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I'm new to the forum and promise my topics will be more substantive in the future. But I couldn't resist asking the question posed in "When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)." It seems like enough years have passed to adequately respond to this inquiry.

doubt that anything like that would become public. Impossible to know, but probably not. Unless you are the son of Mike's beard  ;D

considering they all started a band together performing their old man's more obscure tunes, I'd say they're proud.

hahaha! Good point on that one.

I think it's nice they seem to all get along with each other, enough to form a band together. The battles of the parents doesn't seem to have affected the relationships of the next generation of cousins (Wilsons and Loves) and family friends (Jardines).

I bet both.

Ok, you're the child of somebody who created Pet Sounds and Good Vibrations along with many other classics.

I'd say proud

Generally, kids who are doing pop music and have famous dads or moms in that field are happy and proud of that connection, and proud to carry on the tradition. Whether there is a conflict may depend on the degree to which the child sees the parent as a direct competitor or vice versa.

 Frank Sinatra always expressed deep pride in what success Frank Jr had, and the son said the same about his father.....but there was a certain tension there.  After Frank Jr's gigs on his own became scarcer and he settled into being his father's bandleader until Ol' Blue Eyes died in '98, there were some times on stage when they plainly were having trouble getting along.

A more dramatic case is Tim and Jeff Buckley. Tim died when his son was 7 or 8 and so never competed with him.  But his shadow hung heavy over Jeff as he started his career working with avant-garde types who idolized his dad's records like Lorca and Starsailor. I can remember one interview after another where Jeff bristled and answered snappily when asked if his father's work had any influence on him.  I remember him saying early on that he was far more influenced as a vocalist by Robert Plant. (Then he met Plant and the latter told him that Tim was one of his biggest vocal influences.)  But in the articles published since he died I've read that sometimes, in private, he would say after a show or record, "I hope that would make my dad proud."