1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. This is a 2 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: story about the quiet One, the genius, and the bathrobe, 3 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: the savant, the ghost. And it's a story about murder, 4 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: about theft, about manipulation. It's a story about the cost 5 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 1: of music and the way a sound can save a 6 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: person and the way it can drown them too. It's 7 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:41,640 Speaker 1: about the beach Boys, yes, but it's also about the 8 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 1: wave that never stops pulling. And this is a story 9 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 1: about love and mercy and about family and the violent 10 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: cracks that split these things apart. It's about the man 11 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: who made pet sounds, and it's about the people who 12 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 1: nearly destroyed him for it, people who medicated him, isolated him, 13 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: rewrote his contracts, manipulated his mind, and stole his future. 14 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,119 Speaker 1: It's about a murder that marked his descent, a theft 15 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: that changed his legacy, and a manipulation so complete it 16 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: turned a fragile artist into a legal hostage. It's a 17 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: story about beach Boy Brian Wilson, a man who made 18 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: great music. Unlike that loop I played for you at 19 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: the top of the show that wasn't great music. That 20 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 1: was a preset loop from my melotron called pick in 21 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:39,759 Speaker 1: Cass forever. I played you that loop because I can't 22 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: afford the rights to Monday Monday by the Mamas and 23 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: the Papas. And why would I play you that specific 24 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: slice of your mother's Laurel Canyon Cheese. Could I afford it? 25 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: Because that was the number one song in America on 26 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: May sixteenth, nineteen sixty six, And that was the day 27 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: Brian Wilson's Beach Boys released Pet Sounds and changed the 28 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: course of pop music forever. On this episode Murder, Theft, Manipulation, 29 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: Love and Mercy and the Broken Beauty of Brian Wilson, 30 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan, and this this disgraceland and the surfboard 31 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: hit Brian Wilson's head so hard that it brought on 32 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 1: total blackness. But when he opened his eyes under the wave, 33 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: the salt brought a sharp sting. The pins and needles 34 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: that bit at his hands and feet brought fear, and 35 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: a voice in his head not his own, told him 36 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 1: it was going to be all right. He was young, 37 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 1: not much older than ten, but he was physically strong. 38 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: Soon he'd be a high school athlete. He'd survive this 39 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: scary incident off the beach a couple miles from his 40 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: family home in Hawthorne, California, but he'd never serve again. 41 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: The hits kept on coming back in the Hawthorn home 42 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: throughout Brian's childhood. Hits to the head, close fist, hits 43 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: to the face, to the stomach so hard his knees buckled, 44 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 1: and down he went. Above him, he heard his father's 45 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: voice screaming at him. Whatever Brian had done, Murray Wilson 46 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 1: believed it justified the beating his sons, especially his oldest son. 47 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: Brian needed to be tough if Brian was going to 48 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: survive in this world, if he was going to make 49 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 1: something of himself like Murray had, and Brian Wilson was tough. 50 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: Brian Wilson, the songwriter, producer, composer, singer and beach boy, 51 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: passed away in twenty twenty five at the age of 52 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: eighty two, and much has been said and written about him. 53 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: When it comes to twentieth century musicians, Brian Wilson stands 54 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: among a small group of giants Paul McCartney, Miles Davis, 55 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:18,800 Speaker 1: George Gershwin in The list pretty much ends there. In 56 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: the first paragraph of Brian Wilson's Wikipedia entry, and in 57 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 1: the first paragraph of his New York Times obituary, you'll 58 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:30,119 Speaker 1: see the word genius, which is entirely justified. But Brian 59 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: Wilson was, of course, much more than that. He was, 60 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 1: as the Times oh Bit points out, damaged. He was 61 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 1: mentally ill. He abused drugs, the kind of drugs that 62 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 1: exacerbated his mental illness. He was also partially deaf and creatively, 63 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 1: he was as controlling as he was collaborative, as focused 64 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: as he was untethered. He was a son, a brother, 65 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 1: a cousin, a friend, a husband, an ex husband, a 66 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: husband again, a father, a dad, both loving and unintentionally unloving. 67 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: He was also a forever child who, like a kid, 68 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: found it difficult to rein in his impulses, and that 69 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: childlike quality persisted throughout his life, and it was, in 70 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: my opinion, part of what contributed to his genius. That 71 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 1: ability to see around creative corners other musical geniuses hadn't 72 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: yet approached, and other so called professionals were too grown 73 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: up to even notice. That childlike quality helped Brian Wilson 74 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: create America's band, The Beach Boys with his family, his 75 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 1: two little brothers and his cousin Mike, as well as 76 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 1: a couple of kids from the neighborhood, all under the 77 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: guidance of his domineering father and loving mother. The Beach 78 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: Boys gave the world. I'll repeat that, The Beach Boys 79 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 1: gave the world a glimpse at what the best of 80 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 1: America could be. Son, surf, young love, fast cars and 81 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 1: all the rest. And then Brian Wilson reached deep down 82 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: inside of himself and largely of his own creative volition, 83 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 1: gave the music world the greatest pop record of all 84 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: time up to that point, Pet Sounds, and later on 85 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: in life, it was