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They fooled around briefly with different group names and pop-rock styles until Dennis came up with the idea of doing a song about surfing.

To my ears, even the group’s earlier stuff about surfing and cars is laced with the melancholy of an outsider looking in.

Then one day Dennis, Hawthorne’s camp “surf fiend” came home from the beach with an idea—a tune themed on the new surfing craze.

While the band traded heavily on the California surfing scene, posing with boards on the beach, it was only Dennis Wilson who was actually keen on the sport.

We were in good shape with 2016’s “The Shallows”; Blake Lively playing a doctor named Nancy who has a passion for surfing when she’s not stitching up patients is great, solid groundwork to build upon.