Love You

It's not like he had never written any lyrics, but Brian Wilson lyrics maybe weren't as familiar to the public as those other lyricists were.

And so the Beach Boy Love You songs might have seemed odder because nobody really knew what Brian was really like.

And some of his

bandmates wanted to keep it that way.

And although the resulted LP would bear the name The Beach Boys and feature the involvement of the entire group, like Pet Sounds before it, the album bore the mark of one very singular

creator.

My opinion of the Love You album is that it's a Brian record.

And I guess it's because I know how it went down.

Oh, wow.

Uh, and he c- because he was the f- first engineer on The Beach Boys' Love You album.

Oh.

And, uh, Greg and I were sitting 10 feet away, uh, from a man who, uh, Greg said, "Can you believe he was friends with Charles Manson and Donald Trump?"

And, and, and so, so we have that element, and then of course sitting next to Mike Love is, is Earl Mankey.

And so Earl Mankey's describing how he brought Roy Wood in to work on the Beach Boys', uh, uh, 15 Big Ones album.

And, and then the Beach Boys' Love You album is an album that has really inspired me so deeply, so, so deeply, uh, with, you know, my band, uh, Can Ham, with two Ms.

There are two- there's two Ms in magic.

Brian Wilson's just a maniac and I love it.

Like, the, the Love You record is just psychotic.

It's just him with a synth and-

Oh

[laughs]

Yeah.

Ding Dang is just, like... or Beach... uh, Love You is just Brian Wilson and a, and a synthesizer.

There's...

It, like we were in the recording studio, and so it's kinda fun for me.

I mean, that's a b- bold choice to, to go back to The Beach Boys' Love You.

I mean, you know, big fans like myself, I've loved that album for years, but, you know, it's not like it has a lot of, uh, hit singles on it.

What, uh, what inspired you? It s- it was such a great idea.

So I knew if I, if I brought that up again, that he would respond in a positive way.

Uh, and, uh, and he did.

He said, "If you do this, if you do this Beach Boys Love You, you're gonna...

People are gonna jump out of their seats," or something like that.

And so I think, you know, the Friends album was a very important album to him.

Love You was a very important album to him.

And those are not like accessible chart-topping records.

So, you know, when you go through that, Part of your mind is kind of in this thought process of I'm not appreciated.

Because I've got that much material.

So it's going to like the next one will pick up, you know, this next one's ending at 15 big ones.

The next one will pick up with Love You and that'll go to whatever point the one after that will pick up after that.

Wow.