Defend the Indefensible: Mike Love

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― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

wrote the lyrics to some of the best songs of the '60s. fine bass singer.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

useful for the puntastic quip 'mike love not war'

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

Plus he's barking mad.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

I can learn to love Mike Love.

― Ian Riese-Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

Metal Mike Saunders explains here why Mike Love was better than Brian Wilson:

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0247,tracker_writer.inc,37005,.html

― chuck, Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

beard.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

Cool last name.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

I think he might have been ahead of the rest of the world with regards to trucker caps.

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

In the current political climate, might not be the most rightwinged entertainer.

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

He did "The Kid" act in b boys AOK.
shakes ass like a homosexual.
inspired great new MES hex lyric.
TM.

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Thursday, 3 February 2005 04:34 (8 years ago) Permalink

"don't fuck with the formula ", "I wanna see Billy Joel see if he can tickle the ivories"

― dave q (listerine), Thursday, 3 February 2005 05:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

Gives critics someone to hate so they leave Brian alone.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 3 February 2005 05:14 (8 years ago) Permalink

Mark's on to something -- it's not like the guy forced Brian to go insane (though he certainly did try).

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 3 February 2005 05:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

he's not stamos

― Site Admistrator (deangulberry), Thursday, 3 February 2005 05:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

mike love tribute

heart "all i wanna do is mike love to you"
air supply "miking love out of nothing at all"
nik kershaw "you mike"

― beachbummer, Thursday, 3 February 2005 08:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

When the ol Mike Love debate comes up, it always seems to turn into the "Taking Sides : Sticking to the formula vs Advancing", which is spurious to say the least.

When Brian came up with the songs for Pet Sounds, Mike was less than pleased, apparently. I feel he did have a point. Not because they were bad, but the whole was more a personal statement, and as such should really have been a solo album. But they took it on anyway and learned to love it.

Smile, again, was even more so. Smiley Smile was a band album, and not a bad album, and not exactly sticking rigidly to the formula either. Their one mistake was not doing Monterey, as they would have won the crowd over with their current stuff.

Mike Love was a member of the Beach Boys, and had a valid opinion. Had Brian been a stronger person, he would have gone and made Pet Sounds and Smile by and for himself. That he did not, was not Mike Love's fault.

I move.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 3 February 2005 09:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

"In an ocean or in a glass
Cool water is such a gas."

Now Van Dyke Parks never came up with a couplet as good as that!

Then again, as is my custom whenever a BB/Wilson/Love thread raises its head:

"We're gonna sing a song that everybody KNOWS!
Not some acid shit 'bout column ruin domi-NOES!"

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 February 2005 09:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

Apropos SMiLE, ML's perspective is that he doesn't see why he should be blamed for Brian getting hooked on drugs and fucking up the entire project.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 February 2005 09:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

MC, what is that "not some shit" line from?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 3 February 2005 09:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

12" of "Wipeout" by the Fat Boys and the Beach Boys.

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 3 February 2005 09:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

damn!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 3 February 2005 09:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

is vd parks still hosting the mike love jokes page on his site?

scapegoats are important. and i do like his ba-ba dip-di-dip-di-dip's.

stamos, parks, charlie manson...being a beach boy evidently leads to strange bedfellows.

― b b, Thursday, 3 February 2005 15:34 (8 years ago) Permalink

oh...add reagan to that list...i forgot about the whole whitehouse lawn incident

― b b, Thursday, 3 February 2005 15:39 (8 years ago) Permalink

It's hysterical what Nick Kent says about Love in The Dark Stuff.

― his face was burned off in a flaming crossbow accident (King Kobra), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

Semi-related thread:

So how would you like to see Mike Love perish?

― darin (darin), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

He made me sit alone in the meditation room at Brother so my vibe would cool out.

Some thing, man, you don't forgive.

― iang, Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

I think Mike Love had a lot to do with the Beach Boys's early success; he kept them grounded in some kind of crass reality they needed. As did Dennis, I suppose. I go both ways with the Beach Boys; I like their dumb songs about Salt Lake City and cars, and I also like most of their tone-poem shit. He does seem to be a pretty crass human being, especially given his TM tendencies. According to one Beach Boys bio I read, he seemed to think he could will himself into levitation at one time, which makes him almost as crazy as Brian. I sort of respect that in a way.

― es hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

I remember an Uncut article on Brian in '97 or so where Mike came up to Sean O'Hagan, after Bruce Johnston had brought him in to produce one last record for them. And Mike said something to the effect of, "You're English, right? Aren't all you English guys FAGS?"

