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DEAN POLING: Long-lasting stars still take those calls Published 7:58 am Thursday, July 16, 2026 Mike Love doesn’t need to do interviews to promote his shows. He’s 85 years old. He’s been performing and recording music, famously, since 1961. He’s a founding member of the Beach Boys. He’s still with the Beach Boys. The Beach Boys don’t need to do phone pressers to promote a show. Still, a couple of weeks ago, Mike Love was on the phone promoting his July 18 show at Wild Adventures Theme Park. It was the second time I’ve interviewed him in the past three years. I asked, why do you still do these interviews? Everyone knows who the Beach Boys are. “You want to communicate you’re coming to town,” Love said. “We want to let people know we’re coming to Valdosta. I feel like it’s important.” With songs like “California Girls,” “Surfing’ USA,” “Kokomo,” “Good  But maybe that willingness to continue doing these interviews is a facet of why the Beach Boys can still do what they do 65 years later. The majority of artists who play Wild Adventures each year agree to or even request a preview interview with this newspaper prior to their concerts. A few do not. Many of the ones who do interviews, whether they are relatively new or have been at it a while, are still drawing crowds and radio play years later. Many of the few who do not do interviews often end up in the “whatever happened to” category somewhere down the road. Nothing scientific about that assessment. I may be wrong. But having done these interviews off and on for several years, it sure seems to be true. You usually get about 10-15 minutes for these phone interviews. I usually try to pace them to meet that time span. Sometimes you can cover a lot of ground. Sometimes that appointed time feels like an awkward eternity. Charlie Daniels covered plenty of ground and had plenty to say. He definitely didn’t need to do phone interviews to get people to his shows but he did. A regular at Wild Adventures in the years before his death, I interviewed him four times. His folks may have said 10-15 minutes but he stayed on the phone way past that deadline. One time we spoke for more than an hour and it was me who finally said, Charlie, I gotta go. On the third interview, he mentioned he lived in Valdosta for a while as a child. For about a year, after World War II. He said, We’ve probably talked about this before but, y’know, I lived in Valdosta once. No, I said, we haven’t talked about that. Charlie Daniels didn’t have to. He didn’t even need to take the phone call. But he talked about it quite a bit. Dean Poling is a former editor of The Valdosta Daily Times and The Tifton Gazette.