This is what I've always loved about Carl His honesty and forthrightness. I met him many times,,and it was always a pleasure. I do miss this gentle, funny, humble, caring man

So humble, wonderful, gorgeous and gracious.

He was so honest and felt ashamed. He was such a good soul. It's happened to the best of them. Poor baby.

He's honest ...a great guy

At least he's got his head screwed on and just apologised blaming nobody else

@nataliarobinson9514

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, you don’t find modern artists like that anymore. Not taken any crap for themselves

Daniel and Deborah thank you both for setting the record straight. I wasn't aware of the lung cancer. So sad he's gone. The man tried so hard to stay grounded. Immense loyalty and love for his brothers, and the band as well. A true rocker and that voice was a window to his heart.

What a stand up guy! At least he had the guts to own up to what happened and take responsibility for it. He's still tops in my book!

I think he's entitled to one screw up after 17 years at that point. He's forgiven.

@dawnkeir549

7 жыл бұрын

how true

@markconnors7310

7 жыл бұрын

Right on Randy, especially since he was the de facto leader. He was the one keeping it all together while everyone else was fucking up. It was an isolated incident, and as you can surmise, it never happened again.

@1401minstrel

4 жыл бұрын

It wasn't just one isolated incident, but your point is well taken and he definitely deserved to be forgiven. It was actually a series of incidents over about a two year period from 1976 to 1978, leading to when he hit bottom in Australia. Carl turned it all around very quickly, though, and ended up having just two bad years out of a stellar 36 year career.

@zachb3573

3 жыл бұрын

He’s definitely forgiven, and loved and missed

@runnersdialzero1244

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Jesus, this "interview" was a total interrogation.

"Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion." -Oscar Wilde

lol all these questions. they really wanted him to say something controversial, but carl wasn't having it.

@LauRa-re9un

2 жыл бұрын

He was still in drugs and, as every singer even now, deniing that.

@ladipiskac5662

Жыл бұрын

@@LauRa-re9un So he wasn't. Carl struggled with alcohol at one point, but overcame it.

Cudos to the way Carl handled the reporters. Love his wit .

He is forthright and so authentic.

You cant be the most responsible all the time. I wasn't a beach boy fan growing up in California.. But allways a carl fan. One of the most loved musicians of all time.

don't worry baby

For all this guy had to put up with plus keeping the musical end of it together, he was entitled to at least one stumble....

Your fans will always love and miss U, Carl. ❤️

He was in a nice shirt.

Of all the members ! ------------------In '78, The Boys were at an all-time low, both on /off stage. So much bad was happening, it is amazing they survived that year. I saw them at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colo., & that '78 performance was far & away, to that time, the poorest I had ever seen or heard. The energy was just not there. A year later it wasn't much better. However, by 1980, I saw them 3 rimes, & they were far better, with Bruce back in the fold , & DW back on drums.------------but yes, '78 was a personal low for Carl, with his marriage to Annie having fallen apart. ----------------It was a tough year for all of us. ------------------------------WolfSky9, 74 y/o

"It does seem surprising that someone as experienced as you didn't realize that valium and alcohol never mix." I have to sort of smile at the "someone as experienced as you" phrase.

He was probably trying to get a good buzz, to experience joy and euphoria. Always being on the road can get depressing and stimulants are used to temporarily freem oneself from the monotony. Try being tied to a contract where you have to be depended on, you can't back out, you have to play this concert on a predetermined date, you have to do well on stage, there are sound checks and all kinds of things to be done before you hit the stage, it's not a job just anyone can handle, it is pressure, some take drugs to free themselves from ongoing tensions ...

@rocknroller77

4 жыл бұрын

Maria Soleada exactly

What s good man

Carl Wilson a Stand Up Guy Man

Agreed. Between Brians erattic generous and Dennis's exsessiveness. But that's what made them unique.

