Brian Wilson Live '86

[@slickman9696]

Love this! The blue coloring makes him look like a Jedi spirit.

[@ShaylahShmoo]

😆

[@dmer-zy3rb]

is this is the original return of the jedi ending?

[@jaggass]

He still had his falsetto.

[@fshoaps]

Barely.

[@dmer-zy3rb]

in some shape or form he still has his falsetto till this day. though it hasnt sounded impressive outside the 60s and he stopped using it altogether during live shows in the early 2000s.

[@TheBoldImperator]

You can't kill your falsetto, no matter how many pills or smokes or bottles of hooch you throw back. Make it whiny, thin and degraded due to progressive layrnx damage? Sure. Kill, no. It is an inherent part of human vocal physiology as much as whistling is.

[@jaggass]

@@TheBoldImperator Brian did everything he could to destroy his falsetto as he said he sounded like a girl and wanted a deeper voice. In 2020 he did God Only Knows from home and still had a bit of falsetto. Elton claims he doesn't have any falsetto left but he does and just doesn't use it.

[@allenjones3130]

@@dmer-zy3rb I can't blame BW for giving up the use of his falsetto. After all, he's got Crackerjack backup musicians who can do the job for him!

[@marymagdalene3004]

He has so much talent and charisma and it is just a privilege to listen to him sing. I'd rather have Brian Wilson sing with some imperfections as that just adds to the whole experience. Such uniqueness to his voice and his renditions of the songs. Great, great , great!!!!!!

[@MarySmith-l8i]

Omg. 😮 Perfection ❤

[@galbeeri8360]

For me brian wilson is the beach boys

[@juliemckeever5328]

I agree & but Carl really held it together ..Brian was coaching him behind the scenes

[@barryfarrell6697]

He just does his own part. Our minds can hear the other layers of harmony all around his voice. Magic

[@Lridesagain]

Sweet, sweet, incredibly gifted Brian Wilson! What more can one say? ❤️

[@darthzach]

I kinda like Brian's voice during this era. It's deep, and very distinct. Not pitchy like it is these days.

[@MatthewSchoepf]

its pitchy these days because of autotune

[@billminton6688]

We tend to refer to this as his "survivor's voice."

[@fshoaps]

@@MatthewSchoepf Brian does NOT use auto tune in the modern era, no fucking way.

[@MatthewSchoepf]

@@fshoaps it depends where he performs, and who with. He was always ok auto tune pretty much when performing with the beach boys, but now he’s separated from them, he does not, except from some concerts.

[@jaggass]

@@fshoaps Brian's voice was auto tuned on The Beach Boys 50th anniversary tour. His wife insisted on it.

[@jaggass]

I'm glad The Ghostbusters wasn't called out to capture Brian's ghost. People decided that he was a friendly ghost who just wanted to sit down and play Surfer Girl and Let's Go To Heaven In My Car.

[@judeconnelly6207]

He forgot to tell Luke that Darth Vader killed his father from a certain point of view though.

[@blakerice6238]

People thought I’m glad The GhostBusters wasn’t called out to capture Brian’s ghost. I thought Brian Wilson wanted to be listened and played “Surfer Girl” and “Let’s Go To Heaven In My Car”.

[@DummyYEEEAAHHHHH]

🤣🤣🤣😂

[@fanc.5711]

@2:13 “Ah, what is it?” 😂 I LOVE HIMMMMMM!!! He just is what he is. Bless his precious heart ❤️

[@genecasey3130]

The Falsetto as best he could do at this point. Bravo!

[@genecasey3130]

@@yoblol "Getcha Back" was recorded around 5 years before this live show. It's great. Brian still sounds good in the studio even now.

[@joedambrosio5423]

How great his voice sounds.....

[@mackagan321]

WOW! He nails the high-parts quite well

[@douglasduncan8251]

Really good shape there.

[@cynthiarowley719]

Personal and funny guy. I love heaven in my car😅 great video, thank you for posting.

[@Maryhinz1912]

Who ever could have guessed how incredible Brian's comeback would be!!!!!

[@christopherstowell5668]

he's the best! I love him!!

[@BenCulture]

Perfectly respectable performance. Who would have guessed "Let's Go to Heaven in My Car" would be the strongest performance of the set?

[@qasanoba]

it's a great performance!

[@fshoaps]

Brian loved this song.

[@greenelfalchemybotanicals2629]

no doubt a good one but he slays California girls too

[@fboness368]

He sounds fantastic here.

