Only 36 hours to go, Mike is surely prepping his phone call to the manager about what may soon be a grave injustice

The real question is which was the bigger injustice...not having credits on a bunch of songs until the ‘90’s, or not getting the award?

Poor pitiful Mike Love. 

Can BRI impeach Mike Love? 

Maybe this will help to keep that clown out of the studio and prevent him from releasing the pathetic garbage he spews. But, knowing his ego problem, I fear there's more of his crap that the world will be exposed to. 

Well whatayaknow, a new moderator!! And, a Mike Love apologist which means he's a brainwashed fool of a fan to boot. What a guy this kid is.  

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I think that’s the look Mike has when reading OSD’s posts!

Not finding a reason to ditch Mike Love before he grabbed more power than he ever should have. There were far better replacements available to the group that would have been a better fit and would have been 10,000 times less trouble than that douchebag. 

I feel like anytime after Surf's Up they could've called it quits. And I say that only from a "critical standing" standpoint. No music critic in recent years has lauded the brilliance of BB85, or even Love You to an extent. The experimental rock influence of 'All I Wanna Do' is part of the pinnacle of the post-Pet Sounds era. But they never really achieved anything like that after Surf's Up. Don't get me wrong, I think there are gems on pretty much every post-Surf's Up album (definitely not counting Summer in Paradise) but those gems aren't anything a music critic would freak out over.

However, those gems are personally some of my favorite moments in The Beach Boys career. So to us fans that live and breathe The Beach Boys, we need every minute of their amazing and fractious career, and to music critics I feel like The Beach Boys could've hung it up after Surf's Up and their standing would be the same as it is today.

Well put, Rab. We do need every bit because those moments are getting fewer and fewer with each passing year. I would add that the break up should have taken place sometime between the unfortunate passing of Dennis and Carl. That situation fueled Mike Love's mission creep to capture the group and add his awful spin and send it down the oldies road to the terrible rickety, tacky skeleton it is today.

I think these clips prove that the recent Drive In show was a fluke...

Sloop/WIBN: https://youtu.be/OyVRuQQ9OxI

Bruce KILLS the lead. Sounds strong, considering his age.

California Sun: https://youtu.be/7PqP9hUGpNk

Mike sounds like Mike f*ckin Love!!! Not the warbly mess from the drive in show. A little shaky? Yeah, but still sounds fabulous.


Interesting, and to me very pleasing, to see Randell filling in for Scott. He’s an excellent singer, guitarist, bassist whose played with BBs, J&D, BW band, Dean/Alan/David “allstar” band— definitely earned his stripes. Of the best (non BW falsettos/BW Imitation)  my list goes in order goes  Al (62-early 80’s), Ike, Kirsch, Baker (on a good day), and lastly Foskett. That’s not to say I don’t love Jeff’s voice, but his mid range is where he shines in my opinion, and the falsetto could be very pitchy at times, my two cents.... a long tangent to say, that I’m happy to see Kirsch back in the picture, even if only temporary. All these sidemen are obviously so dedicated to the music, given that when they leave the BBs/Solo/J&D bands, they start/join tribute  bands.


Anyway, in my opinion the horrible vocals of the Drive In show were probably a combination of Mike being under the weather (G-d willing, not Covid) and shitty monitoring. And The Beach Boys, as a touring band, still seem to be a fabulous Unit.

BOTH Bruce and Mike sound like they're singing from their deathbeds. They both need to retire to their rocking chairs in an assisted living facility. Mike Love could barely reach down and pick up something. Knowing that clown, he'll still try in vain to perform when he's in hospice which could be any day. 

If those recent Utah shows were sold at full capacity with no gaps in seating, then that's even *crazier* than I thought.

All Mike cares about is how many tickets he sells.

If he can get away with it, he will, that is his go-to mentality.

Very good, CD! I see you're starting to see through this jackass. 

All of this talk of Feel Flows reminds me of this Feel Flows homage from a band called Maple Mars.  What if Feel Flows met Pet Sounds...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB-0mEi3IOs

EoL

Real nice!! Thanks for that EOL.

Get OSD on stage with him! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oZSAQX2uuUY

I'd go for that in a heartbeat but his inflated, outrageous, annoying, insidious ego would hog the entire stage. 

Mike was a drunken asshole that night....

  And another thing, amazing how everyone he called out in that tirade are leagues ahead of that crumb in the talent department. The same goes for when he talks smack about Brian who we all know is several solar systems ahead of that drip. I would have loved to see a couple of security guards haul him out of the building and into the dumpster. 

Skimmed through it on YouTube and looks like Mike’s appearance was limited to a brief message to Jerry Lee at 26:09: https://youtu.be/SuMxwL4Mvm0?t=1568

How horrible was that? He can't even sing Happy Birthday without sounding like he's got 20 fluid ounces of phlegm in his old worn out throat. Man, one foot in the grave the other on a banana peel. 

Mike seems to be the only artist with a group name attached as a reminder of who he is. Being on the same list as John Fogerty, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards (to name a few) that’s gotta hurt his ego. 

I love the ego comment. 60 years in and his identity has to be "defined". 

