1983 Pet Sounds tour?

[HeyJude]

I don't at all neccesarily think the entire thing is completely made up. I don't think it's at all unlikely that he could have mentioned to one or several BB's that it would be cool to tour "Pet Sounds." What seems more likely, however, is that it never got much beyond "oh yeah, that would be cool, we should look into that" status, as opposed to an eight-year-long intense struggle that included board meetings discussing the concept, or that it was all but a done deal were it not for one member.

I'm baffled as well with the idea that touring "PS" was a unique idea. Maybe it was less common for "classic rock" acts to dredge up old albums and peform them in full back circa 1983, but I can't believe that nobody else ever had the idea to do the full "Pet Sounds" album. I would also imagine various associates and friends of the band casually pitched various members all sorts of ideas over the years, and maybe some of them garnered responses from various members along these same lines of "yeah, we should look into that."

[Pablo.]

Yesterday I got in contact with Scott Matthews by email. Next week I'll be having answers to the PS tour questions ("I can't be brief as these specifics are not all yes/no"). He's planning to write about that in his own book.

[southbay]

Yesterday I got in contact with Scott Matthews by email. Next week I'll be having answers to the PS tour questions ("I can't be brief as these specifics are not all yes/no"). He's planning to write about that in his own book.

How about was he asked to be part of the C50 band as the wiki site implies?

[Andrew G. Doe]

That entry reads that Matthews was given gold and platinum Pet Sounds discs in the early 90s. Bit tricky as those awards weren't ratified until 2000.

[puni puni]

Any news or hard sources on this matter?

[Pablo.]

Old news (october 2013), so depressing that I was embarrased to post then.
 Previously, he had proposed me to answer my questions if I let the answers to be cut & pasted onto a "extensive interview" with him and his whole career. I agreed, thinking on the whole picture.
After radio slince from his part, I insisted and he answered saying that he was very busy and had no time for "reminisce with fans of my older work and/or relationships" unless it were for a big project, like a book, interview etc.
I answered him pasting his previous e-mail and saying that an answer (of the same lenght that his refusal) from him would be useful for several BB researchers (and I introduced myself from the start as a journalist -who interviewed people way much bigger than him, btw), but he never replied.
Weird guy.

[puni puni]

Here is a link to where the edits on the Pet Sounds article came from (somebody named Drbaseball95)

Which seems to have originated from the Scott Mathews page (somebody named Tikitown)

I haven't been able to find a single mention of a 1983 Pet Sounds tour anywhere else, yet Mathew's e-mail confirmation shows that the subject clearly didn't sprout from thin air. apparently, "Tikitown" is the name of a studio owned by Mathews, and it's very obvious that most of his article was either written by Mathews himself or an associate of his. taken from an observation made on the Wiki talk page:

...The list of artists worked with is a bit overblown -- I found that "working" with Keith Richards amounted to him being on the same track on John Lee Hooker's Mr. Lucky.

can't wait to see what the Mathews autobiography will look like