[@wesgriffin6081]

I love this ❤❤❤ up close and personal moment with Brian

[@sunbeamofdream]

Great even alone, without group, fine sounds all alone here with piano! *I meant Surfer girl song*

[@6000cs]

Gotta give a word of credit to Brians' unsung partner at this time, Gary Usher. Usher and Brian wrote several songs together in 1962 (In My Room, 409) until Murry Wilson kicked him aside. Brian reunited with Usher in 1986. He was essentially co-writer of "Lets Go to Heaven...." and was set to produce Brian's first solo record before Landy or other money grabbers again forced him out. Did a lot to get Brian back recording, and got screwed for it. Usher died of cancer 5 years later.

[@sheatiller2465]

Gary Usher caught a lot of shit from David Crosby too didn't he?

[@kentrichardson1957]

Gary Usher helped Brian gain freedom from the oppressive landy.

[@andrewdoe8313]

@@kentrichardson1957 - indirectly: his diaries and tapes were used in the court case. Sadly Gary died before that happened...

[@lamarravery4094]

I was hoping you'd say Landy died of cancer a few yrs later🤣🤣🤣

[@portland9880]

Gary was a incredible artist in his own right as well. Never gets credit for his extensive productions.

[@KevinMccluskey-c5g]

Love Brian in 1986😊

[@JaneKeith-t5w]

Pure and wonderful

[@manueljfrancisco5480]

Good ole. Brian!😎☀️

[@claymationwaves]

Wow on the vocal Mix for California girls PURE MAGIC!!

[@jonathanwhitfield4557]

8:27 Some rather high notes.

[@hammerbrother]

Brian you may not be same since the 60's but, you still have talent and that never goes away! Your most recent albums from 2000 on were really good, melody and arrangement wise.

[@JohnRudnicki-n8e]

cool..Love you Brian

[@wilmamckee3448]

So talented.

[@brtherjohn]

One can now readily find both songs, "Let's Go To Heaven in my Car" and "Water Builds Up" (from the unreleased Sweet Insanity album) right here on YT. Great live video here!

[@TheCraig8754]

I love when he mentions Dr Landy you could here a pin drop lol

[@wilmamckee3448]

Wow"

[@kenhaldenstein6367]

wow!!

[@SQTierHog]

Man, some of the criticizing comments here...jeez. Heck, I'm grateful to see this! I loved when he forgot the lyrics, and matter-of-fact like kept rolling along. Love Brian Wilson, however he is.

[@frankvilla9401]

His speaking voice sounds remarkably like Carl's in this.

[@kiryu3795]

yeah doesn't it

[@columnatedruinsdomino6430]

this is so cool! thanks!!

[@channelchenes4541]

This must be it. The original ending. When Darth Vader died, his spirit reverted to Brian Wilson.

[@justinplank]

"Had that hungry feeling?" I thought it was "had that hopeless feeling" on Let's Go to Heaven in My Car." This version is pretty cool.

[@superstimulatedminotaur3681]

Brian was probably pretty hungry judging by his weight at the time haha

[@edwindonaldsnider]

Thanks Kevin. I really enjoy your choices in musicians!!

[@magictransistorradio4933]

I hated how they would shorten songs in the 80s like Brian did with California Girls. Other than that, it's cool to see the beginning of Brian's solo career.

[@KEVINODEGARD]

Right you are. Short of re-posting we'll let our comments provide backstory. Thank you.

[@andrewdoe8313]

Not his first solo gig by about eighteen months.

[@julieannemichelle]

❤

[@JackieTalbott]

wtf this is so good

[@qasanoba]

it's awesome

[@richardgates8352]

actually reminds me a lot of sean bonnette especially with the story in the begininng

[@Frenite]

1:18: I cracked up laughing the way he sang “all undone” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kiryu3795]

same here lol

[@AGD55]

PS: not Brian's first solo gig by a good 18 months. :-)

[@TheBuzzingSound]

Andrew Doe Hey, you're AGD from BB Stomp! You actually used to be a bit of a hero of mine :D

[@MedievalRichard]

Not Brian's first solo show according to AGD and Smiley. The first would would have been a May 1985 Malibu ER benefit where Brain did approximately 5 songs, including male Ego, I'm So Lonely, California Girls and Sloop John B. Source However, this remains his 2nd ever solo show----pretty rare footage, with Brian giving it all (vox wise for the times)

[@AGD55]

Before Landy's drugs kicked in full time and damn near killed him.

[@jaggass]

This probably just one of the few times when Brian wasn't drugged up.

[@MarcoZucchi81]

Landy was already there at the time, sir. He cambe back in 1981

[@MatthewSchoepf]

this was actually mid way through that process. Landy forced brian to start touring to make him money so landy and his kids could just get whatever they want and go on holidays... (selfish landy)

[@bodenny]

Gene Landy almost destroy Brian Wilson. Thank goodness for the people that finally got Brian away from that sick Dr.

[@nicksouza191]

I actually find the blue really charming, makes it look very very 80s.

[@ClubViking63]

Like Landy or not, Brian has never been this talkative, ever! Brian was an artist for a few years.

