Due to pending litigation? Here we go again.

[ontor pertawst]

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2013/09/beach_boys_jeff_beck_unite_for.php

But Mike Love, who owns the rights to the band's name, booked later shows with his version of the group (which also includes Bruce Johnston). So far, he doesn't seem interested in extending the life of the reunion tour lineup, despite obvious commercial and artistic benefits.

And though publicists for Wilson and Jardine gently warn that they cannot answer questions about Love "due to pending litigation" (or, more accurately, the latest litigation among Wilson/Love/Jardine), Jardine opens up a bit on his own and unprodded.

"I kept telling everybody the [reunion tour] would happen, and it did," Jardine offers. "All the naysayers from Mike and Brian's camps got together, because it was such a great tour. But I was...disappointed... when Mike decided to pull up stakes and leave."

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Well, that explains Brian's "no comment."

So... what do you 'spose THIS is all about?

[Sheriff John Stone]

I don't know what it means, but I prefer to hear Al say "no comment" than anything else he could possibly utter.

[ontor pertawst]

Still, it's so beautifully, typically Beach Boys that their joyous reunion ends in... pending litigation.

[Jim V.]

Still, it's so beautifully, typically Beach Boys that their joyous reunion ends in... pending litigation.

Everybody pretty much knows where I stand, but it just hit me:

They really should have discussed/negotiated the status of the name before any C50 activity started. Because what it seems like to me is that maybe Brian and Al thought things would be a bit more open-ended after the set number of dates and recording, whereas obviously Mike wanted to get back on the road with his small group and fondle women that he just met.

[Sheriff John Stone]

Still, it's so beautifully, typically Beach Boys that their joyous reunion ends in... pending litigation.

Everybody pretty much knows where I stand, but it just hit me:

They really should have discussed/negotiated the status of the name before any C50 activity started. Because what it seems like to me is that maybe Brian and Al thought things would be a bit more open-ended after the set number of dates and recording, whereas obviously Mike wanted to get back on the road with his small group and fondle women that he just met.

Absolutely. Not only negotiated (past tense) but are negotiating (present tense). If Al really believes in what he has been espousing, then put your money - literally, with your attorneys - where your mouth is. So you wanna be "The Beach Boys", fine, do something about it, instead of dropping snide remarks in the press.

[SurfRiderHawaii]

I'm guessing, from a previous Al interview, that Brian, Al and David want to bill themselves as " Original Beach Boy members Brian ..." and that Mike is legally objecting.

[Rocker]

I don't know what it means, but I prefer to hear Al say "no comment" than anything else he could possibly utter.

Yeah, but that also mighte be some kind of tactic (althoug a very obvious one). It's not just Al who's doing that. Joe Thomas did it in a much more subtle way in a recent interview.

"He likes being in a band, and right now, it doesn't look like it's possible that he can have his band [the Beach Boys]," Thomas says.

[runnersdialzero]

PEEENDING LITIGATION
BAAAAAD VIBRATION
NOT GOOD WEATHER
WE'RE NOT TOGETHER
LOOOOSS OF MONEY
IIIIIT'S NOT FUNNY
MIKE'S GONNA SUE YA
AL SAID "SCRE-HOO-HEW YA"

[Lonely Summer]

I'm just guessing the obvious...that Brain.....oops...Brian, Al and David didn't believe Mike and Bruce would be so eager to get back to their faux Beach Boys band. But we shouldn't be surprised, I mean, when was the last time these guys didn't anything intelligent on the business side of things?

[Paulos]

PEEENDING LITIGATION
BAAAAAD VIBRATION
NOT GOOD WEATHER
WE'RE NOT TOGETHER
LOOOOSS OF MONEY
IIIIIT'S NOT FUNNY
MIKE'S GONNA SUE YA
AL SAID "SCRE-HOO-HEW YA"

Runners, I think I love you.

