https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtC0wsP6FCo
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
Just realized that Mike wrote "(Bop Bop) On the Beach" – the Beach Boys-y tune credited to The Flirts and Jan and Dean in The Karate Kid in the scene near the beginning when Daniel gets his butt kicked on the beach. Bet Mike liked that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxA5r44cB68&feature=youtu.be
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 19 March 2016 13:50 (eight years ago) link
And now there's this.
http://observer.com/2016/06/for-the-love-of-mike-love-its-time-to-destroy-the-legend-of-brian-wilson/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 June 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link
Amazing comment via FB on this from Michael Fennelly:
I never pass up an opportunity to tell my Mike Love story about the time he came over to the house where Curt Boettcher and several of us Millennium members lived, in Beechwood Canyon, to discuss the Beach Boys' interest in helping us establish a record label. Mike showed up drunk, and was obnoxious, and unpleasant. Our drummer, Ron Edgar had a lovely German shepherd who had one very serious issue - Ron could NEVER get her house-broken. As Mike was heading out, having insulted us sufficiently, he reached for the door handle and stepped in a massive pile the dog had left in the foyer. He uttered "Shit!" and left. The dog got a lot of love that night...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 June 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link
Wait, what?
I barely give a fuck who Mike Love has his picture taken with, or what political candidates he supports, or how he may stumble in public speeches; he is a gentle and kind man whose heart is in the right damn place,
"Gentle and kind" are not words I would readily associate with Mike Love.
This is clearly some next-level clickbait trash.
― Pheeel, Friday, 3 June 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
p weird article -- it's not like "the legend of brian wilson" is somehow to blame for brian not leaving the band after 1967. (did he even want to leave? did the others want him to leave? who exactly is the writer of this stupid article yelling at?)
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 3 June 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
The idea that post 67 beach boys is seen in terms of a missed opportunity instead of celebrated for the stuff they did accomplish. Worrying about this feels like what I imagine hell to be like.
― Treeship, Friday, 3 June 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
Why, of all the Beach Boys, did they send Mike Love to meet with Curt Boettcher?
Had I been alive to do so, stepping in dog shit at the Millennium house would be up there with the highlights of my life, that Love probably doesn't remember doing so is indefensible.
― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Friday, 3 June 2016 22:14 (seven years ago) link
Tried to read that article, but stopped after "Tim Sommer."
― spastic heritage, Friday, 3 June 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
Ric OcasekTodd RundgrenLou Reed Paul SimonMike Love
― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Saturday, 4 June 2016 03:05 (seven years ago) link
What's with all the 'bubbelah,' etc.stuff in that article?
― afriendlypioneer, Saturday, 4 June 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
I barely give a fuck who Mike Love has his picture taken with
are they referring to Can we be shown weirdos + Mike Love?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 4 June 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link
How sweet would that be?
― Larry 'Leg' Smith (Tom D.), Saturday, 4 June 2016 23:49 (seven years ago) link
He's referring to Love being photographed with Trump this week.
― glandular lansbury (sic), Sunday, 5 June 2016 00:57 (seven years ago) link
Wondering maybe if this is a bit of an opening salvo in the attempt to rehab Mike's image before the memoir is released. I mean, the writer did try to defend the indefensible.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 6 June 2016 04:11 (seven years ago) link
I can't defend a lot of Tim Sommer's professional activities (eg signing Hootie), or the way he and every WNYU DJ shouted into the mic in the early '80s, but he was awful cute when he was an MTV newsmonger a quarter-century ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Sommer
And I do believe political morons can be decent folks otherwise, and love any allusions to Paul Simon treating little ppl like garbage. No interest in the touring Beach Boys tho.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
http://www.people.com/article/charles-manson-confronted-beach-boy-mike-love-in-shower
― salthigh, Thursday, 1 September 2016 18:46 (seven years ago) link
lol
"He started passing out LSD tabs and was orchestrating sex partners," Love writes. "I love the female form, but this was too much."
― hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Thursday, 1 September 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
"Something told me this was not your average acid-fueled gangbang sesh," he continues. "The vibrations, shall we say, were not good."
― tylerw, Thursday, 1 September 2016 18:55 (seven years ago) link
Wasn't Neil Young was into it? And didn't Mike and Al take to calling Manson "Pigpen" at the Stephen Desper session?
