Brian has stated many times that he has mixed emotions about Landy. He realizes that he was taken advantage of, but probably would have died without Landy's control.

This seems surreal. Like out of a movie. I can't believe how sociopathic Landy was and how disconnected Brian seems during the whole interview. It makes me so sad. Glad he got back on track now.

Some guy on a message board regarding the new movie 'Love and Mercy' was saying how they 'held back' in terms of the portrayal of Landy being a scumbag. I didn't believe it... but after watching this, holy cow I believe.

Diane kicked Landy's ass here.

Paul Giamati does an excellent Dr Landy in Love & Mercy. Imagine having your life controlled for you 24/7 for YEARS? There is a special place reserved for those who prey upon others in their time of need.

Landy's response to the question at 06:18.....that stupid deer in the headlights look of someone who has just been busted ...PRICELESS.

@nikolasbrady2620

9 жыл бұрын

Aoxomoxo And he thought he was a genius!

@georgiapatriot13097

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@georgiapatriot13097

4 жыл бұрын

I'd like to smack his ass across the face while he gave that long pause

Total sociopath. No doubt about it. Brian Wilson was strong to survive him and Melinda Wilson is an angel.

Landy convinced Brian to change his will so Landy would get 70% of Brians wealth!! i hope Landy is rotting in that toasty place

Poor Brian, he was so vulnerable during this time. Landy was the one with extreme mental illness.

scariest part of this video is at the very end, when they mention a "former employee of landy who saw a DRAFT WILL giving Eugene Landy the BULK OF EVERYTHING BRIAN WILSON HAS" things could have easily went way differently for Brian. Such a fascinating story... very grateful that Landy was ousted and scrutinized closely, probably saved brians life.

Just saw Love and Mercy. Paul Giamatti gave an absolutely brilliant, dead-on accurate portrayal of Eugene Landy as a manipulative sociopath. The resemblance to the real Landy in this video is chilling. According to interviews, he actually underplayed the role somewhat since nobody would believe just how evil Landy really was.

How is this not more viewed?

I think that unidentified lady was Gloria from Love and Mercy accept in real life

@milestrotter6844

4 жыл бұрын

Omg brilliant! Why didn't I think of that, Gloria is the maid in brian wilsons house

Gary Busey should have played Landy in the movie.

Landy's face at 6:25 is priceless. What an evil, abusive man!

All it really took was total isolation from family & friends - Landy had a lifetime "meal ticket" & he realized that early on! Family & friends should always be the advocates & recognize all the red flags - & there were MANY!

I'm horrified by Landy's inexcusable treatment of Brian during his vulnerability. It's disgraceful! God bless Brian Wilson

I totally remember watching this live! What memories. LIfe is good and Landy is dead...

Yes, this is painful to watch, but the good news is that (still with the help of "handlers") he is out and about again doing what he so brilliantly does - create music from the vision he has in his head. An absolute genius. I'm a 57 yr old musician (bassist) that will be forever indebted to Mr. Wilson for the inspiration and vision he gave me. An incredible influence in my own music to this day. A genius.

Why does Landy look so much like phil spector?

I met Landy and Brian. Brian was kind of shy. Landy did all of the talking. After meeting them, i continued to do my job. Within a few minutes a couple of girls had come up to them. Landy, again, did all of the talking. He was encouraging the young ladies to come back with him and Brian and hang out in Brian's house in Malibu with them.

I can't seem to quite get around to villanizing Love, and even Murray was largely understandable (but still not excusable). Landy however... I'm willing to thank him for pulling Brian out of the drug filled obesity hole. Knowing little about him, I chose not to make an impression about him in the event that there might be more good. However, now that I've seen this video I feel I can safely make up my mind about his character. So far in life my first impression of someone's personality based upon their face has never failed me, and Landy does not look to me like someone I would be comfortable being in the same town with. To me his body language simply screams "LIAR!", and I'm an introvert with a severe lack of social skills. If he looks like a liar to me, I'm pretty sure the impression is unavoidable to everyone else. How did the family not see it? Did they just ignore their first impression because Brian needed help badly?

@SEANFIR

8 жыл бұрын

+Kelly Harris The sad truth is that Brian is actually like a lot of geniuses, a schizophrenic, and takes meds to this day. He was WAY out of control for years and the family relied on him and wanted him to keep "taking care" of them too. Mike Love was always taking advantage of him and his musical contributions were always the "cheese" on the top of Brian's prime rib! When Brian made Pet Sounds while the Beach Boys were out on tour he balked at the new sounds and departure from crappy surf tunes and songs about girls and cars… he wanted to maintain a formula that was already VERY passé even in 1966! He was the main reason that SMILE was never made and shelved, taking the masters and picking songs from the LP that he wanted to do and recording an LP using Brian's songs WITHOUT BRIAN, who had just given them their magnum opus TWICE as the most influential LP of the time and the single Good Vibrations… pushing Brian into a paranoid hole from his open derision of his gifts. Even 45 years later, the LP Smile, completed by a much older and addled Wilson won multiple Grammies and accolades. It's Love's ultimate desire to cash in and stick to the "cheese" that put him up front of the band with his hackneyed white boy Do Wop cliches, singing about fuel injection and inane subjects that we all outgrew in our early teens. Love has done a disservice to the band over the years and pushed Brian into his more relevant solo career and the Beach Boys as his own band playing oldies with himself as the only original member now touring. He's also a raging addict and at the same time a conservative republican, often declining into some paranoid ranting and self important "word salad" ramblings of self-aggrandizing for things he only ever diminished in their beauty.

