himself to make sure that the new songs sounded as adult contemporary radio as possible. Most were dominated by tinkling keyboards, with plenty of melodic interjections from a gently plucked nylon-string guitar. If Brian tried to use an instrument or an arrangement that might not fit into the soothing blend, Joe would shake his head and slice it out of the picture. And if this bothered Brian, he didn't show it." Brian reportedly stated: "We call it a Brian Wilson album, but it's really a Joe Thomas/Brian Wilson album." When it came time to arrange Wilson's songs for live performances, backing band member Darian Sahanaja remembers Thomas wanting to turn "Caroline, No" into a "sexy, Sade kind of thing". He added: "When liberties were taken, his [Brian's] response would be, "Uh, cool." Or he wouldn't respond at all, so you'd have to ask, and he'd say, "I think it sounds, uh, good." But as soon as we did a song close to his original arrangement, he'd go nuts: "Wow! Outtasite!" And then he'd want to hear it again. And that made perfect sense to me." Many outtakes would later be revived for the Beach Boys' 2012 reunion album That's Why God Made the Radio with Thomas' involvement. Release Imagination (Giant 24703) hit #88 in the US during a chart stay of 2 weeks. It reached'#30 in the UK. On May 9, 1998, to promote the release of Imagination, Wilson performed a live taping for VH-1 at the St. Charles East High School auditorium in St. Charles, Illinois. The live performance included guest performances from Christopher Cross, Beach Boys member Bruce Johnston, and Eagles members Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit and Steve Dahl. The concert, which was later incorporated with additional interviews from Elvis Costello, Eric Clapton, Sean Lennon, Stevie Wonder, and Jimmy Buffett, was released on VHS in 1998 and DVD in 1999 but is currently out-of-print. "Your Imaginination" and "Lay Down Burden" were aired as music videos on VH1, with the album audio played over the video, and clips of Brian walking through the woods "thinking" and "day dreaming" and images of him and his brothers on the screen. He supported the album with a tour, beginning with the Late Show with David Letterman on August 14, 1998. A 5.1 channel surround remix of the album in the DTS CD format was also released by DTS Entertainment in 1998