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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">Rockadelic</strong> said:</div><div>I would love to hear a Brian Wilson who was broke and fameless recording Smiley Smile in his room on a 4 track.<br /> <br /> Instead we got a lunatic with a bottomless recording budget and the pressure to record hit songs in order to keep a large number of people happy who depended on him.<br /> <br /> He could have been Daniel Johnston, Skip Spence and Bobb Trimble rolled in to one.<br /> <br /> Instead he was like a retarded Brill Building savant who can't deal with reality.<br /> <br /> What the Beach Boys were is over rated.<br /> <br /> What they could/should have been is under-rated.</div></blockquote> <br /> This is entirely possible, but we'll never know.<br /> <br /> Of course that's more a defense of Wilson than of the whole group. And the group always included Mike Love, who seems like a major asshole and a minor talent.
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