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I'm going to the Beach Boys show on Thursday and will be bringing some vinyl in hopes of getting it signed. Is there any chance to this or am I wasting my time.

It could happen if you're lucky.

Some years ago they played in Copenhagen and we were a few local fans who met up a couple of hours before the show in a meeting room at the venue. One of the guys went outside for some fresh air and bumped into Bruce who apparently was doing the same - so he told him about the small fan gathering and shortly thereafter Bruce popped in for a quick hello. He signed my copy of Friends.  :) Nothing planned - just sheer coincidence.

That sounds awesome.

If I meet Mike I'll definitely ask if he believes in Ghosts.

Tell him you also want your bike back.  ;D

Where's the bike, Mike? Where is it?

if you get to talk to Mike, make everything you say to him a SMiLE reference. I'm sure he'll love that :lol 

"Hey Mike... do you like worms? Or are you more of a vege-tables guy? I hear eating them keeps you in great shape, especially if you down it all with some cool, cool water. Well, it's Friday night and, gee, I don't want to distract you from giving a wonderful performance!  Just some advice (and don't think of me as the kind of guy who gives speeches), but if all of the tension between the heroes and villains in your life is making you feel like Mrs. O'Leary's cow, don't be afraid to take a holiday. You're welcome."

...I'm sure he'd appreciate that, yes.

oh my god. You win for funniest! bahahahahaha that was awesome.

How am I? Actually Mike I'm a little tired. Yeah this crow keeps crying "uncover the cornfield" everymorning at 5 am sharp

Lovely call... and you know what I think? Mike would actually have a real good laugh about that, once he'd grasped the joke.

Try getting up close and catching Bruce or Mikes attention around the last song, holding up the album and a pen.... and then making a gesture of handing the lp up on stage as they finish......that sort of thing has worked for us....
also, you might catch Scott (or John or Christian)in the wings or around the set at soundcheck....

I once talked a roadie into taking my lp backstage..and it was actually returned! :lol

you should also ask him when Summer In Paradise will be available for download in .flac format

I really don't know what I would do if I met Mike Love.

Me neither.

Shake his hand, ask him how he's doing?

Hide your daughter?

Or do what I did a few years back and hand him a close up photo (8x10, color), 2-shot, of Mike and me in the Austin Hilton lobby after the concert in 1969. Mike in his full garb of white sheets and long Maharishi-style hair. He knew he was the center of attention that evening in the hotel lobby.  He just stared at me and said, 'Where did you get this." The answer was self-explanatory. "Why Mike, it's you and me when things were happenin'!"
BTW, I've wanted to post this pic for years here, but it is SO personal.

If I met Mike I'd goad him into reissuing his solo works on CD-R, that is, if no label is interested. If Al and David can go the CD-R route, so can Michael Edward Love.

I'll ask him if I meet him. But I should ask Bruce too because I don't want to feel bad. Just because he's Bruce Johnston doens't mean he's not a human, GoogaMooga.

If you really want your bike back, you're gonna have to play it smart, as Mike is a sharp customer who knows every dirty trick in the book. Have you still got the hat that was dropped at the scene of the crime last week? Maybe you could arrange a trade off? Mike must be desperate to get his hat back after a week of going barehead, but just in case he tries any funny stuff, might I suggest you send him on a carefully predetermined route around town via ringing public phones, each time giving him another location he must reach by a certain time. Once you feel confident that he is not being tailed, you can give him the final meet up destination for the drop off. Then as an added plus you can ask him to sign your records for you and everyone walks away happy.

No disrespect but I really respect you, Mike's Beard. Do you really think Mike LOve will miss one hat?

yes. Mike has a psychic connection with all of his hats, and being too far away from them puts him under an incredible mental strain.

I think it's more the prinicpal of the matter. If word on the street were to get around that Mike was willing to let one of his hats go without a fight, then every two-bit punk would be trying to muscle in for a piece of Mike's hat stash.

Hopefully by this time tomorrow, summerinparadise.flac will be able give us the answer to the question that has plagued Beach Boy fans, critics, scholars and biographers for time out of mind - does Mike Love or does Mike Love not believe in the existence of ghosts?

-So Mike, tell me about the time you smoked dope with Dennis.

-Do you agree, Mike, that the Beach Boys died the day that Dennis died?

