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Beach Boys stuff; my main account is @delurkr

[carlwilsonappreciation]

Ad for The Beach Boys’ concert at the Steel Pier, published in the Press of Atlantic City on July 24, 1969.

“Back in those days, when you signed a union contract, the leader would sign it. So [it read], ‘Carl Wilson and four musicians known as the Beach Boys.’ The union would have the leader sign it and the promoter sign it and the agent sign it. So, my guess is that the Steel Pier gave the contract to some secretary who was probably new on the job and told her to order posters like you always do for this act. So, I can just imagine the Beach Boys getting to the Steel Pier for the gig and Michael getting out of the car and just dying when he saw the poster! Because in huge letters it said ‘Carl Wilson’ and in smaller letters ‘and the Beach Boys.’ Love must have been having a hemorrhage when he saw that!” - Fred Vail, Beach Boys Gigs “We were friends for thirty-five years, during which time [Carl] was the most unchanged of ‘the boys,’ the on stage leader, and, perhaps his biggest contribution, the ‘peacekeeper.’” - Fred Vail, Facebook (2026)

[bbdelurkr]

I don't even know what this is but I was watching the 25th anniversary concert and was struck with the utter absurdity of Mike in that outfit singing those songs, so.

[ghosthorse-tracks]

aaaaaaa i love how the 80s brian wilson-gary usher collab "let's go to heaven in my car" starts with car noises just like 409 🥺 they're so back omg 🥺

(also uhhh... that title... it's giving "i've seen people from near and far / they couldn't get to heaven in their car" like okayyyyy brian "never listened to pacific ocean blue" wilson who also basically interpolated "river song" in "rio grande"... okay...)

[bbdelurkr]

Note to self: listen to Brian's solo stuff eventually, someday, before I die, so I can find out what everyone is talking about finally

[teenmags]

The Beach Boys Answer 50 Far-Out Questions! 16 October 1964

[bbdelurkr]

Ok see now, I wish I knew more about Brownie and Blackie. I've never seen a photo of pets in the Wilson household yet you hear obscure references to dogs, kittens at one point, Murry's MYNA BIRD (!!!), maybe more idk, but I say PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. (If anybody knows of any send them my way pleeaase)

And RIP to all the ambitions to do literally anything other than grinding away in The BBs for the rest of their lives... Although some of them did do some of the stuff ig, I'm not gonna be all dramatic about it. But we were robbed of all the movies they wanted to be in 😂

(Also making fun of various publications mixing up the BBs is my career so I am contractually obligated to point out: three out of five boys may have been misidentified in the second-page photo! Which ones depends on whether you go clockwise or counter-clockwise. The grasp on directions seems to be shaky in general however)

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[ghosthorse-tracks]

um yeah so brian’s memoir (not the landy one) is wrecking me 💔

this is how he describes the way he grieved his father’s death

[bbdelurkr]

It's just so. so. Like I don't even know how to explain it but like. The second to last sentence man. Along with the whole everything with Audree

[carlwilsonappreciation]

Carl Wilson onstage in Dinkelsbühl, Germany, on June 29, 1991. Photo by Fryderyk Gabowicz/pa/picture alliance.

“Carl Wilson seemed to have the time of his life, his superb talents exercised to the full in God Only Knows and Wouldn’t It Be Nice, the standout song to the evening.” - review (of the Birmingham, England concert) by Robin Jones, Birmingham Evening Mail (May 25, 1991)

[memofromturner]

The Beach Boys quite possibly predating The Beatles’ rooftop concert.

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[carlwilsonappreciation]

Signing autographs for fans outside KRLA’s studios, 1965; photos by Michael Ochs Archives.

