Bedroom Tapes
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The Bedroom Tapes are a collection of studio and home recordings by the Beach Boys' co-founder Brian Wilson from the late 1960s and early 1970s. After the construction of his personal home recording studio, Wilson amassed a large body of work which was left mostly unreleased. The material approximately covers the years 1968–74, beginning after his retreat from the Beach Boys and ending shortly before his admittance under Eugene Landy's twenty-four-hour therapy program.
The moniker was the invention of writer Brian Chidester, who maintains that the material which comprises the Bedroom Tapes is "superfluous" and does not refer to tracks cut by Wilson strictly at his home studio. Accordingly, "the 'Bedroom Tapes' represents the whole era and not a specific project conceived of by Wilson himself, it is important to acknowledge that cut-off lines of delineation can easily blur."
Throughout the early 1970s, Wilson amassed a myriad of home demo recordings which later became informally known as the "Bedroom Tapes". Bandmate Bruce Johnston remembers: "Brian went through a period where he would write songs and play them for a few people in his living room, and that's the last you'd hear of them. He would disappear back up to his bedroom and the song with him." Friend Terry Melcher similarly likened Brian to "Aesop emerging to deliver his latest fable" each time he came down from his room to present a new song.
The Beach Boys albums Smiley Smile (1967), Wild Honey (1967), and Friends (1968) were recorded partially at the home studio. Following a stay at a mental institution, Wilson rarely finished a single track, leaving much of his subsequent Beach Boys output for brother Carl Wilson to complete. Brian's unrealized side projects from the era include tracks with Redwood, productions for Charles Manson, a remake of Friends, a spoken-word album with Stephen Kalinich (A World of Peace Must Come), and a country album with Fred Vail.
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