no
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
https://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/Louisville/Louisville/2014/02/05//1391609558019-Beach-boys-65-7.jpg?width=1280
this one, apparently from a show at Freedom Hall in Louisville in 1964
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 February 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
*mike love voice* my buddies and me are gettin real well known/for our bad faith takes and the brutal self-owns— brad shoup (@bshoup) February 2, 2020
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:24 (four years ago) link
he's probably singing
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
Pretty sure that photo was from the first live performance of 'Transcendental Meditation'? I think they made the right choice in giving Brian the lead in the recorded version.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link
I'd like to speculate that 'Transcendental Meditation' was Brian taking the piss out of the concept by making an atonal jazz-influenced song
― PaulTMA, Monday, 3 February 2020 22:37 (four years ago) link
The most effective pisstake of TM imo is that thing where Mike Love practiced TM for decades. Good one, Mike!
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
Chippy sourpuss George Harrison was not exactly a great advert for TM either. Not to mention crazed egomaniac, Donovan.
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
Or noted weirdo David Lynch!
― dad genes (morrisp), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link
People also cite the extremely cranky David Lynch, who dedicates much of his time & energy to promoting TM, as a poor advocate for it. But imagine how much more visibly angry these folks would be without spending hours a day centering and calming themselves.
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
of all the most famous proponents, Lynch is probably the best one tbh
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 February 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
lol xpost
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
But imagine how much more visibly angry these folks would be without spending hours a day centering and calming themselvesVery fair point
― dad genes (morrisp), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:53 (four years ago) link
Maybe it’s been asked before, but what makes Transcendental Meditation better than regular meditation?
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
Listen to the song, it explains everything.
― (includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:55 (four years ago) link
It's cool!
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Monday, 3 February 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link
gets you feeling grand iirc
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 February 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
Sixty plus years of existence and the Beach Boys will always be this tangled mess, finally turning into the full Jarndyce v Jarndyce it always was. The lawsuits will never be resolved in the end, I suspect.― Ned Raggett
― Ned Raggett
it's spelled "jardine"
― you know my name, look up the number of the beast (rushomancy), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 00:53 (four years ago) link
this one, apparently from a show at Freedom Hall in Louisville in 1964― Οὖτις
― Οὖτις
having seen the cover to "chunga's revenge" he's obviously bored out of his skull and yawning
I'd like to speculate that 'Transcendental Meditation' was Brian taking the piss out of the concept by making an atonal jazz-influenced song― PaulTMA
― PaulTMA
if that was true johnny carson would have a lot to be mad about
― you know my name, look up the number of the beast (rushomancy), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 00:55 (four years ago) link
Always felt Mike "Boris" Love was really getting into character for "Monster Mash" in that pic.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 01:04 (four years ago) link
I’ll sign Brian & Al’s petition, on the condition that this online protest doesn’t involve saying nasty things about Southern policemen's mothers.
― dad genes (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 01:50 (four years ago) link
Is this the thread where we linked the 80s interview with Mike in the hot tub getting greased up before a massage and what not? If so, I never want to see that again.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 8 February 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
I don’t even want to read your description of it again.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 February 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link
Does anyone have the photo of Mike getting a manicure from about two years ago
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 8 February 2020 15:45 (four years ago) link
I’ve seen that hot tub interview
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 8 February 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
hot tub love machine
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 8 February 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
CHALLOPS TRIGGER: The "Beach Boys"-influence thrown around at early Jesus & Mary Chain records was not Brian Wilson songs but the Mike Love songs.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 15:05 (three years ago) link
Surfin' USA is a Chuck Berry song, if that's what you're thinking of.
― everything, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/3798/works
didn't know how much love wrote with brian
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
Love is famously an "add a word, take a third" practitioner.
― @oneposter (👍) (sic), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
haha
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
I think that's fair enough though, didn't he get royally screwed by Murry Wilson while Brian stood idly by? Or should that be royalty screwed?
― Boring blighters bloaters (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
It's arguable that Mike Love is largely responsible for ensuring that a lot of people who weren't around in the '60s know who the Beach Boys are. I mean, a ton of bands had +/- a dozen hits in that era and pretty much got stuck in the classic rock gravity well. Like, they aren't really broadly remembered for any of their actual new material issued from then until the late '80s. Now, one might argue that that's like Charlie Chaplin being remembered nowadays largely on the back of a popular line of Chaplin-branded handguns, but, well, being remembered is literally all that matters in the end. It's a value-neutral sitch.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 01:37 (three years ago) link
They are remembered and revered in spite of Mike Love's antics, not because of them.
― everything, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 02:29 (three years ago) link
He's a terrible guy but it's not like I skip over Mike-heavy tracks
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
I definitely enjoy his presence on the classic tracks
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 02:45 (three years ago) link
Mike is the lead singer on nearly all of the best and most iconic '60s tracks... I'll call BS on the Beach Boys being remembered and revered "in spite of" him.
― skip, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 02:51 (three years ago) link
In spite of his antics. Not his voice or performance skills.
― everything, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
Also lead singers on the best of their 60s material were the Wilson brothers.
― everything, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 02:58 (three years ago) link
IT'S STUDENT DEMONSTRATION TIME!
― Some dads are not YOUR dad (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 03:14 (three years ago) link
I think it's just folly to try to discount the fact he was a distinctive part of their vocal presentation
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 03:18 (three years ago) link
One consistent source of amusement over the years has been imagining Mike Love scanning Van Dyke Parks's Smile lyrics for the first time.
― Some dads are not YOUR dad (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 03:20 (three years ago) link
Like just the growing look of consternation on his face, occasionally looking up at an eager Brian and Van Dyke sitting side-by-side all like 'Well? It's genius, right?' as Mike's conservative core swelled and calcified with every lyric he read about how great it is to eat vegetables.
― Some dads are not YOUR dad (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 03:23 (three years ago) link
Love's an asshole, but he was the bass, and his voice is well-recognized.
that said, hope he dies this year
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 03:27 (three years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, November 10, 2020 10:18 PM bookmarkflaglink
otm
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
Yes but the issue on the table is "Love is largely responsible for ensuring that a lot of people who weren't around in the '60s know who the Beach Boys are."
― everything, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 03:38 (three years ago) link
Afaict he's a memorable thing about the band that people who WERE around information the 60s are familiar with. Hence his current career.
― everything, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 03:41 (three years ago) link
In
― everything, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 03:42 (three years ago) link
I mean more like the thing where he was all about preserving the legacy of the band who sang about beach-related phenomena rather than letting them be forgotten as the band who sang about Johnny Carson and who ran the iron horse.
― Some dads are not YOUR dad (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 03:47 (three years ago) link
If it isn't clear (as I'd hope it would be, given my knowledge of BB ephemera), I am not much of a Mike Love fan. Just trying to address the thread topic heah.
― Some dads are not YOUR dad (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 03:49 (three years ago) link