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Brian Douglas Wilson from Inglewood, California, united States of America. Is a Rock and pop singer starting in 1961 he is currently signed to Capitol/Emi.

It could be said that Brian was born to be a musician, from an early age, Brian was encouraged to follow in a similar path to his father who was a minor musician and songwriter. Singing solos in the church, learning how to play a toy accordion and teaching his brothers how to sing harmony when they were meant to be asleep. Music was something that Brian breathed. Sadly it was also found that Brian had diminished hearing, the exact cause of this remains the subject of speculation.

In 1961 while his parents were away Brian would go on to use the emergency money they had left behind to hire out musical equipment however the money left behind was not enough. A family friend; Al Jardine, then went to his mother begging for money after she heard the band consisting of: Brian and his younger siblings - Carl and Dennis alongside Mike Love. The mother of Al Jardine handed the band money to rent equipment after she had heard how talented the boys were.

Upon returning home, the father of the boys was very angry until he heard them play, he was stunned and immediately took them to go and record music, they would do this under "Candix Records" where they released the song "surfin" which managed to chart on Billboard, sparking Brian's career. Candix had also changed the bands name to "The Beach Boys" without the actual band knowing as they were previously called "The Pendletones".

"Pet Sounds" was released in 1966 by Wilsons' band "The Beach Boys" and contains the nationally successful song "God Only Knows" which has recently been used by the BBC as the main song, sung by many artists for an advert.

The advert includes many celebrities such as: Elton John, Chris Martin Pharrell Williams and Emile Sande alongside various others.

The album has also been considered one of the greatest albums of all time.

Brian Wilson has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and has won multiple Grammy awards for musical work.

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Brian Wilson is perhaps one of the most significant songwriters in pop history and to see him live is an absolute thrill. When performing live he sits behind a keyboard to perform all the great classics of the Beach Boys as well as some of his solo work. His singing is still up to par and his harmonies are entrancing. When I saw Brian Wilson perform at Chastain Park in Atlanta he had an extremely talented backing band named The Wondermints as well as an orchestra to play along with him. The orchestra was an essential asset to the performance as they were able to produce the heavy orchestrated songs from The Beach Boys’ album, Pet Sounds, perfectly. The backing band also did a pristine job helping Brian Wilson with the intricate vocal harmonies that the Beach Boys are so recognized for performing. When I saw Brian Wilson he was touring to support his album titled, Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin, which is an album covering the magnificent songs of Ira and George Gershwin. He played many classic tunes from this album such as “Summertime” and “Rhapsody in Blue”. The show’s setlist was massive containing over thirty of Brian Wilson’s hits. Although Brian Wilson performed the older surf rock classics such as “Surfin’ U.S.A.” and “Surfer Girl”, I preferred the beautiful orchestrated songs from Pet Sounds such as “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” and “Good Vibrations”.

Most of the crowd was dressed in beach attire and Hawaiian shirts to celebrate the novelty of the Beach Boys’ image, and all the audience was dancing and singing along to songs like “Fun, Fun, Fun”. Brian Wilson’s performance was a truly amazing experience and to see his fun, breezy summer music performed in such a pristine manner was a delight to the ears.

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This was quite an extraordinary experience! The Hershey Theatre was a lovely venue for such a show. I, and my fellow patrons, were appreciative for the opportunity to see such a legendary artist, performing one of the best composed pieces of modern music. With rumours of retirement looming, especially after last-year was supposedly the end of the Pet Sounds tour, we were overjoyed to hear of his presence so locally. Brian had a superb band to back-him, including a number of studio-musicians and Archie Bell. The performance was truthfully of studio-quality. It was a pleasant surprise to see the tight-knit orientation and family-feeling of the group as they performed and travel together. As a true-fan of the legend of Wilson as-a-person, as-well-as, an artist, we are touched-to see him so well cared-for and thoughtfully represented and motivated. I give sincere thanks to his support-system. I give sincere thanks to Brian for his willingness to spread this album globally, again!

Along with the flawless performance of the Pet Sounds album, the group played a number of Beach Boys hits and obscurities with the assistance of Jardin and his son. The show was an astounding two-and a half hours of music, along with a short-intermission. Brian ended-the show with a solo, and moving, rendition of Love and Mercy.

We send Brian, Al and the gang all of our love, support, and appreciation for their performance, and wish to them a successful and enjoyable tour this year! This was life-changing experience I will share with my child when he is able to appreciate the man's importance.

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Brian Wilson is a pretty universally recognised due to his long services to the genres of pop and rock as the leader and co-founder of the Beach Boys. He has had a long commercially and critically celebrated career that began way back in 1961. You would think after a half a century on the road you would be ready to hang up your microphone however Brian is simply too passionate about what he does to stop touring for his fanbase who show an equal dedication by turning up to his shows.

There are some older fans here who look as though they may have been around to buy Wilson's first LP yet they cheer, sing and applaud with the energy of everybody else which is brilliant to see as there is a clear passion shared between patron and performer. Tonight is a celebration of The Beach Boys' music as all the classics such as 'And Then He Kissed Me' 'Do It Again' and 'Salt Lake City' are brought out for the enthusiastic audiences. There is no doubt Brian is still very much a performer and by the finale of 'Good Vibrations' you get the impression he does not want the night to end.

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Brian's concert (July 4 at The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto) was truly incredible - 32 songs in a close to 2-hour concert. If this was the last time I ever get to see Brian (retirement rumours), he surely went out with style. As the composer of over 400 songs, the man is both a legend and a musical icon. He had it all going last night, both laughing and joking with the audience and his band. The band he has put together is truly amazing, too many to mention them all but with Al Jardine, Blondie Chaplin, and Darian Sahanaja, this concert was one for the ages! Featuring an array of Beach Boys hits, songs from his solo career including his new album (No Pier Pressure), and completing the show with "Love and Mercy", the title track of the new movie about his life, this concert might just have topped the Beach Boys 50th anniversary show - it was that good!

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Even though Brian Wilson is showing his age . . . had to be helped on and off stage and his voice is not what it used to be . . . the entire evening was a superior experience. I've never been to a Beach Boy concert even as a young man . . . I'm now 75. The concert was everything I was expecting and more. The acoustics at the St Charles Family Arena are excellent. I think it is a very fan-friendly venue. Plenty of parking. Reasonably priced ($10). Safe location. This is the second concert I've attended this year at this location (Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons was the first) and I would not hesitate to attend other concerts there in the future. Seating was excellent also.

The boys played all the hits I expected. The opening act was lively and entertaining. All-in-all an excellent experience.

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Though the man hobbles on stage and sits leaned back from the piano with his hands utterly vertical, seeing and hearing Pet Sounds delivered so massively was definitely an experience to remember. Just because the front man was not smiling does not mean that the audience cannot smile!

Opening with two unexpected and special tracks made me want to run from my premium seating and personally groove out on stage.

The "greatest hits" did not please the hipster-types at all . . . they were waiting for the Pet Sounds onslaught! But there is much to be had in a bit of a boogie with the old folks, who indeed cover the floor of the venue.

If you want to see Brian Wilson before he kills himself or something, go do it!

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The rain in Times Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, couldn't stop the party. Beach balls flying round the crowd before he came on & a great atmosphere building. He needed a little help to his seat at the piano but then it was hit after hit. There was 12 on stage & what a fantastic band. The full Pet Sounds album sandwiched between all the other hits. I'm not old enough to remember them first time round, but you'll know all the songs, if you get chance just go. Legends don't get much bigger than this.

