"Nobody would consider the albums the Beach Boys made at Brother in the mid-70s - among them '15 Big Ones,' 'The Beach Boys Love You' and the long-shelved 'Adult/Child' - the band's most successful. (Well, nobody except for Wilson, who frequently cited the synthed-up 'Love You' as his fave.)"
"Yet Brother offered the setting for a creative reflowering - arguably the band's final moment of unity before the start of years of more serious infighting. 'It was like we all got back together and became Beach Boys again,' says Al Jardine, who founded the group in suburban Hawthorne in 1961."
"A decade after 1966's 'Pet Sounds,' which so blew the Beatles away that they had to answer with 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' the burly, bearded Beach Boys were far from the center of pop music; Wilson, in particular, had largely withdrawn from public life as he struggled with the effects of drugs and his fragile mental health."
Brother Studio, located at 1454 5th Street in downtown Santa Monica, was a former porn theater converted into a recording complex where the Beach Boys attempted to revitalize their career in the mid-1970s. After a decade of decline following the massive success of 'Pet Sounds' in 1966, Brian Wilson had withdrawn from public life due to drug use and mental health struggles. The studio became the setting for the band's creative resurgence, with members reuniting to record albums including '15 Big Ones,' 'The Beach Boys Love You,' and 'Adult/Child.' A new box set titled 'We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years' collects 73 tracks from 1976 and 1977, featuring outtakes, demos, and the first official release of the widely bootlegged 'Adult/Child,' showcasing Wilson's emotive vocals and orchestral arrangements.
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