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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Year, city, state | Hawthorne, California 1961 |
| Original name | Pendletones |
| Name 7 members | Brian, Carl, Dennis, Al Jardine, Dave Marks, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston |
| Who was Murray, role to group | Abusive father of Brian, Dennis and Carl. Business manager for the group and pushed his way in as producer but was fired as both |
| Name of company Brian and his father owned | Sea of Tunes |
| What happened to the company and how much was it worth | Murray sold it, worth $700,000 |
| How much $, studio, hours of tape | $50-75,000, 4 studios, 90 hours |
| Album after Pet Sounds, why was it never released | Smile, project Brian was working on but rest of the group felt there was no commercial appeal and would not sell |
| Pet Sounds influence and group that wanted to make better album | Brian was very experimental and tried things that had never been done showing what you could do in a recording studio, the Beatles |
| Who was the Wizard, known for, Beach Boy | Charles Manson, leader of a group known as his "family" and convicted under the "joint-responsibility" rule. Affected Dennis Wilson but failed to make him quit the Beach boys and join his "family" |
| How many records released | 16 albums |
| Van Dyke Parks, influence | Poet, provided lyrics for Brian's Smile session, had a fight with Mike Love about the meaning of his lyrics and confessed he had no idea |
| 3 sentences interesting about Brian Wilson |