Defend the Indefensible: Mike Love

Jeff Foskett left two years ago (for throat surgery, but it's nice to imagine he stayed away for maga reasons)

Ice is back with a brand new sedition

Berlin?! Sigh.

Yeah

Took my breath away

Granted this is more about Irving Azoff and his minion partner and their fucked up plans for the Beach Boys but Jesus H.

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/beach-boys-rights-sale-azoff-1129316/

Chastan gets most excited talking about the Beach Boys’ brand and future tech possibilities. “That includes VR, AR, 3D, CGI, natural language processing, et cetera,” he says. “That, to me, is probably the most interesting aspect of what’s going to transform our business. In five years, I could send you a text and say, ‘At 2 p.m., let’s put our Oculus Rift glasses on, and let’s go see the Beach Boys record ‘Good Vibrations’ at Western Recorders.’ ”

The CEO continues: “The studio is still there, so we could 3D scan the studio. The Beach Boys’ faces can be digitally replicated pretty easily. You’ve seen it with that Scorsese movie [The Irishman], where he did the de-aging technology. You’ve got natural language processing, which gives you the technology to actually have a conversation. So we could be witness to history from our couch.”

Chastan recently visited with Love in Lake Tahoe, where he looked at old memorabilia. “One thing that Iconic offers, which is absolutely unique, is that we’re a partner while they’re alive to actually help them shape that legacy, which they can’t do once they’re gone,” says Chastan. “How you want to be remembered? How you want to see your legacy in the future, even when you’re not there?”

Love even says there may be a day when the Beach Boys are touring long after he stops singing. “As long as it’s presented beautifully and authentically,” he says. “The beauty of music is, even though the originators might not be there anymore, the music can live on for centuries, as you know from the classics. Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, you know?”

Beach Boys AR would be weird as fuck

The deal does not give Iconic ownership of much of the Beach Boys’ Sixties material, which is now owned by Universal.

Beach Boys AR = what, Mike Love sitting on yr couch and making shitty comments about all yr stuff

sorry to say that anyone willing to pay for that kind of content is most likely too old to adapt to the technology required

Virtual Mike Love tears up your lyric sheet and tells you not to fuck with the formula.

I'd like a Beach Boys AR where we tell Love to fuck off, throw him out of the studio and replace his vocals with Brian's original guides.

WATCH Mike take more than his share of credit! ATTEMPT to remove Mike's cap! MARVEL as Mike smacks your hand away, harder than was at all necessary!

Your Surfer Girl Is In Another Castle

Beach Boys role playing game

"Do you

A) Do a song that everybody knows OR
B) some acid shit bout "column ruins domino""

I'd like a Beach Boys AR where we tell Love to fuck off, throw him out of the studio and replace his vocals with Brian's original guides.

― birdistheword, Saturday, February 20, 2021 6:11 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

You're looking for This is the thread where we tell Mike Love to FUCK OFF and Defenestrate Mike Love

it'll be called Pieces of Mike Love and pieces of his cold dead body are strewn about the studio, with a reanimated Dennis using his thigh bone to drum

Comes with a bonus CD of Tibetan thigh bone music by reanimated Genesis P Orridge

Mike Love was born March 15, 1941. pic.twitter.com/iJARB6pK4T

— Van Dyke Parks (@thevandykeparks) March 15, 2021

Trump missed a chance to name Mike "Secretary of Fun Fun Fun".

Photos provide an interesting contrast in two distinct ways to deal with balding.

every time this thread gets bumped I have to watch this 18 times

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

LOL @ Parks's tweet.

He even got Skunk Baxter of the Doobies in there.

Stay away when there's a riot going on...

Mike Love was even an asshole in Radio Shack ads! pic.twitter.com/KKiKmvXAbB

— Victor Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) January 7, 2022

He was also into red hats even back then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAT6UD8x-y0

"is anyone going to sing along with us?"

incredible to watch something like a LiveAid performance and he still gives off that asshole camp counselor from your childhood memory vibe.

was re-watching the grateful dead bio and it's kinda of funny that mike love is the pigpen that ended up in control of the band's legacy.

I want to believe:

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— FBI Washington Field (@FBIWFO) September 6, 2022

LMAO

So I’ll actually try to defend the indefensible. This song (which I found while poking around on the Feel Flows box) is terrific and one of Mike’s best lead vocals:

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

That song is also on the two-disc version, it's one of the better outtakes; it certainly would have been preferable to the Mike song that made it on Surf's Up. His vocal has a jaundiced edge without sounding snide or sarcastic, which is unexpected.

I wouldn’t change a thing about surfs up, even student demonstration time. I sort of like that it disturbs the mood of what would otherwise be an impeccable dinner party record.

Sweet and Bitter is great. It's one of several substitutions (along with 4th of July, Wouldn't It Be Nice To Live Again, and Back Home) that would have made the album much stronger.

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.