I seriously love hearing Brian speak when he was lucid. This is a serious peak behind the curtain for Brian. This is sincerely great insight here, if you pay attention. This is a *SERIOUS* treasure for hardcore fans.

Brian has always had a childlike innocence and enthusiasm. I saw footage the other day of him for his 80th. If you look and listen you can still see the enthusiasm for life, despite everything.

Nice to hear Brian sounding so happy to be communicating and doing it in a relatively controlled and considered manner.

Audio is pristine which pleases my ears. Brian sounds in really good spirits with a strong rapport with Pewter on air. Thanks for letting us enjoy this.

Clean or not, the coolest part is hearing Brian react to each song. Genuine, pure joy.

Jim really handled Brian with so much forgiveness and love in this

He still had a bit of his younger voice left but you could hear it evolving into what he would sound like by 1976. By then his voice totally changed and became raspy for a while.

I wish his voice stayed like that. Even though he smoked at the time his voice sounded like it naturally aged.

photo above , left to right - Van Dyke Parks, unknown lady, Brian Wilson, Harry Nilsson, unknown dude with dark sweater & tie..... I used to deliver Pizza to Jivin' Jim Pewtwer when he worked on the air at KMET on Wilshire- there was a speaker at the front door Jim would ring me in , and I would hang out in the station with Jim on the air- about 1974 ...

A friend of his once said that Brian had no malice or guile. He was a lamb led out to the slaughter. He didn't see evil coming, poor guy.

One thing I have noticed is that Brian seems to be incredibly honest, perhaps to a fault! He is pretty "normal" when he is comfortable and not stressed/scared etc.

Very cozy interview. Nice to hear Brian so relaxed and playful.

Jim: "Brian let's pick out a cut from the Holland album." Brian: {Deep sigh}

Tommy Morgan was the professional harmonica player that the Beach Boys hired for their songs, including Pet Songs. He was legendary in his own right.

I read that Brian was troubled immensely by his Fathers death. If you listen to him here, you hear a good and sensitive man under the influence. He's making excuses for not touring, he's defensive in some ways and very superficial. He's coping, but not coping well. At this juncture in his life he needs real help, not an exploitative Dr. who drove Brian deeper into himself. His brother Carl said it best one time by describing Brian as an extremely sensitive man that bruises easily. Many artists of his caliber are. It was his second wife and his family who eventually got the help he needed. In 2015 he just released another solo album, and a good one at that. He's a tough guy considering all the pain he has been in. He's a survivor, and we are all lucky he did. What great music he gives us. To your health Brian, and thank you for the music.

Brian’s voice sounds a lot like Carl on a few different occasions. Man, I really miss Carl & Denis and really love Brian. Pure kindness outta his heart, always! Love & Mercy! 🤙🏽

Love this picture of Brian Wilson and Harry Nilsson I’m a huge fan of both of them. They where two people who made wonderful and somewhat similar music. Brian is great in this interview he’s totally there in he moment and lucid ( whether “sober” or not he’s there) talking about music and life. Side note can you imagine hanging out with the two of them? I can only imagine the fun they had.

The music sounds so much better than modern remasters.

What a classy way to end this interview. Jim was really good at putting the subject at ease. I just wish he would’ve asked some more deep/meaningful questions, but this is still a real gem of an interview. Brian Wilson is beyond a living legend...He is a religion. Amen.

Brian sounds so much like Carl, here. Or vice versa, since Brian's the elder

Nice work cutting out all the songs and fading in with the interview, really nice, thanx for this

This is an amazing artifact!

Poor Brian being sad about his wait, really makes me sad.

Brian later was on a tribute album for Nilsson, so they must have been chill. You know those Nilsson kickbacks would have been extremely cool with Lennon, McCartney, Cooper, Wilson, Moon and all the other amazing artists.

Always good to hear Brian.

Can you imagine recording in a train station? Brian "Wait, play that train back"

Best interview I have ever hear with Brian Wilson. He sounds completely normal and his voice isn't yet raspy as it would be 2 years later. He's very focused and alert. Whatever he finally plunged in to by the late 70s, it took half his head off and he hasn't been the same since. I wonder what drugs it was by the late 70s that has left him in the mental shape he is in these days?? The LSD of the 60s, didn't take it's toll on him as is evident in this interview..but something did later on.

