Ask and you shall receive:

New Mike and Bruce date
March 1, 2024 --  Plant City, FL -- Florida Strawberry Festival

Here's another one from the official BB site, almost a year from now:

Oct. 30 – Nov. 3, 2024
The Beach Boys / Mike Love & Bruce Johnston
Malt Shop Memories Cruise
Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Ports of call include St. Maarten and Tortola. Jan & Dean's Beach Party starring Dean Torrence are also on the cruise, along with a bunch of other artists. More info at https://maltshopcruise.com/

BBFC has a date for Mike and Bruce on April 28, 2024 at the Stagecoach festival in Indio, CA.

Well according to Ian's 1974 account, I've seen Joe Walsh (James Gang with the BBs in the ATL) one more time than I thought I had! I'm going to have to dig through my archives and see if I can find the ad for that show.

Please release those concerts, even if it's just downloads. I will happily buy them.

Update: Apparently they did get together for the documentary, according to a recent interview with Mike Love. Relevant info in the quote box, taken from what looks to be another clickbait story on the BBs playing with Jimmy Page, but with some new info towards the end.

Source: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/mike-love-beach-boys-jimmy-page/

MIKE LOVE RECALLS AMAZING PERFORMANCES WITH ‘MARTIAN’ JIMMY PAGE

Love is the only original Beach Boy still touring, though longtime member Bruce Johnston -- who initially joined in 1965 -- is also part of the lineup.

Meanwhile, Brian Wilson -- the singer, songwriter, producer and group co-founder -- toured in 2022, but has reportedly since retired from the road. Love revealed to AL.com that he'd seen Wilson recently, but that they "don't talk about business."

"We talk about old times and what we did back in the day in high school and what have you," he explained. "In fact, we did a filming for a documentary that's being put together on the Beach Boys, and David Marks and Al Jardine, Brian and myself and Bruce [Johnston] got together.

"Brian really remembered some remarkable things about our growing up together and things we experienced," Love continued. "And we even did a little bit of a cappella singing together on the beach at Paradise Cove, where the first album cover with our Pendleton woolen shirts on that little old truck that they had on the sand. And so yeah, it was a really, really nice reunion. We had a great time."

Here's the link to the AL.com story cited above:
https://www.al.com/life/2023/10/mike-love-talks-beach-boys-jimmy-buffett-jamming-with-jimmy-page.html

Part of the reason he did Billy's Place was to work up material for a solo song and stories tour. He'd have been good at it, he was quite the raconteur.

I would love to see Billy's work back in the marketplace. What needs to happen is for the family to find someone trustworthy to handle releasing his projects for them.

You'll have to try the secondary markets like eBay. Billy's website has been taken down, and none of his product is being sold since he died. BBFC is hosting the content from his website, but nothing's for sale.

I got a notice from Amazon saying the ABCs of CA book is being delayed until February March.

Larry Dvoskin is apparantly responsible for several of the latter-day remixes.

I do not recall hearing any airplay for POB in the greater Atlanta-area market, not even on college radio.

Not meaning to be a wet blanket here, but I wonder how many of those guests were bots. It would be great if all the visitors here are human.

I'm still here, just not moved to comment in recent threads. I check this board at least twice a day.

This book is still too tabloidy to recommend, imo. I know about the dirt, but it is not what is important to me re the BBs. I know the continuing fascination with the "dark" stuff exists, but I just don't get that fascination.

I've said my piece about this book; I'm done with this thread.

I still can't recommend that book, because it dwells on dishing the dirt without balancing the story out.

Nice find! I have that concert on cassette tape somewhere -- it's good to hear it again. I wonder if a nationally-broadcast show from 1980 qualifies as a copyright protection dump, tho.

[nothing that needs apologizing for in the first place.]

He's been telling a joke apologizing for "Surfer Girl" being gender-specific, nothing that needs apologizing for in the first place. Once he threw in some off-hand political BS., the joke absolutely fell flat in my estimation. Some people in the audience laughed, I didn't find it funny at all. I wish he would drop that joke altogether.

Heyjude, I agree that it's needlessly polarizing.

Edit: This seems to be the original article, which also references the Twitter item:
https://consequence.net/2023/07/mike-love-surfer-girl-gender-specific/

At least the coloring book is affordable.

The target for this book is not the BBs' fans, it's limited-edition book collectors. The same publisher has a Brian Wilson - Peter Blake book, also ridiculously priced. I'm waiting and hoping for an affordable mass market paperback edition, something I can actually afford.

Jared Daley -- guitar, vocals

FWIW, BBFC got confirmation that Rocky is no longer with us, so the report is true.

From BBFC: BEACH BOYS FEATURED ON NIGHT OF SHOW EPISODE, MAY 8th

A new podcast, Night of Show, focuses on behind-the-scenes stories about the pressures prominent pop and rock artists faced for some of their biggest performances. Concert promoter Adam Wilkes and author Tom Wright are hosts. Episode 3, “The Beach Boys, Nancy Reagan, and a Ban on the 4th of July,” drops on Monday, May 8, 2023. This episode relates the events of 1983, when Interior Secretary James Watt banned rock concerts on the National Mall for the annual July 4th celebration, resulting in heavy pushback from BB fans, including the First Lady of the U.S., and a resurgence of popularity for The Beach Boys. Night of Show is available wherever you get podcasts; a list of providers is available on their website at https://nightofshow.com/.

Night of Show is also having a merch sale. No BB stuff that I can find, but if you're interested there's a special code for 25% off: NIGHTOFSHOW25L
Link: https://shop.projectbrazen.com/collections/night-of-show

[soon-to-be-released documentary]

Information is trickling in on the upcoming BBs documentary. I found this tidbit in a story about manager Jerry Schilling:

https://www.actionnews5.com/2023/04/27/tenn-legislature-honors-memphis-jerry-schilling-friend-elvis-manager-beach-boys/

TENN. LEGISLATURE HONORS MEMPHIS’ JERRY SCHILLING, FRIEND OF ELVIS, MANAGER OF THE BEACH BOYS

"Schilling, now 81, is now a consulting producer on a soon-to-be-released documentary on The Beach Boys."

Or maybe the Cowsills (for John)....