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- Wall Street Journal
Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, My Endless Inspiration
I had called my friend Gary Griffin to shoot the breeze, as I'd been doing a couple of times every week. This was in the early 1990s; Gary was the keyboard player for surf rockers Jan and Dean, and I had just started to tour with them singing backup.
He was at home in Panorama City, Calif., and I was in Chicago. He was out in his recording studio. 'My friend Brian's here,' Gary said.