M&B USC Pop Music Q&A

[SMiLE Brian]

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[HeyJude]

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Mike and Bruce discuss how their tour with Totten, Cowsill, Kirsche, and Bonhomme had a "set end date", and this two-man lineup on stage is poised to book even smaller, even more appreciative markets.

[HeyJude]

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Mike and Bruce appear for their deposition in the pending "Nutty Jerry's" lawsuit.

[SMiLE Brian]

Bruce: "Mike tell the crowd how you wrote kokomo in 1988"

Mike: "Brian wasn't on the track and it went to number 1"

[HeyJude]

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Mike shows off his proposed and rejected idea for a more budget-conscious stage design for the 50th anniversary tour.

[Autotune]

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Beach boy Bruce Johnston watches carefully as Al Franken wipes his testicles.

[joshferrell]

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so how does it feel that the other members of the beach boys are now singing with Brian and do not want to sing with you? (crickets chirping and silence)...

[Pretty Funky]

.....tick....tick....tick.... tick...

"Sorry guys, this is the first time ever nobody has come to one of these Q&A's."

.....tick....tick....tick....tick.....

[Robbie Mac]

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"Then I told Paul that he oughta write about the Ukraine girls in the bridge. Then I told Mia that she oughta do a horror movie about a psychotic baby.  Then I told Donovan that he should call my lawyer 'cause I think he's pretty damn good!

But Donavan never listens."

[J.G. Dev]

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Interviewer: "Now Bruce, Isn't it true that you wrote 'I Write the Songs' about Brian Wilson?"

Bruce: "Excuse me, this microphone is out of place"

[Rocker]

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Interviewer: "Now Bruce, Isn't it true that you wrote 'I Write the Songs' about Brian Wilson?"

Bruce: "Excuse me, this microphone is out of place"

Bruce: "I'd like to clap my hands. NOW!"

[bringahorseinhere?]

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Bruce: good vibrations was so fantastic...(mike cuts in)
Mike: well i came up with the line 'im pickin up good vibrations which went with my cousin Brian Wilson's bass line....
he had some lyrics already, and i said we need to have some boy/girl lyrics.....

Rb

[Pretty Funky]

Mike "ehh....I was told there might be some cheer leaders?"

[Alan Smith]

Mike: "Well, I've been singing through my nose for a good many a year now, in fact since before we were number 1 in England, ahead of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones; so I thought it was high time I started speaking through it as well.  Psst, Johnston, little buddy, I need you to be awake right now, I sense some questions about the Smile album are about to roll in, and you know the names of those classical guys better than me."

[rn57]

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Bruce pays homage to Crockett & Tubbs...

[Lonely Summer]

 

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Interviewer: "Now Bruce, Isn't it true that you wrote 'I Write the Songs' about Brian Wilson?"

Bruce: "Excuse me, this microphone is out of place"

[Niko]

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Interviewer: "Now Bruce, Isn't it true that you wrote 'I Write the Songs' about Brian Wilson?"

Bruce: "Excuse me, this microphone is out of place"

He's like a bending unit from Futurama.
Bender's bend, Johnston's adjust.

[Lowbacca]

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Interviewer: "Now Bruce, Isn't it true that you wrote 'I Write the Songs' about Brian Wilson?"

Bruce: "Excuse me, this microphone is out of place"

[Pretty Funky]

Q&A's

http://dailytrojan.com/2013/10/27/qa-with-mike-love-of-the-beach-boys/

[HeyJude]

Q&A's

http://dailytrojan.com/2013/10/27/qa-with-mike-love-of-the-beach-boys/

The typos are a bit funny. Good to see they're happy with their musical director, "Scott Todd."  

Really? Mike *really* needs to name check "Full House" in a college Q&A? As if they actually booked a USC show because they played there one time, and it happened to be taped for "Full House?" Well, at least one of his answers actually mirrored what one of our joke captions could have been.

I like how someone either purposely or accidentally asked a bit of a loaded question by asking how they adapt to peforming without the other founding members. Bruce of course offered an answer that didn't really address that specifically, other than "we have a good musical director."

Good to see that as much as articles on Brian's tour overdramatize the atrocities of Mike's tour, this article also blatantly misleads in its intro in implying that Brian, Al, and David aren't on Mike's tour *because* they're on tour with Jeff Beck, as if it's a scheduling conflict.

[startBBtoday]

DT:  What advice do you have for aspiring songwriters?

BJ: Just do it. A song can from any place, and just if it’s the right song, it can be up on a chart one day. Just do it. A little inspiration: I have my funny inspiration…: Go to CVS and read the greeting cards. They’re great. And they have to get right to that message. It’s great discipline if you’re trying to pen a very commercial song.

It's all beginning to make sense.

[guitarfool2002]

DT:  The opening act of the concert is comprised of Thornton School of Music students who have written songs inspired by The Beach Boys’ style. Why do you think your music has remained popular across generations?

ML:  I think there’s a lot of warmth in the harmonies, and the feeling that you get when you hear that kind of harmony which we’re known for and we love doing. I think that is a warmth that transcends mountains and nationalities and language groups. It’s truly amazing. If we’re in Japan, we’ll start a song, they’ll hear just any of the songs, and they’ll just roar. … Harmonies, and the warmth of the harmonies, the blend, is really attractive to the ear.

Johnston: He’s being very humble because he wrote all the lyrics. You kind of have to have the lyrics to sing these songs, you know.

(COUGH...AHEM....)

[ontor pertawst]

Yes, those Beach Boys are known worldwide for their amazing, commercial lyrics which are the cornerstone of their success. It's a good thing Mike Love found the time to write all of them.

Thankfully, he's managed to keep humble about it.

EDIT: Sorry, very humble.

[SMiLE Brian]

I think they called the wrong members of the BBs for this event.

[Lowbacca]

DT:  The opening act of the concert is comprised of Thornton School of Music students who have written songs inspired by The Beach Boys’ style. Why do you think your music has remained popular across generations?

ML:  I think there’s a lot of warmth in the harmonies, and the feeling that you get when you hear that kind of harmony which we’re known for and we love doing. I think that is a warmth that transcends mountains and nationalities and language groups. It’s truly amazing. If we’re in Japan, we’ll start a song, they’ll hear just any of the songs, and they’ll just roar. … Harmonies, and the warmth of the harmonies, the blend, is really attractive to the ear.

Johnston: He’s being very humble because he wrote all the lyrics. You kind of have to have the lyrics to sing these songs, you know.

(COUGH...AHEM....)

Mike wrote "all the lyrics" . . ? Come on.