Beach Boys Brian Wilson Concert Poster Medford Oregon 1977

Description

An original small concert poster for The Beach Boys with Brian Wilson performing at the Jackson County Expo in Medford, Oregon on Friday, December 16th, 1977.
In
excellent condition for its age with a light vertical bend best seen on back and barely noticeable on front and some general wear/handling -- any light round shadow middle/lower right on back/front is just camera lens shadow not on poster---  please see pictures for condition and ask questions in advance if helpful. Will be mailed well packed with insurance.
Wikipedia: "
The Beach Boys
are an American
rock
band formed in
Hawthorne, California
in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers
Brian
,
Dennis
, and
Carl Wilson
, their cousin
Mike Love
, and their friend
Al Jardine
. Distinguished by their
vocal harmonies
and early
surf songs
, they are one of the
most influential acts of the rock era
.
[1]
The band drew on the music of
jazz
-based
vocal groups
, 1950s
rock and roll
, and black
R&B
to create their unique sound, and with Brian as composer,
arranger
,
producer
, and de facto leader, they often incorporated
classical
elements and
unconventional recording techniques
in innovative ways.
The Beach Boys began as a
garage band
led by Brian and managed by the Wilsons' father
Murry
. In 1963, the band gained national prominence with a string of top-ten singles reflecting a
southern California
youth culture
of
surfing
, cars, and romance, dubbed the "
California Sound
". From 1964, they abandoned
beachgoing
themes for more personal lyrics and ambitious orchestrations. In 1966, the
Pet Sounds
album and "
Good Vibrations
" single raised the group's prestige as rock innovators and established the band as symbols of the
nascent counterculture era
. After
scrapping
the album
Smile
in 1967, Brian's contributions diminished due to his
mental health
issues. The group's commercial momentum faltered, and despite efforts to maintain an
experimental
sound, they were dismissed by
early rock critics
as the archetypal "pop music cop-outs".
Carl took over as the band's musical leader until the late 1970s, during which they rebounded with successful worldwide concert tours. Personal struggles, creative disagreements, and the overshadowing success of the band's
greatest hits albums
precipitated their transition into an
oldies
act. Dennis drowned in 1983 and Brian soon estranged from the group. Between the 1990s and 2000s, the members filed numerous lawsuits over royalties, defamation,
songwriting credits
, and use of the band's name. Following Carl's death from lung cancer in 1998, the group and its corporation (
Brother Records Inc.
) granted Love legal rights to
tour as "the Beach Boys"
. As of 2019, Brian and Jardine do not perform with Love's Beach Boys, but remain official members of the band.
The Beach Boys are one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful, and influential bands of all time.
[2]
They were one of the earliest self-contained rock bands and one of the few US bands who maintained their success before, during, and after the 1964
British Invasion
. Between the 1960s and 2010s, they had over 80 songs chart worldwide, 36 of them in the US
Top 40
(the most by a US rock band), and four reaching number-one on the
Billboard
Hot 100
.
[1]
They have sold over 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the
world's best-selling bands of all time
, and are ranked number 12 on
Rolling Stone
magazine's 2004 list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".
[3]
[4]
Their influence spans many genres and decades, inspiring the development of movements such as
psychedelia
,
power pop
,
progressive rock
,
punk
,
alternative
, and
lo-fi
. The core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love, and Jardine was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
in 1988
.
"