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Post by mikev on Sept 26, 2012 16:17:54 GMT -5
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Post by debjorgo on Sept 26, 2012 19:29:38 GMT -5
I used to love I Get Around when I was a kids. My brother had the 45 and I used to play it over and over again. It's still my favorite Beach Boy song.
I went back and bought the early albums up to Smiley Smile and Wild Honey. I stalled out on those last two. I'm tempted to find the album with Sail On Sailor but am not at all interested in Rock'n'Roll Music or Kocamo. And didn't they have a song with the Fat Boys?
I'm not terribly up to date on the personal stuff. So why did Mike really kick the other three out? Were they singing off key? Taking too much of the cut? Mike still sore about losing his writing partner to Tony Asher?
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Post by winstonoboogie on Sept 26, 2012 19:45:21 GMT -5
[Sigh] So is anyone going to sign the petition? Debjorgo: Yes, the Beach Boys recorded a remake of "Wipeout" (yes, the Surfaris' song) with the Fat Boys - I am sure you can find the video on YouTube.
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 26, 2012 20:21:41 GMT -5
I think this is funny. The fake friends reunion has crashed and burned. Shades of Monkees 2011! Mike Love is the biggest tool in the music business and Bruce Johnston merits no mention because he is a fake Beach Boy from 1965 on. I still don't understand how anyone can call even Brian, Al and idiot moron Mike Love "The Beach Boys" with Dennis and Carl Wilson sadly dead. To me it is like calling a touring Paul and Ringo "The Beatles." They wouldn't be without John and George. Paul and Ringo though have a million times more integrity than all of these fake friend Beach Boys. Brian Wilson is clearly nuts and being exploited by his wife and, up to now, his cousin Mike Love. Poor Brian will never find peace as long as his wife or cousin can make a buck off him and put him onstage like a performing flea. My biggest contempt is saved for the sycophants who would pay to see just Mike Love and his buddy BJ. Nuts or not, Brian Wilson is at least a real musical icon and even Al Jardine has more talent in his little finger than Love has in his whole body! A curse on Mike Love and his house!
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Post by debjorgo on Sept 26, 2012 21:35:09 GMT -5
Love got co-writer status on all the early Beach Boy songs. If it were like John and Paul, where they sang the lyrics they wrote, Brian wrote the surf songs and Mike wrote the cars songs.
I don't like the surf songs at all. 409, Fun Fun Fun, Daddy Takes the T-bird, and my favorite, I Get Around, seem to make me a Mike Love fan.
I don't care as much for Pet Sounds and the albums after that.
I'll admit to ignorance here, I don't know any of the back story on the Beach Boys. But I think I'm a Mike Love fan, more so than Brian.
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Sept 27, 2012 14:07:48 GMT -5
I did not go see the reunion. What I heard wasn't that great (and the BBC concert Fred linked to is ok, but still nothing like the old days. And the album was disappointing. So I'm not totally surprised, but Love is a jerk for stopping it.
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Post by andyb on Sept 27, 2012 15:37:55 GMT -5
What a strange person!
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Post by mikev on Sept 27, 2012 17:34:11 GMT -5
I did not go see the reunion. What I heard wasn't that great (and the BBC concert Fred linked to is ok, but still nothing like the old days. And the album was disappointing. So I'm not totally surprised, but Love is a jerk for stopping it. I saw them in the Beacon where it is a theater design and the acoustics are perfect. Say what you want about Brian, but he was really singing and it seemed like he was enjoying himself more than the Smile and Pet Sounds live shows I saw on DVD. Now it goes back to a joke for Mike Love and Bruce"Disney-head" Johnston
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Post by mikev on Sept 27, 2012 20:48:10 GMT -5
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 28, 2012 8:50:25 GMT -5
Man Mike, I read that blog and I couldn't sleep all night! It got me so fired up I wanted to stay up and write a thousand other slams on Mike Love! I had never read before that Dennis Wilson beat up Charles Manson and made him cry like a school girl. That was represented in the blog Mike posted. That kind of made me feel good too. Nice image of Manson with his ass kicked. I had read that Dennis got mixed up with him but was scared of him. What's anyone read on that? I just can't comprehend the type of people who would buy tickets and run to their local casino to see Mike Love and his tool partner BJ play??
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Post by andyb on Sept 28, 2012 10:05:27 GMT -5
I loved the line "He’s still alive, while Dennis and Carl are dead".
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Sept 28, 2012 10:17:08 GMT -5
John, I love calling it the fake friends reunion. No better description.
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Post by mikev on Sept 28, 2012 11:15:36 GMT -5
I've mentioned before that my brother-in-law got us tickets to this "line-up" at an empty Staten Island Stadium in 2003.
It really reminded me of a scene from Spinal Tap. I think the attendance was in the hundreds.
They even had a Brian Wilson look-alike on bass.
Kind of like Paul and Ringo touring with George and John Beatlemania alumni...
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Post by acebackwords on Dec 5, 2012 17:23:22 GMT -5
Mike Love is such an ass. Brian Wilson IS the Beach Boys. How can Love fire him?
I'm sure he did it because 1.) he's an egomaniac, 2.) he's a control freak, 3.) he's a talent-less hack who's always been jealous of Brian, and 4.) he's a cheapskate.
Love is so cheap he's one of the few touring rock acts that doesn't even haul their own equipment around. They just rent cheap gear in whatever town they're in.
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Post by John S. Damm on Dec 5, 2012 23:31:53 GMT -5
Great Mike Love rant, Ace! I hate that idiot and sometimes I think there is no God when reminded that John Lennon and George Harrison are dead and that piece of crap Mike Love is alive and kicking.
What he has done to Brian Wilson through the years helps ensure that Love will rot in Hell!
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Post by acebackwords on Dec 6, 2012 17:42:26 GMT -5
Great Mike Love rant, Ace! I hate that idiot and sometimes I think there is no God when reminded that John Lennon and George Harrison are dead and that piece of crap Mike Love is alive and kicking. What he has done to Brian Wilson through the years helps ensure that Love will rot in Hell! Yeah I couldn't resist an anti-Mike Love diatribe. I guess you could say I have a Love Hate relationship with the guy. (=groan=)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 5:23:29 GMT -5
I looked up Mike Love in the Wilson dictionary.............all it said was...............Absolute F*ckwit....
how about that
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Post by OceanStater on Jul 11, 2015 18:48:56 GMT -5
Look up Mike Love in the Urban Dictionary. Apt legacy., IMHO.
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Post by kc on Jul 11, 2015 20:13:45 GMT -5
Look up Mike Love in the Urban Dictionary. Apt legacy., IMHO. I took your advice. You're right.
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