How anyone in their right mind could be interested in this fake, watered down sham of what is called The Beach Boys is beyond any logical type of reasoning. It absolutely displays how dutifully stupid and naive the general public can be. And how dumb is it that people actually think that Mike Love is the official bearer of the group name after he has dragged the legacy through the stinking muck with the likes of Stamos and other non talents that appear on stage with this clown. It has gone far beyond removing the license from this gawd awful jackass and either retire the name or give it back to Brian  who is the ONLY one to whom it should belong. It's time to put Mike Love down where he belongs and let him perform under his own Gosh Darn name and quit trying to fool those poor pathetic followers that HE is The Beach Boys. 

The roast of Mike Love...

  Would enjoy all of them making bacon strips out of that pig. 

A couple of new guests have been announced:


Ringo Starr, Keith Richards, John Fogerty, Andy Grammer, Kris Kristofferson and Peyton Manning have just been added to the lineup of "Whole Lotta Celebratin’ Goin’ On: 85 Years of The Killer."


https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/10/20/jerry-lee-lewis-85th-birthday-keith-richards-ringo-starr-join/5988514002/?fbclid=IwAR3jI8Pi5Cj2XmxUyLmLKUppMmVcz4de79ytUA-3KvnlJFlBIJaTKDjB-3s

Oh boy!! More stars for Mike Love to insult. Wouldn't it be great if they all insulted that dick one by one??

And even if Mike Love didn't actually say DFWTF, he absolutely thought it. But I'm thinking he actually not only said it, but had quite a bit more to say about it that we will never know about. 

He’s going to sing “Got to Know the Woman,” mention it was written by his cousin, and announce the release of Feel Flows.  


EDIT: In all seriousness, I am pretty excited for the entire show.

Or, if he forgets to meditate, he could start calling out all the guests. 

Sweet vindication for me and OSD!

Why not bitter or sour vindication ?

 You would enjoy being vindicated even if it means we all miss out ?

I’m sure you would prefer we don’t miss out, but this attitude suggests otherwise.

That's just about the most effed up response to a post that I can think of unless you're trying to out do AGD here. Of course we feel vindicated!! And even if Mike Love  is not the reason for the holdup, he's rich white trash and both SB and I have been attacked without mercy for trying to make people understand that Mike Love is only out for one person and that's his own lonely ego infested grudge holding overpaid self. You owe an apology for your insidious remarks.

OSD just had a heart attack...

  Just placed 2 pills under my tongue. Good for another 25 years!

One quick comment: people might believe Brian really cared about the NPP songs (and other recent solo stuff) if he had continued to play them in his concerts. Instead, it comes across like "okay, I know I'm supposed to record some new music occasionally so I don't get labeled as an oldies act, so we're going to play a couple new songs....you might want to run to the restroom now cause we'll get back to playing the hits in a few minutes".
(okay, i'm gonna run and duck for cover) 

I very much miss the inclusion of 'Sail Away' in the setlist and would love for it to be included again...that was a real gem to hear in concert. Part of me realizes that they have seats to fill and they probably know they're not going to fill them by playing Brian's solo stuff - and while I absolutely would love to hear 'Sail Away' again, my favorite part of the concert will always be the tail end 5 Beach Boys songs that rock the house. They probably know the biggest draw to seeing Brian in concert is The Beach Boys material.

Given the recent Nate Ruess story, and other stories regarding the recording of NPP, I am completely convinced that Brian did care a lot about that album...regardless of them not playing any NPP songs in years.

On another note, I wish that Brian and VDPs would do a small tour together. VDP's Live At The Ashgrove is one of my favorite albums - VDPs can really put on a show, and he has a charming and wonderful voice. Would love to hear them do some songs from OCA together with an orchestra, and some TLOS songs where VDPs can read the narratives he wrote, and sprinkle in some SMiLE songs, Sail on Sailor.

I think Brian could include half a dozen of his solo songs in his show and not have to worry about it hurting ticket sales. Not every song in the song has to be a "get them on their feel clapping and stamping their feet" song; it's okay to have some quieter moments in a show.
There was some talk back in 1995 - by Van Dyke - of doing some concerts featuring OCA material, along with some of the other songs they had collaborated on - Heroes and Villains was mentioned. That would have made for a very nice evening of music, with Van Dyke telling some of the stories behind the songs. Today, I'm not even thinking about concerts; not until this evil covid virus is dead and gone.

Yeah, I see what you're saying. I wouldn't mind hearing 'Desert Drive', 'Lay Down Burden', and other solo tunes from over the years in his shows. Part of me wonders if Brian likes to think of his band as The Beach Boys...as in, if he can't currently be one of touring Beach Boys he can at least emulate them. Perhaps that would explain the BB heavy setlists over the decades of him being a solo act.

Thanks for that info about VDPs...it would be nice if, after Covid goes away, VDPs would want to celebrate the OCA anniversary by doing some of those concerts, 25 years after the initial idea.

Rab, if this makes any sense at all, I tend to believe that Brian and his incredible band ARE The Beach Boys far more than the Mike Love led incarnation. 

M&B 2020 deep cut!

  Yeah, as in way over their heads!!