I couldn't have said it better myself! I was lucky enoigh to spend some time with him for a few yrs. He was so gentle. And kind, +appreciative of his fans. And he adored his brothers.
Dennis was not only a wonderful music talent, but 1:40 shows he had tons of sex appeal. My goodness, he was gorgeous, wasn't he? He was truly blessed with everything a man could have in this world, but it's sad how self-destructive he was. If he had lived, I think he would've gone on to produce more wonderful music. All the Wilson brothers were amazing talents & Brian still is.
Listened to Dennis’ interview on Brian for a 2nd time attentively. And i was again amazed. D. talks of his big brother so beatifully and with such loving understanding, that i haven’t heard such talk before from anybody ever (including) all kinds of people everywhere. He left all, his main concern was Brian’s health and welfare. And understands mental illness better than many pros. And says that he and perphaps others in the band wanted Brian getting better only because he loved his music. Dennis speaks with such serenity and kindness as he were a really good, caring psychiatrist. And of course praises his intelligence. Like a different man. So genuine, as if the wild, rocker, the beach boy, the charmer etc. were all absent hidden somewhere. Here is talking a humanist, a caring and loving, wise man. -i am going to listen it again several times. It is worth it. If i start to cry, i cry. I guess he really knew what love is in practice. And what did we do, when he was in great pain and misery?
Olli Paavilainen Nice comment. I feel Dennis may have had his own mental health issues and as such he was an empath. He genuinely loved both of his brothers. Dennis is honest and that is why I admire him.
This man is underatted and one day I hope he will be remembered not only the drummer of The Beach Boys but also a Piano Virtuoso and Beautiful Songwriter. Dennis wrote some very beautiful ballads and I hope one day people will reconize him for his talent and not always think about his dark addictions. I will never forget his talents etc and i wish to god i could of met him as i met Brian and Carl and MIke but maybe ill meet him in the next world RIP Brother.
I agree with all your sentiments about Dennis's talents. I was lucky enough to meet him several times over the years. He was a gentle man, sweet ,+ caring, and very kind. He admired his brothers+ always sang their praises. And he was one of the funniest people I ever spent time with. He will always be missed.
Dennis was my first celebrity crush. I knew he was a talented guy. Often, good looking people are not taken seriously. He left a beautiful legacy of music for the fans. I think of him often. 💙🙏🏻💙
Maye McDonald Dennis refused the ugly thing of kicking Brian out of his group. Even Carl was kicking Bri out!! Of course Mike who got money from Brian’s gifts. I guess he didn’t understand anything of Brian’s progress. Good Vibrations is something else he imagined Now he collects money by Brian’s songs Disgusting.
Bless Dennis' heart. All this because ... well, we all know why. Seeing this clip makes me want to wrap my arms around him and hug him 'til he didn't hurt anymore.
I love Pacific Ocean Blue. It’s so full of such raw emotion. What a beautiful, talented soul he was. And handsome, too! You really touched our hearts ♥️
By 1969, Dennis was already showing his amazing progress as a terrific songwriter. By 1977, he had joined Brian in the "genius" category, but was always overshadowed by his brother. I still believe that had Bambu (even in its so-called "incomplete" form) had been released in 1979 or 1980, it would have been just as successful as Pacific Ocean Blue. There were 12-14 tracks that could have easily made a complete album.
I was only 3 when Dennis passed away. I've always loved the Beach Boys even as a small child and I'd have been very saddened by the news if I was old enough to know what was going on. He seemed to have always been searching for some kind of inner peace. Also seemed like a really nice generous man.
Sexiest Drummer Of ALL Time with or without beard. Movie star looks, great musician, Warm-hearted, sensitive romantic. Dennis was the FULL package and criminally underrated. BETTER solo album than all of Beach Boys albums combined.. Love you & miss u Denny 🌹
Very sad. I grew up first really close to Hawthorne longggggggggg ago, though just a tad younger than 'the boys'. It was very cool (after parents moved us to the beach when the State was going to build the 105 right past our little house) to hear our new hometown's name mentioned in one of the BB's songs...When I was flying home after Christmas 1983 back to HB, back in those days they gave you string earphones to listen to the radio through the armrests, I found a station playing "In My Room" - just as we were flying over Marina Del Rey, and I thought of Dennis. When we landed at OC Airport, turned on my car radio, I heard that Dennis's body had been found next to his boat in MDR. I calculated that the exact time 'In My Room' had been playing, he had been dying. Very sad. Very sad life. Sad for his children, sad for him. Sad waste. When I hear their music, I'm 16 again south side of HB pier.....homesick...…..
Totally agree to being close to Brian harmonically. The tonal changes used by Dennis were staggering...regardless of he fact he wasnt a trained musician..theres very few..proably only Bran, maybe, who coul have written this stuff..and forget hcstandard Jazz changes..this is more than that..an exceptional musician and also vocalist in my book.
