Music Appreciation

telling the session players he didn’t know what he wanted. He had six months on somebody else’s dime to basically invent something.

I don’t think Good Vibrations would have been as layered as it turned out to be. Don’t get me wrong, I think Brian Wilson was a genius, but he had the benefit of a virtually unlimited studio budget with the best session musicians in the business which gave him the freedom to see what worked, what didn’t, and of those things he liked, what worked together.

Let’s face it; the lyrics to the song are pretty simplistic. It’s the backing track that makes it a classic. Would it have been the same track if the budget had been for 2-3 days of studio time, as opposed to what was often multiple sessions per week over six months?