radiant radish
brian wilson, radiant radish health food store, west hollywood, 1969 - 70 .
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radiant radish includes but is not limited to donny lang, rhiannon cunag, and david vaughn. see, radiant radish (rr) features open contribution technology (tm) that allows for' unofficial' members to submit any type of artistic expression to the radiant radish name .
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designer del almeida has recreated the logo of the radiant radish, the west hollywood health food store owned by brian wilson 45 years ago. urltoken
radish grows quickly. seed starts to germinate 3 to 4 days after planting and radish can be harvested 3 to 6 weeks later .
donny, much in love with rhiannon, went away with her to college in tuscon. together, donny and rhiannon recruited david and formed radiant radish .
in 1969 brian wilson was owner / operator of the radiant radish health food store in west hollywood, california. the vitamin shop was only open for business when wilson felt like being there – frequently in the wee hours of the morning – and usually he would be in his robe and pajamas. this black and white photo of brian in the radiant radish is believed to the only one of its kind. the radiant radish would close within its first year of operation .
radish produces white flowers arranged in racemose inflorescence. insects are main pollinators of the flowers. fruit of radish is edible pod filled with seed .
together, the trio known as radiant radish form a powerful band with the goal of spreading their message across the globe. radiant radish is described as
an umbrella for all creative endeavors of the members to go under, not just music (artwork, other creative things) and isn' t limited to the' official' members .
david had similar interest in music as donny and they hit it off when they met. when dave auditioned for radiant radish, donny was impressed and let him in the band .
to determine the effect of radiation and heat on the germination of radish seeds .
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designer del almeida has recreated the logo of the radiant radish, the west hollywood health food store owned by brian wilson 45 years ago. … urltoken
make a line of about 10 radish seeds down the center of the paper towel .
oilseed radish is a sort of radish cultivated because of its oil that is used as biofuel (type of fuel that does not pollute atmosphere like conventional types of fuels) .
radish has green, strap - like or lobed leaves arranged in the form of rosette .
radish is usually cultivated as an annual plant (plant that completes its life cycle in one year) .
radish was used in treatment of kidney stones, intestinal parasites and bad skin in the britain in the past .
repeat the procedure microwaving radish seeds for 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes, 4 minutes, and 8 minutes .
radish is a type of herbaceous plant that belongs to the mustard family. it originates from southeastern asia, where cultivation started 2700 years bc. ancient egyptians were also fond of radishes. cultivation of radishes started even before building of pyramids. radish is equally popular today. it prefers cooler climate and grows quickly under appropriate conditions (enough sun, fertile soil and moisture). people cultivate radish as a source of food. other than that, radish has application in medicine and in the industry of fuels .
radish is very popular type of vegetables. annual amount of sold radishes in the uk equals the weight of 40 blue whales .
the farmer' s market is on the east side of farifax. i suppose if someone was enterprising enough, they could look up the radiant radish in a 1970 and / or 1971 yellow pages at the library. kind of ironic, the notion of brian wilson working at a health food store .
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got mine saturday in the natural color. very nice shirt! wore it yesterday. my mom asked ,
what' s a radiant radish ?
so, i got to tell her the story. she likes brian, so she thought it was pretty funny that he had a health food store .
another notable item to be featured in the book is an early development photo of fire emblem on wii, which is posted above. this went on to become radiant dawn .
set the timer for 15 seconds, make sure you have both the radish cup and water cup inside, set the power to high, and hit start .
radish is rich source of vitamin c and vitamins of the b group. it also contains dietary fibers and minerals such as potassium, calcium, magnesium, copper and manganese .
radish has mild to hot peppery flavor and crunchy texture. it is often consumed raw in the form of salads, but it also can be pickled, boiled and fried .
radish plant can reach 6 feet in height and 3 feet in width. size of the root depends on the variety. rounded varieties are usually 1 inch wide, cylindrical types are 7 inches long, while carrot - like varieties grow to the size of 24 inches. biggest ever recorded radish (root) had 3 feet in length and 100 pounds of weight .
germination is an intricate process, and many factors, including lack of water or strong chemicals, can prevent it. microwaves also can affect the germination of seeds. the microwaves emitted by a microwave oven are a form of radiant energy that fats and water in particular absorb. this absorbed energy can warm up your food, but what effect would it have on a radish seed? would microwaving a seed help or hinder its growth ?