Did The Beach Boys ever record a more beautiful song than Dennis Wilsons 1970 masterpiece Forever? I'm a massive Beach Boys fan and they wrote a BUNCH of beautiful songs but Forever may the finest of them all. Like brother Brian once quipped: Its a rock and roll prayer. And how right he was.
I swear, it always seems like the best artists move straight on from what they're doing before they even finish it, like what Gregg Jakobson describes here. It seems lucky somehow when somebody pushes a person like that into actually finishing their stuff and putting it out. I've worked with people who are a bit like that.
Gregg Jakobson was attributed to writing certain songs so that he would receive a stream of royalties as payment for his testifying, instead of Dennis, at the Manson trial. Manson and the girls never got to present a “defense” at the trial, but Manson alway said one of the first people he would have called to the witness stand was Dennis Wilson…..fact.
The man was the true " hidden genius" of The Boys. If only he --DW---could have----would have--seen that, appreciated it, & stayed disciplined, he would have been HUGE---HUGE!!----on his own. More than even Carl, DW had a desperate need to be his own artist. --------WolfSky9
I was around during this period. The song "holy man" was not in 1974, when recorded was not named "holy man." Gregg appears to want to create something that Denny did not think about. Song was called Moog Riff, along with three other taped riffs. Gregg just wanted to get something going where nothing was for 40 years.
I think that when he got involved with Manson and learned what a monster that he was sent him into a downward spiral. A lot of rockers died from OD's but the deaths of Dennis and John Lennon shocked me the most of them all.
Cass Elliot, Steve McQueen and Bruce Lee were all silenced for the exact same reason Dennis Wilson and John Lennon were……and many more who the public was unaware of. Terry Melcher and Gregg Jakobson knew how to keep their mouths shut, as did John Phillips. All of them knew Manson very very very very well.
Shocked Mike Love would bad mouth all the Wilson’s cause he was so humble and after Brian left really elevated The Beach Boys from Holland on til the 50th reunion. They had Kroak-amo in 88 and..................................Love was, is and will be a tool til he dies.
Wait a second. You don't know the Wilsons nor Mike Love and you have no idea what their relationships were like other than what you are told by other people. The Wilson brothers are did a lot of drugs and booze which can be a turn off to anyone who is trying to work and earn a living. Has Mike done some things that make him look like an ass - yes. But I also know I really don't know the truth behind the scenes.
A reasonable comfortable home with a small recording studio for his creativity that apparently he needed, a sailing ship large enough to find peace and fun on the sea and not that huge vessel that he couldn't pay for, cut back on the harmful self indulgences....it doesn't seem like it would be a bad life for a man. Instead, he went nuts and unable to contain himself, sad.
By nuts, I meant that he was subjecting himself to excesses, be it drink, drugs, over the top financial expenses, or whatever. Substance abuse is now considered a mental disorder, a kind of nuts presumably.
The vocals seem very frail- love him eternally, but I just don’t get all the accolades. I think it would be a GREAT album, with Carl on lead vocals. Those two should have dumped Mike and gone off with Al.
I'm not saying that Dennis' songwriting talent is because of DNA. I'm saying that he developed as a songwriter because of the environment he was in. Brian and others encouraged and helped him develop his craft. That's what most of us don't have, to be in the midst of so many creative people who also happen to be encouraging and helpful. I'm saying that without that environment it's unlikely Dennis would have been in the music business at all, let alone the songwriter he developed into.
Brian was present when POB was done. He refused to interfere. He said Dennis is a genius...Brian probably can’t listen the album, too painful i guess. How brutally the other guys kicked him out. Even Carl who was envy. They needed him, Capitol needed, we missed. See how he is confident in the studio with The Wrecking Crew. They respected a producer who knew exactly what he wanted.
@@cazgerald9471 Being around creative and talented people does not always make you better. What Dennis did was already inside him - it couldn't be taught although yes he certainly could have learned from watching Brian. What he could not learn from Brian is what Brian heard in his head. The VISION. That is something you either have or you don't and you do not normally get to learn that. I agree that he might not have been in the music business without Brian but that's totally getting off the subject. Many artists got lucky breaks or happened to be in the right place at the right time.
