Brian Wilson - Imagination
This DVD features a special concert performance by Brian Wilson, including such guest stars as Christopher Cross, Jimmy Buffett, and Timothy B. Schmit. Though the concert segment of the DVD ranges through Wilson's career from his earliest Beach Boy days, its focus is his albumImagination, his first output in a decade. Each song is bracketed by interview segments: with Wilson, with his various collaborators, and with such admirers as Stevie Wonder and Barenaked Ladies. Still, while the concert performances are strong, they feature the same trick as his recent live concerts: sweeping washes of sound that mask just how thin and tentative Wilson's voice has become. As for insight into Wilson's tragically quirky life and pained genius, check outI Just Wasn't Made for These Times, Don Was's film about Wilson.--Marshall Fine