Mike and Bruce Superbowl 1998
Wilsonista:
It was the pre-game show and only 30 seconds of it got shown on TV (based on reading fan accounts from the day, it was treated like it was an afterthought). As I recall, it was a tribute to the California Sound, not specfically the BB, which is why Dean Torrence was there. I don't recall there being a lot, if any advance publicity prior to their performance. The big show that gets the limelight is the half-time show because it is shown during the TV telecast.
Pretty Funky:
Its all water under the bridge now but this must have been a difficult time for all concerned for obvious reasons. We of course can only speculate what went down between Mike and Al at this time but my take is something like this.
I would not be surprised if Al was unsure, or felt it was inappropriate to be planning any kind of future for the Beach Boys late 97-early 98. he may have thought the time had come to retire the band. To put it another way, he would not commit to the band in 1998.
Bruce has mentioned in the past on the Britain board how dates start to fill early for the following years touring. So late 97 I could well imagine promoters wanting to book the BBs for the following summer. Mike could have turned them down flat, or say he could not legally provide 'The Beach Boys', but could provide a form of the band under another name.
Fast forward spring 98. Mike has a reasonable number of dates confirmed without using the BBs title. Bruce and established BB band members willing to tour along with Dave.
So the cash cow rolled on in 98 and the use later of the BBs title increased it. I don't recall hearing of many staying away from the shows because there was no Al Jardine so why would Mike want to bring him back?
Total speculation again.
Andrew G. Doe:
Quote from: TheOther Anonymous on April 30, 2009, 08:47:49 PM
Fast forward spring 98. Mike has a reasonable number of dates confirmed without using the BBs title.
I'd question that. From the info Ian & I got for the 1998 shows & sessions, there were only eight dates booked as "America's Band" prior to Mike getting the OK to tour as The Beach Boys in mid-July - and half of those were cancelled, presumably due to poor ticket sales. Even if you include the shows immediately after as pre-booked, between Alan's last show on May 5th and September 4th, AB/BB had precisely 12 shows scheduled. 1998 was one of their slowest touring years ever.
Pretty Funky:
As this was a transition period it may have been 8 more gigs than even Mike expected! ;)
Jay:
This is a little off topic, but WHY did Mike "take over" the leadership? This isn't a put down of Mike, and I don't intend it to turn out that way. My question is, simply, why did Mike not want Al in the group? Why did he want Dave back in the group? Now, here is the BIG question: Why was Carl presumably totally left out? I realise that Carl was very sick by this point, but it was still his band. Not HIS band, but "his band" in the sense that he always participated in concerts, and recording sessions. Why would Mike and Bruce allow Carl to find out from Dave that he, Dave, was back in the band? As Andrew made it more than clear in his last post, it wasn't like Mike was making millions off of his being the "leader". At least not by this point(1997-8).
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