Aside from what would be Bruce's assuredly safe, affable response, I'd really like to know the date as it compares to Andrew G Doe's timeline:
http://esquarterly.com/bellagio/gigs68.html
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
In ‘Good Vibrations,’ Summer Fun Soured by Mike Love’s Score Settling
― new noise, Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
So Mike went to dinner at Dennis' house with Bruce Johnston and just decides to take a shower? How does that work? And where was Bruce?
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 September 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
Also, Squeaky is alive and free.
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 1 September 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
XP Needed to wash off the stench of weirdos...
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 1 September 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
"I never lose sight of the overwhelming positivity of our music,"
"and that's why i've relentlessly sued all of my former colleagues for several decades, because positivity."
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:12 (seven years ago) link
i was kind of half willing to be sympathetic to mike love but then i read this excerpt from the NYT review:
He can be inadvertently hilarious when he explains those lyrics word by word, as in the first lines of “Be True to Your School.” I will admit to knowing and loving them: “When some loud braggart tries to put me down/ and says his school is great.”Now we have Mr. Love’s explanation for his word choice. “‘Braggart, to my ears, is more formal than ‘bragger,’ so I thought our more erudite fans would appreciate the subtlety,” he says.
Now we have Mr. Love’s explanation for his word choice. “‘Braggart, to my ears, is more formal than ‘bragger,’ so I thought our more erudite fans would appreciate the subtlety,” he says.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
what a hopeless fuckwad he is.
he thinks people like the beach boys b/c of his "erudite" lyrics
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:21 (seven years ago) link
is bragger even a word
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:22 (seven years ago) link
like congratulations on using proper English words Mike, good job, really puts the song over the top
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link
"when some boisterous braggart makes a vain effort to defame me / and claims that his alma mater is without peer..."
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:25 (seven years ago) link
beach boys lyrics but like all stodgy and proper english and shit
― Sharia Laws and Lambchop (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
Seems like Mike is still defending against replacing his words with Van Dyke Parks. December '66 isn't over!
― PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
is this a chap-hop song
― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Thursday, 1 September 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
i had never heard of that "movement" until now! interesting and maybe a little stomach-churning.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 2 September 2016 04:47 (seven years ago) link
me neither until I read the "worst fads of the 21st century" thread.
thanks ilx! for better or worse, til death do us part
― erudite beach boys fan (sheesh), Friday, 2 September 2016 07:23 (seven years ago) link
on balance, I don't think I like Mike Love, however, if nothing else, he (allegedly) managed to sit down with Brian and coax "Warmth of the Sun" out of him, so, I'm just gonna give him a pass.
I quite like his vocals on "Do It Again" as well
― erudite beach boys fan (sheesh), Friday, 2 September 2016 07:29 (seven years ago) link
I think P. Bagge was right, if you can't at least appreciate Mike Love on some level you don't really love the Beach Boys
― Οὖτις, Friday, 2 September 2016 15:38 (seven years ago) link
yeah, mike love contributes plenty of awesome stuff to the beach boys' music. and yeah, he is a hopeless fuckwad.
― tylerw, Friday, 2 September 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
"plenty of awesome stuff" seems a bit generous.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Friday, 2 September 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
"plenty of awesome hats"
― erudite beach boys fan (sheesh), Saturday, 3 September 2016 00:28 (seven years ago) link
"lots of scalp"
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 3 September 2016 00:32 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfilXmU4ReM
― thos beads (jamescobo), Saturday, 3 September 2016 00:35 (seven years ago) link
Is that Trump at 0:10?
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 September 2016 06:57 (seven years ago) link
I would also like to advance the theory that there is no one else in the world that could have taken the lead vocal on "Roller Skating Child" and made it sound both natural and somehow acceptable in the context of the record. somehow.
― erudite beach boys fan (sheesh), Saturday, 3 September 2016 08:26 (seven years ago) link
So cold i go brrrrr
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 3 September 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
what exactly does he think he's doing in that video compilation? is he showing off his breath control?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Saturday, 3 September 2016 15:53 (seven years ago) link
prob something he picked up from the maharishi
love Bruce Johnston popping up to rally the crowd
― erudite beach boys fan (sheesh), Saturday, 3 September 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
"plenty of awesome stuff" seems a bit generous. i dunno, as a vocalist, he's pretty key for me on the 60s stuff, whether he's singing back up or lead. Defending the indefensible here, I know.
― tylerw, Saturday, 3 September 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link
He definitely is key to Good Vibrations, among other things
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 3 September 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link