I had that very pleasure. One of the great moments of my life.

I have the same feeling about Mike Love

@@yaniingham-thomas5001 Suum ciqque.

me too...so much happy beautiful hopeful music he has given the world and the poor man was fighting a constant war within his own head...I have so much affection for the man. ....not only his genius writing but that voice ....that falsetto in those songs was like floating in the clouds. love the guy .

Me too, I adore him

Sad time in his life, but MAN WAS HE HANDSOME. I'm straight, but I have such a man crush on late 80s Brian

@@jimjones6901 I think you're gay, can't blame you, it is Brian after all.

My man had full-blown schizophrenia. As someone with an anxiety disorder myself I can honestly say that I’ve never felt a fraction of the psychiatric distress he must have experienced as someone with schizophrenia. It’s debilitating.

Landy was a jerk but if he didn't treat him Brian wouldn't be alive today. All of the Beach Boys said that

@@jmaguire2232 I believe he has schizoaffective disorder. Landy had him medicated as a paranoid schizophrenic

and, really, really smart! Superior intellect.

he has the sweetest wit I've ever heard

In 1984 he said being single was like liking a Phil Spector record saying there's no separating between the 2. In another interview he said to the interviewer ''Give me a handshake'' ''No a better one that''

THIS!

I think you mean "long promised road"

@@Beefy-Cheese - Maybe so, but since Brian was such a Beatles fan I thought the reference was fitting. He made many twists and turns getting to a sober place. He completely disavowed drug use later but for so long through the 60’s and 70’s he was pretty much loaded on substances a lot of the time. Maybe staying in bed for years at a time ultimately helped save him too.

Cute, too. So endearing. (Unlike Mike Love).

@@patricias5122 mike who? 💀💀 eff that guy.

Check out That Lucky Old Sun album.

someone, make this happen.

@@_keato I suspect that it would be thoroughly uncomfortable to watch.

@Pixie oh hush your mouth! He's a modest man, that's all.

@Pixie yup..Dr Landy days.

That 600 calorie diet...wasnt healthy weight loss at all. They treated as if he was 600 pounds before lol

@@michaelfrazia4569 pre- Doctor Landy days. Brian was basically sedentary from 67-73 and ballooned in weight, doing nothing but snorting coke and eating for 6 years.

Dave Letterman isnt a musical genius!! not that he was looking at him much, anyway

It’s 2022 and Brian Wilson is really struggling now. decades of drug use has made him stare off into space and sit at the piano at his concerts and he can’t sing full songs anymore. So sad

@@dogpd3 Wow, I believe that he's in his 80's.

RayRay He specifically has a non-Jewish soul?

@@timsanderson5572technically not wrong lol

For real! Couldn’t take my eyes off >.

Yes, epic mullet! But all members of this band came out of the local freak house. Worst BW song ever

Also Dave Coulier playing lead guitar over on the left

hahaha!

Lol. Yes, awful song!

Shouldve did MELT AWAY

@@ameerordimly1449 Or Meet Me In My Dreams Tonight. Or any song from that album but Night Time, which is probably the weakest song on it!

@@brownieboy401 so true - probably picked it cause it was soo simplistic and easiest to sing live and he was terrified of performing lead for the first time in years. He also did it for another show while promoting the album - probably that same week. -it was some Dick Clark show -it comes up if u search - B.W. NIGHTTIME

Sorry - It's just a Dennis Wilson 'Forever' rewrite

He had some spectacular hair for his age. What was he, like 46 here? Damn good mullet, no doubt.

@@hasselett Yeah he was blessed in that area

Dropping that much weight the way he did it is pretty unhealthy

​@@JustinEdwords of course, but also the previous 20 years of drug abuse

at least one person gets it, thank you

The Patrick Bateman-esque monologue really sold this comment

It wasn't that bad, really. I mean it's got a hook. Even the underwhelming stuff by Brian still has his touch of genius on it.

Yeah! This was a great album, albeit with some over the top production.

"night time" despite being undeniably catchy like alot of his music was the low point of his self titled album from 1988.

Yes he was 🥰

But he still brang up all the cliché bullshit. Poor interview meant for the masses.

Dave is a dick. Period. Hell, that’s his whole schtick.

I was gonna say the same. He was respectful.

Because Brian is broken.

That's narcissist Dave for you.

You have spoken the truth

Agreed except for Lennon, hes wasnt that good. You can only name a handful of good beatles songs written and composed 100% by him (the other ones where mainly with McCartney's music). His garbage solo career proves it, 1 or 2 good songs the rest sucks.

Maybe add Paul Simon and Billy Joel. But in my heart all those guys combined don’t equal Brian. Very few things have touched me the way his music has

@@theledebb yeah personally I’d have said Harrison, but Lennon didn’t SUCK

@@theledebb I don’t think McCartney’s solo career is great either. 5-6 great albums and some good singles but ALOT of crap too. I much prefer Lennon personally.

