Alan Charles "Al" Jardine (born September 3, 1942; Lima, Ohio, United States) is a founding member of top-selling American music group The Beach Boys, their occasional lead vocalist, and one of their guitarists. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
Jardine's family moved from Ohio to San Francisco, California, and later to Hawthorne, California. In high school, he met a fellow student, Brian Wilson, and played stand up bas...
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Alan Charles "Al" Jardine (born September 3, 1942; Lima, Ohio, United States) is a founding member of top-selling American music group The Beach Boys, their occasional lead vocalist, and one of their guitarists. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
Jardine's family moved from Ohio to San Francisco, California, and later to Hawthorne, California. In high school, he met a fellow student, Brian Wilson, and played stand up bass on the Beach Boys' first recording, the 1961 song "Surfin'." It was long assumed that he quit soon after its release to attend college (pre-dental), but recent research has established that he attended college at Ferris State University in 1960/61, prior to the formation of The Beach Boys. Following his leaving the band in early 1962, he worked in the air industry in Los Angeles. He was replaced by David Marks. The long-held belief that Jardine returned to the band as a full-fledged member when Marks quit the band in 1963 is also inaccurate....
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