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We can't wait for June!

http://www.amazon.com/The-Beach-Boys-Concert-Complete/dp/1617134562/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1349220405&sr=8-5&keywords=jon%20stebbins&tag=vglnk-c930-20

I'll be first in line to purchase this....looks to be a must-have.  Nice work!

wow, 400 pages.

Incredible, gonna get my order in today

Nice, will be adding this to my collection. Sorry to ask this again Jon but any news on the The Real Beach Boy reissue?

Looking forward to it!
PS: What is the likelihood that it will be available on Kindle?

Just pre-ordered it for $26.39.

I can safely say - without even seeing a single sentence -  that this is an utterly essential purchase for any right-minded clear-thinking Beach Boys fan. You'll be amazed.

I have a huge, huge gripe with this book. I want it NOW!!!  ;D

WHY SUCH A LONG WAIT!!! :(

looks real good man !

On order since Sept 20 at £22.64. - amazon UK's price has already risen to £30.64 so I've saved £8! Now… what to spend the saving on …?

The Real Beach Boy revised and expanded edition continues to progress ever-slowly. I've been clearing my plate with the intention of going full-bore on finishing it. Hopefully I'll have some solid release details by the end of the year.

Well, that leaves me out then....

The hell you will! I placed my order on Amazon yesterday!  :hat

Great! Can't wait to read it

I don't know about that, Mikie, the description sounds alot like you

Hey Jon, If possible, I think you should push the publisher to make it 409 pages

Adding to the feast is an extensive collection of unpublished photos and rare memorabilia images

YMMV, but I find I don't enjoy an e-reader for anything other than text.

You never tell us anything, do you Jon?  ;D

I'll be on this like Sonic now I'm in the full flush of employment and have this curious thing called 'disposable' 'income'!

Congrats Jon, looks awesome!

That's a real fine idea!

Thanks to all for the nice comments and orders... let it be known clearly that this book is Ian Rusten's baby and I'm just the proud uncle. Ian cultivated many years of amazing research into an impressive chronology of the group's touring career, and I just helped him polish it into a very readable and enjoyable flow. With the help of many, including certain Smiley Smilers we put together what I think is one of the coolest collections of Beach Boys photos and advertising that exists in one place. The book will feature something like 160 images, the majority never seen before, and many in color. Our publisher Backbeat Books is doing this thing up in style with a hardcover, large format (8 x 11) size, 400 pages, and photos placed near the entries for the shows they were taken at. So in many cases you will read about that show, see an ad, or a photo from it (or several from it)...read a review from the local paper, or a comment from a fan who was there, or from band members, opening acts, crew members, road managers, promoters etc... Through the decades of listings you will get a better, sharper, more in-depth and detailed view of the band as a live entity than has ever been written. You'll feel like you're on tour with them, and feel the rush of taking the stage and all the hell and glory that breaks loose night after night. Like I said, we can't wait for June.

What is the cutoff date of the book?

Sept. 2012

Want to give a big thanks to a lot of people on this board and other boards for help-including Rob Shepherd, Bgas, Mikie, AGD, Panayiotis and Smile Holland

Counting the days.

Good luck to you, Ian.   I know you'll sell the hell out of the book!

This is just the kind of Beach Boys book I've been wanting for a long time now. I can't wait!!!!  ;D A few question, if I may. Sorry if I'm being slightly too demanding of info this early, but I'm just super excited!!  ;D

1. Will the format be similar to Eric's concert guide website, with setlists for every concert(where available)?

2. Will any of the photos that sold on eBay of Dennis's final show be included in the book?

3. Will  there be any details or mention of the onstage incident between Dennis and Mike from the 1979 Universal Ampitheater show?

4. Will there be any photos of Carl onstage from the 1997 tour?

5. Will there be any photos of Carl from the 1978 Australian tour?

Good luck guys I will order one now.

Answers: 1) We will have set lists for some shows for each year-though not for all shows!  2) I did obtain permission to use some photos of Dennis from that Sept 1983 show-but the publisher felt they were just too poor quality to use  3) Yes of course-has to be brought up in the context of the times  4) No  5) Yes we do have some from the 78 tour
Ian

Really can't wait for this BUT just a little point Jon , would you like to send me a 'rough' copy (no rush but obviously as soon as you can) in the next two weeks would be fine so I can do a bit of proof reading , I promise I wont copy it   HONEST ;D

This is a work of great research and I can't wait. Congratulations, gentlemen.

I'll send you Ian's brain in a jar and you can download everything you need.

all the best with this...just preordered one myself.

AWESOME!! Can't preorder yet on German amazon though..  :-\

I just placed my order, thanks Ian and Jon!

Now, who's going to put together a similar tome for the studio history of the band?   :p

Brad Elliott.   ;D

Jon,

Can’t wait to get this book, I still have that promo flyer you handed me at the Grammy Museum show. Not sure if you are still squeezing updates into this great book, but I know of a show from 1962 (with some tidbits of info from a friend):

http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,10275.0.html

Well, I plan to at some point when I have time, but I kinda hope somebody beats me to it.

yeah-we never did get an answer to when exactly that bday party was and if it was Helen Stillman.

What are the dimensions of it, in inches or centimeters?  I know 400 pages is in itself a big book, but is it coffee table size?

That's a job for C-man.  Hope it's still in his future plans.

Thanks man. I think we generally cover this in the book, unless you have learned more detail than what is in the linked thread. Still time to get small bits of info in.