also that same childlike quality that somehow, 86 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: perhaps ironically, helped Brian re emerge from his madness as 87 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: not only a survivor, but to regain his position in 88 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 1: pop music as a unique voice capable of penning one 89 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 1: of the most poignant and inspiring pop songs that I've 90 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: ever heard, Love and Mercy, and then becoming the literal 91 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 1: embodiment of what that song offered to the world. To 92 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: do all that, however, Brian Wilson had to endure three 93 00:06:52,760 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 1: devastating crimes murder, theft, and manipulation Ian Wilson's life. To 94 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: put it mildly was an incredible life, and this is 95 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 1: an incredibly brief look at his story. Chapter one love. 96 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 1: Families are built on love, and families, as we all know, 97 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 1: are messy. By now, we've learned that there are different 98 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: ways of building a family. Families in the past, back 99 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 1: in the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties, weren't that different. 100 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 1: I have two young kids, and I was a kid 101 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: back in the eighties and the nineties. So I try 102 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: to raise my kids with some of the same gen X, 103 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: independence and grit that I grew up with, but it's 104 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: very difficult. The world is a different place. During summers, 105 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: when I was my eleven year old son's age, I 106 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: left the house in the morning on my mom was BMX, 107 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: mostly without a plan, maybe came home for launch if 108 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: I wasn't scarfing down food at my friend's house, and 109 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: otherwise didn't return until the street lights came on. Nowadays, 110 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: my son leaves the house to walk the dog for 111 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 1: twenty minutes with an Apple watch on his wrist, which 112 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 1: I can track on my phone, and he walks to 113 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,040 Speaker 1: the edge of the neighborhood and back again on time. 114 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: Thank god, because if he doesn't, my mind starts imagining 115 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: kidnapping and child trafficking rings, and worse, God forbid he 116 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: should go into a friend's house without checking with me first, 117 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: and visiting a friend's home means my wife and I 118 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: will be googling his friend's parents like amateur detectives to 119 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: make sure they're not lunatics. Like I said, it's a 120 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: different world and my kid's a different kid. But back 121 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:33,560 Speaker 1: in the fifties it was a little closer to what 122 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 1: it was like when I was a kid. In the eighties, 123 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 1: families had more of an open door policy in their neighborhoods, 124 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: and kids came and went with less oversight. That was America, 125 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 1: and that was the America in which Brian Wilson formed 126 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: The Beach Boys with his little brother Dennis and his 127 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: youngest brother Karl, and their cousin from the neighborhood, Mike Love, 128 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: and their buddy from school, Al Jardine, And when the 129 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: band took off and learned part due to the Wilson 130 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,480 Speaker 1: Boys Dad Murray helping steer them toward a recording contract 131 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: while they were still in their teens, and when the 132 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: band started to tour, Al quit the group to get 133 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 1: his college degree it was a sensible thing to do, 134 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:15,320 Speaker 1: with rock and roll not being anybody's idea of a 135 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:19,079 Speaker 1: stable career choice. And when Al quit, Carl's buddy from 136 00:09:19,080 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: across the street, David Marx took his place, and there 137 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 1: were new auditions. It was that simple. After the band 138 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 1: took off, after they'd spent nineteen sixty four jockeying with 139 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: the Beatles at the top of the charts with incredible 140 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: singles like I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun, a year 141 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: in which the Beach Boys would release four full length albums, 142 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,320 Speaker 1: when all the pressure caught up with Brian Wilson and 143 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: brought for the first time his mental illness to the 144 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,320 Speaker 1: forefront of the band after he suffered a massive anxiety 145 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:51,719 Speaker 1: attack on an airplane flight, Brian simply decided that he 146 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: wouldn't tour anymore, and he was quickly replaced by a friend, 147 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 1: a burgeoning singer songwriter named Glenn Campbell. And when Glenn's 148 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: own solo career took off, requiring him to leave the 149 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: Beach Boys, the Wilsons and their cousin Mike turned to 150 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: their buddy Bruce Johnston to replace Glenn as Brian's replacement 151 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: on the road. Shortly after David Marks quit, but that 152 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: was no sweat. By then Al Jardine was ready to rejoin. 153 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 1: It sounds complicated, but it wasn't. The Beach Boys. Their 154 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: revolving personnel door reminds me of a neighborhood pickup game 155 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:28,959 Speaker 1: of football. Oh, Stax has to go home early for dinner, 156 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: but the game's not over. No sweat. Just go knock 157 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 1: on Mike's door and get them to come out and 158 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 1: replace Stacks. Wait a minute, Barney has to leave too. 159 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: Grabs Seth from over on the other side of the park, 160 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:40,120 Speaker 1: and let's keep playing. There were no egos, no her feelings, 161 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: just boys being boys, just beach boys. And the brothers 162 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 1: Wilson and their cousin Mike loved the music they were 163 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 1: making with the Beach Boys, and they loved the music 164 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 1: they'd grown up on, the Four Freshmen, the Everly Brothers, 165 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:58,360 Speaker 1: the Ronettes, the Ventures Link Ray, and they loved channeling 166 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,719 Speaker 1: that music into a vision of America that they were 167 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: almost solely responsible