Was it a mistake to abandon the use of Theremin as The Beach Boys did?Įvery new song didn't have to feature the instrument, but hows about plugging it in every album or two? Give the people the instrument that they want to hear on Beach Boys records. The latter record was a considerably lesser hit, yet still delivered the goods (especially in New Zealand and Australia). It gives the songs a unique flavor and instrumental line. She took it seriously.The "woo woo machine", as Mike Love described it, had a prominent place on two Beach Boys hits, "Good Vibrations" and "Wild Honey". In fact the (Beatles) song "Dear Prudence" John Lennon came up with that on the basis of Prudence Farrow, (actress) Mia Farrow's sister was meditating for several days. That was an incredible time – to find yourself in India and listening to philosophy and practicing meditation for many, many hours a day. It's quite an emotional, impactful song because it's a tribute to George Harrison, who passed away at too young an age, that's for sure. I wrote a reminiscence of that time called "Pisces Brothers" which we're doing in our concert now. George Harrison and I both had our birthday parties there that year and Maharishi had fireworks and magicians and stuff like that.
Paul McCartney came to the breakfast table one morning singing "Back in the U.S.S.R" and I told him in the middle part you should talk about all the girls around Russia. So he invited me to go to India, which I did do in February and March of 1968, in fact had my birthday there and so did George Harrison. We didn't write words about that, but it was around that time we recorded that song and there's a lot of emotion involved there. "The Warmth of the Sun" was a very beautiful song that Brian and I wrote in the time period associated with President Kennedy's assassination. But on an emotional level, I think the song "The Warmth of the Sun" which we did in November of 1963 is probably one of the more sensitive things. But then "Help Me Rhonda," "Surfin' USA" and "California Girls" and "I Get Around" and "Fun, Fun, Fun" are great songs as well. Both number one records. I wrote all the lyrics on "Good Vibrations" and most of them in "Kokomo." "Kokomo" was extremely popular and fun to sing – it's probably one of the bigger sing-along songs in our show.
It was the most successful single that we did in the '60s, only surpassed by "Kokomo" in 1988. Well, I think "Good Vibrations" is probably the most avant-garde and most unique creatively and also extremely successful.
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