Glad to see this as the first comment. A few years back I would have probably had a rebuttal, but after falling down the rabbit hole I totally agree. In their time they’ve been at the very top and the very bottom, both for good reason. But for a stretch they created some music that can’t be topped, and had little to do with cars and surfing.
Wow. Every other interview I have heard with Brian he says he was born deaf in his right ear. This is the first time I have heard him say he was hit with a board in the head and his dad was drunk.
love Brian though its sad how overmedicated he still seemed and how he slurred his words. no wonder the caller who didnt know Brian wondered about that. also when Brian was asked what kind of meds he takes here, he just said he doesent know and he cant say that on air. very bad vibes, i would have loved treatment for him that involved minimal medication.
Brian not wanting to tell Howard what he's on probably isn't a matter of secrecy or something. Asking someone you barely know what meds they're on is pretty personal and inappropriate.
I have Mild Cognitive Impairment from 35 years on psych meds. I slur words and can't remember even recent things. I love Brian. My heart goes out to him. It's not easy with mental health problems and addictions. He lost his lovely wife recently too. So sad.
This type of interview would’ve been good for anyone else but it definitely was not good for Brian Wilson. It’s clear to me, after leaving Landy, he did not end up with the best treatment. In the recent years to follow this interview, you can notice a big decline in his social skills… Further retreating into a shell. At least with Landy, he was more outgoing and engaged with good social skills. It’s too bad his medical providers could not find a happy medium.
Part of the Elvis story is left out. Brian tried to do karate on Elvis when they first met and Elvis asked him to stop. Brian then did it again and that's why Elvis wanted to leave. I love Brian, but let's not let it sound like Elvis was the bad guy.
Jack White playing Elvis Presley doing a KARATE kick in the 'Walk Hard' rock bio parody. "Only two types of people know karate: the Chinese and the KING!": ua-cam.com/video/x8Mx9yz6wFE/v-deo.htmlsi=Lug8WyR7R7e0SuRh
@@WaitingForTheHook There are many things in this interview that are objectively false, or inaccurate in fundamental ways, either from Brian or Stern with a pliant Brian not correcting the record. When his oldest daughter would have been 12, he had long been estranged from his children and separated from his wife; he'd already moved out of the home a couple of years before, found a new girlfriend, and was oscillating between psychiatric hospital + round-the-clock medical supervision, and drug-and-alcohol benders where he would go missing for days. I can find plenty of strange and disturbing things Brian did, but there's zero evidence that he's a n**ce or for this story with his daughter's friends; I've searched for it for the last couple of hours and found nothing, never heard it before, and it doesn't make sense given the dates. It sounds like him missing the joke or complying with a joke in poor-taste. I think Beach Boys fans often treat Brian like a songwriting rainman, but the truth is that there's a tightrope to walk between recognising that he was a competent and professional studio bandleader and self-conscious artist in his 20s, but also a congenitally ill man whose family had a history of mental illness, and that the pressure of the entertainment industry dialled up with every artistic breakthrough; in other words, the better the songs, the greater the pressure, the worse for his mental health - putting aside drugs. He went from being odd with arrested development but "with-it" and productive and professional, to a very sick and troubled and disturbed man who was "gone" and should not have wrote another song and entered another studio by 1969 (at the very latest, probably earlier!) Lastly, one must also remember that bands back then were acutely aware of playing to a younger audience - rock'n'roll was still a novel youth cultural phenomenon even in the early 70s; long hair was outrageous until relatively late - whereas the average age of a Taylor Swift fan is closer to her own. The formula back then was literally like that viral Led Zep parody ("Hey hey girl, you're just 15, but that's OK cos I'm a creep!"): boy-meets-girl, with "little girl" being a common term of endearment for a female (the Beatles did it, very common in blues - "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" being a blues standard), combined with grown men writing from the perspective of a hormonal adolescent in a post-censorship, sexual revolution world (random examples: Rod Stewart - who covered the "...Schoolgirl" song - mentions a "Virgin Child" in "Tonight's the Night" and the French lyrics are unpleasant when translated. See also Knack's "My Sharona").
It. never ceases to amaze how many interviews got. Wow. Brian Wilson rules
Stern getting his information mostly wrong and Brian just going along with it.
"Keep listening to Howard, because he's where it's at" - Brian Wilson
32:16 Brian capable of witty comebacks when his music is in the background.
It's like it gives him confidence maybe.
This seems like a classic already 5 minutes in
Thank you howard for all the great interviews you have done
what a woke idiot
Far and away the best Brian interview
BEACH BOYS BEST BAND OF ALL TIME
Glad to see this as the first comment. A few years back I would have probably had a rebuttal, but after falling down the rabbit hole I totally agree. In their time they’ve been at the very top and the very bottom, both for good reason. But for a stretch they created some music that can’t be topped, and had little to do with cars and surfing.
Correction....Brian is the music ..... god
The best musician EVER....and a humble man....i Love him so much Made my life so much richer❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
okay, iron sheik
@@christiandigennaro9436 I really like all of Brian’s solo music and especially the song with Al Jardine and David Marks
Brian Wilson has such an honest innocence about him.
It’s great isn’t it
Wow! I heard the other Howard Stern interview when Brian was still with Eugene Landy. I hadn't heard this one.
