Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

Today's Guest: Kent Crowley, author of The Beach Boys Carl Wilson biography, Long Promised Road.   Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with Kent Crowley by clicking on the video player above!  Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of people who can’t surf but always envision themselves hanging 10 while singing “I Get Around”… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida Is it fair to call Carl Wilson the “accidental” Beach Boy? He was the youngest brother – and cousin – in the world’s most enduring and prominent California surf band, the one that probably had other youthful pursuits in mind when older brother Brian recruited him to the band in the early 1960s at age 15. KENT CROWLEY podcast excerpt: "Murray Wilson, father of Brian, Dennis and Carl, was a very damaged individual. He, too, grew up in an abusive household with an abusive father. So what didn't happen in the Wilson household -- until Carl showed up -- was you never had anyone to break that cycle. That