DAVE JAMES, YOU HAVE SERIOUS PROBLEMS. DENNIS WILSON BY NO MEANS IS WHAT YOU SAID HE WAS. WHY DO YOU SAY THAT? IS IT BEACUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM IN HIS PERSONAL LIFE? DONT BRING PERSONAL LIFE INTO THE MUSIC. IM NOT SAYING I LOVED EVERY COURSE HE TOOK IN LIFE BUT WHAT U SAID IS DEPLORABLE. DENNIS WILSON WAS THE SOUL OF THE BB'S. BRIAN WAS THE BRAINS BUT DENNIS WAS THE SOUL. THERE WOULD BE NO BEACH BOYS AT ALL WITHOUT DENNIS, IT WAS HE WHO ASKED BRIAN TO WRITE A SONG ABOUT HIS SURFIN' ADVENTURE HE WENT ON THAT DAY, WHICH SPAWNED THEIR FIRST RECORD: "SURFIN'" (X-RECORDS) DENNIS IS ALSO THE BEACH BOY WHO MADE THE GREATEST BB-SOLO-LP: PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE, ONE OF THE GREATEST RECORDS OF ALL TIME
AND FOR THE GUY OF GUYS WHO CRITIZED PHIL COLLINS, WORDS CAN NOT DESCRIBE HOW ILL-ADVISED YOU ALL HAVE BEEN ALL YOUR LIFE. I DONT SEE HOW ANY OF YOU CAN DIG THE ART BLAKEY SOUND IF YOU DONT DIG THE PHIL SOUND! PHIL PIONNERED HOW DRUMS ARE RECORDED IN THE STUDIO AND HOW THEY CAN "TAKE OVER" A SONG AND MAKE IT INTENSE THE SAME WAY THE LEAD GUITAR OR VOCAL USUALLY ONLY DOES.