Al Jardine
Alan Charles " Al " Jardine ( born September 3, 1942 in Lima, Ohio, USA) is an American musician and founding member of the Beach Boys.
- 2.1 disputes over the naming rights
Biography
Beach Boys
The family of Alan Jardine moved a few years after his birth Hawthorne ( California). There he met Brian Wilson know. Wilson and Jardine played together in defense of the football team of the Hawthorne High School. During a workout Wilson broke him a leg.
Jardine was an enthusiastic folk music fan and founded with some friends the group " The Islanders ". 1961 Brian Wilson asked him if he wanted to join his group, which Wilson had founded with his brothers Dennis and Carl, and with his cousin Mike Love. Jardine joined the group when, in the hope that they would also play folk, but they had a surf - rock band in mind.
Which is now called The Beach Boys - - In the same year, the band released their first single, Surfin ' out. On this played and sang Alan Jardine. He left the band but soon after, because he wanted to be a dentist. He began studies in Michigan and was replaced by David Lee Marks. Meanwhile, the Beach Boys had some hits and reached national prominence. During the tour of 1963, Brian Wilson got health problems, so he asked his friend Alan Jardine, to represent him at the tour. Jardine had already given at this time his studies and had returned to California, where he gratefully took this opportunity to re-enter at the Beach Boys. On the album Surfer Girl Jardine contributed already back to his harmony vocals on, but is not mentioned on the album cover. The album is also the title of South Bay Surfers to find, which was written by Brian Wilson and Alan Jardine. Only a few weeks after David Lee Marks stepped back out of the band and Jardine was officially back to the member.
On the Beach Boys Christmas album he played when song Christmas Day for the first time as a lead singer. This he repeated a year later on Help Me, Rhonda.
When Brian Wilson 1965 finally declared that he no longer wanted to go on tour, Jardine moved ever further into the foreground. He shared with Carl Wilson vocal passages that Brian Wilson sang in the studio. In addition, the falsetto voice singing Jardine sounded similar to that of Brian Wilson, so it often came to confusion with studio albums.
1967 on the album Friends, Alan Jardine was involved in numerous songs as co -author. On the next album, 20 /20, he first appeared as a producer in appearance. Produced by Jardine song Cotton Fields reached in five countries of the world number one in the charts and was in many other European countries a hit.
In the 1970s Jardin wrote much new material, including two of the three parts of the California Saga trilogy from the year 1973. 1978 he produced with the MIU Album for the first time an entire album for the Beach Boys. His greatest success as a composer he had with Lady Lynda, a tribute to his wife. The piece came in at number 6 on the UK Singles Charts. He also wrote in 1978 along with Mike Love and Brian Wilson the title song for the movie Almost Summer, which was interpreted by the band Celebration and went to number 28 of the U.S. charts .. The single Come Go with Me, produced by Jardine was in 1982 achieved a listing in the top 20th End of 1970er/Anfang of 1980, he was working on a concept album about California, from which, however, no song of the Beach Boys was released. From the 1980s, Jardine took over frequently lead vocals on songs, but compositionally moved into the background again. How was Iceland Girl from the album Still Cruisin ' the only piece on a Beach Boys album, which was written by Jardine.
Since the end of the 1970s to Jardine care increasingly about the financial affairs of the Beach Boys and had also presided over Brother Records. In the 1990s, Jardine was suspended during the recording of Summer in Paradise by Mike Love from the band, as he had been critical to the project.
After the death of Carl Wilson in 1998 rose Alan Jardine (depending on the source ) from the band or he was fired. The last studio recording of Jardine for the Beach Boys is from the year 1998, when he the song Loop de Loop, Flying completed in the studio in front of airplane and recorded. This song was added to the soundtrack of the documentary " Endless Harmony ". It was written in 1969 and partially absorbed.
After the Beach Boys
After the end of his career with the Beach Boys, he founded the group " Beach Boys Family & Friends." This group included as a singer, his two sons Matt - and Adam, Brian Wilson's daughters Carny and Wendy Wilson ( Wilson Phillips ) and Owen Elliott - who had already toured around 15 years with the band. The instrumentalists were for the most part many years Beach-Boys-Tour-/und studio musicians, including Billy Hinsche, Bobby Figueroa and Ed Carter, who had the Beach Boys supported since the 1970s, on tour and in the studio ..
