Defend the Indefensible: Mike Love

Like...er... "Surfing/Cruising on Mount Pleasant".

https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1005017_601511403248932_296335366_n.jpg

http://manvsclown.wordpress.com/2006/07/21/why-i-hate-mike-love/

You want to see this: there are people who know, on this thread.

Q: ...You had just then become interested in TM. Not too long after, the Beatles, who had become very active, all of a sudden turned their backs on it. Did that bother you that they would do that whole number and then denounce it?
ML: Sure it bothered me. Bothered me plenty.
Q: Could you ever figure out why...?
ML: Yeah, 'cause they're stupid, mainly. See, they just didn't understand what the Maharishi was talking about...they were still on a Magical Mystery Tour of dope and stuff like that. They wanted to see phenomena -- they asked Maharishi, "Could I see a levitating blanket?" and stuff like that, and he's talking about evolution of the world -- stuff that was a little more pertinent to everyone. What hurt me, really, is I saw four guys that could have been a real big help to evolution in using their position, and they didn't.

https://woodsononline.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/ktru-tuesdays-beach-boys-interview/

heh

Yes, the Beatles would have been much better salesmen for TM than Mike Love.

hey Mike Love can sell CARS, he can sell SURFING, he can sell GIRLS, dude can sell anything

I'd actually really like to see him become a pitchman in his golden years. "Hey, this is Mike Love. Look, just...buy a goddamn Keurig already, okay? Don't be an idiot. Namaste."

Mike Love's Don't Fuck With The Formula Infant Formula

Mike Love's Reverse Mortgages are Fun Fun Fun!

Mike Love's Be True to Your School's Student Loan Refinancing Program

"As you get older, you realize that some of those vibrations aren't so good. Hello, I'm Mike Love from the Beach Boys, and on behalf of the Parkinson's Disease Foundation..."

HATS, fercryinoutloud! The man should be selling baseball hats.

Mike Love's Baseball Hat of The Month Club! The Best Hats With Logos You've Never Heard Of!

http://i.imgur.com/IxCfncT.jpg

I'd actually really like to see him become a pitchman in his golden years. "Hey, this is Mike Love. Look, just...buy a goddamn Keurig already, okay? Don't be an idiot. Namaste."

― Skin Boherts (Old Lunch), Tuesday, October 13, 2015 1:33 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this made me spit out my drink b/c laughter

And here we go -- a huge new Rolling Stone article/interview

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-ballad-of-mike-love-20160217

Pretty great piece, except for the writer's (or editor's) reflexive insistence that Brian Wilson has any talent left at all.

there is something sad and grimly amusing about a guy who's devoted 40+ years to transcendental meditation and remains a crotchety, testy jerk.

"if he were a fish, he'd be a plastic bag wrapped around the neck of a beautiful sea lion."

lol who said this

there is something sad and grimly amusing about a guy who's devoted 40+ years to transcendental meditation and remains a crotchety, testy jerk.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, February 17, 2016 6:54 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Now imagine what he'd be like without the transcendental meditation!

Still, there are bigger jerks still walking the Earth from that period... Ginger Baker most notably!

And here we go -- a huge new Rolling Stone article/interview

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-ballad-of-mike-love-20160217🔗

Pretty great piece, except for the writer's (or editor's) reflexive insistence that Brian Wilson has any talent left at all.

This piece in a lot of ways is the definitive piece on Mike – something only Brian devotees probably care about but care about nonetheless. It pretty much covers every possible angle – the lawsuits, Brian's mental illness, his role in the songwriting, Smile, etc. And it includes every defense and retort—even ending with him tearing up—but you end up with the same guy we've disliked for years, more or less: a bitter jerk who remains deluded about the role he played in the Beach Boys' success.

it's funny when ridiculously rich people are still unhappy because they don't have *enough*

it's not about the money, it's about the RESPECT

piles and piles of respect

also hats

Cue the weirdos, that's about all Mike's good for these days.

"Why am I the villain?"

Because you are one of pop music's greatest jerkfaces.

