Resultatet er en kort konversasjon som pendler mellom intetsigende og direkte smertefull lesning. Og en smule oppsiktsvekkende. Brian hevder nemlig at han ikke har hørt sin lillebror Dennis Wilsons mesterverk Pacific Ocean Blue (1977), som ble nyutgitt i år, noensinne.

Ikke nok med det: Brian visste ikke, påstår han selv, at Dennis i det hele tatt hadde gitt ut en plate. I alle fall ikke back then.

Vi klipper og limer:

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Pitchfork: A couple of years ago there was a rumor that there might be some version of the Beach Boys getting back together.

BW: No, no chance of that. No chance.

Pitchfork: I was also curious, did you follow along this year with the reissue of Dennis Wilson’s album–

BW: No, I haven’t heard it yet.

Pitchfork: Yeah, Pacific Ocean Blue was reissued this year to critical acclaim. A lot of people were going back to it after a long time. I didn’t know if you had been following…

BW: Yeah. That was the early– I never heard that album, you know?

Pitchfork: That wasn’t something that, back then, you would have–

BW: No. I didn’t even know he made an album.

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Hmmm.

Dette besøket i studio under innspillingen av That Lucky Old Sun, Beach Boys-visjonærens kaliforniske konseptalbum av året, var i det minste en smule mer vellykket. Og de eksplosivt vakre musikksnuttene som rammer inn hovedpersonens lett snøvlete betraktninger, trekker ikke akkurat ned opplevelsen:

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