Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys - the harmonies of love

 

I went out with Jennifer tonight, brought her to Bob and Diane's who invited us for dinner and they really did invite us. They really wanted Jennifer to be there part of this, and I really wasn't going to talk about that, so I'll move on to what I was going to talk about, which was the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, who just passed away. I don't know how old he was. 
I mean, he was one of us. If he was a couple years older or younger, it kind of doesn't matter. He, they really were the heartbeat of love. 
You know? There's a lot of cliches out there, Song track of America, Song of Our Lives, whatever, but this truly, the music that they played, the way they sang, this is what made you fall in love. This was love.In my room, I put aside two of them. 
In my room and surfer girl. You know, these were the songs that you waited to ask a girl to dance. "Can I dance? 
Can I How do we I don't even know how to say it anymore. Do you want to dance? Maybe that's how it goes. 
Do you want to dance? But see, in those three minutes, you were in love. I mean, you were just taken away in this moment of ecstasy of love that the Beach Boys were able to capture and create in these songs. 
And, you know, now he's passed away, and now I'm watching videos on YouTube, and you can see him sitting there, standing there, surrounded by the other beach boys. They're singing this beautiful harmony. They're singing it, we'll call it Acappella, or no acoustic, you know, no drums, no big time guitar backups. 
Just their voices, which are beautiful, beautiful harmonies. And he, he looks mentally ill. He looks like he's medicated or, you know, kind of in a distant place, mentally. 
And yet, that emotion is in there, and suddenly, amongst the harmonies, his voice rings out with the lead vocal. And oh, my God, here he is singing this song.Surfer Girl was the one. And, you know, it's like it brought him back to life. 
It's like he was there again. He was there again. And you know, Tess used to say that about old people when they sang, when they sang old church songs and so forth. 
Suddenly they'd come to life. There is a power in music. There is a power in music. 
The other day, Jennifer and her friends were talking about the power of sound. I have not experienced that as much as, but I have experienced the power of music. And it's very strong, it's very visceral, it's very kind of fundamental to our feelings. 
And I don't want to start analyzing bullshit. I just want to say, this brings back not even memories as much as just feelings. Feelings of being young, feelings of of wanting to fall in love, of feeling the sensation of love. 
It's a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful thing. And these guys did it. They made it real. 
They made it happen. And now they're passing away, he's passed away. He had certainly had many, many problems to deal with in his life. 
Thank God he was able to have the gift, the gift of music that he could share with us, and that's what it is. Yeah, I was quoting Mont in my mind a little bit just a few minutes ago.It's a blessing, and it's a curse. I think that's what we're dealing with. 
Nobody the average person doesn't have this depth of feeling or poetry to be able to create this kind of music. They don't. Maybe not even everybody appreciates it. 
I mean, I don't even want to go there because that's a matter of taste as well. But my feeling is this. Thank God, you know, some of us could relate to it as I did and I do. 
And thank God he was able to create it. And even though he was he had a curse, even though his life may have been cursed in many ways, sadly as it is, did he ever experience the love that he inspired? I don't know. 
I don't know. It's really not a matter of for me to be blabbing on about that. I just want to say thank you. 
Thank you for creating this music, this music of love, this emotion of love, this feeling, this experience, this. sensation of loving somebody. And I love, love. I think I can be honest out loud about that. 
I said tonight, I love your sister. I wasn't just bullshitting, and I wasn't just saying it to say it. I feel it. 
I feel that I found somebody I can love, and it's not the same as teenage love. I probably never dance. I did ask her if I could hug her tonight, and I did hug her, and that's all I want. 
That's all I want. It's just kind of a momentary physical bond of an emotional bond, of feeling that we're in sync, feeling that we share this sensation of human relationship that's different than anything else, that's above and beyond all the other petty things that go on in this world, certainly above some of the bullshit that we're putting up with politically, love. Love, love, love. be it ever so humble, like home, sweet home. 
Home sweet love. All right, that's enough. It's six minutes. 
Bye, thanks.