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BECKLEY-LAMM-WILSON / Like A Brother

I have been a big fan of THE BEATLES since I was 10 years old (Lennon had already passed away before I learned him).
After "the Beatles maniac seasons" of mine, my interest was took in progressive rock like YES, GENESIS and EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER, brass-rock like CHICAGO, BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS and CHASE as same as heavy metal like METALLICA (actually, METALLICA was the first group whom I was interested in real-time) so it took many years for me to know THE BEACH BOYS (and AMERICA...this BLW album was the first one for me to touch America music).
Actually it's a matter of regret for me to know THE BEACH BOYS soon after CARL WILSON had passed away. I wish if I could learn his name before the news of his death. "Endless Harmony", a TV documentary of The Beach Boys was broadcasted also in Japan some years later from Carl's death, and I learned how beautiful, excellent and attractive their songs are by watching that TV program.
Around the end of 90s ~ 00s, most of The Beach Boys albums, especially of 70s ones, were temporary out of print (USED CD shops were selling them for around $50 in Japan), so it was hard for me to collect them but I tried and finally got all albums of them because I was so much curious about CARL's voice.
There is another reason that I drastically became a fan of The Beach Boys.
In 1997, SPIKE EDNEY who was a tour keyboardist of Queen, released SAS BAND's first album. On that album, a superb cover of The Beach Boys "Sail On Sailor" was sung by my favorite singer Chris Thompson. Until then, I was misunderstanding as if all songs of The Beach Boys are like Surfin' USA... but Sail on Sailor knocked me down.
Anyway, although it must be too late for me to know CARL WILSON he's still my favorite since I learned him first.

This project, BECKLEY-LAMM-WILSON started around 1991 when ROBERT LAMM was preparing for his second solo album, "Life Is Good In My Neighborhood". They recorded "Watching The Time" written by Beckley although the original trio-version of the song has never been released until the third solo album of Lamm, In My Head (1999).
Anyway, everything started in 1991, and the project went ahead very slowly like a walk.
After 1992, some meetings and recordings were held, and most recordings seems to have finished until 1995.
In those years, Lamm was fighting against the label about un-released STONE OF SISYPHUS album until they, Chicago, released Night & Day album. Beckley released his first solo album Van Go Gan in 1995. But "Beckley-Lamm-Wilson" album has been inconclusive because the final mix-down could not  be done satisfactorily, and the releasing label was not found while Carl Wilson was fighting with his bad health.
Eventually, before this album's release, Carl had passed away in 1998.
Even after Carl's death, Lamm and Beckley kept partial re-recordings and re-mixes while Lamm released his third album In My Head, and ... finally this was released in 2000 (2001 in Japan with 3 bonus tracks).
When we got and listened to this album, we knew that this project would never release their second album.
This must be the one and only album from Beckley-Lamm-Wilson, but I think that their music, harmonies and combinations are a brief but dazzling flash in Pops/Rock music which will remain forever.

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