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I thoroughly enjoyed the entire program, though not that familiar with Pet Sounds. The back-up band was fantastic! And, though Brian's voice isn't as strong as it once was, Al Jarden's son did a great job singing the falsetto notes.

The entire audience, aged from 20's to who knows how old, at least 70's, was on it's feet singing and having a great time.

Though my husband was the enthusiastic one who bought the tickets, I am so glad I was there.

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Good to see Brian Wilson, for me he is The Beach Boys not Mike Love. Brian's band certainly sounds like The Beach Boys and he included a lot of hits beside doing all of Pet Sounds. I thought it was worth going to Easton Pa which is about an hour from me, found out Easton has quite a few decent eateries and local brewery. I was completely surprised to find out parking in the public garage after 5 is only a dollar, worth visiting again!

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only Brian Wilson can tell a crowd "Ladies and Gentlemen SIT DOWN !" after numerous standing o's; "okay, STOP CLAPPING !" during Good Vibrations as the melody was about to change...Al Jardine's vocals, spot on, the band was tight as fook, Matt Jardine, WOW, all sang with the exception of the drivers of the machine, the guys on bass/drums. Wednesday, April 12, 2017 Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton, Ab.

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The Beach Boys hint at reuniting with Brian Wilson for 60th anniversary tour in 2021

26 June 2020, 15:52 | Updated: 26 June 2020, 15:56

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The surviving members of The Beach Boys could reunite in 2021 for a 60th anniversary tour, Mike Love has revealed.

The Beach Boys released a string of successful hits, including 'Wouldn't It Be Nice', 'Good Vibrations', 'I Get Around' and 'Surfin' USA'.

But it hasn't been all plain... surfing. The band, who formed in 1961, have been touring as two separate camps since the end of their 50th anniversary tour back in 2012.

Several disputes and lawsuits between members have ensued and had seemingly brought any hopes of a reunion for fans to an end.

However, in July 2018, Mike, Brian Wilson , Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks all reunited for a one-off Q&A session moderated by director Rob Reiner at the Capitol Records Tower in Los Angeles.

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It was the first time the band had appeared together in public since their 2012 tour.

That December, Mike described his new holiday album, Reason for the Season , as a "message to Brian" and said that he "would love nothing more than to get together with Brian and do some music."

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He has now once again spoken about being open to reuniting with his bandmates for a 60th anniversary tour next year.

Speaking to Rolling Stone , Mike said he is "not against anything like that" in terms of another Beach Boys reunion.

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He said: "Anything that’s creative and done for positive reasons is good with me.

"We will continue thinking about stuff like that and see what we can do."

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Responding to Al Jardine’s comments to Chicago Concert Reviews back in March that another reunion tour "will happen", noting "we’ll probably do about 20 or 30 shows together next year", Mike said the two of them had not spoken about that project "specifically".

Mike continued: "Al’s a really good singer, but he’s been travelling and performing with Brian Wilson, [and] Brian has some serious health issues.

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"We are in a very fortunate and blessed position to be able to do music for a lifetime. It’s pretty amazing.

"I can remember when my cousin Brian was a young boy. He sang ‘Danny Boy’ sitting on my Grandma Wilson’s lap. So that’s how far back we go musically."

Brian’s manager Jean Sievers told Rolling Stone in response that "no one has spoken to Brian about a 60th anniversary tour".

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Brian Wilson has scrapped all of his remaining summer and fall dates. Although no official reason was given, a statement cancelling his September 22nd show at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium read: “Due to unforeseen health reasons Brian Wilson will not be performing at the Ryman on September 22.⁠​ Brian is bummed to miss this show but looks forward to seeing his fans on the road again.”

Although Brian Wilson has been actively touring the world as a solo performer for over 20 years performing on the world's biggest stages, he admitted to us that he still battles crippling stage fright before each and every show: “The first stage, y'know, I call the 'scare segment.' The next one is, 'recuperate from scared,' I'm a little depressed. The next one is anxiety , y'know? And finally the release of anxiety when we first ( punches the table ), when I first go to the concert, my anxiety goes, 'whish' — out of my head! It goes right out of my head.”

Not too long ago, we asked Brian Wilson if he’s ever sat down and thought about how many lives he’s changed through his music: “Yes, I have. When I sing it makes me happy. I think I’ve brought a lot of joy to people, yeah, with my tours, yeah.”

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Chicago, Brian Wilson Announce Co-Headlining Summer 2022 U.S. Tour

The legendary acts will kick off their hot weather outing on June 7 in Phoenix.

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Two of rock ‘s most enduring icons, horn-driven Windy City stalwarts Chicago and Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson, announced dates for a 2022 summer U.S. tour on Tuesday (Nov. 30). The co-headlining 25-city outing is slated to kick off on June 7 at Ak-Chin Pavilion in Phoenix, Arizona and keep the acts on the road through a July 26 date at the DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan.

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Wilson will be joined by his BB co-founder singer/guitarist Al Jardine and South African singer/guitarist Blondie Chaplin, who was briefly a member of the legendary surf pop band from 1972-1973. Tickets for the Live Nation-produced tour will go on sale on Friday (Dec. 3) at 10 a.m. local time here and here .

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In February, the Beach Boys entered into an intellectual property partnership with Irving Azoff’s Iconic Artists Group that covers the legendary Southern California group’s recordings, brand, memorabilia and select compositions. As part of the deal, Iconic will acquire a controlling interest in the IP, with the group and members’ heirs retaining an interest moving forward.

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Three of the original members — Wilson, Mike Love and Jardine — as well as the estate of Carl Wilson said in a statement at the time that, “The Beach Boys and our songs have been one of the great joys of our lives. For more than half a century, we’ve witnessed generations of fans from all corners of the world come together to celebrate our music, dancing and singing along to the songs that we have loved and performed for decades. As we look towards the upcoming 60th anniversary of The Beach Boys, we wanted a partner to help expand opportunities for our brand, while continuing to preserve our tradition as a band whose music transcends the test of time.”

Check out the dates for the tour below:

June 7 – Phoenix, AZ @ Ak-Chin Pavilion

June 9 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum

June 10 – Irvine, CA @ FivePoint Amphitheatre

June 11 – Concord, CA @ Concord Pavilion

June 14 – Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre

June 16 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre

June 18 – Maryland Heights, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

June 20 – Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theater

June 21 – Rogers, AR @ Walmart AMP

June 24 – Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion

June 25 – The Woodlands, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman

June 28 – Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre

June 29 – Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre

July 1 – Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion

July 10 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center

July 11 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center

July 13 – Camden, NJ @ BB&T Pavilion

July 14 – Bethel, NY @ Bethel Woods Center for the Arts

July 15 – Wantagh, NY @ Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater

July 17 – Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center

July 20 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center

July 22 – Burgettstown, PA @ The Pavilion at Star Lake

July 23 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center

July 24 – Tinley Park, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre

July 26 – Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre

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Brian Wilson and Chicago summer tour launch in Phoenix: Emotional, soulful and full of hits

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Chicago launched their co-headlining tour with Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys at Ak-Chin Pavilion in Phoenix on Tuesday, June 7, the same day the horn-driven rockers announced the release of a 38th studio album called "Born For This Moment."

It may not strike the casual observer as one of the world's most obvious pairings for a summer tour — certainly not as obvious as recent tours pairing Chicago with Earth, Wind & Fire or Wilson with the Zombies.

But there is some history behind it. 

In 1974, three Beach Boys — Al Jardine and Wilson's younger brothers, Dennis and Carl — added harmonies to the Chicago classic "Wishing You Were Here." A year later, the two groups launched the first of two Beachago tours. 