Geez, they really raked him over the coals. Surely he wasn't the first or the last musician to have a few drinks in Australia.

@nataliarobinson9514

3 жыл бұрын

Right?! They are looking for something kinda negativ I guess. But they need to slow down like seriously! Carl’s responses are so calm and kind

@samhardy6319

3 жыл бұрын

I think it was it bit more than a few drinks, but Carl was going through a bit of a drug problem here but is dignified in his responses and pretty forthcoming. Within a couple of years from this he'd kicked his demons and was rarely anything but professional. A brilliant singer and a great loss of talent.

I read that Carl Wilson and the Beach Boys offered refunds, but to date, no takers. A drunk Carl Wilson is better than no Carl Wilson at all.

@LauRa-re9un

2 жыл бұрын

I don´t think so. Sorry, but angels only live in the sky.

such an honest guy.

Carl walks out with a screwdriver at the beginning!

Rock and Roll.

If anyone needs to cop or apologize for rudeness... It should be these bloody reporters! Absolutely ridiculous the way they keep going at him... I can see why entertainers don't have much of a positive View of a lot of them... You're so forgiven Carl, but these idiots, asking you all these questions, need to take a hike...

Leave Carl alone 😭

This is Carl as controversial and sarcastic as he would ever get!

Leave him alone you swines! The man is a sweetheart!

I am reading the book 'The Endless Wave' by Rocky Pamplin. Some say that he is not trustworthy, but I wanted to give context of why the tensions were so high on this tour. In 1977, they had booked a huge world tour in massive stadiums. These were booked by manager Steve Love, Mike's brother. But they fired Steve and the whole tour got canceled. They lost a ton of money. They rehired Steve, and a lot of damage had been done. Instead of a huge world tour, they were doing small venues and colleges. He was then able to book this Australian tour. But on the condition that all the Beach Boys were there. So from a business perspective, there was a lot of pressure for this to work out. Their reputation was already on thin ice as far as dependability. So when it was known by Stan Love and Rocky (Brian's body gaurds to keep drugs away), that heroin was purchased by Dennis and given to Brian, they flipped. Dennis was funded by Carl. In a meeting, Carl was calling Rocky names, in which he flipped and punched Carl. Rocky claims he is proud of this. But this is when Al Jardine took the side of Dennis and Carl instead of Mike and wanted Rocky to be sent home. But manager Steve Love said no.

@1401minstrel

4 жыл бұрын

A minor difference in accounts here. In Mike Love's autobiography and in Steven Gaines' book it is stated that Carl not only funded the heroin purchase, but that Carl himself purchased it, at the behest of Dennis and the Frost employee from whom it was purchased. To my knowledge, Carl never said that he purchased heroin for Dennis in Australia. According the account in the Gaines book, however, he did admit that he was drunk at the time and that he may have bought the heroin and then didn't remember buying it.

@danielhill9129

3 жыл бұрын

Steve Love was also behind Blondie Chaplin leaving which really deflated the comeback they were riding. Rumours persist that Carl also took heroin during this brief period of his life which coincided with divorce from his first wife. Life on the road is tough, and even tougher on the back end of your career.

Seems pretty silly to have 3 or 4 different reporters interrogating him over this.

They were a little tough on him. Plus they are all over the alcohol and Valium but the cigarette he is smoking right in front of them is what took him from us in the end.

@marieamielgagasa5951

7 жыл бұрын

kingofallwhites you cant be more right on this one :(

@Atreyufolife

6 жыл бұрын

you can not smoke and still get lung cancer.

@kako1023

6 жыл бұрын

not just an observation but a fact, sadly.

@avah9721

5 жыл бұрын

@@Atreyufolife but he smoked from age 13 or 14 until around age 50, so see the correaltion

@1401minstrel

4 жыл бұрын

That is what I think is so sadly ironic about the Wilson brothers. People tend to discuss ad nauseum all the illegal drugs the three brothers did, but Dennis and Carl were killed by two LEGAL DRUGS. Dennis died due to an alcohol-related drowning accident, and Carl died from lung and brain cancer as a result of smoking. He started smoking at the age of 13, and while he quit for several years, it still got him.

