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Post by AGD on Jun 13, 2023 0:31:21 GMT -5
I read the Wilson Project about 10 years ago, and its contents made my stomach turn. Landy was evil. And Alexandra was complicit. I did some digging a while back, and several of the doctors involved with Landy in Brian's 1983 rehab operated on the "edge" of the profession (i.e.: quackery). One of them (Murray Susser) gave up his license years after this time period. If you can track down Alexandra's Facebook page, you'll see she's still "friends" with most of these characters. I'm still amazed that people's takeaway from the Wilson Project is that Landy is evil when Usher was neutral at worst on Landy. Usher is just as hard -- if not harder -- on the Beach Boys' management. The takeaways I got from The Wilson Project were that Gary truly cared for Brian on a personal level, but that he was also astonishingly, frustratingly naive in his dealings with, oh pretty much everyone else during that period.
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Post by Chuck's rewind on Jun 13, 2023 13:26:47 GMT -5
I'm still amazed that people's takeaway from the Wilson Project is that Landy is evil when Usher was neutral at worst on Landy. Usher is just as hard -- if not harder -- on the Beach Boys' management. The takeaways I got from The Wilson Project were that Gary truly cared for Brian on a personal level, but that he was also astonishingly, frustratingly naive in his dealings with, oh pretty much everyone else during that period. Weren’t we all during this period? I should of smacked EE Landy down in Greenford in 1988, no one did because Brian looked better, and slimmer than most of the over 35’s in the visitation parish centre. He was in his mid 40’s.
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Post by ironhorseapples on Jun 14, 2023 4:55:11 GMT -5
The takeaways I got from The Wilson Project were that Gary truly cared for Brian on a personal level, but that he was also astonishingly, frustratingly naive in his dealings with, oh pretty much everyone else during that period. Weren’t we all during this period? I should of smacked EE Landy down in Greenford in 1988, no one did because Brian looked better, and slimmer than most of the over 35’s in the visitation parish centre. He was in his mid 40’s. I believed the Landy propaganda, and swallowed the anti-Beach Boys narrative presented in the '91 'autobiography hook, line and sinker. It took a concerted effort on my part to deradicalise myself.
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