Jardine and several other vocalists from Wilson's 12-piece touring band joined Chicago on stage at Tuesday's tour launch to revisit "Wishing You Were Here." 

And Wilson's set featured a guest spot by three members of Chicago, who added horns to "Darlin'," a soul-flavored hit from the "Wild Honey" album. 

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Wilson and his bandmates set the tone for their first appearance in the Valley since that Zombies tour with the Hollyridge Strings' instrumental recordings of the Beach Boys' greatest hits. 

Led on stage with the help of a walker, Wilson took his place behind the white piano that for many years has served more as a sort of buffer separating Wilson, who turns 80 on June 20, from the audience that comes to see him than an instrument he might be interested in playing.

Wilson famously retired from the road in 1964 after a nervous breakdown on a flight to Houston to open a Beach Boys tour.

Although the man has kept a fairly active touring schedule since the launch of his first solo trek in 1999, he'd never be mistaken for a person who feels comfortable onstage.

He barely moves or says a word and tends to stare into the distance with a blank expression from his seat behind that rarely played piano. 

When he sings, he often misses cues or drops the final word or two of individual lines. On "Sloop John B," he came in early. 

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The Jardines — Al and his son Matthew — stand by keeping watch, prepared to jump in and take over if the man who wrote so many of the greatest pop songs of his generation doesn't sing at all. 

And yet, for many Wilson fans, myself included, it can be a magical and emotional experience to see him reconnecting with these songs as best he can.

As Wilson's musical director Paul Von Mertens (who also plays saxophone, clarinet, flute and harmonica) introduced him, Wilson is "the man who brings us all together with his heart, his soul and his music."

That he is.

And whatever discomfort he seems to be feeling has a way of only adding to the bittersweet appeal of a song like "Love and Mercy," a heartfelt plea for love and mercy in a world where all the singer sees on TV news are "a lot of people out there hurtin' and it really scares me."

His conversational phrasing of the words to "Surfer Girl," introduced as "the first song I ever wrote," put an intriguing spin on one of Wilson's most beloved ballads. It felt like hearing it fresh after hearing it hundreds or thousands of times.

And Wilson really seemed to come alive on "Salt Lake City," fully invested in bringing those lyrics to life.

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It doesn't hurt that he's assembled such a stellar touring band, including Al Jardine, a founding member of the Beach Boys, who handled lead vocals on "Help Me, Rhonda" and "Surfin' Safari," which he set up with a reference to the closing of Valley institution, Big Surf Waterpark . 

"Where you gonna go surfin' now?," Jardine wondered aloud before suggesting we go surfing to some Beach Boys songs. 

Another former Beach Boy, introduced by Wilson as "the one and only" Blondie Chaplin, tends to make his first appearance late in Wilson's set. And Tuesday's show was no exception.

They'd already made their way through 15 songs when Chaplin hit the stage and promptly stole the show, leading his bandmates in a spirited "Wild Honey," "Long Promised Road" and "Sail on Sailor," a song Al Jardine said was one of his favorites. 

In addition to his soulful vocals, Chaplin brought a Stonesy swagger to the mix while tearing it up on lead guitar, gleefully standing mere inches from Wilson's piano. His solo on "Wild Honey" was a masterclass in raunchy brilliance.

Darian Sahanaja of Wondermints, who's been with Wilson's touring band since 1999, made the most of two turns in the vocal spotlight — a deeply soulful "Darlin'" and "I Can Hear Music," a Ronettes song the Beach Boys covered on their "20/20" album.

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And the vocal glue that holds it all together, as always, was Matthew Jardine.

Any song that required the iconic falsetto that defined so many Beach Boys classics, Matthew nailed, from "I Get Around" to "Help Me, Rhonda." And he sounded especially angelic on "Don't Worry Baby" and "God Only Knows." 

Rounding out the touring lineup were guitarist Randell Kirsch, keyboardist Gary Griffin, bassist Bob Lizik, percussionist Jim Laspesa and two more Wondermints, drummer Mike D'Amico and multi-instrumentalist Probyn Gregory.

It's a really solid band, providing Wilson everything he needs to do his legend proud. It wasn't flawless, but considering they haven't done a concert since October? It was surprisingly tight.

And once the person running sound dials in that vocal blend just right, this tour will only get more magical for Wilson fans, regardless of whether the man of the hour hits his mark. 

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Chicago celebrates a new album and 55 years together

Chicago had nearly as many musicians on stage as Wilson's band — 10 in all, including founding members Robert Lamm on keyboards, keytar and vocals, Lee Loughnane on trumpet and vocals, and James Pankow on trombone and larger-than-life personality. 

In addition to celebrating their new release, from which they shared a highlight titled "If This Is Goodbye," they're celebrating the fact that this year marks their 55th anniversary. And Pankow announced his intention to keep doing this until they take his driver's license away. 

"Little did we know that all these years later, this music would seem to have a life of its own," Pankow said.

"I'm sure Brian has the same experience. You look into the audience and you see people remembering the moment when they discovered this stuff. Folks will come up to me and say, 'Jimmy, we grew up with your music.' And I will say 'So did I'."

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Chicago setlist went heavy on the hits

Pankow promised to get to as many of those songs as they could.

And they certainly touched on many of the songs that now define their place in music history, including such hits as "Beginnings," "Make Me Smile," "25 or 6 to 4," "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?," "Free," "Saturday in the Park" and "Feelin' Stronger Every Day."

If you own "Chicago IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits," you went in really well prepared, because they played the whole thing in addition to such later hits as "If You Leave Me Now," "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" and "You're the Inspiration."

Neil Donell's vocals on those later hits were often awe-inspiring, especially that high note that refused to end on "You're the Inspiration." "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" was another show of force for Donell's vocals. 

Chicago's set clearly put more of a premium on showing off musical chops than Wilson's set, at times venturing into progressive-rock terrain. 

During their cover of the Spencer Davis Group hit "I'm a Man" (as featured on 1969's "The Chicago Transit Authority"), they relinquished the stage to drummer Wally Reyes, Jr. and percussionist Ramon "Ray" Yslas, who earned a spontaneous standing ovation for an extended solo that offset dazzling displays of proficiency with personality.

Ray Herrmann also had plenty of opportunities to show what he can do on sax. And guitarist Tony Obrohta turned in a number of impressive solos, from "(I've Been) Searchin' So Long" to "You're the Inspiration." 

After bringing their set to a powerful conclusion with "Saturday in the Park" and "Feelin' Stronger Every Day," Chicago returned for an encore that opened with "Free" before Obrohta cranked out the opening riff of the song you knew they couldn't leave without playing: "25 or 6 to 4," which also featured a great vocal from Donell.

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Brian Wilson setlist

California Girls

Do It Again

I Get Around

Little Deuce Coupe

Surfer Girl

Salt Lake City

Surfin' Safari

Don't Worry Baby

Sloop John B

Wouldn't It Be Nice

God Only Knows

Add Some Music to Your Day

I Can Hear Music

Long Promised Road

Sail On, Sailor

Good Vibrations

Help Me, Rhonda

Surfin' U.S.A.

Love and Mercy

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Brian Wilson is set to co-headline a tour with Chicago next summer. The Windy City group and the Beach Boys founder will kick off their 25-date US tour in June 2022.

Wilson will be accompanied on stage by fellow Beach Boys members Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin. Tickets go on-sale this Friday, December 3, at 10:00 a.m. local time, and be purchased via Ticketmaster.

