Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Time: 3:13 PM
Song: God Only Knows
Artist: The Beach
Boys
|Mode of Consumption: Listening
to Pet Sounds album on Spotify.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/17QTsL4K9B9v4rI8CAIdfC?si=a5993e026b494af4
When I was in seventh or eighth grade, a quilt rack I made for a 4H project was selected for the state fair.
This meant taking the rack down to the fair to have it judged against other woodworking projects from other counties around the state. The state fair occurs in mid-August in Illinois, and my best friend, Jake, was able to go along.
Leading up to the trip, we found out that the Beach Boys were playing the night of day we would be there.
My parents must have mentioned that we might try and get tickets, because I remember Jake and I being pumped about it.
The trip has many memories for me.
- My parents basically were going to let Jake and I roam around the fairgrounds on our own. They kept reminding me that I had to be at the judging on time. I made it to the judging on time, talked to the judge, and it was my parents that strolled up a few minutes after, having missed it.
- Jake and I played a lot of laser tag that day. I think it remains the only time I have ever played laser tag.
- There was girl at a booth selling sunglasses, who took off her top. She had a sports bra or bikini top underneath, but that was enough to get two junior high kids excited.
- But… We did not go to The Beach Boys concert. I don’t remember why. I am also not sure what incarnation of the band this would have been. I wish we had, just so that I could say that I saw them.
Brian Wilson died today. He was the songwriting backbone of The Beach Boys, the guy responsible for the harmonies that was their signature. Paul McCartney calls “God Only Knows,” the greatest rock song ever recorded.
The Barenaked Ladies even wrote a song about him entitled “Brian Wilson.”
I will always think about that state fair trip though when I
think about Wilson and the Beach Boys.
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