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Enjoying a gathering and in comes a Brian fan my age...it's rare to find, so u gotta get in the info while u can.  I really don't think there anything better than a nice glass of scotch and the beach boys followed by good company.  Anyone, I.feel educated in music, has an appreciation of that man... knows good music.. we talked all albums..was great knowing a fan my age in a young crowd.

I have had similar experiences... Though mostly when I go out for a few drinks the crowds are younger than I. When the topics fall onto music that you are into, it always floors me how many know about and appreciate BW and BBs...

Brian fans are a dime a dozen these days.... Beach Boys fans are still a rarity....

...... Please don't shoot me in the back as I'm running away  >:D

Always great when you run into a fellow Brian/BB fan  ;D

It's happened to me quite a bit on nights out and usually then end up laughing about how passionate I get talking about The Beach Boys. That happens when I have a few few drinks in me and you get me talking about music.

One of the finer times was when I was at the Hard Rock in Vegas 1999 to see Brian Wilson and I was wearing a Beach Boy Family and Friends tee-shirt under my blue blazer. I had to ask people to stop buying me drinks.

That's absolutely awesome!

I should really delete my reply after reading this :)

I do this too, only with people who don't know about Pet Sounds/SMiLE/beyond. It's a lot of fun to play "Our Prayer" and preface it by saying "This is what happens when you mix The Beach Boys and acid" (not accurate I know, but makes for a fun conversation!)

Yea, I like to have a nice scotch and put on bw albums..but I must say they are catching on more to younger people these days.  Finally Brian getting his respect with others and not just us die hards

Also I feel that if people new there story and how square they were not, a lot of people would change.  By rock standards these guys were crazy bastards.  Not so wholesome at all. Lol

The Beach Boys story (Brian's in particular) is the greatest Rock n Roll story of all time, it draws you in like a film and the music is the soundtrack.

No wonder the Brian scenes in Walk Hard were the best.

Best surprise was back during my college days, I was producing a local  hip hop group, and Sunflower was one of the cds they brought with them to possibly sample. Sadly, we ended up using a non-BB song to sample on the finished cut, but somewhere on an ADAT tape is a sample of the opening of 'All I Wanna Do' chopped and screwed with someone rapping over the top.

I went to see a Who tribute band at the local pub with my dad a couple of months ago now, and I noticed the guitarist (Pete Townshend's dupe) had a Brian Wilson present SMiLE T-Shirt on - speaking to him afterwards he'd seen the show on the first night!