A diehard surfer ... Beach and Hawthorne and Inglewood, the places I grew up in. That's all." Shortly after they recorded their first track the band changed their name to The Beach Boys.

Just before the band’s 38th lifetime performance at the legendary Jones Beach Amphitheatre ... we sing about the girls we love. California girls, surfer girls, all those nice things.

There's nothing surf about Dennis Wilson or the other Beach Boys any more; somehow, they've turned straight. All the bleach is gone from their hair, and they wear surfer clothes--tight white levis ...