Trump May Get Beach Boys Love

Adam Grimm – Mike Love of The Beach Boys
Mystic Lake Casino, Prior Lake, Minn.

The Beach Boys may join Jackie Evancho and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir as name entertainment for Donald Trump’s inauguration, but it will definitely not be the version that included founding members Brian Wilson or Al Jardine, reps tell Pollstar.

An image from the 2012 Grammy Awards of the band that includes Wilson and Jardine – the lineup from the band’s 50th Anniversary tour – initially ran alongside Billboard’s reporting of the potential inaugural booking.

Beach Boys frontman Mike Love, who previously told the New York Post that the band would be open to the idea, has been touring the band without Wilson or Jardine since the anniversary tour ended in 2014.

 “Brian is in no way part of this whatsoever,” Wilson manager Jean Sievers told Pollstar. “This is for the Mike Love touring band who licenses The Beach Boys name.” She added that Jardine, who is currently touring with Wilson quite separately from The Beach Boys, is also not involved.