Mike Love memoir due 2016

[Terry]

Here we go!

http://www.kptv.com/story/27430978/mike-love-has-book-deal-memoir-due-out-in-2016?autostart=true

[ontor pertawst]

I for one hope he finally breaks his silence about that time he met some Beatles in India.

Love the pic they went with on this:

[bgas]

Hope it really gets published before 2525

[HeyJude]

If this ever comes out, the small Beach Boys-themed corner of the internet will explode. Literally.

Naturally, Mike will have Jason Fine on board for his book.

Actually, now that I think about it, to follow-up on the coup of getting Jeff Foskett in his band, I predict Mike will be working with David Leaf, with a foreward by Van Dyke Parks.

In related news, Al Jardine...... still lives in Big Sur.

Surely this will coincide with a "Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary" reunion tour. 

[Andrew G. Doe]

It'll come out: been in the works over a year.

[alf wiedersehen]

I look forward to reading this for so many reasons.

[Terry]

I'm excited about the possibility. I've been seeing a side of him that I never have before from reading his Facebook posts. If the sensitivity and candor that some these posts show are any indication, we should have a good read on our hands.

[SMiLE Brian]

sh*t is going to get real on the board once this comes out.

[job]

It'll come out: been in the works over a year.

It's been in the works for over a year and won't be out until over a year from now?  Who's he got writing it, Bree Walker?

[GhostyTMRS]

Mike's been talking about this in interviews lately. God help this board!!

[SMiLE Brian]

Lurkers of the board, get out of here while you still can!

[Heysaboda]

Here we go!

http://www.kptv.com/story/27430978/mike-love-has-book-deal-memoir-due-out-in-2016?autostart=true

 

[Rocket]

Oh, now THIS should be interesting!!!

[Shady]

Amazing..

It's going to be ripped to shreds on this board.

[HeyJude]

I was actually kind of hoping Brian's book deal would just kind of fade away, and none of these guys would, in the twilight of the band's career, go down the path of writing these types of books. Unless these books are whitewashed to the point of utter blandness, I don't see this helping group relations particularly (to say nothing of fans). The track record of other bands writing dueling "memoirs" is not super great, and they seem to very rarely truly alter anyone's perception of the individual.

Rather than these self-serving, sometimes axe-grinding memoirs, I wish someone would do what Mark Lewisohn has done for the Beatles and write the epic, all-encompassing biography this band needs, and have it coming from someone who knows their s**t but isn't writing it from one point of view.

[HeyJude]

Amazing..

It's going to be ripped to shreds on this board.

I'm not worried about a scenario where the book is well-written and actually written with some humility and not from a place of uber-defensiveness. If it's a good, fair, accurate book, even if it obviously leans towards a focus on Mike, I think it will be recognized as such by the scholars and students of the band here, by pretty much everyone but perhaps the most troll-ish of fans.

I'm more worried about the scenario where the book is demonstrably inaccurate, or unfair, or groan-inducing (such as the majority of Mike's print interviews), and fans who point this out are then immediately pegged as "anti-Mike."

I just don't see anything good coming from this unless the book just literally BLOWS everybody's mind with revelatory clarifications and jaw-dropping humility.

[Cyncie]

Is it too early to pop the popcorn?

[Andrew G. Doe]

Amazing..

It's going to be ripped to shreds on this board.

But of course. Whether it deserves it or not. 

[EgoHanger1966]

Drinking game. A shot every time:

the phrase "my cousin and i" is used.
Mike alludes to Dennis being a man whore.
the word "positivity".
The Wilsons were into drugs, i wasn't.

continue...

[EgoHanger1966]

i gave the Beatles the idea to use the girls from all the countries in Back In The USSR.
cousin Brian stayed in his room.
Mike sings the praises of Uncle Jesse.

[SMiLE Brian]

You will kill us all,man!-hypehat

[Mikie]

Let Mike's list of excuses/justifications begin.....

[18thofMay]

Drinking game. A shot every time:

the phrase "my cousin and i" is used.
Mike alludes to Dennis being a man whore.
the word "positivity".
The Wilsons were into drugs, i wasn't.

continue...

Not enough liquor in the world!!

[CenturyDeprived]

The real question is if the book can be perceived as anything but a measure of damage control and competition, due to its timing. Does anyone really think this book would be written and released at all (let alone in the next year or so) if not for "Love and Mercy" and Brian's upcoming bio?  

[urbanite]

Yes, I think it would be coming out without the Brian movie and book.  Didn't Mike tell a British newspaper a while back that there are a lot of fallacies about me.  I think he has some scores to settle.  I'd like to read about the the time he fasted and had to be brought to the hospital, and what it was like to have a daughter married to your bandmate.