-Dennis was an awesome songwriter, wasn't he Mike? Don't you wish you had that kind of skill?

-What was your connection to Charles Manson?

I think you should interview Mike.

We're gona do do this sh*t.

A few things that I would do if I met Mike Love:

- Ask him to autograph my cd copy of BWPS.

- Offer him a football helmet explaining that "hats" are out and these are in.

- Ask him to autograph my left buttock.

- Offer him a good deal on a used bicycle, no questions asked.

- Fart very loudly and instead of apologizing say "damn, those ribs was good!".

- Roll my eyes like I didn't recognize him and say "what the f*** are you looking at, mister?".

waiting outside all alone. im scared mike will be angry if i ask about a ghost. what if he.s been haunted

I would ask Mike to get me a Diet Coke, please.

Maybe Mike's like The Ghost Whisperer, only without the cracking set of titties.

 :lol :lol

waited six hours without so much as eye contact. Feeling low.

The show was fantastic though. The young guys are all great and Mike's bass vocals are quite good at turning me on.
Bruce's voice is shot. He took the bridge on Surfer Girl and it was pretty rough. He did warm up a bit but his voice can't handle taking the leads. He did lead on the trio of Pet Sounds songs (Sloop, Wouldn't it Be Nice, God Only Knows). Sloop and Wouldn't it Be Nice were passable but no way should he be singing God Only Knows.

I think what happened was Mike recognised you as the guy who's bike he ripped off. He panicked, then had Bruce divert the crowd's attention with a twenty minute rendition of "Brand New, Old Friends" while he slipped out the back door and hightailed it over the border to Mexico till the heats died down.

Same thing happened to me at the Palm Springs show. Okay, I didn't wait 6 hours... I just wandered around the perimeter of the casino drunk a couple times and then gave up. But what a let down!  Not really, it was a great show.  One of the best nights of my life.

I stayed at a hotel across the freeway from the casino.  The next day as I was checking out, the girl at the desk had a list of "Expected Check-Outs" and Mike Love's name was on it, along with a room number.  It could have just been that he put someone up there under his name, but I stuck around for a while hoping he would emerge from room 135.  It was not to be.  And then I started to feel like a weirdo so I left.

Ever considered the possibility that someone in his organisation has been reading this thread and reported back to him that there's going to be some wierdo waiting outside who's going to ask him really dumbass questions about ghosts and bikes ?

I didn't say a thing

The "girl at the desk" showed you a list of "Expected Check Outs?"

And a "Room Number?"

Did anyone tell her that  hotel guests should their "privacy respected?"  :o     

In my case, I had to ply her with drinks and grand offers of stardom. 
Room numbers are somewhat important in these cases, wouldn't you say?
Privacy loss justgoes with the territory when you're the creator of the Beach Boys

No, it doesn't. 

Say, they are going through a casino/hotel in a "common area" (and not a discrete entrance/exit)- then, maybe they expect to see fans, and "might" stop for an autograph or photo.  That goes with the "territory." 

But, I think that they have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" when they pay for a room. 

Hotel staff are usually cautioned, or should be, that hotel guests should be accorded privacy as "guests" of the establishment.

I find it troubling that a hotel desk clerk would disclose a list of occupants and room numbers. 

It poses a security risk.  I would either "warn" or fire that clerk. 

     
   

i used to get them back in the day with no trouble at all. and not just the band members..the whole crew. some places gave them to me on hotel paper. all in knowing who to ask and how to ask, you see. made it quite easy to talk to them once you got to the right floor. handy info to have.

Don't you know by now that with the Beach Boys, no ordinary rules in any field of human endeavour whatsoever do apply?

Steve -

This is not "back in the day" and if a crew person did that it is one thing and should "not" be a problem.  

It matters "from whom" the info is coming.  

The problem is that it is "coming from the hotel employee" who is "an agent" for the hotel.  So, it conveys the message that the guest privacy means nothing and that there is no policy to protect a paying customer.  

Hotel (innkeepers) have a general "duty not to disclose your room number."  This came from a general website on "Smarter Travel."
(*not legal advice*)

I'm with AGD on this one.  I know everyone was probably joking about questions for Mike but still...those were some freaky questions and loving the music and the band that creates it is one thing - but being a crazed stalker is another.  I try to stay on the right side of the line.  As Foskett often says "Security..."

