Product: The Beach Boys and the Satan (2008)
Rating: 2.0
"Consider me mis-led by the title..."
Last year, I noticed a copy of this DVD on the shelf at my local Fry's Electronics. I was intrigued by the title; I thought "ooooh... a dark and creepy look at the mid-sixties LA music scene & how good ol' Brian Wilson sold his soul the the Devil in exchange for his songwriting gifts. Sounds fascinating!". I knew that Manson (as a struggling musician with dubious talent) had played around the fringes of the aforementioned scene & that he had somewhat of a tangential tie to Dennis Wilson (via Terry Melcher).As fate would have it, I didn't buy tBB&tS; on that day, & I pretty much forgot about it.Yesterday, I found myself in the very same store & as I passed the DVD rack, there it was. "I'm not going to pass it up this time" I told myself & I snapped it up.I got it home... popped into the player... & now all I have to say is, "what a bloody disappointment!". Suffice if to say that my above mentioned assumptions were nothing more that wishful thinking & apart from a brief mention of Melcher's associations with Manson and Dennis Wilson, what you have here are two short documentaries, neither all that informative, that just happen to co-habitate the same disc.If you are familiar with the story of the Beach Boys & you've read Helter Skelter, there's really nothing new for you here. True, there was an informative look at Brian & his particular form of eccentricity; & the claim that the Tate/Labianca hit might actually have been intended for Melcher and Mark Lindsey was a new one on me, but other than that... yuck.As for me... I'm off to eBay to find a buyer for this & recoup at least SOME of my investment!