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Postby SuiteMadameBlue » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:01 am

Well, they got back together one day, I wonder if they will get back together for a few shows?? I think there was a lawsuit too ?

All these musicians are getting older and older, time is passing by faster and faster. :shock:

I think with Pink Floyd being on stage, The Beach Boys getting together in the same room, anything is possible.

Again, even though things were said and done in the past with Styx, I "think" Dennis still wants to share the stage at least one more time. I don't know - UGH

Anyway, here is the latest Beach Boys article:


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060614/us_nm/beachboys_dc


Founding Beach Boys reunite to celebrate legacy By Steve Gorman
Wed Jun 14, 2:31 AM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three of the original Beach Boys appeared together in public for the first time in a decade on Tuesday to toast their musical legacy and hinted at the possibility of a reunion performance.

Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine, along with Bruce Johnston, who joined the touring lineup in 1965, gathered on top of the Capitol Records office tower for the presentation of double-platinum plaques marking U.S. sales of more than 2 million copies of the band's 2003 collection, "Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys."

Also on hand to uncork champagne with the band was David Marks, who briefly filled in for Jardine in the early 1960s.

The three original band members have not performed together in years. But, asked about the possibility of sharing the stage again, Wilson replied, "There's a chance of that."

Added his cousin, Love, with whom Wilson was often at odds in later years: "We've got tough management."

The focus of the event was to promote reissues of the band's catalog and celebrate the success of "Sounds of Summer," a 30-track set featuring hits like "California Girls," "I Get Around" and "Surfin' U.S.A."

The album, released in 12 countries, spent its first two years on the Billboard Top 200 chart and has since ranked among the top 10 biggest-selling catalog albums of all time.

"I want to thank everybody involved that helped us get that album ... going and going," Wilson said. "And I thank the Beach Boys themselves for being great, great artists to produce. I'd rather produce those guys over any other artists in the whole world."

Despite past tensions, he and Love seemed relaxed together, and Love, who once sued Wilson for songwriting royalties, saluted his cousin as the main creative force behind the band, thanking him "for his incredible abilities that gave us all an amazing life."

Johnston, who became part of the group when Wilson quit touring to focus on studio work, paid tribute to Wilson's brothers and fellow founding band members, Dennis, who drowned in 1983, and Carl, who died of cancer in 1998.

"I wish Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson could be here with us," Johnston said, to which Love added, pointing up at the sky: "They probably are, because this is pretty close."

Organizers said the last time the original Beach Boys appeared together in public was around the time that "Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1," a collection of Beach Boy covers performed by various country music artists, was released in 1996.

Capitol Records, a unit of EMI Music Group, also announced plans for a 40th-anniversary release June 27 of a deluxe CD single of "Good Vibrations," featuring five versions of the band's seminal 1966 hit and its original U.S. B-side.

In late August, Capitol also plans a 40-year commemorative reissue of the band's landmark "Pet Sounds" album in a CD/DVD package that includes mono, stereo and digital Surround Sound mixes of the music, plus previously unreleased promotional and documentary footage.
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Postby MatrixMan » Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:24 am

Though it can't really be the Beach Boys without Carl and Dennis Wilson, it is nice to see the remaining members put their differences aside.

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Postby SuiteMadameBlue » Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:34 am

Yes it is :)

I wonder if any other bands are going to put their differences aside and get on stage just one more time.

OMG, I never realized there were so many bands that broke up with such problems !! :shock:

I don't think the Police or Blondie would get back together, they had their chances at the HOF awards.
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Postby NealIsGod » Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:38 am

SuiteMadameBlue wrote:I don't think the Police or Blondie would get back together, they had their chances at the HOF awards.


Blondie is touring with the New Cars this summer. Are there members missing?
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Postby SuiteMadameBlue » Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:55 am

Yes there are members missing in Blondie and she wouldn't let them perform on stage with her at the HOF awards. I thought that was kind of sad.

I know we talked about this a million times before, but I think the only bands that are together with original members are ZZ Top & U2, all the other bands don't have all the original band members.
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Postby MatrixMan » Thu Jun 15, 2006 4:14 am

There have to be others out there, though I can't think of any at the moment.

But sadly most bands don't remain with their original members. And yes, most tour with the original name but not the original members(did someone say Styx?! :P )

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Postby SuiteMadameBlue » Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:11 am

Nope, not many bands at all. Technically Rush doesn't have their original members but I'd add them on the list with ZZ Top & U2.

I think ALL these bands tour with the name. I have to give The New Cars credit for the name change !!

I have a huge list a few pages back, I'll have to dig to find it :)
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Postby jimmy19029 » Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:43 am

ZZ Top are like Rush. Technically they don't qualify either since there were others in the band before Dusty Hill & Frank Beard joined in 1970. They had a single out in 1969 called Salt Lick with the original line up.
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Postby Angiekay » Thu Jun 15, 2006 12:48 pm

Blondie is touring with the New Cars this summer. Are there members missing?


Well, they WERE touring.....

With lead guitarist Elliot Easton sidelined, more dates on the New Cars tour have been dropped. Sunday's (June 18th) show in North Charleston, South Carolina, and Tuesday's (June 20th) stop in Kettering, Ohio, are now off the schedule, and a source reports that the June 30th date in Clarkston, Michigan, has also been scrapped. That's on top of the three Florida shows this week that were already dropped. As of last night, the New Cars were still listed as playing in Atlanta on Saturday (June 17th). Easton had surgery on Monday (June 12th) to repair a broken left collar bone, which required a plate and some screws.

The injury happened a week ago Monday (June 5th), when the New Cars tour bus swerved on the highway to avoid getting into an accident, and Easton was thrown from his bunk. He played the next four shows in pain, but doctors told him that the injury wouldn't heal by itself, and that he was risking permanent damage and a loss of mobility in his shoulder if he didn't have an operation.







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