for exporting across the world. But despite 168 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 1: the subject matter of so many of their songs, the 169 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: Beach Boys did not love to surf. With the exception 170 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: of Dennis Wilson, the Beach Boys, they spent little time 171 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: at the beach. We covered this in our previous two 172 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: Beach Boys episodes, which you can revisit if you like. 173 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:25,959 Speaker 1: But the point here is that the Beach Boys from 174 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: their earliest days were less of a band and more 175 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: of an idea, an idea of what America could be, 176 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: and that came from their love of what their lives 177 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: and family had been up to that point. The same 178 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,080 Speaker 1: love drove the bands one for all and all for 179 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: one approach to making music at home, in the studio 180 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: and on the road. It didn't really matter who was 181 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: in the Beach Boys at the time, as long as 182 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 1: the train kept on chugging. The band, Mike, Dennis, Carl 183 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: Al and Bruce toured incessantly to sell the songs that 184 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: Brian stayed home to write. Eventually, Brian would begin recording 185 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: on his own with an incredible group of LA Studio 186 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: musicians known as the Wrecking Crew, who worked with superstars 187 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 1: arranging from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley. The idea was 188 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: that the boys in the band, upon returning to LA 189 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:18,880 Speaker 1: would help Brian finish the songs by laying down their patented, 190 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: tight knit vocal harmonies by nineteen sixty six. The result was, 191 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 1: to Paul McCartney anyway, undeniable. Pet Sounds, the Beach Boys 192 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:33,320 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six album, was a masterpiece. Brian created a 193 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 1: technicolor version of what his hero, the producer Phil Spector, 194 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: had established before her. Pet Sounds took Phil's layered wall 195 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: of sound technique and raced it towards the Summer of 196 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 1: Love in a way that no one at the time 197 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: thought was possible. Few Paul McCartney aside even understood it, 198 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,239 Speaker 1: and even some of the Beach Boys themselves were skeptical, 199 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 1: notably Mike Love, who lobbied for a return to what 200 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: had always worked for the group, songs about sun girls 201 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: and fast cars. But over the years Mike Love has 202 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 1: become known as the Pet Sounds boogeyman. But that's not 203 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: quite fair. Pet Sounds was a commercial flop. Hardly anyone 204 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: got it at the time. Be honest, when you first 205 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: heard Pet Sounds, did you love it? Did you really? 206 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't pay attention to it. I didn't 207 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 1: pay attention to whatever Pet Sounds single I heard first 208 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,320 Speaker 1: as a kid. But I did pay attention to Barbara 209 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,199 Speaker 1: Ann and help me. Ronda, like I said, was a 210 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 1: little kid after all, not sophisticated enough to understand the 211 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 1: genius of Pet Sounds. And that's pretty much what the 212 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: world was like, with few exceptions in nineteen sixty six, 213 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:46,040 Speaker 1: not sophisticated enough to understand Brian Wilson's genius. Just yet. 214 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: He was breaking the mold with Pet Sounds. There was 215 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: no comparison, no roadmap. I don't blame Mike Love whatever 216 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,560 Speaker 1: his ignorance or lack of understanding was for Pet Sounds. 217 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 1: The dude wrote the lyrics to Good Vibration, so he 218 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:05,199 Speaker 1: gets a pass. But Brian Wilson's genius wouldn't let him 219 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:09,319 Speaker 1: off the hook. Fragile as he was increasingly running off 220 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 1: the rails with LSD and marijuana and alcohol, all of 221 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 1: which were echoing the literal voices in his head. With dread, 222 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: Brian was unable to complete the Beach Boys' next record, Smile, 223 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 1: and from there he was in and out of the 224 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 1: band for a string of records Smiley, Smile, Wild Honey 225 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: and Friends. And in this period of the Beach Boys 226 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 1: had some incredible moments like the aforementioned Good Vibration single 227 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: and Heroes and Villains from Smiley Smile, the title track 228 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 1: from Wild Honey, and Little Bird from Friends among them. 229 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 1: But these moments were mostly about a group trying to 230 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: find their place and a culture that had left them 231 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:50,000 Speaker 1: where it thought the Beach Boys belonged in the past. 232 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: By nineteen sixty nine, Brian Wilson was back underwater figuratively, yes, 233 00:14:55,840 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: but sinking nonetheless. Smacked down by endless waves of addiction, 234 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: self doubt and growing mental illness, he was down under 235 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: the surface, his chest filled with dread. He couldn't breathe 236 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: never mind create, and by the end of the decade, 237 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: the love that Brian Wilson had used to fuel the 238 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: Beach Boy's rise, the love for his family, for his brothers, 239 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: for rock and roll, for an idealized version of the America. 