Words of wisdom by Brian Wilson
“We [The Beach Boys] were all messed up on drugs. We were doing witchcraft, trying to make witchcraft music. I was stones on hashish and grass and I got a little too much into this one tape called ‘Fire’. Then, a place down the street burned down the same day we did the song. And I said to myself, ‘somehow we must have burned that building down.” And I threw the tape away and erased all the tapes, except…I erased ‘Fire’. All the rest that we kept, they were just like twenty-second little pieces, trying to imitate Phil Spector, and not getting anywhere near him. I was crazy then, I was a crazy person.”
– Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys)
