Brian Wilson Pics

December 15, 2004 6:01 PM

I'm looking for two photos of Brian Wilson circa the original Smile sessions (that is, around 1968). [MI]

One of them he's hunched over a microphone with glasses directing the other members of the Beach Boys (partial photo can be found here. The other one, which is the one I'd really like to get a hold of, he's in front of a microphone with a silly grin and his finger over his mouth as if to indicate "shh." I've searched high and low, on Accunet, in Rolling Stone, and on Google Images, but can't seem to find either of them anywhere.

posted by Frankieist to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Not to be anti-helpful... but the Smile sessions were in 1966 and 1967. Sgt. Pepper's release in 1967 was part of Brian's downward spiral.

Also, I don't have a good picture from that era, tho one of the pix available in that allmusic link appears to come from the same era as frankieist's pic (keep clicking on the photo in the upper left till it shows a bespectacled Brian conducting).
posted by ibmcginty at 7:31 PM on December 15, 2004

Hey, or just click here for that pic I promised-- I finally figured out how to work the internet!
posted by ibmcginty at 7:35 PM on December 15, 2004

Here is the "shh!" one, I think -- I just searched for "'Smile' sessions." Not too sharp or hi-res, though.
posted by lisa g at 7:44 PM on December 15, 2004

Response by poster: Oops, off by a year, dreadfully sorry. I actually found the one photo I'm looking for, though much smaller than I would have hoped. If anyone can turn up a larger version I'd be much obliged. If not, my next course of action will be to look up some books on the Smile sessions at the library.

Thanks ibmcginty, that seems suspiciously close to the one I linked to, perhaps that's the one I'm thinking of.

On preview, lisa g beat me to it. Thanks a bunch. Hopefully I can find a higher-res photo somewhere.
posted by Frankieist at 7:46 PM on December 15, 2004