240 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,400 Speaker 1: He was lucky enough to grow up in his love 241 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 1: of Phil Spector, for the Four Freshmen, the everleas Gershwin, 242 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: his love of harmony so tight they made Lennon and 243 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 1: McCartney burn with jealousy of melodies nobody, but he was 244 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: able to hear of sounds and arrangements that made Box 245 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: Ghost smile. All that love, by nineteen sixty nine was 246 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 1: being drowned out. It was no match for the drugs 247 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: in alcohol and the growing mental illness. By the end 248 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: of the decade, a darkness like the dead of the 249 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 1: ocean had consumed Brian Wilson, just as it had the 250 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: rest of sixties culture, and for America, all that love 251 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:30,240 Speaker 1: had curdled into something worse than hate. Chapter two murder 252 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: by nineteen sixty nine, with the culture turning its collective 253 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: back on the decidedly unhipped Beach Boys, with Brian Wilson 254 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: increasingly isolated and unavailable creatively to the point of being 255 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: admitted into a psychiatric hospital in nineteen sixty nine to 256 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 1: address his growing mental illness, specifically the voices in his 257 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 1: head that he was hearing alongside all those great harmonies 258 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: that were driving a mad The Beach Boys needed songs, 259 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 1: songs that would resonate with a record buying public that 260 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 1: the band now felt disconnected from. Dennis Wilson had an idea. 261 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:10,119 Speaker 1: His little guru friend, the one who had all the 262 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 1: young girls following him around, the girls that Dennis and 263 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,360 Speaker 1: his friend Terry Melcher were sleeping with. That little dude, Charlie. 264 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 1: He had songs. Now Terry didn't hear it, but Dennis 265 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 1: did so Dennis brought Charles Manson into the studio. The 266 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,199 Speaker 1: knife flashed out of Charlie's pocket in an instant, and 267 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 1: Charlie waved it all around the room crazy, like a 268 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,600 Speaker 1: shithouse rat. He aimed it at the vocal booth and 269 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:38,920 Speaker 1: then wheeled it towards Dennis, right next to him in 270 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:41,879 Speaker 1: the control room, and pressed it to his throat. The 271 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:44,399 Speaker 1: blade was warm on his neck and the fear was 272 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:47,479 Speaker 1: cold in his veins, and Dennis froze and felt that 273 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: now familiar Charlie chill ride his spine if I hear 274 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,400 Speaker 1: one more fucking note from you, I swear man respect 275 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: the prism fuckers. He then put the knife away. Everyone 276 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:04,479 Speaker 1: acted as if this was somehow cool. Dennis included. Things 277 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: in the studio were not going well for Brian Wilson's 278 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:14,399 Speaker 1: brother Dennis with Charles Manson, but Dennis wasn't so easily dissuaded. 279 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: In the summer of nineteen sixty eight, he went back 280 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 1: and forth between wanting to do right by Charlie to 281 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: getting Charlie and the girls out of his life. Nis 282 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: to the throat aside, no pussy was worth one hundred 283 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 1: grand in a rotting package. He brought Charlie and the 284 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: girls into the studio to try to get something down himself. 285 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: It was nothing short of a nightmare. The recording session 286 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: devolved into an orgy, the results of which were captured 287 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:43,680 Speaker 1: on tape and to this day have never been heard, 288 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,399 Speaker 1: and aside from occupying a rather large swath of music 289 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: history's collective imagination, they are buried somewhere deep in the 290 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:55,439 Speaker 1: Beach Boys vault. They ceased to Exist, which was the 291 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,680 Speaker 1: title of the Charles Manson song Ceased to Exist that 292 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: Dennis Wilson decided to purchase off of his wild eyed 293 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 1: guru friend in one last desperate attempt to propel the 294 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: grifter prophet out of his life of hippie squalor and 295 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: into music industry stardom. Cease to Exist, a simple folk 296 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: blues number that Manson penned about well who the fuck 297 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: really Knows, was purchased by Dennis Wilson for one hundred 298 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:24,159 Speaker 1: thousand dollars in a BSA motorcycle that Charlie coveted for 299 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 1: use at Spawn Ranch. Dennis brought the track into record 300 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 1: with the Beach Boys, passing it off as an original 301 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,919 Speaker 1: song that he'd written. Once they had the track in 302 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 1: the studio, Dennis, unusually engaged in the process, got down 303 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:40,879 Speaker 1: to arranging and producing the track with his brothers Brian 304 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 1: and Carl and the rest of the group. They modified 305 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 1: the feel from a traditional blues to something more pop, 306 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 1: more of a psychedelic ballad that only the Beach Boys, 307 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:53,880 Speaker 1: in their tremendous harmony singing, along with Brian's arrangement prowess, 308 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: could pull off. They altered Charlie's lyrics cease to Exist 309 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: became cease to Resist, and a bridge was added to 310 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 1: avoid the monotony of Manson's original. Finally, the title was 311 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 1: changed from the bleak Ceased to Exist to the hippie 312 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:13,160 Speaker 1: Zeitgei's sounding never Learn Not to Love, and the results 313 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 1: were pretty stellar. The track is, in a couple of words, 314 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 1: fucking awesome. It was featured as a B side to 315 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 1: the December nineteen sixty eight Beach Boys single Bluebirds Over 316 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: the Mountain. It was later featured on the Beach Boys 317 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: album twenty twenty. The A side charted and the B 318 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:33,720 Speaker 1: side was met with positive reviews, but Charles Manson was 319 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: not impressed. In fact, Charles Manson was pretty pissed off. 320 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 1: Pissed off at Brian Wilson's brother Dennis, and Dennis who 321 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 1: Charlie believes screwed him over, screwed him over by messing 322 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: with his song, and screwed him over by not working 323 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 1: hard enough to get his friend, producer Terry Melcher, to 324 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: help Charlie launch his career. As one version of the 325 00:20:56,359 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: story goes, this is why Manson directed his followers to 326 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: the house Dennis and Bryan's friend Terry Melcher once lived 327 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,119 Speaker 1: in and where director Roman Polanski and his pregnant wife, 328 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: the actress Sharon Tate now lived the house that was 329 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty nine. All over the news on Brian 330 