Can we be shown weirdos + Mike Love?

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From an idea by Mr. b b -- Can we be shown weirdos+ Mike Love?

craig keller (evillights), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, we can --

http://patstjohn.com/Graphics/Gallery/Mike_Love.jpg

craig keller (evillights), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.retrobill.com/images/livebeachboy.jpg

b b, Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I have no pictures, but I did fine this quote from an interview w/ML in Psychology Today (?!):

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."

Ummm... no, they don't, Mike.

darin (darin), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link

awesome! i always thought he swapped a "t" for a "c" when he bragged about his meditatation...now im sure hes on the drugs.

b b, Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link

http://wcjw.com/love.JPG

walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.coutant.org/petsound/image/ll10.jpg

walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link

http://proairshow.com/images/Beach%20Boy%20Mike%20Love.JPG

Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Best thread evah, obv

moley, Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link


ihttp://www.fieldensva.com/MikeMe.jpg

craig keller (evillights), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Apparently that last one was too large to display. So be it. But by all means, click. His name really is Mike Love -- and yes, he's the little one.

craig keller (evillights), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the real challenge would be to do a google image search for mike love and find one picture that's not weird in some way.

walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

That's a pretty difficult challenge there, walter.

http://www.mikerayburn.com/images/photos/mr_ml1.jpg
http://www.vollo.de/Hobbies/Musik/BeachBoys2003/BB01/IMAGE0004_4A.jpg
Needless to say, I failed it. However,
http://www.uaccauction.com/images/gregcross.jpg
check out the hat!

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.robinberry.com/images/robin-and-mike-love.jpeg

Alba (Alba), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

He looks really tense in most of these. So much for meditation.

I want that Rick Derringer T-shirt.

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

where are the photos of just his baseball hat collection. it must be pretty goddamn scary by now...

Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

is it just me, or is anyone else starting to feel vaguely sorry for mike love after seeing all of these photos?

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link

hmmm.

no.

Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

also i wonder if he's normally smiling and when someone whips out a camera he suddenly turns all sullen and shit, just to be an ass and spoil the photo. either that or he has a LOT of nutty fans asking for him for autographs.

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

This is the happiest photo I could find...

http://jackwolak.com/7/5394.jpg

walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

also i wonder if he's normally smiling and when someone whips out a camera he suddenly turns all sullen and shit, just to be an ass and spoil the photo.

He has to maintain his image as the mysterious, brooding intellectual of the Beach Boys.

walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005ASHM.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.gif

What? Like Brian Wilson isn't a weirdo?

Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Thursday, 28 April 2005 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Nevermind the weirdness from whatever the hell they are all doing with those animals.

Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Thursday, 28 April 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I already posted a nice pic of Mike + Brian looking like a weirdo in the studio way upthread.

walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 29 April 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah, I wasn't sure if that was Brian. I thought it looked like him, but couldn't entirely tell. Never seen Brian Wilson look like an emo kid with box glasses and black hair (I know the hair just appears black-ish because of the photo.)

Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Friday, 29 April 2005 06:40 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.bobbynovosad.com/piclib/234.jpg

Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link

god, this thread is awesome. i'm struggling to prevent myself from laughing out loud (i'm at work...).

AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.broadwayworld.com/photoops/goodvib/DSCN0028.JPG
http://www.broadwayworld.com/photoops/goodvib/DSCN0001.JPG

Only a weirdo because they're hanging out with Mike Love?

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.xrey.net/assets/images/Mike%20Love.JPG

jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link

more!

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

TS: his loud hat collection vs his loud shirt collection

Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 13 May 2005 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

http://wcjw.com/love.JPG

can't work out if this one is comically doctored or a genuine attempt to remove red-eye by drawing pure black circles on top of eyes.

schlump, Saturday, 3 January 2009 06:28 (fifteen years ago) link

Black holes, man -- itty bitty black holes.

I love how the text is arranged strategically so that Mike seems to be fixating on it, tell-tale heart style, with his blue, vulture-like, wandering right eye. Of course in reality there was probably a sushi bar/massage parlor/naked lady positioned just outside the frame.

aruba (unregistered), Saturday, 3 January 2009 09:53 (fifteen years ago) link

http://patstjohn.net/Graphics/Gallery/Mike_Love.jpg

aruba (unregistered), Saturday, 3 January 2009 09:55 (fifteen years ago) link

lmao

WAFFLES ADMIN (wilter), Saturday, 3 January 2009 09:57 (fifteen years ago) link

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2008/08/29/1220017635_3924.jpg

http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2008/08/29/mike_love/

Closer now to the destination of his culinary pilgrimage, Love made a beeline through the crowd into Quincy Market, weaving through the throngs of grazing tourists with his arm around his daughter. We pushed through the sensory overload of grilled meats, fried fish, pizzas, spices, and sweets that permeated the stuffy food court. Mango drinks and dosas from the Bombay Club were procured. "I love Indian food," Ambha explained. "My name is Indian."