It,s always good to hear anything from the master-Mr.Brian Wilson..

Thanks for this

God bless Brian! xoxo The Clarences

I had no idea Brian even did any interviews in the 70's.. From what you read its like Brian was a wreck, but he's laughing and with it here. I guess the shit hit the fan properly from around this time onward..

I bet you this DJ had reel to reels of all the Beach Boys music. It sounds amazing.

You notice Brian's voice is not slurred yet before he met his doctor.

The guy on the far right is the poet Stevie Kalinich. NB

So cool that this is where Brian learns Endless Summer was a hit. Seems after that things really started to turn around for the group, of course Brian still had a long way to go with recovery

Brian Wilson is the BEST!

They have so many songs

Interesting to hear the true stereo I Want To Hold Your Hand, which was not yet released in the U.S.

Very good interview. But god Brian must feel so bad hearing his old voice to that moment, he couldn't reach those notes anymore

Fascinating stuff…Brian sounds like he snorted all of Scarface’s stash right before the interview. The crazy part is, he sounds like he would during the Landy years circa 88 , like during the Four Freshman story . It also sounds like he’s at times trying to sound different; he’s said later on he consciously was trying to send like Dennis and Randy Newman, but I wonder if he was trying to sound like Carl at this point (like on parts of the 1975 version of In the back of my mind )

thank yoou!

I noticed some the older BB selections played here were probably pulled from the Endless Summer compilation - as they aired the lp versions of Be True to Your School and Help Me Rhonda, and not the actual 45 rpm hit versions. Interesting to hear the lp duophonic mixes here...

I love Brian❤️

Love the natural conversation about potato chip dip, this is one of the best -if not the best brian wilson's interview

Almost sounds a lil Jim Morrison-ish with his speaking voice's tone.

This interview makes me really see where John Cusack drew his performance in “Love and Mercy” from, the inflection and pacing of Brian’s talking is almost exactly like John Cusack’s performance of 80s Brian in “Love and Mercy”, or, the other way around I guess. It’s really interesting to hear Brian from this time period where he hadn’t quite degraded his voice down to it’s condition in “Love You”, but it wasn’t the same 20-something tenor voice it had been. Listening to his 1975 demo of “In the Back of My Mind” makes me feel so serene, he could’ve made some really wonderful baritone music during this time.

He was doing a lot of cocaine, overeating, and spending a lot of time in bed but he wasn't a complete recluse. This was before Landy "treated" him.

3:00 is the greatest.

I love this

Where can I find The Jim Pewter Show archives?

Great interview, any way to get in contact with Jim Pewter? Email address? I'm stumped on a song title from a record that came out in the early 60's. I'm sure with his knowledge he'd name it!!

What really upsets me about hearing this, is Brian sounded GREAT here. He certainly was fighting battles inside his mind, but Brain was only 32 here, a young man who had just lost his father, had recently become a father, and had a meteoric rise and fall at a very young age. He was an artist who at once had been told he was brilliant and a genius, and those closest to him lost faith in his Smile project which I think wounded his confidence more than people can imagine. He still was writing great music in the late sixties and early 70s, but his band was stuck in the mid sixties which didn’t allow him to grow. I only wish someone could have convinced him to finish Smile as a solo project and be a solo artist, while producing The Beach Boys. His work in the early 70s (70-72) was brilliant, basically alternative before alternative. No one got it...The real tragedy is that his family allowed that kook into Brian’s life, without really knowing what he would do to him. They have him free reign and instead of getting him real help, they pawned him off because they didn’t want to deal with him. This young man that had brought them all to where they were, and they sat and watched as Landy fried his brain with a concoction of drugs that were probably intended to harm and possibly kill him, it’s a miracle that he survived. I just hate that now people say the drugs in the sixties caused his brain damage, they definitely didn’t help, but the real damage occurred in the late 70s and 80s, when the family signed him away and let Landy have his way. Just shows you how misunderstood mental illness is, and how the majority of people both don’t understand and also don’t want to...I blame his current state on his family, not the drugs.