Earlier this month, Brian Wilson released the new song “Right Where I Belong,” taken from the soundtrack of the new documentary Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road. The track features and was co-written by My Morning Jacket’s Jim James . The full soundtrack was released on November 26.

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The song, in which Wilson reflects on his teenage years as a writer and musician, was teased in the trailer for the film, which is based around conversations between the Beach Boys co-founder and his friend and Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine. It opened in US theaters in a limited run and video-on-demand services earlier this month. The documentary also features interviews about Wilson with James himself, Elton John , Bruce Springsteen , Nick Jonas, Linda Perry, Gustavo Dudamel, Al Jardine, and others.

Wilson’s instrumental album At My Piano , featuring new interpretations of his classic work, was released on November 19, while My Morning Jacket’s eponymous ninth studio set came out last month.

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On board a flight from L.A. to Houston on December 23, 1964, Brian Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown that would prevent him from touring with The Beach Boys until 1983.

"I felt I had no choice," said Wilson of his decision to quit touring with the band. "I was run down mentally and emotionally because I was running around, jumping on jets from one city to another on one-night stands, also producing, writing, arranging, singing, planning, teaching—to the point where I had no peace of mind and no chance to actually sit down and think or even rest."

Wilson's staying put in L.A. would yield mixed results. On one hand, he contracted what could perhaps best be described as truly whacked-out cabin fever, leading to the recording of some of the greatest, let's say, 'innervision' pop music the world has ever seen: Pet Sounds, Summer Days; and later opus's like 71's Surf's Up. But the flip side of Wilson's refusal to leave his home state—which later turned into a long-standing refusal to even leave his house—was that he fell in with a questionable crowd, and ultimately ended up facing a series of psychological crises.

The ol' gateway drug: Wilson was introduced to marijuana in late December '64 by his pal Lorren Daro, and from there it seems to have been a slippery slope, as your mum'd say. The following April, Wilson began his long-term relationship with LSD. He considered his first time with the drug "a religious experience" from which he took a new grasp on things like "patience and understanding." The first trip also proved musically fruitful: "California Girls" was written directly afterwards.

Soon after such revelatory moments, however, came the fall. Wilson began suffering auditory hallucinations in mid-65, which have persisted throughout his life; he also became increasingly paranoid and anti-social, leading to a disintegration of relations between him and his collaborators. Following the first playback session of Pet Sounds, for instance, Wilson allegedly refused to speak to CBS record executives, instead opting to answer questions via a portable tape player that was rigged to respond with either "yes", "no", or "thank you".

The end of 1964/beginning of 1965 marks the birth of Brian Wilson's golden period as a songwriter and pop music architect. Ironically, though, it was also the beginning of a "psychodelicate" (a term coined by Wilson himself) phase that would bring some harrowing outcomes to bear upon the singer.

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Wilson will be joined on stage by former Beach Boys bandmates Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin. He’ll primarily perform songs from the two Beach Boys albums: 1968’s Friends and 1971’s Surf’s Up . The Zombies will open each show with a full performance of their seminal 1968 record, Odessey and Oracle . The first two shows of the tour will just feature the Zombies’ current lineup. The remaining dates will see Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone reuniting with fellow co-founders Chris White and Hugh Grundy.

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Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music's A list. This edition features multi-instrumentalist Probyn Gregory.

Three and a half decades ago, when the Beach Boys were America's favorite cheeseball uncles thanks to "Kokomo" and appearances on shows like Full House and Baywatch , Probyn Gregory was part of a small group of Los Angles-based Brian Wilson aficionados who appreciated the full extent of his genius. "We'd meet at each other's houses and play fragments of Smile we'd gathered from bootlegs," Gregory tells Rolling Stone via Zoom from his home in Sunland-Tujunga, California. "There were marathon listening sessions where we'd go, ‘This should be on there' or ‘This is the running order.' Of course, no one knew the running order, because it never came out."

When Brian Wilson finally decided to finish Smile in 2004, Gregory was one of the handful of musicians by his side helping him piece it together. By that point, the multi-instrumentalist - who can handle anything from guitar, bass, and banjo to trumpet, french horn, and theremin - had been an integral part of Wilson's studio and road band for six years. They'd played Pet Sounds all across the planet together, performed for the Queen at Buckingham Palace, and shared the stage with Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Elton John, and Bruce Springsteen. He'd toured with the Monkees, Arthur Lee's Love, Al Jardine, and Jan and Dean over the past couple of decades, but he remained firmly committed to Wilson the entire time, and never missed a tour.

There are Beach Boys songs he's played well over 1,000 times, but he never lost his love for the work. "There are times during ‘Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)' where I find myself in tears playing it behind Brian," he says. "It's such a beautiful piece of music."

As the stepson of a Botany professor, Gregory was a "faculty brat" that grew up in college towns all across America. (His biological father was killed in a train accident when Gregory was just 3.) In 1965, when he was 8 and living in Palo Alto, California (his stepfather was teaching at Stanford), he heard "California Girls" on a tiny AM radio. "That intro was just magical," he says. "I stopped what I was doing and listened to the whole song. It changed me."

It was the dawn of the hippie revolution, and Gregory was living in its epicenter. "My parents were very plugged in," he says. "We had a draft-card-burning party at our house. My parents were very involved in the anti-war movement and the anti-nuke movement. My mother actually ended up spending time in prison for civil disobedience. They took me to a Human Be-In in Palo Alto. They also went to a Love-In, but I was too young to attend that. I remember really wishing I was ten years older so I could experience the Summer of Love."

His parents also loved the music of the hippie era. They introduced him to records by Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and Love. "They took me to my first concert, which was the Grateful Dead playing outside at Panhandle Park near Haight-Ashbury," he says. "Someone in the crowd threw an orange that hit my brother in the eye. Jerry Garcia waved his hand, stopped the song, and went, ‘Stop. Someone just hit that kid with an orange. Uncool. No throwing stuff!' My brother was like, ‘Oh my God, I'm famous!'" [Hey Deadheads, consider this a formal challenge to find that moment on a bootleg.]

Gregory picked up the trumpet in the fourth grade and would try to play along to Herb Alpert songs on the radio. Around the same time, he tried to teach himself acoustic guitar by learning the songs of the Beatles, the Byrds, and the Monkees. He continued to sharpen his skills when his family moved across the country in late 1967 after his stepfather accepted a teaching job at Keene State College in New Hampshire. There wasn't nearly as much live music happening in the area, but he did manage to check out a Jefferson Airplane show in 1970. "Something happened to their van and they were hours late arriving," he says. "People had been smoking all this dope in this incredibly hot room without air conditioning. It was raining sticky marijuana on us. It was terrible."

Drugs never played a huge role in his life. "My parents had a loose relationship with drugs," he says. "They were never addicted to them, but they were helpful in introducing me to things I might've stumbled onto and overdone."

Near the end of high school, Gregory went to Merrywood Music Camp in Lenox, Massachusetts, where he focused on the trumpet. "I was one of the worst players at the camp," he says. "But I had a wonderful time. I met my soulmates, who were mainly these, frankly, Jewish kids from big cities like Boston and New York. I loved them. I wished I was Jewish myself. Some of my counselors had gone to Oberlin, and they were the hippest people I'd ever met in my life."

He followed in their footsteps by attending Oberlin, a formative time where he took English classes, studied music theory, traveled around to see shows by Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, and Linda Ronstadt, and eventually landed a spot at L.A.'s Guitar Institute of Technology after graduation. "Famous guitarists would come by and teach seminars," he says. "I got to learn from Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, Tommy Tedesco, and Pat Martino."

