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![]() wrote: I don't think any Beach Boy got drafted. Agree. Actually, the only 1960's rock band member I can recall going into US military service back then was a member of Moby Grape, and he went in as a volunteer, not a draftee. And that may have been after 1969. In retrospect, given that there was a draft in the late 1960's, it's a little surprising that no young male musicians back then were drafted that I know of. One might have been in the National Guard or something briefly. You may be thinking of Jan Berry of Jan and Dean. (Dean Torrence, being the one who was involved in the genius plot to kidnap Frank Jr.) Don't recall any of the above. This is the first I've read of any connection between Jan, Dean, or Frank Jr. I am old enough to remember (barely) Frank Jr. being kidnapped, but I've never heard of Jan or Dean being connected to that. Dean's been a graphic designer for many years, BTW. His company: http://www.kittyhawkstudios.com/ Jan was a medical student Pre-med at UCLA. Both Jan and Dean were fulltime students during part of their musical career. while puersuing rock fame, By that time, I think they'd probably peaked, but given the severity of Jan's accident, we'll never really know. Jan and Dean did eventually resume some performing. and during a hiatus was drafted: enraged he got in his Corvette and slammed under a truck, a la Jayne Mansfield and company. I do know about the accident; ironically, on a "dead man's curve" kind of street. Haven't heard of Jan being drafted or that being related to his accident. Perhaps because I was so young when the accident happened and Jan and Dean (and almost everybody else) was eclipsed by the Beatles and that newer generation of bands, I never heard about Jan's accident until maybe the mid or late 1970's, when Rolling Stone did a story about the accident and Jan and Dean's career. He wasn't killed but suffered brain damage and was semi-functional the rest of his life, He eventually resumed performing; as www.JanandDean.com says, the musical part of his brain wasn't damaged much. which ended late 2004 as I recall. Those two crashes were the reason for "DOT bumpers" on trucks. As well Richard "Battlestar Galactica" Hatch played Jan pretty well in a early-80s TV biopic. Glen Campbell is still a great guitar player and still a miserable individual, at least on all three occasions I have been in his presence. Campbell's mentioned on Jan and Dean's web site, BTW, as a member of the Wrecking Crew working with Brian Wilson. |
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