So I've always been into Guns but until Recently I haven't much gotten into the Beach Boys beyond the hits. Their first few hits the Beach Boys took Chuck Berry riffs and layered Freshman style vocal harmonies over them for some quick straight forward rock and roll. But soon Brian Wilson... the main song writer quit touring so he could work with session musicians to expand their sound. He hired the best session musicians and spent all day in the studio recording and re recording what would become Pet Sounds. When the band came back from tour they, mainly Mike Love, told Brian that it wasn