rhiannon handles the artwork for radiant radish, sings occasionally, and plays drums. rhiannon and donny met in tempe; they found that they had plenty in common, their musical and artistic creativity mirrored each other perfectly. the planets were aligned. the rest is a classic love story: boy meets girl, boy falls in love, boy follows girl to tuscon, boy forms new band with girl, girl makes website for new band, etc, etc. .
hey gang, who would like to own what is surely the most obscure beach boys related shirt ever? (well, to non - super fans at least) i' ve recreated the radiant radish logo, made it a little vintage looking, and there ya go. you can find it in lots of colors, as well as men' s or women' s styles, right in the link there below! lemme know what you think! !! urltoken
radish is usually cultivated because of its edible root. color, size, shape and taste of root depend on the variety. best known types are white, pink, red, purple, yellow and green colored .
radish can be used to relieve stomach ache, to facilitate digestion and elimination of the excess body water and to regulate blood pressure. it contains substance, known as sulforaphane, which has potential to prevent cancer development .
if we' d been called the peach boys, i don' t think it would have made much difference to our success. we were going to be the pendletones, after a sweater everyone was wearing, or the beach bums. a group' s name is not very important. for one year [ 1969 ] i owned a health food shop i called the radiant radish. i spent too much money on produce, there wasn' t much money coming in and we went bankrupt. but that was a great name .
was the night i decided to try out the radiant radish. it had just opened a few days before in west hollywood and was purveying health foods right across the street from the black rabbit inn. the movie had left me shaken; perhaps the little store wasn’t as surreal as it seemed. it certainly seemed surreal. at eleven o’clock at night there was no overhead lighting; the only illumination came from fluorescent tubes in the food bins. the only other person in the store was the counter man, the owner, magic christian
for the microwave experiment, you will be taking groups of 10 seeds and microwaving them for different amounts of time. count out 10 radish seeds, place on a dry napkin, and microwave for a period of time (5, 10, 15, or 20 seconds) .
results will vary depending on the strength of your microwave oven and radish seeds. the radish seeds that weren’t microwaved at all should germinate in a couple days. the stem system with tiny leaves and the root system with tiny root hairs should become more and more evident. seeds only microwaved 15 seconds might actually show more sprouting early on. seeds microwaved for longer periods won’t sprout at all. if all your seeds sprout, you need to redo your experiment with higher microwave times, if none of them sprout, you need to redo the experiment with lower microwave times. don’t be discouraged, real science is all about trial and error !
germination is when the seed starts to sprout, and a plant starts to emerge from the seed. this process starts when the seed absorbs the water. this causes the endosperm to pop open the seed coat, allowing the embryo to grow leaves using the food stored in the seed for energy. radish seeds germinate very quickly (around 3 - 5 days) .
i may be wrong, but i dare say - letsgoawayforawhile, egohanger1966, swedish frog, zach wolfe, disney boy (1985), smile brian, amanda hart, maxl, mikie and ivy / billy c. or if we take into account the 2nd scenario - then definitely someone who is so obsessed with vegetables drawn on t - shirts, let alone - radish .
good guesses, rangerover! thanks amanda! what are you waiting for, go buy one! egohanger, i' m always waiting for somebody to recognize my brian sandbox shirt, and a coworker who' s very hip and musical finally did, and it made me happy. but that' s the only one so far. (and i' m honored that my shirt is being discussed at parties! ! !) now i' ll keep waiting for somebody to recognize the radiant radish shirt. i might die waiting. soooo... whoever did buy this, i want you to wear this to a brian show, especially if you' re going to do a meet & greet. and then just wait for brian to say
what the hey, where did you get that shirt? ! ?
of course, the other outcome is brian has no memory of ever owning a health food and vitamin store
we all know that plants need sunlight and water to grow big and tall. but did you know that inside seeds are baby plants, and that the fragile baby plant inside the seed needs to be protected? if you' ve ever had a sunburn, you also know that the sun gives off harmful radiation and heat. how much radiation and heat can a seed handle? find out using some radish seeds, an oven, and your microwave !
there are three main parts to the structure of a seed, the seed coat, the embryo and the food storage tissue. the seed coat is the outer layer of the seed, and protects the embryo from conditions such as acidity. the embryo contains all the parts that are needed to form a new plant and also contains cotyledons which absorbs nutrition from the food storage tissue. in radish seeds, the embryo absorbs the endosperm and the food is in the cotyledons .