The L.A. music scene was dominated by new new wave and hair metal bands when he finished his schooling, but he found work in the surf-rock group the Wedge. Their sole release was Surf Party '83 and they began playing Top 40 hits in clubs to eke out a living. He took a job at the Economics Research Associates, a consulting firm, too. "I was the guy with the red pen, making sure that things weren't poorly written," he says. "At least my English major at Oberlin came into play a little.'

When he wasn't working, Gregory played briefly with Peter Case, and the Negro Problem, but nothing really took off until he met up with a bunch of likeminded musicians calling themselves the Wondermints. Everyone in the group shared a love of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, and it wasn't long before they were backing their hero. [ Editor's note: We spoke with Gregory shortly before Brian Wilson's wife Melinda died and court documents revealed that Wilson is suffering from dementia .]

How did you meet the Wondermints?

I was at Club Lingerie in 1985, and I saw someone with a Smile shirt. I said, "Where'd you get that shirt?" He said, "I made it." I said, "Can I get you to make me one?" It was [keyboardist] Darian Sahanaja, and we became friends. He later formed the Wondermints. I wasn't in the first version, but I really liked the band a lot. He and [guitarist] Nick Walusko were the founders, and the two main writers. I finagled my way in to the band, and began playing trumpet with them. Then later I played guitar with them, and then I was even the bass player for a little while. The bass was always a revolving chair in that band.

What was the sound of the Wondermints?

Power pop with humorous shades. We had an alter ego called The After Dinner Mints, where we would play television themes, and cartoon music from cartoons and TV shows. That was a lot of fun.

Were you mainly playing clubs around L.A.?

Yeah. One of the chief clubs around the early and mid Nineties was called Spaceland, in Silver Lake. I played a lot there with whatever bands I was playing with.

Are you still working your day job?

Yeah. I eventually got so busy once things took off that I had to go part-time, or they'd just let me go off on tour and I'd come back. There'd be a pile of things on my desk, and I'd have to just stay late at night for a week until the pile got reduced. I worked there until the company disbanded in 2008. I was there 27 years.

Going back to your early Beach Boys fandom, how did it grow after you first heard "California Girls" on the radio?

The next year, "Good Vibrations" was the big hit. That was monster. That was international. That was on the radio for months. Then in '67, the big hit, at least where I was living, in Palo Alto, was "Heroes and Villains," which is a very strange song. Now I know there are tape edits, where they go from the different sections, but I remember listening to it thinking, "Wow, there's something different."

It actually made the hair on my neck rise up a little bit. It was a little dangerous. There was something about "Heroes and Villains" where it was very different from other songs on the radio. Then we moved to New Hampshire, and the Beach Boys took a back burner for a little while, because they went through the period where they didn't have that many hits. "Do It Again" and "Darlin'" weren't really on my radar. I was busy trying to acclimate to New Hampshire, and listening to whatever was coming over the radio.

I think the first Beach Boys record that came back on my radar was a Pickwick compilation record in the early Seventies. I had a crazy assortment of songs where "409" would follow "God Only Knows." It was disjointed. Then, of course, in 1974, I fell under the influence, as everyone else did, of the Endless Summer album. That double album essentially remade the Beach Boys' career, and got them to be a really successful live act again.

I was really listening to every song, and dropping the needle, and bringing it back, and trying to figure out, on piano, what the chords were. At this point, I'd learned to play guitar. Some of them were in keys I could play, some of them were in E-Flat. Who could play an E-Flat?

How did you learn about the lost Smile record?

I heard rumors of it in college, but when I first came to L.A., someone loaned me a cassette with a few fragments on there. I thought, "Wow, this is crazy stuff." I began seeking it out at what they call "swap meets," these places where you could buy bootleg records. I don't know how this stuff leaked out of the vaults, but various parts of Smile would come my way, or come other people's way.

When I met Darian, he had fragments that I didn't have, and I had fragments that he didn't have. We would meet at each other's houses, along with Nick Walusko, or this person, Domenic Priore, who was a Smile scholar. He may not have been a musician, but he was a real fan of all that Smile stuff.

What captivated you so much about this music?

The vibe. One of the things about the Beach Boys has always been their ethereal vocal blends. Even after I joined the Brian Wilson Band, we would try to sound like that, but we couldn't because we weren't the brothers. We didn't have the history that they did of sitting around the Wilson family piano, with Al Jardine and Mike Love. They had a sound like no one else did. There was something that came across in the yearning and the mournful feeling that imbues a lot of Brian Wilson's music.

That came through in spades, to me, in the Smile fragments. I got a real sense of, not incompletion, but world weariness, and an understanding. Pet Sounds was all about that too, the teenager trying to become a man.

There was this sort of illicit thrill of listening to Smile bootlegs back then. It was this forbidden music you knew drove Brian insane trying to finish, and no longer wanted anything to do with.

I know what you mean. Every time I heard a new fragment that I fell in love with, I would thank God for my little inner circle of people that allowed me to hear this music that otherwise wouldn't be heard. I really wished that other people would hear it. At some point, there was a paper in Los Angeles called The Reader . I took out an ad in the back, and I said something along the order of, "Capitol Records, please release Smile . This music needs to be heard."

How did you first meet Brian?

It was around 1989. His first solo album was coming out. I was rehearsing with a band in West L.A. I heard that Brian Wilson was rehearsing in the studio next door.  I thought, "This is my only chance." I think I knocked at the door, and I think he was the only one in there.

He came to the door and said, "Yeah, can I help you?" I said, "I have to say, you are amazing, and I love your music so much." I was the gushing fan. He's like, "That's great. Okay, thanks, bye." He closed the door and he went back to rehearsing.

The next time I met him was a few years later. We were playing a Brian Wilson tribute show for Wild Honey, which was this charity organization. We were doing "Surf's Up," and I happened to be singing lead on that one. I looked into the audience, and there was Brian Wilson. I was like, "Oh my God. I have to sing this hard song, his song, one of his best songs, to him?" I was very nervous. We met him briefly, then he actually played at his own tribute show.

Where did things go from there in terms of the Wondermints backing Brian in concert?

He had to do a radio show, and he needed a band. This was maybe a year after the tribute. His manager got ahold of the Wondermints manager, and we ended up doing that. He sang "Do It Again," "Darlin'," and maybe one other song. "Do It Again" is an E-Flat, and he gets to the bridge, and suddenly Brian stops.

He stopped, and so we stopped, and then he starts playing a boogie-woogie in A major, which is a key very far away from E Flat. It's a tritone. It doesn't make any sense. He's playing away. Suddenly he stops, and he says, "Oh, yeah," and then he goes into the bridge of "Do It Again," in A flat, a half step away from where he has just been playing. We all look at each other like, "That's not human. What just happened. Who thinks that way?" Well, he does.

How did that lead to more work with Brian?

If my memory serves, the Wondermints were playing various clubs. Every once in a while, he would find out that we were playing and he would come down and sing. It was usually the same song, "Do It Again." This happened a couple of times. And then in late 1998 or early 1999, his wife [Melinda] approached our manager.

And he said to us, "Brian's putting together a solo band, and you guys are remembered fondly, and are asked to come out and audition." They took us out in a couple of waves, and we passed the audition. [Guitarist/singer] Jeff Foskett was next to us in the next hotel room, and he later become very instrumental in the band.

Was your mind blown when you got the job?

Oh my God. Todd Rundgren, Neil Young, and Brian Wilson, especially Brian Wilson and Todd, those are my heroes. To be able to play with one of my heroes, it just blew my head off.