@meajur

8 жыл бұрын

Sean Sweeney (You are aware that the post is a year and a half old, and that I've had plenty of time to find more BB stuff, right?) Although I would never be friends with Love, I still can't quite maintain eternal hatred for him. In the intern, I made a rather lengthy post about him in another video about my belief that the destruction was not because of Love, or mostly because of Love... but rather because he was the last straw on Brian's already crummy life. I hope you eventually find it, it's quite a lengthy read and I have no desire to retype it here when this video has nothing to do with Love.

How could the family let all this happen??

@steelekiller8540

6 жыл бұрын

Lily John to an extent they didn’t know because he clad Brian cut almost all contact with not only The Beach Boys but his family. Now he did to a small extent help Brian out. But he also hurt Brian more than he helped him. He looked drugged and most of his responses sounded rehearsed or scripted. And I mean no Ill towards Brian because I don’t think he fully understood what was happening.

@steelekiller8540

6 жыл бұрын

Had sorry typo

how awful dr. landy certainly was for Brian Wilson, and his family and friends...! so glad hes gone now. we love you Brian Wilson! genius songwriter, performer, and producer...

I've had to resort to using KZread subtitles because their master volume is getting lower and lower and lower - I can't even hear this video

Brian seems like the sweetest human in the world. Far too fragile, far too trusting. Fucking Landy...

I’m a huge fan of The Beach Boys and of Brian Wilson. And he looks like he is drugged in this interview. I could be wrong of course but his responses kinda sound scripted to an extent.

SICKENING!! Landy should have been indicted! And prosecuted! This stuff happened and STILL happens way too often!

@alanjudd7537

5 жыл бұрын

He Was' Legally taken to court, an Not allowed to Come Near Brian, an injunction?,,, Don't know about the money decisions, but Landy' Landed in 'Court' it took a long time though' eh.?

Good point, Icanhearmusic. After 9 or 10 seconds of silence, he still couldn't spin it.

Thanks for the post. I just watched Love And Mercy and it was good to see a further insight. Just tell me that Landy didn't get a profit from Love And Mercy.

@aaxmym

8 жыл бұрын

+hollyvelocitygrl Landy died about 8 years before the movie was released.

Landy was a major boil on the world's ass.

sooo weird. landy looked like he was about to kill her. plus he definitely had brian wilson on drugs here

Wow. Landy's a disgrace.

Haha, Wow at 6:56-7:03 you can actually hear crickets chirping, priceless

@dundeedell1960

3 жыл бұрын

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!

Brian is a sensitive,vulnerable soul who was manipulated by this SOB.Landy squeezed Brian for everything he could get.Money and status.Manipulators often isolate their victims to gain control over them for their own self satisfying ends.Landy died about 3 years ago.Brian is free at last.

I believe, that at the time of this interview, Brian had not yet reconnected with reality.

thanks to the journalist

Man that's something! I've read about this creep before but didn't realize that there was this much evidence against him. Poor Brian Wilson, what a tragic life story.

Man,i just wanna hug Brian, he's a leader, this made me sad. Landy go rot!!!!

With all the wonderful music Brian has given the world, it's just a shame that his life has been a living hell.

three people think Sweet Insanity is Brian's best record

I feel guilty using coupons at the supermarket, and this guy just ".........yeah, I stole, and.........?"

Brian clearly exhibits symptoms and behavior of someone that is under mind control here. Pretty creepy.

That feedback tho

Landy seems like such a creep. Diane sawyer backed him into a corner and he had to scramble for a way out. By then it was too late.

Weird picture at 4:04! Is that really Brian?

Landy was a real smoothie.

Landy saved Brian's life, but the he took advantage of him. It's a very good thing he saved Brian, but it's also a very good thing that they got Brian away from him after.

Landy looks like Dio

@JaneDoe-zr4px

5 жыл бұрын

Dio from Three Mile Island

SICK

The world of the Beach Boys was a crazy scene. Landy was definitely bad news at the end, though he saved Brian's life. When you realize that on Brian's B-Day, family/Beach Boys members sent him 10lb of See Candy when he was struggling with his weight or that that "fabulously" (hehehe) talented Mike Love claim that he co-wrote with Brian many of the hits?!?!? "Sweet Insanity" was an interesting set of songs, ranging from godawful to delightfully playful. Will those songs ever be heard?!?

