Inside John Stamos' Relationship With The Beach Boys

John Stamos had always been a Beach Boys fan. In fact, his first concert was at age 13 when he attended a Beach Boys show at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, he told Ravinia. Stamos was a star on the ABC soap "General Hospital" in the early 1980s, playing bad boy Blackie Parrish, when he attended another Beach Boys show that featured one of his friends on guitar. In an interview on "The Kelly Clarkson Show," the actor described the scene after frenzied fans — his!— chased him backstage after recognizing him in the crowd.

"The show was over; they were still going to do the encore," Stamos told Clarkson (per Today). "And these cheerleaders chased me and Mike Love turns to my friend and says, 'Who's that?' And he says, 'That's John Stamos; he's on 'General Hospital' and always has girls chasing him.' And Mike Love, without missing a beat, says, 'Get him onstage.'"

Stamos jumped onstage to play on the classic Beach Boys tune "Barbara Ann" with the band, and the impromptu jam session spawned a decades-long friendship. He was later invited for that "Kokomo" cameo, which was filmed at Walt Disney World's Grand Floridian Resort. Beach Boys co-founder Mike Love told radio station Awesome 98 that Stamos was such a big fan that he later helped produce a Beach Boys movie and 2000 miniseries about the band titled "The Beach Boys: An American Family." Stamos ultimately became an honorary member of his all-time favorite band and has toured with the group many times over the past three decades.

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