Famous Beach Boys Fans

[Smilin Ed H]

Brian Eno
Rufus Wainwright
Paul Simon
Art Garfunkel
Patti Smith
Lou Reed (though not of the Lovester, apparently...)

[MaxL]

Sondre Lerche
Roland Orzabal (Tears for Fears) - even made a song called "Brian Wilson Said" on the "Elemental" album.

[Zander]

Bryan McFadden - the fat one from Westlife. He got laughed at for saying that on CDUK, they also visited his home and he had Brian Wilson posters in his studio.
Lindsey Buckingham
Fleet Foxes
Paul Weller
John Frusciante
John Squire

[Mikie]

Belinda Carlyle
Marilyn McCoo
Justin Hayward
Danny Hutton
Randy Newman
Al Koholic

This girl here is a big fan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOX5zjkfoFY&feature=related

[Sound of Free]

Zooey Deschanel

I know someone already mentioned Tom Petty, but it's great how me mentioned in the "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" video that Pet Sounds put Brian in a class with Beethoven.

It was also great that Petty said he couldn't figure out why he couldn't get his bass to sound like the bass on a Beach Boys record until he found out it was three basses playing at once. 

[Magic Transistor Radio]

Kevin Love

[MBE]

Dylan basically said that The Beatles and Stones when they started were doing their versions of American music. He said he felt The Beach Boys were more original like he was himself. That's basically the quote. It's in the 1987 twentieth anniversary edition.

[MBE]

found the quote in question (interview by Kurt Loder):

KL: By the time of "Desolation Row," in 1965, you had gone electric and had been more or less drummed out of the purist folk movement. Was that a painful experience?

BD: No. I looked at that as an opportunity to get back in to what I had been into a long time ago and to take it someplace further. Folk-music circles were very cold, anyway. Everybody was pretty strict and severe in their attitudes; it was kind of a stuffy scene. It didn't bother me that people didn't understand what I was doing, because I had been doing it long before they were around. And I knew, when I was doin' that stuff, that that hadn't been done before, either. Because I'd known all the stuff that had gone down before. I knew what the Beatles were doin', and that seemed to be real pop stuff. The Stones were doing blues things -- just hard city blues. The Beach Boys, of course, were doin' stuff that I didn't think had ever been done before, either. But I also knew that I was doing stuff that hadn't ever been done before.


http://expectingrain.com/dok/int/RS1987.html

Thanks for pulling that. I think it has a lot of meaning especally back in 1987 when their rep was going downhill.

[metal flake paint]

Sonic Boom (Spaceman 3)
Karl Wallinger (World Party)
Jeremy Gluck (The Barracudas)
James Honeyman-Scott (The Pretenders)

[Myk Luhv]

Didn't Diablo Coady meet her husband on a BBs fan forum too? Don't give up hope yet, fellers!

Also, I would love to hear her cover of "Got To Know The Woman" if possible...

[Dave in KC]

Well, she certainly had David Letterman drooling over her on his show.

[Lowbacca]

Didn't Diablo Coady meet her husband on a BBs fan forum too? Don't give up hope yet, fellers!

Also, I would love to hear her cover of "Got To Know The Woman" if possible...

I registered here to find strippers in the first place.

[stack-o-tracks]

Didn't Diablo Coady meet her husband on a BBs fan forum too? Don't give up hope yet, fellers!

Also, I would love to hear her cover of "Got To Know The Woman" if possible...

I registered here to find strippers in the first place.

Not gonna lie, for a while I thought I was the only one. No luck on this end, though.

[BananaLouie]

R.E.M., particularly Peter Buck and Mike Mills, you can hear the Beach Boy influence on albums like Reveal.

[hypehat]

Sonic Boom (Spaceman 3)

Really? I know Jason Pierce is a big BB's freak, cos I talked with him about it! But I don't know about Sonic Boom.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

For anybody who was a member of the old Wheeler board...anybody remember Britney Spears (or more likely, her publicist ) making a couple of appearances on the board, oh about a month or two *before* her first cd came out?

I remember that, my recollection is that it didn't seem very genuine.

Yeah...in retrospect it was likely a case of the publicists hyping up her debut by posting on many different forums. Did give me a good laugh when someone said something like 'bitch you need to learn to spell your name right'. lol

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Scott Weiland is a pretty big BW fan.  Don't forget Henry Rollins is, as well.

[Alex]

This girl here is a big fan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOX5zjkfoFY&feature=related

That was an OK cover...not great, but not awful. The banter was really corny, though.

[Newguy562]

Scott Weiland is a pretty big BW fan.  Don't forget Henry Rollins is, as well.

you can tell scott is a bb fan with songs like this lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t2VSB5EJxc

[metal flake paint]

Sonic Boom (Spaceman 3)

Really? I know Jason Pierce is a big BB's freak, cos I talked with him about it! But I don't know about Sonic Boom.

He made some glowing remarks about Smile in the past.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Scott Weiland is a pretty big BW fan.  Don't forget Henry Rollins is, as well.

you can tell scott is a bb fan with songs like this lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t2VSB5EJxc

Great example!

[Newguy562]

Scott Weiland is a pretty big BW fan.  Don't forget Henry Rollins is, as well.

you can tell scott is a bb fan with songs like this lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t2VSB5EJxc

Great example!

:] thanks..just something i've noticed & appreciated.

[CarCrazyCutie]

Diablo Cody had The Trader & You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone on her itunes celebrity playlist which totally impressed me

When you consider her past history with notable BB fans, it's not in the least impressive. Granted, you have to be 1) of an age and 2) a complete and utter BB geek to recall this. 

Don't know if I apply to the first one, but I've been told on more than one occasion that I need to get a life and quit "worrying" about the Beach Boys But I guess I'm just easily impressed

[meltedwhiskeyinmyhand]

R.E.M., particularly Peter Buck and Mike Mills, you can hear the Beach Boy influence on albums like Reveal.

You can definitely hear it on At my most Beautiful on UP and Tongue on Monster.

[meltedwhiskeyinmyhand]

Sonic Boom (Spaceman 3)
Karl Wallinger (World Party)
Jeremy Gluck (The Barracudas)
James Honeyman-Scott (The Pretenders)

I love Karls music, World Party and The Waterboys were great blankety-blank bands man.