So much misunderstanding regarding Brian Wilson's nervous breakdown. I'm not even a Beach Boys fan and I can tell right away what happened simply from my brief analysis of Wilson during this period. His father's death had an incredible effect on his ability to cope with life. He fell into clinical depression, overslept and overate while taking drugs to try and numb the pain. He wasn't schizophrenic like his doctor thought and in fact Wilson was only regressing into a childlike state of fantasy and imagination yet again to cope with his depression. He was manipulated by his doctor who perpetuated his child like state with delusions in order to convince further work and in result continue profiting. Some people think the way he speaks is evidence of his eccentricity but in fact he was born deaf in one ear and has an unusual speech pattern where he curls his lip because of it.

Does anyone know if that's Harry Nilsson in the photo, makes sense if was 74, the time of lennon's " lost weekend" period

“Do you like, uh, Fritos, that kinda stuff?” 24:35

Is there an unedited version with the music?

The songs sound sooo much better than the Spotify versions? Why??

Wasn’t this during the era where Brian supposedly couldn’t get out of bed?

22:25 brian doing some.. ya know,, sniffsniff... cokeeen

Is BW literally doing a line after they come back from break @22:27?

Who are all the people in that picture with Brian?

Kenny & the Cadets

Who is the hot blonde with her arm around Brian? Is that Debbie Keil back in the day?

Does anyone know who the blonde is? and is that Van Dyke Parks? And why is Harry so mad?

he also might have realized that he was about 33 here (correct me if Im wrong) - and they were talking about the fade of When I Grow Up going up to 33 if you listen as long as possible- so - he might have bugged out a little......

I'm thoroughly confused by this interview. I consider myself to be a die-hard BB's fan and know all the minutiae and trivial details regarding the band's existence. Wasn't Brian supposedly in bed from '73'-'75? This interview appears to be an entirely different Brian Wilson than what documentaries, interviews, and books would have you believe. No doubt I'm sure he was a wreck and a drug addict, but is this whole "I stayed in bed for 2.5/3 years" just a ruse to have us believe he was in worse condition than he actually was?

Are VanDyke and Brian holding/drinking full glasses of milk? Or were they given some sort of candle as a party favor?

Sweeeeet mother of Jeezus is he flying high on coke here or what?!?! 🤣 can almost hear his heart pounding a million miles an hour thru the mic 🎙💥

I wonder if he was doing lines in the studio

What the heck was going on @ 22:18 ?!?

Great picture of Brian and Harry at the party. Drinking Brandy Alexanders no less! Mr. Lennon must have been close by.

Brian Wilson is the oldest 32 year old in history here

there are parts of this interview where Brian sounds absolutely insane.

if he started talking fast - it probably would be coke - not diesel.......

7:46

what’s the song that starts playing at 1:03?

you need a little more research. there was a whole "brian is back" campaign in the 70s, and he even appeared on Saturday night live!

We’re starting to think BW’s whacked out period wasn’t as bad as it has been portrayed. He seemed completely normal here.

THIS IS AROUND THE TIME HE DID ITS OK WITH ROY WOOD AND ROLLING UP TO HEAVEN THE ORIGINAL GOOD TIMIN SHORTNIN BREAD AND CHILD OF WINTER XMAS SONG ALL IN 1974!! ALOT OF BULLSHIT ABOUT HIM BEING IN BED ALL THE TIME, MUST OF THAT OCCURED AFTER MURRAY'S DEATH IN 1973!!

that coke Brian is high on during this interview... man I bet it was good

"He's very focused and alert" That's what coke will do for you. I love reading people speak of drugs when they have never tried anything stronger than a tylenol.

What the hell is happening at 22:20 Thru 22:36? Was Brian shooting up? Sure sounds like he was! (in the background) He starts cursing and says "Errr goddam jesuschrrr WOO Heavy!" Then he sounds like he is talking real fast!

harry's got his eyes on van dyke while blonde girl and suit guy have eyes on each other, and the only ones looking at camera are van dyke and brian because they're showbiz survivors

Under the spell of cocaine! Very sad to hear him in this state.

K A W A I I

frankie valli in the pic too

What?

Brian live 8 miles from the beach. Not the 3 miles he said in the interview.