@@elizabethmcleod246 Yeah, it's too complicated of a scenario to blame Dennis. He has been blamed for Manson being introduced to Terry Melcher which is not altogether true and a myth perpetuated by armchair experts on the Tate-La Bianca murders. Before he met Manson, Tex Watson had lived with Terry Melcher for a couple of months at the Cielo Drive house where Sharon Tate and five others were murdered. Tex was a wig stylist and salesman in a posh wig shop in Beverly Hills where he often encountered famous folks in Hollywood and rubbed shoulders with celebrity types from all branches of the media establishment from music and film to sports heroes. He knew Jay Sebring the man who premiered men's hair salons that catered to the stars. He moved out of the spare bedroom Melcher let him stay in after he rented a nice apartment where he moved in in a popular model who became his live in girlfriend. He drove a fancy high dollar Porsche sports car, wore stylish threads, sold pot, cocaine and hash on the side, and he partied with the stars including Sebring and his former fiancé Sharon Tate and her fiancé Roman Polanski before they were married over a year before they moved to the Cielo Drive house. Film footage of a party held at the house while Melcher lived there shows all of these people including Greg Jacobson and Dean Martin's daughter who was later briefly caught up in the Manson Family scene at Spahn's Ranch. At that same party the film footage reveals the presence of future murder victims coffee heiress Abigail Folger and her off-and-on again, ne'er-do-well drug dealer boyfriend and fledgling scriptwriter Voytek Frycowski (who was a childhood friend of Polanski in Poland where they both were Holocaust survivors as mere tots) who were killed along with 8 &1/2 months pregnant Sharon Tate and Jay Sebring on the orders of Charlie Manson by members of his so-called Family led by Tex Watson who not only had been to the house, many times, he knew everyone there that died that night (having partied with them and had often bought drugs from Voytek) and knew them all very well - except for teenage Steven Parent who had visited the caretaker at the Cielo Drive property William Garrettson briefly that evening in hopes of selling him a clock radio and was murdered simply because he was on the property per the orders of Manson, "Kill everyone there!" Dennis had nothing to do with that. Some claim Dennis introduced Tex to Charlie and others claim Dennis introduced Charlie to Terry Melcher. Both may be true and both may also be a myth. The truth is Melcher and Dennis both knew Tex Watson and all of those people were all rubbing shoulders at other parties around the same time at parties in Laurel Canyon at the homes of Cass Elliott and John Phillips of the Mama's and Papa's where Charlie was often seen and heard singing his songs and playing his guitar around the pool with rock greats like Neil Young and others who were impressed by his music. Dennis picking up two of Charlie's girls hitch-hiking (Susan Atkins and a girl called 'Yeller') got him involved with Manson right away. Dennis partied with the girls that night and then left them at his house to go to the Beach Boys recording session at Brother Records studios where the band was working on a new album. When he returned home he found Charlie and his girls had moved in. Ironically, along with Tex Watson who had a few weeks prior lost his job at the wig shop, as well as his fancy sports car which he could no longer afford - which had been repossessed. He had also been evicted out of his apartment and his live in girl friend had left him. He had basically lost everything he had including his stylish threads and his fancy celebrity friends. He was homeless for all practical purposes - then he met Manson and Charlie saw him as putty in his hands. Charlie sent him to buy drugs (MDA) from Voytek who sold him some bad dope. Dennis took a song that Charlie wrote and changed the title of it and changed the words some and then put his name on it as if he had written it. Melcher had half-heartedly promised Charlie a record contract pending the turn out of demo recordings Charlie made and then Terry had blown Manson off telling him he didn't have any music that he considered worthy of his time to produce. Dennis had also taken Manson to Brother Records (located at Brian Wilson's home!) and introduced him to Wilson brothers Brian and Carl and the rest of the band. They allowed Charlie to cut some demos there as well (which were not part of Melcher's prospective Manson recordings) which nothing ever came of. Brian's wife Marilyn was so furious at Dennis for bringing Manson to their studio, their home, and their property that she threw Dennis and Manson both out and told Brian if Manson ever came back she would divorce him and take their children where he would never see them again. Manson was pissed off at a lot of people he was looking to as a vehicle to make him famous and rich as a recording star. But he didn't go after Brian or Marilyn for being ejected from their home nor did he even go after Dennis for ripping off his lousy song which Dennis put his name on. He didn't go after those people or even Terry Melcher who reneged on his deal to sign Charlie to a record contract - he KNEW Terry had moved out of Cielo Drive and was living in a house in Malibu his mother Doris Day had given him as a wedding present after he announced his engagement to Candace Bergen. Manson had stolen a small telescope off the rear deck of the back patio which he later showed Greg Jacobson and told him to ask Terry how his telescope was working. No, Manson went after Voytek who was staying at the Cielo Drive residence with his estranged girlfriend Abi Folger after he had burned Charlie on a drug deal he had sent Tex Watson to buy some MDA which turned out to be no good. Manson had been to the Cielo Drive house on several occasions. The first time with Melcher and Tex Watson who drove him home and he allowed Tex to borrow his car to take Manson back to Spahn's Ranch where Tex lived as well. Manson had shown up later looking for Terry and the home