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Juice Brohnston
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January 04, 2016, 02:52:11 PM »
Why hasn't the United States Postal Sevice issued a Beach Boys commemorative stamp? I get that for most of the bands history, the USPS guidelines meant living persons could not be honoured, but those rules changed some time ago. You would have thought 2012 would have been an excellent time for issue. What gives?
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January 04, 2016, 03:27:51 PM »
Good point. Guinea and Tanzania are obviously BIG fans though!
http://www.amazon.com/Guinea-Beach-Tribute-Stamp-7B-1950/dp/B00MOMAZDY
http://www.sonic.net/~dsktracy/bbstuff/Miscellaneous/pages/Beach%20Boys%20stamp%20(Tanzania).html
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January 04, 2016, 04:07:47 PM »
This is uncanny. I was just at the post office today, looking at all the stamps, and wondering why there has not been a Beach Boys stamp. Who can I contact to lobby for this. After all, they were "America's Band".
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January 04, 2016, 04:19:24 PM »
What a good idea!
https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/csac/process.htm
(I'm going to write in!)
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Great idea but with myKe luHv's ego the stamp would envelop the entire envelope.
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January 04, 2016, 06:03:47 PM »
Quote from: Sandy Baby on January 04, 2016, 04:19:24 PM
What a good idea!
https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/csac/process.htm
(I'm going to write in!)
Maybe we can start an online petition
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January 04, 2016, 06:38:20 PM »
A petition would be great. I'm also going to write in using the link. With some of the stamps I've seen, this should be a no-brainer.
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A petition surely will have it licked!
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Quote from: Pretty Funky on January 04, 2016, 03:27:51 PM
Good point. Guinea and Tanzania are obviously BIG fans though!
http://www.amazon.com/Guinea-Beach-Tribute-Stamp-7B-1950/dp/B00MOMAZDY
http://www.sonic.net/~dsktracy/bbstuff/Miscellaneous/pages/Beach%20Boys%20stamp%20(Tanzania).html
Australia too (at least I'm assuming these are Australian, and that they're kosher… seller has many different designs):
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/291652430367
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Quote from: John Manning on January 04, 2016, 09:11:56 PM
Quote from: Pretty Funky on January 04, 2016, 03:27:51 PM
Good point. Guinea and Tanzania are obviously BIG fans though!
http://www.amazon.com/Guinea-Beach-Tribute-Stamp-7B-1950/dp/B00MOMAZDY
http://www.sonic.net/~dsktracy/bbstuff/Miscellaneous/pages/Beach%20Boys%20stamp%20(Tanzania).html
Australia too (at least I'm assuming these are Australian, and that they're kosher… seller has many different designs):
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/291652430367
While the seller is in Oz, I don't think these are AU stamps; which are usually have "Australia (price)", and a picture/illustration of something definitively Australian, like a Cockatoo, Don Bradman, or Queen Liz & family.
The franking amount is a bit odd, not that I'd know much about stamps (or much else).
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January 05, 2016, 12:51:03 AM »
I don't think they're pukka postage stamps at all. There's no country name, or even a hint of one.
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January 05, 2016, 06:52:26 AM »
I have just composed my letter and will be mailing it to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee. Fingers crossed!
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Quote from: bb4ever on January 05, 2016, 06:52:26 AM
I have just composed my letter and will be mailing it to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee. Fingers crossed!
Nice! So what image should adorn said stamp? Surfer Girl cover?
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January 05, 2016, 09:46:22 AM »
Originally, the excuse would be that most of them were alive but the USPS eliminated that rule a few years back.
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Quote from: Juice Brohnston on January 05, 2016, 09:39:32 AM
Quote from: bb4ever on January 05, 2016, 06:52:26 AM
I have just composed my letter and will be mailing it to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee. Fingers crossed!
Nice! So what image should adorn said stamp? Surfer Girl cover?
How about a line of coke, a bottle of booze and a photo of a courtroom ? That about sums it up !
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Quote from: Juice Brohnston on January 05, 2016, 09:39:32 AM
Quote from: bb4ever on January 05, 2016, 06:52:26 AM
I have just composed my letter and will be mailing it to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee. Fingers crossed!
Nice! So what image should adorn said stamp? Surfer Girl cover?
I initially thought that, but I wouldn't go with that one for the sole purpose that Al isn't on it.
Maybe the picture of Brian, Carl, Dennis, Al, Mike, and Bruce that was used for Endless Harmony.
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January 05, 2016, 11:07:56 AM »
Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holliday, and the Beatles have all had U.S. Postage stamps. None of them could boast a clean drug test. I'm actually quite offended that the Beach Boys haven't had a stamp yet.
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Quote from: bb4ever on January 05, 2016, 11:07:56 AM
Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holliday, and the Beatles have all had U.S. Postage stamps. None of them could boast a clean drug test. I'm actually quite offended that the Beach Boys haven't had a stamp yet.
Those four artists you mention all either died young or, in the case of The Beatles, broke up while they were in their prime.
I'm thinking one of the reasons The Beach Boys were overlooked was that they've continued to exist in one shape or form for the last 55 years.
I'm not saying it's right, or that I agree with it, but that seems to be the logic in place.
**On a side note, I also think that's why The Who and Deep Purple don't get the acclaim or adulation showered on Led Zeppelin.
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January 05, 2016, 12:15:55 PM »
I think you are right as far as the group still 'in existence' so to speak. Take a look at the stamps here and there is a definite correlation.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/putting-their-stamp-on-the-music-20120201
Another artist who fits the bill IMO is Dylan although he, and others, are now permitted but I don't think it has happened (Dylan).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/us/postal-service-will-begin-honoring-living-people-on-stamps.html
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January 05, 2016, 01:03:38 PM »
Thank you for the explanation as to why they haven't gotten a stamp yet. I'm not quite as offended now as I was. Maybe my letter will be so convincing, it will change the U.S. Postal Service Stamp Committee's misguided logic!
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January 05, 2016, 01:32:04 PM »
The monument theme would fit and be fitting on a stamp
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January 06, 2016, 06:57:08 AM »
One more angle may be to contact Congresswoman Maxine Waters, as it appears she represents Hawthorne, California. Otherwise Senators Boxer and Feinstein.
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January 06, 2016, 07:15:53 AM »
Quote from: bb4ever on January 04, 2016, 04:07:47 PM
This is uncanny. I was just at the post office today, looking at all the stamps, and wondering why there has not been a Beach Boys stamp. Who can I contact to lobby for this. After all, they were "America's Band".
Not only America's Band, but with a song entitled Surfin' USA!
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January 07, 2016, 08:41:04 PM »
What they also should do is have a stamp showing Dennis circa 1970 on a "Forever" stamp.
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January 07, 2016, 11:57:29 PM »
The sunflower photo would be cool, might be the wrong 'look' though since it's not surf themed...
something like THIS would be fantastic, I think....
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