"The Beach Boys being to Southern California what James Joyce is to Dublin, or Paul Cézanne is to Provence" is so well put. Even people only familiar with the tip of their musical iceberg know it.
Thanks. There are very, very few people who achieve something like the definitive artistic expression of a place, and I think Brian Wilson was one of them.
The brevity of this is its brilliance
That is quite a compliment. Thank you. Just hoped I could do justice to this incredible music.
"The Beach Boys being to Southern California what James Joyce is to Dublin, or Paul Cézanne is to Provence" is so well put. Even people only familiar with the tip of their musical iceberg know it.
Thanks. There are very, very few people who achieve something like the definitive artistic expression of a place, and I think Brian Wilson was one of them.
What a lovely reflection! I wrote this about the time when I as a teenager wrote a letter to Brian Wilson. https://open.substack.com/pub/acabinetofcuriosities/p/letter-to-brian-wilson?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Couldn't have put it any better.
How music would've been without him, god only knows.
RIP Brian Wilson, he really was a man ahead of his time. Hope that he's up there somewhere with rest of the Beach Boys doing what they loved best.