The narrator says his name like: *Cal*

The complete Beach Boys including Brian. Why the hell would one want their money back?

@LauRa-re9un

2 жыл бұрын

At that point they were just an "old group".

The old valium with 2 mao-tai's on an empty stomach excuse.

Carl was an alcoholic and he did partake in drugs (including heroin) not nearly at the level of Brian or Dennis, but he was an addict, make no mistake.. He kicked his drug and drink habits almost completely but he did have two acknowledged relapses (after Dennis' death and after his cancer diagnosis). Nothing but love for Carl. It's hard to beat an addiction and he did for the most part.

@1401minstrel

Жыл бұрын

The years from 1976 through 1978 were particularly rough for Carl, with an admitted addiction to cocaine and a rumored heroin addiction as well. Add alcohol and tobacco to that mix and you have the toxic stew he was consuming at the time. I find it ironic that all those journalists were concerned about the possibility that he performed while high, but they paid no attention to the cigarette he was smoking, and that was the thing that would eventually kill him.

The media was slashtag!

2 drinks and a valium. Nice of him to apologize especially since he doesn't remember too much about it. At some point in his life he surely was high on heroin when he played but maybe he was able to pull it off better than he did w booze and valium. Admire his honesty and accountability

@1401minstrel

5 ай бұрын

Several of those in the know about Carl at the time have said that saying it was two drinks and a valium was a dodge. He felt he should apologize, which was to his credit, but he could not tell the press the real reason for his intoxicated state onstage the previous night: Heroin.

Overseas acts performing badly in Australia almost universally meet with harsh criticism - we're so _isolated_ here, and when the very few artists that tour appear in any way to be showing apathy, nonchalence or disrespect _we take it personally!_

Jesus cut the guy a fucking break

Darlin your so fine, Love your closing comment.

Carl handled those sanctimonious arseholes with his usual class

Now for the truth. Carl is definitely fumbling around for words and excuses because he couldn't tell the press what really happened. The story as I've read, researched and deciphered it for many years. This short tour of Australia would be looked back on with disdain as the 'Heroin Tour'. This would be around the time when the band was fractured into 2 or 3 'camps'. The 'camps' we're not speaking to one another and they would enter and leave a show from different sides of the stage. It shouldn't be to hard for a fan to figure out who was in each camp. But Carl was always torn between his love and loyalty for his brothers and his loyalty to 'the band'. So Carl often ended up as a go-between/peacemaker. This is also the period when Dr. Landy had been kicked out of Brian's life. At this time Dennis was getting into heavy drugs. Dennis had taken Brian under his wing as a drug buddy. The rumor is Dennis scored some heroin as soon as they landed in Australia. He shared it with Brian. Carl was drinking heavily with the pressure of keeping his beloved brothers Brian and Dennis alive... And trying to hold the band together. So Carl ended up getting high on heroin with his brothers that night. Which is why you can hear Carl, Dennis and Brian all out of their minds on stage that night. The last part of the story is they had to get Dennis on a plane immediately after the show and get him out of there because they had heard the Australian authorities had been tipped off and were coming to arrest him.

@danielhill9129

7 жыл бұрын

He was also drinking heavily because his marriage was falling apart after so many years on the road.

@rickkartisable

7 жыл бұрын

Michael R .... Ahhhh, KEY word, Mike: "RUMOR." What? "RUMOR!" WHA'?!? "RUMOR..." Oh, right, Yeah...a bleedin' rumor. Got it! Thanks, Mate. Oh, BTW, Paul IS Dead you know?

@StratocastRS

7 жыл бұрын

Is there any footage of this show?