The article potrayed a sorry bunch to be sure — Mike, Brian, his wife, everyone. But what I remember most was not Mike, but Sean O'Hagan — I mean, here he was, given the chance of a lifetime to produce The Last Great Beach Boys Album...and he acted surprised and hurt that they turned out to be overgrown children! I mean, how can someone like him, whose every note has been lifted from these guys, POSSIBLY be surprised, much less offended, by that?

It just seemed like the height of self-centeredness to me and confirmed my impression that it wasn't just one guy or anything that ruined this band — that if anything, the real villain was the sorry-ass excuse for a music industry and all the leeches surrounding it. You wanna pin it on Mike, fine — but one tiny hole does not a ship sink. Even one on wicked waters.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 3 February 2005 20:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

We all know that musicians can turn out to be creepy people, even (especially?) those whose music we admire, and we have to learn to live with this fact, but you've gotta draw the line somewhere, and it just seems to me that Mike Love is over the line.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 3 February 2005 20:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

i didn't know o'hagan actually got into the studio with them; he didn't record anything, did he?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 3 February 2005 20:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

I am so going to start referring to their post-'65 output as "their tone poem shit" from now on. (seriously, that's a great line--it's accurate, and it affectionately undercuts a lot of the fawning fanboyism that too much Beach Boys writing takes on)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 3 February 2005 20:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

i didn't know o'hagan actually got into the studio with them; he didn't record anything, did he?

Of course not. And, well, Carl's dead now, so that's that. Thanks, Sean.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 3 February 2005 20:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

Well, aside from the fact it's not "shit," yeah. I mean, it's just a little pretentious is all.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 3 February 2005 21:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

"shit" means "stuff" unless you're saying it's a piece of shit. don't be a literalist.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 3 February 2005 21:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

besides, plenty of people (not just Mike Love!) think it's shit meaning garbage, so hey.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 3 February 2005 21:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

So, which is it, "Matos-Webster Dictionary": "Tone-poem shit" or "tone-poem stuff"?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 3 February 2005 21:10 (8 years ago) Permalink

to my mind, shit meaning stuff; to others, maybe shit meaning bad. like I've made clear about three times now.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 3 February 2005 21:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

Recently, PT editor-in-chief Robert Epstein, Ph.D., traveled to Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and visited with Beach Boy Mike Love to talk above Love's long-time devotion to transcendental meditation. Wearing a flowered silk shirt and a Beach Boys baseball cap, Love spoke with a serenity that other members of this world-changing band were never able to achieve. Dennis Wilson, Love's first cousin and the band's drummer, had serious problems with alcohol and drugs and drowned at age 38 in an alcohol-related accident in 1983. Brian, Dennis' brother, had a nervous breakdown in 1965 and struggled with drugs and obesity for many years. Carl, the third Wilson brother, died of cancer in 1998. Love's life, in contrast, has been fairly serene, and he credits his good fortune to his 35-year practice of meditation, which he learned from the renowned Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. When he's not at Lake Tahoe with his wife and children, Mike travels worldwide with a reconstituted version of the famous Beach Boys.

RE: Why is meditation so important to you?

ML: People ask me about the Beach Boys all the time. But the only thing worth talking about is peace--inner peace and collective peace, or what I call peace with a capital "P" There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

RE: What has meditation done for you personally? What would you be like today if you hadn't made this discovery?

ML: Without meditation, I'd probably be dead. It has allowed me to transcend all the bothersome things that happen during the course of a day, a week, a month, a career or a lifetime. I go beyond a certain level of thought. Some of those types of thoughts come from a stressed physiology. They appear in your mind as, "I want to kill that person," "I want to kick the dog," "I want to hurt my wife," "I want to emotionally abuse people."

In Paris, in December of 1967, my first meditation was taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi--the founder of the transcendental meditation program. The feeling I had, physiologically and emotionally, was one of tranquility and deep peace. I was more relaxed and tranquil than I'd ever been. During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep. But you're not asleep, you're aware. It was so profound I thought, "Wow, this is so easy and so powerful. I feel so relaxed. If everyone did this, the entire world would be a different place." It's still an inspiration to me, that first meditation.

RE: But how can meditation lead to peace with a capital "P"?

ML: The history of mankind is a history of war. Think about the Protestants and the Catholics, or the Shiites and the Sunnis, or the ongoing conflicts in Jerusalem, which is the focus of people of three different religions. They fight about everything. Mankind invents things to fight about. There have been thousands of wars in recorded history. But Maharishi has come up with a formula for world peace, which he believes can be achieved with large groups of meditators. When people meditate, they have a calming effect on others. Also, if you have large groups of people listening to gandharva-ved music, they will connect with each other whether they're meditating or not. Just by hearing, one can connect to the transcendental level and stabilize the environment. This will have a peaceful effect throughout creation.

