Brian Wilson / Rare 1977 Interview

[@jointhehumanrace4039]

This is probably the best Brian interview ever.

[@pepelomelicervera575]

1968 it’s pretty awesome, haven’t finished this one tho Edit: I agree with you haha, interviewer is great and Brian is feeling great and talkable

[@nolanrobertson1471]

No kidding! He's so lucid, and the interview is excellent and respectful.

[@debussy10]

Compare this to his 67 telephone interview promoting Pet Sounds- he sounds and thinks in exactly the same way- and this has got to be either late 76 or early 77 since he mentions "15 Big Ones" as being released and "Still I dream of it" as being written but not recorded, but which he would record in 77 for "Adult Child". This is an amazing find, and possibly the last time we would hear such a lucid and natural, full of life Brian.

[@Paul-dw2cl]

I love how the Wilson Brothers talk. Brian, Dennis & Carl all have similar ways of talking.

[@Beatz0-dn9pj]

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[@randibass7558]

This is a very interesting interview. He sounds so natural and appealing, full of life.

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Before Landy broke him for good.

[@allesanbro]

One of the best 70s Brian interviews I've ever heard. Thanks so much for posting!

[@annabellesutter6495]

Check out the Carl Wilson interview on channel RockinRolla!

[@rodneyevans7279]

Brian sounding remarkably lucid and with it, even more so given the year it was recorded. I love you Brain!

[@AnalogLanguage]

Feel like drugs definitely messed with Brian but I think the misdiagnosis and the medication that followed truly did him in very bad maybe even more so than the cocain, weed, alcohol, and lsd.

[@Dr170]

He sounds a lot like Carl.

[@daveidmarx8296]

​@@AnalogLanguageThis interview was after the drugs he took, but before Landy really got his hooks in him. Whatever Landy did, he turned him into a zombie.

[@subg8858]

Pretty sure this interview is about five minutes after the drugs he took🤣

[@Shikta-poobah67]

@@AnalogLanguageYeah if I’m not mistaken, this interview took place during that brief little period just after his first go round with Landy (or just after Landy was fired), but before Brian slipped back into the really heavy drinking and drugging of the late 70’s and early 80’s. Just going on what I listened to in this interview, I’d say he was probably already dabbling with the coke, but hadn’t yet gone full bore with it. A bit amped, but still lucid and together.

[@robertellis464]

Brian,s Musical Knowledge is Amazing And his Enthusiasm for Making Great Records Legendary A True Genius!!

[@marymagdalene3004]

Along with all the musical talent, he is simply a very intelligent man!!! What he did musically took more than just musical talent, it took know-how, moxie and real intelligence, so let's get that established.

[@MarkWithASilentQ]

how can you not get excited about music listening to brian wilson in this interview?

[@PatrickEPM]

This is a very informative interview. Love Brian's spirit and positive philosophy. "As soon as you get the notion that when you touch something it turns to gold, usually it does."

[@mdewalt7990]

So coherent here in this interview. A shame what Landy did to him with his second round of drugs!

[@Tunz909]

Well....considering what Brian was like and how he looked at 350 lbs. .....Landy took him to Hawaii for six months..and he lost weight/quit drugs/smoking/....and looked great!!...then I think Brian relapsed.......but around 1997-2000..he was still very coherent, athletic shape...but unfortunately he has put the wight back on, and sounds troubled, at least in the "Long Promised Road" film just released....

[@DenkyManner]

Age is also a factor. He's only 34/35 here. I don't deny Landy messed him up but there are interviews with him after all that in the late 90s where he talks more freely and openly. I get the feel that his one word answers are mainly because he's talked enough and doesn't feel like discussing things any more. And he's still on a lot of medication for depression, anxiety and sleep.

[@jmariegold3977]

@@Tunz909 .

[@daveidmarx8296]

​@@DenkyMannerAge has nothing to do with it. Even by 1984, Brian was a shell of his former self. Watch the group's appearance on the Tonight Show, when Joan Rivers hosted. Brian couldn't follow the conversation at all and would blurt things out that were completely unrelated to the topic. Very sad.

