The most memorable time I saw the Beach Boys in concert was at The Jones Beach Theatre and Carl Wilson was still with us. With one of the more brilliant pure rock star moves of all time, the band toured with the USC cheerleading squad the entire summer who would perform on stage with the band for one song while wearing their Trojan chearleading uniforms. Those then mature gentlemen at the time still knew how to be Beach Boys.
The Beach Boys “reunion” with founding member Brian Wilson has ended and they have gone their separate ways with Wilson having his own tour this summer.
I saw Brian Wilson and Jeff Beck perform together at Westbury about a year and a half ago around the time a now abandoned Wilson project was being worked on. Jeff Beck still brings the goods, as he did recently at The Paramount in Huntington, but Brian Wilson reminded me of Leon Russell in that his best days are long behind him and he is basically shot. Brian Wikson playing the sheds this summer is kind of inexplicable and I predict a lot of half filled venues and Groupon purchase opportunities in his immediate future.
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