Bruce is moving..... Todays L.A. Times (4/1)

[jeffh]

Good vibrations in Santa Barbara

Beach Boy Bruce Johnston is planning to hang his surfboard in smaller Santa Barbara quarters.

Johnston, who joined the Beach Boys in 1965 — one year after they went on their first major U.S. tour — and his wife, Harriet, have listed the home where they raised their four sons. The asking price is nearly $4.4 million.

The ranch-style house, which the couple has owned since 1986, is on an acre with mountain views. It has a master bedroom suite with a sitting room, two other bedrooms, a maid's suite and a detached guesthouse, used for recording music.

Last June, the five surviving Beach Boys, including Johnston, 64, gathered on top of the Capitol Records Tower to receive a double platinum award for their greatest-hits compilation "Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys" and to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the album "Pet Sounds."

Johnston left the band in the mid-'70s but returned before the end of that decade.

Sandy Stahl of Sotheby's in Montecito has the listing.

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Oprah probably chased him out.  I recall reading a post of his on one of the boards that she had set up big, noisy water pumps within a few yards of his master bedroom, for the purpose of watering her ginormous grounds.  Dang Oprah.