Defend the Indefensible: Mike Love

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

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

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.

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..."

Kidding, Matos. Kidding.

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.

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

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

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

can you show them the mike love + weirdos thread?
anyhoo, brian's having a great time in England -- look!
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maxe3u9vhF1qa6myvo1_250.jpg

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

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

Oh man, I'll try!!!

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

MIKE L∞VE

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

I chickened out :(

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

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.

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?

The xx are on as well.

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

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.

*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.

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

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.

California Dreaming has been a Beach Boys thing for decades.

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.

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

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'"

so we started screamin!

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

Mike Love has never produced anything as good as this:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0knc240fV1qz8kcpo1_400.gif

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

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

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

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

http://thecimmerian.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Clash-of-the-Titans_Original-Medusa.jpg
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_400/MI0002/871/MI0002871235.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

xp i don't think i'd categorize the b-side of Surf's Up as a dinner party record. "A Day in the Life of a Tree" -> "Til I Die" -> "Surf's Up" isn't exactly the lightest Beach Boys track run.

I liked how impressed he was by the goings on, but I was disappointed that the writers didn't have the guts to make a character intone ponderously "so now the dance of the dragons commences..."

the one time I saw what Mike Love calls "The Beach Boys" in 2010, he talked about some radio station that first played their music, and then he talked about how that station had drastically changed now, and he said "now they play music like this", and Mary J Blige "Family Affair" comes on, and he makes a horrified look.

it was somewhat hilarious as he seemed to think this was a new song despite it being 9 years old, less hilarious that it came across as "ewww URBAN music"

oops, wrong thread

no this the right thread

At this point, I would be very surprised if Mike Love lavished praise on anything that wasn't old and lily-white.

Mike Love fantasy decapitation when?

xp i don't think i'd categorize the b-side of Surf's Up as a dinner party record. "A Day in the Life of a Tree" -> "Til I Die" -> "Surf's Up" isn't exactly the lightest Beach Boys track run.

― Western® with Bacon Flavor

dinner donner party record (shout outs to jeanne thornton's _summer fun_)

I may have mentioned it before but I put together my own Surf's Up mix of just Brian, Dennis, and Carl songs and it's become one of my favorite Beach Boys records to listen to. Starting in 1970 Beach Boys records start becoming really patchy, with high highs and low lows. Dennis pulling his songs from _Surf's Up_ really hurt the record. Here's what I have:

Fallin' In Love
Sweet Mountain
Long Promised Road
Sound of Free
(Wouldn't It Be Nice To) Live Again

Feel Flows
4th of July
A Day in the Life of a Tree
Til I Die
Surf's Up

That final three-song stretch is unfuckwithable, of course. Some of the Dennis songs I think were intended for his solo album which was to be called, uh, _Poops Hubba Hubba_, apparently. And "Sweet Mountain" isn't a Beach Boys song at all but "A Day in the Life of a Tree" doesn't have lead vocals by a band member either, and just like with that song, they all sing on the outro.

The Mike song is _good_, one of his best songs along with "Big Sur", but it doesn't really fit. There's a certain sort of purity to having an all-Wilson Beach Boys record...

There's a certain sort of purity to having an all-Wilson Beach Boys record...

True. When the first Pet Sounds box set used Brian's vocal for the stereo "Wouldn't It Be Nice" bridge (something Love put a stop to on all subsequent releases) I thought it was an improvement for similar reasons.

True. When the first Pet Sounds box set used Brian's vocal for the stereo "Wouldn't It Be Nice" bridge (something Love put a stop to on all subsequent releases) I thought it was an improvement for similar reasons.

― birdistheword

i thought it was because they couldn't find the master tape for the love bridge when the first box came out, and then they found the tape. was that a cover story?

It's a bullshit story. Listen to the 2001 standalone release where they restored Love's vocal on the stereo mix. Love's vocal is flown in from the final mono mix, and the result clearly has phasing issues which was unavoidable at the time. They can probably do a better job of it with the same "demixing" tools Giles has been using.

Spotted in an FB group:

1979 BOMP! Magazine: Nick Lowe on Mike Love:

"Like what's that bloke's name… Mike Love? Is he the one that wears that hat all the time? What a wanker that bloke is! When he came over to England, I saw him on the television. He was being interviewed and he was like this crass American tourist and he all but said your policemen are wonderful and I just came over here for the girls, you got so many pretty girls here. I thought, for fuck’s sake, what is this wimp doing? He had on this sort of LA beige suit on and the beads around his neck. He just looked like the biggest wanker I'd ever seen. And his stupid little yachting cap!"

Cupid must be angry at Mike Love.

Those aren’t the Beachboys and I doubt they voted
Mike Love is ,in the opinion of almost every musician I know , a shithead , most assuredly has no talent at all , and , as you can probably tell ...I just don’t like him https://t.co/GLZwvSFN2h

— David Crosby (@thedavidcrosby) October 19, 2020

:)

The best thing about that tweet is how he says two terrible insults, seems to be stepping back to deliver a death blow...and ends on a mild opinion.

https://i.imgur.com/G3G9INc.jpg

Mike still on the circuit

Is he doing the Biggie tribute?

He’s a member of Beats Antique