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The life of a travelling musician isn\u2019t exactly what everyone signs up for when looking for a life playing music. Anyone can spend their time working away in the studio, but if the draw is for people to see the shows, that means sacrificing one\u2019s nervous system and going through some of the biggest cases of jetlag that anyone has ever experienced. But while Brian Wilson<\/a> was always meant to be in the studio creating masterpieces for The Beach Boys, it was much more than the stress that drove him off the road with his old bandmates.<\/p>\n As \u2018America\u2019s Band\u2019 were taking over the world in the early 1960s, though, all signs were pointing towards Wilson crashing if he didn\u2019t straighten himself out. He had already been put under pressure as the band\u2019s resident genius, but as soon as he started to crack up and have a mental breakdown on a plane going to a show, the band knew that it was better to keep their bandmate and brother safe than worrying about whether all of them were out front.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s not like Wilson was going to sit on his ass and do nothing. He had grand ideas for what the next Beach Boys album would be, but after Pet Sounds became one of the biggest records of all time, the road to making Smile was the moment when the band began to crack up a little bit. Wilson had made a concept too big for him to execute, and when he started getting back to recording, a lot of the remnants of the album were either masterpieces like \u2018Good Vibrations\u2019 or too experimental for their own good, like \u2018Vegetables<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n So if there wasn\u2019t any great album on the horizon, it didn\u2019t take long for the band\u2019s star power to start dropping. The Beatles were already lapping them by making some of the greatest pop music ever created in response to Pet Sounds, but with Wilson being taken care of by psychiatrist and professional asshole Eugene Landy, the rest of the band figured it best to bury their hands in the sand and go back to what they do best.<\/p>\n Then again, that was never out of the question. Mike Love was always pushing Wilson to not screw with the formula too much, so when the experimental well ran dry, it wasn\u2019t a tough sell for them to go back on tour and start singing the songs that made them famous. They officially became a nostalgia act by the 1970s, and Wilson was less than impressed with what he saw when they played.<\/p>\n