Brian Wilson Instagram – Singer, songwriter, hitmaker and Raspberries frontman Eric Carmen passed away last week at 74. In an interview on his website, Eric spoke about Brian’s influence on his music:
[Early on] “I went to school on Brian Wilson. That was a real breakthrough for me because he was doing things that I thought were so incredibly sophisticated before anybody was doing anything even close. The Pet Sounds album is, to me, the best pop album of all time.
Brian introduced me to the idea of writing a bridge for a song that really had nothing to do with the verse and chorus. In the early days, I spent a lot of time concentrating on writing bridges that took you some place that you didn’t expect to go. Many songwriters wrote a song, the song’s in the key of C, it comes time for a bridge and they go to A minor. That bored me. Brian would go to E flat or somewhere strange, and he managed to do it smoothly. He also had a way of delivering you out of the bridge in such a way that you felt like maybe the song had modulated up a step, but you were really back in the original key. That, to me, was artwork.”
– Eric Carmen
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#allbymyself | Posted on 18/Mar/2024 18:55:56