RE: World peace is a dream of humankind. What's stopping us from achieving it?

ML: I think it's society and our problems, as well as a lack of information and a lack of priorities. People have jobs and houses and families. People are too busy to think about the big issues. We need to change that.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Thursday, 3 February 2005 21:14 (8 years ago) Permalink

People have jobs and houses and families. People are too busy to think about the big issues. We need to change that.

mike love to world: "what's with these stupid JOB things you have? can't you not work, like me? what's wrong with you? it's YOUR FAULT that there's hate and war in the world. if only you'd quit those stupid jobs..."

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 3 February 2005 21:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

to my mind, shit meaning stuff; to others, maybe shit meaning bad. like I've made clear about three times now.

Kidding, Matos. Kidding.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 3 February 2005 21:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

"I am so going to start referring to their post-'65 output as "their tone poem shit" from now on. (seriously, that's a great line--it's accurate, and it affectionately undercuts a lot of the fawning fanboyism that too much Beach Boys writing takes on) "

stuff, I mean shit, we've been sayin' it for years down here. I mean, I like "Smile" just fine, and the rest of it...funny, I was playing my skeptical-about-the-Beach-Boys friend (he does not surf nor does he appreciate a good muscle car, but digs the Residents) the song "Johnny Carson" just the other day, telling him "this is what the Residents could've done, had they had more talent," being the smart-ass I am ("Eskimo" being some kind of tone-poem shit), and then right after that the news came on and said that JC was dead. The way he kept it up made me cry. Like B. Wilson during recording that song about the fire, I was convinced I'd made it happen.

Please use the line as much as possible, Matos.

― fatsdominoruins (ddduncan), Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

ah! sorry, NTI, it's hard to tell sometimes on the boards.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

No problem — we vintage Prince lovers must stick together. After all, he did his fair share of tone-poem shit himself.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

did and does, oh yeah.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

Completely indefensible for "Kokomo," amongst other things. You guys trying to anticipate the invevitable SMiLE backlash are so freakin' boring. Love wrote acceptable lyrics for some BBs songs, and sang acceptable lead on some BBs songs, but that's it. Don't try to balance out Brian Wilson fanboys by trying to take the "controversial" position (e.g. that Mike Saunders review is just stupid).

― J (Jay), Friday, 4 February 2005 01:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

Why does everybody hate Mike Love? I don't know all that much about the Beach Boys. Enlighten me!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 4 February 2005 02:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

anticipate? didn't it already come and go?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 4 February 2005 02:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

he was on full house once!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 4 February 2005 02:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

7 years pass...

lolllll
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/bad-vibrations-beach-boys-frontman-sacks-founders-on-anniversary-tour-8176117.html

― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:51 (7 months ago) Permalink

"Brian is very bummed," said Wilson's manager, Jean Sievers.
Aw, man.

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:54 (7 months ago) Permalink

I have to accompany my other half to a meet and greet with them tomorrow before the gig, ulp...

― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 19:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

can you show them the mike love + weirdos thread?
anyhoo, brian's having a great time in England -- look!

― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 19:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

What if I had it up on my IPhone in my pocket, ready to go, that'd be kinda awesome/weird and stalker-y

― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 19:05 (7 months ago) Permalink

if you could get a photo of yourself + mike love + the mike love weirdos thread, the circle would be complete. i think.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 19:27 (7 months ago) Permalink

Oh man, I'll try!!!

― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 19:28 (7 months ago) Permalink

That would make the best thread ever even better! INFINITY PLUS

― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 26 September 2012 21:01 (7 months ago) Permalink

MIKE L∞VE

― tylerw, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 21:04 (7 months ago) Permalink

Mike "I am all the Beach Boys now" Love?

― Mark G, Friday, 28 September 2012 08:57 (7 months ago) Permalink

I chickened out :(

― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Friday, 28 September 2012 09:07 (7 months ago) Permalink

It was kinda heavy and I was a tag-along so I kept a respectful distance

― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Friday, 28 September 2012 09:08 (7 months ago) Permalink

Natalie Duncan liked him!

The Beach Boys were really friendly, especially Mike Love. He was hilarious. He kept talking to me throughout the whole filming, just talking away about how I should sing Etta James. And he was very disparaging about Public Image Ltd, which I found hilarious. But that really put me at ease.

― mike t-diva, Friday, 28 September 2012 09:24 (7 months ago) Permalink

So, the Beach Boys are on "Later" with Jools, along with Public Image Ltd and Muse? With NatDunc..