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:17,159 Speaker 1: Wilson's television set, We. 331 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 2: Have a weird homicide. Later last night, another bizarre murder 332 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 2: in Los Angeles, the second in two days. 333 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:29,400 Speaker 3: Roland Polanski, the film director and husband of Sharon Tate, 334 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 3: Paul Newsman to a hotel in Hollywood today, and there 335 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 3: he made a long emotional statement total a good deal 336 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 3: of what had been on his mind since his pregnant 337 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 3: wife and four others were killed at their home on 338 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 3: August eighth. Twenty one year old Susan Atkins is involved 339 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,159 Speaker 3: in still another murder case. 340 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 2: She appeared in the Santa Monica City courtroom this morning 341 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 2: to enter a plea in a trial stemming from the 342 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 2: July thirty first murder of thirty four year old Gary Tinman. 343 00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 2: Los Angeles police have placed miss Atkins on his saty 344 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 2: gluts at the scene of the Tate murder, taking into 345 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,919 Speaker 2: account the published report in the Los Angeles Times, the 346 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,919 Speaker 2: story that Susan Atkins told about what allegedly happened that 347 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 2: night after the murder at the Tate house. We drove 348 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 2: from Clo Drive at the base of Benedict Canyon. Up 349 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 2: here we found some trousers and some shirts appeared to 350 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 2: be turtleneck shirts or something. 351 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 3: Dark in color. 352 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:29,760 Speaker 2: Did they appear to have any stains on them? 353 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 3: This is where they lived, among the stables, barns, and 354 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 3: tony buildings of an old rundown movie location twenty. 355 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 2: Miles from Los Angeles. 356 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 3: They called themselves the Family. 357 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,280 Speaker 2: Five members are now in jail on. 358 00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:48,440 Speaker 3: Other churches in the Desert John of Independence. The family's leader, 359 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 3: Charles Manson, is jailed here. It is expected that he 360 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 3: will be charged on the Tate murders. 361 00:22:54,960 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 1: Weird say it was Dennis Wilson, who brought the Manson 362 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 1: family into the Beach Boys family, and the guilt he 363 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,159 Speaker 1: felt for his involvement, no matter how unintentional, in the 364 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 1: Manson murders, would drive Dennis harder into drugs and alcohol 365 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,359 Speaker 1: and further away from his brothers in the creative center 366 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: of the band. Brian Wilson and the rest of the 367 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: Beach Boys did what they could to distance themselves from 368 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: what was about to become known as Helter Skelter, the 369 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: Crime of the Century. But in nineteen sixty nine, the 370 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 1: bottomless blackwater that Charles Manson left in his wake flooded 371 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 1: the band, nearly drowning Brian, and the worst thing to 372 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: come that year hadn't even happened yet. We'll be right 373 00:23:51,000 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 1: back after this. We're We're where, Chapter three, Theft. It 374 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,199 Speaker 1: was November in nineteen sixty nine and Brian Wilson was 375 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: alone with his father Murray, in the house he grew 376 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 1: up in. But his and his father's voices were not 377 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,760 Speaker 1: the only voices Brian was hearing. Brian heard his father 378 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: shouting above all the rest, and Brian exploded in anger, fear, 379 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 1: and disappointment. Trying to quiet the sounds that were consuming him. 380 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 1: Brian grabbed plates, glasses, silverware, whatever he could get his 381 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,439 Speaker 1: hands on. They're rocking again with his father. His father's 382 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 1: voice only grew louder, and Brian cried out in response, 383 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:38,400 Speaker 1: a cry of anguish, of deep pain, so deep, so painful, 384 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 1: so dark. He didn't recognize it. It only made his 385 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: father raise his voice more, and Brian pinned himself to 386 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: the kitchen wall and exploded in tears, a grown man 387 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: twenty seven years old, crying for his father to stop yelling. 388 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 1: But the pain kept coming. It rose up from his feet, 389 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,840 Speaker 1: passed his ankles, above his knees. He was waiting in 390 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 1: it now, and the only thing stronger than the rising 391 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,199 Speaker 1: anguish was the power of his father's voice screaming at Brian. 392 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:09,960 Speaker 1: And the pain rose up into his chest and filled 393 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:15,239 Speaker 1: his lungs, and Brian began hyperventilating. His father explained that 394 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 1: there was no other way. Brian was no good, he 395 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 1: was washed up. He'd never write hit songs again. The 396 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 1: public had moved on from the Beach Boys, from Brian Wilson. 397 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:29,120 Speaker 1: He wasn't back, for God's sake. He wasn't Phil Specter either. 398 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: He wasn't even Lawrence Welk. Brian would be lucky to 399 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:34,920 Speaker 1: get a job fetching coffee for Burt Bacharack at the 400 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 1: rate he was going and the pain was up to 401 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:40,960 Speaker 1: his neck now, and Brian still pinned against the wall, 402 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: arched his head up, chin first to stay above it, 403 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:48,200 Speaker 1: but it was no use. He was drowning right there 404 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:52,399 Speaker 1: in his father's kitchen. His father's voice rang out, still 405 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 1: louder now in some sick harmony with the voices inside 406 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 1: Brian's head. Chuck Berry's, just who the fuck did Brian 407 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 1: think he was trying to cash in on his walking roll, 408 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 1: letting his little brother rip off all those riffs and 409 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: Paul McCartney's Brian pet sounds as good, but it was 410 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 1: no Peppers it was, And what happened to smile? 411 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 3: Brian? 