The “This Show Will not Feature Brian Wilson, Al Jardine, or David Marks” notices started happening in 2012 after the reunion tour.
Anybody with a decent sense for industry patterns and PR would have realized that doing a reunion under the same name Mike had been using on his own for 14 years, and then going back to Mike’s version, would lead to some confusion (not unlike when Al went out in 1998/99 with his “BBFF” band) from promoters/venues/spectators. Especially once that Nutty Jerry’s place biffed it and billed a Mike show as a reunion show, they had to start putting these more explicit notices when advertising shows.
At this stage, is it still needed? I don’t know. After 2012/13, it was only a few articles/publications that occasionally mixed things up and either implied or stated Mike’s shows were reunion shows. I don’t mind the blurb being added. It should have been there going back to 1998, but I highly doubt Mike would have wanted such notices on his shows in 1998/99/00, etc.
I’d be curious to know if, despite Brian and Al largely rolling over in the aftermath of C50 and just letting Mike do his thing, if perhaps they actually asked (or voted a demand) for this notice to appear on Mike’s shows. I’d guess not, because I don’t feel like such notices *always* appear on websites selling tickets to Mike’s shows.
It sure can't hurt to include such a note. When The Guess Who reunited in 2000-2001, they had to fight the reputation the band named had earned through dozens of years of bogus Guess Who's touring the US and Canada (Burton Cummings called them "Kale's Klones", because the only legit GW member in those lineup was bassist Jim Kale). Anybody with a decent sense for industry patterns and PR would have realized that doing a reunion under the same name Mike had been using on his own for 14 years, and then going back to Mike’s version, would lead to some confusion (not unlike when Al went out in 1998/99 with his “BBFF” band) from promoters/venues/spectators. Especially once that Nutty Jerry’s place biffed it and billed a Mike show as a reunion show, they had to start putting these more explicit notices when advertising shows.
At this stage, is it still needed? I don’t know. After 2012/13, it was only a few articles/publications that occasionally mixed things up and either implied or stated Mike’s shows were reunion shows. I don’t mind the blurb being added. It should have been there going back to 1998, but I highly doubt Mike would have wanted such notices on his shows in 1998/99/00, etc.
I’d be curious to know if, despite Brian and Al largely rolling over in the aftermath of C50 and just letting Mike do his thing, if perhaps they actually asked (or voted a demand) for this notice to appear on Mike’s shows. I’d guess not, because I don’t feel like such notices *always* appear on websites selling tickets to Mike’s shows.
IMHO, when Mike got the license to tour as "the Beach Boys", his group should have been billed as "Mike Love's Beach Boys". I have nothing against the touring group, they are the best representation of Beach Boys music out there today; but they are not the original group, they never can be the original group. The classic Beach Boys died with Carl (and some would say when Dennis died).