Tell me about preparing for that tour. You guys approached the material very differently than the Beach Boys touring band of that time.

Yes. But I didn't even really know what the touring band was up to. My friends told me in the Seventies and the Eighties that the touring band didn't float their boat. They said, "Just listen to the records. Don't bother going to the show. You'll be disappointed," which was stupid, and I'm sorry I ever listened to them, because I could have seen Dennis play. I never saw Dennis play before he passed away. And similarly with Carl. But the time I got around to seeing the Beach Boys, it was 2000. I felt cheated that I didn't get to see those earlier versions of the band.

Songs like "The Little Girl I Once Knew" and "Til I Die" are pretty lush and weren't really made for the stage. How did you approach them?

It was challenging. One of the reasons that I think I made the cut for the band is that I was a multi-instrumentalist. When they needed French horn on "God Only Knows," I can do that. If they needed theremin for "Good Vibrations," "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times," and "Wild Honey," I could do that. And I could play guitar and sing, so I was of use there.

We spent a lot of time listening to the original records, and if we happened to have access to broken down parts without the vocals, and we could hear better, we'd rely on them. We had listened a lot to things from the vaults, and tried to determine what had been done, and what we could get away with on stage with the personnel that we had.

What were those first few shows like? A Brian Wilson solo concert was a pretty untested proposition.

Yes and no. He played a few festivals sets in 1998 [with other musicians] where he tested the waters, but those were short sets. Our first show was in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We didn't know how Brian was going to do. He always looked a little, not gun shy, but he wasn't confident, necessarily. Our first three shows were in March of 1999. We didn't know if he was just going to hang up his spurs after three shows, call it a day, and say, "Ah, I tried it, but it's not for me." But he did pretty well, and as it turns out, he's a trouper. He may not be playing this year, but we got in 24 good years, and there was no guarantee that it was going to make it out of the first couple of shows.

I love that Live at the Rox y album you put out in 2000. It was very early in your time with him, but the show was already really tight.

We'd been rehearsing a lot. We really wanted to do the music justice. I think everyone gave it their A-plus shot, and really focused, and really tried to emote, and tried to break down the fourth wall as much as we could. Even though it's Brian's show, it's up to him to do it. But as the backing band, we wanted to make sure that we gave him as solid a bed as we possibly could so that he could thrive. 

The timing for all this was pretty perfect. I feel like Brian was getting a lot respect in the indie music community, and people were finally starting to see him as a separate entity from the Beach Boys.

I'd never really thought of that, but I guess you're right. Also, people hadn't really seen him. If they had seen him live with the Beach Boys, he'd come out and play piano or sing one song, and then he'd wander offstage. That was his regular approach up until that point.

Were you shocked when they came to you with plans for the Pet Sounds orchestral tour just one year into all this. Yeah. That was tough. We would listen to these tracks and go, "Okay, what can we cover? We know we're going to have to hire some strings…" On that first one, we were just using local orchestras. But it was thrilling because I loved that music. It was the only album where I loved every single song. But it was hard for me because my father was killed by a train, and the last thing you hear on that album is a train. I used to burst into tears.

What was it like playing the Queen's Jubilee in 2002?

That was quite an honor to play on that stage. And at one point, we were rehearsing and were taken aback because we could see Paul McCartney sitting on one of the amps. Eric Clapton was a few feet away. We're like, "Oh my God. Everyone play as good as you could possibly play."

So you're performing for the Queen and Paul McCartney, playing Pet Sounds all across the world, and then you go back home to your day job?

Yeah, up until 2009 when it went away and I was forced to look for other sideline music things. I occasionally taught instruments, usually to children. I taught banjo, trumpet, guitar, bass a couple of times. 

Fans had the sense that Brian hated Smile and didn't want to even talk about it. When did that start changing?

When the band first got formed in 1999, Brian was so uptight about songs of that Smile era. You couldn't even say the words "Heroes and Villains" or "Surf's Up" or "Cabinessence." He said, "That reminds me of a bad time. I don't want to think about it. Please don't mention those songs when I'm around." So we naturally obeyed our boss.

But we were at a Christmas party at Scott Bennett's house. He was the keyboardist in the Brian Wilson Band. Brian just sat down at the piano and started playing "Heroes and Villains." We were all shocked that he would do that. We all jumped in and sang it with him. The ice was sort of broken at that point.

We debuted "Heroes and Villains" at the Radio City Music Hall tribute to Brian Wilson later that year. And it was only a couple years later, in 2003…and I think that Melinda was a big mover here in making this happen. She had heard what the fans wanted. They wanted to hear things like "Surf's Up" and "Cabinessence" and things off Smile.

She suggested to Brian, "What about finishing this thing up? It's been dogging you all these years." And slowly he got into the idea. And when I say slowly, I mean we rehearsed a lot without him and learned our parts. Nick Walusko and I, as the main guitar players, would go and listen to tapes and say, "Okay, I'm going to do this part," or, "This falls into my wheelhouse."

So we got it all together, and then we went over to Brian's house. There's a documentary about this where you can actually see him. I think he leaves the room as we're rehearsing because he's just not ready. He couldn't take it.

What was Brian's emotional state as all of this was happening?

I've seen footage of the premier in London in February of 2004, and he has this look of he's just been let out of jail. When we got done with it, none of us could believe that it came off as well as it did. We didn't know when we started the show if Brian would even make it through the show or if we'd be rife with errors. Hardly any of us were reading music. Most of us had memorized our parts. And that was a long show with a lot of complicated parts, blowing on little whistle rings, shaking sheets of metal, running over and playing a marimba part, and then going back and playing guitar and singing. It was very complicated.

But it took him a long time to do it, but you could see him slowly making the corner and coming to terms with this demon from his past. Smile was very heavy for Brian and letting it go cannot have been easy in 1967.

Tell me about making That Lucky Old Sun . Did you take the energy of making Smile and take it into the studio for the creation of new songs?

That was a fun album. In fact, I consider that his best work, apart from Smile , which is more recent of course. Nothing will touch the original Beach Boys triumphs, but of his solo work, I thought That Lucky Old Sun was probably my number two after Smile . That was a lot of fun. It was very collaborative. Scott Bennett was involved in fleshing out some of the music and the lyrics, and everyone had a lot to offer.

That was a really busy time for the band. I felt like Brian was on a creative roll. I listened to the songs from that record, and they had some of the old Beach Boys magic in their composition. Not that his other more modern things didn't have that, but this had it even more so. 

Al Jardine came into the band in 2006. It must have been great to add him into the mix.

Well, I love the vibe that he brings because he's a smiley, good time. He brings a peacefulness and also, his voice as we stand here now in 2024, he has the best remaining voice of all the Beach Boys. He sounds most like the old singer that he was, and I don't know if that's because he eats a lot of organic peanut butter, which I know he does. But he sounds good. His vibe is good. He was a real asset. I was very glad that he began playing with us again.

Prior to 2012, most fans felt a Beach Boys reunion tour with Brian was an impossibility. Did you think it was impossible or were you optimistic it could happen?

I was in between. I knew that there had been disagreements, and even some lawsuits between the guys. And so I wasn't sure how the egos were going to pan out among all the people onstage, but it ended up that it worked and people were willing to maybe bite their tongue or put some things aside. And even David Marks came back and was part of the fold, which is fantastic. I backed him up a couple of times in some of his solo things. David's a great guitar player and was historic. I mean, that's him on "409" and other songs of the era. 

What were the initial rehearsals like for you?

