The Beach Boys’ PET SOUNDS (Part 2, Ep. 219)
Chuck Granata’s book Wouldn’t It Be Nice: Brian Wilson And The Making Of The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds is the ultimate dissection of Brian Wilson’s 1966 masterpiece. Chuck and I wound up diving so deep ...
8 Aug 20251h 16min
Hal Blaine (Part 1) (The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series) (Ep. 218B)
The next entry in The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series is Part 1 of Chuck’s chat with Brian Wilson’s favorite drummer, legendary studio maestro Hal Blaine. It’s not hard to understand why Bri...
4 Aug 20258min
Graham Nash discusses Crosby, Stills, & Nash (the debut album, 1969) (Ep. 218)
Here’s just a few of the many things that Graham discusses with Discograffiti in this podcast: The reasons why he split from The Hollies (Director’s Cut only); A recounting of the very first time he...
1 Aug 20251h 5min
Bill Wagner, Manager of The Four Freshmen & Brian Wilson’s Mentor (Ep. 217B, Sneak Peek)
The next entry in the Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series makes for a perfect pairing with last week’s—it’s Chuck’s chat with Brian Wilson’s early mentor Bill Wagner, The Four Freshmen’s manager...
28 Jul 20259min
The Beach Boys’ PET SOUNDS (Part 1, Ep. 217)
Who better to tackle Discograffiti’s epic, multi-episode Deep-Dive into The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds—my second favorite album of all time behind only Smile—than the scholarly yet super-cool Petsoundsolo...
25 Jul 20251h 22min
ROSS BARBOUR OF THE FOUR FRESHMEN (The Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series) (Ep. 216B)
We kick off the Chuck Granata Pet Sounds Interview Series at the very beginning…it’s Chuck’s conversation with one of Brian Wilson’s most towering influences, Ross Barbour of The Four Freshmen! His f...
21 Jul 202510min
MARILYN WILSON-RUTHERFORD & GINGER BLAKE OF THE HONEYS, The Beach Boys’ Sister Group (Pt 2, Ep. 216)
In Part 2 of my amazing discussion with two-thirds of The Honeys, Marilyn, Ginger, and I work our way through some wildly emotional terrain, including what it was like to share lives with a creative g...
18 Jul 20251h 7min
THE BEACH BOYS’ PET SOUNDS TIMELINE: A BRIAN WILSON DIARY (with author/expert Chuck Granata & Fred Vail) (Ep. 215B, Sneek Peak)
Recorded only two days before the great man’s passing, this audiobook-style episode is a Brian Wilson diary that covers the 27 sessions it took to accomplish one of his great works, a span of six mont...
14 Jul 20256min