Since when did "Later" have *interesting* lineups?

― Mark G, Friday, 28 September 2012 09:28 (7 months ago) Permalink

The xx are on as well.

― mike t-diva, Friday, 28 September 2012 09:33 (7 months ago) Permalink

XP - Yea, he flirted with my wife a bit. :)

― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Friday, 28 September 2012 09:34 (7 months ago) Permalink

OK, shall I defend Mike Love?

There are two "Beach Boys"

One set can do "The Hits" and be the "Beach Boys Experience" type funfunfun-ness, the "standard" edition, and not be expensive ticketpricewise..

And the other set can do the "Deluxe / Directors Brew" for those buffs that insist on the 'authentic' experience, and pay higher ticket prices.

There's also the matter of the health of those guys. I'd have thought this would be a blessing to Brian, as he was pretty much talking about retiring after his "Gershwin" concerts were done.

― Mark G, Friday, 28 September 2012 09:37 (7 months ago) Permalink

*Spoiler Alert*

Last nights gig was interesting in a few ways:

They played for 3 1/2 hours, not including a 15 min interval.

Most of the concert was continuous, like a medley format but without actually truncating songs (most of the early ones are within the 3 min rule anyways)

It started off sounding as if it was gonna be chronological, then they dropped Disney Girls, but the concert was fairly biased to pre-'66.

They did a few weird covers (California Dreaming) but also some deep cuts, Add Some Music, Good Timing, All This is That and a lot of early tunes from off the beaten path like Kiss Me Baby and The Ballad of 'Ole Betsy.

There were far too many people on stage for the early numbers, like 5 Guitarists and 4 Keyboard players.

For the BW lovers, they did In My Room, H&V, Good Vibrations, Our Prayer.

― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Friday, 28 September 2012 09:51 (7 months ago) Permalink

TS: The Beach Boys' Inability to Get Along in 2012 vs. Van Halen's Inability to Complete a Tour in 2012

― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 28 September 2012 11:28 (7 months ago) Permalink

And he was very disparaging about Public Image Ltd, which I found hilarious.

Not that I'd expect Mike Love to be a fan but that PiL performance was the only thing on the whole show which wasn't totally appalling.

― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 28 September 2012 13:27 (7 months ago) Permalink

California Dreaming has been a Beach Boys thing for decades.

― fit and working again, Friday, 28 September 2012 13:38 (7 months ago) Permalink

So I shall see, in all likelihood, BW's last ever show with the Beach Boys tonight. Bet he always hoped it would be on a cold, rainy autumn day in a shed in one of the unlovelier suburbs of north west London.

― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Friday, 28 September 2012 16:02 (7 months ago) Permalink

who's the bigger asshole, this clown or Peter Hook

― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 28 September 2012 16:25 (7 months ago) Permalink

California Dreaming has been a Beach Boys thing for decades.
― fit and working again, Friday, September 28, 2012 8:38 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So we jumped up on the table
And shouted "anarchy"
And someone played a Beach Boys song
On the jukebox
It was "California Dreamin'"

― Baked. And yet so soupy. (Dan Peterson), Friday, 28 September 2012 19:47 (7 months ago) Permalink

so we started screamin!

― Trip Maker, Friday, 28 September 2012 19:50 (7 months ago) Permalink

who's the bigger asshole, this clown or Peter Hook

Mike Love has never produced anything as good as this:

― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Friday, 28 September 2012 19:51 (7 months ago) Permalink

Peter Hook never produced anything as good as this thread Can we be shown weirdos + Mike Love?

― gospodin simmel, Friday, 28 September 2012 20:08 (7 months ago) Permalink

I chickened out :(
you blew itttttttt!
jk, i would've chickened out too.

― tylerw, Friday, 28 September 2012 20:10 (7 months ago) Permalink

Srsly I could never do that.
I would be afraid to get that death stare right in the eyes.

― Trip Maker, Friday, 28 September 2012 20:14 (7 months ago) Permalink

f*ck ! not that gif again. for the love of ilm .. .

― mark e, Friday, 28 September 2012 20:16 (7 months ago) Permalink

― tylerw, Friday, 28 September 2012 20:17 (7 months ago) Permalink

CHILLING

― Trip Maker, Friday, 28 September 2012 20:19 (7 months ago) Permalink

Bruce Johnston radiated goodwill and coolness though so I guess he offsets the evilness.

― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Friday, 28 September 2012 20:22 (7 months ago) Permalink

Peter Hook never produced anything as good as this thread Can we be shown weirdos + Mike Love?

