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Post by AGD on Dec 28, 2022 5:07:30 GMT -5
Forever 39.
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Post by SMiLE Holland on Dec 28, 2022 7:50:24 GMT -5
.... yeah.... for 39 years now...  |
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Post by gerry on Dec 28, 2022 13:11:03 GMT -5
Boy I remember this so well when it happened, but you could see it coming
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Post by longtime lurker on Dec 28, 2022 13:11:18 GMT -5
If only somebody (or SEVERAL somebodies at once) could have done a real intervention with dennis circa 1980. I'm sure there probably WERE at least attempts at intervention. What a damn tragedy.☹️. At least, as I'm sure many people have said, Dennis absolutely lived life to the hilt and must have experienced the kind of highs few of us can ever comprehend. Really sucks how much the whole sordid Manson saga affected his life, though. He never was able to put that whole experience very far behind him. Fortunately, we have a large quantity of often-brilliant music that Dennis was able to produce (even though the group wouldn't let him go out on a solo tour), and that will be his lasting legacy to us. The personification and embodiment, albeit deeply flawed & scarred, of the "California Dream". The BBs never ever would've been as great as they were without Dennis. |
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Post by jk on Jan 4, 2023 15:42:39 GMT -5
Today, 39 years ago, the U.S. Coast Guard buried Dennis's body at sea. I hope he is at peace now.
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Post by hankbriarstem on Jan 4, 2023 17:25:17 GMT -5
Far too simple to say Brian was the band's brain, Carl its heart, Dennis its soul, Mike its voice and Alan its fiber, but that is angling toward an accurate summation. Dennis Wilson was as vital to the Beach Boys as any member of a band that includes Brian Wilson could be. His strengths were strengths of the band as were his weaknesses.
And we fans loved him and cherish his memory, as is proper.
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Post by Mark on Jan 5, 2023 12:22:29 GMT -5
If only somebody (or SEVERAL somebodies at once) could have done a real intervention with dennis circa 1980. I'm sure there probably WERE at least attempts at intervention. What a damn tragedy.☹️. At least, as I'm sure many people have said, Dennis absolutely lived life to the hilt and must have experienced the kind of highs few of us can ever comprehend. Really sucks how much the whole sordid Manson saga affected his life, though. He never was able to put that whole experience very far behind him. Fortunately, we have a large quantity of often-brilliant music that Dennis was able to produce (even though the group wouldn't let him go out on a solo tour), and that will be his lasting legacy to us. The personification and embodiment, albeit deeply flawed & scarred, of the "California Dream". The BBs never ever would've been as great as they were without Dennis. It is sad to think ‘could more have been done?’ It must be the thought of anyone who’s lost a love one to addiction, mental health etc. Especially when Brian was in such a bad way a couple of times and was pulled from the brink, but the methods of how that was done is a whole other story. I read online that Dennis was ‘threatened with Landy’ at one point. Maybe with Dennis it was the old adage ‘you can take a horse to water but you can’t make it drink’. I would imagine Dennis was less pliable and compliant than Brian for various reasons. But yeah, considering how comfortable an environment all the band members should have been living in at this time, it’s a tragedy the situation and conditions that Dennis was in in the time before he passed. Was listening to the 2CD POB release at work today which brought me here. RIP Dennis |
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