Landy saved Wilsons life but he saw a nest egg and he stopped being a therapist and became a leech.

to the folks who said landy saved brians life: well he couldnt get millions per year if brian was dead could he... he had to keep the golden goose alive... he obviously didnt love brian or his family.

Landy should be in the dictionary under EVIL

so sad that someone once was so bright could b so taken by Landy scum. it started with abuse by Brians dad but Landy was pure evil and to see Wilson so out of it is sad.

Whatever may have been, look at Brian now. Recording, touring and enjoying his family. So a little fertilizer (Landy) goes a long way.

"I never hurt Brian" says Landy. Liar

Landy did undoubtedly save Brian's life but he was also an opportunist who hung-on for the riches and never let go. Mike Love said that Brian was Landy's goose that laid the golden egg. Well, Brian was Mike's (and others) goose before Landy ever came along. Too bad Love and the others were not more pro-active in taking care of Brian in the early days.

02:25 - I was NOT expecting that

@washboardblues gig young was one of his clients as well, he ended up killing his wife and himself

Landy and everyone surrounded by Brian are terrible people...I really cannot tell who is worse..

Landy took advantage of a very vulnerable person in Brian. He tried to turn him against the rest of the band and his family because Brian was the cash cow. At the very least it is extremely unethical behavior mixing the doctor/patient relationship with business

Wow Wow Wow.

I must say there is something - dare i say it- quite charismatic about Landy. But yes, he did definately take advantage of him. I just wonder how Brian feels about it now?

I was thinking the same exact thing... all I have to say is... OWNED

Brian could of broke away from Landy if he wanted to.I dont think he was all that unhappy.He had t many people in his corner.

poor brian..

A very interesting post. The reporter is very good indeed. It makes me wonder why Landy agreed to allow these interviews. He must have been aware that the journalist he was facing would be more than capable of exposing his misdeeds. And she certainly nailed him! Still, it shouldn't be forgotten that Brian is alive today and making great music. Landy went too far but without radical treatment, Brian would definitely have been finished. All in all, it's a very bizarre story.

this is going to sound terrible, but Brian in this interview reminds me of Bill Murray's Carl from Caddyshack. don't hate

Anyone else seriously creeped out by the picture at 4:03? Brian didn't look well back then at all. Scary what drugs can do.

This so called "doctor" overcharged Brian by about $ i million bucks. He could have gone to a public hospital & been productive much sooner.......

He's a liar and a control freak! He was about Money , Money, Money

That man is beyond a creep. Unconscionable

That horrible Landy was just a complete roach of a man. How could someone be so evil and controlling? Good riddance.

Good on you !! I agree with your comment wholeheartedly. You've really nailed it !!

schpoogie: eugene landy is dead.

Yeah, this is ALL wrong. I feel bad for Wilson, I dont know if Landy did all of that stuff, but, he could have hired an entire staff for cheaper and healthier and been able to speak to his family! What the hell is this shit. Someone should have sued Landy's estate

Landy?

6:56 that look shows all you need to know about landy

Thank God Brian got out of that narcissistic psychopaths grip .

That guy is lying through his teeth and you can tell.

Although I couldn't quite put my finger on it, there was something about the guy that seemed a little off to me. 😢😮

Landy - Wilson = Stern - Anna Nicole.

never mind I dident know he was dead.

What a greedy crook! Look at that guilty face 6:55! I hate faces like this! Giving Jews a bad reputation like Rod Stieger said? Well, it doesnt help the way Landy acted ! At least he saved Brians life which is the most important thing!

The woman darken out is his future wife lol

Landy did save his life I think. But then started using Brian.

Very creepy sociopath

if i was brian and saw this or got to realised that i had gotten FUCKED for 9 YEARS i would be SOOO FREAKING ANGRY ..but again why did the Wilson family not get the best of the best instead of Landy ? im sure that Landy could not have had a good reputation...i feel so bad for brian

Out BLOODY rageous!!!! Thank goodness they got Brian away from his clutches.

7:00 caught. Sad. Dirt bag.

ha ha that's true

How very frightening! Thank God they got Landy away from Brian. Wilson was a genius; sad outcome!

Landy deserves to get his mooching ass kicked, how everyone took advantage of this poor man. I'm happy Brian got rit of the leach your a good man Brian don't let this jerks

diane sawyer is boss.

He may have needed a taskmaster and a strong guiding presence, but Landy crossed the line and abused that trust. I won't enumerate them here but it sounds like you're a big BB/BW fan, so I'm sure you've read it all. The man was not a benevolent dictator, he was a fraud and a svengali.

This is sick...Landy is like the devil himself...just look at him.

i agree with you.i have no time for today's muic it is all rubbish and out of tune but some of it is good.the beach boys were something else with beautiful harmonies and wonderful guitar playing and brilliant songs written by Brian and Mike.

LANDY DEL ORTY!!!

was, he dead now.