At the first rehearsal, it blew me away to hear the original voices. I mean, there's Mike [Love], there's Al, there's Brian, there's Bruce Johnston. Sure, we didn't have Carl and Dennis, but no one sounded like that. I was just over the moon. 

You're on the reunion album too.

That was a little bit of a hodgepodge. Joe Thomas produced it. He has people that he likes to use that are not necessarily in the Brian Wilson Band, and that's fine. It doesn't always have to be us, of course. It's producer's prerogative to choose who he wants to play. I liked some of the songs in there. I thought the main track, "That's Why God Made the Radio," was fantastic. I'm sorry that didn't do better.

How did you wind up in the Monkees touring band?

I'd been approached to be part of the Monkees touring band on a couple of different instruments. In 2012, they needed French horn on "Shades of Gray." They wanted trumpet on some songs and banjo on a few. And that year, Christian Nesmith joined because Mike wanted his son in the band. And then Micky got his sister Coco Dolenz in. So there was no more budget for me.

But I was friends with the manager, Andrew Sandoval. And in 2019, he called and he said, "I think we have a spot for you now." And I'm like, "You're kidding." Because when I was 10, my favorite bands in the world were the Monkees, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Byrds. Now, I'd already played with the Beach Boys at that point. So if I could manage to play with the Monkees, I could die happy.

I love what Nez brought to the band during that era.

I loved working with Nez. He was a very creative guy, and I love his songwriting vibe and what he brings to the stage.

I sensed that he was never the same after his heart attack.

I saw that, too. Backstage he moved slowly. I'd met him a couple of times after shows prior to that, so I knew what he could be like. And even if he happened to be stoned or something, his mind was sharp.

I was just overjoyed to be in that band, especially playing parts that I'd never really heard played with the band. There's a really nice trumpet part at the end of "Daydream Believer." It rarely gets played. And so here I was on stage with them, and I was like, "I'm going to nail those parts." And I did.

You went out with Jan and Dean at one point?

Yes. After Jan [Berry] had died, Dean [Torrence] was going out as "Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean." And I got recruited to be in his backing band in about '08. We played a bunch of live shows. I did a couple of cruises. I did a bunch of car shows. It's amazing playing at a car show. You have to put your songs in between the cars zipping around or you can't hear anything.

Tell me about touring with Arthur Lee and Love.

I had a good time with that, although Arthur was a real piece of work. He was…I guess the key word would be "mercurial." You got him on a good day, everything was great. If you got him on a bad day, look out. He might throw a chair at you.

He had a pretty tough life.

Yes. I will say that he had played at UCLA, and I think he was on some substance, and the show wasn't very good. I wasn't there, but everyone had not good things to say about that show. So he was contrite. And the next show he did was the House of Blues, and I was in the band. That was one of the best shows I ever played with anyone in my life. He rocked so hard. Someone tried to heckle him, he just threw it right back at him and just kept on steamrolling the set. So I saw the really great side of him too. That was like an A-list performance.

You got to play Forever Changes with him.

That was fun because when I was a boy, that was one of the albums that made me think, "Hey, maybe I can play trumpet in a rock band." And here I was getting paid to do it.

It's amazing to think about how many classics Sixties works you helped bring back to life onstage.

Well, that's interesting. I hadn't thought of that. Pet Sounds , Smile , Forever Changes …

All the Monkees songs too. A lot of that stuff was never played live back in the day. And when they attempted the big hits, they sounded nothing like they did on the records.

Yeah. I have to say it is really validating. I spent 20 years trying to get into a successful band in L.A., and it just never happened. The closest was the Wondermints when we recorded the Austin Powers theme song.

But then to be able to back up people who I really like, like the Monkees or Brian Wilson…I was really happy to be playing music that the audience was really digging. And so, sure, I didn't write the song. It wasn't even my band that might've done the original version, but that doesn't matter to me. If I can be part of a team of people bringing joy to other people's lives, great. And if I can get paid for it on top of it, all the better.

The last Brian Wilson tour was in the summer of 2022 with Chicago. How was that?

It was a little tough. We've seen that over the years, that sometimes he's really pumped and all there and ready to do a show. At other times he's scared and he's heard voices or he's just not feeling up to it. And I'm afraid to say that a lot of 2022 he wasn't feeling up to it. So that was difficult because he's 81. He's certainly earned the right to take time off. I'm not sure if we're going to see Brian [tour] again. It'd be great if we would, but I don't know.

I didn't get a chance to see that tour with Chicago, but I saw some videos. He didn't seem super engaged.

That's been an issue all along with Brian. People love to ring the bell and extol his virtues when he's on, and that's great. But when he's not engaged, as you've seen him, it can seem really bad. And I feel bad for everyone. The audience, they want to get the good Brian, and we in the band want everyone to be pleased, but we can't control everything. What happens to Brian happens to him. There's nothing anyone can do about it.

There's been so much tragedy in the last few years with Nicky Wonder dying, and then Jeff Foskett following a few years later .

There has been sadness recently. Losing Nicky was a terrible blow. And the same with Foskett. We're just getting to the age now…it's the 2020s and these people were making music in the '60s, so some of them are bound to either pass on or not be able to do the work anymore, or not want to. 2023 was a bad year in a lot of respects. I don't want to dwell on it, but let's hope that 2024 is better.

Are you hopeful that Brian might have just one more tour in him?

I'm always hopeful because I got to say, those first three shows that we did, we didn't know that he would be able to go on. And there have been other times when he was at a low ebb where we said, "Oh, this is it. He's going to pack it in." And he didn't. He's in for the long haul because he outlasted everyone. His parents, all of his brothers.

Is there any scenario in which the band could go out and play the music without him?

I think some of us would like to do that. I'm not sure politically how that would work. We'd have to make sure that we met the criteria of everyone involved, and get the permissions, and make sure not to step on everyone's toes. There's been a little talk about it, but of course we don't want to get our hopes up. And mainly what we want to do is do what Brian wants to do until the bitter end.

As you said, Al Jardine is still singing his a** off.

He is doing some solo tours and he has three different versions of that band. There's the Storytellers version that's a trio. There's the Endless Summer band that's six people, and I'm in that on guitar. And then there's the Friends & Family, even larger one, that has Carnie and Wendy Wilson, and I have subbed in on that one and may sub in again in the future. I hope that Al does go on and do a lot of shows because, as I say, I think his voice sounds great.

What do you hope to accomplish in the next few years?

Oh, that's a tough one. I'm 66. I don't have much hair left and I can't pretend to be younger than I am. I still enjoy performing, but 2023 was a bad year for that. There was not any Brian work to speak of and I just was taking gigs where I can get them. I was Paul Simon in a Simon and Garfunkel tribute for a bit. I play in Beach Boy tributes when people call me and if I'm free and it's not having to travel terribly far.

I guess I have a solo album in me somewhere. I haven't really ever done my own music that much. I'm not quite sure, other than doing a solo album on which I do not intend to tour.

I'm sorry to hear the past year was so rough, but you've still gotten to live the dream of most musicians. You've played with many of the biggest icons in music history.

I know how lucky I am because I know plenty of people who are better players than I am that have given up after a few years of trying to make it in whatever way, and gone back and gotten a bank job in Iowa. But they were great players. They just didn't manage to have the lucky breaks. And same thing with me. I was trying to get signed for 20 years, and it didn't happen. Then, almost by luck, the fact that I was playing with the Wondermints got me into the Brian Wilson eye. Everything else sort of came from that big lucky break with Brian Wilson.

