Comments on: Brian Wilson

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:42:42 +0000

I realize this is two years after your post, but I found it while looking up info on Brian Wilson. So anyway, I thought you might be interested to learn that Brian Wilson has a new CD out called That Lucky Old Sun where he sings about his mental illness in two different songs. It is an awesome CD…and he is indeed a very inspiring individual.

By: Erich Duft

Erich Duft — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:33:48 +0000

I’m going to have to agree with the writer of this article, for personal as well as moral reasons. I have been a fan of “The Beach Boys” since the age of three(which was in 1983). The only reason I had any clue as to who they were was because my father listened to them. I started showing an interest in music, as well as an appearantly paralleled inclination towards depression, at the age of 3.
Dennis Wilson had been dead for a few months when I started asking questions about the band. It was my father who informed me that he was no longer around.
What does this have to do with Brian? Well, I was under the impression that the one that died young was the troubled genius. All of my life I thought that one of my biggest influences was no longer living. I just found out 2 hours ago that He wasn’t the one who died, that he is still making music.
The point of my endless ranting, is that there seems to be a positive stigma associated with the troubled genius that gave up or accidently died young. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t pay tribute to those who have died, but when rather large publications are made about the remembered artist, such as Time magazine, they should make a distinction:
death; dying young; dying tragically; it sends a message to some that its cool because its glorified. Would’t it make more sense to say: Look at the one’s who didn’t give up, the one’s that made it through the hurricane. That no matter what life throws at you, it still comes down to a choice whether to go on or not, unless death was unforseeable.
Support life not death. Cherish creation not destruction. More distinctions should be made by those with the power to shape lives by the messages they send in the media. (I’m referring to publications like that made by time)

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:03:20 +0000

Another challenge that Brian faced was that he forgot the words to all those wonderful songs he wrote in the 1960s.

He had to re-learn each of them from scratch.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:38:52 +0000

I could not agree more with everything you said. Brian Wilson is a personal hero of mine for a lot of the reasons you just described, and he continues to provide me with great inspiration every day. Seeing him live was one of the greatest experiences of my life.

By: florence

florence — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:34:09 +0000

Thanks for the Brian Wilson link. Had a lot of fun visiting his site and checking out the podcasts.

By: beagles

beagles — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:01:38 +0000

I think he is very functional! What an awesome example of an MI genius. Some notables who say they are bipolar or Mi in some way…they don’t appear to have struggled. You know, those lists of Sting, Cheryl Crow, Ben Stiller, Howie Mandel. Brian looks like the real deal.

We can see that Brian Wilson has struggled, like we people with MI have. It’s just so visable. But he is out there, giving interviews, practicing his craft, being in his personal relationships.

And his head isn’t in the oven, so nix that morbid facination associated with MI.