Brian Wilson Questions

I have never felt anything from a single song on this album. Love and Mercy is therapeutic drivel. One for the Boys is vapor. The best parts of Rio Grande are from 1980 while the rest is Smile-in-a-box. Even the deluxe version of this kind of sucks.

And he looks more like Ryan O'Neal than Brian Wilson on the cover.

It's a little known fact that O'Neal and Wilson both got tired of their lifestyles so they simply switched places.

Here's rare footage of Brian discovering that his psychologist is exploiting him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5k_arVcqR8

I just watched Long Promised Road, discussed above, and the oddest thing about it are the... pauses. Brian is less than expansive in his answers to the questions he's asked, and these kind of silences are so rare in modern documentaries that it gave me an odd floating-out-of-time feeling. At one point in the middle I wondered, "Am I watching a movie, or is this my life now: a disembodied presence driving around waiting for Brian Wilson to speak?"

Brian Wilson has dementia

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/beach-boys-brian-wilson-suffering-004837002.html

I didn’t know his wife passed away last month, that’s sad.

Honestly, the below could describe me on any given day… but it sounds like he’s not doing well. Hope he’s well taken care of, at least. Hang in there, Brian

"He is easily distracted, often even when aware of surroundings, and its purpose. Often makes spontaneous irrelevant or incoherent utterances. Has very short attention span and while unintentionally disruptive, is frequently unable to maintain decorum appropriate to the situation."

so sad for him & his family. tough times

https://i.postimg.cc/nVvkM67y/Screenshot-20240216-065921.jpg

I was about to say, hasn't he been like that for years?

https://i.postimg.cc/44qtJk3s/1c8d685e-65bb-46bb-afb7-5d65cb9bebb6.jpg

Infinite love and thanks to Brian.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/arts/music/brian-wilson-conservatorship-dementia.html

“Mrs. Wilson attended to Mr. Wilson’s daily living needs,” the document said, “as Mr. Wilson is unable to properly provide for his own personal needs for physical health, food, clothing, or shelter.”

PG’s (excellent) review upthread of Long Promised Road says this about Brian’s mental state which I agree is likely not far from the current status quo requiring conservatorship:

As an intertitle briefly states, he has experienced auditory hallucinations since his early twenties – hearing violent and abusive voices – and in later life has been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. He seems to move through life on a precipice of panic and terror.

Bob Mehr thinks Bob Stinson also had schizoaffective disorder.

But Linda Perry, Nick Jonas and the Foo Fighters’ drummer add little insight