{"id":1278,"date":"2008-03-09T01:10:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T06:10:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-24T17:35:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T17:35:19","slug":"endless-summer-or-inevitable-bummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/endless-summer-or-inevitable-bummer\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless Summer or Inevitable Bummer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y6YSihrVvK4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nLet&#8217;s take all psychiatric illnesses out of the equation. Let&#8217;s say <strong>The Beach Boys<\/strong> had been able to continue making records with <strong>Brian Wilson<\/strong> operating at the mental faculties he&#8217;d had in play through <em>Pet Sounds<\/em>. Let&#8217;s say <strong>Mike Love<\/strong>&#8216;s geeky side didn&#8217;t develop into a full-blown annoyance and <strong>Hal Blaine<\/strong> continued drumming for <strong>Dennis Wilson<\/strong>. Let&#8217;s say <strong>Carl<\/strong> was allowed to be simply Carl, with no expectations to pick up the slack for Brian. Let&#8217;s say <strong>John Stamos<\/strong> never began showing up onstage with the band. <em><strong>How much more gas was left in The Beach Boys&#8217; tank?<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Do the dozen charming, humble numbers in the years that followed <em>Pet Sounds<\/em> and the <strong>&#8220;Good Vibrations&#8221;<\/strong> single point toward any further musical growth, or would the band, even in the best of circumstances, have peaked no later than they did, carrying on for however long like any number of great rock &#8216;n roll bands that had worked their magic for all it was worth (eg, The Rolling Stones), or would they have found a higher plane yet given their musical abilities and songwriting palette?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take all psychiatric illnesses out of the equation. Let&#8217;s say The Beach Boys had been able to continue making records with Brian Wilson operating at the mental faculties he&#8217;d had in play through Pet Sounds. Let&#8217;s say Mike Love&#8216;s geeky side didn&#8217;t develop into a full-blown annoyance and Hal Blaine continued drumming for Dennis <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/endless-summer-or-inevitable-bummer\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}