[@darthjesus420]

@@daveidmarx8296he literally mentioned DURING the interview that he was starving himself to lose the weight… no shit he couldn’t think straight.

[@sjh9173]

Brian's voice and cognition sound great. Very lucid. Good vocabulary. His voice doesn't sound gruff. A 1982 interview done only a few years later begins to show effects of early antipsychotic drugs. Were definitely not used to hear him sounding like this. I'm almost thinking he's possibly coked up here. The 1975 Mike Douglas interview shows some similarities in his mental cognition.

[@MarcelaR-dh1ok]

Brian speaks of his love for the ballad, the torch song, and he's certainly written some of the greatest. From the first song he takes credit for writing, Surfer Girl to ...I Guess I Just Wasn't Made for These Times so many of his greatest songs are pathos laden. The Ballad of Betsy, In My Room, Don't Worry Baby, All Summer Long, The Warmth of The Sun, The Lonely Sea, Summer Means New Love, Please Let Me Wonder, Kiss Me Baby...goes on and on. Thanks, Brian

[@C_H_1972]

After that quack got to him, he was never the same. This is a great interview. He’s quick witted and sharp here. Thanks for posting!

[@daveidmarx8296]

Landy really fucked Brian up for good.

[@tombjornebark]

Adjusted speed to 0.9 perfect, thanks for the interview

[@maxshenkwrites]

That's what I was thinking; it sounds a little pitchy.

[@arickeith3743]

He does sound great here, and so lucid and clever. However, upon repeat listening, I am now thinking it may be *slightly* sped up, which would account for Brian's unusually high speaking voice. I'd like to put this audio into a sequencer and drop the pitch very slightly and see if it sounds natural.

[@Sniper257]

0.75x isn't half bad

[@Treguard]

Definitely slightly sped up. Listening back slowed down to around 95% sounds more like Brian's usual 70s voice, but still a lot less gruff than it often was around that time.

[@waynesilverman3048]

A cool dude he sounds

[@vincevirtua]

@@Treguard you can slow it to 75% speed on KZbin, and weirdly still doesn't sound like his 70's speaking voice imo.

[@Treguard]

@@vincevirtuathe I meant actually slowing it down in an audio editor (which also lowers the pitch), rather than timestretching on KZbin.

[@RC-vn5vo]

He sounds so much like Carl here

[@Unsung_Earth]

It sounds like it's at a faster speed, ( the recording )

[@StratocastRS]

"early and really" are words they say in completely the same way

[@madcap_9539]

I also noticed that

[@toastertwo1602]

Comparing this interview to the one he had with Bob Harris a year before, here his voice sounds higher. Just like it used to before 1974.

[@profile2047]

Hey! My friend Star Shields made Brian that shirt. He also has made some for all sorts of crazy rockstars. Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and some of the Lef Zeppelin dudes. Just a crazy thing to me.

[@kylev938]

🤙🏼

[@67JLBlues19]

1977 was the last year of Brian being lucid.

[@madcap_9539]

I'd say 1982. Compare 1982 and 1983 and there you see the big change caused by Landy.

[@RyanHicks306]

What a great interview! Thanks for sharing.

[@Matt-cm8hh]

Genius

[@annabellesutter6495]

Check out the Carl Wilson interview on channel RockinRolla!

[@haveatomato]

Brian is such an enigma...here he is in 1977 sounding completely lucid and normal, and you wonder why we hear stories about him completely disintegrating after Pet Sounds, and how shorty after this period he would appear to barely be able to talk or appear normal in any way...maybe his current condition was the sacrifice made to save his life, maybe it was an unnecessary result of malpractice. So strange.

