Mike Love

Texanne

Texanne

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After hearing the Beach Boys on Dancing with the Stars, I can only say, it's time to hang 'em up, bub. He sounded horrible.
 
I wished I had heard this - the BB's were one of my favorite 60's groups.... I still like them. Texanne, I will take your word for it - Mike Love should give it up. He is in his mid to late 60's, so I am fairly certain his voice is not what it once was. Of the original BB's, he is only 1 of 3 surviving members of the original group with Al Jardine and Brian Wilson
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I love my Carl
I love my Brian, my Dennis, and my Al
I could even find it in my heart to love Mike Love

- Belle & Sebastian--

I LOVE the Beach Boys, but Mike Love has always been kind of an ***.
 
And it doesn't seem right that they can call themselves "The Beach Boys" when there isn't even a Wilson in the bunch.

I've loved Brian Wilson since I was a kid. I've never really liked Mike Love.
 
Texanne - Brian is touring with his own band. Jardine went solo years ago with other BB backups and Love, with Bruce Johnston, (who filled in for Brian in the late 60's) playing concerts as the Beach Boys or whatever each group calls themselves. Lot's of lawsuits, accusations and insults over the years by the remaining members of the orginal band.... a truly sad ending to a great American band.

As for Mike Love, yeah, I too never cared much for him and I always thought he was a somewhat negative element in the group.
 
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Cousin Love gets no love? He was lead vocals on most of the early Beach Boys biggest hits. He co-wrote most of their songs. He was their concert emcee. To me he was truly the voice of the Beach Boys. That said, I agree he had somewhat of an attitude...might have had something to do with being the lowly cousin and the fact that the brothers Wilson needed a lot of bailing out over the years. Sheer speculation on my part.

Texanne...another old concert tale from my past. The Wife and I went to see the BBs at the Erwin Center in the early 80s. Due to her connections at the time, we had front row seats. We happened to be sitting in line with Bruce Johnston, who was playing key boards...and enjoying the refreshment of a nice bottle of red wine. About half way through the show...and the bottle of wine, he made eye contact with me and motioned me to the stage. Of course a hundred other people thought he was looking at them. When I made it up, he waved off all of the 17 and 18 year olds and handed me the bottle of wine, which added to my wife's and my enjoyment of the show. Still have the bottle...and the memories.

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Yeah, Worster, I knew about all the hard feelings, and I keep up with Brian -- I receive his e-mails.

Litnin -- another cool concert story! Wish I'd known you back in those days ...
 
I do think Love has always had a chip on his shoulder. Perhaps it was because he was not a Wilson brother, but he was the only member of the group that I didn't care for when I was a kid. He always had a smug look on his face when he sang. Don't ask me what that means, but I noticed it as a kid.

I still noticed it even when I went to see them when I was in high school and at Texas.

In my neighborhood, kids were either Beatles fans or Beach Boys fans. I was like the only kid who liked both bands.
 
Me too Texanne - I equally like the BBs and Beatles but lot's of people seemed to like one or the other only. I always thought it was funny you couldn't like both equally.
 
I have fond memories from high school of cruising around Abilene - about 400 miles from the nearest salt water - and singing "Surfin' Safari" and "Surfin' USA."

"Tell the teacher we're surfin'....."

Brian Wilson was the creative heart and soul of the BB. Love was always a jerk who thought he was too cool for school. Some of us liked Brian the best, some Carl, the girls liked Dennis, some kids even liked Al, but I don't recall anyone liking Mike Love.

Recent tv showings of The TAMI Rock and Roll Show and Ed Sulivan w/ the BB had Love showing his dancing moves on stage proving how lame he really was.
 
I didn't care much for the Beach Boys or The Beatles when I first heard them.

I came around after a short while, but I just didn't think either group's earliest material was all that good.

If I was going to listen to Chuck Berry imitations and/or R&B covers, I initially liked the seminal recordings or The Rolling Stones' and The Animals' more scruffy and more authentic, IMO, cover offerings better.

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Of course, as The Beach Boys and The Bealtes progressed musically and started recording totally original material, that's when I saw their talent and genius blossom full blown.

Hopefully, my musical ear and talent were progressing.too.

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Lennon and McCartney (along with George and Ringo) were talents who could complement, criticize, complete with and complete one another.

John and Paul were fortunate to be able to bounce things off one another.

Paul's overall musicality and up beat renderings gelled with John's spareness and cynicism nicely.

Sometimes they would collaborate equally, but often one might might suggest only a single word, as John did for the naming of Paul's untitled "Yesterday" or a tempo change like Paul did by speeding up John's initially morose "Help!"

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I think Brian Wilson was the main talent in The Beach Boys and he labored and wandered, by circumstance and necessity, more by himself, although Mike, Dennis, Carl and Al were there contributing by both supporting and arguing with him.

The Beatles also had Brian Epstein and George Martin to mentor their career path and their creativity, respectively.

Brian Wison was The Beach Boys' main source of inspiration and creativity, a more singular taskmaster whe became a troubled recluse.

The more I've heard, read and learned about both these groups over the decades, the more I've come to appreciate and, I believe, understand them.

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My 8-track case was filled with the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Stones and ZZ...all remain on my favorite's list. As time moved on, I dived head first into the Willie/KOKE FM/Outlaw/Austin/Armadillo/Texas music scene. It's been a lifetime of fun and entertainment.












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*sigh* KOKE FM ... I loved that station. I miss those days of progressive western music. What passes for country music coming out of Nashville these days just sucks.
 
OK, OK, so Mike Love has white man's disease and can't dance. They made great music, though. I played "In My Room" over and over, in my room, of course. They ushered in the surfing culture era, and growing up in Galveston, we were really into it. Went to see them in Houston at the height of their popularity, about 1967 or so, and they wore those striped shirts and sang all the car and surfing hits. Great show.
It is sad to see what has happened to the members of the group, and now the remaining few trying to still tour.
I did go see Brian Wilson at the Backyard a few years ago, when he decided to come in out of the fog, and it was a good show. He's a very creative guy, influencing even the Beatles.
I still like Surfin,' Surfing Safari, Surfing USA, Hawaii, the early surfrock tunes, with the surf guitar riffs and the great harmonies.
 
Texanne, if you could go back and listen to the original 45's of California Girls and Fun, Fun, Fun you would hear something close to the You'Tube performance. The one he really butchered was Kokomo.
 
You beat me to it. Wasn't that the song that the Fonz wanna be on that God awful 90's sitcom with the butt ugly twin girls "sat in" with the band?
 
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