Poorman’s 15 Minutes of Fame: Al Jardine, The Beach Boys co-founder

“[On bumping into Brian Wilson at El Camino College, sneaking into the music room to play folk songs, and then starting a band together] And we bumped into each other on campus. Basically, we hadn’t seen each other since high school and I said, hey Brian, we’ll start a group, and let’s go and let’s do some music together. And then we walked down the pathway into various classes. Afterwards we met up and we found a music room. The music teacher came in and kicked us out. Yeah, so we went, so we found another place to go and then after that, Brian said, you know what? I’m gonna introduce you to my brothers and my cousin and Carl is really great, he plays guitar and Mike has a really great baritone, or something to that effect. And so sure enough, we all met up at his place in Hawthorne.” — Al Jardine, Co-founder of The Beach Boys