{"id":3256,"date":"2011-06-21T22:03:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T02:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3256"},"modified":"2011-06-20T10:20:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T14:20:53","slug":"portrait-night-621-dennis-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3256","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Night 6\/21 (Dennis Wilson)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight\u2019s #PortraitNight subject is The Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson. This is the second–and only slightly less terrible–of two finished sketches I did of him. I could probably get a decent likeness with another iteration or two, but there’s a point at which I’ve got to just draw the line time-wise for these sketchbook exercises.\u00a0 My apologies, folks!<\/p>\n

Anyway… Dennis didn’t write or sing many Beach Boys songs and none of his songs were big hits for the group. Two of my<\/em> absolute favorite Beach Boys songs, though, were sung and co-written by Dennis: “Little Bird<\/a>” from the 1968 album Friends,<\/em> and “Forever<\/a>” from the 1970 LP Sunflower<\/em>. Dennis doesn’t have a “good” voice in the classical sense, but his vocals have an amazing emotional frailty that reminds me a little bit of Chet Baker’s voice.<\/p>\n

Dennis is also clearly the coolest Beach Boy: (1) He’s the only one that actually surfed, (2) He’s the only one that’s not kinda goofy-looking, and (3) He was in one of the greatest road movies of all time, Two-Lane Blacktop<\/em><\/a> (along with James Taylor and Harry Dean Stanton!).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>If you\u2019d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight\u2019s #PortraitNight subject is The Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson. This is the second–and only slightly less terrible–of two finished sketches I did of him. I could probably get a decent likeness with another iteration or two, but there’s a point at which I’ve got to just draw the line time-wise for these sketchbook exercises.\u00a0 My … <\/p>\n

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