@amandajohnston8174

7 жыл бұрын

Already Have Before My Memories

@StratocastRS

7 жыл бұрын

?

Did Carl do this regular don't think I so surely can be forgiven

Didn't Rocky Pamplin or Stan Love punch him out on this tour?

@danielhill9129

7 жыл бұрын

Yep. Quote from Stan's brother Steve: "Yes, Rocky did indeed knock Carl to the floor in Melbourne, Australia in March I978, my last tour with the band. Rocky has written a book titled WIPEOUT in which he devotes an entire chapter to what we participants in that meeting in Mike Love’s suite with David Frost and others refer to as “the heroin incident.” Carl was drunk and surly and made the mistake of saying “Fuck you, Rocky” in front of a roomful of men. Rocky wasn’t going to take that and leapt to his feet, bounded across the room and socked Carl hard in the jaw."

@danielhill9129

7 жыл бұрын

That's Rocky.

@danielhill9129

7 жыл бұрын

Punched him out of a window? Is that anything to do when Dennis cut his wrist? I always thought that was probably a suicide attempt or more probably due to a fight than an accident. Didn't know about Blondie being choked, but no wonder he wanted to leave.

@jend80

6 жыл бұрын

wrong wife, the punching/putting his arm through a glass door or window depending on what you read, happened when he was with Barbara Wilson. The clip I've seen from the second tv movie The Beach Boys: An American Family got the timeline totally wrong & made it look like Dennis punched a window in the studio anger, after Mike Love tried to stage an intervention to convince him Manson was bad news.

Poor Carl haha

I honestly think leave Carl alone !!!

What happened?

@Joanner04

6 жыл бұрын

He tried to perform under influence. kzread.info/dash/bejne/eHlt2thmhsauY9o.html

"Austraia?" Austria, or AustraLia? 2 countries that couldn't be further apart! Wait, I see Perth mentioned. steve

@LauRa-re9un

2 жыл бұрын

Well, what about America. A country inside a continent, both with the same name. Couldn´t be more near.

Excellence / Kawaii. Lot's of "Ah" from Carl here, he he he he!

Haha all they want to talk about is 'last night'.

Keith Moon was dead, I believe, by the time of this interview. Now, THERE was one pissed, stoned, high SOB, who really embarrassed the people. Unfortunately, the "sobering-drug" is what killed Moon. RIP to all....

1:12 2:02

Bro he is fucked up lmao I love Carl though. Yeah, his performance was horrible and it was later revealed that he and Dennis had bought heroin. You can tell he is still pretty strung out in this interview. Still an absolute legend though. He seemed to handle himself well in this interview. Especially considering the journalist were absolutely roasting him haha

@1401minstrel

Жыл бұрын

Actually, the stories that have come out since that time say that it was just Carl who purchased the heroin, but that the purchase was at least initially on Dennis's behalf. Astoundingly, apparently when they first arrived on Australian shores in Melbourne Dennis solicited the services of someone who was in the employ of tour sponsor David Frost to obtain the heroin. That person did so, but then he refused to sell it to Dennis, and requested that it be purchased by someone more responsible. Also, Dennis didn't have the cash, so he asked Carl to pay for it and make the transaction. Carl did the transaction in the bar of the hotel where they were staying (pretty ballsy), purchasing $100 of the stuff, which apparently yielded A LOT of heroin in Australia in 1978. Apparently Carl kept some of it and gave some to Dennis, and some found its way to Brian as well.

It’s probably bigger now. That’s what she said.

It was probably due to Carl having to put up with his asshole cousin, myKe luHv year after year after year.

My Name Amanda Johnston I Am Beach Boys Fan Forever Amanda Johnston / Friends Carl Wilson Beach Boy I Remember Carl Were Alive I Was Young So Little Go Way Back Left Of 484 Beginning Bruce And Amanda Used To Date

At this time audience isn´t important for them, just money and themselves. It is a lack of respect to the australian audience. They should have given the money back.