The Brian Wilson and Jeff Beck 2013 Tour was a 2013 tour starring Brian Wilson and Jeff Beck. The shows featured Wilson's former bandmates Al Jardine, David Marks and Blondie Chaplin.
Background Following The Beach Boys fiftieth anniversary tour, Brian Wilson, Al Jardine and David Marks decided to tour as a trio. The three played several shows in July 2013. On August 5, it was announced that Jeff Beck would accompany them for a tour in September and October, featuring Blondie Chaplin at select shows. The tour would help promote an upcoming Wilson record that featured Beck on several songs. Beck called the tour a dynamic of "classic surfing safari music and this weird stuff that I do," and promised "it will sound like it's all of one accord." Wilson remarked that Beck "brings that great guitar-player kind of thing to the picture."
"For four days," Beck later recalled, "I sat there and didn't even know Brian was in the room. He was so quiet, he never uttered a syllable. And yet they gave me these parts that allegedly he'd written. Then we were offered some shows together: 'Jeff, this is gonna be the tour of the year!' They should've got the bloody record done first, but they got excited and we ended up doing the Jeff Beck-Brian Wilson tour, prematurely."
Tour dates DateCityCountryVenueNorth AmericaSeptember 27, 2013HollywoodUnited StatesHard Rock LiveSeptember 28, 2013ClearwaterRuth Eckerd HallOctober 1, 2013HoustonBayou Music CenterOctober 3, 2013St. AugustineSt. Augustine AmphitheatreOctober 4, 2013AtlantaChastain Park AmphitheaterOctober 5, 2013Washington, D.C.Warner TheaterOctober 6, 2013BethlehemSands Bethlehem Event CenterOctober 8, 2013AlbanyPalace TheatreOctober 9, 2013BostonWang TheaterOctober 10, 2013New York CityLate Night with Jimmy FallonOctober 11, 2013WallingfordToyota Presents the Oakdale TheaterOctober 12, 2013WestburyNYCB TheatreOctober 13, 2013Upper DarbyTower TheatreOctober 15, 2013New York CityBeacon TheatreOctober 16, 2013MontclairWellmont TheatreOctober 18, 2013Las VegasPearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino ResortOctober 20, 2013Los AngelesGreek TheatreOctober 22, 2013OaklandParamount TheatreOctober 25, 2013DetroitFox TheatreOctober 26, 2013TorontoCanadaSony Centre for the Performing ArtsOctober 27, 2013AkronUnited StatesEJ Thomas HallOctober 29, 2013ChicagoHouse of BluesOctober 30, 2013MilwaukeeRiverside Theater
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