one more important thing to do is to set up a
control
group. this group of seeds will not be microwaved or baked in the oven. the reason for having a control group is so that you know your seeds are good and can sprout. what if the seeds you bought are bad? for this group, take the bag labeled
control
and add 10 radish seeds to the bottom of the bag on one side of the napkin, close the baggie and tape to the window .
seed sprouting is called germination, and is the process during which the baby plant emerges from the seed and develops its first set of true leaves. germination begins when the seed absorbs water, which causes the endosperm to swell and pop open the seed coat. then the embryo will grow and develop its first set of true leaves, using food stored in the endosperm for energy. some seeds take a very long time to germinate, while others germinate very quickly. for this experiment, we have chosen radish seeds, which germinate very quickly in 3 to 5 days .
it occurs to me that brian might have been deluged with fans coming in wanting to talk, get autographs, hang around and get next to him. did he himself spend a lot of time there? how long was it open, beginning to end? i imagine it was poorly managed, lost money, and had competition from chain stores. . even in the early 70' s, there were mall health food stores that sold various products and concoctions for the healthy hippie. (now that would have been a good name for a health food store near a college campus .) and why buy carrots from brian when the farmers market was nearby? and the big question, do any of you know anyone who ever went there when it was still the raidant radish ?
the big disappointment i feel about my life is that i didn' t have more wisdom when it came to taking drugs. drugs laid me out for years .
applause sounds good. you start to believe people really like your stuff when they give you a 10 - minute standing ovation. i don' t know when it would get boring - maybe after half an hour .
when i was eight i used to copy rosemary clooney singing,' the evening breeze caressed the trees tenderly, the trembling trees embraced the breeze tenderly.'
a beautiful horn is my favourite sound in the world. if i could play a saxophone, that' s what i' d be doing. but i can' t play a saxophone .
when i was 16, i had a woolensack tape recorder and i taped the wind. i lost it and those tapes. i don' t know where the hell they are .
i sit down on stage because i feel more comfortable sitting. i move my hands around to try and look alive. i' m looking at the front row and i' m looking up in the air, but i can' t see without my glasses and i don' t remember any faces .
big brian isn' t scared of anybody and little brian is scared of everybody .
only my left ear works properly, the right is deaf. so i' ve never heard music in stereo, or both sides of the audience together. it' s kind of depressing, but it' s all right. one advantage is i can lie on my left side in bed and not be bothered. i like peace and quiet very much. i really do .
i sang' deck the halls' for hundreds of children with xeroderma pigmentosum [ hypersensitivity to sunlight ] at disney one night. that was kinda scary .
every night now i say this:' the night was quiet and nature was resting and i was at peace.' and then i can sleep. i made it up myself. isn' t that great? saying it now my eyes feel a little tired .
first thing in the morning, at seven, i wash my face. i have my breakfast - an egg and kellogg' s cornflakes with skimmed milk and sweet' n' low - and i try to get on with it. i work in my armchair with a leg rest and i have my synthesiser on my lap. i' m a morning person, creatively. i have auditory hallucinations, i hear voices saying derogatory things, like i' m terrible and i' m going to die, and they' re usually worse in the afternoon .
making music is like brain surgery - very sensitive, very delicate. genius is the ability to make something very complex seem very simple .
first love is the moment you can' t repeat, but you' ll always own it .
when i hear really fabulous music by somebody else, i can feel as small as the dot in the' i' in nit .
the gentlest person i know is my friend mark, who designs covers. i like hanging with him, he talks nice to me and sometimes i' ll need him to rub my neck .
i used to run laps around the park, now i walk laps. exercise is my hobby .
it will only take a slight little idea, a starting melody, to make my whole day .
