Mike Love Concert Caustic Comment and Comedy Thread.

[Dancing Bear]

'We can't all be Wilsons!'"

RIMSHOT Oh that Mike... 

[Aegir]

From a recent concert:

"This song was written by my cousin Dennis."
(audience cheers wildly)
"Save it, he's not here!"

[RONDEMON]

Somebody should really make a comp of hilarious Mike stage banter.
For example this one of Paul Stanley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxivUlXK8Q0

ROCK N' ROLL PNEUMONIA!!!!!!!

[Alex]

Can't forget "We shortened the name of this song from California Girls Are Pregnant...", "We've got excellent financing available for the Box Set.", "Those striped shirts we used to wear were getting pretty smelly...", "Justin Timberwolf and those boys from N-stink...", "We were on a tour bus with the Buffalo Springfield and got all drunk and stoned and stuff...", "How 'bout a car song? Take ya back to your adolescence!", singing "don't like 'em" in the middle of Vegetables...

[Pretty Funky]

From a recent concert:

"This song was written by my cousin Dennis."
(audience cheers wildly)
"Save it, he's not here!"

Now thats good!

[Shady]

"The Beach Boys have continued to do, about, we did about 180 performances last year. I'd like to see the Mop-Tops match that! I'd like to see Mick Jagger get out on this stage and do I Get Around versus Jumpin' Jack Flash, any day now. And I'd like to see some people kick out the jams, and I challenge the Boss to get up on stage and jam.

[LittleSurferGirl]

I like Mike's jokes. Even when they're not funny. It wouldn't be the same band without them, in my opinion.

I agree.

[hypehat]

"The Beach Boys have continued to do, about, we did about 180 performances last year. I'd like to see the Mop-Tops match that! I'd like to see Mick Jagger get out on this stage and do I Get Around versus Jumpin' Jack Flash, any day now. And I'd like to see some people kick out the jams, and I challenge the Boss to get up on stage and jam.

I like how Mike, given the oppurtunity to call any popstar he likes a lazy good-for-nothing, chooses to insult The Beatles, and two of the greatest live acts of all time 

[Pretty Funky]

To be balanced, I wonder why he didn't include Brian (standing with him) in that rant?

[The infamous Baldwin Organ]

I don't think those comments are nearly as offensive as they're generally made out to be.

The Beach Boys have been around for a very a long time, and continue to put on a great show night after night; I think that's all he's trying to say. Maybe he could've had better word choice, but that is the feeling I get from those comments. (Again, my opinion).

[TdHabib]

Sorry, just to digress I wanted to include one of my favorite Dennis quotes, introducing "Surfer Girl" in 1977, Largo:

"This one is for all of the ladies here tonight. Even Michael."

[SG7]

Somebody should really make a comp of hilarious Mike stage banter.
For example this one of Paul Stanley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxivUlXK8Q0

ROCK N' ROLL PNEUMONIA!!!!!!!

That. Was. Amazing.

 

[Outie 315]

 MEL On The Move:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJNFGuKdIDk

[Alex]

I don't think those comments are nearly as offensive as they're generally made out to be.

The Beach Boys have been around for a very a long time, and continue to put on a great show night after night; I think that's all he's trying to say. Maybe he could've had better word choice, but that is the feeling I get from those comments. (Again, my opinion).

I thought he was trying to call all those rock stars out for a fight!!!

[donald]

The Wit and Wisdom of Mike Love........This could fill a book.

But you know, aside from Dennis, no one else in the band ever really talked much to the audience.  SOMEONE has to be the "front" man.  Or woman.  I think of Grace Slick insulting audiences worldwide and embarrasing herself and the band many times albiet in an altered and/or  drunken state.

And lets not forget the motor mouths of Lennon and Crosby over their careers.

Just sayin..... 

[Aegir]

In the early 70s, Bruce used to talk to the audience a lot, too.

[donald]

True.  I remember now that you mention it.  When I saw them last year he said little or nothing.  He got up and led clapping briefly and then sat back down at the keyboard

[Rocker]

 MEL On The Move:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJNFGuKdIDk

Cool. What exactly did he say around 4:10 about some PBS-special ?

[Dave in KC]

In the early 70s, Bruce used to talk to the audience a lot, too.

Oh he sure did. When the audience wouldn't stop yelling for oldies during Sunflower songs, Bruce got mad. He said, " I'm getting really pissed off at you people who won't shut up and let us play some new songs for you." I was shocked a bit, but not as much as my first Beach Boy concert in 1968 when Mike said between songs, " Boy, our sound guy really sucks tonight."

[The infamous Baldwin Organ]

That's a really good way to ruin your performance!

[TdHabib]

Bruce's comments during the Grateful Dead/BB show are cringe-worthy. Very cringe-worthy.

[Shady]

Bruce's comments during the Grateful Dead/BB show are cringe-worthy. Very cringe-worthy.

I know, I like Bruce, I think he's talented but my god, that guy has never been cool.

Has anyone said the Mike at Knebworth quote, just before cotten fields he says something like 'you can blame Al Jardine for this song' 

[Dave in KC]

Yes he's Bruce Johnston, a Beach Boy, and I experienced both flavors of his personality. Example: tracked hin down to a restaurant in Austin after a concert in 1969 and he signed the Friends album for me with a smile. Numerous times backstage over the years, he just glanced in my direction with no words. What took the cake though was when he stuck his head in my car before heading into his hotel to chastise my wife and me for keeping the kids out so late. And he was really serious. I had advance knowledge of their plane coming in on a Friday night and I knew the hotel. We followed the vans and I got my ass chewed out. Carl, by the way, waved and shouted hello with a big grin. Mr. Mom, Bruce Johnston.

[Nicole]

Has anyone said the Mike at Knebworth quote, just before cotten fields he says something like 'you can blame Al Jardine for this song' 

I'm watching that concert right now, so I'll listen for that one. He just said the, "Put your hands together, as they say," that Aegir mentioned

[Jay]

I can think of two. At the CBS Convention in 1977, Mike says something like "And now we're gonna bring out THE MAN! I'm talking 'bout my CUZ!". For some reason, I always thought it sounded pretty cool , the way he yelled out THE MAN!  Another really cringe-worthy one is during the intro to SDT(I think?) from Carnage Hall, 1972. He was talking about the audience clapping, and said something like "I mean, if  you're not into it, you're not into it. If you can't get behind it, you can't get behind it", in a really goofy voice.