Friday, December 17, 2004
I am going to have to go back to listen to this: The Who Boys-- a mash-up of Pete and Brian's best. I finally had a chance to hear SMiLE, and thought the world of it. It occurs to me that I didn't understand the Beach Boys, who, in their prime were probably less a group-- in the sense of a creative collective-- than they were an instrument in the ensemble Brian Wilson used to creat the sound that he was looking for. Similarly, The Who, for all the high concept folderol, were a great band because they had an amazing and unique sound.
