After their songs were completed, Asher visited a few of the recording sessions, most of which were string overdub dates. In later years, he reflected on his interactions with Wilson and his bandmates as an "embarrassing" experience. He remembered that Wilson "exhibitthis awful taste. His choice of movies, say, was invariably terrible. ... every four hours we'd spend writing songs, there'd be about 48 hours of these dopey conversations about some dumb book [about mysticism he'd just read. Or else he'd just go on and on about girls." Asked if Wilson had displayed any signs of "lunacy", Asher responded that Wilson had "fits of this "uncontrollable" anger. Then he'd fall apart and start crying during play-backs of certain tracks." Asher believed that the "whole claustrophobic scene with him and his family" was more to blame for Wilson's bipolar moods than his use of LSD.