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https://www.thebeachboys.com/store/good-vibrations-illustrated-litho

I was browsing the Beach Boys site and found this in the online store.  I can't enlarge it so can't tell for sure, but it appears that the only recognizable band member is Mike, who appears four times and is clearly recognizable.  Nice. 

Open it in a new window and it will be bigger.
Or look at this:

(https://www.thebeachboys.com/sites/g/files/aaj771/f/styles/suzuki_breakpoints_image_mobile-lg_sq/public/product/201609/bb4.jpg?itok=z43ynqHu)

Looks like something that'd be mildly passable on deviantart.

These posters were being sold at the M&B shows this summer. It was a hard pass for me. The lack of quality Beach Boys merch at the past two M&B shows I attended was ridiculous.

I love that they wrote "excitations" on it.

Were they that bad then? lol

More goofy self idolatry from myKe luHv banking on casual fans thinking he alone wrote the song plus the tacky poster looks like it fell in the toilet.  ::)

Going in the mancave?

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Why in blue hell is Mike on this poster, four times? Seriously, and in three of those times, he's depicted in his mid-70s "I'm a rock and roll frontman"-phase. It's Brian's composition, and he deserves to be on this poster, definitely more than Mike. And anyways, isn't this a Beach Boys song, not a Mike Love solo record? Then can you justify why the remaining members of The Beach Boys aren't on this poster as well?

Wow! What a BS ego trip this thing is!

Exactly, it's the history rewrite in art form.

All You Need Is Love
All You Need Is Love
All You Need Is Love, Love
Love is all you need

That could have been really cool if all the Beach Boys were featured on it.

hahahhaaha

Wow. The Mike Love history revision train is in full effect. Where's Brian and the other Boys? 

How about a Pet Sounds poster with JUST Tony Asher on it?

This GV poster looks like something that a stoner kid in high school scribbled on their notebook.

(http://i63.tinypic.com/1zg2er.jpg)

Can't justify it at all

A real lemon. ;)

I saw this at the Kennedy Center in July and thought it was absurd. I didn't see a single soul buy one.

:lol

Good Vibrations came out in 1966, hippies and peace symbols came later.  I don't like the association.

Lovely fan art. Oh wait, that's merch? Ew.

Right.  Everyone ALWAYS associates the Haight/Ashbury scene with the Beach Boys.  San Francisco is their home town, right?!

 :lol

instructions to artiste:

"you can't have too many VW micro-buses, peace symbols, or sunflowers"

You really CAN'T have too many ;)

"Right" Billy [insert Filleplage rant here]

:lol

This is from August:

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee92/mbriev16/IMG_2955_zpsgwyrlx5q.jpg)

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee92/mbriev16/IMG_2953_zpslq2ctwhz.jpg)

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee92/mbriev16/IMG_2954_zpslaidzwta.jpg)

Yeesh

Where is AGD manning the merch stand? >:D

 :lol :lol  Ha! And not a customer in sight due to the guy wearing a cape and a pilgrim hat.

:lol

I must confess, I did buy the shirt with the bus on the front but hey...I like it! I was very put off by Mike selling so much Pet Sounds oriented merchandise though. There was also a shirt in DC with one of the shots from the zoo that wasn't used on the cover. That didn't leave a nice taste.

I like the logo on the hat on the right, reminds me of Love You!

Who would buy something from him?  >:D

Mike?

Yeah, that is pretty cool.



I must admit...I kind of like the one with the hippie van.

;D

I see what you mean now. Oh dear! lol

The white shirt with the "Pet Sounds 50th" looks very poorly made...

Agreed! :bw

The sleeves are uneven, and it looks like it would only fit a ten year old.

Wow, that poster is sooooo bad! Time to start firing some people again Mike  :hat

Oh wow.

Trying to figure out how a print like that can be sold on the official Beach Boys website, merch store and tables too, if it's only Mike pictured on the artwork. I can see such an item being offered on Mike's own site, but that's not a Beach Boys product. Unless I'm missing something.

Wasn't that *very* similar reasoning as to why Mike sued Brian in 2005?

Too San Francisco to be beach boys  ;D

Well, Mike is a member of The Beach Boys. I don't really see much of a problem with posters or t-shirts having only one member featured. What if it were only Brian, or only Al pictured?  Or even only Carl pictured? It wouldn't really give me much cause for concern. Just because it's not a full group shot doesn't mean they don't count.

