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We joke with Eddie about it now because it was a really good solo but very out of character with what we were known for, as I mentioned earlier. Capitol Records plans to issue a Beach Boys version of SMiLE sometime this summer to begin the celebration of our music. Following the death of fellow band member Carl Wilson in 1998, Jardine left the touring Beach Boys and became a solo artist. Founding Beach Boy Al Jardine delves into debut solo album A Postcard from California, tracking vocals at Big Sur with Neil Young, why he originally left America’s favorite band, and Murry Wilson, the perpetually pissed off early band manager and abusive father of Brian Wilson, in a free-spirited interview excavated below.
Al Jardine: New Album and 2021 World Tour. He, like the rest of us, just grew up with this thing, so we weren’t technically very good.
Several versions of A Postcard from California were distributed at retail. Postcard originally came out on my own label, Jardine Tours, digitally and as a limited edition, burn-on-demand CD sold through Amazon. One that immediately comes to mind is a very poignant ballad I wrote called “My Plane Leaves Tomorrow.” I may have originally published it via Al Jardine Music as “Au Revoir,” the French word for “until we meet again” or “goodbye.”.

It’s wonderful to have that energy, to have someone in charge. It’s so grand and clean, just straight to tape, no extra cables, pure signal. You have to remember, we were always gone, always out touring, and we were beat to hell when we got home. We had to have a Theremin made up, a little slide Theremin, a piece of wood with a ribbon on it, which made a real good sound. And as usual, Twittersphere was frenzied over the death hoax. In all seriousness, I really do enjoy factual material.

Al Jardine and Brian Wilson went to school together at Hawthorne High and both played on…. I definitely missed the singing. Jardine also co-wrote a good number of the band's songs (though in the post-Brian, 1970s phase), especially on Holland, Carl and the Passions-So Tough, Surf's Up, and Sunflower. [Wrecking Crew drummer] Hal Blaine and those guys were so good, so it allowed the music to go to another level. We just mixed paint, but I had to go to work every day. Alan Charles Jardine (born September 3, 1942) is an American musician and singer-songwriter. [laughs]. Did you want to go out and get some Marshall stacks? Oh, yeah. Not finished until Jardine’s 49th year as a working musician, Postcard was distributed quietly but gained momentum two years later in an expanded reissue coinciding with the Beach Boys’ universally acclaimed 50th Reunion Tour. Why did you temporarily leave the Beach Boys just as fame was within reach in February 1962?

Pretty much, yeah.

He can also be heard on "Then I Kissed Her," "Vega-Tables," "I Know There's an Answer," "Heroes and Villains," and "Cotton Fields," among others.

That’s why I put A Postcard from California together. And no, we were minimally able to play our own music, let’s put it that way. I appreciate it sincerely.

Happy Birthday to Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine, who turns 78 today (September 3rd)!!