The Beach Boys Apparently Banned For Life From The San Diego Zoo

SAN DIEGO, CA -- Did you know the classic American rock band The Beach Boys is banned from the world famous San Diego Zoo? That's right. The members behind the celebrated "Good Vibrations" were banned after a photoshoot gone wrong at the park.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reported this week that the crummy relationship began when the band members went to the zoo on Feb. 13, 1966, to take a photo for their "Pet Sounds" album.

"The Beach Boys, 'two with long Beatle hair and all wearing funny boots' arrived with an art director, a camerman and four girls. After posing with a baby elephant and a baby gorilla, the boys went on a tour of the zoo," read an article published in 1966 by the then-San Diego Union.

A zoo official told the newspaper that "one of them bounced a carrot off the head of one of the tigers. Another tried to stick the head of a little antelope through some iron bars. Then they went around handling puppies and baby chicks, putting them down in the open and walking off."

The 1966 article ends with "The zoo superintendent, John Muth, an ex-Marine sergeant major, said the Beach Boys are not welcome back and never will be."

Apparently, The Beach Boys didn't enjoy the experience either. The Union-Tribune reported that Bruce Johnston said "the goats were horrible."

The Beach Boys has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide with the original band members inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

We might need Uncle Jesse to step in and settle this feud.

--Photo: The rock and roll band the Beach Boys shown in London, Nov. 1966. Clockwise from left: Dennis Wilson, Allen Jardine, Bruce Johnston, Mike Love, and Carl Wilson. (AP Photo)