Bambu & beyond

Though Pacific Ocean

Blue was the only album Dennis Wilson released in his lifetime, he conceived and created lots more music. Work began on a second solo album, titled Bambu, before POB was even released. “he just kept right on recording, there wasn’t a delineation,” says John hanlon. “Dennis loved being in the studio. It was a safe space.” “Sony wanted another album, but by then Dennis wasn’t doing well in his life,” says Jakobson. “he wasn’t in the same head space, or together enough to make it happen. A lot of Bambu is helterskelter, hit-or-miss stuff.” In 1979, two Bambu recordings – “Baby Blue” and “Love Surrounds Me” – appeared on The Beach Boys’

LA (Light Album). The sessions for Wilson’s second album were officially released in 2008, on an expanded CD edition of Pacific

Ocean Blue. Earlier this year, a limited-edition vinyl version of

Bambu was issued for Record Store Day. With Kalinich, Wilson hatched plans for a multi-media project called ‘Life Symphony’, and an album of “45 one-minute songs, designed to inspire and touch people”. Neither came to fruition.