Posted on 05/24/2024 4:22:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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A lady I worked with in Mountain View, Ca in 1990 said that she went thru Jr High and High School with The Beach Boys, said that they were real jerks after they started performing. Of course, she was a jerk herself, so I take that under advisement.
She was just a sourpuss because her daddy took her T-bird away.
My ex husband toured briefly with the Beach Boys in the 70’s. His band was the opening act.
I saw The Beach Boys live in concert at UGA Athens, the Coliseum. They did a long version of Jumping Jack Flash. They were great. What they played May have been a version of the Bangladeshi concert sponcered by George Harrison. At any rate they boggied. Great Concert. Early 1970’s.
After they started performing they were jerks? Ok. So what. We don’t live in the same universe as celebrities. Just stay away from them and you’ll be fine.
I was never a real fan.I’ll be giving this one a pass.
Surfin' Safari (1962)
I may have seen him since that was the time I saw them in concert once. The show was pretty good IMHO. They had become an oldies act for the most part by then but they had a great body of work to draw from. It was a fun evening.
I had a feeling that was going to be posted :)
In the last BB movie, Murray (Brian’s father) was depicted as a real a-hole.
Wonder if this one will as well. Seems like he kind of was.
“Charlie don’t surf!”
Never saw the Beach Boys though I had several chances. I was more of a purist/snob than maybe I should have been. I just wasn’t that interested if Brian wasn’t in the band I was seeing.
I do sort of regret my purist attitude at this point. I did get to meet Mike Love last fall. He was pleasant and accommodating.
I’m not disputing your acquaintance’s memories, but it’s worth noting that Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine were all more than 1 year out of high school when the band launched in 1961, so it might be reasonable to question how much contact she actually had with them following their success. Of course, it’s certain very possible that the band’s high-school age- cohort, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson & David Marks were the obnoxious jerks of which she spoke, especially Dennis based on his history.
I saw the Beach Boys perform in 1966 or 1967 thereabouts at the Lagoon amusement park north of Salt Lake City. They were performing on a small stage elevated about 3 feet from the floor we were dancing on, only feet away from us. One of the Beach Boys was so drunk he fell off the stage. I’m not sure which one it was that fell, but I think it was Dennis. I enjoyed their music, but frankly, I was more interested in the pretty long-haired brunette I was dancing with.
They came to FSU when I was a student there.
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