So, many years later, a Dennis Wilson sound alike finished it off, and that version got officially released. I'm also including an early version of Dennis Wilson's "River Song" that was recorded in 1974, even though another version would be released on his 1977 solo album "Pacific Ocean Blue." I'm also including a Dennis Wilson song "Holy Man" that was recorded during this time, but he never got around to adding the vocals. I included "Good Timin'" and "It's OK"even though they weren't released until 19 respectively, because they actually were recorded during this time. However, I had to dig pretty deep in order to find enough material. Much music recorded around this time has never been made public, not even on bootleg, but there's enough for me to put this album together. That said, a lot of recording was done, and what I've heard sounds pretty good. So, with Brian as the creative leader of the group, it's no wonder they couldn't put finish an album. Rumors of him spending an entire year in bed date to around this time. His voice deteriorated significantly due to heavy cocaine use and smoking, and he pretty much gave up on music. His father died in mid-1973, and that sent him into a spiral of heavy drug use and general bad behavior. The main problem, it seems, was genius Brian Wilson. They tried recording a new album in 19 at Caribou Ranch in Colorado, but they couldn't get it together. It turns out the band was having big personnel problems. But they didn't put out another album of new material until 1976, and by that time, their critical momentum was lost.įrom the mid-1970s onward until today, the band essentially turned into an "oldies" band, playing their earlier greatest hits the vast majority of the time, with their new material of much less interest to the average fan. The band was riding a big wave of popularity, thanks to the release of the greatest hits album "Endless Summer" in 1974 that did surprisingly well, going all the way to number one in the charts in the US. In 1973, the Beach Boys released "Holland," the latest in a long series of albums that tended to come at least once a year.
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