This week we arrive at Surfin’ Safari, the band’s 1962 Capitol debut, and hear a group growing up almost in real time. Dennis Wilson has barely learned to play the drums, Brian is already beginning to take control in the studio, and Murry Wilson may have helped stumble onto part of the early Beach Boys sound.
We also get into the suspiciously neat story of Gary Usher wandering past the right window, Murry’s creative approach to getting DJs on side, the terrifying social pressures of the county fair, the decidedly old-fashioned recording technique behind 409, Mike Love singing notes that don’t quite exist on a piano, and a teenage Carl Wilson already sounding frighteningly capable on guitar.
It’s rough, rushed and occasionally baffling, but you can already hear the ingredients of the band they’re about to become.
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