412 00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 1: We made the white album? What have you done? And 413 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,399 Speaker 1: of course Phil Specters, so you never should have come 414 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,640 Speaker 1: for the wall. Sound kid, you shoot with the king 415 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,000 Speaker 1: and you better not miss. But his father's voice eventually 416 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:29,119 Speaker 1: drown out all the other scene. I had to do it, Brian, 417 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,199 Speaker 1: you finished. That's why don't you see that? Don't you 418 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,440 Speaker 1: see that? I got as much for us for you 419 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 1: as anyone could more. Because Brian Wilson's father, Maury, had 420 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:46,120 Speaker 1: just sold Brian Wilson's songs. And before we get into 421 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 1: the mechanics of this crime, I have to explain what 422 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,920 Speaker 1: this means for a songwriter. I've done so in past episodes, 423 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,920 Speaker 1: but it bears repeating. Aside from their children, a songwriter, 424 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: songs are literally the most important things in their lives. 425 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,919 Speaker 1: For Brian Wilson in nineteen sixty nine, his soul was 426 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 1: wrapped up in his songs I get around Surfing USA. 427 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:13,760 Speaker 1: God only knows good vibrations. Those songs were his identity. 428 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,159 Speaker 1: Being the composer of Beach Boys tunes was who Brian 429 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,159 Speaker 1: Wilson was. And for Brian Wilson, it wasn't just his 430 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,439 Speaker 1: history tied up in all those enormously popular songs. It 431 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: was his family history which made his connection to his 432 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:33,199 Speaker 1: tunes even stronger. And his father, his father, had just 433 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:37,879 Speaker 1: sold them to someone else, making matters worse. It's arguable, 434 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:42,200 Speaker 1: almost certain, actually, that his father did so illegally, thus 435 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 1: stealing from Brian, his son the things that mattered most 436 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: to him in this world. Back in nineteen sixty four, 437 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,719 Speaker 1: leading up to this theft, Brian and his brothers and 438 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: cousin Mike fired Murray from his role as their manager, 439 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 1: largely because Murray Wilson had become a major pay and 440 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 1: the ass for the band, inserting himself into the creative 441 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,119 Speaker 1: process on top of being a world class dick to 442 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 1: his kids and to his nephew. The deal is that 443 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,639 Speaker 1: Murray would get to continue his involvement with the band, 444 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: a band, let's be fair that he did help launch 445 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,360 Speaker 1: toward their initial success, but a band that by nineteen 446 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,439 Speaker 1: sixty four definitely did not need him in any creative 447 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: capacity or even in any real business capacity anymore. So 448 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 1: Murray was allowed to stay involved and handle the Beach 449 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 1: Boys publishing. That was it. There's another way of saying 450 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: that Murray was now tasked with managing the band's songs 451 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 1: and finding ancillary ways for the Beach Boys music to 452 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: make money. But one of the first things Murray did 453 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 1: in his role as publisher of the Beach Boys songs 454 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,520 Speaker 1: was make sure that Brian and only Brian was registered 455 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 1: as the songwriter, thus cutting out his nephew Mike Love 456 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,440 Speaker 1: from his share of the songwriting royalties and making sure 457 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: that all of the songwriting revenue flowed into the Wilson 458 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 1: household alone. Murray then pressured his son Brian to reassign 459 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: the publishing share of his royalties, essentially fifty percent of 460 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,080 Speaker 1: the revenue to him Murray, in exchange for Murray handling 461 00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:15,000 Speaker 1: the administration of the songs. According to Murray, Brian agreed. Also, 462 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,680 Speaker 1: according to Murray, Brian later agreed to give up his 463 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 1: own control of his songwriting share, which is something that 464 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: Brian absolutely never did. These so called negotiations around the 465 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: Beach Boys publishing happened while Brian's drug use in the 466 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 1: nineteen sixties was at its peak and his mental illness 467 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,480 Speaker 1: was rearing its head and spinning him out of control. 468 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 1: For much of nineteen sixty nine, Brian Wilson didn't even 469 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 1: get out of bed, and when he did, he spent 470 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 1: his time playing piano in an indoor sandbox, or at 471 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,959 Speaker 1: least imagining what it would be like to play piano 472 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 1: in an indoor sandbox. He wouldn't actually have the indoor 473 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 1: sandbox installed for a couple more years, but the point 474 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,719 Speaker 1: is that Brian was spiraling in nineteen sixty nine. He 475 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 1: was in no condition to negotiate with his domineering father 476 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: for control of his song catalog, and his father, of 477 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 1: all people, knew this, but that didn't stop that sneaky 478 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 1: Murray Wilson from selling the Beach Boys song catalog for 479 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 1: seven hundred thousand dollars in November of nineteen sixty nine, 480 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:16,440 Speaker 1: and this development absolutely wrecked his son. The rationale that 481 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: the Beach Boys were washed up and had to sell 482 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 1: their catalog in nineteen sixty nine in order to get 483 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 1: anything for their songs while they still had some juice 484 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: is beyond shortsighted. The catalog is estimated to be worth 485 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,120 Speaker 1: two hundred million today and the Beach Boys still don't 486 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 1: own it. In nineteen eighty nine, Brian sued to reclaim 487 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 1: the copyrights and some royalties, and he was forced to 488 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 1: settle out of court for an undisclosed amount, and in 489 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,800 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, Mike Love had to sue Brian for 490 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,480 Speaker 1: the credit his uncle, Brian's father screwed him out of 491 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: and Mike won. But again, the songs are still not 492 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:54,040 Speaker 1: theirs these days. They're owned and controlled by Universal Music, 493 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: the biggest music company on the planet. So when you 494 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 1: see a Beach Boy song and a Chili's commercial don't 495 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: blame Brian and Mike, blame Murray. Fifty plus years ago, 496 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: when Maury sprung this news on Brian, it devastated him, 497 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 1: and it only drove him harder into drugs and alcohol, 498 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,760 Speaker 1: deeper into paranoia and drowning beneath the sounds of the 499 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 1: voices in his head. Brian Wilson needed serious help, a doctor, 500 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 1: twenty four hour medical care. Instead, what he was about 501 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: to get was falsely imprisoned. Chapter four, Manipulation. It was 502 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: the mid eighties. Brian Wilson was sitting at his piano. 