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Three generations of music’s legendary Wilson household joined along with dozens of different pals and musicians in Agoura Hills, Calif., Thursday evening for a charity live performance saluting the Seashore Boys, marking the primary time since Brian Wilson‘s loss of life simply over three weeks in the past that there had been a public celebration of his music involving members of this specific tribe.

However the timing was considerably coincidental, for the reason that tribute live performance had been within the works for this date since final 12 months, because the annual occasion put collectively on the Canyon Membership by The Tribe. That’s the title taken by a collective of L.A.-based singers and musicians that has placed on a present round this time every year going again to 2015, working arm-in-arm with the Get Collectively Basis to lift cash for a number of charities. Thursday’s present included quite a lot of performers related to The Tribe who don’t have a transparent connection to the Seashore Boys, however the many visitor artists who’re part of the prolonged Seashore Boys household ensured an particularly sentimental evening.

Among the many members of Brian Wilson’s household on stage throughout the 28-song present had been Carnie Wilson and her daughter Lola Bonfiglio; Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford, who’s Carnie’s mom and Brian Wilson’s ex-wife, teamed once more along with her longtime musical associate Ginger Blake because the duo the Honeys; and Leo Knutson, the son of Wendy Wilson and, in fact, the second of Brian’s grandchildren to be on stage on the Canyon.

“It’s very bittersweet for me,” stated Carnie Wilson backstage. “I imply, we deliberate this for the final six months, however who knew that my daddy would’ve handed away three weeks in the past. So, actually, I barely made it right here tonight, however I’m right here.”

The candy half for Carnie was in having her mom and daughter each featured beside her. “It’s very uncommon — I imply, you possibly can possibly depend on one hand (the same musical households that span) three generations. Like my pals, Ricky Nelson’s sons — you recognize, Ozzie and Harriet, and Ricky Nelson, after which Gunner and Matthew. I can’t consider too many extra. And it’s a pleasure and a delight that my daughter Lola goes to open the second set with ‘The Heat of the Solar,’ and it’s gonna knock everyone’s socks off. She sings anyone in my household beneath the desk.”

Two former members of the Seashore Boys additionally took the stage — Blondie Chaplin, who sang the hit “Sail On Sailor” throughout his tenure with the group within the early ’70s, and David Marks, who spent a number of years within the band throughout its mid-’60s prime and got here again round later for reunions.

After which there was a veteran musician who may as nicely have been a member of the Seashore Boys, for all intents and functions: pianist Don Randi, who performed on numerous studio classes for the group as a participant in what would later come to be identified by everybody (aside from a sure bass participant) because the Wrecking Crew.

That also left room for loads of unassociated frontpeople or featured instrumentalists, from actor Rob Morrow to ex-Wings member Laurence Juber to Speedy Member of the family Steve Postell to “American Idol” alumnus Carly Smithson. And Nelson Bragg, a longtime member of Brian’s touring band, was a part of the home band and a lead vocalist as nicely.

The set was largely made up of foreseeable Seashore Boys favorites — primarily the ’60s requirements plus “Kokomo” — however John McNeely did warn that there can be a number of deep cuts as he stepped as much as the mic. Certain sufficient, he sang “Pupil Demonstration Time,” the polarizing, counterculture-themed, early-’70s rewrite of Leiber & Stoller’s “Riot in Cell Block #9” that can generally present up on followers’ lists of least favourite Seashore Boys songs… which, adore it or hate it, made its uncommon look right here all of the extra pleasant.

The Seashore Boys themselves had not carried out “Pupil Demonstration Time” since 1973. However there was a good deeper reduce than that: “Right here She Comes,” from the 1972 “Carl and the Passions/So Powerful” album, with a lead vocal by Blondie Chaplin. We requested him backstage: When was the final time he carried out “Right here She Comes”?

“I’ve by no means executed that tune reside,” stated Chaplin. By no means? “No, that’s the primary time I’ve ever executed it — not even again then. It was a bit of shaky, you recognize what I imply? Bu I did it as a result of Kevin (Wachs, who executive-produced the present with Mare Wachs) needed me to do it.”

Chaplin has more moderen recollections of Brian than some, having been part of his band on tour within the late 2010s. “He’s a superb man, man,” stated Chaplin, nonetheless speaking within the current tense. “I miss him. Tomorrow there’ll be some moist tears,” he famous, reiterating what lots of the performers stated, that there was an excessive amount of camaraderie within the present to get too melancholy. “It’s unhappy, however he, he’s given a lot. Everyone’s been touched by what Brian’s executed — it doesn’t matter which musician.”