owner Rudy Altobelli informed Manson that Terry had moved - which he already knew! He showed up at least once more and knocked on the front door which was answered by Sharon Tate's photographer Hatami (last name escapes me at the moment) who talked to Charlie as Sharon several months pregnant looked on from the hallway as he told Charlie that Melcher had moved. To Manson that house had come to represent success and wealth along with fame and the power that comes with those things. Manson was seething with anger and vowed to get revenge. But he did not lash out at Terry whom he knew exactly where he lived. He also knew where Dennis lived and had even sent him a bullet with his name written on it to scare him. What drove him over the edge was a dope deal gone wrong with a guy named Voytek who wasn't even an American citizen. Enraged he sent Tex to murder everyone at the house as an example in order to start his race war he called Helter Skelter which he preached to his followers claiming an ethnic cleansing had to happen with the back race rising up against whites. In truth the murders that night at the Tate residence was most likely a copycat crime aimed at freeing Bobby Beausoleil who had murdered musician Gary Hinman only a few days earlier after claiming he had also burned them on a dope deal. Manson cut Gary's ear off and Bobby and some of the girls tortured him to death because he would not or could not give them any money. Bobby was caught driving Gary's VW and had a knife in the car with Gary's blood on it as well as on his clothing. Incidentally Tate house murder victim Abi Folger had also crossed paths with Manson and his girls as early as 1967 in Haight Ashbury where he lived in an apartment with several girls including Susan Atkins who were all pimped out by Manson as street walking prostitutes in order to pay the rent - all of whom were treated at the Free Clinic only a few doors from the apartment. One of the volunteers at the clinic was one Abigail Folger who treated Manson and all of his girls including Susan Atkins for VD several times. The Dr. at the clinic would prescribe the medicine and Folger who had training as a medical assistant in the Peace Corp administered the antibiotics to treat their repeated cases of Syphilis and Gonorrhea. Paper work from the clinic reveals Folger signed off on their treatments over two dozen times before Manson and his girls would flee to Los Angeles where Susan Atkins would later stab Abigail over two dozen times on the poolside lawn in the back yard at the Cielo Drive residence. Dennis had little if anything to do with any of that. He was just another cog in the wheel.
![Dennis Wilson (Beach Boys) • Interview in Brother Studios • 1977 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fF4ALWODxbs/mqdefault.jpg)
Pacific Ocean Blue is a master work. The three Wilson brothers were amazing.
Dennis was too fragile for this mean old world. His beautiful soul flew off in desperation for more love and most of all peace! God Speed Dennis!
I couldn't have said it better myself! I was lucky enoigh to spend some time with him for a few yrs. He was so gentle. And kind, +appreciative of his fans. And he adored his brothers.
He beat up Charles Mansion. I don’t know if he was “fragile” lol
@@DebF124 I can remember hearing Brian say, when they were kids, it was Dennis who fought back, the only one from their father's beatings.
@@DebF124 lol very true but its fair to say he had justification in beating up an evil fella like manson😎😎😎
Cringe
Poor guy had such a beautiful soul. The drugs and desperation destroyed him. God bless him.
His beard was glorious.
And his bone structure! Lol, truly perfection
Basically everything about him was glorious 😊
He was so gorgeous to me all through his life rip🙏❤
His heart was big, and a gentle spirit.
He was SO HANDSOME!!!
Dennis was definitely talented and I'm glad to see that his closest friends sought out to keep his music and his legend alive.
Dennis was not only a wonderful music talent, but 1:40 shows he had tons of sex appeal. My goodness, he was gorgeous, wasn't he? He was truly blessed with everything a man could have in this world, but it's sad how self-destructive he was. If he had lived, I think he would've gone on to produce more wonderful music. All the Wilson brothers were amazing talents & Brian still is.
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I imagine he had many sexual experiences. He was so good looking.
Listened to Dennis’ interview on Brian for a 2nd time attentively. And i was again amazed. D. talks of his big brother so beatifully and with such loving understanding, that i haven’t heard such talk before from anybody ever (including) all kinds of people everywhere. He left all, his main concern was Brian’s health and welfare.
And understands mental illness better than many pros. And says that he and perphaps others in the band wanted Brian getting better only because he loved his music. Dennis speaks with such serenity and kindness as he were
a really good, caring psychiatrist. And of course praises his intelligence. Like a different man. So genuine, as if the wild, rocker, the beach boy, the charmer etc. were all absent hidden somewhere. Here is talking a humanist,
a caring and loving, wise man. -i am going to listen it again several times. It is worth it. If i start to cry, i cry. I guess he really knew what love is in practice.
And what did we do, when he was in great pain and misery?
Olli Paavilainen Nice comment. I feel Dennis may have had his own mental health issues and as such he was an empath. He genuinely loved both of his brothers. Dennis is honest and that is why I admire him.
This man is underatted and one day I hope he will be remembered not only the drummer of The Beach Boys but also a Piano Virtuoso and Beautiful Songwriter. Dennis wrote some very beautiful ballads and I hope one day people will reconize him for his talent and not always think about his dark addictions. I will never forget his talents etc and i wish to god i could of met him as i met Brian and Carl and MIke but maybe ill meet him in the next world RIP Brother.