503 00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 1: The Beach Boys were no longer a part of his life. 504 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: They were on the road, or in the studio, or 505 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:07,720 Speaker 1: somewhere somewhere far from Brian's thoughts. The voices in his 506 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 1: head were all he could concentrate on at the moment, 507 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 1: which was a problem because Brian had to concentrate on 508 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 1: the song he was trying to get down. The longer 509 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,680 Speaker 1: he went on without writing anything of importance, the more 510 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: upset as Doctor would get, and Brian didn't want to 511 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 1: upset Eugene Landy. Doctor Landy wanted hits. Doctor Landy wanted genius. 512 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 1: Doctor Landy wanted to be the one who brought the 513 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,920 Speaker 1: genius Brian Wilson back to the top with a hit record, 514 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 1: A hit record that he doctor Eugene Landy, would co 515 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 1: write and produce. It was possible, the Good Doctor reasoned, 516 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 1: after all, he himself was a genius, even more so 517 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,959 Speaker 1: than Brian Wilson. Brian had brains, sure, but they were 518 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,480 Speaker 1: all over the place, and it was only through the 519 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 1: strength of his genius that Brian Wilson was even still alive, 520 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 1: never mind recording music again. By the mid nineteen seventies, 521 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 1: Brian Wilson was a barefoot recluse in a bathroom, chain 522 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 1: smoking in bed for months on end, surviving on cocaine 523 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: and cheeseburgers, and racked by fear, while his brothers and 524 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:19,480 Speaker 1: bandmates carried on without him, they themselves too burned out 525 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 1: to stage an intervention, but still too caring not to. 526 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,320 Speaker 1: It was decided that doctor Eugene Landy, a showbiz shrink 527 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,600 Speaker 1: with a Messiah complex, should be hired, and so he was, 528 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,640 Speaker 1: and in nineteen seventy five, the Good Doctor went to 529 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 1: work dragging Brian out of his bedroom exile and back 530 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 1: into show business. Miraculously, his efforts worked. Brian lost weight 531 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:47,400 Speaker 1: cleaned up a little and rejoined the Beach Boys on stage, 532 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:51,000 Speaker 1: and so Landy was dismissed and Brian was better, and 533 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:55,760 Speaker 1: then he wasn't. When Brian crashed out again in nineteen 534 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 1: eighty two, doctor Landy was rehired and this time given 535 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 1: tighter can control. A year later, when Brian's brother Dennis 536 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,840 Speaker 1: drown doctor Landy put his control to the test to 537 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:09,239 Speaker 1: help manage Brian's grief, and Brian was in such bad 538 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,320 Speaker 1: shape by then that doctor Landy was granted legal guardianship, 539 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,720 Speaker 1: working under a mandate to do whatever it took however 540 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,880 Speaker 1: he deemed necessary to help save what was left of 541 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:24,120 Speaker 1: the broken beach Boy. Once Landy had full control, he 542 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:28,520 Speaker 1: medicated Brian into imprisonment. He dosed him into submission with meds, 543 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:30,960 Speaker 1: cut him off from his family, and went as far 544 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,680 Speaker 1: as rewriting Brian's will to include himself. This is on 545 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,320 Speaker 1: top of paying himself thirty five thousand dollars a month 546 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 1: and attempting to insert ownership of Brian's songwriting, publishing, and 547 00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,319 Speaker 1: eventually to collaborating with Brian on his new album, which 548 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 1: doctor Eugene Landy wanted to call Brain's Ingenius. Brian being 549 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 1: the brains and him Gene being the genius. Get it dipshit, 550 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,680 Speaker 1: and Brian was too sedated to fight back. He sat 551 00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: at the piano and pecked out noises while the doctor 552 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 1: screamed that he was doing it all wrong. Doctor Landy 553 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:06,040 Speaker 1: was on the precipice of taking everything, not just Brian's possessions, 554 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,360 Speaker 1: but his physical and mental capacity, and now not just 555 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:14,799 Speaker 1: his songwriting but his creative process. Brian was powerless at 556 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:19,000 Speaker 1: the piano, a broken down musical genius, heavily drugged against 557 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:23,279 Speaker 1: his will, his mouth agape, drooling, being screamed at by 558 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:27,360 Speaker 1: a quack doctor telling him Brian Wilson how to write songs. 