A l Jardine is feeling a little uneasy. It’s about five hours until a concert at the South Shore Music Circus in Cohasset, Massachusetts, where he’ll play nearly all of the oddball 1977 LP The Beach Boys Love You with veteran members of Brian Wilson ‘s touring band. Despite being a founding member of the Beach Boys himself, Jardine hasn’t performed most of these songs even a single time in his life, and he has little memory of recording the album in the first place. He’s also recovering from an illness that caused him to miss most of the rehearsals, and his emotions are still raw from attending Wilson’s private memorial service earlier in the month.

As his 58-year-old son Matt Jardine leads the band through album opener “Let Us Go On This Way,” the elder Jardine stands in the emp

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