I'm looking forward to the next run of 3 or 4 albums. This album is one that I listened to and enjoyed when I checked out the book the first time around 2011.
Dennis was looked on as not being (according to one doco I saw) the greatest of drummers. Some Beach Boys drum parts were completed by session musicians and other people who were not Dennis... so in some ways, it was kind of a ballsy move for him to go ahead and make a solo album.
This doesn't sound a like a "Drummer album". This is a vocal-heavy album, but not the clean complex harmonies of a Brian Wilson production (I'm actually now listening to the Beach Boys' "Friends" album as I type this) it's more of a cathartic clamour. That's interesting, as the music is certainly not a non-stop journey of joy. Dennis himself struggled with alcoholism and cocaine addiction.
It was always that rather odd thing with the Beach Boys where they sang all about surfing but Dennis was the only one who surfed (It would be like if all of RHCP except the drummer were virgins, or if Motorhead were teetotallers) and he ended up drowning after a vodka binge.
The album was well received and Dennis was grateful for the recognition. He started recording a follow-up but died before he could complete it.
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