Famous Beach Boys Fans

[rab2591]

I never read or heard that Dylan said the Beach Boys and Stones were better than the Beach Boys.

You sure he said that??  He musta been real stoned.  Only thing I read that he once said that "Brian should donate his ear to the Smithsonian".

.......And didn't Brian once say that "Dylan put an end to music" (or whatever the statement was).

To add to the quotes; I think Dylan went to a BB/Grateful Dead concert and said to someone next him (referring to the Beach Boys) "You know, they're fucking good man."

[Andrew G. Doe]

To add to the quotes; I think Dylan went to a BB/Grateful Dead concert and said to someone next him (referring to the Beach Boys) "You know, they're f*cking good man."

The gig was the 1971 jam with the Dead at the Fillmore East, and the someone was Jack Rieley.

[Roger Ryan]

It's important to keep in mind that Dylan loves Americana. While certain folk artists from the British Isles influenced him in the early days and he remained an active collaborator with George Harrison, his praise is usually reserved for North American artists. The Beach Boys represent something that Dylan could never hope to attain himself: beautiful harmonies combined with seemingly effortless ornate production. He's admitted that his own impatience with the studio prevents him from getting the results that others get...and, well, his voice was never going to work that well in a harmony blend (although he tried it a few times in the Traveling Wilburys).

[bossaroo]

didn't Brian say he was trying to impress Dylan with Pet Sounds... or was it SMiLE?

[bossaroo]

found the quote in question (interview by Kurt Loder):

KL: By the time of "Desolation Row," in 1965, you had gone electric and had been more or less drummed out of the purist folk movement. Was that a painful experience?

BD: No. I looked at that as an opportunity to get back in to what I had been into a long time ago and to take it someplace further. Folk-music circles were very cold, anyway. Everybody was pretty strict and severe in their attitudes; it was kind of a stuffy scene. It didn't bother me that people didn't understand what I was doing, because I had been doing it long before they were around. And I knew, when I was doin' that stuff, that that hadn't been done before, either. Because I'd known all the stuff that had gone down before. I knew what the Beatles were doin', and that seemed to be real pop stuff. The Stones were doing blues things -- just hard city blues. The Beach Boys, of course, were doin' stuff that I didn't think had ever been done before, either. But I also knew that I was doing stuff that hadn't ever been done before.


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[Roger Ryan]

didn't Brian say he was trying to impress Dylan with Pet Sounds... or was it SMiLE?

During the PET SOUNDS tour, Brian would occasionally introduce "I Know There's An Answer" as a "social statement, Bob Dylan-type song". If he was thinking that in 2000, he was probably thinking that in 1966.

Brian's choice to use Van Dyke Parks as co-writer for SMiLE was probably a conscious attempt to replicate the more literary-style lyrics that Dylan, Paul Simon, Ray Davies and Lennon & McCartney were going for at the time. One might note that some of the imagery of the "Surf's Up" lyrics are similar to Dylan's "Visions of Johanna" which was released in June, 1966 ("jewels and binoculars hang from the head of a mule", "...and Madonna, she still has not showed; we see this empty cage now corrode where her cape of the stage once had flowed", etc.).

[Pied Piper]

Dave likes 'Hawaii' and even sang a bit on the show once. He told Brian that as a teenager he and his friends in Indiana considered themselves surfers. "oh, surf the bath tub!" says Brian.

[Mikie]

Well then, Brian and Dylan seemed to have mutual respect for one another. Brian covered more than one Dylan song for the Party album in '65.......not sure if that was the 'trendy' thing for Brian to do at the time or that Brian genuinely liked Bob's music. I think the latter - or maybe it was Al's idea.

And of course Bob sang on a version "Spirit Of Rock & Roll" around 1990 too. I think Bob and Brian lived in the Malibu Colony at the time (?) so it was convenient........

I still remember reading more than once in the past, though, that Brian said Dylan was out to end all music (paraphrase). Did I dream that?

[Pied Piper]

I still remember reading more than once in the past, though, that Brian said Dylan was out to end all music (paraphrase). Did I dream that?


He felt Dylan could destroy rock 'n' roll.

[Dunderhead]

Marc Bolan

Kraftwerk

[Dave in KC]

Bill O'Reilly

[Newguy562]

Bill O'Rielly

wtf farreals? that extremist douchebag likes the beach boys? :]

[acedecade75]

Steven Tyler of Aerosmith is a big fan.  I believe he said that "In My Room" was the first song he ever sang on stage.

[Matt H]

For anybody who was a member of the old Wheeler board...anybody remember Britney Spears (or more likely, her publicist ) making a couple of appearances on the board, oh about a month or two *before* her first cd came out?

I remember that, my recollection is that it didn't seem very genuine.

[SG7]

Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier.

[Mr. Wilson]

Yea Bill O"Reilly is a fan..When ML was suing BW for royalties he had him om the Factor..very True

[BananaLouie]

Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier.

Stereolab are big fans of Brian's and are greatly influenced by him. Rivers Cuomo and Weezer are also Beach Boy fans.

[CarCrazyCutie]

Mandy Moore, I remember her specifically mentioning Our Prayer)

Diablo Cody had The Trader & You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone on her itunes celebrity playlist which totally impressed me

Avril Lavinge I remember her citing them as influence (I never heard it) in an article when Complicated came out

Not sure if they were mentioned yet but obviously the Eagles

Jackson Browne

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

David Lee Roth!

Didn't he say "In My Room" was the first song he ever slow danced with a girl/copped a feel to?

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

The Bee Gees

[Aum Bop Diddit]

Steven Tyler of Aerosmith is a big fan.  I believe he said that "In My Room" was the first song he ever sang on stage.

I read somewhere that his favorite album is "Smiley Smile"! I also remember Henry Winkler in an interview saying "Pet Sounds" got him through high school, or something to that effect.

I remember that comment by Brian about Dylan destroying music, or however he put it.  I think it followed one of his "scared me" comments, in this case "Dylan scared me".  And I took it as Brian having an awe of Dylan, not as dismissive at all.  But there is no question that they are practically polar talents.

[Beach Boy]

George W. Bush

Katy Perry

Ron Wood

Tommy Lee (not really a fan but he started with a Beach Boys cover band)

James Hetfield (listed God Only Knows as one of his top ten favourite songs)

John Carpenter

[Andrew G. Doe]

Diablo Cody had The Trader & You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone on her itunes celebrity playlist which totally impressed me

When you consider her past history with notable BB fans, it's not in the least impressive. Granted, you have to be 1) of an age and 2) a complete and utter BB geek to recall this. 

[metal flake paint]

Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream)
Jim Reid (The Jesus and Mary Chain)
Sean O'Hagan (The High Llamas)
Martin Carr (The Boo Radleys)
John Cale
Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub)
Paddy McAloon (Prefab Sprout)
Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne)
Joe McAlinden (Superstar)
Euros Childs (Gorky's Zygotic Mynci)
Lewis Taylor (British multi-instrumentalist musician)

[AndrewHickey]

Diablo Cody had The Trader & You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone on her itunes celebrity playlist which totally impressed me

When you consider her past history with notable BB fans, it's not in the least impressive. Granted, you have to be 1) of an age and 2) a complete and utter BB geek to recall this. 

I remember my first thought when I watched Juno in the cinema was "Hang on, that scriptwriter has the same name as the person who did that great cover of Got To Know The Woman that was posted to the Smile Shop board..."