THE BEACH BOYS REVIEW AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL 6-2-12

The Beach Boys at Hollywood Bowl: Concert Review: CLICK BELOW.....

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                           THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL

BRIAN WILSON, MIKE LOVE, AL JARDINE, BRUCE JOHNSTON, DAVID MARKS AND BBI DOING SOUND CHECK AT THE SANTA BARBARA BOWL, MEMORIAL DAY 2012.

Mike Love

                                                                                                                         

Brian Wilson

Al Jardine, Mike Love, Brian Wilson, Bruce Johnston on Keyboard 

Mike Love and Al Jardine

David Marks Mike Love, Al Jardine

Sound check out perfect and the show starts at 6:00 pm.  My thanks to cousin Chuck Williams, for these spectacular pictures of The Beach Boys on their 50th Anniversary Tour.  I look forward to the next adventure with BB1 and REEEEEL CONVERTIBLES having Fun, Fun, Fun. Check him out at the very end of this tribute to the Beach Boys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV3f0yklwGc

BB1'S PHOTOS OF THE BEACH BOYS SOUND CHECK AT THE SANTA BARBARA BOWL

CHECK IN TOMORROW FOR THE FINAL 
DAY OF SEEING BEHIND THE SCENES WITH BB1 AND THE BEACH BOYS AT THE SANTA BARBARA BOWL, ON MEMORIAL DAY 2012, DURING THEIR 50TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION TOUR.

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES OF THE BEACH BOYS WITH MY COUSIN, BB1.

The Beach Boy jet lands at the Santa Barbara Airport May 28th and their ready "DO IT AGAIN" for their 50th Anniversary reunion tour.

Brian Wilson, Bruce Johnston and Mike Love
make their way towards BB1's Rolls Royce.

After successfully arranging the Beach Boys luggage in the trunk of the car, BB1 tells Bruce Johnston to make sure he gets the 409 on his shirt and Al Jardine in the picture.  After viewing the photo,  all BB1 can say is, "stick with sound Bro."   

Bruce Johnston wants to check out the drivers seat where BB1's father Noel A. Williams sat for 20 years.

BB1 with David Marks, getting ready for sound check at the Bowl, where BB1 once managed and booked them 40 years ago.

BEACH BOYS, INTRODUCTION AND "DO IT AGAIN."

Stay tuned tomorrow for more exclusive pictures taken behind the scenes with BB1 and The Beach Boys......... 

MEET BB1 AND THE BEACH BOYS IN SANTA BARBARA.

HERE IS WHY CHUCK WILLIAMS IS BB1.
  

Al Jardine thanked him for getting him back in the band after a long hiatus. (More on that story tomorrow.)

Mike Love thanked him for everything he's done to help make the 50 year reunion possible and told him to drop the aka from now on and just go as BB1..... "because that's who you are".....The Beach Boys Number one fan for over 40 years.

Bruce Johnston asked BB1 about the set for the Bowl that day and BB1 said joking around, "Hey Bruce, maybe we should skip Disney Girls, what do you think?"  Bruce thought about it, then agreed the song was more for LA... not Santa Barbara and dropped his own song from the list.

Brian Wilson was sitting at the piano and BB1 noticed his left hand vibrating a little so asked if that was the hand he used to write Surfer Girl and In My Room!"  Brian looked at him, shook his head, Yes and said, "I like your face." 

 ....More to come, stay tuned tomorrow.

MIKE LOVE - CHUCK WILLIAMS "BB1" - THE BEACH BOYS CONCERT AT THE SANTA BARBARA BOWL 5-28-12

First view of the Beach Boys Concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl with BB1.

Mike Love asks Chuck Williams BB1 a couple of questions from the stage, at the Santa Barbara Bowl Monday, Memorial Day, during their 50 Year Reunion Tour.  Chuck had picked Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston up in his 1975 Rolls Royce with the license plate, BB1.....then parked the car right in front of the Bowl during the concert.  Mike Love makes reference to it at the beginning of the concert. (click on youtube icon to enlarge picture so you can read the ticker tape of Mike Love talking to BB1.)

More stories and pictures to come so stay tuned....

The Beach Boys new album That's Why God Made The Radio.  The Beach Boys are singing, Isn't it Time, off the album in the video with BB1.

Tribute to the Beach Boys with Al Jardine and Chuck Williams BB1 at the very end,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV3f0yklwGc    

TRAVOLTA - ALI - THE BEACH BOYS - DONNA SUMMER - CARROLL SHELBY - CHUCK WILLIAMS AKA BB1

On New years Eve, 1980, Gene, Georgia and I drove to

Santa Barbara to visit my cousin Chuck for the weekend.  Chuck was well known around Montecito..... not just because he was from the Maybelline family, but because he managed the Santa Barbara bowl and was personal friends with the Beach Boys.  He also had a charisma that gravitated celebrities and always seemed to be in the right place at the right time.  Here is one of my favorite memories of him in action.

This is what  John Travolta looked like on New Years Eve, 1980.
Seen here with Catherine Deneuve and Gerard  Depardieu.

We met Chuck at The Old World Cafe, in Santa Barbara for a quick burger, before heading to his house to bring in 1981.  After dinner Chuck got up to go to the bathroom while we finished up and got ready to leave.  When he returned he was with this really cute guy, who I thought was one of his buddies, by the way they were joking around.  But It turns out the cute guy was no other than..... 
John Travolta, who was starring in
Urban Cowboy that year and having dinner with
Muhammad Ali and his family in a private room,
 right next to us. 

John Travolta, in Urban Cowboy, 1980.

Chuck introduced him to us, saying they just met for the first time in the bathroom. Travolta seemed taken with three year old Georgia and said, "what a beautiful child," than asked if he could take her to meet Ali, (who just happened to be Chuck's all time idol.)

Muhammad Ali in 1980.

Travolta took Georgia's hand and led her into the private room, where Ali and his wife and children were dining.  We didn't go in, but stood at the door and watched as Ali said,  "My My, what a purtty little girl you are" and asked her if he could pick her up.  She shook her head yes and he lifted her up onto his lap and looked at her big blue eyes up close.  It was a thrill for Gene, Chuck and me to see the world's greatest heavyweight boxer of all time, 
make over our baby girl. 

Another time, at a Beach Boy concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl, Chuck introduced Georgia to Brian Wilson and he posed for a picture with his arm on her shoulder.  Chuck still has the picture hanging in his office 30 years later. 

Chuck with his fan club.

My cousin Chuck aka BB1, or Beach Boy 1.....meaning number one Beach Boy Fan, according to his friend Mike Love, lead singer of the Beach Boys, is still a celebrity in Montecito..... but when he bought his Factory 5, Cobra in 2009 his status shot to the moon.

Chuck Williams Factory 5 Cobra.

There is no other car that can rival the King Cobra or turn heads, give double takes or draw chicks like Carroll Shelby's blue and white striped convertible racing car.  The Cobra will go down in history.....Like Muhammad Ali and the Beach Boys.....as "the greatest" car ever!!!!

Carroll Shelby's personal $5,500,000.00

427 Cobra, at Barrett Jackson classic car auction.  

The Beach Boy's 2012, 50th Anniversary tour. If you're at the Santa Barbara Bowl, May 28th for the 6:00 Beach Boy concert look for Chuck and his entourage near the front row and say hi.....

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                          Carroll Shelby, RIP you will be missed!!!

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   DONNA SUMMER YOU WILL BE MISSED!!!

                         QUEEN OF THE 1970'S DISCO, 
              DONNA SUMMER, PASSED AWAY TODAY.
                                        "LAST DANCE."