The closest I felt to the Beach Boys (kinda cool, kinda lame)

[Magic Transistor Radio]

My brother does audio work for different events around the country. Last Friday, he worked at the Beach Boys concert in Tampa. He said his job was to make sure things don't blow up. He was standing right next to Mike Love before the show. I am kind of jealous. He is not a big Beach Boy fan, but he likes them. He thought it was fun. Somehow, I felt close through my brother, even though I am in Dallas thousands of miles away. Closer then I felt on the 20th row near center at a Brian Wilson concert.

 

[the professor]

Hold on, dear brother!  That's not lame but touching. The BB are all about brothers. . . .

[Lowbacca]

If your brother worked there he should have tried to get something of yours signed... at least that's what I would have expected. 

I met my comic book author/artist hero a couple of months ago (at very short notice) and managed to secure personal autographs for my brother, my dad and a friend (who are huge fans as well). And I didn't even work at the place where he appeared. 


But anyways, it's rather cool nonetheless. And the professor is right on the dime about the paradigm of 'brothers', of course.

[Alan Smith]

My brother does audio work for different events around the country. Last Friday, he worked at the Beach Boys concert in Tampa. He said his job was to make sure things don't blow up. He was standing right next to Mike Love before the show. I am kind of jealous. He is not a big Beach Boy fan, but he likes them. He thought it was fun. Somehow, I felt close through my brother, even though I am in Dallas thousands of miles away. Closer then I felt on the 20th row near center at a Brian Wilson concert.

 

You're not twins, per chance? 

That's a cool story, not a lame one, btw.

[Magic Transistor Radio]

I thought it was a cool story to me, wasn't sure if anyone else would care. Thanks guys.

I told my brother to not get too close to Mike Love or he might get sued.

@Lowbacca: I would have tried to get something signed. But I didn't know about it until he was there. He texted me at the pre show set up.

@Alan Smith: We are not twins, but we are two months apart....step brothers. Kind of like Will Ferrell and John Reilly.

@RangeroverA1: I may only be 35, but the Beach Boys are 135, so in that sense my time is running out. But I think that listening to their music is the greatest reward!

[BB Universe]

Nice story; not lame whatsoever!
And, you'll probably ask your brother to tell about his meeting some of the Beach Boys at some party, family reunion, other gathering at some future point in time!

[Magic Transistor Radio]

I asked him to keep an eye out for Mike's son Christian, that he has a great voice. He sent me a video of him singing Getche Back. I am trying to post it here but I don't see anyway to copy it. It is a Quickplayer video sent from his phone. Says IMG_3191

He also said that John Stamos wasn't there and he wondered why I asked. He had no idea he has made a lot of appearances with them since the 80s.

[Bill M]

OK, but you left out the most important part of the story:
Did anything - or anyone - blow up?

[Magic Transistor Radio]

OK, but you left out the most important part of the story:
Did anything - or anyone - blow up?

Bruce spontaneously combusted. So he had to get back together and do it again.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Besides seeing BW in concert in 2004 and the BB last year, and being in regular contact with a few people that know Brian, those closest I've ever been to the BB? I had a relative, sadly deceased now, who claimed she was working in the brothel where 'Kiss Me Baby' was allegedly composed. Never bought the story, as she would have been 14 at the time, but always found it humorous.

[FatherOfTheMan Sr101]

I was the closest to the BB at a Brian gig in 2010 for RIG, I sat right next to Jeff and Brian was RIGHT in front of me. He heard me yell "SURF'S UP" and "HEROESSSSS"
when he asked what we wanted to hear and he looked at me and smiled. It was an amazing moment!

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

I tell this story a lot, but...

24 Oct 2004 in Houston. Brian just started his cigarette lighter joke.  'Everybody take out your cigarette lighters'. At that moment, my best friend Raymond and I screamed, in unison, 'but we just quit smoking'. Brian: 'Well goshdarn it then, good for you'. Started the introduction for the next song, then started laughing.

Good times.

[leggo of my ego]

Well, I guess the closest I felt to the Beach Boys must have been when we lived in California in the 60's.

It was also the closest I had been the to beach. 

[seltaeb1012002]

Had a few close encounters with BW..

'98, NYC, Imagination CD Signing - Got my CD signed and slipped BW a CD of my own stuff, to which he responded "Thank you!". I remember thinking - wow, that's definitely the voice that did "The Pied Piper"!

'00, NYC, BB Kings show - Was backstage between the 1st + 2nd sets talking to Darian, Jeff, and Scott. All of a sudden you see BW approaching down the practically empty hallway with his finger in his ear yelling "Testing 9,8,7,6,5,4..". I looked at my Dad and our friend and said, "Should I say hello?" They told me to go for it. So, he's literally walking right past us and I say "Hey Brian!". He stops what he's doing, looks at me, smiles and says "Hey!". Then he resumed walking + testing his hearing. Awesome moment, and sad at the same time. In retrospect, I should've just asked him if he was alright. He knocked Pet Sounds out of the park 15 minutes later.

'01, Long Island, Jones Beach show - Backstage after the show on line to get an autograph, I ran into Andy Paley and told him how much I loved the records he did with BW, including "Frankie Avalon". Andy flipped, couldn't believe a young kid dug the music, so he ended up taking us to the front of the line and said to Brian.. listen to what this kid just told me! So I repeated what I said in front of Brian + Andy.. Brian let out one of his "Whaat! I can't believe it!"'s and proceeded to sign my ticket.

Then, just last year, I was in the front row, probably about 20 feet away from the reunited Beach Boys at the Central Park gig for Good Morning America. Saw Al talking to Brian, going over some chord changes. Bruce asked us if we had some breakfast for him, haha. Mike came out on stage texting on his cell. I remember thinking, damn that dude is jacked! Not nearly as overweight as he appears in the videos. Awesome memory, although it was the only reunion performance I saw live and they only did 3 or 4 songs (several times), I'm glad I forced myself to wake up at 5 am to catch that event!

[rab2591]

Great story Magic Transistor Radio!

Ah, I'm jealous of these of these stories - I've never even seen the guys in concert - let alone backstage hellos! I'm promising myself that the next time Brian Wilson is in the area, I'm going to a show.

[Alex]

Great story Magic Transistor Radio!

Ah, I'm jealous of these of these stories - I've never even seen the guys in concert - let alone backstage hellos! I'm promising myself that the next time Brian Wilson is in the area, I'm going to a show.

You didn't go to a C50 show?