Beach Boys ready for harmonic convergence on tour, albumBy Geoff Boucher, Los Angeles Times
February 25, 2012
The sands of time can be cruel, sure, but sometimes they settle for wryly ironic. After years apart, the three surviving founding members of the Beach Boys will launch a 50-date, 50th anniversary tour in April and at every show they will ask the musical question, "Wouldn't it be nice if we were older?"
"It is weird," said Mike Love, who turns 71 next month, about singing those young man's lines from "Wouldn't It Be Nice." "We do another one, 'When I Grow up to Be a Man' — the opening is incredible, it's got fantastic harmonies — but yeah, it's written from the point of a young guy looking to the future and here we are, very much in that future."
....Two members of the band's original lineup — drummer Dennis Wilson and singer-guitarist Carl Wilson — died in 1983 and 1998, respectively. Jardine recently found a track that Carl Wilson had sung, a bridge he had recorded. It's going to be included on the new album in a song called "Waves of Love."
"So Carl's voice will be on the new album," Jardine said with a sad smile. "I wish there was a way to get Dennis on there too."
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