Mike Love, who toured at this time with Bruce Johnston and David Lee Marks under the name of The Beach Boys, Alan Jardine sued and obtained that this had to change the name of his band because he confused the fans. An appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court of the United States 2003.
First Jardine named the band in Alan Jardine 's Family & Friends. In 2001, the band released the live album Live in Las Vegas. Then they sing the famous Beach Boys hits. After the departure of Carny and Wendy Wilson changed the name again, is currently referred to these as " Al Jardine & The Endless Summer Band".
Al Jardine was working on his own studio projects. As early as 1998 he werkte with his two sons on a joint album. Two years Jardine worked on his first solo album, " Big South " was the working title. Only one song from it - California Energy Blues - was released as a bonus on the album Live in Las Vegas from Family & Friends.
Alan Jardine was awarded in 2001 along with the other surviving Beach Boys Mike Love, Brian Wilson, and Bruce Johnston Grammy for lifetime achievement ..
In 2002, Jardine released the single PT Cruiser. The strongly leaning against former Beach Boys songs piece sold only moderately. In 2006, the piece of the Beach Boys compilation was added songs from Here and Back.
The end of 2006 got Jardine Brian Wilson the offer to his band. They started together a U.S. tour, in which they performed with, among others Pet Sounds. For 2007, they planned a joint European tour, but Al Jardine rose surprisingly left the band to work on his solo album. The album A Postcard from California, which is his first solo album, was released on 28 June 2010. On the album numerous guest stars are represented as Neil Young, David Crosby and Alec Baldwin. The title Do not Fight the Sea contains a native of the 1980s vocal by Carl Wilson. Alan Jardine invited for further recording his fellow Beach Boys Mike Love, Brian Wilson, and Bruce Johnston, which meant that on this title all Beach Boys are represented.
Litigation
Disputes over the naming rights
Al Jardine acquired after leaving the Beach Boys of Brother Records, the license rights to the name of the Beach Boys and was thus able to call " Beach Boys Families & Friends ," his new band. This caused some confusion for appearances, as organizers and fans ran out of the band name " Beach Boys, Families & Friends." In addition, Jardine did not keep to the prescribed program of concerts, with Brother Records wanted, that those who in any form whatsoever use the name " Beach Boys" also should play the latest hits. After one year the license agreement with Jardine was therefore not renewed.
Brother Records - initiated by Mike Love - requested an injunction against Jardine, to no more than " Beach Boy" appear in public. Jardine sued his hand Brother Records. Since he was still a member of Brother Records, he sued so technically himself.
In 2001, Jardine sued his hand, the remaining members of Brother Records to four million dollars, as they are allegedly not in favor of Mike Love would have given him the right to use the band's name may take. This action, he could decide for himself and said in an interview later that it had gone to him not just about the money, but also the opportunity to present itself again as " Beach Boy" in public.
In February 2007, Mike Love sued for his part Jardine on three million dollars, two million of legal costs and a million due to revenue that has been made under the name Beach Boys.
Activities outside of music
Jardine led outside the band a rather quiet life. He bought a farm in the 1970's in Big Sur, Northern California. Alan Jardine now lives with his second wife Mary Ann and his two younger sons, Neal and Robin on his isolated farm. There he bred Arabian horses, is active as a beekeeper and runs his Red Barn recording studio.
He hosts a local TV show and is represented in the policy to protect and promote the interests of the environment. He dressed always small political office. His plan to become governor of California, has failed so far.
In 2005, Alan Jardine ranked in the ranks of children's book authors, by the book Sloop John B. - published a story about pirates.
Solo Discography
- Papa loves Mama ( with Matt Jardine - Tribute Garth Brooks CD, 1999)
- California Energy Blues (Single, only as a download, 2001 Live in Las Vegas published)
- PT Cruiser ( Single - 2002)
- California Recall Blues (Single, download only, 2003)
- Al Jardine's Families & Friends Live in Las Vegas ( 2001)
- A Postcard from California ( 2010)