My Nominations for the "Long Promised Road" Soundtrack
Friends
In My Car
Vega-Tables
Busy Doin’ Nothin’
SMiLE (album cover; Brian’s humor)
It’s OK (serenity, not summer)
Our Favorite Recording Sessions / In Concert
Southern California
Fairy Tale Music
Pacific Ocean Blue
Sail On Sailor
I Guess I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times
Outro ~ Long Promised Road. . .
. . . then, as the credits roll, Walking Down The Path of Life
Friends
Brian and friend Jason Fine (Rolling Stone magazine) hit the road…
In My Car
70 hours of simple, silent, poignant, moments as Brian and Jason drive around Los Angeles
Brian: “I haven’t had a friend to talk to in three years”
“Play Long Promised Road”
“Jack Riley died? - How do you know that? What did he die of?
Tears as he listens alone in the car
Vega-Tables
Brian: “Jason, what are you having for lunch? Cobb Salad? Get one for me too.”
…one of several lunch stops at Brian's favorite Beverly Glen Deli
Busy Doin’ Nothin’
Video GPS to Bellagio
Drive for a couple miles
You'll see a sign and turn left
For a couple blocks
Next is mine, you'll turn left on a little road
It's a bumpy one
You'll see a white fence
Move the gate and drive through on the left side
Come right in
And you'll find me in my house somewhere
Keeping busy while I wait
Brian on staying in his bedroom: ”I was kind of lonesome”
(music) lost my way…darkness all day through…memories made me feel like stone…alone”
Elton John: "One of the most moving nights of my life (at Brian’s house)."
SMiLE (album cover; Brian’s humor)
Brian: “Jason, ask that guy about that car …" Brian leans toward the open driver’s window and yells across the parking lot: …"Hey buddy, what year is that car?”
Jason: "What did you do in the tent?"
“A little grass, Peanut butter sandwiches”
Brian, when asked to repeat the vow he was making to Melinda at their weddings … "___what did you say?
Brian when asked about the Holland album: “It was a trip”
It’s OK (serenity, not summer)
Brian requests It’s OK a couple of times; seems to calm him
“I was a little shy”
“I’m hot; I’m nervous.”
“When you get scared what do you do; take a deep breath?”
Brian: “I served time for 9 years.” (with Landy)
“I was afraid the devil came after me through other people
If I had not taken control, he’d be dead
My name’s Wilson; maybe that’s where i got the will.”
I ate two NY steaks for breakfast and birthday cake
I was so fat -311 pounds but then down to 185 six months later
Had to kick cigarettes, alcohol and cocaine at the same time
I was just being stupid
Jason: "He controlled you?" Brian: “Mostly made money off me.”
Adopting kids - "Yeah,, that was a trip!"
"Kids are creative, playful, I learned love from them; … inspiring."
Our Favorite Recording Sessions / In Concert
Bruce Springsteen: "I would have bet they used tapes
Jason: "You looked happy at the SMiLE concert."
Brian: "It was a big challenge…some o that stuff is pretty complicated."
Brian had 180 concerts in two years; more than any other time in his life
Jason: "How long to calm down before a concert?"
Brian: "How long? 2 minutes."
Southern California
“I had this dream, singing with my brothers, in harmony supporting each other…”
Fairy Tale Music
Brian: "Carl wanted to produce it"
I saw Carl about a week before he died; he said
“I’m going to make it Brian…”
Pacific Ocean Blue - Dennis
Brian: "I never heard River Song - “Is it pretty cool?”
I was hanging out with Dennis; we'd play piano and drums
Riveting scene of Brian listening to POB for the first time
Comment from a musical
Sail On Sailor - Songs
Brian: “Sail on Sailor was probably one of the best songs I wrote.”
Don Was: “How’d you do that? Geometric patterns with his finger. Not sure he was telling me the truth.
Bruce Springsteen:
“Caroline No” one of the greatest in history when dealing with coming of age
The beauty of PS is the joyfulness of life even in the midst o darkness
God Only Knows? It filled my soul
"Those songs are joyful and painful … life…the hallmark of lasting music”
Jason: "Still things you want to do, accomplish?"
Brian: "A rock and roll album; Chuck Berry, Little Richard."
...Summer Days was a Rock and roll album."
Long Promised Road:
Brian: “bah bah bah bah …I came down and wrote that.”
I Guess I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times
A few of the comments from throughout the documentary that disprove the angst of IGIJWMFTT made by Brian Wilson fans Elton John, Don Was, Bruce Springsteen
Don Was:
"One of the greatest artists that has walked the face of the earth in our time or any time."
“I’ve made records for 40 year and I do not know how to do this; nobody does.”
“That’s a banjo?”
Bruce Springsteen:
"Quite wonderful...Awestruck”
"No greater world created in rock than The Beach Boys"
"I played (their songs about a thousand times."
Elton John
Brian threw away the rule book: It just took you out of where you were into another place
Brian Wilson has found influence in music
Music runs through his veins
He is just a California guy who like to make music and be with his family
He doesn’t deserve accolades about his music; he deserves accolades for his personal life
Additional accolades
Advanced in the structure of his songs
Used harmonies as an instrument
He sets a very high standard; innovative emotionally evocative
More than a band, an orchestra
Brian was the leader of a team that trusted him
I don’t think anybody’s touched it yet
Haunting harmony
With Brian’s music you hear his spirit
Architecture in his technique
He sat at home and dreamed up these textures that never existed before
Everyone has issues; Brian is vulnerable to get up there…gives people strength
Long Promised Road. . .
A Carl Wilson song that will now forever be a biographical statement of the life of Brian
Brian wrote a new song specifically for this documentary, telling us he is “Right Where I Belong.”
...then, as the credits roll, Walking Down The Path of Life
A not-so-well-known Brian Wilson song that reminds me of the spiritual vibe that permeates (almost) every song Brian touches.
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02. I’m Goin Home
03. It’s Not Easy Being Me
04. Must Be a Miracle
05. Slightly American Music
06. It’s O.K.
07. Rock & Roll Has Got a Hold On Me
08. The Night Was So Young
09. Honeycomb
10. Long Promised Road
11. In My Room Live from the Ryman Auditorium
12. I’m Broke