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Speaker 1: Double Elvis. Blood on the Tracks is a production of

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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio and Double Elvis. Brian Wilson was a

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Speaker 1: musical genius and one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

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Speaker 1: He caught melodies like they were waves. He bottled good

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Speaker 1: vibrations too. He broke down, he tripped hard. He didn't

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Speaker 1: just hear music, he heard voices. He tried to lose

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Speaker 1: those voices by making a teenage symphony to God called Smile.

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Speaker 1: But somewhere along the way, Brian Wilson lost his mind instead.

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Speaker 1: This is his story. Hello Roder Moss in here. I'm

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Speaker 1: still cataloging all these Brian Wilson tapes. There's only a

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Speaker 1: few left from the Smile sessions. Most of them I've

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Speaker 1: already marked and archived. But today I came across a

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Speaker 1: box called home Recordings, and some of these are pretty dark.

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Speaker 1: To be honest, Brian is at home in these. I'm

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Speaker 1: assuming this is after the breakdown of the Mile sessions.

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Speaker 1: They're recorded on a dictaphone, and he seems to be

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Speaker 1: suffering quite badly. This can be a hard listen, so

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Speaker 1: fair warning. Well let me see, uh here's the first one.

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Speaker 1: REME heard it today. I heard everything I wanted it

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Speaker 1: to be. But I never made it. I never I

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Speaker 1: never made it. We never made it. So what am

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Speaker 1: I supposed to do now? I should have never tried?

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Speaker 1: Have you ever failed failed at the thing your best at?

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Speaker 1: Where do you go from there? Where are you left

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Speaker 1: with empty dreams, half formed ideas, broken promises, unrealized potential?

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Speaker 1: I understand now all of that potential doesn't mean anything

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Speaker 1: nothing at all. It doesn't even exist, no matter how

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Speaker 1: good you thought it was. This is it now, This

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Speaker 1: is all I have nothing, no album, no purpose. Oh wait,

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Speaker 1: there is one one thing. There is all that blood

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Speaker 1: on the tracks. Chapter four, Brian Wilson is in the

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Speaker 1: deep end. Mhm h. This is one oh five point

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Speaker 1: four b R I A n F M. Where we're

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Speaker 1: all just floating away into nothingness. You have a good

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Speaker 1: day or not, it doesn't matter. All they really remember

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Speaker 1: It put shivers into my bones just to think about it.

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Speaker 1: We were in Hawaii to play a gig to make

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Speaker 1: up for our no show at the Monterey Pop Festival.

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Speaker 1: We were also going to record for a live album.

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Speaker 1: You see, we needed something to put out after the

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Speaker 1: mess of Smile and the bigger mess of what happened after.

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Speaker 1: But life has this way of well, you can go

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Speaker 1: from success to success to success, but then when failure hits,

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Speaker 1: sometimes that's all you get. Where do you go from there?

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Speaker 1: You just have to hope that you get out the

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Speaker 1: other side and back into another run of success. But

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Speaker 1: that doesn't always happen. I think I already told you

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Speaker 1: that I don't like performing live. It scares me. But

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Speaker 1: I agreed to do a few shows with the band,

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Speaker 1: playing the organ and singing. Of course, it had been

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Speaker 1: a while since I performed with the boys, and so

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Speaker 1: to calm my nerves, I I got high. I was fine,

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Speaker 1: but halfway through the set, I looked down at my

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Speaker 1: I watched them as I played I Get Around. It

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Speaker 1: Fifteen letters to words and a ship ton of history

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Speaker 1: words of California Girls. I heard the notes in my

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Speaker 1: head again. My mind raised to Pickwick Books in that

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Speaker 1: yelled to ask if I was okay. I nodded and smiled.

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Speaker 1: us in in California. Girls had started. We limped through it,

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Speaker 1: I was getting angry, angry for having to play this show,

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Speaker 1: I'm fucking high and I could tell broken promises. Dennis

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Speaker 1: was starting to go unrealized potential. Dennis stormed out, pasted

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Speaker 1: music again. I should have never tried. The show was

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Speaker 1: I could tell what was about to happen. Pretty soon

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Speaker 1: There are reports of surprise storms, wind, rain, and thunder.

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Speaker 1: When did I know Smile was over? There are a

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Speaker 1: few different answers to that question, lots of individual moments.

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Speaker 1: But it's not Smiled that I'm thinking about right now.

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Speaker 1: It's something else, someone else. There's this man, No, he

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Speaker 1: was just a kid, really a teenager, but a young

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Speaker 1: three flight. He thought that flight was the best twelve

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Speaker 1: Then a single raindrop fell on his cheek. This is

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Speaker 1: havoc on his creation. There, Tornado swirled into sight, picking

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Speaker 1: I shout, great job. Johnny at it. I'm so high

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Speaker 1: Maybe Smile will be okay after all, I tell myself,

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Speaker 1: he's about to pass out, Brian. Brian is still so tense.

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Speaker 1: When Brian looks to his right and Elton John is

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Speaker 1: that period. Martin says, if Mozart was alive at that time,

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Speaker 1: he would have done what Brian did. Brian's heart begins

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Speaker 1: to beat faster. I fully believe Martin continues without pet sounds,

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Speaker 1: Sergeant Peppers wouldn't have happened. Brian's breathing is heavy now,

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Speaker 1: his heart rattles in his chest. His feels like it's

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Speaker 1: going to burst with joy. As George Martin says his

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Speaker 1: next words, I have no doubt about that. His eyes

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Speaker 1: the edges of his vision start to blur as his

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Speaker 1: eyes fill with tears. Elton feels the man in his

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Speaker 1: embrace lower his shoulders and tilt his head up, and

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Speaker 1: for the first time that day, he is relaxed. And

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Speaker 1: before they know it, and they're both watching Good Vibrations

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Speaker 1: performed by an all star band. As George Martin, having

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Speaker 1: left the stage, appears to Brian's right to complete a

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Speaker 1: legendary trio, Martin whispers into Brian's ear, you know these

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Speaker 1: Smile songs, they still sound great. It would be great

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Speaker 1: to hear the whole thing live. Brian watches the crowd

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Speaker 1: sing along the Good Vibrations bombastic chorus. Now, now there

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Speaker 1: was an idea. Suddenly he feels ready to reconnect with

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Speaker 1: his failed he had unforgotten masterpiece, even if he knows

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Speaker 1: it won't be easy, even if he knows will require

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Speaker 1: a lot of Blood on the Tracks. Blood on the

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Speaker 1: Tracks is produced by Double Elvis in partnership with I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. It's hosted an executive produced by me Jake Brennan,

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Speaker 1: also executive produced by Brady Sadly. Zeth Lundy is lead

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Speaker 1: editor and producer. This episode was written by Ben Burrow,

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Speaker 1: mixing and sound designed by Colin Fleming. Additional music and

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Speaker 1: score elements by Ryan Spraaker. This season features Chris senz

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