[@Blubatt]

TBF, he had just finished his treatment with Eugene Landy, at least his first intervention. He was probably a bit more regimented at this point because he was regularly working on music. Touring, writing, and releasing music. It was really around 1978 that he went back off the rails, up to 1982, when he was 300 pounds, and was likely near death

[@subg8858]

Brian completely disentigrating after Pet Sounds/Smile is a complete myth

[@Blubatt]

@@subg8858 Partially true. He only really went downhill after Sunflower was released, but he did go downhill

[@truthtransistorradio6716]

I believe Brian lost confidence during the Smile Sessions. Perhaps a combination of negative input from band members, pressure for Capital records, and paranoia related to drugs. He probably also had mental health that had a bad reaction with drugs. But I think it wasn't until around 1998 that he began to talk sluggishly. I think he was finally on medication that he needed, but the side effect is that he doesn't think as fast as he used to. Perhaps it makes him a bit expressionless. Although at times he seemed the same in 70s on stage. But you listen to interviews like this and he is exactly like he was in a 1974 interview. But it could also be from years of drugs followed by speed and whatever else Landy was giving him finally took it's toll.

[@madcap_9539]

It's a big misconception that Brian went completely downhill like right after Smile. Wild Honey and Friends still have a major Brian presence. The beginning of the 20/20 sessions he was very involved like he was with Friends but once he was institutionalized in late 68 his involvement decreased. His all over the arrangements and production of Sunflower despite not singing much lead. Surf's Up is really where he's barely involved minus like two tracks.

[@acerjackson4579]

Well, I am astonished how much clarity has here! Must be the last time he was fully congnisant. Before he started talking out of the side of his mouth as if he had Tony from the Shining living in his mouth.😢

[@slimkickens]

"Brian loves you, Jesus loves you, it's the same thing"

[@dmer-zy3rb]

Brian casually comparing himself to Jesus haha

[@sweetbass3360]

Fascinating interview. It's so interesting and awesome to hear him talking about Still I dream of it and Frank Sinatra

[@ms8596]

Ha, I have that Kenny & the Cadets 45. Interestingly enough, I probably acquired it in '77 about the time of this interview. Hmmm, what could it be worth in 2020? Time for some investigation.

[@Dr170]

Well, how do you like your new life as a millionaire?

[@cherylb2008]

Good, up front, interview

[@THECLARENCES]

God bless Brian! xoxo The Clarences

[@dylanharkin8198]

amazing, thanks for uploading

[@SeahorsesJay]

He sounds similar to '66 Brian here. His speaking voice has little timbre to it, and the speaking voice is the voice at its most relaxed and natural. I'm convinced the gruff vocals and rough approach to singing between 75 and the 80s was an arbitrary decision because he questioned his masculinity a lot. Somebody clearly said something to him at some point that deeply affected the way he perceived himself and his high falsetto vocals.

[@thegts5135]

great interview thanks

[@sethcopeland4362]

Dennis by this time was pretty low and raspy, but slightly sped up Brian here almost sounds like teen Dennis.

[@toddswartz3510]

Yeah whatever chemical mix or lack of, Brian was experiencing here was perfect.

[@1401minstrel]

Brian does a pretty fair Sinatra impression in this interview!

[@NateTheGnat]

He doesn't sound crazy at all here. This interview is kind of sad. Brian wanted to do so much in the 1970s but it was shot down and their only good album that got released was "Love You". And "Still I Dream of It" is a great song that would have been a great Sinatra song but I think Brian sings it great (on Adult Child), because its his song.

[@marymagdalene3004]

Funny what he said about Sagittarius and Gemini as they normally get along very well together.

[@gigid9606]

well to be honest (as a sag, lol, we are very honest) Sag/Gems DO get along when its the opposite sex. But same sex, irritate each other. Try finding the opposite sign yourself, same sex, and its very irritating, and wonky. Yeah, I have alot of fun with Gemini men, they can be a riot, my best guy friends are Gems!