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on monday, january 27, 2014, brian sat for a half hour and answered over 50 questions from fans around the world .
due to the overwhelming response to the q & a, only a fraction of the questions could be answered, but brian did talk about his new album and career .
the event was a big success – brian had a lot of fun and is looking forward to doing it again .
hi brian, what’s your favorite new song you’re working on? “sail away” (not the randy newman song) and “last song. ”
hi brian. just wanted to know, years from now, what would you like your legacy to be? that i was a good singer .
hi brian, what is your most favorite dennis‘ song? (besides forever) .
caroline, no and, let me think. probably i loves you porgy .
wake the world can you tell me the inspiration for this track. thank you !
one by one, (sings) stars appear. it' s one of my favorite songs – it really is. i love singing it .
hey brian, thanks for all of the wonderful music over the years. after all of these years, is there anyone you want to collaborate with that you' ve never worked with ?
good vibrations - i really worked hard on that with the guys. i just wanted to make a great record – and i did !
i didn' t watch it but i understand paul and ringo were on it. taped it i haven' t watched it yet. i heard paul and ringo were great .
hi, brian! i' m from japan. if you could return to past, when and what would you want to do ?
what are your thoughts on the friends album? to me thats one of the unheralded late 60s classics. . that and wild honey ...
yeah, i still like that song a lot. and pacific coast highway and from there to back again. very much so .
i think he' s a great singer and a good music guy. he wrote some good tunes .
brian - i heard that you wrote more than one song with burt bacharach, (aside from
what love can do
). will we ever be hearing any thing else from the two of you, and can you say what influence burt has had on you as a songwriter ?
not very much actually. i love his music and he did teach me something about harmonies .
hi brian, i' m curious as to whether or not you' re able to read or write sheet music. do you, or did you ever use sheet music to instruct the musicians in your sessions on what to play, or did you just teach them everything by ear or using the piano ?
yeah, i write out manuscript music and sometimes i’ll teach them at the piano .
i was made to love her
( wild honey) makes me wish that the beach boys and stevie wonder could have collaborated on something. did you ever have the chance to work with stevie? (it' s never too late! ! )
hi brian - you rock! ! i am wondering about the song busy doin' nothing. it has an odd - for - brian - wilson bossa nova influence. the song also has odd - for - brian - wilson time signature fluctuations. i was wondering if you were listening to any bossa nova records at that time, or any jazz. yeah, bossa nova in general inspired that .
the story goes that when you first heard strawberry fields forever you felt weakened by it. has any song in the past ten years made you feel that way again ?
no, that' s not true. it was a very weird record, but yeah, i liked it .
yeah, it did – it turned me onto writing songs and harmonies. it very much influenced me .
hi brian, i was wondering what are your recollections of working with leon russell on a handful of beach boys albums. he seems like a nice guy, great musician too !
see there you go – “how does it make you feel! ” it makes me feel proud .
yeah, i met dean martin at a white house party in 1984. and frank sinatra too. they were very nice to me .
i' ve heard you' re a dodgers fan. what' s your favorite vin scully moment ?
yankees. because of mickey mantle. i played center field in high school .
help me rhonda - i would' ve made a better rhythm - it wasn' t in the pocket .
i was in my car listening to the radio and drove home and that song inspired me. but no, it wasn' t when you wish upon a star .
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original recording was done on brother records’ cassette tape recorder at 30 i. p. s. on 2 inch - wide tape with four long lasting flashlight batteries. the following microphones (with built - in remote switch) were used. u2 boat mike, f111 throat model and dc456 - 1414. a 30 - position toy - mixing console was used to transfer the original recording to my brother 2 - track recorder .
once on board with reprise, brother records’ star act hastily issued a trial single on february 23, 1970, add some music to your day / susie cincinnati, which spent a modest five weeks on the billboard hot 100 chart, peaking at number 64. meanwhile, beach boys’ leader brian wilson, brothers carl and dennis and fellow beach boys mike love, al jardine and bruce johnston worked with chief engineer stephen w. desper to winnow and refine their latest output into a twelve song 16 - track master entitled add some music, subheaded an album offering from the beach boys .
as discussions on a stronger lineup ensued, warner a & r executive lenny waronker visited brian’s bel air mansion (site of the ‘brothers studios’ home recording rig on which most of the current material had been cut) and he was stunned to hear cool, cool water, a song of brian wilson’s and mike love’s that brian had performed alone at his piano for lenny .
waronker was deeply moved by the sheer beauty of cool, cool water, whose inspired simplicity seemed to dovetail with the transcendent commercial complexity of brian’s masterpiece of four years earlier, good vibrations. waronker deemed both songs to be works of great intuitive grace, and made a mental note to himself: “if i ever get the opportunity to produce brian, i’d encourage him to do something that combined the vividness of good vibrations with the non - commercial gentleness of cool, cool water. ” (waronker got his chance in 1988, when he co - produced rio grande for the solo brian wilson album on sire / reprise) .
