[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

The "witchcraft" quote makes it clear that SMiLE was meant to be more than simply a musical recording.
And the idea of a record album embedded with some kind of unknownmystical power,
and the potential of such power, might tend to scare some people.
It might even scare the album's creator (i.e.-the "Fire" tapes incident is an
example of the creator being scared by his music's mystical power).
Brian Wilson's Hero: Phil Spector

Concerning Phil Spector, Brian Wilson states...

"He’s been the number one influence on me musically." -SOURCE, INTERVIEW: Backtalk with Brian Wilson

Who is Phil Spector? According to CrimeLibrary.com (Notorious Murders/Celebrity Crimes) in an article titled I'M TOO EVIL, we read...

"Throughout his career, Spector embraced his public image as a 'mad genius,' but a more sinister image began to emerge as his preeminence as a hitmaker was challenged. Stories of his eccentricities found their way to the press, painting a picture of a demented recluse haunting his California castle.
Jeffrey Ressner in Time Europe reported that Spector 'took to running around his hilltop mansion in a Batman costume.' Spector allegedly kept a "glass coffin in his basement" and swore that if his wife 'Ronnie ever left him, he would kill her and display her body like Snow White's.'
In Mark Ribowsky's biography of Spector, songwriter Doc Pomus said that Spector would typically change his clothes four times a day and 'each time he'd have a different gun to match the outfit.'
Four weeks after Lana Clarkson's death, Spector told the London Daily Telegraph, 'I take medication for schizophrenia, but I wouldn't say I'm schizophrenic. I have a bipolar personality, I'm my own worst enemy. I have devils inside that fight me.' " (emphasis added)

"In a 2000 interview, Vanity Fair asked Phil Spector what his greatest fear was.
'That God won't let me into heaven because I'm too evil,' he said, 'and that the Devil won't let me into hell because he's afraid that I'll take over.'
Perhaps the most condemning charges came from Spector's two adopted sons, Donte and Gary Spector, who revealed horrors from the childhoods to the Mail in December 2003. 'For years, we were just caged animals to be let out for Dad's amusement,' Donte Spector said. Their father's abusive behavior toward them increased after his divorce from Ronnie Spector.
Donte claimed that as a child, 'he was forced to perform simulated intercourse with his father's girlfriend.' At the age of 9, he was blindfolded and handcuffed 'for her amusement.'
Gary Spector said that he was also blindfolded and sexually molested, told by his father that it would be a 'learning experience.'
The brothers concurred that they were held prisoner on Spector's estate where the windows in the house were secured with bars and barbed wire. 'We were locked in our separate rooms by our governess, let out for breakfast, then taken to school by guards,' Gary said." (emphasis added)

Would you credit such a demented person as Phil Spector, who openly admits to being EVIL, as being your main musical influence? Your hero? Phil Spector is undoubtedly a demon possessed man. This fact, in combination with Wilson's confessions to employing witchcraft into his music, and the heavy use of psychedelic drugs to create his "spiritual" and "Godlike" music, are clear indications that Brian Wilson is controlled by Satan. Ephesians 2:2 states, "Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience." That "spirit" is Satan. The Word of God teaches that Satan works "spiritually" through the unsaved people of this world; and ironically, they often don't even realize it. Brian Wilson knows what he is doing, for he admitted so when he spoke of trying to create "witchcraft music," and also by deliberately going for psychedelic rides on LSD.
Satan is so deceitful that he has convinced an older, and supposedly wiser, Brian Wilson, that his music is of God; but, it surely is not. Brian Wilson's music may be of the god of this world, Satan (2nd Corinthians 4:4); but it is not of the Lord Jesus Christ, the God and Creator of the Universe. The Beach Boys used to sing their music at the "Whiskey-A-Go-Go" on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood years back. This was also a favorite place of the vile rock-n-roll band, Van Halen. Is this a "Godlike" establishment? There is nothing even remotely "Godlike" about Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, or their worldly music. Now in the final phase of Wilson's life, he says he wants to sing "religious" music; but he's still not sure if there is a God. Talk about messed up! Brian Wilson can still come to Christ to be saved; but it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle Jesus said, than for a rich man to be saved. Truly, many people will one day burn in the Lake of Fire because of this world's wealth that prevented them from humbly coming to Christ for forgiveness and salvation. "Ye must be born again" Jesus proclaimed in John 3:3. This can only happen through the blood of Jesus Christ, which He shed for our sins. We can receive Christ's free gift of eternal life by simple faith. All we need to do is to believe upon Jesus as our Saviour, asking Him to forgive us and take us to Heaven when we die. ADDING any works, religion, or sacraments to our faith is NO faith at all.

The Beach Boys and Satanism

 

In 1966, the Beach Boys came out with their album, Pet Sounds (album cover pictured to the right). Please notice the goats which they are feeding. This is no coincidence, the goat represents Satan...

"The horned and hoofed Greek goat-god, Pan, is one of the most important entities of Witchcraft. Thor, the Norse god, was worshiped before the other gods of Valhalla. Some say he existed as early as the stone-age. Thor drove a great chariot, pulled by two giant, powerful goats. They symbolized thunder and lightning.
Medieval legends say that the Devil created the goat. Satan himself often appeared with goat's horns, and sometimes changed his shape completely into a goat." -SOURCE (Encyclopedia Mythica)

Clearly, Satan is the spiritual power behind ALL rock music, including so-called "Christian rock." There is nothing even remotely "Christian" about rock-n-roll music. Rock-n-roll is a religion of immoral sex, drug abuse, and demonic powers summonsed through the music itself. Brian Wilson even admitted that he was trying to create "witchcraft music." The music of the Beach Boys may seem harmless, but it is as demonic as all rock-n-roll music. One of the greatest dangers is that young people idolize rock band members and want to become like them (following in the steps of their mentors).