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Beach Boys Bring In Summer at Alameda Country Fair, Pleasanton, CA
'Don't Wanna Say Goodbye To the Summer' rarity - Beach Boys welcome in Summer first time at Alameda County Fair 6-24-15 and overflow crowd for their usual fine concert. Here is a rare Beach Boy ballad not often heard in concert, or anywhere, 'Don't wanna say goodbye to the summer'
Beach Boys perform their biggest hit, Good Vibrations, a studio song that wasn't always easy to perform live- here at the Alameda County fair, Pleasanton, CA 6-24-15. (partial) More tunes below
BEACH BOYS Kick Off Summer at Alameda County Fair, Pleasanton, CA 6-24-15 - Get A Legendary Taste Here
Nice to see the Beach Boys still going strong, in fact, not only one group but three! This is THE most official group, headed by long time original, Mike Love and The Beach Boys with a long time member Bruce Johnson and currently long time member Jeffrey Fossett, who has also played with Brian Wilson. Brian Wilson tours with his own group, sometimes including Al Jardine and David Marx. And then Al Jardine will sometimes split off with his group. Got that. Pretty good for a group that lost two of it's key members, Dennis and Carl Wilson some years back.
Alameda County Fair has always been one of our favorites, if not the favorite of all Northern California fairs, both for its beautiful, large grounds and organization but the two weeks of FREE concerts included in fair admission (unlike many other fairs). There used to be even two shows a night and this fair got some of the top groups... Just a small number of the groups we've seen at the fair include FREDDY FENDER, NEIL SEDAKA, MARTY ROBBINS, PAT BOONE, FRANKIE and ANNETTE (just prior to her illness) PAUL ROBI'S PLATTERS, the DIAMONDS, DONNY BROOKS' CAVALCADE OF STARS including TINY TIM, AL WILSON, PAT UPTON of SPIRL STAIRCASE, CANIBAL and the HEADHUNTERS, etc. Now it's rare to get a single oldies act so it was a treat this year to get the Beach Boys in such a small , intimate venue.
Read about the Beach Boys 'other' Lead Singer, the fabulous Jeffrey Fosskett, below
Beach Boys perform their latest hit from1988, 'Kokomo' (partial)
Original Beach Boys Mike Love and long time Beach Boy Bruce Johnson feature on this classic summer song, along with Jeffrey Fosskett, as the Boys kick off summer at Alameda County Fair - their first time there as they play to overflow crowd 6-24-15
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Jeffrey Foskett has sung and played guitar with the Beach Boys for more than 30 years. He recorded their last No. 1 hit, “Kokomo,” when Brian Wilson wasn’t with them. He was discovered by Beach Boys frontman Mike Love in 1979 when Love booked Foskett’s college surf band to open for his solo act. In 1981, Foskett was asked to join the Beach Boys’ touring band.
But when Wilson and Love went their separate ways in the late 1990s, after years of legal battles, Foskett followed Wilson. Some described Foskett as Wilson’s music director. Others called him his “right-hand man.”
Wilson said last month Paul Mertens was his music director and Foskett had been his right-hand man. “The right-hand man,” he told me, “helps you with the medication, watches you and makes sure (things get done).”
Foskett, 58, said last week, “However he viewed me is fine with me.
“A lot of it is semantics,” he said over the phone, “and that’s why I don’t really care how I’m viewed. As long as Brian knows that I love him and as long as Brian knows I had the time of my life working with him, I really don’t care about anything else.”
Something happened in the past year that Foskett really hasn’t wanted to talk about. When we last spoke in 2013, he was excited about working on an album with Wilson and British guitar great Jeff Beck, and going on tour with the two rock legends.
Then I read a real estate notice saying Foskett was selling his Rancho Mirage home. Suddenly, he wasn’t returning my phone calls or emails. Then it was announced he had left the Wilson band. Soon after that, it was announced he had joined Love’s Beach Boys. In August, Wilson said he had sold his Indian Wells home and the album with Beck would be released “not soon.”
So, what happened?
Foskett sent me an email two weeks ago saying things had been moving so fast since May, he simply forgot to reply.
Breaking the silence
“After the Jeff Beck tour, I was completely stressed and burned out,” he said. “That whole year, recording that album and that tour — because I knew Jeff so well — a lot of things fell on me to get done that normally would have been other people’s responsibilities. They asked me to do certain things and it was a lot of pressure. So, at the end of that tour, I kind of snapped — literally — and just said, ‘I can’t do this anymore.’ ”
