Beach Boys Banding Together Again Eighteen Were Given Cita- Tions by Frankfort Police on East Main for Speeding
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PAGE b8 THE STATE JOURNAL FUAREbR y 28 , 2012 Tuesday ALMANAC 50 YEARS AGO Beach Boys banding together again Eighteen were given cita- tions by Frankfort Police on East Main for speeding. Po- lice Chief Ed Conway said After years apart, members of iconic group reunite for tour, album the crackdown on speeders would continue until the is- sue was under control. By Geoff Boucher cades. There was the 1962 Los AngeLes Times show, for instance, with the 25 YEARS AGO Fairmont Singers, Shelley LOS ANGELES – The Melanie Parrish, daughter Fabares, Soupy Sales, and sands of time can be cruel, of Dale and Kay Parrish, won then the 1965 bill with the sure, but sometimes they the Franklin County Spell- Byrds, Sonny & Cher and settle for wryly ironic. After ing Bee. A fifth-grade student the Righteous Brothers. years apart, the three sur- at Collins Lane Elementary, “The first time we played viving founding members of she would represent Franklin there was in 1962,” said the Beach Boys will launch County in the district Spell- Marks, who joined early a 50-date, 50th anniversa- ing Bee in March. Julie Gray, enough to play on “Surfin’ ry tour in April and at every a seventh-grade student at Safari,” the group’s debut show they will ask the musi- Elkhorn School, was the run- album. “Debbie Reynolds cal question, “Wouldn’t it be ner-up. was there and she sang. nice if we were older?” She went nuts and jumped HAPPY BIRTHDAY “It is weird,” said Mike into the pool in front of the Love, who turns 71 next Jennica Wideman stage. She had an acous- Feb. 28, 2003 month, about singing those tic guitar and she started young man’s lines from Jennica celebrated her smashing it, too. She in- bi r t hday “Wouldn’t It Be Nice.” “We do vented the Who’s thing be- another one, ‘When I Grow on Sat- fore the Who.” urday at up to Be a Man’ – the open- All the members shrug ing is incredible, it’s got fan- Club Tab- off or sidestep questions by in Lou- tastic harmonies – but yeah, about past acrimony. Love mct/RobeRt GauthieR isville with it’s written from the point of said that much of the per- t he beach boys perform during a tribute to their band at the 54th annual Grammy awards at the family and a young guy looking to the ceived animus was a pro- future and here we are, very Staples center in Los angeles this year. f r i e n d s . jection from outside. She is the much in that future.” The members are far d a u g h - For anyone who’s fol- with the guys. I didn’t see cades,” Bongiovanni said. sure we have a great flowing more interested in talking ter of Thomas and Mellody lowed the riptide history of song list but also make sure them for a long, long time “This tour should be very about the tour ahead and Wideman and the grand- the Beach Boys, this is a fu- and then I’ve been seeing successful if they don’t get we don’t sound like a great- their spot at the New Or- daughter of Bob and Barba- ture that seemed very un- them recently because we’re too greedy with the ticket est-hits band. We have a lot leans Jazz & Heritage Fes- ra Graham, the late William likely; after years of feuds getting ready for our tour.” price. Their Grammy ap- to balance.” tival, where the Eagles and Cardwell Jr., Tommy and and legal filings – most nota- The world got a glimpse pearance did put the band On a more recent after- Bruce Springsteen and E Sharon Bowen and Nora Ma- bly by Love, who sued to get of the new old group Feb. 12 back in front of the public noon at Ocean Way, the Street Band are on the bill, son. Jennica loves to cheer for his share of royalties – who at the 54th annual Gram- but it’s hard to tell if anyone group was the picture of too. Upward. would have expected Love, my Awards, and the perfor- was put off by the obvious loose-limbed relaxation – “I’d like to reach back Brian Wilson and Al Jardine mance was a reminder that lip-synching.” although that didn’t apply into the catalog a ways and Hayden McCoy to be in harmony again? The Wilson has an air of fragility The group (and Grammy to Wilson, who was aching go back to ‘Lonely Sea’ and Feb. 28, 2004 trio are joined by two other around him and – despite his producers) stridently deny from a procedure on his bad ‘Farmer’s Daughter’ and Hayden is in first grade longtime members, Bruce undisputed stature as sonic that there was any canned back and was forced to skip esoteric things that people at Capi- Johnston and David Marks, genius – his stage capabili- component of the perfor- the day’s sessions. Without haven’t heard in a long time ta l Day for the golden anniversary ties are limited, to say the mance but, even so, more him, Love was working in- or ever,” Jardine said. “That School. He tour, which includes a June 2 least. than a few critics said the tently on lyrics while the would be lovely. “ loves play- stop at the Hollywood Bowl, a That may not matter graybeard act was creaky or other three members talked Two members of the ing soccer, booking that is sand-packed much. The music of the lethargic. about the old days – and that band’s original lineup – s w i m - with Southern California Beach Boys is so soaked with Johnston knows that Hollywood Bowl date that drummer Dennis Wilson ming and music history. nostalgia and affection that when audiences are paying each has circled on their cal- and singer-guitarist Carl p l a y i n g More than that, the recon- many fans will go to concerts for tickets, the group will endars. Wilson – died in 1983 and o u t s i d e stituted Beach Boys have also just so they can sing the old have to live up to its own leg- “Right over there is where 1998, respectively. with his been in the studio at Ocean songs. Gary Bongiovanni of end. Jan & Dean did all their stuff, Jardine recently found a friends. Way Recording on Sunset Pollstar, the concert indus- “I never hoped for (a re- in the next studio,” Johnston track that Carl Wilson had Boulevard – a site that was try trade publication, said union), because I never said with a nod. Marks add- sung, a bridge he had re- MILITARY HISTORY called United Western Re- after years of knockoff tours thought any of us wanted to ed: “I remember I wandered corded. It’s going to be in- February is Kentucky Mil- corders back when they re- (by groups that used the do it,” the 69-year-old John- over here one day and I saw cluded on the new album itary History month. In Feb- corded much of “Pet Sounds” name but usually had only ston said at rehearsals for Rick Nelson in the studio and in a song called “Waves of ruary 1867, Dr. John M. John- there – and say that they are one Beach Boy member on the awards show. “We have I was so jazzed to see him.” Love.” son petitioned the Kentucky about halfway through a new stage) this real-deal edition probably, you know, the Jardine and Marks tried to “So Carl’s voice will be legislature for an appropria- album. of the group has sunny pros- presidential honeymoon of piece together a quick men- on the new album,” Jardine tion for reinterring the Ken- “We just had to make our pects. six months but then we have tal scrapbook of the Beach said with a sad smile. “I tucky Confederate dead who minds up to do it,” Wilson “In many ways this is the to show something to keep Boys shows at the Holly- wish there was a way to get fell at Chickamauga, Mis- said. “It’s a thrill, I like being group’s first real tour in de- it going. 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