Brian Wilson Wants 'Absolutely Nothing To Do' With Trump's Beach Boys Stunt

[Norbert]

Beach Boys co-founders Brian Wilson and Al Jardine want fans to know they’re not part of a fundraising effort for President Donald Trump featuring the current incarnation of the band.

“We have absolutely nothing to do with the Trump benefit today in Newport Beach. Zero,” a spokesperson for the duo told Variety. “We didn’t even know about it and were very surprised to read about it in the Los Angeles Times.”

The Beach Boys performed Sunday at a Trump fundraiser in Newport Beach, California, with tickets costing up to $150,000 per couple, the Times reported.

However, that’s the current touring version of the group led by Mike Love ― the band’s other surviving co-founder, who is often at loggerheads with his old bandmates and is a Trump supporter.

Earlier this year, Wilson and Jardine slammed Love’s version of the band for performing at a trophy-hunting convention, and said they supported a petition opposed to the activity.

If Mike Love and not Brian Wilson was the creative influence behind the Beach Boys, they would have never had a hit beyond Fun, Fun, Fun. Pet Sounds and Smile would have never been made either.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brian-wilson-mike-love-beach-boys-trump_n_5f8cf029c5b66ee9a5f1464f

[panader0]

1. I met Brian Wilson in '67 when I delivered an electric keyboard to his bungalow in Honolulu.

I was working a high school summer job for Manpower. He gave me and my co-worker five bucks
each as a tip. I was making $1.25 an hour at the time. Nice guy.

[Docreed2003]

2. Mike Love is a prick

He has been jealous of and capitalized on Brian Wilson's genius his whole life. Every one of The Beach Boys songs he supposedly helped contribute to writing were mainly written by Wilson, with Love adding maybe a word here or there. Mike love has always been a giant prick of a person, so no surprise he's aligned with Trump for the money they were paid for this event. Sad that Brian and Al Jardine are having to deal with this nonsense.

[niyad]

3. Wow. Thank you for sharing this. How disgusting about mike.

[rickford66]

4. Hey Mike ..... more cowbell !!

[hauckeye]

5. Found out through genealogy research Al Jardine is my 3rd cousin !

[Initech]

6. Trump didn't even get the real Beach Boys. HA!

He got a Beach Boys cover band.

[CaptYossarian]

7. He also got Fernwood Mac, the Beagles, and Pacman-Turner Overcomb.

No word yet on the Klinks or the Shemptations.

[orangecrush]

9. SUzy!

[CaptYossarian]

17. I see what you did there.

[orangecrush]

18. Oops!

[CaptYossarian]

20. I took it as intentional humor based on my wordplay.

[orangecrush]

8. The right demonized Brian

Ridiculing him as a drug addled burnout.

Now we know why.

[spanone]

10. Without Brian, there would be no Beach Boys...

FUCK MIKE LOVE AND THE RIGHT

[calimary]

11. This.

[orangecrush]

13. +1

[Sugarcoated]

12. Any music person knows

Brian Wilson WAS the Beach Boys. Mike Love is a bitter chump.

[progressoid]

14. Mike Love wants Trump's combover.

[TomVilmer]

15. They were scheduled to play in Denmark this summer...

... one concert for 2200 guests in a rural area. They cannot fill any big place anymore here - and this got Covid-19 cancelled anyway.

[mtnsnake]

16. Bottom line is that Trump brings out the worst in the worst people

How unfortunate when his pathetic influence affects the music industry

[Hassler]

19. Brian is the genius, Love is a long time dirtbag.