Mike and Dennis

[Marcella]

did Denny do this more out of spite than love or the other way around? 

If you ask me it started in spite & turned into love but I wasn't there at the time!

[retrokid67]

did Denny do this more out of spite than love or the other way around? 

If you ask me it started in spite & turned into love but I wasn't there at the time!

yea me either of course but of all the girls that wanted him, even though at that point he looked older than Mike, (he was still Denny) I don't see why he would fall for her.  And with all the arguments they had I'm not surprised "she is her father's daughter"  maybe...

[urbanite]

It seems pretty reprehensible for DW to have gotten involved with her, but then again Dennis Wilson had little to no morals.  This is the same guy that messed around with Manson's women.  I have a growing appreciation for DW as a songwriter and singer, but he's the same old Hollywood story with a bad ending in his personal life, sleeping with endless women, booze and drugs. 

[retrokid67]

It seems pretty reprehensible for DW to have gotten involved with her, but then again Dennis Wilson had little to no morals.  This is the same guy that messed around with Manson's women.  I have a growing appreciation for DW as a songwriter and singer, but he's the same old Hollywood story with a bad ending in his personal life, sleeping with endless women, booze and drugs. 

I feel bad for his wives especially Barbara; you could tell he really loved her but at the same time, I don't see how he could cheat on someone like her, then again I wonder if she knew about it.  In Billy Hinche's "On the Road With The Beach Boys" film Denny was on the plane talking to al jardine about Barbara going out with some other guy and he was mad cuz he had no control over it.  I wonder if that was after the divorce or not.

[Tablevega]

Apologies if this is something everyone knows but I'm intrigued by what is going on at the end of Knebworth's Surfer Girl.  Dennis has spent the song needling Mike by cosying up to him, and Mike has been turning away and trying to ignore it, but at the end of the song Carl seems furious and lunges across the stage towards Mike, only to be grabbed by Dennis and pulled into a bow.  What was that about?  Was Carl feeling protective towards Dennis and resenting Mike ignoring him or what? That bit of film footage shows a very uncomfortable dynamic between Mike and Dennis but I can't see anything that would make Carl quite so angry. 

[Magic Transistor Radio]

Apologies if this is something everyone knows but I'm intrigued by what is going on at the end of Knebworth's Surfer Girl.  Dennis has spent the song needling Mike by cosying up to him, and Mike has been turning away and trying to ignore it, but at the end of the song Carl seems furious and lunges across the stage towards Mike, only to be grabbed by Dennis and pulled into a bow.  What was that about?  Was Carl feeling protective towards Dennis and resenting Mike ignoring him or what? That bit of film footage shows a very uncomfortable dynamic between Mike and Dennis but I can't see anything that would make Carl quite so angry. 

To me, it looked like Mike was smiling about it. Maybe there was tension there. Maybe Carl was making sure an altercation didn't occur. But to me, it looked like they were having fun.

[Andrew G. Doe]

I feel bad for his wives especially Barbara; you could tell he really loved her but at the same time, I don't see how he could cheat on someone like her, then again I wonder if she knew about it.  In Billy Hinche's "On the Road With The Beach Boys" film Denny was on the plane talking to al jardine about Barbara going out with some other guy and he was mad cuz he had no control over it.  I wonder if that was after the divorce or not.

Dennis & Barbara divorced August 1974. The tour footage was shot April/May the same year.

[retrokid67]

I feel bad for his wives especially Barbara; you could tell he really loved her but at the same time, I don't see how he could cheat on someone like her, then again I wonder if she knew about it.  In Billy Hinche's "On the Road With The Beach Boys" film Denny was on the plane talking to al jardine about Barbara going out with some other guy and he was mad cuz he had no control over it.  I wonder if that was after the divorce or not.

Dennis & Barbara divorced August 1974. The tour footage was shot April/May the same year.

oh...I see...so they were both cheating on each other...well in both cases it's wrong but he had it coming 

[Moon Dawg]

 Barbara is my favorite of Dennis's wives. Diane was attractive.

[retrokid67]

Barbara is my favorite of Dennis's wives. Diane was attractive.

yea it was clear that she was the best thing that ever happened to him it's too bad he ended up remarrying Karen of all people and not her