The Beach Boy’s Mike Love yesterday won his bid to stop fellow founding member Al Jardine from using the band’s name when on tour. Jardine, now with a new band, has been touring using the name Beach Boys Family & Friends. But Love, who negotiated a deal with other founder members to use the name for his new band in 1998, argued it was confusing for Jardine to also use the name.
The courts agreed saying: "with two bands touring as the Beach Boys or as a similar sounding combination, show organizers sometimes are confused about what exactly they are getting when they book Jardine's band. We found a number of show organizers booked Jardine's band thinking they would get the Beach Boys along with special added guests, but subsequently cancelled the booking when it was discovered that Jardine's band was not what they thought it was."
The latest hearing followed an injunction in 2000 which prohibited Jardine from using the trademark ‘The Beach Boys’ in the name of his latest group. The latest decision sees his appeal against the injunction knocked back, so many expect Jardine to now give up – certainly his web site now calls his group the All-Star Beach Band.