on june 29, 1970 brother / reprise sent out another beach boys single, slip on through / this whole world, as a stalking horse for the impending album, but it failed to chart in billboard. finally, the inaugural beach boys long - player for brother / reprise reached stores on august 31, 1970, and the same album jacket fashioned earlier by ed thrasher proved to be its packaging, the sole change surrounding ricci martin’s toddler - filled and rainbow - framed front portrait of the group being the title, which now read sunflower in crisp purple type .
the final revised song sequencing for sunflower is the one preserved on this reissue, which marks the first time sunflower has been on compact disc since its brief appearance in the u. s. on caribou / epic in october 1990 (with concurrent release in europe in epic and japan on sony) .
sunflower opens with the surging throb of dennis wilson’s breath - stealing slip on through. it has a serpentine bass line, inside - out drum patterns, and the clangorous knell of a cow bell that launch an introductory kaleidoscope of four - tiered vocals; one layer of intersecting harmonies, another of organ punctuations or percussive phrases like “believe, believe, ” topped off by dennis’ beautifully insistent lead singing. a clutter - free triumph of arranging flair, slip on through is also a sophisticated step beyond the dream - walking pet sounds esthetic, and it rocks hard thanks to convulsive drum breaks and nimble conga tattoos .
“it was a really dynamic song, ” recalls brian wilson, of slip on through, wilson talking at his home in los angeles in april 2000 as he offered an exclusive commentary on each of the tracks in this historic join sunflower / surf’s up reissue. “dennis, i was very proud of, because he really rocked and rolled on that one. dennis did really interesting energetic things on that. ”
next is brian’s this whole world, whose rhythmic floor is an impeccable vocal parquetry of various tonal parts. carl’s graceful intonation on the heartfelt lyric about global amity makes unsurpassed use of his swooping falsetto range and his catch - in - the - throat vocal sob to convey the emotional breadth of the music’s message. the song’s ability to traverse a half - dozen separate moods and settings in an evolution of less than two minutes is similarly arresting, making the quasi - elongated this whole world, the most ingenious of brians’ mini - opuses .
“i do that on my live album (brian wilson: live at the roxy theater), at my concerts, ” says brian now of this whole world, adding, “it’s one of my very favorites. structurally, it rambles, but i just remember i said (at the time it was first recorded), “listen, this is a really spiritual tune. ” we double - tracked our singing on that one; but we always double - tracked our voices, always. carl sang the lead and i did the voices in the background. it was inspired by my love of the world, how i love people, and how people should be free. ”
“well, i’ll be gosh - darned, ” says brian with a laugh when told of is distant ancestors parallel practices. “what a spiritual family! i had no notion of that, so it’s a scary little lyric, isn’t it? ” he concludes with an impish laugh. “my family before me, for a couple of generations, that’s one of the missing links in me – and it’s a fascinating thing, that missing link. ”
“we wrote add some music in 1970, ” adds brian. “i think we wrote it my house in bel air. it was written by me and mike and joe knott, who was a friend of mine who wasn’t a songwriter but he contributed a couple of lines. but i can’t remember which ones! the lyrics are wonderful. when i do my shows, i always tell the people, “listen to the lyrics of this song, you’ll like them a lot. ”
dennis’ got to know the woman (“that, ” notes brian with a giggle, “sounds like a dennis title! ”) is one of the few beach boys songs that could honestly be called funky, its tinkly dixieland piano a perfect foil for the coarse frivolity of the verses, which contain a boorish come - on to the object of one’s lowest bump - and - grind fantasies. increasingly caught up in the track’s pulsating groove, the singer’s absurdly overstated ardor has pushed him by mid - song into open embarrassment; his familiar macho pose toppling into a knowing laugh that listener’s can share .
brian and bruce johnston penned the dazzling deidre, a stroll - tempo devotional to an idealized, red - haired goddess; its stippled use of flutes plus the spacey filtering and compression techniques in the vocal mixes giving the track a celestial grandeur. “loved it, ” says brian. “one of my very favorites. i thought bruce’s harmonies were beautiful – harmonic genius. ”
side one of the vinyl version of sunflower concludes with it’s about time, a flat - out rocker by dennis, al jardine and writer bob burchman that was the first - person account of a fallen artist nearly destroyed by his fruitless search of “a lost elation. ” “that’s another dennis one, really good, ” brian reflects. “dennis was very creative, a creative guy. ” the santana - like latin pivot of its percussion gave the song a nice tension, and the personal renewal described by the song’s central character triggers a driving guitar break that makes his second chance seem both plausible and thrilling. and undidactic commentary on rock indulgence and self - redemption, it was also a wishful scenario regarding both brian and dennis wilson’s sporadic personal troubles .