“A simple shake of the head by drummer Dennis brought wild screams of delight from the audience. Carl, Dennis and Brian’s baby brother, a cherubic little guy, was probably the most talented of all.” - from a review by Bonnie C. Side, Broken Arrow Ledger (July 29, 1965) “Carl Wilson is another teen-age star who was in the WAPE show. He’s one of the Beach Boys—the cause of Saturday night’s traffic jam in East Jacksonville. Carl is 18 and the youngest of the group. […] Carl was delegated to do the talking for the group and chose a bench in the shower for the interview because it was quiet and away from all the guitar-tuning. That is, it was quiet until Dennis stuck his head in and sang, ‘Ahhhhhhhhhh.’ It’s not noticeable in a lot of the Beach Boys’ arrangements, but it seems Brian is a rabid Four Freshmen fan. ‘Brian was influenced by them quite a bit,’ Carl said. ‘Like ever since he was, say, 12 or 13, he’d been writing arrangements on them and copying the arrangements. When he got to be like 16, he’d make up his own, but they were along their lines and like that. We love harmony, you know, like that.’” - article by Ray Knight, Jacksonville Journal (July 28, 1965)

[carlwilsonappreciation]

Interviewed by two fans for WIST Radio in Charlotte on July 14, 1965.

[carlwilsonappreciation]

Update: The two fans, I was interested to find out while researching, were Susie and Vickie, who detailed their encounter for The Charlotte Observer...

“To two 14-year-old Charlotte girls, Susie Simmons and Vickie Grubb, red-faced Carl Wilson was, well, as Vickie said, ‘Carl looked beautiful.’ Susie chimed in, ‘Al looked good, but Carl looked better. Carl’s only 18. Al’s 22.’ […] [The two girls] had conducted their interview in a guarded back room upstairs at WIST. They had made a discovery: People are people, and that includes Beach Boys. ‘When I talked to them, they just kept on talking,’ said Vickie. ‘They were so casual. Carl kept on explaining. I could have stood there and talked to them all night.  ‘They were so relaxed they made me feel relaxed!’ One of the big things that came out of the interview was the revelation that the school colors back at Hawthorne High School were scarlet and blue. Susan mused about that as if it were a Shakespearean sonnet. Carl told the girls the new album has something of a new sound, mostly instrumental, a little bit more ‘intellectual,’ a little older. A highlight of the Boys’ European tour was a visit to Rome. […] Susan and Vickie were able to describe microscopically the appearance of the two Beach Boys: Al was barefooted with olive-green swimming trunks under a blue and white-striped blazer zipped halfway up the front with a ring zipper. His feet got hot when he walked across the graveled, sun-warmed parking lot outside the motel. Carl was wearing a light blue shirt and tight-fitting ‘brownish-goldish-green’ trousers without a belt. ‘Carl kept tucking his shirttail in.’” - The Charlotte Observer (July 15, 1965)

[bbdelurkr]

I have acquired a velvet shirt and shall pair it with my checked pants to begin my Mid '60s Brian Wilson fashion era ✨

(As soon as the weather gets cold enough)

[bbdelurkr]

@surfs-up-brian Best pic I can get but here you go ✨

Although actually the shirt is kind of giving more Monkees than anything lol, but I got it for free so who's complaining

[bbdelurkr]

I have acquired a velvet shirt and shall pair it with my checked pants to begin my Mid '60s Brian Wilson fashion era ✨

(As soon as the weather gets cold enough)

[denniswilsonthebeachboys]

[princeandreis]

beach boys tidbits that made me laugh (taken from heroes and villains: the true story of the beach boys by steven gaines)

when “surfin’” took off brian dyed his hair blond because he thought he should look like a surfer. his mom immediately made him wash the dye out when he got home and when they tried to dye it back to its regular color, it came out greenish

teenage dennis pranked a neighbor by running up to them with a jar full of ashes, crying real tears and telling them it was brian, who had died by gas explosion

one time brian filled murry’s pipe with grass from the yard and cried laughing while murry tried to light it

murry was such a control freak during recording sessions that their sound engineer rigged a fake control panel for him to fiddle with so he thought he was doing something

dennis and his wife barbara charren reportedly called each other big poop and little poop

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