559 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,720 Speaker 1: It's a scene so absurd that it's hard to believe, 560 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:36,719 Speaker 1: but it happened. And that's right around when Doctor Landy's 561 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:41,839 Speaker 1: own unraveling began. He pushed to be credited as co 562 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,680 Speaker 1: writer an executive producer for his efforts in shaping Brian's 563 00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:49,760 Speaker 1: solo record. He nearly made it happen. He did succeed 564 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,960 Speaker 1: in getting his girlfriend listed as a lyricist on multiple tracks, 565 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 1: but those efforts raised suspicion, and other people around Brian 566 00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:01,480 Speaker 1: started asking questions when they did. Landy shut them out, 567 00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,960 Speaker 1: and this raised their suspicions further. Brian's new girlfriend at 568 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:10,000 Speaker 1: the time, Melinda Ledbetter, wouldn't back down. She worked with 569 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,480 Speaker 1: Brian's daughters, Carneye and Wendy Wilson, and together they built 570 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,800 Speaker 1: a legal case to free Brian from doctor Eugene Landy's 571 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 1: unethical treatment and guardianship. Ultimately, Landy would not be criminally prosecuted, 572 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,200 Speaker 1: but a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that he'd 573 00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:29,080 Speaker 1: violated professional boundaries and ethical standards, and he was legally 574 00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:33,719 Speaker 1: barred from contacting Brian Wilson again. As a result, California's 575 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:37,520 Speaker 1: Board of Psychology revoked his license to practice. It was 576 00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:40,800 Speaker 1: also deemed in court that Brian Wilson had been mentally 577 00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:44,600 Speaker 1: incapable of making informed legal decisions at the time doctor 578 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:50,760 Speaker 1: Eugene Landy inserted himself into Brian's will. Mercifully, those documents 579 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,560 Speaker 1: were voided and the doctor was completely extricated from Brian 580 00:36:54,600 --> 00:37:00,000 Speaker 1: Wilson's life. Landy's girlfriend did manage to retain her songwriting credits, 581 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,480 Speaker 1: and it is suspected that she received some royalties from 582 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:07,839 Speaker 1: Brian's solo album. Eventually, however, her credits were struck down, 583 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:11,800 Speaker 1: and it is believed that those shady royalty payments ceased, 584 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,759 Speaker 1: and one of those songs was one of Brian Wilson's 585 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:24,480 Speaker 1: greatest achievements, the song Love and Mercy Chapter five Mercy. 586 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,440 Speaker 1: After doctor Eugene Landy was banished from his orbit, Brian 587 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:33,520 Speaker 1: Wilson began the long, slow crawl back to himself. He 588 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,480 Speaker 1: married Melinda Ledbetter, the woman who helped save his life, 589 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:40,160 Speaker 1: and for a time he found peace in her steadiness. 590 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,080 Speaker 1: He reunited with the Beach Boys and Fragments, patched things 591 00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,360 Speaker 1: up with his brother Carl before cancer took him in 592 00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:50,040 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, and stood beside the surviving bandmates on 593 00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:54,959 Speaker 1: anniversary tours. But the real triumph came when Brian, backed 594 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,040 Speaker 1: by gifted musicians called the Wonderments, led by bandleader Darien 595 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:04,319 Speaker 1: san Naja, finally finished Smile, the lost master work that 596 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:08,680 Speaker 1: had driven Brian mad and haunted him for decades. In 597 00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,600 Speaker 1: two thousand and four, he brought the album to the stage, 598 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:16,200 Speaker 1: alive and whole for the first time, to triumphant standing ovations. 599 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,520 Speaker 1: And then came more albums, global tours, a biopic, and 600 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,040 Speaker 1: the long overdue recognition that Brian Wilson wasn't just a 601 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:28,360 Speaker 1: fragile genius. He was a survivor, a man whose voice 602 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,719 Speaker 1: was erased for a long time by the voices in 603 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,440 Speaker 1: his own head, had finally succeeded in quieting the noise 604 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:39,359 Speaker 1: and found himself for his final act. I believe that 605 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:43,439 Speaker 1: Love and Mercy the simple leadoff track from Brian's self 606 00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:47,640 Speaker 1: titled album, which Doctor Landy tried to spend Gali. That song, 607 00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:52,120 Speaker 1: to me is Brian Wilson at his core. It's not 608 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:56,120 Speaker 1: a particularly robust production. It's a simple melody with simple, 609 00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,759 Speaker 1: beautiful harmonies. It's not trying to be something it's not. 610 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:04,399 Speaker 1: It's a man in pain at his piano, singing into 611 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:08,240 Speaker 1: a microphone and putting himself aside and trying to ease 612 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:14,399 Speaker 1: the pain of others. In researching this episode, I purposefully 613 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:18,120 Speaker 1: avoided learning about how that song was produced. I know 614 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,319 Speaker 1: that it was part of the era when Brian was 615 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,160 Speaker 1: being abused by Doctor Landy, but I don't know much 616 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,759 Speaker 1: else except how the song came out, and what the 617 00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,719 Speaker 1: song sounds like and what it says. And I like 618 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,400 Speaker 1: my vision of how I imagine Brian made that song 619 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,920 Speaker 1: better than anything I could read in a book or online. 620 00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,959 Speaker 1: When listening to interviews with Brian Wilson and reading his autobiography, 621 00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,000 Speaker 1: you get a pretty good look into the man's soul. 622 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:50,400 Speaker 1: He was delicate, childlike, funny, generous, aware, filled with life 623 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:54,759 Speaker 1: and love and mercy. Brian talks about his struggles with 624 00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:58,120 Speaker 1: his father and with his doctor, and to a lesser degree, 625 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,640 Speaker 1: with his cousin Mike, and his bandmates brothers, and in 626 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:05,640 Speaker 1: all of that you hear zero spite and somehow very 627 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:10,880 Speaker 1: little judgment. You even hear forgiveness. It's quite beautiful, actually. 628 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,759 Speaker 1: It's a story that began with love, somehow overcame the 629 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:20,520 Speaker 1: true crime hardships of murder, theft and manipulation, and ultimately 630 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:28,920 Speaker 1: still somehow ended with mercy, love and mercy. I like 631 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,439 Speaker 1: to picture Brian Wilson at his piano writing the song 632 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:35,080 Speaker 1: Love and Mercy, under the full way of psychotic oppression, 633 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,960 Speaker 1: and there, at his lowest moment, he's choosing to sing 634 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,120 Speaker 1: about bringing love and mercy to others. It's what a 635 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,960 Speaker 1: big brother would do, and it's anything but a disgrace. 636 00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:53,640 Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan, and this this disgrace land. 637 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:05,439 Speaker 2: All right. 638 00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,880 Speaker 1: I hope you dug this episode. Discoes listen Apple podcast listeners, 639 00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,360 Speaker 1: make sure you get auto downloads turned on so you 640 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,160 Speaker 1: never miss an episode of Disgraceland. 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