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Now hear me out on this one. If Bruce had been... eh, whatever.

Kind of a stupid question, really...

Bruce is a floundering member of the BB.  :p

I'm gonna for the controversial answer and say.......... yes. :3d

No. The founding members were floundering, then found him.

I'm still not convinced Mike Love was a founding member.

After all...it was Dennis' idea to do a surfing song... Mike, Brian and Carl has been leaching onto the band ever since.

After Mike Love, has Bruce played more Beach Boys' shows than any other Beach Boy?  ???

I don't know the exact numbers, but I would guess so.  The only years that Bruce missed in touring were 1961-1965 and 1972-1978 or so, totaling at 12 years, and he's been touring with Mike for 15 years or so since Carl's death (which Al hasn't been part of, aside from C50), so in terms of the number of years he has both Carl and Al beaten.  And that's not taking into account the fact that I think Mike and Bruce now do more shows per year than the band did during Carl's lifetime.

YOu SON OF A BITCH

 :lol :lol :lol

Am I the only one who read that in an Arnold Schwarzenegger voice?

I did and it was amazing

Its a shame Bruce is not in R+R hall of fame with the others..

Was Bruce the first band member to wear shorts onstage? And why didn't the other pick up on his mic adjustment tricks?

I'm surprised that Bruce, David, Blondie and Ricky weren't inducted with the other Beach Boys.
Look at the Rolling Stones a year later. All of the members, past and present were induced. Even Ian Stewart!
So why not the other Beach Boys? That's something I've always wondered!

I could see Bruce and David but not Blondie and Ricky.

Blondie and Ricky were on two classic albums, the Beach Boys's best live album and one hit single. Their era is the most underrated. I think they should be inducted just as much as Bruce and David.

I remember hearing that Bruce was later inducted, much like the other Miracles, etc.  No ceremony but they supposedly gave him the statue and fixed the exhibit.

When did that happen?

I don't remember but I bitched about it for years (regardless of one's feelings on Bruce, he belongs in there with the rest of the guys) so I definitely took notice when I found the error was corrected.  Unfortunately, time has claimed the details from me so for all I know it could have been second hand and wrong.  The only reason I'm still convinced is that it's so obscure that I think if it were reported it had to be true.  That and the fact that the Hall has been known to append bands' inducted members on other occasions as well.

Al Jardine was a foundling member of the Beach Boys.

Brian will never forget the day there was a knock at his door. When he opened it there was no one there, but then he heard a whimpering sound, and there was Al, on his doorstep, wrapped in swaddling, in a shoebox.

Brian, being a kindly soul, did not kick the shoe box down the street (as Mike would have done!), but instead took Al in, and raised him as his own. This explains why Brian and Al sounded quite vocally similar at times.

Now if they could only find the other half of that locket.....

Dave's wiki page said his situation with the Hall of Fame was "rectified in 2007".  I'd hazard a guess, that's when they took care of Bruce as well.

ha ha! that was great.  ;D

Bruce was a founding member of the Boys having fun fun fun!

Bruce was a founding member of Mike Love's "endless summer Maharishi beach band"

In my opinion that's where his genius truly blossomed into the beautiful, 4 winged flower we have today.

"Give me the Beach Boys and free my soul" from your kokomo.

As being given founding member status apparently doesn't have to involve the person in question actually being in the band at the time it was formed, I'd say f*** it, Bruce is a 100%, bona fide, dyed in the wool founding member.

Well its good to hear that Bruce + David were finally given hall of fame status. When i went to hall in 1995 this was not the case. Altho Bruce had donated a surfboard to their exhibit that was autographed when i went there . It was also neat to see original bussiness cards and a original contract for a gig for: Carl and the passions..!!!!!!

David Marks was not part of the line-up during the Morgan sessions, which produced the Beach Boys' first hit single. Yet many people insist that yes, he was a founding member.

Bruce Johnston also was not part of the line-up during the Morgan sessions, which produced the Beach Boys' first hit single.

Therefore, Bruce Johnston is a founding member.

sorry

I will argue that the Beach Boys were not the Beach Boys at the Hite Morgan sessions. David recorded with them the first time they walked into a studio and the band name was official.

Hey can I be a founding member?!

Not actually true. The Jardine era line-up recorded at Pacific World Studio as "The Beach Boys" shortly before he left. NEXT!

It seems just about anybody can......

Only if you were shorts at least 70% of the time and dye your hair a sickly orange brown.

That includes most of the Mike and Bruce audience then.


BTW What's with guys that dye their hair those weird colours. Think nobody notices?

I need to ask; why are we being so anal about this? Two threads going and all we are doing is spinning our wheels and going in circles. I don't get it?

Yeah, but is Van Dyke Parks a founding member of Sparks?

hahahaha - "DILLON!! YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!"

hahahaha - we're ALL founding members (like we're ALL Trayvon Martin, etc.)

not a founder of the original band obviously, but his return in 1979 marked the birth of a insanely embarrasing period for the band from which their image never truly recovered. Much had been undone by 15BO, LY and certainly MIU. LA was chance to get back to the good pre-15BO days, but most of the material was older so I guess their time a decent songwriters was coming to close regardless of Bruce. But he sure let everyone know the end of the road had been reached.

Van Dyke Parks ruined the Surfin sessions

This is getting ridiculous...

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They don't call him Historical for nothing.

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