Carl Wilson

She wasn't known in the States.

But Carl Wilson played a Rickenbacker 12-string a good bit.

And it's funny, there are some 1964 Beach Boys tracks that you can hear mixes with the 12-string and mixes without the 12-string.

Hmm.

California Girls was Roth's first solo single while he was still in Van Halen, and it hit number three.

Carl Wilson even sang backup, so you got the Beach Boys harmony behind David Lee Roth.

Gotta love it.

Here's Diamond Dave.

We spent the next two days crying together, looking out over the ocean.

Later that year, Dino's younger sister, Gina Martin, married Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys, bringing Olivia back into the Martin family again.

The minister who performed the ceremony was John Roger, founder of the movement of spiritual inner awareness.

After the ceremony, he told Olivia that Dino was at peace.

well-known things.

Everybody in every band, you know, like Carl Wilson was basically just a straight up guy, loving, gentle guy.

He and I hung out on tour together because we were the same kind of guys.

We didn't want to go to the bad clubs.

But it's weird because me being the one, you know, I would always choose music over... lyrics and and stuff generally but for me it's the vocal what i love about the beach boys is the vocal harmonies it's yeah that's true it that's that's what gets me about about and maybe that's because i'm a singer but you know that's that's the thing that maybe

that'll be good vibrations of course god only knows it's just what carl wilson's singing but i mean it's probably his best vocal ever

yeah

um so okay so i've gone for god only knows so that's my one done it nice and easy Back to you, Geoff.

Again, I'm not a Beach Boys scholar.

Well, I know it was Brian Wilson, his brother Dennis, and his brother Carl, their cousin Mike Love, who sang and was their frontman, and Al Jardine, who was a family friend.

Now, Mike Love is the singer and the frontman, but he's not the only person who did lead vocals on Beach Boys records.

I know Carl and Dennis both did.

As did Brian,

yeah.

but then also became i think at the same time resentful of their success and it was just very toxic and brian brian was deaf in one ear and he had at least at one point claimed that that was be from his father hitting him caused the deafness in one ear.

And Dennis in particular, Dennis was the middle child and he was the most rebellious and he had a really, really bad relationship with their father.

Shannon Guns.

No, Shannon was Carl Wilson's dog that passed away.

And Henry Gross wrote a song about Carl Wilson's dog.

And the song went to number six.

And then he only had two hits, and this was this big, giant one.

To me it represents the start of music when we first got moving.

When we recorded in my room, there was just Dennis, Carl and me on the first verse and we sounded just like we did in our bedroom all those nights ago.

This story has more meaning than ever since Dennis' death.

We started some trouble around town and we haven't been able to stop ever since.

You just need to be in the neighbourhood, and that's good

enough.

Well, we've got a quote from Carl here as well, then, so let's have a go at that.

Okay.

We went on our first tour together as I was part of the band.

He just called, uh, Carl Wilson and said, "I've got your keyboard player for you"

Oh, wow

... 'cause Carl had asked him to fi- find one.