"It's actually an ancient goddess name," said her father as he searched for a table. He traveled to India for the first time in 1968 to take a course by the Maharishi. "It was the same time the Beatles were there. George Harrison and I had our birthday parties there the same month, thrown by the Maharishi," he said.

A lengthy discussion on the history of transcendental meditation followed as Love unpacked the bag of dosas and spicy Indian soup, placing a spoon in our bowl and making sure we had enough napkins. His hands were bejeweled in a dazzling array of rings and bracelets. Love walked us through his techniques of chanting, meditation as a means to invoke the powers of nature, spiritual safaris to the temples of Southern India, and harnessing the powers of positive energy.

A lot to take in between spoonfuls of lentils. He's been meditating daily since that first trip to India and even became a teacher of transcendental meditation.

"There is fascinating knowledge to be gained," he said.

Indeed there is. All you have to do is listen.

I ♥ this guy. I don't know why I ever doubted him.

aruba (unregistered), Saturday, 3 January 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link

His hands were bejeweled in a dazzling array of rings and bracelets.

psychgawsple, Saturday, 3 January 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link

o hell yes. perfect opportunity to show this picture of my friends backstage with that snapple-drinking prick Mike L0ve at some private BB function that we snuck in to.

http://photos-g.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v170/208/121/662253824/n662253824_520254_359.jpg

i'm just to the left, but cropped myself out to make a card and can't find the original file. Love was actually pretty nice to us; Johnston ended up being the real prick of pricks that night.

wow this thread is a lost classic-- gr8 revive

♪㋡♫㋡ (gr8080), Saturday, 3 January 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link

four months pass...

This thread!

Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link

http://ssschool.org/images/BeachBoyConcert.jpg

fit and working again, Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link

cool another excuse to post this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdYbymafUd0

frogbs, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 02:12 (three years ago) link

They look like they are all outfitted to go hunting, but hunting for what, I don't know.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:59 (three years ago) link

Fun

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 12:01 (three years ago) link

Props to the one guy in the back respecting the BBs striped heritage

Josefa, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 12:23 (three years ago) link

John Cowsill was a beast on the 50th anniversary tour, made it clear why he was the only guy that got brought over from Mike's band for his playing / singing.

(Mike's bandleader / guitarist was the only other guy brought over at all, and I'm sure he did heroic work as a mediator & played well, but the Wondermints dude just stayed home to make room for Cowsill.)

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 19:39 (three years ago) link

I don't remember who was in the band when I saw that 50th show (besides the Beach Boys and Wondermints guy(s)), but I do know there were like 8 guitars on stage, and they didn't need 8 guitars.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link

Was just thinking the other day that one of the many unusual things about the Beach Boys is that there are so many songs *about* surfing and surf culture, but not much actual surf music.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link

three months pass...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAd5nC7WUAYY8pj?format=jpg&name=medium

tylerw, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link

Ugh.

An another note, I’m a huge John Cowsill stan.

He POLLS So Much About These Zings (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 16:51 (three years ago) link

Mike Love looks more like a human being in that photo.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link

Mike Love visits the Dublin wax museum.

Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link

Where was that photo taken? I can’t make out the event badge Love is wearing around his neck.

juristic person (morrisp), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link

five months pass...

With the exception of The Band’s Robbie Robertson, Mike Love might be the most polarizing person to ever be in the music business.

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link

Is he really polarizing if no one likes him?

Josefa, Saturday, 19 March 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link

Lol.

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 19:41 (two years ago) link

That came from this publicly visible FB page that keeps showing up in my feed recently. Guy seems to be trying to walk some tricky middle ground here.

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 19:46 (two years ago) link

Seems like everyone likes Carl, but that maybe Brian is actually the most polarizing BB, for varying reasons

Josefa, Saturday, 19 March 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link

There are definitely Mike Love stans out there.

move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Saturday, 19 March 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link

Think that guy says he started that page because other BB sites were either Mike-leaning sites or Brian-leaning sites and he is tilting at the windmill of splitting the difference. He also goes into some Brian vs. Carl beefing that I didn't really know about.

