Yes, Dennis Wilson didn't play the drums. It was Hal Blaine and Jim Gordon, you dipshit.
Dennis Wilson was the REAL Beach Boy: the Beach Boy who was actually racing hot rod, surfing and banging chicks by the score before he was a rock star (and he was a rock star by age 15.) . He was Brian Wilson’s chief muse. Those songs were very much about the nerdy Gershwin-geek Brian Wilson fantasizing that he was his handsome wild brother who was living the myths that Wilson spun on records.
His raspy baritone voice brought a wild (sometimes flat) rock and roll element to the Beach Boys vocal blend, which in itself is an instantly recognizable and absolutely inimitable sound.
AS a drummer, while he will never go down in any top ten lists — drums were not his primary instrument, he was a pianist, primarily— in the early days he wasn’t bad. You can look at live performances on youtube and see for youself that he was a spirited and energetic rock drummer who kept time well and generally played what was right for the song — and the parts that Brian Wilson wrote were by no means always just a four on the floor simple beat. He played drums on these well-known Beach Boys singles.
“ “Surfin’ Safari/409”
“Shut Down”
"Surfer Girl/Little Deuce Coupe”
“Be True To Your School/In My Room”
“Little Saint Nick”
“Fun, Fun, Fun”
“I Get Around/Don’t Worry Baby”
“When I GRow Up (To Be a Man)/She Knows Me Too Well”
“Dance Dance Dance/The Warmth of the Sun”
“She’s So Good to Me”
“Girl Don’t Tell Me”
“Wild HOney”
“Do It Again”
“I Can Hear Music”
“Rock and Roll Music”
“Honkin’ Down the Highway”
“Good Timin’”
On some of those songs (“Fun, Fun, Fun” and “I get Around”) there were two drummers, Hal Blaine and Dennis, and of course Blaine or Frankie Capp or Jim Gordon played on most of their baroque pop masterpieces like Pet Sounds, SMiLE and Friends.
Dude did enough to make it..... and you?