forever by dennis and buddy gregg jakobson and our sweet love, a brian - carl - al collaboration, are pristine ballads that would not have been out of place of pet sounds but for their absence of pessimism. “forever has to be the most harmonically beautiful thing i’ve ever heard, ” brian now declares. “it’s a rock and roll prayer. and our sweet love, i wrote that for carl. after i wrote it i said, “hey, he could sing this good” so i gave it to carl. ”
at my window, al and brian’s ode to a bird on a sill, is a childlike consideration of a good omen. “al wrote the lyrics, ” says brian. “it’s a fantastic song; the sound of it, the overall wall of sound we put into it, was really good. ” window also serves as a fit prelude to the meditative innocence of cool, cool water, which incorporates a portion of the spooky, droned canticle of i love to say dada from the shelved smile album .
“well, i’m proud of cool, cool water, ” brian assures, “because that was a divinely inspired song. i had just moved into a new house on bellagio road in bel air, in march of 1967, and the first day i moved in, there was a piano there, and i went to the piano and wrote cool, cool water. i sat down and wrote the gist of it, the basic song. it was finished much later of course. (sings) “gimme some cool, cool water. ”
gone from the final sunflower lineup were al and brian’s good time – “that was a very good cut; it brings back pleasant memories. ” brian now recalls. gone as well, were brian and mike’s when girls get together, and another brian and al effort, i just got my pay (“that’s another one we did that was a really cool song, ” brian now assures, “and we harmonized real good on it. ”) the former cut landed on keepin’ the summer alive (1980) .
also dropped was dennis’ fallin’ in love (featuring a string arrangement by daryl dragon on the captain and tennille fame); the song later appeared under the title lady as the b - side of dennis’ 1970 sound of free solo single on the stateside / emi label, both tracks credited to dennis wilson and rumbo. among other finished cuts left in the can were games two can play, an instrumental called carnival (sometimes referred to as over the waves), and san miguel, which surfaced in 1981 on the caribou ten years of harmony (1970 - 1980) anthology .
surf’s up, the beach boys subsequent 1971 release, was named for a song salvaged from smile, and also featured a sunflower outtake, take a load off your feet (with the “pete” tagline deleted). brian initially opposed the use of surf’s up, in this context, but then relented, and he fought to overcome the group objections to the mournful ‘til i die .
looking back with some thirty years of hindsight, brian is philosophical about these once - heated issues. “right, yeah, ” he concedes of the controversy concerning utilization of surf’s up as the signature track, adding, “but i liked it eventually. the vocal on that was a little bit limited. it’s not my favorite vocal i ever did, but it did have heart. nevertheless, it’ll be out there again with this reissue, ” he says with a laugh, “and i’ll be naked to the world! ”
“the lyrics for surf’s up were very van dyke (parks); only he could have done that – only van dyke could have written those lyrics. we wrote that at my chickering piano, i think, in my sandbox (i. e. eight truckloads of refined sand emptied into a low - walled, keyboard ensconced enclosure in the dining room of his bellagio road home) and it took us about an hour at most to write the whole thing. we wrote it pretty fast; it all happened like it should. ”
but the rest of the latter day initiatives resulted in the album (originally dubbed landlocked but retitled surf’s up after that song was appended to it) happened as a beach boys records shouldn’t: through stress, strife, brittle compromises and minimal overall involvement by brian .
recalling the uneasy era and his contributions to an album that encapsulated it, brian confesses, “i was thinking about the surf’s up songs, ‘til i die and a day in the life of a tree. ‘til i die is moving; i was feeling kind of small, and i wrote a song about how small i feel. (recites) “i’m a cork on the ocean / floating over a raging sea. i’m a rock on a landslide… / i’m a leaf on a windy day / pretty soon i’ll be blown away. ” it’s just a humble song. it had a nice smooth melody and i was really touched by it. a day in the life of a tree was a very spiritual number; it had some spiritual love to it. but student demonstration time i didn’t like that, didn’t like the lyrical content. i thought it wasn’t beach boys enough. ”
long promised road, co - written by carl wilson and jack rieley is wistful but determined in its hopefulness and so brian harbored fond feelings toward it. “it fits the description of “pioneer” - type song, ” observes brian. “carl’s singing was gorgeous – he was my main man for vocals. ” thus, the heroic theme and his brother’s emotional investment in the saga certified the enduring worth .