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link

The Beach Boys are basically the Ship of Theseus now.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 19 March 2022 21:22 (two years ago) link

Lol

Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 21:29 (two years ago) link

I used the read The Smile Shop a lot from 1999-200? and the Mike-Brian stan wars were kind nuts.

move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Saturday, 19 March 2022 21:40 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

Mike Love claims he is afraid to perform 'Surfer Girl' because it is "gender specific", implies that he fears retaliation from the FBI and the Budweiser corporation. (2023) pic.twitter.com/sBKcho8CNs

— Crazy Ass Moments in Beach Boys History (@beachboysmoment) July 9, 2023

Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Sunday, 9 July 2023 22:34 (one year ago) link

(Should he performing it anyway? It's a Brian song...)

Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Sunday, 9 July 2023 22:34 (one year ago) link

Get ready for your monocle to pop when you see how many songs in the average 38-song BB’s headline set were written by Brian



(I went to the Unleash The Love solo album launch at Amoeba, and even that was strictly one Unleash song, one Beach Boys song, rinse & repeat (and the band was the touring Boys))

serving bundt (sic), Sunday, 9 July 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn23LFLka_8

looked up who is playing the county fair this summer (would probably be a solid thread) and I found a duo called LoCash, and I thought, who are these people, and it turns out they are weirdos + Mike Love

Florin Cuchares, Saturday, 15 July 2023 05:00 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

Mike used to be down with Budweiser...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELxEKPyp9DU

seven months pass...

so not gonna happen

Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 April 2024 17:58 (six months ago) link

Did You Know that Mike Love Lives in a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd?

Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Monday, 29 April 2024 18:02 (six months ago) link

Dropping my recent cover connection again here...

rendered nugatory (morrisp), Monday, 29 April 2024 18:07 (six months ago) link

Read Steven Gaines' early 80s Beach Boys tome for the first time recently and on that evidence every single one of the Boys was a shit (except maybe Bruce Johnston), and they were p racist as well. And yet still Mike came out on top (bottom).

Big Bong Theory (stevie), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 07:54 (six months ago) link

Wasn't Al OK?

Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:35 (six months ago) link

Mike Love wrote in his book that Al didn't approve of "race mixing"

Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:52 (six months ago) link

Oh also in the "Heroes and Villains" book, all of the other Beach Boys disapprove of Brian dating a black woman and try to get her arrested so she can't follow them on tour. Al says something like “does he really have to put his arm around her”

Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:54 (six months ago) link

ffs Alan Jardine!

I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:55 (six months ago) link

I'm not a big BB fan but the Jokermen podcast is now going through every Beach Boys album (having already done Dylan & Lou Reed/John Cale).

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 17:09 (six months ago) link

Also one of Dennis's wives/gfs (clearly the one Gaines had the closest rapport with) calls a black bouncer at a Bill Graham venue the N word, and when Graham bans the group from his venues as a result Gaines clearly takes the wife/gf's side.

Big Bong Theory (stevie), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 19:50 (six months ago) link

three weeks pass...

So their biographers are also racist?!?

Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 25 May 2024 21:53 (five months ago) link

maybe one for the controp thread

i mean i fucking LOVE brian dgmw and SMiLE is just... classic. very classic. but i've thought about this probably too much: i've just assumed they were all horribly racist in that goid old fashioned incorrigible old white person baby boomer "ya we're just kinda better than them" sorta way. i mean they came from the institution that co-signed brian's outright theft of chuck berry so they obviously are from a very racist system. not "fuck them all" outright forever but let's not feign any shock or outrage here. also perhaps i've just mentally prepared myself for the worst when it comes to establishment white men.

interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Saturday, 25 May 2024 23:59 (five months ago) link

three months pass...

The weirdos are coming from inside the band.

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 15 September 2024 18:13 (one month ago) link

two weeks pass...

Mike could do a good "Ya gotta keep 'em separated" guest shot on "Come Out And Play".

Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 22:51 (one month ago) link

'Why Don't You Get A Job' is the logical follow-up to 'Student Demonstration Time'

PaulTMA, Wednesday, 2 October 2024 23:30 (one month ago) link

this isnt michael love but every time this pic comes up i always think it’s him

pic.twitter.com/IYgDZoXSBk

— Raccoons Hourly (@raccoonhourly) October 15, 2024

global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 14:30 (two weeks ago) link

His name is clearly Freddie though.

pplains, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 16:41 (two weeks ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8zp47LjcpI

Charlie Hair (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 October 2024 19:34 (one week ago) link

apols if this has already appeared in the thread, the algorithm just shared it with me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6xYe-cn5XE

Judge Judy, executioner (stevie), Thursday, 31 October 2024 14:28 (two days ago) link


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