LOLing at the TM comments. Seriously, imagine how horrible he'd be without it!

"a little wobbly in the mind since 1968"

No wonder Mike bristles at this. Brian Wilson is not "a little wobbly."

LOLing at the TM comments. Seriously, imagine how horrible he'd be without it!

he'd be ted nugent, probably.

this is so weird and awkward

Most of those bugs, of course, have Brian's name on them, leading one to wonder what he might say to Brian if Brian magically appeared here right now?

How would you greet him?

"Oh, OK, well ... "

Jackie speaks up. "Let me be Brian," she says.

Love looks alarmed. "No, no, no, no," he says.

But it's too late. Jackie has hopped onto her chair and is towering over her husband, both magnifying the actual height difference of the two men by about three feet and reducing the actual distance between them by about 450 miles. She puts on a deep voice. She's Brian now.

"Mike, hey, Mike!" she says.

Mike is held speechless. Finally, he says, "What?"

"That's what you would say?" Jackie asks.

He laughs, awkwardly, and gives it his best shot. "Hi, Brian, what's happening?"

Deep voice. "Hey, Mike. I found you. Ya know, dude, what are we gonna do? I miss you, Mike."

Love drops out of the moment. "Brian probably would say that. If he had the ability." He giggles nervously.

Jackie isn't satisfied. She gets serious with him. "I don't want to make you cry, but would you greet him as being your cousin and collaborator in music first, or just as a collaborator? OK, so I'm Brian. You're seeing me. Express the personal part of it. What would you say?"

Many, many seconds go by.

"I'd probably say, 'I love you,'" he says, moisture gathering in the corners of his eyes. "'And I love what we did together. And let's do it again.'" But then he gives his head a shake, narrows his eyes, any wetness there drying up, frowns and once again gives voice to what no amount of meditation can ever smooth over. "I've been ostracized," he says quietly. "Vilified. In other words, fucked with." He looks around for agreement. When none is forthcoming, he says, "Pass me the water, please," and, in such a way, lets it be known that some things will never change.

he's like the closest thing we have to gollum

he's like if gollum had smaug money

It's really funny that he tries to play up how much more seriously he took his experiences in India than those dumb Beatles, when according to others who were there, Love was the one bringing in boxes of batteries and other western goods to flog to the Maharishi's followers. Totally fucking spiritual.

that's one of the more hilarious ironies about him - his big spiritual revelation was that he could cop some stress-relief techniques and still be a greedy womanizing asshole! it's win/win!

The Smiths poll thread and all these Beach Boys threads have got me imagining what it would be like to have Mike Love and Morrissey in the same band.

"What are these? Lyrics? What a fucking bummer!"

Trudging slowly over wet sand, tropical drink melting in your hand

"How about instead of all this limey shit about a double-decker bus, let's make it a dune buggy?"

"What if we changed it from 'hang the DJ' to 'have a great day'?"

"Girlfriend In A Coma"? Lame ... How about "Girlfriend At Point Loma"!

"Keep the part about the girl from Luxembourg--I like girls!"

'Last night I dreamed that even Mike Loved me.."

the flesh you so fancifully fry
smells neat so give it a try

Mike is a vegetarian!

so was hitler

Mike Love, one of the founding members of the Beach Boys and the only original member that still tours under the band’s name, is getting “Good Vibrations” from a diet mostly without animal products.

Love has cut out all red meat and chicken from his plate.

“I’m 90 per cent vegetarian,” Love said. “I favor vegetables and stuff like that.”

"...and human souls, of course!"

“I favor vegetables.......except when I sue them in court for songwriting credits and royalties."

"There Is A Tide That Never Goes Out"

"How about instead of 'Suffer Little Children', which is such a fuckin' downer, dude, we change it to "Surfin' Little Children" instead?"

"Okay, on four, and don't fuck with the formula!"

"Upon the beach, take me to the beach, dig me a sandpit and I'll lay me down... Ooh baba-lu-ba hmm papa mmm mow-m-mow awwwooooooohhh!"

if a ten foot wave crashes into us ...