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We know The Beach Boys have fans in other fellow bands and musicians like the Beatles especially Paul McCartney and his love for Pet Sounds and Eric Clapton who also loves Pet Sounds. Do you know of any other bands, musical artists or even other celebrities like actors who are known to be Beach Boys fans, do you know what specific songs they like?

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

Foster the People :p

Ronald Reagan

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James Watt?  :-\

Not really famous outside of Scotland but Greg Hemphill is a popular comic actor here (starred in a sitcom called Still Game) and he was at the Brian Wilson concert in Glasgow last year, he tweeted a few jokes about taxi drivers making Charles Manson comments on the way to the gig. Also Iain Lee, a presenter and disc jockey in Britain, I know he's quite a big fan. He done an interview with Brian last year actually which was pretty decent, he got right into talking about Marcella if I remember correctly  8)

Actor Nickolas Cage... Director writer Cameron Crowe. Wolfman Jack.

David Letterman, and of course John Stamos. :)

Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton.

Drew Barrymore

downunder:
Sam Neil (actor)
Daniel Johns (silverchair)
HG Nelson (radio & TV opinionist/satirist/comedian)
Damien Lovelock (Celibrate Rifles)
Martin Phillips (The Chills .. kiwi)
Cal Callahan (Riptides/Gangajang ... SMiLE knowledgable)
Stuart Coupe (music reviewer & critic)

Elvis Costello
Jeff Bridges
Zooey Deschanel
Crosby & Nash
Linda Ronstadt
Neil Young
Tom Petty

All of us here!
Mick Jagger
Ray Davies
Keith Moon
Ike Turner (Good Vibrations was his second favorite production ever)
Bob Dylan (in 1987 in Rolling Stone he said they were better than The Beatles and Stones)
Terry Williams (First Edition)
Billy Joel
Elton John
Weird Al
Sean Lennon (lol)

Dylan - "He ought to donate that ear to the Smithsonian".

Questlove(The Roots)
MGMT
Mark Hoppus(Blink 182)
Elton John
Jim Morisson(2nd favorite band after Love)
Thom Yorke(Radiohead)
Daft Punk(Their first  group name was Darlin' & also mentioned the Beach Boys in many interviews.)
Mark McGrath(Sugar Ray)


Pretty that's all i know..
It's so shocking that Daft Punk are BB fans considering they are one of the hugest techno groups ever!!!

David Gilmoure is another fan I just thought of.

That Harry Potter guy, can't remember his name.  He digs Smile and Holland.

Frodo from Lord Of The Rings
Frank Black of the Pixies
Dave Gilmour

"Feeny, a fee fee feeny"

never saw that. very cool to hear




any quotes from Ray?

David Lee Roth

Tom Cruise

John Ritter

Ramones

Gary "Doonesbury" Trudeau.
Pete Townshend.
Keith Moon, rest his manic soul.
Roger Daltrey.
Dennis Locorrierre.
James Dean Bradfield.
Nick Lowe.
Dave Edmunds.
Jimmy Buffett.

I had heard that Trey from Phish is a pretty big fan but I dont think they've ever covered them. I was at their July 4th show in Georgia a few summers ago and their set break music was the entire Pet Sounds album. It seemed like most people enjoyed it.

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 that 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."

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

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).

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

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.


http://expectingrain.com/dok/int/RS1987.html

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.).

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.

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?

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.

Marc Bolan

Kraftwerk

Bill O'Reilly

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

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

Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier.

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

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

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

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?

The Bee Gees

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.

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

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.  ;D

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)

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..."

Brian Eno
Rufus Wainwright
Paul Simon
Art Garfunkel
Patti Smith
Lou Reed (though not of the Lovester, apparently...)

Sondre Lerche
Roland Orzabal (Tears for Fears) - even made a song called "Brian Wilson Said" on the "Elemental" album.

Bryan McFadden - the fat one from Westlife. He got laughed at for saying that on CDUK, they also visited his home and he had Brian Wilson posters in his studio.
Lindsey Buckingham
Fleet Foxes
Paul Weller
John Frusciante
John Squire

Belinda Carlyle
Marilyn McCoo
Justin Hayward
Danny Hutton
Randy Newman
Al Koholic

This girl here is a big fan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOX5zjkfoFY&feature=related

Zooey Deschanel

I know someone already mentioned Tom Petty, but it's great how me mentioned in the "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" video that Pet Sounds put Brian in a class with Beethoven.

It was also great that Petty said he couldn't figure out why he couldn't get his bass to sound like the bass on a Beach Boys record until he found out it was three basses playing at once.  :lol

Kevin Love :)

Dylan basically said that The Beatles and Stones when they started were doing their versions of American music. He said he felt The Beach Boys were more original like he was himself. That's basically the quote. It's in the 1987 twentieth anniversary edition.

Thanks for pulling that. I think it has a lot of meaning especally back in 1987 when their rep was going downhill.

Sonic Boom (Spaceman 3)
Karl Wallinger (World Party)
Jeremy Gluck (The Barracudas)
James Honeyman-Scott (The Pretenders)

Didn't Diablo Coady meet her husband on a BBs fan forum too? Don't give up hope yet, fellers!

Also, I would love to hear her cover of "Got To Know The Woman" if possible...

Well, she certainly had David Letterman drooling over her on his show.

I registered here to find strippers in the first place.

Not gonna lie, for a while I thought I was the only one. No luck on this end, though.

R.E.M., particularly Peter Buck and Mike Mills, you can hear the Beach Boy influence on albums like Reveal.

Really? I know Jason Pierce is a big BB's freak, cos I talked with him about it! But I don't know about Sonic Boom.

Yeah...in retrospect it was likely a case of the publicists hyping up her debut by posting on many different forums. Did give me a good laugh when someone said something like 'bitch you need to learn to spell your name right'. lol

Scott Weiland is a pretty big BW fan.  Don't forget Henry Rollins is, as well.

That was an OK cover...not great, but not awful. The banter was really corny, though.

you can tell scott is a bb fan with songs like this lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t2VSB5EJxc

He made some glowing remarks about Smile in the past.

Great example!

:] thanks..just something i've noticed & appreciated.

Don't know if I apply to the first one, but I've been told on more than one occasion that I need to get a life and quit "worrying" about the Beach Boys :lol But I guess I'm just easily impressed ;D

You can definitely hear it on At my most Beautiful on UP and Tongue on Monster.

I love Karls music, World Party and The Waterboys were great blankety-blank bands man.