Mike Interview - Broward Palm Beach New Times 2/25/16

[Lee Marshall]

So here we go again.  Doin' the negative thing yet again...and there'll be more and more of these up to and including when 'the book' oozes out onto the shelves of the unsuspecting book stores who'll dish copies off to shoppers expecting the Endless Summer Story but who'll instead read the 'love drivel' and get so wrongheaded a viewpoint of what and who the sand pail sailors are/were that the image of the Beach Boys will be tarnished and  ruined...perhaps forever.

At least with Mick and Keith it was more a Mick has a tiny ding dong/No I don't kind of thing.

It remains ever-so-difficult to be positive when Mike-Eddie keeps whizzing on the camp fire.  And he does it with increasing frequency.  "Damn the torpedoes!!!   There's money to be made with my fable."  What a selfish, ungrateful and evil piece of 'work' this bald headed freak has turned out to be.  I wish him nothing.  [but the worst.]
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And now...Mike-Eddie employees will swoop in to the rescue.

[CenturyDeprived]

Mike's contributions to Good Vibrations are the chorus/hook (which he understandably sees as a big deal), yet when Cali Girls comes up, he wrote "all" of it, omitting Brian's contribution of that song's chorus/hook, which quantity-wise in relation to the song is the exact same portion of GV that Mike says was such an important part of that song.

Stealing away Brian's lyrical contribution to Cali Girls is not a way to correct a past wrong in anybody's book.

Mike wrote the whole lyric to Good Vibrations except the "good, good, good, good vibrations" vocal part (and presumably some of the bops and oohs).

I might have my facts wrong about what part of GV he wrote then. I was just quoting Mike's own words in the article, where he said:

"I contributed the chorus to ‘Good Vibrations.’"

But my point about the obvious over-reaching on Cali Girls still stands, right? Mike himself recently said he wrote the lyrics *except* for the chorus. How does that, one interview later, become ALL the lyrics?

[Chocolate Shake Man]

 What a selfish, ungrateful and evil piece of 'work' this bald headed freak has turned out to be.  I wish him nothing.  [but the worst.]

I feel like you need to go to Fran's diner on College for a milk shake to shake off this negative vibe. 

[SMiLE Brian]

Can add some write the forward to Mike's book?

[CenturyDeprived]

Can add some write the forward to Mike's book?

 

[Lee Marshall]

Can add some write the forward to Mike's book?

    Here's an advance look at the copy SB.   

Don't think Frans'll get the taste outa me mouth CSM

[SMiLE Brian]

I can't wait for it!

[Chocolate Shake Man]

Don't think Frans'll get the taste outa me mouth CSM

Haha. Fair enough. To be honest, now that there's a fellow Torontoite on the board, I just like being able to make these references.

[Lee Marshall]

I did the old Frans many times but the St. Clair location was right across the road from the radio station...so I went there way more.  Mind you I went to Jingles [II] way more often than that.

[Chocolate Shake Man]

I did the old Frans many times but the St. Clair location was right across the road from the radio station...so I went there way more.  Mind you I went to Jingles [II] way more often than that.

Sorry I know this is way off-topic everyone, but what station was it?

[Pretty Funky]

"The reason that history has gotten it wrong, claims Mike Love, was because he wasn't credited properly. "That will be gone over plenty when I write my book.”

Jeeez.....Couple this with his already stated mention that the book will cover his interest in TM and I'm starting to think I was a little hasty on Rocky's epic!

 

[Lee Marshall]

I did the old Frans many times but the St. Clair location was right across the road from the radio station...so I went there way more.  Mind you I went to Jingles [II] way more often than that.

Sorry I know this is way off-topic everyone, but what station was it?

Worked at CHUM and then up at 99.9.  Horrible area.  Hard to find a decent place to park that didn't involve paying a ransom.  Hung in 'til radio forgot about the audience in the mid 90s.  Now?  I just do it for the fun of it...off the radar.

Nobody's been too hasty with regard to Rocklette's 'piece de resistence' PF...especially not 'tiny' himself.  Cue the Jeopardy theme song.

[Eric Aniversario]

Nothing terribly unique or new on this one (songwriting credits, L&M movie, etc.), but it was slightly interesting to read the writer mention:

"We’re warned not to incite his ire by making mention of the rift with Wilson"

Obviously, we don't know who offered the warning, though my first impression is that it was someone the writer had to go through to talk to Mike. I guess he could mean just random colleagues or fans offered the friendly warning, but if any managers/agents/PR people are asking that of writers, that's interesting (not scandalous or nefarious, just interesting).

So I guess it's gonna be a bit more awkward continually showing big screen pictures of Brian at shows, when Brian is now banished to not even being able to be talked about in interviews. Like he doesn't even exist. Yeesh.

It is so, so incredibly sad that it has gotten to this point.

I think he'll still show the images.

But I did notice that, when I saw Mike and Bruce a week ago, Mike mentioned Al, Carl, and Dennis at various parts, but didn't make any of his usual mentions of "Cousin Brian." 

Just curious, in what context was Al's name brought up? My guess is during the introduction to Pisces brothers or All This Is That.

[The Shift]

Ah a new interview.

I'd like to invoke gripes 3, 76, 32(a) and 45(a, ii)…

… and round off with joke 465 - that always gets a laugh!

[JK]

Ah a new interview.

I'd like to invoke gripes 3, 76, 32(a) and 45(a, ii)…

 

[Andrew G. Doe]

Ah a new interview.

I'd like to invoke gripes 3, 76, 32(a) and 45(a, ii)…

… and round off with joke 465 - that always gets a laugh!

Excellent.

[Lee Marshall]

   That's how to do it John.   

[Micha]

Ah a new interview.

I'd like to invoke gripes 3, 76, 32(a) and 45(a, ii)…

… and round off with joke 465 - that always gets a laugh!

  That's how to do it John.   

No, no, no, no, no, it should be gripes 4, 39(b) and 54 of course! And joke 284 would fit much better here. Why does it always have to be joke 465??? John, you're just dead wrong.

[Smilin Ed H]

Ah a new interview.

I'd like to invoke gripes 3, 76, 32(a) and 45(a, ii)…

… and round off with joke 465 - that always gets a laugh!

Motion passed.

[clack]

I'm looking forward to Mike's book -- there are still mysteries on how that whole Mike/Brian/Murry dynamic worked. I always envision Lucy yanking away the football each time Charlie Brown, trusting as always, tries to kick it. "I know we denied you credit on the last 4 hit singles you co- wrote, but just give us the lyrics to 'California Girls' and your name will be on the record label for sure this time, promise!"

Dish the dirt, Mike. I meditate myself, and I know TM has been very important in your life, but reading about it in detail is dull. Cover the subject in your Maharishi/India/Beatles chapter, then keep any further mentions brief and to the point.

[Doo Dah]

Totally off topic, but did anyone see the link to another Broward Palm Beach article on the Beach Boys? It concerns a concert back in '82. Crazy Brian, drunk Dennis stories...

http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/music/backstage-in-south-florida-the-beach-boys-good-vibrations-turned-bad-6415322