Al Jardine had some interesting things to say about the Beach Boy's Brian Wilson during the aborted "Smile" sessions; among them, Phil Spector was planning to murder him… hmm, maybe that wasn't drug induced paranoia.
Jardine said: " I was very concerned. I admonished him to stop taking drugs, but he'd already gone beyond that point. He had developed a lifestyle that was more detached from the rest of us and he'd started experimenting musically under the influence of those things. But the output was amazing.
"We were recording music that was spilling out of Brian's head at an incredible rate of speed."
Brian would claim he wasn't unhappy with the album being stopped as he went diving into the shallow: "I think nobody would've liked it. People are much better at listening to music these days than they were in the mid-60s."
Have you listened to the 2004 finished album or the recent box set? It is a work of sustained hamonic brilliance, but, cmon, when "Heroes And Villains" is your most accessible, you're talking artistic vissionary and not pop album classic.