[@jamesrobertson432]

Well to be perfectly honest astrology is 100% bull (and I don't mean Taurus ♉ 😛)

[@musicmatty67]

I see in the comments section that some blame the late Dr. Landy for Brian never being quite the same as he is in this interview. I fully disagree. Somewhere between this interview and 1980, Brian Wilson had changed drastically and that’s why Landy was brought back in. I remember Brian saying in an interview once, his biggest regret was taking acid because it tore his head off. There is plenty of footage on KZbin that shows Brian performing in 1980 and 81 and he is completely off the rails. Somewhere between this interview and just a few short years later, he obviously got into some very heavy Drugs that left him permanently scarred. Dr. Landy salvaged all that he could in bringing Brian back physically and mentally. I’m not saying that Landy didn’t cross the line and taking advantage of Brian financially.. however, after Landys departure, Brian again went downhill with putting on weight and never being as confident as he was under the baton of Landy. Again, there is plenty of footage of Brian performing in 1980 and 81 and that is before Dr. Landy was brought back in.

[@chriss8792]

Still I dream of it was intended for frank Sinatra? Holy shit

[@Dr170]

I can hear it.

[@rosu5726]

Ha! Palisades park boom boom cannon! Great song!

[@justmadeit2]

It sounds slightly sped up ?

[@thriftdig]

Would you happen to know the date of this interview? My friend just found a reel to reel tape Brian Wilson interview from 1977. Wondering if this may be the same one

[@uncannybeachboys]

Broadcast May 22, 1977

[@annabellesutter6495]

Check out the Carl Wilson interview on channel RockinRolla!

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Kind of funny how they’re discussing the way music production was getting so sterile and bland at that time (mid 70’s), and I suppose that compared to what had come before, it most certainly was… but they had _no idea_ just how much *MORE* sterile it would get in the years to come, or more specifically in the second half of the 80’s. 😬

[@browningautomatic2393]

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[@Tunz909]

A shame within 5 years he was ballooned up to 350 lbs.

[@ragingbull888]

Is this really 77? He sounds like he did in the 60s. I’ve heard other interviews around this time and he already seems a bit robotic.

[@Paul-dw2cl]

was this recorded after they released Love You ?

[@yoyocritic]

What was that song right at the end??

[@dweber4]

sounds sped up

[@hooblefloob]

He's definitely high on something here if this is '77

[@tombjornebark]

coke

[@MimiYouyu]

Stop .You might notice that both the interviewer and he are a little fast. Its the tape.

[@edwardmeradith2419]

Nah, the pitch is the same as his normal voice - this is pre-digital, analogue and it couldn’t be sped up without changing the pitch. I’d guess (yes it’s a guess) that he’s coked up.

[@sheatiller2465]

@@edwardmeradith2419 it's a higher pitch than his normal speaking voice. It runs fast. You can tell because when the snippet of Add Some Music To Your Day is played it is faster and almost a half step up.

[@cybertronian2005]

What's the song that starts fading in at the end

[@Blubatt]

Is this the first mention of Still I Dream of it?

[@ms8596]

"Still I Dream of It" was first hitting reports of songs being worked on at this time. This was right after Love You, the album, was released in April '77.

[@N0Camping4U]

what's the song about to play at 32:12

[@Tunz909]

I believe he's definately smoking in this interview

[@baz3338]

I've listened to people on coke talk for a half hour it doesn't sound as articulate and interesting as this

[@weatheredtome]

That's because the tape is sped up, that's all. He's sober

[@sheatiller2465]

You can tell it's sped up because when the snippet of Add Some Music To Your Day is played it is faster and almost a half step up.

[@profile2047]

@@weatheredtomeYou don’t know that.

[@weatheredtome]

@@profile2047 yes I do.

[@GoobEr-c1q]

I think he got messed up more by the meds Landy forced on him than any acid or coke.

[@DummyYEEEAAHHHHH]

I think Brian was geekin out a bit during this interview.

[@weatheredtome]

Tape is sped up, idiot

[@kellyklocke8183]

Coked up just like when he was on Michael Douglas

[@weatheredtome]

The tape is sped up, moron