“When I was a little eight year old kid my dad and mom took me over to their friend’s house, who had a theremin. And I was scared to death of that sound, it really frightened me a lot. I didn’t want to hear that sound you know? It sounded like one of those horrible scary movies you know weird trip, weird face expressions, almost sexual. And I thought to myself I’m picking up good vibrations, and I thought the cello was playing dee dee dee dee and I said as long as we’re doing something eerie today, why not get real eerie and put a theremin on it? We got the theremin on there so people could understand the theremin in finite terms. In terms of written music because in a sense it had an unwritten sound to it. Of all the Beach Boys records it was probably the best combination of instruments. The most unique way of taking conventional instruments associated with adults and children in their twenties…I didn’t think it was funny, it didn’t make me laugh you know? It made me cry. Nobody called it a rock n’ roll record but it was.”

I like the Alice Cooper one where John Lennon meets Brian Wilson twice in one night and I like the guy on Youtube explaining how many key signatures are in Good Vibrations but the story I like most is the moment in the film about theremin where you think to yourself he’s going to explain how cool the theremin is and why he used it but instead he explains that he chose it because he always hated that thing.