Brian Wilson's Influence On The Beach Boys

     This is a true story about how 2 men, Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers, completely different from each other from and inceperable bond. The 2 men are seperated by about everything that you can think of: they come from 2 different parys of the country, one is white, one is black, 1 liked to talk, the other was shy. Pretty much the only thing they had in common was that they both were competing for the same job.

The early to mid 1970s would become known for a mellow turn toward country rock, production heavy supergroups, and envieronmental songs like “Big Yellow Taxi” (1970). Even the Beach Boys took their turn at envieronmental critique, releasing “Don’t Go Near the Water” in 1971 (Weglarz xviii).

They also used audio tricks involving steam organs, orchestras, sitars, and even a pack of foxhounds in full cry at the end of “Good Morning, Good Morning.” The use of animal sounds were actually first used in the Beach Boys album Pet Sounds that the Beatles admired. When asked the Beach Boys where they got their innovation for Pet Sounds, the Beatles Rubber Soul album was what inspired them. “A Day In The Life,” the last song on the album, featured “what Lennon described as ‘a sound building up from nothing to the end of the world’” (Lazarescu). The song “Strawberry Fields Forever” fused two different versions of the same song and used reverse-tape cellos for an eerie effect. After George Harrison used sitar on the song “Norwegian Wood,” other bands like the Byrds, Yardbirds, and the Rolling Stones, soon followed incorporating Eastern-influence sounds into their work.

For example, when you were a teenager were you signing deals with record labels and traveling around the country to perform? Late in October of 1961, The Beach Boys recorded demos of their first two surfing songs, which hit the charts and scored them a record deal with Capitol Records. (Kemp) Their hit single “Good Vibrations” and the album “Pet Sounds” joined the other two songs on the charts. These four are generally known as the band’s greatest hits. In the late 60’s Brian Wilson suffered from a nervous breakdown and stopped touring. He claimed that everything he was doing for the group was too much. (The Orchard) When he was gone he experimented with sounds and harmonies, which later became more of the backgrounds of their popular songs. (Kemp) The Beach Boys started to fall, so they flew to Europe to perform for the first time. In both the United States and in Europe many people described them as “teenage symphonies to God.” Later in that decade the band was joined by many other artists such as Blondie Chaplin, Ricky Fataar, and Bruce Johnston. (The Orchard) The successes and prosperities of The Beach Boys will remain golden

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The group developed under the conditions of the overall downfall of the entertainment industry in Santa Monica. It was a time when the city was divided into poor and rich parts. The Darktown – a separate and exhausted beach of the city where people rarely came – was at that time the ideal place for them to surf. The emergence of the group is associated with the opening of a surfing shop of Jeff Ho at the place. At the same time, the part of the ocean where they surfed located an amusement park some decades ago; and the girders that were left from that time were used by the youth to master their surfing skills that were later taken to the land. However, surfing was only possible at the particular time of the day so that they decided to train their movements on land. Here, the idea of the new wheels was also one of the factors that helped in the establishment of the subculture (Dogtown And Z-Boys). The environmental aspect also became a part of the group’s history. While California was facing damaging droughts when there were immense restrictions on water, the team decided to make use of swimming pools that were empty and unused. They started training their skills of skateboarding, driving up and down the pools and employing their surfing skills. This resulted in the emergence of the popular

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Peter Checkland and Brian Wilson are both systems thinkers who contributed to the development of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM). Although both systems thinkers began developing concepts of SSM around the same time, Checkland is considered the pioneer of SSM. Checkland’s SSM was designed for solving general social problems, while Wilson adopted the methodology for business management by developing enterprise model building. The underlying principle for Checkland’s SSM and Wilson’s SSM is that it allows users to structure their thoughts and align them to the real world and thus, help in situations where there are different assumptions, multiple stakeholder, and multiple goals (Ragsdell, West & Wilby 2012). A comparative analysis of Checkland’s SSM and Wilson’s SSM divulges emphasis of specific modeling devices for instance Checkland focuses on three concepts namely rich pictures, root definitions and conceptual model, while Wilson focuses consensus primary task model (CPTM) and maltrese cross analysis, which are suitable for information systems required in new enterprises. Still, Wilson’s SSM borrows heavily from Checkland’s SSM especially on ideas of conceptual model and root definitions. Since, Wilson’s SSM was developed much later after apparent problem with Checkland’s SSM, it is considered the most pertinent in today’s systems applications. The objective of this paper is to compare and contrast both Checkland an Wilson’s models of SSM.