John Stamos was by Beach Boys founding member Mike Love's side when news of Brian Wilson's death on Wednesday stunned the music world. 'His face went blank,' the actor recalls.

The "Full House" star, who occasionally performed with the Beach Boys, said that Love "didn't say one word" for over two hours as he processed the news: "I knew how he was feeling."

Wilson's fellow founding Beach Boys members also paid tribute. Al Jardine, best known as the band's rhythm guitarist and occasionally singing lead vocals, calls Wilson "my friend, my classmate, my football teammate,

The Beach Boys' founding member never seemed to encounter a genre, instrument or movement he didn’t want to incorporate into his soundscape. That’s why it’s equally surprising and totally believable that at the very start of the '90s he recorded a rap song,