I don't get this whole tormented artist bull**** with him.
Brian wilson had to contend will his brothers in the same band, a controlling father who wanted to halt his creativity, compete with the beatles and a nervous breakdown (or two). He WAS the tormented artist. way before LB did Tusk, Wilson took the beach boys in a totally different direction with the classic Pet Sounds album. An album both Paul McCartney and John Lennon said was better than anything they had done at the time, but was considerably less commercial than earlier stuff. Most critics would tend to think of Tusk as LB's Pet Sounds.
The one thing i would agree with is that he is naturally a control freak himself.
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