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For the Beach Boys, 2020 was supposed to be a busy year, packed with performances and meet-and-greets. "And then it came to a screeching halt," Mike Love tells Rolling Stone. "I just look forward to the time when we can get out and do our live music again."
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It might be two years before you get back on the road. Do you worry that not performing for that long at your age will make it hard to resume again?
No. I'm in pretty good shape, so that doesn't bother me. Tony Bennett's our idol. He's like ninetysomething and he sounds great. It's just about staying in shape and having the right attitude. I've always loved live music. The recording studio is great and it's functional; it's necessary if you're going to be a recording artist. But I, personally, have always preferred the live part of it, because you see the effect that the music has on people. Multiple generations, too. They'll sing along to "Kokomo" or they sing along to "Help Me, Rhonda," or "Barbara Ann," and have a great time. So it creates a lot of joy and happiness.
I don't think we'll be off for two years. In fact, we may be doing stuff this fall and winter. We're already taking the postponed shows from this year in Europe in June, and putting them in the next year. So more things are postponed rather than canceled. We're anxious to get out there and we will be grateful to be able to do what we do live because we all love it so much.
Every musician on our stage, they're dedicated, lifelong musicians and that's what they love to do. John Cowsill started drumming when he was around five years old. His family [the Cowsills] had some pretty big hits back in the late Sixties and early Seventies. Scott went to Berklee School of Music, and he's a phenomenal guitar player. We just have a great group of people, including my son, Christian, who sings "God Only Knows" and get standing ovations. It's such a beautiful song and he does it so well. So we're very blessed, very fortunate to take a family tradition of music and be able to do it for six decades. It's pretty awesome.
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