john stamos/full house/beach boys

[smile-holland]

they used it when Stamos was promoting the song in "Full House". not sure if the music video came before or after that episode.

I know I have the (double) episode of Full House somewhere on VHS where uncle J.  is getting married. During the ceremony he walks over to the piano and starts playing Forever as well, complete with a choir (no double rock baptist choir btw).
 
Makes me realise again I really have to make some work of digitalising all that vhs stuff onto dvd...

[Pretty Funky]

While on the suject of Stamos....Ooch !


Family matters

Tunes & Tix column by Tim Shellberg

BY TIM SHELLBERG
Times Correspondent

This story ran on nwitimes.com on Friday, July 21, 2006 12:50 AM CDT

 

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It's been nice watching the tables turn on Beach Boy torch carrier Mike Love the last couple years. For decades, he kept the family trademark alive with a truncated version of the Beach Boys while his cousin and the band's genius, Brian Wilson, battled personal demons that would kill lesser men and forged his own solo career. In 2004, Wilson shocked everyone by finishing "Smile," the album long credited for doing him in, which he first started in 1966. Even more shocking is that it was worth the wait; as much a classical piece as it is pop, look for "Smile" to be on many a "best of '00s" decade overview a little more than three years from now.

Ever the weasel, though, Love managed to wrangle himself a songwriting co-credit on the album, a result of a mid '90s lawsuit giving Love questionably deserved props on the band's back catalog. Even worse, Love sued Wilson last November for, according to an article in the Associated Press, "shamelessly misappropriat(ing) (Love's) songs, likeness and the Beach Boys trademark, as well as the 'Smile' album itself." If Love didn't look like a jackal for milking his cuz out of past songwriting credits in the '90s, he sure looks like one now for kicking Wilson when he's finally up.

Despite a nice little photo op on the steps of Capitol Records last month featuring the surviving original B-Boys to mark the 40th anniversary of their landmark "Pet Sounds," Wilson is thankfully remaining clear of his former band on the road. In his place at Ravinia Monday, however, will be their longtime chum, former "Full House"-r John Stamos, showing both how far Wilson has come in the last few years and how little the band's artistic integrity means to Love.

The Beach Boys | 8 p.m. Monday, Ravinia Festival, 200 Ravinia Park Road, Highland Park. $50 pavilion (lawn seats sold out).

[Andrew G. Doe]

I never knew there was a video of "Forever" 'til I found it on YouTube by accident/mistake.  Since I don't own the album, it was the first I'd heard it.  Carl and the other guys also have cameos in the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVxy1srqbGY&search=stamos

Very possibly one of the most inept music videos I've ever seen. Truly awful.

[Ron]

On one show of Full House I saw, one of them (can't remember) was writing a jingle for something.  He brought 3 guys to the house to sing the jingle he had wrote, and one of the guys looked to me like Jeff Foskett, but much thinner.  Was he thin back then? (I know he is again now).

Also, on either Full House or Home Improvement, the BB's showed up on one of the episodes, and Brian sang Carl's cool part in 'Kokomo'.... am i just imagining that, or did he really steal Carl's big moment there? 

[matt-zeus]

Being British, i've never even heard of Full House, was it any good? or just a pile of cheese like some of the trash that gets put on in the small hours here: ie: Everybody loves Raymond, Hope and Faith?

[JRauch]

Worse. But I think it was aimed at a kids-audience.

[Roger Ryan]

Being British, i've never even heard of Full House, was it any good? or just a pile of cheese like some of the trash that gets put on in the small hours here: ie: Everybody loves Raymond, Hope and Faith?

I think most here would agree "Full House" was worse than something like "Everyone Loves Raymond". "Raymond", while not good, at least attempted situational humor based on comic characterizations; the "Full House" approach was to have a show filled with attractive, normal-acting folk (i.e. Stamos) who try to get laughs by doing and saying cute things. This kind of thing would never generate laughs with a live audience, so a heavy laugh track was smeared over every episode (you know you're in for a treat when a character opens the front door to say "hello" and is greeted by roars of laughter from the fake audience!).

[Matt Howlett]

Being British, i've never even heard of Full House, was it any good? or just a pile of cheese like some of the trash that gets put on in the small hours here: ie: Everybody loves Raymond, Hope and Faith?

Full House was my favorite show when I was a kid. It was primarily "family oriented", with some kind of moral or lesson at the end. The show had a sort of "Three Men and a Baby" type premise, except it was three men trying to raise three girls. John Stamos' role in this was the part of Unlce Jesse, the rebel rocker who moves in with the family to help raise the girls. Enter in the cheese. Now that I am older, I can only stand about a minute of it. It's very cheesy, with bad acting and a lot of corny jokes. The only good thing to come out of it was the career of twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (each played the same role, since it is easier to cast twin babies to play one role) who have made a fortune starring in b-movies geared towards preteen girls. They have since grown up and are focusing much of their attention on fashion.

You might be able to download a few episodes off of file-sharing networks, but I wouldn't spend your hard earned cash on the DVD's unless you just have to have the episode with the Beach Boys on it.

[JRauch]

The only good thing to come out of it was the career of twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

I hope, with "good", you mean "worst".

[shelter]

I wouldn't have associated the song "Forever" with little babies, but....I didn't see Al in the video; was this that period when he was temporarily asked to leave. And seeing Carl again, damn...

I once saw a birth announcement card with the lyrics to the first verse of God Only Knows on it, which I thought was just perfect. Many of the BB's ballads could just as well be about children/babies as about women.

[matt-zeus]

I'm thankful that I haven't seen it.

[Rocker]

Being British, i've never even heard of Full House, was it any good? or just a pile of cheese like some of the trash that gets put on in the small hours here: ie: Everybody loves Raymond, Hope and Faith?

I think most here would agree "Full House" was worse than something like "Everyone Loves Raymond". "Raymond", while not good, at least attempted situational humor based on comic characterizations; the "Full House" approach was to have a show filled with attractive, normal-acting folk (i.e. Stamos) who try to get laughs by doing and saying cute things. This kind of thing would never generate laughs with a live audience, so a heavy laugh track was smeared over every episode (you know you're in for a treat when a character opens the front door to say "hello" and is greeted by roars of laughter from the fake audience!).

I guess I agree !

[Matt Howlett]

The only good thing to come out of it was the career of twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

I hope, with "good", you mean "worst".

No I meant good. Both of them are hot.   

[JRauch]

I see your point, Mr. Humbert.

 

[Matt Howlett]

I see your point, Mr. Humbert.

 

I'm not sure if I get the reference, "Mr. Humbert".

[JRauch]

It´s a reference to the book "Lolita", with it´s main character named Humbert Humbert (no typo), who fells in love with a young girl.

[Matt Howlett]

It´s a reference to the book "Lolita", with it´s main character named Humbert Humbert (no typo), who fells in love with a young girl.

Nice reference, JRauch.

I am only 19 though, so technically I have a crush on two older girls.

[JRauch]

I guess it´s ok then.