The Seaside Boys introduced their first-ever official anthology ebook on Thursday morning (July 13), the 400-page, 60,000-word The Seaside Boys by The Seaside Boys. The ebook covers the summer-lovin’ band’s rise from a Hawthorne, CA storage in 1961 to worldwide fame due to such indelible sand-and-surf hits as “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” “I Get Round,” “California Women,” “Enjoyable, Enjoyable, Enjoyable,” “Little Surfer Lady,” “Kokomo” and lots of extra.
“There’s love within the music and folks can relate to the love, no matter whether or not you’re two years previous or 92 years previous,” stated musical mastermind Brian Wilson in an announcement concerning the ebook due out in December. “For me, music is about love. Love is the message I need to share. I hope individuals really feel that in my music. That makes the exhausting work value it.”
The gathering shall be restricted to 500 copies, with the band’s story instructed via the phrases of members Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson and Bruce Johnston, with uncommon and basic images and rarities; a hardcover version for bookstores shall be issued in 2024.
“I believe it’s the center that you simply put into what you’re doing that’s necessary. Every member of the Seaside Boys places their complete coronary heart and soul into what they do, and that’s in all probability the saving grace of the group,” added Brian Wilson in an announcement shared by writer Genesis Publications. “Few households are collectively spiritually and emotionally over artwork.”
The ebook will function photographs from the Capitol Data archive, the band’s archive and members’ private archives, together with outtakes from album periods for such landmark releases as Pet Sounds and Smile, reside photographs from their first European tour and the rehearsals for his or her first reside efficiency of “Good Vibrations.” It’ll additionally embrace different uncommon objects, together with photographs of tape packing containers, tour posters and applications, handwritten lyrics and notes, newspaper clippings, album advertisements and studio paperwork.
“The setting in which we grew up and the issues we selected to sing about primarily, which had been the gorgeous issues about rising up in Southern California – the stunning women, the stunning automobiles, the stunning climate and the stunning seashores – it was like an infinite summer season,” stated singer Mike Love in an announcement.
The ebook may also function new textual content primarily based on in depth interviews with Wilson, Love, Jardine and Johnston performed solely for the challenge, in addition to archival textual content from late members Carl and Dennis Wilson. “We had been simply having enjoyable and it developed into one thing else. It’s humorous. We had been actually an accident — however a great accident,” stated Jardine. “And our first document gave the impression to be sufficient for us. We certain didn’t assume we’d be recording into the following century.”
Various contributors who labored with or had been impressed by the Seaside Boys additionally participated within the ebook, together with Lindsey Buckingham, Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, Ray Davies, Bob Dylan, Def Leppard, the Flaming Lips, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, David Lee Roth, Jimmy Web page, Pete Townshend, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and extra.
An 85-copy numbered ArtLuxe version — which is already sold-out — is hand-signed by Brian Wilson, Love, Jardine and Johnston and is quarter-bound in apple leather-based and sea blue Toile Ocean fabric; the fabric is woven from 100% recycled plastic gathered from oceans and coastlines. The massive-format ArtLuxe version is available in a handcrafted, cloth-bound solander case completed with screen-printing and foil embossing.
The Seaside Boys may also are available a numbered Deluxe version hand-signed by the residing members (restricted to 415 copies) and a hardcover Bookstore version due out in 2024, with extra particulars to be introduced quickly. A portion of the proceeds from each non-bookstore editions will go to the ocean conservation group the Surfrider Basis.
