Last Thursday, I got a message on Facebook from the radio station’s music director, asking if I’d like to interview Brian Wilson the next day.
“Seriously? Like THE Brian Wilson? Um… YES.”
So, after a little back and forth via e-mail, I was able to set up a time to interview the man who was responsible for Pet Sounds, Smile, et al. Then i realized that I couldn’t think of a goddamn thing to ask the man. Thanks to some help from Steve at Kief’s Downtown, I puzzled out a set of questions, and ran up to the station, awaiting the call.
I did the interview, and what happened is below. Minus a few “um”s, “er”s, and dead spaces, it’s the interview in its entirety. I had five minutes, and used pretty much all of it up. It was… interesting. Just take a listen and see what I mean.
Good int with a fairly difficult subject. You asked open ended questions; he gave fairly closed answers.