[Waspinators]

PEEENDING LITIGATION
BAAAAAD VIBRATION
NOT GOOD WEATHER
WE'RE NOT TOGETHER
LOOOOSS OF MONEY
IIIIIT'S NOT FUNNY
MIKE'S GONNA SUE YA
AL SAID "SCRE-HOO-HEW YA"

Legendary. 

[Andrew G. Doe]

But Mike Love, who owns the rights to the band's name...

Do I need to ? Nah, thought not. 

[Gertie J.]

PEEENDING LITIGATION
BAAAAAD VIBRATION
NOT GOOD WEATHER
WE'RE NOT TOGETHER
LOOOOSS OF MONEY
IIIIIT'S NOT FUNNY
MIKE'S GONNA SUE YA
AL SAID "SCRE-HOO-HEW YA"

boo.

[RubberSoul13]

I'm just guessing the obvious...that Brain.....oops...Brian, Al and David didn't believe Mike and Bruce would be so eager to get back to their faux Beach Boys band. But we shouldn't be surprised, I mean, when was the last time these guys didn't anything intelligent on the business side of things?

Not that I think their decisions should be made on money at this stage in the game but aren't Mike and Bruce making more money touring in the stripped down version than from C50? I thought it had been said somewhere that Mike at least actually made less in 2012 then he would have doing his shows because of the high costs of that touring production, Brian's entourage, more beach boys etc.

My point: isn't he actually doing something intelligent on the business side of things?

[runnersdialzero]

I'm in the Smiley Smile society. Here to stay!

[leggo of my ego]

PEEENDING LITIGATION
BAAAAAD VIBRATION
NOT GOOD WEATHER
WE'RE NOT TOGETHER
LOOOOSS OF MONEY
IIIIIT'S NOT FUNNY
MIKE'S GONNA SUE YA
AL SAID "SCRE-HOO-HEW YA"

HADTA SUUUE YA
HADTA SCRUUUEW YA, JUST FOR KICKS

HADTA SUUUE YA
YEA I DID IT CUZ IM SUCH A DIK

I VISUALIZE WHAT YA GOT IS SOOO FINE
FEELS SO GOOOD WHEN WHAT WAS YOURS IS NOW MINE!

[Billf]

Perhaps The Real Beach Boy can weigh in and educate us about the facts here.

[jamsvet]

"But clearly buzzed by the experience, Wilson, Jardine, and Marks saw no reason not to continue the beach party."

I think that Al and David had a taste of what they had been missing all this time.  Brian wants to write music and be revered for his talents and rightfully so. He is no performer. Ideally BW should use his vast talents in arranging and composing and let others perform.

I thing that more litigation will drive the two camps further apart if that is possible; however, if what's at stake is ML keeping the BB name, so be it. He's the one that has kept it alive for 50 years.

[urbanite]

Oregon River Rider is probably right, but what damages would the Mike Love version of the Beach Boys have?  They sell a lot of tickets, so it doesn't seem like they've lost much of anything.  Maybe Mike will sue for defamation.  It's all a ridiculous waste of time, as Al and Brian seem to have tempered their comments about the use of the band's name.

[ontor pertawst]

Mike will end up suing himself in a tragic clerical error.

[Bean Bag]

 

[jamsvet]

Mike will end up suing himself in a tragic clerical error.

sad but true

[ontor pertawst]

It would be an interesting court date... Michael Edward Love v. Michael Edward Love. He'd hold court on the steps afterwards and give a furious press conference alternating between spitting at the mouth rage and maudlin weeping. That's when I ask Mike to autograph this.



He'd probably have Bruce pistol-whip me, tho.

[chrs_mrgn]

AS fer da past
It's not behind us
Happier when
It's just me on the tour bus

Singin my songs
Kissin my rings and
My money boys
Is what I believe in

I said it
Wouldn't last
All I can say is
You can kiss Bruce's aaaassss

[ontor pertawst]

We got lawsuits in mind
Man, it's been too much time
in a suit and a tie is how I like to preen
With my lawyers sandbagging Al Jardine.

Nah, we're not gonna beat runners.

I wonder if Mike Love will go on The O'Reilly Factor again to discuss the litigation.