student demonstration time, a mike love rewrite of jerry leiber and mike stoller’s riot in cell block # 9, passionately reexamined the kent state tragedy and other recent violence against student peace and civil rights activists. it has a certain gritty grandeur that either galvanized listeners or grated on them. in brian’s case it was the latter, “it was a little too intense, ” he says. “it didn’t hit the spot for me. it wasn’t too vocally intense but lyrically it was a little too far - out for me. ”
however, feel flows, a song his brother carl wrote with rieley, is a track brian found sublime, its fluttering flute passages, ominous guitar riffs and ethereal keyboard effects captivating to the leader of the band. “feel flows was carl’s tune, and i though it was wonderful – really great to have created, ” brian enthuses, believing its more impressionistic endorsement of peace was effective in a way a more dogmatic statement could never be. “come to think of it, ” he asserts, “feel flows is a great commentary on things. ”
lookin’ at tomorrow (a welfare song), a poignant mini - soliloquy from a jobless rounder, seems like a coda to long promised road, the pioneer busted in his starry - eyed ambitions but still “looking at tomorrow” for a fresh potential .
a day in the life of a tree by brian and rieley is well - meaning in its open melancholy but not match artistically for brian’s masterful ‘til i die, whose buoyant harmonies and unfussy personal testimony pierced the soul with their vulnerability. the organ - based two - and - a - half minute opus was a magnificent use of all the group’s myriad vocal shadings, with intersecting descants leading a cathedral - like mood to the last quarter of its spell - weaving .
nonetheless, the beach boys and their brother records enterprise had managed an important artistic and critical beachhead after a long spell adrift. indeed, during an april 27, 1971 concert bill at new york’s fillmore east with the grateful dead, bob dylan turned up to catch the boys’ set and then remarked aloud as a reporter stood within earshot, “you know, they’re fucking good, man. ”
brian wilson himself attributes the staying power of sunflower and surf’s up to the “spiritual love” of the music on both releases, an outlook complemented by the brother records logo – a lakota chief on horseback with outstretched arms – that’s based on a 1909 bronze statue (at boston’s museum of fine arts) by sculptor cyrus edward dallin titled the appeal to the great spirit. himself a son of western pioneer stock, dallin intended the statue to depict native americans plight as white settlers populated the continent. dallin saw the lakota’s gesture as common to all humanity: “when material plans and helps fail, we reach out to the spiritual. ”
timothy white is editor in chief of billboard and author of the nearest faraway place: brian wilson, the beach boys and the southern california experience (henry holt and company), from which a portion of this essay was adapted. © 2000 by timothy white; all rights reserved. used by permission .
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sunflower: 1. slip on through (dennis wilson) 2. this whole world (brian wilson) 3. add some music to your day (brian wilson / al jardine / joe knott) 4. got to know the woman (dennis wilson) 5. deirdre (bruce johnston / brian wilson) 6. it’s about time (dennis wilson / bob burchman / al jardine) 7. tears in the morning (bruce johnston) 8. all i wanna do (brian wilson / mike love) 9. forever (dennis wilson / gregg jakobson) 10. our sweet love (brian wilson / carl wilson / al jardine) 11. at my window (al jardine / brian wilson) 12. cool, cool water (brian wilson / mike love )
surfin' safari / surfin' usa surfer girl / shut down, volume two little deuce coupe / all summer long today! / summer days, summer nights party! / stack - o - tracks smiley smile / wild honey concert / live in london sunflower / surf' s up friends / 20 / 20 carl & the passions: so tough / holland keeping the summer alive / beach boys (1985 release) m. i. u. / light album 15 big ones / love you
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brian began murmuring... “world climatic regions... face of the moon... geodetic satellites. what does geodetic mean? of the earth? of the earth, it must be, it must be the relation of the earth to the satellites, that’s right. ” he was like a man trying to fight his way out of a pocket of time. “is there any part of the earth that never has any sun? ”
i handed him a bottle of vitamin b - 12 i wanted to buy. he said, “what you want is a b - complex. ”
he ran his fingers over the rows of bottles, seeking just the right supplement. “did you get a call for b - 12? ”
“well, now, unless there’s a call, we – you can’t –” he would not sell me any b - 12 .
producer nick venet speaks of his association with the group, beginning with surfin’ u. s. a .
