Beach Boys!

[Archae]

Recording three albums by them.

"American Summer" (double album set)

"Best Of The Beach Boys"

[Brother Buzz]

1. Hoot! I just dug my Pendleton out of mothballs last week

[OriginalGeek]

2. A couple saturdays I was at a classic car show

well, "Show" is being generous...it was just a local thing held the last Saturday of every month at this diner near my grandpa's house - we went up and entered his all-original* 1965 Pontiac LeMans because it's a fun way to spend an evening and by entering a car in the show you get a discount at the diner. Plus a chance to win some prizes (we won a car wash!)...but there is a hostess and she plays 50s and 60s cruisin' music and has raffles and plays trivia games and I happened to overhear her at the car next to us talking with the owners and griping about what Mike Love had done to Brian and Al and I could help hollering (even though I was in no way a part of their conversation) "BECAUSE MIKE LOVE IS AN ASSHOLE" and she looked over and hollered "ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE!"

and we laughed and it was fun. So that's my Beach Boys story. from about a week and a half ago.

30 something years ago, I saw the Beach Boys with opening act Delbert McClinton. It was the first concert I ever went to. Back then, I didn't know what an asshole Mike was but I enjoyed the show.


*all original except for the air cleaner cover - that got stolen in the 70s so the current one is a replacement piece.

[zen_bohemian]

3. I will have to try and dig up the article I saw Sunday about Mike Love and what happened with Al and

Brian and Dave. It was a newspaper, it printed an entire article/interview with Mike Love; he explains the WHOLE situation

Edit: It's in the LA Times for Oct 5, for some reason I cannot link it, but it is an interesting article.

[zen_bohemian]

4. The BB's are my band :)

I like the Sun/surf/car songs, but I really dig their music from Pet Sounds to Holland, Sunflower is my favorite album, didn't get much accolades, but I love it anyway. I like the LA album only for "Good Timin" what a pretty song

[ascrodin]

6. The Beach Boys Love You

If you want to hear some really off the wall stuff, give The Beach Boys Love You a try! Quirky lyrics, gruff scratchy vocals, "farting" Moog synths. It's almost as if Wilson subconsciously collaborated with Jonathan Richman, Tom Waits, Walter/Wendy Carlos, and the Human League... Wilson inadvertently made a punk/new wave record.

[ascrodin]

5. ...

Saw them on their 50th Anniv. tour last summer. Quite possibly the best live incarnation of the BBs since the early to mid 70s Surf's Up/Holland/In Concert-era. I wish Blondie Chaplin had come back to the group, if only for this one tour. Could've had the possibility of seeing some cool Blondie Chaplin/David Marks-dueling lead guitars...in a group not necessarily known for being a "guitar band".