I agree with all your sentiments about Dennis's talents. I was lucky enough to meet him several times over the years. He was a gentle man, sweet ,+ caring, and very kind. He admired his brothers+ always sang their praises. And he was one of the funniest people I ever spent time with. He will always be missed.
Beautiful
Virtuoso is a stretch, but he was a great songwriter
Fantastic album. I can't stop listening. Moved.
Dennis was my first celebrity crush. I knew he was a talented guy. Often, good looking people are not taken seriously. He left a beautiful legacy of music for the fans. I think of him often. 💙🙏🏻💙
Maye McDonald Dennis refused the ugly thing of kicking Brian out of his group. Even Carl was kicking Bri out!! Of course Mike who got money from Brian’s gifts. I guess he didn’t understand anything of Brian’s progress. Good Vibrations is something else he imagined Now he collects money by Brian’s songs Disgusting.
Agree, he's my crush, very beautiful man 💗
The soul of the Beach Boys.
Bless Dennis' heart. All this because ... well, we all know why. Seeing this clip makes me want to wrap my arms around him and hug him 'til he didn't hurt anymore.
Dennis , You touched all our hearts with your beautiful Soul and your Amazing music. We Love you and we miss you. Forever in our hearts 💕
one of my favorite albums of all time. Way better than anything the Beach Boys did after Holland. I still miss Dennis and Carl.
I love Pacific Ocean Blue. It’s so full of such raw emotion. What a beautiful, talented soul he was. And handsome, too! You really touched our hearts ♥️
Tear drops watching this. You will never be forgotten Dennis. You will always be a icon to me and my family.
By 1969, Dennis was already showing his amazing progress as a terrific songwriter. By 1977, he had joined Brian in the "genius" category, but was always overshadowed by his brother. I still believe that had Bambu (even in its so-called "incomplete" form) had been released in 1979 or 1980, it would have been just as successful as Pacific Ocean Blue. There were 12-14 tracks that could have easily made a complete album.
Now convince me that Dennis didn’t “use” some of the Manson recordings that were locked up in Brother Studios. Yea, that truth.
Love Dennis and his music!
thank you - thank God you posted costello's compliment on Dennis Wilson - mean comments from Mike Live regarding Dennis came from sheer jealousy
Rest In Peace Dennis. A beautiful soul
Dennis was the soul of The Beach Boys. But was a beautiful, troubled soul himself.
he truly put heart and soul into those recordings.....pacific ocean blue is an artistic achievement......
My gosh, he looked GORGEOUS !
Dennis is such a beautiful soul what a voice. So sad what happened to him. Also Carl : I love The Beach Boys so much.
Purchased POB when it initially came out in the '70s. Blown away! Better than any Beach Boys album. 👍
I was only 3 when Dennis passed away. I've always loved the Beach Boys even as a small child and I'd have been very saddened by the news if I was old enough to know what was going on. He seemed to have always been searching for some kind of inner peace. Also seemed like a really nice generous man.
F**king LOVE both these albums! Pacific Ocean Blue and Bambu are just amazing
Dennis Wilson was a hottie. Most definitely and Carl Wilson to. Sad that they passed away
So sweet, truly an angel on earth 💕 it’s so sad how tragic his ending was
My favorite album of all time.
james dean /pre punk surf rat/primal drummer/rock icon.
DENNIS!
My favorite Beach Boy
Sexiest Drummer Of ALL Time with or without beard. Movie star looks, great musician, Warm-hearted, sensitive romantic. Dennis was the FULL package and criminally underrated. BETTER solo album than all of Beach Boys albums combined.. Love you & miss u Denny 🌹
Underated & sad what a shame he was good
So so sad he died so young so talented like his brothers miss u Dennis x Carl 😥
Very sad. I grew up first really close to Hawthorne longggggggggg ago, though just a tad younger than 'the boys'. It was very cool (after parents moved us to the beach when the State was going to build the 105 right past our little house) to hear our new hometown's name mentioned in one of the BB's songs...When I was flying home after Christmas 1983 back to HB, back in those days they gave you string earphones to listen to the radio through the armrests, I found a station playing "In My Room" - just as we were flying over Marina Del Rey, and I thought of Dennis. When we landed at OC Airport, turned on my car radio, I heard that Dennis's body had been found next to his boat in MDR. I calculated that the exact time 'In My Room' had been playing, he had been dying. Very sad. Very sad life. Sad for his children, sad for him. Sad waste. When I hear their music, I'm 16 again south side of HB pier.....homesick...…..
Totally agree to being close to Brian harmonically. The tonal changes used by Dennis were staggering...regardless of he fact he wasnt a trained musician..theres very few..proably only Bran, maybe, who coul have written this stuff..and forget hcstandard Jazz changes..this is more than that..an exceptional musician and also vocalist in my book.
