Cool stories and memories

[Mikie]

Yeah, Dennis had a bug up his ass about something. The girl with him wasn't Barbara, but she was pretty good looking with long hair. Tim didn't say anything back to him - he was as surprised as we were when Dennis said that.

[retrokid67]

Yeah, Dennis had a bug up his ass about something. The girl with him wasn't Barbara, but she was pretty good looking with long hair. Tim didn't say anything back to him - he was as surprised as we were when Dennis said that.

  wow that was really rude of him.  I don't care if he was having a bad day or not, you guys came out to see them perform and put money in their pockets.  without the fans they would be nowhere, even Dennis said that.

[Custom Machine]

OK, Mikie, your "not so great" visit with Dennis took place exactly five days after my extremely positive encounter with Dennis in Anaheim.  So it's time to acquiesce to the demands of your fellow board members and let us know what transpired!

Same concert. November 21, 1973. My friend Tim and my girlfriend were with me. After the concert, we went outside and stood on the sidewalk near the street where a limo was parked. Dennis came out of the auditorium from the side door and a girl followed him into the back seat. After the car door was closed, the limo didn't move for awhile and the window was down, so Tim and I leaned over to say a few words to Dennis. My girlfriend was leaning on me with her arm around me. All of sudden Dennis leaned out the window and says to Tim, "What are you lookin' at, f****t?" Needless to say, Tim is straight as an arrow, but......it wasn't cool of Dennis to say that to a big fan of his.

To this day, Tim is still a big Beach Boys and Dennis fan, but this always comes up when the subject of the band is discussed.

Ouch!!  But thanks for sharing the story, Mikie, even though it was a bummer to read about Dennis' behavior that evening.

[retrokid67]

Does anyone know about the story where this girl broke (a glass window, if I remember right, of a door to someone's office) and she was freaking out and told Dennis about it.  then he took her to that office and put a stack of money on the desk and asked the guy "will this cover it?" (which it did).  then the girl was relieved and asked him how he wanted her to pay him back and he said that her smile was payment enough.

I've been trying to find that story for awhile now, has anyone heard that one before?

[Mikie]

Haven't heard that story before, Retrokid, but here's another one about Dennis:

http://www.danaddington.com/denny/ashley.html

[Jason]

Yeah, Dennis had a bug up his ass about something. The girl with him wasn't Barbara, but she was pretty good looking with long hair. Tim didn't say anything back to him - he was as surprised as we were when Dennis said that.

  wow that was really rude of him.  I don't care if he was having a bad day or not, you guys came out to see them perform and put money in their pockets.  without the fans they would be nowhere, even Dennis said that.

Imagine if a certain other band member said the same thing...

[phirnis]

Yeah, Dennis had a bug up his ass about something. The girl with him wasn't Barbara, but she was pretty good looking with long hair. Tim didn't say anything back to him - he was as surprised as we were when Dennis said that.

  wow that was really rude of him.  I don't care if he was having a bad day or not, you guys came out to see them perform and put money in their pockets.  without the fans they would be nowhere, even Dennis said that.

Imagine if a certain other band member said the same thing...

You must mean Bruce, right?

[retrokid67]

Haven't heard that story before, Retrokid, but here's another one about Dennis:

http://www.danaddington.com/denny/ashley.html

Thanks again Mikie  .  I've seen that one a long time ago and forgot about it  and I thought the one I mentioned had been on that site too.  Maybe I read it on facebook or something, I thought it was really sweet 

[Ian]

I heard a lot of "bad" Dennis stories when researching my book but everyone I talked to seemed to cut him a lot of slack.  Almost everyone I interviewed said he had a good heart and was great company.  But no one denied that he could be a real pain in the …. and his addiction to alcohol slowly changed him into a person nobody really recognized by 1981.  But even when he was young he had a quick temper and could be aggressive. 

[guitarfool2002]

This one isn't personal, obviously...but I thought it was funny enough to add to the mix. I don't know if it's been repeated on this board before. This was posted to another musicians' forum in the early 2000's, it might still be archived exactly as posted.

This was a musician who was part of the band backing one of the Beach Boys' supporting acts during the early 1967 tour, who was also pretty young at the time of the tour.

NOTE: ***I'm paraphrasing this*** short of getting the exact quotes/story.

This musician said Dennis took a Cadillac convertible with him on the tour, loaded up in one of the trucks in the band's touring caravan, so he could unload it when they hit town and go cruising for women in those towns they were playing. Once Dennis invited the guy to get high, in this Cadillac which Dennis had sitting inside the venue. They were toking up with the windows rolled up when someone started banging on the windows. I guess the young guy must have thought it was the cops or security busting them for the dope.

It was Bruce Johnston, asking what they were doing and saying that they'd get busted for doing it.

