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The Beach Boys
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Los Angeles, United States (1961 – present)
The original group comprised singer-musician-composer Brian Wilson, his brothers Carl Wilson and Dennis Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Many changes in both musical style and personnel have occurred in their sometimes-stormy career: Brian Wilson’s mental illness, drug addiction and eventual withdrawal from the group; the deaths of Dennis Wilson in 1983 and Carl Wilson in 1998; and continuing legal battles among surviving members of the group.
The Beach Boys officially broke up in 1998 shortly after Carl Wilson’s death, however Mike Love and Bruce Johnston maintain the rights to the name and continue to tour with their own band as The Beach Boys.
===History===
==Early years==
The group was formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California under the leadership of Brian Wilson, and included his brothers Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love and school friend Al Jardine.
The early inspirations of the group were the Wilsons’ musician father, Murry, and the close vocal harmonies of groups such as The Four Freshmen. The group performed initially as The Pendletones, after the Pendleton woolen shirts popular then. Although surfing motifs were very prominent in their early songs, Dennis was the sole actual surfer in the group.
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dabbik wrote:
No one got the joke I made. ;_;
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ThunderBeard wrote:
The grammar police have a warrant out on dabbik.
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dabbik wrote:
cptnfantastic: Do you really think I would? Plz -_-
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young_wives wrote:
yet he's played them 1,063 times, somebody's lonely
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cptnfantastic wrote:
Dear dabbik, please go jump into a fire.
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dabbik wrote:
The Beach Boys fkn sucks.
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optimistic_tour wrote:
we're goin down to the honda shop i'll tell you what we're gonna do
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xNeux wrote:
<3
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JakeJustice wrote:
oh come, Hawaii isn't bad. It's actually catchy as hell, just fun pop. A bit of a stand-out among the early Beach Boys album tracks
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TinyElvis83 wrote:
haha. Mike's got moves at the end there.
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ThunderBeard wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtQD0uXIfuQ&feature=related snl with brian wilson. What?
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Sessions_please wrote:
Check Warnakey's BB blog for that one.
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link to purple chick?
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TinyElvis83 wrote:
Hawaaaiii! Hawaaaiii! Ah, it got stuck in my head!
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Sessions_please wrote:
Isn't that incredible? Purple Chick-whoever you are, I bow down to you.
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sputnik57 wrote:
I've been listening Smile reconstructed by the Purple Chick.... amazing shit.
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Sessions_please wrote:
Hehe, Tiny E- have to say that's not a favorite of mine, either. Stereo or mono! Now you made me listen to WOTS :)
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Jyroflux wrote:
Heh. I hated the mono version of Hawaii. I thought it was a real mess. But I like the stereo version.
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TinyElvis83 wrote:
I just purchased The Warmth of the Sun and heard that Hawaii song for the first time...it's pretty bad. lol. I mean, it's cute, with Brian and his falsetto, but I just couldn't get into it.
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LOVE THEM
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