What a gorgeous man 😍🤤
Glad he got to be a musician at last ...
Yes. ❤️🔥💋. Love his music.
he is an icon.
What a beautiful soul.
Did The Beach Boys ever record a more beautiful song than Dennis Wilsons 1970 masterpiece Forever? I'm a massive Beach Boys fan and they wrote a BUNCH of beautiful songs but Forever may the finest of them all. Like brother Brian once quipped: Its a rock and roll prayer. And how right he was.
He was truly gifted! The real Beachboy forever! 🥀🏵️💮⛵🚘🌞🌠🌟
We still love you Denny.
Handsome guy 😌
He was beautiful
master of the seventies
Dennis was by far the sexiest Beach Boy !
Agreed! Thanks to a friend I'm fast becoming a fan..as far as I'm concerned Dennis became my personal favorite right then and there😍
Thanks so much for posting!!!!
Absolutely beautiful
What was so sad was getting mixed up with drugs Because they separate you from everyone you ever loved. And most people die alone and destitute.
Agreed! He had so much talent but drugs destroyed him.
I swear, it always seems like the best artists move straight on from what they're doing before they even finish it, like what Gregg Jakobson describes here. It seems lucky somehow when somebody pushes a person like that into actually finishing their stuff and putting it out. I've worked with people who are a bit like that.
Gregg Jakobson was attributed to writing certain songs so that he would receive a stream of royalties as payment for his testifying, instead of Dennis, at the Manson trial. Manson and the girls never got to present a “defense” at the trial, but Manson alway said one of the first people he would have called to the witness stand was Dennis Wilson…..fact.
The man was the true " hidden genius" of The Boys. If only he --DW---could have----would have--seen that, appreciated it, & stayed disciplined, he would have been HUGE---HUGE!!----on his own. More than even Carl, DW had a desperate need to be his own artist. --------WolfSky9
I love watching this video off Dennis
Great album!
I was around during this period. The song "holy man" was not in 1974, when recorded was not named "holy man." Gregg appears to want to create something that Denny did not think about. Song was called Moog Riff, along with three other taped riffs. Gregg just wanted to get something going where nothing was for 40 years.
Dennis got caught up in the sinful 70's and 80's and paid the price.
He was really good!
I wish that I could meet Dennis Wilson in heaven to chase Chicks and Party
Dennis was truly Something! i think All the Problems he had with Charles Manson & Family did a Lot to mess him up!
And the horribly abusive father they had really messed him up.
yes most can write music ,but Dennis was the Beachboys,dennis was his own man.
The guy had it all and he blew it, it's that simple.
He was a magical force that used the energy of the ocean positivity and love to help the world..
He didn't blow it! Nobody who listens to POB/Bambu could say that, quite the opposite: Dennis SAVED THE DAY!!!!
Pacific ocean blue is a great record !
I think that when he got involved with Manson and learned what a monster that he was sent him into a downward spiral. A lot of rockers died from OD's but the deaths of Dennis and John Lennon shocked me the most of them all.
Cass Elliot, Steve McQueen and Bruce Lee were all silenced for the exact same reason Dennis Wilson and John Lennon were……and many more who the public was unaware of. Terry Melcher and Gregg Jakobson knew how to keep their mouths shut, as did John Phillips. All of them knew Manson very very very very well.
POBis just great.
He's a good lad.
:-)
Fly, you are free
❤️DENNIS❤️
Shocked Mike Love would bad mouth all the Wilson’s cause he was so humble and after Brian left really elevated The Beach Boys from Holland on til the 50th reunion. They had Kroak-amo in 88 and..................................Love was, is and will be a tool til he dies.
Wait a second. You don't know the Wilsons nor Mike Love and you have no idea what their relationships were like other than what you are told by other people. The Wilson brothers are did a lot of drugs and booze which can be a turn off to anyone who is trying to work and earn a living. Has Mike done some things that make him look like an ass - yes. But I also know I really don't know the truth behind the scenes.
152 thumbs up & 1 thumbs down...that must've been Mike Love :P
Brian was an artist who had the talent to do it all.
missing u bud IAM still in a.damwishing i could visit u
Listen to River Song then listen to Rio Grande by Brian. Did Eugene Landy steal Dennis' song?
A reasonable comfortable home with a small recording studio for his creativity that apparently he needed, a sailing ship large enough to find peace and fun on the sea and not that huge vessel that he couldn't pay for, cut back on the harmful self indulgences....it doesn't seem like it would be a bad life for a man. Instead, he went nuts and unable to contain himself, sad.
No, Dennis.
By nuts, I meant that he was subjecting himself to excesses, be it drink, drugs, over the top financial expenses, or whatever. Substance abuse is now considered a mental disorder, a kind of nuts presumably.
Pacific Ocean Blue is better than any post Smile Beach Boys album IMHO
surfs up and holland say hello. if anything POB is on par with them
He had it. So sorry he never got a gray hair.
