Over seven months, Brian Wilson assembled “Good Vibrations” piece by piece in four studios, spending over $50,000, at the time the most ever spent on a single.
“It scared me, that word vibrations,” Brian Wilson once said. The mother had explained to little Brian why dogs bark at some people and not others. “Dogs feel the vibrations that you can’t see or hear. And the same thing happens between people.” “Good Vibrations,” Wilson’s crowning work as a songwriter and producer, harnessed that energy…
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