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Link Wray’s “La De Da” from his 1971 album Link Wray, recorded in Wray’s chicken shack on his farm in Accokeek, Maryland. This is soulful gritty rock by one the great pioneers and the Stones’ Exile before Exile and…Link Wray is God.

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“I dedicate this song to girls here tonight.” Dennis Wilson singing “You Are So Beautiful” written by Wilson and Billy Preston. 

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Dennis Wilson 1968 Record Mirror interview: “I Live With 17 Girls.” “We met two girls hitch-hiking. One of them was pregnant. We gave them a lift, and a purse was left in the car. About a month later, near Malibu, I saw the pregnant girl again, only this time she’d had her baby. I was overjoyed for her and it was through her that I met all the girls. I told them about our involvement with the Maharishi and they told me they too had a guru, a guy named Charile who’d recently come out of jail after 12 years. His mother was a hooker, his father was a gangster, he’d drifted into crime but when I met him I found he had great musical ideas. We’re writing together now. He’s dumb, in some ways, but I accept his approach and have learnt from him.” “I had all the rich status symbols — Rolls Royce, Ferrari, home after home. Then I woke up, gave away 50 to 60 percent of my money. Now I live in one small room with one candle, and I’m happy, finding myself.” The Manson connection was brief and intense but often too overstated. I love trusting, troubled and talented “Dumb Angel” Dennis. Beach Boy, Two-Lane Blacktop and his masterpiece,”Pacific Ocean Blue.” (via uncanny)

Dennis Wilson 1968 Record Mirror interview: “I Live With 17 Girls.”

“We met two girls hitch-hiking. One of them was pregnant. We gave them a lift, and a purse was left in the car. About a month later, near Malibu, I saw the pregnant girl again, only this time she’d had her baby. I was overjoyed for her and it was through her that I met all the girls. I told them about our involvement with the Maharishi and they told me they too had a guru, a guy named Charile who’d recently come out of jail after 12 years. His mother was a hooker, his father was a gangster, he’d drifted into crime but when I met him I found he had great musical ideas. We’re writing together now. He’s dumb, in some ways, but I accept his approach and have learnt from him.”

“I had all the rich status symbols — Rolls Royce, Ferrari, home after home. Then I woke up, gave away 50 to 60 percent of my money. Now I live in one small room with one candle, and I’m happy, finding myself.”

The Manson connection was brief and intense but often too overstated. I love trusting, troubled and talented “Dumb Angel” Dennis. Beach Boy, Two-Lane Blacktop and his masterpiece,”Pacific Ocean Blue.”

(via uncanny)

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