I heard this 2cd album now is out of print that Sucks !!!!!!
recently reissued in Europe on LP replica style cds & most of the Bambu/Caribou sessions disc's about to get released on vinyl for Record Store Day.
I bought mine
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And what is EPK?
electronic press kit
The dude
Holla dennis
Love this Fuck the dislikes.
1:54 Blue or green eyes?
Seems like Dennis wanted and needed unconditional love but could not return it
The vocals seem very frail- love him eternally, but I just don’t get all the accolades. I think it would be a GREAT album, with Carl on lead vocals. Those two should have dumped Mike and gone off with Al.
What? Is he copying Charlie Mansons look?
I Am Sorry Sorry You And Guys Lost
Holy Man was about Charles Manson, Greg would know.
Let's be real, many of us could have written amazing songs if we were Brian's brother - at least I know I could have.
I'm not saying that Dennis' songwriting talent is because of DNA. I'm saying that he developed as a songwriter because of the environment he was in. Brian and others encouraged and helped him develop his craft. That's what most of us don't have, to be in the midst of so many creative people who also happen to be encouraging and helpful. I'm saying that without that environment it's unlikely Dennis would have been in the music business at all, let alone the songwriter he developed into.
Brian was present when POB was done. He refused to interfere. He said Dennis is a genius...Brian probably can’t listen the album, too painful i guess. How brutally the other guys kicked him out. Even Carl who was envy. They needed him, Capitol needed, we missed. See how he is confident in the studio with The Wrecking Crew. They respected a producer who knew exactly what he wanted.
Total elephant shit.
Spoken like a true non-musician. Clueless comment.
@@cazgerald9471 Being around creative and talented people does not always make you better. What Dennis did was already inside him - it couldn't be taught although yes he certainly could have learned from watching Brian. What he could not learn from Brian is what Brian heard in his head. The VISION. That is something you either have or you don't and you do not normally get to learn that. I agree that he might not have been in the music business without Brian but that's totally getting off the subject. Many artists got lucky breaks or happened to be in the right place at the right time.
Awful! Play I get around and retire
Not one mention of him being the reason Sharron Tate & friends murdered.
It wasn’t Denny’s fault.
@@elizabethmcleod246 Yeah, it's too complicated of a scenario to blame Dennis. He has been blamed for Manson being introduced to Terry Melcher which is not altogether true and a myth perpetuated by armchair experts on the Tate-La Bianca murders. Before he met Manson, Tex Watson had lived with Terry Melcher for a couple of months at the Cielo Drive house where Sharon Tate and five others were murdered. Tex was a wig stylist and salesman in a posh wig shop in Beverly Hills where he often encountered famous folks in Hollywood and rubbed shoulders with celebrity types from all branches of the media establishment from music and film to sports heroes. He knew Jay Sebring the man who premiered men's hair salons that catered to the stars. He moved out of the spare bedroom Melcher let him stay in after he rented a nice apartment where he moved in in a popular model who became his live in girlfriend. He drove a fancy high dollar Porsche sports car, wore stylish threads, sold pot, cocaine and hash on the side, and he partied with the stars including Sebring and his former fiancé Sharon Tate and her fiancé Roman Polanski before they were married over a year before they moved to the Cielo Drive house. Film footage of a party held at the house while Melcher lived there shows all of these people including Greg Jacobson and Dean Martin's daughter who was later briefly caught up in the Manson Family scene at Spahn's Ranch. At that same party the film footage reveals the presence of future murder victims coffee heiress Abigail Folger and her off-and-on again, ne'er-do-well drug dealer boyfriend and fledgling scriptwriter Voytek Frycowski (who was a childhood friend of Polanski in Poland where they both were Holocaust survivors as mere tots) who were killed along with 8 &1/2 months pregnant Sharon Tate and Jay Sebring on the orders of Charlie Manson by members of his so-called Family led by Tex Watson who not only had been to the house, many times, he knew everyone there that died that night (having partied with them and had often bought drugs from Voytek) and knew them all very well - except for teenage Steven Parent who had visited the caretaker at the Cielo Drive property William Garrettson briefly that evening in hopes of selling him a clock radio and was murdered simply because he was on the property per the orders of Manson, "Kill everyone there!" Dennis had nothing to do with that.
