Uncut’s “Ask Mike Love”
SMiLE Brian:
He needs to interview him! :bw
The LEGENDARY OSD:
Quote from: Jay on March 18, 2017, 03:06:30 PM
OSD read an interview of Mike Love?!?!? :o
Sure, I scan them just to make sure he's still a phony and I'm never let down by that clown.
HeyJude:
Holy s**t, it's stunning how Mike's defense of Donald Trump reads almost VERBATIM like defenses I've seen written by Mike supporters defending Mike.
"Well, he never did anything bad to me, sooo....."
Ugggh.
Also worth noting is that in past years/decades, he has been critical of the President *on stage* in front of audiences. You can hear it on the 1993 Paramount NYC recording for instance.
Only good thing is that Mike is not really hedging about where he stands. Good to know, and hopefully fans will stop trying to parse what he does and says and try to claim he's *not* a Trump supporter.
Despite writing the predictable late-life "clearing up the fallacies" autobiography, what I find genuinely fascinating is that there's really no evidence Mike actually *does* care about how history will characterize him. As Howie Edelson once referenced, Mike seems prepared to be remembered as a hun, and now not only for his attitude towards Brian and the band's history, but also his choice to be supportive of a divisive figure (I'll forego the other descriptive names). It's hilarious, even after decades of hugging the Reagans and Bushes and being generally associated with Republicans, Mike had *still* managed to not taint his reputation too much specifically due to politics, but in the present day he seems oddly determined to paint himself in an even poorer light for history's sake.
HeyJude:
Quote from: Pablo. on March 18, 2017, 10:53:50 AM
Although my question about "Columnated ruins domino" wasn't included on "An audience with..." (I managed to ask a question to Ringo a couple of years back) the article is way much, much more interesting than your typical Mike Love interview.
Sample:
Few artists have been
bootlegged like The Beach
Boys. Are there plans to put out
any of theSunflower sessions,
or theLandlockedor the
Adult/Childrecordings?
ZoranTuckar,Zagreb,Croatia
I have fond memories of the things
we did onSunflower. But the company
that owns our masters, they’re always
looking for ways to put out editions, so
who knows? Sure, any well-known group
had a core of people absorbed in knowing
everything about everything. The people
into the archival things, they know which
songs were recorded by the guys in the
band and which ones were recorded by the
Wrecking Crew, and so on. There’s a lot of
lore and history and technicality involved
edit: of course, he must know that all these recordings he's asked for are property of BRI, not Capitol.....
Mike has, by his own words, never been terribly interested in the intricacies of reissues and archival releases. You can go all the way back to his feisty 1992 Goldmine interview where he professes ignorance as to what's going on with the BBs back catalog releases, and the interview laughs and Mike seems kind of annoyed that the interview is amused that Mike doesn't know this stuff.
All we can hope for is that better management at BRI get some good archival projects going, and hopefully they can just put the thing under Mike's nose and get him to sign off on it and then Mike doesn't have to be involved any further.
HeyJude:
Quote from: Pablo. on March 18, 2017, 01:29:37 PM
Have you read Brian’s book?
Peter Sharply, Leeds
No, I haven’t. Do I intend to? I don’t think
so. I’d rather just sit and have a chat with
Brian and hang out, like we did in the old
days when we were writing together. I
haven’t seenLove&Mercy, either, but the
one thing I do know is that my character
in that film was portrayed as objecting to
some element of an instrument on “Good
Vibrations” – which is made up. I was 100
per cent positive about “Good Vibrations”.
I came up with the chorus and wrote all the
words. I was mischaracterised.
"I haven't seen the movie, but here's something I'm going to complain about anyway...."
If Mike had seen the movie, he'd know that in the film he doesn't complain about an "element of an instrument", he's complains rather about Brian's perfectionist nature in recording the instrument. Not only has Mike by his own words professed to find the studio a tedious enterprise, but also that moment in the film actually humanizes him more and it's a moment that the audience can identify with.
I've had people tell me Mike is way more bent out of shape (which is a bummer for numerous reasons) about the "Love and Mercy" film, and his bringing up the film when the question was about Brian's book tends to reinforce this. I'm guessing he's annoyed the L&M soundtrack got released too. It's really disappointing and sad, and I truly wish Mike wasn't still capable of being so disappointing.
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