I feel sad I've never seen this thread until now!

― controversial cabaret roommate (Nicole), Friday, 28 September 2012 20:42 (7 months ago) Permalink

best thread on ILM imo

― tylerw, Friday, 28 September 2012 20:42 (7 months ago) Permalink

why do people hate Peter Hook? I don't really pay attention to him.

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 28 September 2012 20:46 (7 months ago) Permalink

well now he's gone and pissed off the Eagles

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-beach-boys-50th-anniversary-reunion-tour-eagles-20120928,0,7962939.story

― it's smdh time in America (will), Friday, 28 September 2012 20:48 (7 months ago) Permalink

Love's publicist mentioned in the story, Jay, is a friend of mine from hs. dude earns his money i'm thinking.

― it's smdh time in America (will), Friday, 28 September 2012 20:50 (7 months ago) Permalink

Tragic that the weirdo with the Rick Derringer shirt and the 'shopped eyeballs is missing from that thread now...

― Faster than food (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 28 September 2012 20:54 (7 months ago) Permalink

forget peter hook, the ultimate who is the bigger asshole contest is mike love v. don henley.

― tylerw, Friday, 28 September 2012 20:55 (7 months ago) Permalink

lol:

“Two things that we know for certain: Mr. Love will never allow the facts get in the way of his ramblings and he will never miss an opportunity to regurgitate his venom,” the Eagles’ spokesman wrote in a letter to Love’s publicist Jay Jones, which was copied to The Times. “Lest we forget, during his acceptance speech at the Beach Boys' Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, which was ostensibly about the importance of harmony and how the Beach Boys ‘love all people,’ Mr. Love attacked Paul McCartney and Diana Ross for not being in the room. He then went on to say that ‘Mick Jagger has always been afraid to get on the stage with the Beach Boys."

“Since 1994 when the Eagles reunited, they have performed more than 600 shows worldwide,” the letter continued. “Neither the band nor its reps are aware of any promoter accusing them of being ‘overexposed.’ Regarding Mr. Love’s statement about Eagles tickets being sold for $5, according to our records that did happen on June 21, 1975, when the band performed at Wembley Stadium with the Beach Boys.”

― Darin, Friday, 28 September 2012 21:24 (7 months ago) Permalink

yeah Love is a disaster. I'd feel bad for JJ but he prob makes stupid $$$ so

― it's smdh time in America (will), Friday, 28 September 2012 22:20 (7 months ago) Permalink

Francine Kelly at 5:25 PM September 28, 2012
Brian Wilson is William Porter Wilson's first cousin. Will Wilson is a high-level CIA official and King William of Orange, the true and current King of England. Both Brain and Will are Reptilian Draconian Vampires. I am Will's queen, wife, mother of his son, and a CIA MK-Ultra Project Monarch Intelligence Asset. I contacted Brian a couple of yars ago to give him this information. He never responded to me. I am concerned that Mike Love's "heartless" decision may really be a political one about bloodlines. Mike's decision came after I contacted Attorney John Gaines of Chicago-based Gaines & Puljic about seeing the son I conceived with Will. I have many reasons to believe that Will's brothers and Brian's first cousins -- John G. Wilson, Thomas S. Wilson and Francis S. Wilson III, all of Chicago -- abducted my son. Please Google Francine Kelly and The Reptilian Agenda for my YouTube interview with Greg Carlwood of Higherside Chats. See my intelligence reports on www.network54.com/forum/535171, and Google operation haystack agentfk for my interview with Jesse Randolph. I think it's high time the Wilson family takes responsibility for their actions. And please remember that just because Brian Wilson is an alien doesn't mean that he's not the great guy that everyone loves.

Uh.

― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 29 September 2012 02:41 (7 months ago) Permalink

mike love - misunderstood
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-mike-love-beach-boys-on-brian-wilson-20121004,0,6311413.story

― tylerw, Friday, 5 October 2012 18:26 (7 months ago) Permalink

That does sound about right.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 5 October 2012 18:32 (7 months ago) Permalink

re statement: Exactly!

― Mark G, Friday, 5 October 2012 18:36 (7 months ago) Permalink

An open letter to weirdos everywhere from Mike Love

― velko, Friday, 5 October 2012 18:51 (7 months ago) Permalink

And my job hasn’t changed in 50 years. I’m the lead singer of the Beach Boys and I am photographed with millions of weirdos worldwide.

― tylerw, Friday, 5 October 2012 18:54 (7 months ago) Permalink

Tell that to Johnny Rivers

― Cosmic Fopp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 October 2012 02:33 (7 months ago) Permalink

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