[@BenCulture]

More than a few years! More like, most of his life! But yeS, Brian was a bit more talkative and energetic when Landy was medicating him. I think if you want the truth, you have to read the pro-Landy _Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story,_ then watch the movie _Love and Mercy,_ and somewhere in the middle, there's the truth.

[@ClubViking63]

I read "Wouldnt it be nice", now I think it was not the words of Brian really. Gonna watch the movie sure. Everybody seem to hate Landy but I think he saved Brian´s life, as noone else was interested to do so back then.

[@boberg9797]

100% true! and real!

[@mudhoney110283]

full "Daniel Johnston" mode!

[@JaKeW138]

That makes perfect sense, I now know why I love Daniel Johnston

[@BeeMarzipan]

the drums sound really good

[@marymagdalene3004]

I love this song!!! Gotta say that Landy cowrote songs that make Brian sound the best ever!!!!!!

[@charlesorlikentertainment]

He did solo gigs before this!

[@boberg9797]

100% real and true!

[@danielstein5290]

if only landy's meds stopped here

[@thomaspick4123]

I do not know about the drugs Landy gave him. Mental control he placed on him was a money grab. As detestable as Landy was, he did get Brian’s weight under control. Brian’s weight is back up now, a shame. This is a pleasing clip. The backing band is quite good. I am glad Brian is touring again. I wish I could see him, but it will not happen, so I bought some dvds. In that book Landy ghost wrote for Brian, he claims he could have helped Dennis, but was just a few days late, thus, end of Dennis.

[@lsachs07]

I saw him in this time period around 1986. He was still touring with the beach boys as they were promoting their then new album simply called The Beach Boys. He was wearing a smart blue suite and was in good good form and fine voice.

[@jaggass]

Dennis would have refused his help after seeing what Dr Landy did to Brian.

[@gigid9606]

well for everyone sticking up for Landy... who in the happy hell would leave their loved one under a doctors tuteledge for years without checking in? That dr should have been doing monthly reports and updates to family on how Brian was doing, and there should have been a second set of checks and balances so the dr didnt have total control. In this day and age this would have been criminal and subject to prison, totally unethical. And the money he got paid! My God! Travesty

[@judis6224]

Dennis didn't want nothing to do with Landy,shouldn't had access to Brian.

[@musicmatty67]

For all the negativity towards the late Dr. Landy… Brian was much more confident and capable as a performer than he ever was after Landy was removed. Whoever was in charge of running team ‘Wilson’ after Dr. Landy he was removed, never seem to found a happy medium for Brian. He always seems way too sedated to be on stage and never has a good feel for the timing of the music and always relies on the prompter for reading the lyrics.... none of this was ever the case under the baton of Dr Landy.

[@bobbymadden]

That's because Landy gave him uppers before public appearances to help negate the effects of the ridiculously large doses of anti-psychotic medication he gave him. Pretty messed up combination. Brian did seem a lot more "with it" and a lot more articulate in interviews back then though. It's a pity that someone who'se brain is so brilliant has to take meds which cause so much dulling of the brain.

[@nickb5371]

I think something you aren't factoring in is Brian's getting older and with that age the adverse effects of the pills Landy gave him are presenting more

[@musicmatty67]

@@nickb5371 says who?? I have yet to see any medical experts lining up behind this kind of chatter. If you really think Landy fucked him up, then what do you think these doctors have done😟. His physical and mental state speaks for itself. Step outside the box and be realistic.

[@nickb5371]

@@musicmatty67 his physical and mental state now? He's older and thusly has not aged well. And as for the drugs it's been seen in interviews that Landy overmedicated brian with whatever antipsychotics he gave him at the time, Brian is seen to have facial twitches, huge trouble with retrieval (that went away as can be seen in the 2004 documentary beautiful dreamer) but the prolonged overmedication has lasting effects that followed brian into old age.

[@Gabriel2oh6]

He seems plenty confident during the Pet Sounds and Smile tours of the early/mid 2000’s. Brian had a lot of fire and confidence during those tours, maybe not as loud and flamboyant with his voice but very noticeably into what he was doing, even years after all the damage that Landy and his drugs did to his brain. But he has gotten plenty older since then too.

[@brianwilson9828]

Painful. Thanks cocaine, thanks heroin, thanks acid, thanks "dr." Landy! Beautiful falsetto voice...gone. Pride...gone. The old Brian Wilson...gone. With that said, This man has LOST more talent than I will EVER have! He is truly remarkable.

[@Gabriel2oh6]

Cocaine and acid didn’t ruin Brian. He was pumping out some of his best music after that. Excessive cocaine addiction in the mid-70’s may not have helped (all the other uppers Brian was taking for years were worse), but Brian was still lucid and making great music. He just needed a little help. What Landy did with his control and over medication was the final sort of blow that ruined a lot of Brian Wilson for years to come.

