The Beach Toys

  The Beach Toys were the featured news event and were interviewed on the ABC and FOX
affiliates in Fresno, CA during their appearance at the Big Fresno Fair 2002.

            Mike and Chris                             Glenn and Gene-O,                         In front of the '49 Woody during the hoop contest.

   OTHER SHOTS OF OUR GREAT SUMMER OF 2006

                   Surf lessons during  an evening  winter show at Disney's California Adventure.                 Chris and Mini Mouse at DCA

              Below-The beautiful  Orange County Pavilion show sporting our vintage Beach Boys Christmas sweaters December 23rd 2006.     

Below- The world famous  Hotel Del Coronado and the "Pacific Ocean Blue" at one of our many corporate events in April  2008. 

   Wow ! check out  Gene's Dennis Wilson blue satin flame kit !!                     

THE BEACH BOYS' LANDMARK DEDICATION 

MAY 20TH 2005, HAWTHORNE, CA.

BELOW LEFT-David Marks, Brian Wilson & Al Jardine in front of their landmark at 3701 W. 119th St. Hawthorne, Ca. BELOW RIGHT- Glenn and Al Jardine hangin' out at The Beach Boys' after party. LOWER LEFT- The Beach Toys' brick in the monument. LOWER RIGHT- The California State Landmark for the home of  Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, Hawthorne, California..

BELOW LEFT-The cake was great ! BELOW RIGHT-Chris and Bob chillin' while Jim gets the Woody ready for the trip to the dedication from the Hawthorne memorial center. BELOW LEFT- Brian and Melinda getting ready to unveil the monument. BELOW RIGHT-David drops the cloth while Brian and Harry look on.

 BELOW LEFT- Three very proud Beach Boys.  BELOW RIGHT- Dennis' kids with Justyn Wilson.  LOWER LEFT-Paula                       Bondi- Springer and Brian.   BELOW RIGHT-  Singing  Dance, Dance, Dance, ( L to R)  Alan Boyd,  Beach Toys' Chris  Hilliard,   Mike Moynahan, (w/tambourine) &  Glenn Henry.  Probyn Gregory , and The Honeys'  Marilyn and Ginger.   

 Brian signs a guitar for great long time (80'S) Beach Boy drummer Bobby Figueroa at his front table seat while Melinda looks on.  The Beach Toys "singing on" just behind Brian.

For most tribute bands I believe this business begins simply with a love and appreciation of the music and artists for which they respectively portray. In my humble opinion it must be this way to deliver the passion for the music be it any genre. The 9 months of rehearsals, part sorting, listening, and studying in my hot garage with now 3 of my best friends is easily justified every  time we walk out on stage and perform together. For me, the reward is the satisfaction of knowing that we are keeping the music of The Beach Boys alive along with sharing a common care for the preservation and continued awareness of the greatest music ever written in pop history.

Over the past 5 years we have been lucky enough to become a part of  The Wilson/Jardine/Marks  family and many many friends of The Beach Boys an American legend. At no time has there ever been anything other then a complete open-arm welcome into a family of kindness, love, devotion and spirit. Not without pain and hardship does this come however, and that story has been told. 
Very few (if any) tribute performers have ever had an opportunity to perform for the original artists they pay tribute to.

On Friday May 20th 2005 The Beach Toys had the true honor and privilege to perform for Brian Wilson, Al Jardine, David Marks, The Beach Boys’ families, respective bands and many wonderful friends. There was so much talent in the room as our audience it was to say the least a bit intimidating. For us there were two ice breakers that I would like to share with you: The first was when Brian’s cute little daughter stood before us (and we all know kids just don’t hold back) looking up and said “hey you guys look like my daddy did in the olden days” Instantly, the hours, days and months of hard work were validated.  The second was when we observed Brian busy with fans, reporters, autographs (seated only 15 feet from us in the front row) and photos  not missing a beat and singing along with us while we performed his music. AWESOME, AWESOME AND AWESOME AGAIN. It doesn’t get any better than that !!! Oh we made a few mistakes that were to be expected given the situation but somehow the idea and message that we have been carrying for years now had been sent.

We were honored to have The Honey’s join us in “Be True To Your School” with the single release cheerleader cheers added for that recreation of one of one of my favorite single releases…. Simply unbelievable. To describe the way I feel about that special day could take pages of this site, but for the sake of space I will keep it short.  Many thanks to the wonderful music of  The Beach Boys, Alan  and Adam, their talented band, Probyn Gregory for joining all of us on "Dance, Dance, Dance" and The Brian Wilson band, The Honeys and all, for their wonderful complements of our performance.

A special thanks to Harry Jarnigan (the man that started this all) and his lovely wife Ann, Paula Bondi-Springer, Jeff Foskett, Probyn Gregory (for his endless support) Trish, Hawthorne Parks and Recreation Dept. Fred Vail, Jim (our unofficial sponsor from Thalia Surf) for the great Woody Ride to and from the dedication, and everyone involved for making May 20th 2005 A  day in my life I will never forget……

Glenn  Henry-Leader of  The Beach Toys

Surf's Up with The Beach Toys!
GLENN HENRY as Brian Wilson, RICHARD GIBSON as Carl Wilson, GENE  MARTIN
as Dennis Wilson, MIKE MOYNAHAN as Mike Love, and CHRIS HILLIARD as Al Jardine

  Special thanks to Ron Jon Surf Shop in Orange, CA and Thalia Surf Shop in Laguna Beach, CA