This interview was conducted with Mr. Love, when he phoned my house during his telemarketing job.
He introduced himself as "Mike" and I thought I recognized the voice,, when I interupted his copy toner
sales presentaion, he explained he did telemarketing in the off hours of his touring, to help pay the
many alimonies he owed. He sang a  song at my request, first allowing his supervisor to get on the line
and sing the high parts, he then agrreed to my interview for the History Of Rock program, which is quite
popular in my country. Thank you for you concern
Salutaions,
Peter Longe.

We asked Mike to discuss some of the other players who have been in THE BEACH BOYS

Brian- my cousin,yeah he did some background singing, and liked to be in the studio with the likes of Hal Blaine and Chuck Brits, because I hired nothing but the best for my records. Got real messed up on LSD, I think he moved in with a therapist for a while or something.

Carl-my youngest cousin, yeah he played the guitar with us on stage, and sang a couple of the less commerical tunes, he croaked a while back, too much smoke or something.

Dennis-another cousin, yeah he would come around sometimes. He was more into classical stuff, strings and things. I think he worked with Marilyn Manson for a bit too.

Al Jardine- Al? hmm doesnt really ring a bell, oh yeah, AL! he was in the group very briefly when we started, left to become a dental assistant or something, I remember he had a bad attitude.

Recently had a chance to sit down briefly with singer/songwriter/leader and founder of THE BEACH BOYS

 Rocker P: tell us about The Beach Boys

 Mike Love: In the early 60s, I started a group with my cousin, who liked to mess around on the piano, so I let him play to some lyrics I had written, we get the baby cousins to form a rhtyhm backing group, and my songs took off right away. Top of the charts,all those great songs I wrote. Now my cousin become a drug addict off of LSD, so we had my good compadre, BRUCE JOHNSTON, who tours with me to this day, 180 dates a year come aboard. In the later 60's, the baby cousins wanted more say in the group, so being the gracious guy I am, I let em take the lead for a bit, but the public just wasnt digging it like they did MY songs, we had a compilation of mostly my songs which I entitled Endless Summer come out, and it brought us back on top, we were a hot solid concert attraction that I led, and then another one of my songs Kokomo brought us even further to the top of the charts in the 80's.

Wilson employed seasonal musicians, barring the Beach Boys from ever playing a note on a single recording,with the exception of founder/co-writer Mike Love's saxaphone which was fearured on minor hits like "Shut Down","Darlin", and "Blueberry over the Mountain".Several of Wilson's "Wrecking Crew" as they were called went on to become Glen Campbell,The Captain and Tenille. These musicians figured promently on Wilson's "Pet Sounds", a drastic and nearly career killing opus which told the story of Wilson's fathers ailing health to a morose baroque musical theatre inspired background. History of Rock author Peter Longe spoke to Wilson about this recently: "Now on Pet Sounds, you went with a morose baroque musical theatre inspired background,right?"  "Yes." replied Wilson. The album confused most of the record buying public who associated the Boys with lighthearyed sand romps like "Chug-a-Lug" and "Karate", it yieled a minor hit in Sloop John B, a cover which Wilson derived from The Kingsmen, a group known by Al Jardine, who took his first lead vocal on "On Christmas Day".

Wilson's attempt to conquer the Beatles left him a drug addicted mental patient, comatose in his bed, while lead singer, co-writer and founder Mike Love led the group through concert tours keeping the group in league with The Rolling Stones and U2, as well as creating the groups best known hit "Kokomo". Wilson made a return to the public eye in the 1980s under the care of controversial guru Eugene Levy who used Wilson's name to create an album, that was mostly the work of studio musicians and yielded no hit singles. Courts ordered Levy and Wilson to seperate in the 90's, which saw Wilson release a gospel album called Imagination, mostly the work of a former wrestler who Wilson had met in Chicago. Wilson returned to live performance in 2004 backed by a Los Angeles folk group called The Wondertwins and a full orchestra,  as Wilson sat in a wheelchair, occasionaly singing along to  a recreation of the infamous "Smile" album, a song cycle simialr to the Beatles "Abbey Roads" and Pink Floyd's "The Wall", which had been brought back out of the archives as a result of Wilson's writers block. A contemporay christian album by Wilson followed in 2005.