tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9991864.post8176916327932731894..comments2023-08-10T05:24:20.775-04:00Comments on Razing the Bar: Dennis Wilson -- Pacific Ocean BlueAndy Whitmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04010130934552315074noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9991864.post-41803033039964885102008-03-02T13:04:00.000-05:002008-03-02T13:04:00.000-05:00I turned 10 in 1978. I was still mostly subject to...I turned 10 in 1978. I was still mostly subject to what my parents listened to on AM radio, but in a way, that was the year I started having opinions about music. My sister and I bought an 8-track tape of the <I>Saturday Night Fever</I> soundtrack, and my mom was put out that music that appealed so strongly to kids came from such a "raunchy" movie. Well, <I>Three's Company</I> was touch and go too in our family. But the Beach Boys were "safe" music, stuff you could listen to in the car right along with <I>Free to Be You and Me.</I><BR/><BR/>Later that year, a young man we had known well died of a needle-born illness, and his mother wanted me to have my pick of his records. It took years for it to sink in what the things we found in his apartment meant about his life, what my parents didn't get about <I>Saturday Night Fever</I> and why that movie hadn't been made for kids. I took a lot of disco stuff, but also <I>Sgt. Peppers</I> and <I>Goodbye Yellow Brick Road</I> and some Steppenwolf and Led Zeppelin records. And there was <I>Pacific Ocean Blue</I>, which I reckoned I could put on top of the stack to for Mom to see because the Jesus-like face on the cover reminded me of the small-time Christian songwriters who passed through the community and whose 8-track tapes we'd buy. I don't think I ever listened to the Dennis Wilson record, and none of those records have survived thirty years of my carelessness. But I will go to an actual record store and buy the reissue when it comes out to see what I missed out on in 5th grade.patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05891483547486986821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9991864.post-66496023031541283912008-02-29T10:54:00.000-05:002008-02-29T10:54:00.000-05:00I am so glad this album has been reissued. This is...I am so glad this album has been reissued. This is perhaps on of my favorite albums of the 70's.<BR/><BR/>Dennis had some remarkable contributions to the Beach Boys "Love You" album.<BR/>(I wanna pick you up)<BR/><BR/>The song "Forever" off of Sunflower is a winner as well. Check it out on I-tunes.<BR/><BR/>Jeff CannellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com