Chords for Dennis Wilson - Dennis Wilson EPK (EPK)

Hi, my name is Dennis Wilson.
[Bb] I make rock and roll records.
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_ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ [Eb] The very first thing after we got [Bb] married, before we even bought one piece of [Eb] furniture, he bought a piano.
And [Bb] he immediately started [Eb] playing around, trying to work out something for [Bb] himself.
He was very much in the [Eb] womb of the Beach Boys, but [Bb] he wanted to flex [Eb] his wings, so to speak.
The Beach Boys played [Bb] live at the Liverpool Empire in [Eb] 1972, I'd say, [B] 71, 72.
The highlight [E] of the show, Brian [B] Wilson wasn't on the tour, but the highlight of the [Gb] show was [Eb] Dennis Wilson.
[Bbm] And it's [Eb] still one of my favorite [Bb] performances of anybody [G] I've ever seen.
Thank [Eb] you, thank you, [Bb]
thank [Eb] you, thank you, thank you.
[Bb] I love [Eb] the idea of making people happy or [Bb] smile.
It's like a drug, I [Eb] guess.
I'm addicted to [Bb] looking at that [Eb] person, knowing that [Bbm]
they're entertained.
[Eb] He had ideas in his head right from the [Bb] beginning of the kind of music he wanted to make.
He would always come to our house, and he would go to the [Eb] piano and play.
I remember [Ab] a lot of [G] him [F] expressing [Bb] himself.
It was very unusual, because Dennis was always running around [F] with all the girls, or bringing [Eb] girls over, [Ab] or just playing [Cm] around.
It was almost like you [Bb] could never sit him down and talk to him.
But when he would go to the piano, [D] he was very serious.
Dennis and I were friends for a long time.
And we'd sit around after the show and just hammer [E] away.
Through that whole period, [D] I said, Denny, all those years, I think you're a [G] broke-down drummer.
You keep [D] writing these songs.
It was important for Dennis and his [A] family history that he get [Dbm] the chance to do [A] this.
[D] Are [F] you _ ready?
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_ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ The _ [E] process was interesting [B] in that if I had a song idea, [E] we would literally just go find a [G] piano wherever we could.
The first session that I [C] remember, it was [G] the first week of March, 1976.
I'll never forget it.
I heard [Am] River [G] Song, Pacific Ocean Blue, Rainbows, and [C] Holy Man.
[G] He would get ideas, whether it was a vocal or a [C] synth overdub or [G] a piano track, and he'd just want to go for it.
If you listen to this piano work on [G] this album, it was the closest anybody got [G] Brian for me, harmonically, on the [Eb] keyboard.
[Ab] The way this record sounds is because [Gb] from the first presentation, the first listening [Db] with me, where [Ebm] Dennis said,
Can you come and remix?
[Db] Can you, what [B] can, and it was so raw.
I said, Dennis, [Gb] if I help [B] you mix this, [Gb] it will not be your record.
I want [B] you to finish [Gb] this.
I don't even call it [Abm] dark stuff.
It's just his stuff that was really [Gb] deep and emotional.
He was in a [B] lot of pain, and he just bled on tape.
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_ [Gb] _ _ [Db] _ _ [Gb] always wanted to [Db] mix Pacific Ocean Blue with [Gb] Dennis, and I even begged him.
I said, [Db] Come on, Dennis, let's mix this.
[Bbm] I think we can play around.
Let's spend more [Db] time mixing this.
He wouldn't hear of it.
[Gb] He had forgotten about [Db] Pacific Ocean Blue.
He was already into Bamboo [Ebm] and just wanted to keep moving [Ab] forward.
Dennis was very much, what's next?
Moving [Abm] on.
Bamboo was just a one-word working [Db] title for what was going to be next after Pacific Ocean Blue.
When he was [Gb] too close to what he was working on and overdubbing [Ebm] on Pacific Ocean Blue,
he'd step away from that and start doing other [Gb] things and other ideas and snippets of [Ebm] sounds.
Those became [Gb] the starting point of Bamboo.
[Db] One of the first things we tried to do was [Gb] Holy Man.
Dennis was very impressed because Maharishi [Db] was on tour with the Beach Boys for a while.
[Gb] He was really knocked out that there was [Db] even such a thing as a Holy Man.
[Gb] Wow, what a trip, man.
There's [Db] a Holy Man.
What is that about?
That's where the idea came [Gb] from.
He said, Let's write a song about [Db] the Holy Man.
I said, Yeah, okay, Holy Man Cam.
[Gb] That's about all we got.
Holy [Db] Man Cam then lasted for 30 [Ebm] years before I finally went down to the band.
[Ab] _ _ _ Taylor is a [Gb] drummer, and he belongs to that [Db] brotherhood of drummers.
Taylor is just a natural.
He came in, [Ebm] did the vocal, and I think he really [Gb] knocked it out of the park.
[B] He really wanted to do that for Dennis.
I know that he really wanted, that was something that he really wanted to finish.
[Db] I think the second disc is real [Gb] important.
It might be unfinished,
[B] but I think it's [Gb] important to see where he was going and what he was [Ebm] attempting to do and where he came [Bb] from.
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_ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] I think [Eb] Pacific Ocean Blue, the river song, and some of the stuff on there is absolutely [Cm] great.
I think it was ahead [Bb] of its time.
It was just amazing.
[Gm] Just amazing.
I felt [Eb] really, really fortunate to be able to work [Cm] on this stuff,
because I didn't know if it would ever [Eb] happen.
Things happen [Bb] in a spatial world, [Eb] and it's still there.
[Bb] Maybe people will [Eb] appreciate it today.
I think [Bb] that this album [Eb] is so [Bb] important to his children and [Eb] his grandchildren,
and [Bb] that his legacy [Eb] now will become something more because [Bb] of all the efforts of everybody involved in [Eb] this album to bring his music [Bb] out.
I think it's [Eb] fantastic.
[Bb] I'm amazed at what I'm hearing.
[Eb] I just love it.
There's so [Bb] many different sides of Dennis that [Eb] none of us really knew.
[Bbm] He deserves it.
[Eb] He deserves it because [Bb] he should have been a huge icon, really.
[Eb] He should have been.
[Ab] Maybe he will be.
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[F] [Eb] What [Bb] _ _ _ _ do you guys think?
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_ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] I love you.
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