David Marks stated he was a near-miss for the present, however the well being fates favored him. “Ginger (Blake, from the Honeys) known as me a pair months in the past and I couldn’t do it; I wasn’t feeling very nicely. However Nelson talked me into it, and I began feeling higher, so I made it simply in time for rehearsals final week,” he recounted.

“I assume the timing is fairly good, to recollect Brian and his good music. The factor was deliberate means earlier than Brian handed, so the timing of this occasion is nice as a result of he’s in all of our hearts.” He performed guitar on the evening’s car-song medley “as a result of I used to be on these information” from the mid-’60s. Marks stated it felt barely unusual participating in a Seashore Boys salute: “I advised my spouse, it’s kinda bizarre that I’m right here paying tribute to myself! However I didn’t wish to miss it.”

If Lola Bonfiglio appears acquainted, it might be as a result of she was seen as a contestant on “American Idol” again in March. She might have been having much more of a household affair if her father, Ron Bonfiglio, was readily available. however he’s out on the highway taking part in with Al Jardine and the Pet Sounds Band, who had been set to begin their tour on July 4. However it was nonetheless quite a lot of household assist Thursday evening.

“It’s positively the first time shortly I’ve carried out with my grandma and Ginger” (aka the Honeys), the 19-year-old stated. “It’s so particular and I adore it, and it’s honoring my grandpa. It’s a cool factor that his legacy is so, so large, and that, I imply, all these folks know who my grandfather is — it’s loopy. However I’m simply making an attempt to be on stage and never cry.” She made it by means of “The Heat of the Solar” and the opposite numbers she participated in with out tears, and closed her large quantity with a glance skyward and an “I like you, grandpa.”

Mentioned her grandmother, Marilyn WIlson-Rutherford, after the present, “It was great singing with household —and that is our different household, The Tribe, with Kevin and Mary.” Added Ginger, “They’re unimaginable folks, and we at all times love doing these exhibits for them as a result of their coronary heart is in the correct place. And particularly immediately, commemorating and paying tribute to Brian, Marilyn’s ex-husband.” (Wilson produced a collection of recordings for his then-wife’s duo by means of a lot of the Sixties.)

The 2 songs the Honeys carried out with assist from the subsequent two generations had been “I Can Hear Music,” from the Seashore Boys’ “20/20” album, and “Pals,” the title monitor of an album that Marilyn famous was Brian’s favourite of all his work, together with “The Seashore Boys Love You.” (No materials from that latter album was carried out throughout the night, however Al Jardine is planning to cowl that base on his tour.)

Among the many knockout numbers of the evening on the Canyon Membership, past any of the aforementioned, had been two of the large ballads, Carly Smithson’s “God Solely Is aware of” and Cara Lee’s “Don’t Fear Child”; a Wachs-led “Sloop John B” that briefly become a reggae quantity simply earlier than the climax; and a “Really feel Flows” that correctly commemorated considered one of Carl Wilson’s signature numbers with an epic flute solo from one of many evening’s instrumental MVPs, Fuzzbee Morse.

“Good Vibrations” lived as much as its title as an all-cast finale, though Carnie Wilson appeared to be having a barely solemn second because it began, placing her arms right into a prayerful place and searching up, presumably sending some sort of ideas out to the daddy who invented the phrase “a teenage symphony to God.”

Setlist for the Seashore Boys tribute, July 3, 2025:

Set 1
California Women — John Pratt
Enjoyable Enjoyable Enjoyable — Lauri Reimer
Darlin’ — Ken Stacey
Kokomo — John McNeely
Pupil Demonstration Time — Michael Stern
Automobile Medley (Surfin’ Safari, 409, Little Deuce Coupe, I Get Round) — Pacific and David Marks
Caroline, No —
I Can Hear Music — the Honeys, Lola Bonfiglio, Leo Knutson
Pals — Carnie Wilson, the Honeys, Lola Bonfiglio, Leo Knutson
Wouldn’t It Be Good — Terrell Edwards

Set 2
The Heat of the Solar — Lola Bonfiglio
In My Room — Rosemary Butler
You Nonetheless Consider in Me — Jaynee Throne
God Solely Is aware of — Carly Smithson
Rock ‘n’ Roll Music — Rob Morrow
Surfer Woman — Alex Jules
Marcella — Freebo
Don’t Speak (Put Your Head on My Shoulder) — Alice Howe
Don’t Fear Child — Cara Lee
Do You Wanna Dance — Laurence Juber
Really feel Flows — Jeff Allen Ross
Right here She Comes — Blondie Chaplin
Sail on Sailor — Blondie Chaplin
Assist Me Rhonda — Nelson and Carnie Wilson
Sloop John B — Kevin Wachs
Surfin’ USA — Goddard
Good Vibrations — the Wilsons