Could the Brian Wilson Band return with out its namesake? Fellow Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine, a long-time solo touring accomplice, is contemplating dates.

“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,” Jardine tells Rolling Stone. “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., and then maybe kick off an actual tour from there maybe early next year.”

Jardine has solely performed a number of small-scale concert events since Wilson got here off the highway in the summertime of 2022. Wilson has since been positioned in a conservatorship after being recognized with a “major neurocognitive disorder” and now makes use of a wheelchair.

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If Wilson takes half in these proposed dates, it could be on a one-off foundation. “Brian just isn’t physically in shape to join us,” Jardine mentioned, “but … 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.” The tour could be dubbed Brian Wilson Band Presented by Fellow Beach Boy Al Jardine, he mused.

Jardine has vowed so as to add a component to the tour that Wilson at all times shied away from. “We never did video with Brian’s band,” he mentioned. “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.”

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He memorably toured with former bandmate Mike Love through the Beach Boys’ 2012 reunion tour, then labored with Love through the promotional cycle for the current Disney+ documentary The Beach Boys. Still, there aren’t any plans to get again collectively once more. “I’ve got my hands full,” Jardine mentioned. “If we’re going to get this Brian Wilson Band going again, I’m going to be pretty busy.”

Jardine’s return to the highway follows the discharge of a long-unfinished music referred to as “Wish” with veteran writing accomplice Larry Dvoskin. He mentioned he hopes to finish a brand new album early in 2025. Jardine’s most up-to-date LP dates again to 2010’s A Postcard From California, and featured Wilson, Love and early Beach Boys member David Marks as friends.

Jardine continues to be contemplating which songs could be performed on tour however hints that his focus could be on lesser-played ’70s-era songs like “Roller Skating Child” from The Beach Boys Love You. “Mike does the ’60s rather well. That could be a blessing and a curse,” Jardine added, “however apparently persons are nonetheless coming to see him. People love to listen to the identical songs, and there’s a brand new technology of followers – and Mike appears to take pleasure in that. That’s the necessary half. But I discovered it tedious after some time.”

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