[@ms8596]

"He kinda get's around"...yes, unfortunately Dr. Landy did.

[@BenCulture]

I don't really believe Landy was quite as evil as _Love ad Mercy_ would have us believe. Greedy, yes. Unethical, yes. But He did save Brian from slowly killing himself. He wasn't a flat-out monster, as Paul Giamatti played him in the movie. The two things that bother me most about Landy were: 1. All the co-writing and Executive Producer credits he awarded himself (and his girlfriend, Alexandria Morgan) for Brian's first solo album, which they apparently did not deserve, since they've all been removed since Landy died. 2. Weaseling his way into becoming the sole beneficiary of Brian's will. I'm getting Brian's new autobiography this week. Hopefully that will show a more balanced version of events than the sham "autobiography" released in 1991.

[@jasayassa6065]

Read Bri Wi's new autobiography, man. He says the Love & Mercy Landy was not nearly as bad as the real Landy. At least we can give him (landy) creds for pushing/forcing Bri to lose weight tho. Feel free to disagree.

[@wallawallacatsmeat]

Now, you're not really Mr B D Wilson are you now?

[@vincevirtua]

ehh, all thing's considered he's doing pretty good...

[@jaggass]

Talking voice Bill Murray singing voice Ozzy Osbourne

[@judeconnelly6207]

I thought there was a correlation with Ozzy. Interesting.

[@jaggass]

@@judeconnelly6207 Brian sounded like Ozzy for most of the 80's when singing. On this clip i actually hear more of Brian's younger speaking voice. Here he's speaking pretty clearly as well and probably wasn't as drugged up.

[@judeconnelly6207]

@@jaggass There's a similarity there - I always thought it might be due to ADT or something, or just very tight manual doubling. But it's also something in the texture. Cetera has it too - though quite not as soulful or resonant as BW and Ozzy. Maybe it's in the phrasing or just the delivery in general. I Sleep Alone is a great clip too. I hear what your saying about his younger speaking voice. There's a nice interview from 2012 where he sings a bit of I Loves You Porgy and for a second breaks in to his 70's voice, and pulls out his 'Brian giving orders in Gold Star' voice - worth finding - sorry, I can't remember who the interviewer or show was, but it's on here somewhere.

[@dmer-zy3rb]

@@judeconnelly6207 honestly a bit of an rock and roll/metal singer has been wasted with Brian. in the 80s and 90s he did have some mayor ozzy vibes and i think he did a great job on "rock and roll to the resque"

[@judeconnelly6207]

@@dmer-zy3rb Great track - it's got the indelible BB's groove of the better mid 70's tracks like 'It's Ok' and 'Rock n Roll Music', but that Levine drum thing going on - even thought it's Melcher. I think I've only heard it once or twice until today. Now I'll be looking out for that LP. So many great BB's tracks, so little time. Check out that track BW did with Hal Blaine and Wendy and Carnie if you've not already - from about 2000 I think. There's a great leaked version on here, before Joe Thomas got to it, and it sounds like classic Brian.

[@ClubViking63]

This is both wonderful and terrible!

[@jakebritt6637]

I prefer the hard rock version of 'Let's Go To Heaven In My Car' from the single and Police Academy soundtrack than this version... the female vocals are too much, and it has a weak backing track. Vocals are good. LOVE the middle eight, "so let's take it nice and slow!!!", would of loved that on the hard rock version! :-)

[@judis6224]

When his father hit him with the four by two,something fell out of his ear.his father was jealous of him,should of known better with his father treating him the same way.audrey took too long to do anything about it,so just as bad.

[@predeterminedmeat5024]

When landy picked him up only to throw him down just a few years later, what a detestable rat.

[@GeorgeBob-fq3zy]

To be fair, Paul McCartney's voice was pretty worn by the late 80s as well

[@dmer-zy3rb]

Brians voice was already very worn in the mid 70s! if anything its surprising that it didnt really degrade further until the mid 2000s or so.

[@madcap_9539]

@@dmer-zy3rbI think I read somewhere that Brian had laryngitis in 76 which made his voice even rougher sounding which was already a big change cause his voice changed a ton between 72ish-75. His voice improved from there on (She's Got Rhythm and those random moments in the 80s and 90s where he did the falsetto voice again).

[@coachster1]

Just look up psychotropic drugs and it'll explain his behavior. Thanks for nothing, Dr. Landy.

[@FosterChance]

Without Landy Brian would be dead

[@predeterminedmeat5024]

​@FosterChanceAnd with him he's screwed up bad, theres more than one Dr. and most of them wouldn't drug their patients to a near catatonic state before giving them uppers for live apperances. Landy was a destestable man. Brian would have been better off with an actual Dr. instead of the hack landy was.