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« on: August 15, 2011, 11:55:35 AM »
While on vacation in Iowa last week (which of course included catching Brian's show at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake), my brother told me he attended a gigantic wedding a few years back in Des Moines, in which the hired bands were Jan & Dean and the Beach Boys. It sounded like this was held in a huge circus-like tent at Prairie Meadows, the racetrack just north of town.

I can't find any details on the web about this gig...anyone here know about it?

Thanks!
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« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2011, 11:58:36 AM »
Quote from: onkster on August 15, 2011, 11:55:35 AM
While on vacation in Iowa last week (which of course included catching Brian's show at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake), my brother told me he attended a gigantic wedding a few years back in Des Moines, in which the hired bands were Jan & Dean and the Beach Boys. It sounded like this was held in a huge circus-like tent at Prairie Meadows, the racetrack just north of town.

I can't find any details on the web about this gig...anyone here know about it?

Thanks!
Had to have been more than a few years ago...Jan died in 2004.
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« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2011, 12:34:26 PM »
Quote from: Jon Stebbins on August 15, 2011, 11:58:36 AM
Quote from: onkster on August 15, 2011, 11:55:35 AM
While on vacation in Iowa last week (which of course included catching Brian's show at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake), my brother told me he attended a gigantic wedding a few years back in Des Moines, in which the hired bands were Jan & Dean and the Beach Boys. It sounded like this was held in a huge circus-like tent at Prairie Meadows, the racetrack just north of town.

I can't find any details on the web about this gig...anyone here know about it?

Thanks!
Had to have been more than a few years ago...Jan died in 2004.


I believe Dean was touring as "The Jan & Dean show" or something similar. Maybe that was meant.
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« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2011, 01:25:08 PM »
Is there an up-to-date BB concert list--one that goes beyond AGD's list thru '99?
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« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2011, 08:07:47 PM »
Quote from: onkster on August 15, 2011, 01:25:08 PM
Is there an up-to-date BB concert list--one that goes beyond AGD's list thru '99?

Doesn't the one on-site go all the way up to 2011?
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« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2011, 07:04:17 AM »
What about Eric Anniversario's site?

http://members.tripod.com/fun_fun_fun/setlists.html

Right now it's just going 'til 2009. But I guess he's going to update it some time
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a diseased bunch of mo'fos if there ever was one… their beauty is so awesome that listening to them at their best is like being in some vast dream cathedral decorated with a thousand gleaming American pop culture icons.

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To sum it up, they blew it, they blew it consistently, they continue to blow it, it is tragic and this pathological problem caused The Beach Boys' greatest music to be so underrated by the general public.

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