Beach Boys are scarce these days, but rhythm guitarist Al Jardine is going stronger than ever, and he’s making his downtown Clearwater debut next spring.
The summer we dreaded—the one where Brian Wilson slips into the afterlife—has come and gone. But before the troubled genius’s June 11 passing, Jardine made plans to reconvene the former’s longtime “Pet Sounds Band” (featuring members of L.A. power pop outfit The Wondermints) for a series of shows celebrating the Boys’ 1977 effort Love You and beyond. There was even talk that Wilson himself was more than welcome to join in for a homecoming encore or two if he felt up for it.
Ahead of his final local gig with Wilson in 2022, Jardine told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay that he sees touring as an “obsessive compulsive thing,” and considering how solid his voice and physique remain, don’t be shocked when this gig ends up being better than anything cousin Mike Love could stage with his current iteration of The Beach Boys…