Drawing on hundreds of interviews and never-before-heard studio recordings, Carlin follows the Beach Boys from their earliest days through Brian's deepening emotional problems to his triumphant reemergence with the release of Smile, the legendarily unreleased album he had originally shelved. In Catch a Wave, Peter Ames Carlin pulls back the curtain on Brian Wilson, one of popular music's most revered luminaries, as well as its biggest mystery. Despite their utopian visions, infectious hooks, and stunning harmonies, the Beach Boys were beset by drug abuse, jealousy, and terrifying mental illness. In a few short years, they rode the wave all the way to the top, standing with the Beatles as one of the world's biggest bands. You gotta be constantly vigilant and realistic about these things.Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, along with Mike Love and Al Jardine-better known as the Beach Boys, rocketed out of a working-class Los Angeles suburb in the early '60s, and their sun-and-surf sound captured the imagination of kids across the world. "These things are never going to be out of your life. "You manage it, you learn and evolve, but another recognition you gotta have is that these are the cards you were dealt," he says. Completely noncasual, but it's part of your DNA, part of the way your body cycles."īruce knows his particular brain chemistry will never leave him completely in the clear. Things that just come from way down in the well. "You're going along fine, and then boom, it hits you. Then things would be peaceful and easy and he'd find himself on his knees.
Awful, stressful things could happen - conflicts, stress, disappointments, death - and he'd be unflappable.
I'm feeling that because I'm doing this, or because that happened."Įventually Bruce realized that his worst moods had nothing to do with what was actually taking place in his life. The mind wants to link all your feelings to a cause. "You go through periods of being good, then something stimulates it," he says. Decades of psychotherapy helped reveal and cast light on some of his most primal traumas and conflicts, but his raw moods, and occasional descents into full-blown depression, never quite went away. “Bruce has wrestled with his moods, and a psyche genetically prone to extremes, for most of his adult life.
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