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Al Jardine has plans to tour with Brian Wilson’s band without Brian
The legendary Beach Boys co-founder and mastermind Brian Wilson (82) already dealt for decades with Schizoaffective disorder but he was recently placed in a conservatorship after being diagnosed with a “major neurocognitive disorder”, which also forced him to now use a wheelchair. His most recent tour dates happened in 2022 and at the time his longtime friend and Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine was touring with him.
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Now in an interview with Rolling Stone, Jardine said that he has plans to resurrect Brian Wilson’s touring band and tour using his name although he only might appear in shows in the Los Angeles area. Jardine is currently promoting his new solo single called “Wish”
Al Jardine said about his plans to tour with Brian Wilson’s band without Brian Wilson
“Brian has agreed to allow me to use the name of his band to resurrect that incredible Brian band that we worked with so wonderfully for the last 20 or 30 years. I’m looking forward to meeting up with him shortly and working out a schedule to do a couple of benefit concerts that we can do in L.A. Then maybe kick off an actual tour from there maybe early next year.”
He said he is not exactly sure how the tour will be called but he said it might be something like “‘The Brian Wilson Band Presented by Fellow Beach Boy Al Jardine.’ Brian just isn’t physically in shape to join us. But he’s a strong individual and he’s got stamina. It wouldn’t surprise me if he could make a few of the shows in the Los Angeles area where we intend to do a trial performance.”
“We never did video with Brian’s band. I never understood that. But I think that dimension would really improve the quality of the show. I’ll also tell stories to inform the audience about how the music was made essentially. It could be a lot of fun.”
During the same interview he said that he won’t rejoin the current version of The Beach Boys, which has Brian’s cousin Mike Love and the longtime member Bruce Johnston. He said that despite the legal battles he still can talk with Mike but that he is currently too busy to think about rejoining the band.
