Editing Brother Records (section)

==Background and formation==

The Beach Boys decided to form their own label, Brother Records, in response to [[Capitol Records]]' lack of support for the band's more ambitious album ideas. According to biographer [[Steven Gaines]], [[Mike Love]] was "the most receptive" to the proposal, wanting the Beach Boys to have more creative control over their work, and supported [[Brian Wilson]]'s decision to employ his newfound "best friend" [[David Anderle]] as head of the label, even though it was against band manager Nick Grillo's wishes.{{sfn|Gaines|1986|p=164}}

Plans for the company began in August 1966.{{sfn|Matijas-Mecca|2017|p=60}} In a press release, Anderle said that Brother Records was to give "entirely new concepts to the recording industry, and to give the Beach Boys total creative and promotional control over their product".{{sfn|Priore|2005|p=108}} Anderle later said that the label was for releasing projects that were "special" for Brian, and there was initially no concern over whether the label's products would be distributed by Capitol.{{sfn|Leaf|1978|p=98}} Another one of the major reasons that Brother Records was formed was so that Wilson could create his own recording studio.{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=180}}

[[File:The Appeal to the Great Spirit, Cyrus E. Dallin, Boston, Mass. (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|left|"[[Appeal to the Great Spirit]]" was appropriated as the logo for Brother Records ]]

For the company logo, Wilson chose [[Cyrus E. Dallin]]'s 1908 life size bronze statue ''[[Appeal to the Great Spirit]]'' at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. When [[Carl Wilson]] was asked in 1975 why the group used this as their logo, he said the Indian was chosen because the Wilson brothers' grandfather believed that there was a spiritual Indian guide who watched over them from the "other side". Carl called the logo "The Last Horizon."<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Priore|editor-first=Domenic|editor-link=Domenic Priore|title=Look, Listen, Vibrate, Smile!|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oy4BAAAACAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Last Gasp|isbn=0-86719-417-0|page=141|chapter=The Beach Boys' Brother Records Logo|last=Proebe|first=Larry}}</ref>

Brother Records' office took residence at 9000 [[Sunset Boulevard]] and Grillo was assigned the role of financial administrator.{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=148}}  Singer [[Danny Hutton]] was to have been one of the first artists signed to the label.{{sfn|Priore|2005|p=52}} The Beach Boys also established a short-lived film production company, called Home Movies, to create live action film and television properties starring themselves. The company completed only one production, a promotional clip for "Good Vibrations".{{sfn|Priore|2005|p=116}}

Wilson started having increasing doubts about the ''[[Smile (Beach Boys album)|Smile]]'' project and showing signs of worsening mental health during the latter months of 1966.{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=163}} After he began suspecting that his father may have planted a listening device in his home, he insisted on holding business meetings in his swimming pool.{{sfn|Gaines|1986|p=166}} He also suspected that Capitol was withholding payments from the band and instructed Grillo to conduct an audit of the label's financial records. Discrepancies were soon found.{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=165}} On February 28, 1967, the band launched a lawsuit against Capitol that sought neglected royalty payments in the amount of $250,000 (equivalent to ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US|255000|1967|end_year={{Inflation-year|US}}}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}}). Within the lawsuit, there was also an attempt to terminate their record contract prior to its November 1969 expiry.{{sfn|Badman|2004|pp=170, 178, 243}} Following the suit, Wilson announced that the company would issue "[[Vega-Tables]]" as the lead single from ''Smile''.{{sfn|Badman|2004|pp=173, 178}}

Anderle met with many record companies but failed to secure a distributor for Brother Records.{{sfn|Gaines|1986|p=165}} Frustrated by Wilson's regressive behavior, Anderle ultimately disassociated from the group. The last time Wilson was visited by Anderle to discuss business matters, Wilson refused to leave his bedroom.<ref name="Nolan1971">{{cite magazine|last=Nolan|first=Tom|title=The Beach Boys: A California Saga|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=October 28, 1971|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-beach-boys-a-california-saga-19711028|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224061040/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-beach-boys-a-california-saga-19711028|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 24, 2012|issue=94}}</ref> The Capitol lawsuit was eventually settled out of court, with the Beach Boys receiving the royalties owed in exchange for Brother Records to distribute through Capitol Records.<ref name="Vosse1969">{{cite journal|last=Vosse|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Vosse|title=Our Exagmination Round His Factification For Incamination of Work in Progress: Michael Vosse Talks About ''Smile''|journal=Fusion|date=April 14, 1969|volume=8|url=http://i351.photobucket.com/albums/q476/marcus1970/}}</ref> An official announcement of the resolution was made on July 18.{{sfn|Badman|2004|p=195}} {{clear left}}