Call me crazy but I believe the Mike and Bruce and the band should be treated respectfully by the fans.  The music has been so good to me and that is just how I wish to show my thanks.  That said, humour always has a place...

I was at the show (it was great BTW) and I had the good fortune to go backstage before and after the show and spend time with the people who bring the music to life.  It was good fun.  Great guys.

BTW, Bruce did NOT sing the lead to Wouldn't It Be Nice (That was Randell Kirsch and John Cowsill on dual lead).  Bruce did sing lead on Please Let Me Wonder (as well as GOK, Surfer Girl bridge, first verse of Sloop, DYWD).

Highlights for me were:
John Cowsill going mental on the drums for Summertime Blues (wonderful drummer)
Scott's lead on Ballad of Betsy (especially the vocal harmonies at the end)
Mike bass vocal work all over the place and his lead on I Get Around in particular was beautifully arrogant (His vocalswere very strong last night)
Darlin
So Young (Randell has a sweet falsetto)

But the song of the night for me was Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring.  The Jubilee is a beautiful venue with great acoustics and hearing just Mike, Bruce, Scott, and Randell a Capella was other worldly good.  Those complex harmonies slay me.  Mike intro about Ron and Nancy was quite nice and sincere too.

If I get time I'll post the full setlist later.

Going to see them again tonight and tomorrow too.  Can't get enough of this music.

No way, the clerk didn't show me the list. It was just on the table. So I looked.

Thats possible. But:
#1: I never said I would ask him about bikes. That bike thing was an obvious joke about how everyone blames Mike Love for things that happen in the Beach Boys. "I thought jokes were supposed to be funny" premptive reply: I make jokes that I think are funny, I don't care if a dude a thousand miles away laughs.
#2: I don't know how the ghost thing is dumb.

The guest list did not belong on the table. 

Wrong-O Wrong-O Wrong-O! 

It belongs out-of-sight.  ;)

I hear you. Of course, now it just seems too convenient for the list to be sitting out like that. It's clear that ML was only a pawn in a scheme that was actually focused on me. The question being: who was trying to lure me, and why?

I think it was a kind of sex thing. Do you have a large penis? That smells good?

While the obvious answers to those questions are "unimpressively average, actually" and "depends on if I have ethnic food for breakfast," the truth of the matter is I would be very disappointed if it was a sex thing.  Even if a beautiful woman awaited me, having cleverly lured me with the ruse of a fake guest list. For I had fantasized that, had I gone into the hotel room, I would be transported back in time to ML's vocal sessions for "Sumahama," but (to my excitement) only arrived in time to hear the Japanese lyrics.

It would not be the first time that I've neglected a clever, beautiful woman because of my love of late '70s Beach Boys songs.

Well JEEZUS~!  You obviously spend enough time here to know how much Summerinparadise.fluc wanted to get somethiing signed. Since youre obviously connected, why didn't you message him and offer to get him something  signed by the band.
It would only have been respectful. You can still do it tonight or tomorrow....

The thought that Mike might be avoiding fans because he's heard that some nut may ask him if he believes in ghosts strikes me as immensely comical.

I still want him to sign my left buttock. What's wrong with that?

You guys ARE nuts, but I like it here.

If Mike signed my left buttcheek I'd never wash it again.

 :lol

I'm on my way to an audition for a job but before I go...

...more things I'd love to do when or if I meet Mike Love:

- Tell him The Beach Boys were good but not as good as Wishbone Ash.

- Ask him what the lyrics to "Cabinessence" are about.

- Offer him a coupon to a hair salon.

- Ask him if he ever considered teaching dance lessons?

- Secretly dose him with acid before the concert.

- Ask him "so, what was it like hanging out with Charlie Manson?".

- Steal his hat.

Anybody want to add more to these? It's harmless fun!

I'm not exactly sure what I would ask Mike, but it would probably have something to do with Shawn.  ;D

 :o

IDK if you're being sarcastic but this goes for everyone who think I'm a creep or dumby:

I'm a rock and roll man. I don't give a sh*t about what you think about me. While I wanted to meet Mike and Bruce I don't really give a sh*t about what they think of me. I'm a rock man, a cool guy. I talked to a girl once.

Also Rich, message me or update this thread with how the show is tonight. I'm sure it was great like last night but I wonder if there was anything different/cool about this show.