Thanks a bunch for the answers.  ;D

Woops, guess I missed the size post, thanks for the repost, bgas.  I was so excited to read the first post on the thread I just skimmed the rest and headed over to Amazon.  Amazon didn't have the actual size of the book posted on the site, yet.  I look forward to this book. I like fun stuff in music books.  The Beach Boys don't have nearly enough glossy coffee table picture books with good history in them.  Congrats to the authors, hope it's a big success.

This sounds great; pre-ordered, same as many others.

Just curious about a couple of things, like a kid before Christmas...  :)

Is this an attempt to document every BB concert with at least date & venue (much more, obviously, for some)?

Will there also be mention of Brian and/or Al shows? Almost forgot; Carl did a few shows in the early 80s, as well.

I'm really looking forward to this. Don't believe I've ever ordered a book so far in advance.

Well, as the gigs/sessions page on 10452 lists every known show - band and solo - from 12/23/1961-12/30/2000 and all Brian's solo shows after that date (plus the C50 dates), I'm guessing it wouldn't be too much trouble for a researcher of Ian's caliber to fill in the blanks. He did after all research said page on my site. Possibly the most amazing aspect of all this is, he does have a life !  Repeat, this will be an essential purchase if you consider yourself a Beach Boys fan.

Of course, it means more work for me come June.

Congrats guys - already placed my order !
Hey Jon - how about that Beach Boys Album Covers coffee-table book next then ?!!  ::)
www.pipeline-operaglass.moonfruit.com (The Beach Boys Albums Covers website)

publication date 6-13?

Does that mean it will not be available for another 9 months?

As it is this book is HUGE. The post '98 period had to be streamlined and truncated in a way that the prior years are not. Solo endeavors are given some attention too, Carl's touring is in there, Mike's side gigs, Brian's solo tours, some of Al's...but again post '98 stuff is minimal, but there. About 85% of the book is dedicated to 1961 - 1985, and that period is incredibly well developed with significant info on most of the gigs including dates, venues, attendance, opening acts, reviews, comments, quotes, photos, advertising etc... We had to cut it down by 70,000 words just to get it in at about 400 pages. And remember the format is large so they are BIG pages. But every year is covered right up to the 2012 tour...however, the amount of detail given to each year decreases once you pass 1985, and decreases again once you pass 1998. JUST FYI this book has nearly as many words as all three of my other Beach Boys books combined, and like I said we had to cut it down some just to get it there.

6/13 is the scheduled release, we may see it a little earlier.

Director's cut someday ?

It has to gestate.  Like a baby.

Is there any chance we might see them online (maybe on this board)?

Wow, this will be a great read, and I will probably vanish for a few days from society as I read it!  And maybe I can update the setlist archive for the first time in 4 years! haha

Can we hold you to that?

Malc, you have a fabulous site, so if you're not gonna do the Album Covers coffee table book, you and Jon need to get together and do it.

And ...  I'm totally lookin' forward to Ian and Jon's forthcoming book.

Malc and I were seriously talking about it some years ago and then other distractions, numerous projects began in rapid fire, Malc's got a big Bread project going too. But his Album Covers book would be cool, I'm all for it...but still really busy with other stuff.

A couple of queries...

I can understand 1998 onwards being covered only briefly but will the book discuss in detail the split in 1998 which led to America's Band, the lawsuit etc.?

Also, will the book mention any and all rare songs added to the setlists eg. Pretty Woman, I Saw Her Standing There etc.?

They played those?

I believe so. The first pre98, the second post.

We discuss a lot of stuff in the book-it is 400 pages! So hopefully everyone will walk away quite happy. Of course to cover everything that could be covered we'd need another 400 at least! I interviewed a lot of folks-including Daryl Dragon, Fred Vail, Steve Desper, Bobby Figueroa, Ron Altbach, Ron Swallow, Sterling Smith, Tom Murphy, Dennis Dragon and Chip Rachlin.  So there is lots of commentary too.  When they played an unusual song, we tried to mention it.

I'd be interested to read anything about the group supposedly playing "Baby, Baby", an unreleased Dennis song. For some strange reason, I'm also hoping to see at least one picture of Carl from Perth 1978.  ;D

WOW ! That's great news. Kudo's to Ian and Jon for completing this enormous job.

Don't have a pic of Carl in Perth-but do have some from Sydney on that tour.  Have lots of info on that tour though-not their finest moment of course.  Thanks for all the kind words on the book

By the way-we tried to make this book as accurate as possible-but I am very thankful to AGD for allowing me the space to list all the concerts on his site and it's nice to know that if I learn about a mistaken date/venue, etc or find a missing show from 1962 after the book comes out-at least I can add it there for anyone fanatical enough to want to know

Life is just really busy; priorities change...I really do want to update it, but I would like to solicit some help to make setlist submission an automated process, where people submit setlists for approval, and I just click a button that approves or rejects it.  In an ideal world, that's how it would go.  My website making skills are very old school.  Can anyone help make an automated form?

From the BW board.....

craigm

Registered: 07/16/12
Posts: 176

Posted Today at 10:40 AM


Hopefully it will shed some light on what happened at the end of summer 2012.



......Can you put craig out of his misery now or does he have to wait until June? :lol




 

I guess he doesn't read the author's posts here.

You know what? It would be awesome if there were an entire book dedicated to the 2012 reunion tour. The historical significance begs for it. When was the last time that Brian played every single date of an entire Beach Boys tour? I really thought he would bow out of the non US dates.

The 1980 tour of Europe, I think.