Beach Boys or Beatles?

[OriginalGeek]

19. I like surf/car music

but not enough to really tell if it's Dick Dale or the Ventures or the Beach Boys or Jan and Dean...I just like it when I hear it without delving into it much deeper...

The first concert I ever saw (that wasn't some church production at church) was The Beach Boys in 1981 (so no idea how many of them were real Beach Boys lol) Opening act was Delbert McClinton and I had a great time and got in trouble for deliberately staying out past curfew. (by which I mean I knew there was no way the show would be over in time for me to be home by ten and I wasn't gonna make my friend cut out early and miss his favorite band to bring me home so I before-hand I lied and said I'd be home on time)

But fuck, curfew was 10pm on a Saturday night and I was already graduated from high school (but still only 17) and I got screamed at and shoved around some and the millionth edition of the "MY HOUSE MY RULES!!!" speech and just fuck you, step-father. I moved out on my own before I turned 18 and never went back.

So yeah, no matter how much I love other kinds of music and other bands more, the Beach Boys will always have a special place in my heart for providing me the impetus to escape that right-wing religious nut-job hell-hole.