If it's the band, should be more than one of the members. That was Mike's argument in 2005, but of course for him it was different because of his jealousy in regards to Brian.

If that's the case then it does seem a bit hypocritical. I'm not familiar with the 2005 case.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beach-boys-brian-wilson-finally-defeats-one-of-mike-loves-dubious-lawsuits-20070514

Here's the original story

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/60785/mike-love-sues-brian-wilson-over-smile

While the term “hippie” and the peace symbol burst into the popular culture scene in 1967, both were around in late 1966 when Good Vibrations was released, especially in San Francisco.

Concerning the poster, IMO it's a damn shame that Mike is the only BB pictured, just as it's as damn shame that Mike's image was carefully cropped out and removed from the numerous photos of the group in Brian's current Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary tour program.

Really? Wow...

Haven't seen the tour program...is he really the only member not pictured?

Not got it handy but no Bruce either from memory.

Correct, Mike is neither pictured nor mentioned anywhere in the program, and Bruce is not pictured either. Most of the group photos in the program are from the San Diego Zoo photo shoot, and while Bruce did appear in some of those, he was not present in most. In the program numerous artists offer their perspectives on Pet Sounds, and one of them (don't recall which one) mentions Bruce, so his name does appear in print once in the program. (It's important to note that Bruce was not presented to the public as an official BB at that time, but rather as Brian's fill-in on the road.) Al is one of the musicians offering his perspective on Pet Sounds. "The families of Carl and Dennis Wilson" are mentioned under "Special Thanks" but while there is a section where many Pet Sounds session musicians offer their comments, there is no such section in the program highlighting the Pet Sounds vocalists, i.e. the members of The Beach Boys. I'm presuming this occurred so as to avoid any mention of Mike. Couple that with the second-rate Good Vibes poster featuring only Mike's image and, like I said, IMO it's all a damn shame.

Brian has got to be in there somewhere but my main issue is with the awful amateurish nature of the poster. I mean...horrible stupid SF cliche... pay some decent artist or hire someone who is at least somewhat up to date as to what is considered acceptable merch. Mike has admitted he doesn't know how to use a smartphone so I presume most tech is difficult...no problem with that but he needs someone who is aware of what is expected of a band such as the Beach Boys. The merch at BW shows has been good overall but has declined in quality over the years IMO but it was never as dumb as this crap.

Besides being an egomaniacal  tool,  this poster backs up the fact that myKe luHv is a well known cheapskate.

The worst part about is how horribly generic it is, the only real connection it has to The Beach Boys is Mike, the lyric snippets, and the license plate on the van. Nothing else about it screams ''Beach Boys'', and even though GV is one of the psychedelic anthems of the 60's, the general public does not associate the BBs with the 60's counterculture, certainly not the audience attending a M&B show, for the most part. Although it's a pretty uninspired shirt in general, it'd still do much better without any BBs iconography on it.

The difference is Brian is and has been touring under his own name, and who knows what stipulations there are regarding using the other band members' images in an official Brian Wilson item sold as merch for his tours. It was one of the keystones of the 2005 lawsuit, that one of Mike's claims in '05 was that his image was used as part of an old BB band photo on a giveaway release featuring Brian.

The fact that this is sold on the Beach Boys website as official band merch is what raises an eyebrow, if Mike were selling these on his own website he could put as many images of himself in such a print as he wanted, but this is sold as Beach Boys merch on their website.

I'm just wondering how it slipped through.

Mike is the BBs... ::)

Yeah, but the difference here is that the 2005 release was a BW solo recording that featured a pic of all the BBs. The BW Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary tour program, on the other hand, is basically a retrospective of the creation of the album, with only one of the 24 pages having info on the current touring band. But you do bring up an interesting point, perhaps there are some stipulations, or concern of a potential lawsuit, preventing Mike's image from appearing. But I can't help but thinking both the BW program and the Good Vibes poster, featuring only Mike's image, reflect the sorry state of relations between the two camps these days. Don't know if it'll ever happen, but I'd love to see the C50 lineup get back together again.

I would avoid using Mike's image at all costs after the 2005 lawsuit.

...and a member of The Grateful Dead apparently.

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