Some claim Dennis introduced Tex to Charlie and others claim Dennis introduced Charlie to Terry Melcher. Both may be true and both may also be a myth. The truth is Melcher and Dennis both knew Tex Watson and all of those people were all rubbing shoulders at other parties around the same time at parties in Laurel Canyon at the homes of Cass Elliott and John Phillips of the Mama's and Papa's where Charlie was often seen and heard singing his songs and playing his guitar around the pool with rock greats like Neil Young and others who were impressed by his music. Dennis picking up two of Charlie's girls hitch-hiking (Susan Atkins and a girl called 'Yeller') got him involved with Manson right away. Dennis partied with the girls that night and then left them at his house to go to the Beach Boys recording session at Brother Records studios where the band was working on a new album. When he returned home he found Charlie and his girls had moved in. Ironically, along with Tex Watson who had a few weeks prior lost his job at the wig shop, as well as his fancy sports car which he could no longer afford - which had been repossessed. He had also been evicted out of his apartment and his live in girl friend had left him. He had basically lost everything he had including his stylish threads and his fancy celebrity friends. He was homeless for all practical purposes - then he met Manson and Charlie saw him as putty in his hands. Charlie sent him to buy drugs (MDA) from Voytek who sold him some bad dope.
Dennis took a song that Charlie wrote and changed the title of it and changed the words some and then put his name on it as if he had written it. Melcher had half-heartedly promised Charlie a record contract pending the turn out of demo recordings Charlie made and then Terry had blown Manson off telling him he didn't have any music that he considered worthy of his time to produce. Dennis had also taken Manson to Brother Records (located at Brian Wilson's home!) and introduced him to Wilson brothers Brian and Carl and the rest of the band. They allowed Charlie to cut some demos there as well (which were not part of Melcher's prospective Manson recordings) which nothing ever came of. Brian's wife Marilyn was so furious at Dennis for bringing Manson to their studio, their home, and their property that she threw Dennis and Manson both out and told Brian if Manson ever came back she would divorce him and take their children where he would never see them again. Manson was pissed off at a lot of people he was looking to as a vehicle to make him famous and rich as a recording star. But he didn't go after Brian or Marilyn for being ejected from their home nor did he even go after Dennis for ripping off his lousy song which Dennis put his name on. He didn't go after those people or even Terry Melcher who reneged on his deal to sign Charlie to a record contract - he KNEW Terry had moved out of Cielo Drive and was living in a house in Malibu his mother Doris Day had given him as a wedding present after he announced his engagement to Candace Bergen. Manson had stolen a small telescope off the rear deck of the back patio which he later showed Greg Jacobson and told him to ask Terry how his telescope was working.
No, Manson went after Voytek who was staying at the Cielo Drive residence with his estranged girlfriend Abi Folger after he had burned Charlie on a drug deal he had sent Tex Watson to buy some MDA which turned out to be no good. Manson had been to the Cielo Drive house on several occasions. The first time with Melcher and Tex Watson who drove him home and he allowed Tex to borrow his car to take Manson back to Spahn's Ranch where Tex lived as well. Manson had shown up later looking for Terry and the home owner Rudy Altobelli informed Manson that Terry had moved - which he already knew! He showed up at least once more and knocked on the front door which was answered by Sharon Tate's photographer Hatami (last name escapes me at the moment) who talked to Charlie as Sharon several months pregnant looked on from the hallway as he told Charlie that Melcher had moved. To Manson that house had come to represent success and wealth along with fame and the power that comes with those things. Manson was seething with anger and vowed to get revenge. But he did not lash out at Terry whom he knew exactly where he lived. He also knew where Dennis lived and had even sent him a bullet with his name written on it to scare him. What drove him over the edge was a dope deal gone wrong with a guy named Voytek who wasn't even an American citizen. Enraged he sent Tex to murder everyone at the house as an example in order to start his race war he called Helter Skelter which he preached to his followers claiming an ethnic cleansing had to happen with the back race rising up against whites. In truth the murders that night at the Tate residence was most likely a copycat crime aimed at freeing Bobby Beausoleil who had murdered musician Gary Hinman only a few days earlier after claiming he had also burned them on a dope deal. Manson cut Gary's ear off and Bobby and some of the girls tortured him to death because he would not or could not give them any money. Bobby was caught driving Gary's VW and had a knife in the car with Gary's blood on it as well as on his clothing.
Incidentally Tate house murder victim Abi Folger had also crossed paths with Manson and his girls as early as 1967 in Haight Ashbury where he lived in an apartment with several girls including Susan Atkins who were all pimped out by Manson as street walking prostitutes in order to pay the rent - all of whom were treated at the Free Clinic only a few doors from the apartment. One of the volunteers at the clinic was one Abigail Folger who treated Manson and all of his girls including Susan Atkins for VD several times. The Dr. at the clinic would prescribe the medicine and Folger who had training as a medical assistant in the Peace Corp administered the antibiotics to treat their repeated cases of Syphilis and Gonorrhea. Paper work from the clinic reveals Folger signed off on their treatments over two dozen times before Manson and his girls would flee to Los Angeles where Susan Atkins would later stab Abigail over two dozen times on the poolside lawn in the back yard at the Cielo Drive residence. Dennis had little if anything to do with any of that. He was just another cog in the wheel.
Dennis , You touched all our hearts with your beautiful Soul and your Amazing music. We Love you and we miss you. Forever in our hearts 💕