Post #167999 by martiki on Sat, Jun 25, 2005 9:00 AM

Brian was on Charlie Rose last night, and it was a fascinating interview. He was there with the filmmaker/biographer who documented the creation of Smile for the new DVD. He's clearly still not right in the head, but certainly doing better. Brian deferred quite a bit to the filmmaker, saying he would know better on several topics, which gave me an uneasy feeling- it was almost like Brian had latched onto a new Landy-like figure. A little spooky, almost as though he needs some kind of controllling figure in his life to keep him on an even keel. Brian also claimed during the interview that he'd only taked LSD once in his life, which Charlie clearly felt was absurd. Even the filmmaker tried to politely imply that that was far from true.

America's own Syd Barrett.

BTW, techy question: They showed some footage of the Smile concert in London, and during Good Vibrations, the theremin sounds were coming from something I didn't recognize- the musician had his hand on a small lever and was sliding it back and forth- it still sounded like a theremin, though. I was thinking it might have been some kind manual device attached to a theremin to try and generate the tones more accurately. Does anyone here know? If that's the case, I cry foul! And I call upon Robby Virus to show them how it's done!