From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   I tend to the theory that Brian didn't finish it because he couldn't.   
      
   He invented a new way of putting songs together with "Good Vibrations",   
   but he _almost_ couldn't finish that, tinkering with it endlessly, and   
   that was just one song.  Trying to do a whole album that way was a   
   bridge too far.   
      
   And I don't think the fact that the 21st century "Smile" sounds a lot   
   like the tapes we've heard means that "Smile" was essentially finished.   
   I think it means more that Brian isn't any more able to finish it   
   now than then, but more willing to take what had been done and call it   
   finished.   
      
   				Ted   
      
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