dirty laundry', so to speak, when talking to these newspaper columnists and show reviewers. I would assume that they wanted to paint a rosey picture for their fans, and that's why they used words like 'fatigued' when questioned about Brian, their own brother or cousin. Telling a reporter in Seattle or Tulsa that Brian was exhausted from 'arranging and producing' and needed a break was better P.R. than flat-out saying 'Brian had a mental episode on an airplane, crying into his pillow and suffered a nervous breakdown...' They may not have wanted their fans wondering if Brian had lost his mind, or thinking he's a lunatic, or whatever else an uninformed teenager might've thought. They may not have wanted Brian to have that sort of attention.
But then fast forward a few months and Brian gives his interview with Earl Leaf where he goes into great detail describing his episode on the plane, so there goes my argument haha.
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