Wouldn’t it’s terrible.
That’s how John Stamos felt having to interrupt it to Mike Love that his Seaside Boys bandmate — and cousin Brian Wilson — died at 82 on Wednesday.
The “Full House” actor, who has been an honorary Seaside Boy taking part in drums and guitar with the band for 40 years, was touring with Love when he obtained the heartbreaking information.
“I was with Mike, I got off the plane, and I got the text,” Stamos, 61, completely instructed The Put up on the purple carpet of the Songwriters Corridor of Fame induction ceremony on Thursday earlier than he enshrined Love at New York’s Marriott Marquis.
“I was like, ‘Oh boy, I guess I better [tell him].’ I said, ‘Mike, your cousin passed away,’ and his face went blank.”
“And we sat in the car for two and a half hours or so … he didn’t say one word,” he continued. “And I didn’t ask him anything, ask him how he was feeling. I knew how he was feeling.”
Certainly, Stamos — having grown up idolizing the Seaside Boys lengthy earlier than he obtained to know and play with the ‘60s trailblazers of the California sound — understood the profound loss that frontman Love, 84, was processing about the group’s mastermind.
“You know, they had 80-plus years together,” he mentioned. “They made beautiful music together.”
However Stamos shares within the collective grief that the world is feeling after the loss of life of the “God Only Knows” big, one in every of pop’s true visionaries who modified music as we all know it.
“Without Brian Wilson, life would be a mistake,” he mentioned. “It’s been a big blow to all of us.”
Stamos first performed with the Seaside Boys 4 a long time in the past on the Washington Monument on the Fourth of July in 1985.
“This July 4th will be 40 years of nagging them and stalking them,” he mentioned.
However Stamos has been way more than only a stan. He helped introduce the Seaside Boys to a brand new era by that includes them on his TV sitcoms “Full House” and “You Again?” He additionally appeared within the video for his or her 1988 No. 1 hit “Kokomo” and directed the clips for 1992’s “Hot Fun in the Summertime.”
Stamos feels blessed to have “spent a good amount of time” with Wilson, recalling one particular journey to Montreal.
“We were doing some shows in Montreal, I was with them, and Mike couldn’t make about five shows,” he mentioned. “And so Brian came out, and he’s the lead singer of the band … and it was great.”
Much more magic occurred behind the scenes, although.
“We were at Four Seasons in Montreal, and one night he says, ‘Let’s go find a piano,’ ” he mentioned. “And so we couldn’t find one, and we broke in the ballroom. There’s a piano in there, and he sat for two and a half hours, and he played any song we requested.”
In actual fact, Stamos marveled, “He starts writing a song!”
Whereas noting that Wilson — who had a historical past of psychological well being and substance abuse issues — was “complicated, obviously” — Stamos shared that he additionally had “a wry sense of humor.”
Reflecting on inducting Love — who co-wrote Seaside Boys classics resembling “I Get Around,” “California Girls” and “Good Vibrations” with Wilson — into the Songwriters Corridor of Fame, Stamos mentioned, “You know, if you would have told me I’d be here tonight … I don’t know what I did right in some past life or something.”
He continued, “I’ve had lots of honors in my life, lots of good issues, however that is perhaps the best honor of my life, to have the ability to give this to him tonight. I feel that is lengthy overdue, Mike stepping into the Songwriters Corridor of Fame. “
And for Stamos, the Seaside Boys’ music is extra obligatory than ever six a long time — and sixtysomething summers — later.
“Decency is at an all time low, and discord at an all time high,” he mentioned, “and we’ve never needed the Beach Boys music more.”