If you hear "California Girls" on the radio, are you still able to enjoy it?

Yes and no. Every once in a while, because I've literally played that song a thousand times or more onstage with various ensembles. If I'm in the right mood and I can actually focus, yes, I can get back to me being 8 with that little transistor radio against my ear, completely having an out of body experience. The music is so amazing.

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Mr. Wilson, whose musical genius powered the Beach Boys, has dementia, according to his publicist. His wife, Melinda, died last month.

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The family of Brian Wilson, the musical architect whose genius helped power the Beach Boys, is seeking to place him under a conservatorship following the death of his wife, Melinda, last month.

According to documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court earlier this week by lawyers representing the potential conservators, Mr. Wilson, 81, has “a major neurocognitive disorder,” and “is unable to properly provide for his own personal needs for physical health.” Melinda Wilson had previously provided care for her husband, but following her death on Jan. 30 , the appointment of a conservator has become necessary, according to the petition filed on Wednesday.

In a statement . the family said that LeeAnn Hard, Mr. Wilson’s business manager, and Jean Sievers, his publicist and manager, would serve as co-conservators.

“This decision was made to ensure that there will be no extreme changes to the household and Brian and the children living at home will be taken care of and remain in the home where they are cared for,” the statement said.

In an email to The New York Times, Ms. Sievers said Mr. Wilson has been “diagnosed with dementia.” She said that as a co-conservator, she would “ensure that all of Brian’s daily living needs are satisfied and he continues to lead an active life.”

A hearing on the petition has been scheduled for April 30.

Mr. Wilson, a revered founder of the Beach Boys, is widely credited as a musical visionary who channeled an idealized notion of California into a chart-topping sound.

But the mental health challenges he faced along the way have also been well documented.

After suffering a nervous breakdown on a flight to Houston with the band in 1964, he abandoned touring to focus on recording, tapping into a period of explosive creativity that would help reshape the pop landscape with hits like “Good Vibrations.” At their height, the Beach Boys and their music flooded the Top 40 with melodies that captured the energy and culture of sunny, vibrant Southern California and music meticulously orchestrated in the studio. An American counterweight to the Beatles, the band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 .

But even as Mr. Wilson worked, his struggles with mental illness worsened. He became increasingly withdrawn after an ambitious album, “Smile,” fell apart in 1967. He battled depression and was eventually diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder , which manifested itself in auditory hallucinations , among other symptoms. He also experimented with LSD and other drugs and began overeating and abusing alcohol. He receded from the public eye and remained bedridden for extended periods during the 1970s.

In the years that followed, Mr. Wilson began dating Melinda Kae Ledbetter, who would become his second wife. The couple met in a Los Angeles Cadillac dealership, where she was a saleswoman, in a scene dramatized in the 2014 movie “ Love & Mercy .”

Ms. Wilson has said her future husband was struggling at the time she met him. Mr. Wilson had begun working with a psychotherapist, Eugene Landy , who is credited with helping yank his client from the depths of depression and substance abuse — and also blamed for inserting himself into many corners of Mr. Wilson’s creative and financial life.

Mr. Wilson’s family members eventually petitioned to create a previous conservatorship that extracted Mr. Wilson from Mr. Landy’s control. He married Melinda Ledbetter in 1995. They adopted five children , and Mr. Wilson credited her with helping to stabilize his life and career.

Toward the end of her life, Ms. Wilson also served as her husband’s health care agent, according to court filings.

“Mrs. Wilson attended to Mr. Wilson’s daily living needs,” the document said, “as Mr. Wilson is unable to properly provide for his own personal needs for physical health, food, clothing, or shelter.”

In 2021, the Beach Boys signed a blockbuster deal with Iconic Artists Group , selling the majority of the band’s intellectual property rights, including their trademarks and the rights to much of their music. Later that year, Wilson also sold his songwriting rights to Universal Music. The transaction was confidential, but was revealed the following year when his former wife, Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford, sued , saying she was owed millions of dollars as a result of the terms of their divorce settlement.

Wilson was on the road performing shows as recently as 2022.

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Brian Wilson returned to the road for the first time since the start of the pandemic with a show at Long Beach, California’s Terrace Theater on August 29th. He stuck largely to the script of the past few years by playing a long set packed with Beach Boys classics and fan favorites, and he was joined once again by founding Beach Boy Al Jardine and latter-day member Blondie Chaplin.

The set did feature a handful of surprises, including a rare rendition of the 1971 tune “Long Promised Road” (with Chaplin on vocals) and Wilson’s first-ever solo take on the 1976 obscurity “It’s OK.” They also played “Wake the World,” “Feel Flows,” and “Add Some Music to Your Day” in addition to staples like “Do It Again,” “I Get Around,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” and “Surfin’ USA.” On set highlight “God Only Knows,” Wilson is helped out on some of the higher notes from Al Jardine’s son, Matt Jardine.

The show was part of a brief warmup run of California gigs before Wilson’s proper American tour begins October 5th in Huntington, New York. It wraps up October 23rd in Waukegan, Illinois. He then heads to Europe in June 2022 for a tour that was originally on the books for this year. There have been scattered whispers about a 60th anniversary Beach Boys reunion tour at some point down the line, but there have been no indications that it’s actually going to happen.

What is going to happen is a theatrical release of the new documentary Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, which features Wilson driving around Los Angeles with Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine and reflecting on his life and music. It debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in June, though a release date has yet to be announced.

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    Wilson's staying put in L.A. would yield mixed results. On one hand, he contracted what could perhaps best be described as truly whacked-out cabin fever, leading to the recording of some of the greatest, let's say, 'innervision' pop music the world has ever seen: Pet Sounds, Summer Days; and later opus's like 71's Surf's Up.But the flip side of Wilson's refusal to leave his home state—which ...

  15. Brian Wilson Tour 2024: Experience Beach Boys Magic

    Brian Wilson is set to embark on a tour in 2024, with performances scheduled in cities such as Los Angeles, Nashville, Las Vegas, and More. The tour promises

  16. Brian Wilson and the Zombies Announce Tour

    Brian Wilson and the Zombies have announced a joint North American tour. The "Something Great from '68" tour will kick off at the end of August in Las Vegas and wrap up the following month ...

  17. Brian Wilson Plots World Tour, Final 'Pet Sounds' Performances

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  18. Do It Again: Brian Wilson Reunites With Beach Boys For Tour, Album

    Wouldn't it be nice if we were older—then we wouldn't have to wait so long for a Beach Boys reunion featuring fractured genius Brian Wilson and the few living members (but alas, no John Stamos)?

  19. What Was It Like to Tour With Brian Wilson and Help Him Finish ...

    Story by Andy Greene • 1h. Multi-instrumentalist Probyn Gregory played alongside the Beach Boys founder from 1999 to 2022, and also toured with the Monkees, Jan and Dean, Al Jardine, and Love.

  20. Review: Chicago colours Tampa, and Brian Wilson wakes it during co

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  21. Chicago and Brian Wilson Band

    Home > Concert Review >. An Evening Of Classic Hit After Hit After Hit. June 22, 2022. Dallas crowds are never early, or even on time, especially when its 101 degrees at an outdoor venue. Many people made an exception, though, as 80-year-old Brian Wilson brought his band to the Dos Equis Pavilion to play a half century of Beach Boys songs.

  22. Brian Wilson's Summer Plans

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  23. Brian Wilson's Family Seeks Conservatorship for a Beach Boys Founder

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  24. Brian Wilson Performs 'God Only Knows' at First Pandemic-Era Concert

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