Brian was pretty lucid for this interview. Great to hear.
@@Awesoman This was 1998. Brian was around 56 years old
@@philOKC Yep I'm aware. But even back then he usually wasn't like this.
Needs more cocaine
Beach Boys were American’s Best IMPO
33:45
Lmao what a wild ride. How did this interview even materialise
Wow. Every other interview I have heard with Brian he says he was born deaf in his right ear. This is the first time I have heard him say he was hit with a board in the head and his dad was drunk.
I agree. Brian was on Larry King and said he was born deaf.
Yeah I've heard him change this story many times as well as other stories like how much acid he took
21:44 mention of David Marks
love Brian though its sad how overmedicated he still seemed and how he slurred his words. no wonder the caller who didnt know Brian wondered about that. also when Brian was asked what kind of meds he takes here, he just said he doesent know and he cant say that on air. very bad vibes, i would have loved treatment for him that involved minimal medication.
Melinda was the best medicine ever for Brian. She saved his life.
@@philOKC you would hope so, but he didnt seem less medicated than during the landy years.
Brian not wanting to tell Howard what he's on probably isn't a matter of secrecy or something. Asking someone you barely know what meds they're on is pretty personal and inappropriate.
I have Mild Cognitive Impairment from 35 years on psych meds. I slur words and can't remember even recent things. I love Brian. My heart goes out to him. It's not easy with mental health problems and addictions. He lost his lovely wife recently too. So sad.
@@philOKC It depends on who you ask. Carnie Wilson called her Melandy.
This type of interview would’ve been good for anyone else but it definitely was not good for Brian Wilson. It’s clear to me, after leaving Landy, he did not end up with the best treatment. In the recent years to follow this interview, you can notice a big decline in his social skills… Further retreating into a shell. At least with Landy, he was more outgoing and engaged with good social skills. It’s too bad his medical providers could not find a happy medium.
@musicmatty67 This is quite a good interview .. Brian was doing well in this third or fourth renaissance
Is there film on this lunacy,or only sound?
Part of the Elvis story is left out. Brian tried to do karate on Elvis when they first met and Elvis asked him to stop. Brian then did it again and that's why Elvis wanted to leave. I love Brian, but let's not let it sound like Elvis was the bad guy.
Jack White playing Elvis Presley doing a KARATE kick in the 'Walk Hard' rock bio parody. "Only two types of people know karate: the Chinese and the KING!": ua-cam.com/video/x8Mx9yz6wFE/v-deo.htmlsi=Lug8WyR7R7e0SuRh
Didn't Brian also try to show Elvis a song that he wrote?
Stern Blows since 2005
Wow Howard is so weird
and Brian saying "Yes, that's true" when they said he hit on his daughter's friends at 12 years old isn't weird?
@@WaitingForTheHook i thnk it's a well known fact that Brian Wilson is a well known weirdo
@@bobbbbysacamano i didn't know anything about underage girl stuff.... it's super weird. I just thought he was an eccentric guy... not that.
@@WaitingForTheHook There are many things in this interview that are objectively false, or inaccurate in fundamental ways, either from Brian or Stern with a pliant Brian not correcting the record.
When his oldest daughter would have been 12, he had long been estranged from his children and separated from his wife; he'd already moved out of the home a couple of years before, found a new girlfriend, and was oscillating between psychiatric hospital + round-the-clock medical supervision, and drug-and-alcohol benders where he would go missing for days. I can find plenty of strange and disturbing things Brian did, but there's zero evidence that he's a n**ce or for this story with his daughter's friends; I've searched for it for the last couple of hours and found nothing, never heard it before, and it doesn't make sense given the dates. It sounds like him missing the joke or complying with a joke in poor-taste.
I think Beach Boys fans often treat Brian like a songwriting rainman, but the truth is that there's a tightrope to walk between recognising that he was a competent and professional studio bandleader and self-conscious artist in his 20s, but also a congenitally ill man whose family had a history of mental illness, and that the pressure of the entertainment industry dialled up with every artistic breakthrough; in other words, the better the songs, the greater the pressure, the worse for his mental health - putting aside drugs. He went from being odd with arrested development but "with-it" and productive and professional, to a very sick and troubled and disturbed man who was "gone" and should not have wrote another song and entered another studio by 1969 (at the very latest, probably earlier!)
Lastly, one must also remember that bands back then were acutely aware of playing to a younger audience - rock'n'roll was still a novel youth cultural phenomenon even in the early 70s; long hair was outrageous until relatively late - whereas the average age of a Taylor Swift fan is closer to her own. The formula back then was literally like that viral Led Zep parody ("Hey hey girl, you're just 15, but that's OK cos I'm a creep!"): boy-meets-girl, with "little girl" being a common term of endearment for a female (the Beatles did it, very common in blues - "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" being a blues standard), combined with grown men writing from the perspective of a hormonal adolescent in a post-censorship, sexual revolution world (random examples: Rod Stewart - who covered the "...Schoolgirl" song - mentions a "Virgin Child" in "Tonight's the Night" and the French lyrics are unpleasant when translated. See also Knack's "My Sharona").
this whole interview is cringe af Brian is so uncomforable through the whole thing
I loved the 2000 bio movie. Amazing.
This is the future for Artie if he does not change his lane;