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The Andy Paley sessions refer to an unfinished recording project by American songwriter-musicians Brian Wilson and Andy Paley during the mid 1990s. The intent was to record a studio album comprising original material written and produced by the duo with participation from Wilson's group the Beach Boys. It was the last time Brian would work with the band before the death of Carl Wilson in 1998. Paley previously worked with Wilson as co-producer and co-writer on the albums ''Brian Wilson'' (1988) and ''Sweet Insanity'' (unreleased). Many internal conflicts prevented the album from completion, with Brian unable to secure a record deal for the material. While sessions were underway, he embarked on a songwriting collaboration with businessman and record producer Joe Thomas, resulting in the Beach Boys' ''Stars and Stripes Vol. 1'' (1996) and Brian's ''Imagination'' (1998), another factor which contributed to the Paley sessions' dissolution. Few of its recordings have seen official release since then, though many tracks circulate via bootlegs. ==Background== Songwriter-producer-multi-instrumentalist Andy Paley first worked with Brian Wilson for the album ''Brian Wilson'' (1988), which Paley later called "a pretty good record ... () there were too many cooks and Brian wasn't really calling the shots."〔 Encouraged by Paley, some songs from the album drew from close to 170 rough tape demos kept in briefcases next to Wilson's piano. Paley said: "There's great stuff, but there are also what I call 'hamburger songs'. A lot of those are real junk" (referring to songs Brian composed in exchange for hamburgers from his brother Dennis). After working on the material for several months, additional producers and songwriters were called in for Wilson. The duo reteamed for the recording of ''Sweet Insanity'', which Paley called "even less real Brian than the first one", and it was left unreleased.〔 The day after California courts issued a restraining order on therapist Eugene Landy from contacting Wilson, Wilson phoned Paley to work on an assortment of recordings destined for a potential album which could have featured some involvement with the Beach Boys. Paley remembered that Wilson would speak of each song's vocal arrangement in terms of which parts the Beach Boys would sing. Wilson called it "some of the best material I've done in a real long time", adding that he is "baffled" why ''Smile'' (whose recordings were still largely unreleased) continued to attract attention, quipping: "Things are so different now. The new material just kicks the shit out of ''Smile''." Sessions coincided with the recording of ''I Just Wasn't Made for These Times'' (1995) and the Brian Wilson–Van Dyke Parks collaboration ''Orange Crate Art'' (1995).〔 Wilson told the ''Los Angeles Times'' in January 1995, "I don't think that anyone really knows where I'm at now. It's funny. People look at me I think as somebody who used to write songs for the Beach Boys, and is sort of inactive." After Beach Boy Mike Love successfully sued Wilson for songwriting credits, Wilson told ''MOJO'' in February 1995: "Mike and I are just cool. There's a lot of shit Andy I got written for him. I just had to get through that goddamn trial!" Two weeks following the trial, Love invited Wilson to his home in Lake Tahoe for a "serious" songwriting session, in which they wrote one song tentatively slated for the television show ''Baywatch Nights''. Wilson said in March 1995: "I'm trying to get used to our new thing, and I think I will. It's so hard, you know. I feel like I'm on the spot, and I don't like that feeling." Next month in April, it was unclear whether the project would turn into a Wilson solo album, a Beach Boys album, or a combination of the two. Paley told ''Billboard'': "We've got 30 things in various stages of development. Sometimes Brian says 'Yeah, let's put the Beach Boys' voices on this,' and other times he's not so into it, so I don't know how it's going to work out."〔 On Wilson's birthday in June 1995, Paley brought Wilson to Ocean Way Recording to visit a Phil Spector session, another contemporary who was making a tentative comeback. Wilson was reportedly "overwhelmed". In August 1995, Wilson announced he had "40 incredible songs" and "would be damned if we can only have 10 or 12 of them on one album".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andy Paley sessions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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