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Al Jardine Remembers Brian Wilson, and Their Last Meeting: ‘We Had a Good Laugh… I Thought He Was Going to Be With Us for Some Time’
Al Jardine shares memories of fellow Beach Boy Brian Wilson and talks about their last meeting a month ago before the singer's unexpected death.
I was looking forward to him coming to the rehearsals in L.A. And I ordered a piano to be there for him” in case Wilson should be able to show up for a guest appearance and take his familiar seat behind the keyboard, regardless of whether he could perform. That memory on Brian’s part felt like a bookend moment for Jardine, “because we bumped into each other at El Camino, the junior college, when we were going to school there in L.A.” at the beginning of the ’60s, when they were both fresh out of nearby Hawthorne High. After Wilson retired from the road just a few years into the Beach Boys’ success, “Brian would do the tracks while we were out on tour, and later on, we’d just come in straight into the studio and start singing.
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