Thursday, June 19, 2025

It's Beach Boys Week: Part IV -- Doug Kolk Explains It All to You

That's Doug Kolk, as in the KTLA (a CW network station) entertainment correspondent, from last weekend.

On why Brian Wilson was not just the usual pop music bozo poseur, i.e., of the kind that dominates today's Hit Parade of Hell.😎

Seriously -- you don't normally expect (or get) that level of intelligent music criticism from a local TV news guy. Kudos and bravo, my friend.

10 comments:

edward said...

An interesting YouTube influencer video, though they don't usually have a chorus of females making fawning noises of approval at the desk.

Allan Rosenberg said...

Great posting!!!

Captain Al

steve simels said...

Hey, it's L.A. 😎

Anonymous said...

Edward: it was nice for a while, but eventually got so annoying that I gave up writing about music altogether.

Gummo said...

Kudos to that guy and to the station that gave him 4 1/2 minutes for that segment.

Anonymous said...

On thing he got wrong, I think, is the comment about Brian “penning the lyrics”.
Jai Guru Dave

steve simels said...

I"ll have to go back and rewatch it, but I'll take your word in the meantime. 😎

Alzo said...

Amazing. I work in local TV News and the typical music story is brief and cliched. This fellow just gave a 200-level breakdown that most reports on any subject would benefit from.

steve simels said...

Indeed.

Allan Rosenberg said...

Hope he doesn't lose his position for being to intelligent on air!

Captain Al