Why was he like this

@@nataliarobinson9514 Drugged up to the eye balls on anti psychotics.

@@jaggass oh hush. He looks fine here. Brian's never been Mr. Generic Adult.

Heavily medicated thanks to Dr Landy which allowed him to control Brian, as we know today

Yes. Some very good music, though.

maybe you would have preferred he stay 300 pounds and lie in bed all day out of his mind on cocaine and other substances

@@ronfowlermusic No one would prefer that, but "Dr" Landy was undeniably manipulative and drugged Brian out of his mind himself with numerous anti-psychotics.

@@ronfowlermusic I'd rather be fat than brainwashed, misdiagnosed and have permanent ticks because of the excessive meds that weren't necessary. That kook Landy would be in jail if he did that in today's world. Freaking Richard Simmons should've been called instead 😂

@@ronfowlermusic Landy did far more damage than cocaine or heroin ever could. Even at his worst in the 70s he was still lucid. No one is denying that him getting sober and losing weight was good for him. But that doesn't excuse the abuse he suffered under Landy

That must have scared the F out of Brian

600 calorie diet.

Def Leppard sucks!

Landy got paid

i mean he was an artist he did quite a few appearances in the late 80s. he even was on full house! (despite funnily him denying he was there)

⁠@@dmer-zy3rb Maybe he meant mentally he wasn’t there

Brian did seem out of control through no fault of his own.On other interviews in 1988 he seemed more like himself after not being drugged up as much.

Google Eugene Landy. You'll understand. He was Satan.

Most musical guests only talk for a couple minutes after performing. I don’t think Dave was scared of him, he did seem like he picked up that something wasn’t right with him though

@@imtired2531 I think Letterman was prepared not to put out his sarcastic witty remarks on Brian. Just to congratulate him for his career in a short civil interview.

@@rossriver75yukon27 Maybe Dave was told to lay off or else, lol.

Thank You. Brian knew this and handled it with class.

I thought they were decent questions for only having a couple minutes with him... Like he's going to start asking him about the creation of Smile or something? Also I think the song is kind of funky and catchy.

I mean, usually these interviews are planned out in advance... Perhaps this is the subject matter Brian or his management asked Dave to talk to him about... Brian was very mentally fragile then (and frankly even now) - it took him a minute to even get the Indiana surfing joke and it would be atypical of a musician to acknowledge in an interview that their single did poorly. He was not a seasoned interview pro. Finally, this was a late night show in the 80s. Those shows aren't known for their deep dives or hard hitting questions. I don't see anything to chastise Dave about.

I’m not sure that Dave could’ve done much different really. I agreed that the questions were banal but Dave’s audience isn’t the right one for any sort of in depth deep dive questions and the amount of time he had would’ve made it pointless. I’m assuming that any questions about the conservatorship or Landy were off the table and, looking at Brian, I’d say at this point he wasn’t ready for anything too deep or meaningful in terms of questioning. He looks nervous and a bit bewildered and bearing in mind the previous 10 years he’d had I think it was a safe play by Dave. Brian did really well to do the performance and interview by himself and I suppose that the subject picked was one that he would easily respond to. I do agree though, as a Brian fan it’s frustrating but 99% of those watching most likely weren’t as big fans as us 😀

There's no reason to go at Dave.

Lool

oh hush, Brian is looking at sounding great here. I guess you never saw him at his worst, in the early 80's. 300 pounds, unshaved, unwashed, singing with a ravaged voice. Landy got him in shape again, got him to put away the hard drugs and the smoking that was destroying his voice. There was nothing unusual about this interview - that's all the music people ever got on this show.

Every performer sits and talks with Dave for just a couple minutes after if at all

not well enough? the album was great and obviously his singing voice was permanently damaged, nothing much you could do he needed to work within the vocal range he still had.

I thought the exact same thing.

Is.

Bro, thanks a LOT!!!

great!

That's hilarious. You gotta love Scott Page!

Business on top, party at the back.

that's what his current handlers would like you to believe

Why?

@@volumedogs6422 Because he was very controlled by Dr Landy as and was drugged up all the time.

@@jaggass he's not drugged up here, other than being on some meds to control his ups and downs. I don't know if you've ever suffered from depression; it's hell. I am thankful we have medicine that can help balance us out now.

@@ronfowlermusic Yes, he is. Landy was overmedicating Brian when this interview took place.

It’s weird, looks like it’s not him somehow.

He’s always talked out of the side of his mouth since he’s almost completely deaf in his right ear

@con Who the F is Haskins?…

i noticed that too in other interviews from the time Brian was shaking severely during interview - poor guy.

no haha, I thought the same thing at first glance.