12/06/2025
Whitester Radio remembers...."Beach Boy" Brian Wilson (1942-2025)
EDITORIAL: When I was a kid, my favorite artists were the Beatles, the Monkees, Elvis Presley and the Beach Boys. The very first rock concert that I went to was The Beach Boys outside at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska in 1979. I was 13 at the time. I got to see the The Beach Boys again in concert at Rosenblatt Stadium in the summer of 1992. In 2016, I got to see the Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary World Tour with Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and Al Jardine at Harrah's Stir Cove in Council Bluffs, Iowa (Omaha's next-door neighbor). When I was a kid, I loved the surf music, car music and Southern California sound of the Beach Boys. As an adult, I loved the Beach Boys' vocal harmonies and their musical progression. That Musical Progression started with their landmark 1966 album "Pet Sounds". "Pet Sounds" was not an album full of Beach Boys' surf and car music. It was a "Piece of Art". The "Pet Sounds" album was inspired by the Beatles' late 1965 album "Rubber Soul". "Rubber Soul" was the Beatles' musical progression from pop artists to serious singer-songwriters. "Pet Sounds" was the inspiration for the Beatles' 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". One music critic said that the "Rubber Soul"; "Pet Sounds" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" albums changed the course of popular music and became the benchmark for great music. I couldn't agree more. RIP Brian Wilson.
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