Paraphrasing the punchline, Dennis handed the guy the joint and said "Don't worry, he's on salary."

[Shady]

Well that confirms our assumptions that bruce was the life of the party

[SMiLE Brian]

 

[RangeRoverA1]

Haven't heard that story before, Retrokid, but here's another one about Dennis:

http://www.danaddington.com/denny/ashley.html

This is corny as can be, however, it's a nice showcase of Dennis's weird side to his wild//creative/positive/playful/fit ones. If you look it that way, it is an interesting story. Of course, all the BBs are weird, but mostly we know it's Brian, Bruce (remember he gets inspiration as a songwriter from reading the greeting cards?), Mike.

[retrokid67]

I know that a couple of people's moms attended the T.A.M.I. show  . did anyone else here get to see them in 1964 or '65?

[Please delete my account]

I've had another Smiley Smile board search falilure: There was a thread once where someone, under the heading of something like "What Beatles fans think of the Beach Boys" that linked to a long thread about the Beach Boys on a Beatles forum. there was a guy on there (the Beatles forum) who shared lots of memories about Dennis.

Anyone better at searching than me, or who already know what I'm talking about?

[wild neon sins]

I've had another Smiley Smile board search falilure: There was a thread once where someone, under the heading of something like "What Beatles fans think of the Beach Boys" that linked to a long thread about the Beach Boys on a Beatles forum. there was a guy on there (the Beatles forum) who shared lots of memories about Dennis.

Anyone better at searching than me, or who already know what I'm talking about?

is this it?

Here's something interesting - what Beatles fans think of the Beach Boys!
http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=8423.0

eta: There's a funny story about meeting Dennis & nearly getting into a fight with Mike here. http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=8423.msg281407#msg281407

eta2: nice bit about Dennis from the same poster http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=8423.msg282748#msg282748

[wild neon sins]

Does anyone know about the story where this girl broke (a glass window, if I remember right, of a door to someone's office) and she was freaking out and told Dennis about it.  then he took her to that office and put a stack of money on the desk and asked the guy "will this cover it?" (which it did).  then the girl was relieved and asked him how he wanted her to pay him back and he said that her smile was payment enough.

I've been trying to find that story for awhile now, has anyone heard that one before?

from Ben Edmond's Mojo article (http://brianwilsonfans.com/a_dw.php)

Everyone, from brother Brian to guys he’d known for five minutes, all said the same thing: “Dennis had a big heart.” Debbie Holtsclaw knows this. She was 17 and fresh off the bus from Kansas when The Beach Boys hired her to answer fan mail. “One of the managers sent me out on an errand in his car,” she remembers. “Well, I cut a corner and bashed in one of the doors. I had no way of paying for the repairs, so I was actually making arrangements to go back with my parents while I raised the money. When Dennis heard this, he took me to the manager, who confirmed the amount I owed him. Dennis said OK, took a big wad of cash out of his jeans and threw it across the desk. ‘Is this enough to take care of it?’ When I worried how I was going to pay him back, he said, ‘Your eyes light up when you do something for us, that’s payment enough.’ I’ve treasured every one of those words, but that’s only one of 10,000 good-hearted Dennis Wilson stories. He was open to everybody, but I guess Charles Manson proved you can go too far with that.”

[retrokid67]

Does anyone know about the story where this girl broke (a glass window, if I remember right, of a door to someone's office) and she was freaking out and told Dennis about it.  then he took her to that office and put a stack of money on the desk and asked the guy "will this cover it?" (which it did).  then the girl was relieved and asked him how he wanted her to pay him back and he said that her smile was payment enough.

I've been trying to find that story for awhile now, has anyone heard that one before?

from Ben Edmond's Mojo article (http://brianwilsonfans.com/a_dw.php)

Everyone, from brother Brian to guys he’d known for five minutes, all said the same thing: “Dennis had a big heart.” Debbie Holtsclaw knows this. She was 17 and fresh off the bus from Kansas when The Beach Boys hired her to answer fan mail. “One of the managers sent me out on an errand in his car,” she remembers. “Well, I cut a corner and bashed in one of the doors. I had no way of paying for the repairs, so I was actually making arrangements to go back with my parents while I raised the money. When Dennis heard this, he took me to the manager, who confirmed the amount I owed him. Dennis said OK, took a big wad of cash out of his jeans and threw it across the desk. ‘Is this enough to take care of it?’ When I worried how I was going to pay him back, he said, ‘Your eyes light up when you do something for us, that’s payment enough.’ I’ve treasured every one of those words, but that’s only one of 10,000 good-hearted Dennis Wilson stories. He was open to everybody, but I guess Charles Manson proved you can go too far with that.”

Thank you so much I was looking for this everywhere!