“i signed them to capitol records. it was a master purchase. they brought the first record ready - made. they had a minor release earlier on an independent label, a local chart record, i think it was ‘surfin’. ’ the father had brought a master of the second record. he wanted to make a new deal. he wanted to sell the master and was asking $ 100, a small royalty. he didn’t want very much... a very humble man .
“i was the only person at the label under 62. he played me the record and it was really good. probably the best record i heard that year. sensation. they produced it, brian and the guys, and it was a - fucking - terrific .
“we bought the master. gave him $ 300 for it and made him a good royalty deal. he wanted to give us the publishing and i had to advise them to open a small company with the boys, with the group, split it between them and keep the publishing .
“the day the record came out it was a hit. i think it broke in phoenix, arizona. california had put it off, in fact some of the people in california had put it down. the record just broke all kinds of sales records in new york city and everything for us that year. the beach boys became very important .
“brian had all the odds against him ever having more than two hit records. brian was a square peg in a round hole. brian was five years too early with his business thinking, with his creative thinking, and yet he made it. but he suffered for it. and i’m sure he’s paying for it today. ”
“brian bled a lot for demanding changes. it cost him more money to make records. see, the company used to absorb the cost if you used their magic studios. brian had to pay for his studios .
“he was one of the first acts on a major label to bust out of the major label syndrome of coming into their studios at their appointed hours and using their facilities – good, bad or indifferent – at their union scales and their hours, changing engineers for dinner breaks, banana breaks, pee breaks, all that bullshit; he’s the first one to be allowed to go outside. that’s a pretty heavy trip for a kid of his age .
“brian wilson liberated california for producers and musicians. new york was the center for recording. brian wilson – and a lot of people may not agree with this, if they don’t they’re full of shit – brian wilson brought a lot of action to california for young producers and young musicians. he used guys who were not the a - line. guys that are being called studio cats today at that time were young guys; brian wilson used them extensively, and they became heavy studio cats .
“he also was the first guy to do it until it was right. he damned everyone till it was right and then he gave them the record; he took his chances. a lot of us would get chicken after four hours and say, ‘we’d better get off the tune. ’ brian would hang in there for nine hours, no matter what the cost. i used to think he was crazy, but he was right. brian was tough to work with. brian really demanded .
“do you realize that 70 percent of the jingles you hear on the air and on tv evolved from brian wilson’s records? think about all the ads, from coca - cola to seven - up; from thom mccann to some bank in cleveland. before they used to have that chick do her be - bop - a - do - wah in the air at the end of each commercial, with the guys who weren’t traveling that week with stan kenton doing the background. even on top 40 radio, they had those pseudo - jazz changes in the station tags. brian wilson’s records changed all that. check out those jingles. they come off of beach boys riffs .
“brian was making music in those days, he wasn’t making speeches, and it was ok, because no one was using words then. a reflection of last saturday, that’s what his music was on the coast. it was honest. it was for all time .
“you really can’t pull an individual record. even ‘good vibrations’ is an evolution of ‘surfin’ u. s. a. ’
“if brian had started today — i think the record industry is more equipped to handle a brian wilson, set up a life style for him so that he could live and work without ever worrying about going broke. in those days they really didn’t care where the fuck you were going. if you had a hit record and wanted to spend all your money, fine, because the law of averages was you weren’t to have one tomorrow.
the radiant radish was a health food store located at the corner of melrose avenue and san vicente boulevard in west hollywood , california from 1969 to 1971 . it was managed by brian wilson of the beach boys , his cousin steve korthoff , and band road manager arnie geller . 
the radiant radish was a health food store located at the corner of melrose avenue and san vicente boulevard in west hollywood, california from 1969 to 1971. it was managed by brian wilson of the beach boys, his cousin steve korthoff, and band road manager arnie geller.
the radiant radish was a health food store located at the corner of melrose avenue and san vicente boulevard in west hollywood, california from 1969 to 1971. it was managed by brian wilson of the beach boys, his cousin steve korthoff, and band road manager arnie geller.