Mike Love talks about C50 shows (March 26)

[Wild-Honey]

Hmm interesting discussion.  From a female point of view, no the BB's are not sexy in the least, but that's not so bad, what I think what they lacked is charisma.  Apart from Dennis (who was stuck at the back)  they were all pretty shy guys.  Mike is not shy also, but he's not charismatic, he's corny as hell and always has been.  Back in the 60's that was fine.  Not so afterwards.  Dennis would have been better out the front after the 60's, he has more genuine love for the audience, wasn't so sarcastic and waffling and well... he just mooooved better.   

I know Mike has kept the band and name going for decades and he's a hard working guy and all that, but sometimes I just cringe at the things he says and does and the whole blasted 80's Baywatch crap. 

IMO of course..

[Nicko1234]

Curiously I think that most audiences who watch the shows seem to like Mike's corniness. They laugh at the old, 'we'll now take an intermission...followed by a nap' lines and the like. Obviously everybody on the board has heard them a hundred times but they still seem to work for the masses strangely.

[absinthe_boy]

Good grief...I've only just come across this.

Though Mike Love is far from innocent down the years but I can see his point on the C50 thing. There was an agreement and while a lot of people, including possibly Brian, Al and Dave decided in the end that they wanted to continue....Mike stuck to the original agreement. Mike can be a total arse at times but he wasn't in this case.

So he committed the big sin of saying "web page" when he meant facebook. He probably hasn't looked at either and is relying on info he's been given.

Yes, he's cheesy on stage but it's not offensive. I quite liked some of his patter last year, having experienced it first hand for the first time. Mike *is* an energetic front man and does inject some fun into things.

I'm not a convert. Mike has done very reprehensible things in the past. But I think he may be right on this one.

[Paul J B]

You people that want to carry on about Mike Love until the end of time really are mentally disturbed. Always looking for a reason to jump on any and every little thing the guy SAYS. If you have that much free time why don't you all go volunteer your time doing something constructive.

The Beach Boys were a great band. My all time favorite hands down. Brian was the Genius behind the band and Mike was a huge part of the band as well, LIKE IT OR NOT. Most Beach Boys fans never thought we would see the surviving members hit the road together again and release a new album but they did and it was great. Less than a year later all we get from the I HATE MIKE crowd is more and more of the same crap over and over. I was elated to have been given the chance to see them together one more time last summer. I do not need nor did I or any reasonable person expect to see them 5 more times or be out there at age 82. Both Brian and Mike and anyone else involved have always done some odd things and made some poor choices and if they continue to do so SO FREAKIN' WHAT!  We are already left with dozens of brilliant songs that we will listen to until we are all gone. With the anti-Mike crowd it's not about the music, legacy or anything else...it's about bitching about the guy for sake of bitching about the guy.

Take joy in the fact that the BOYS are OLD MEN now and sooner than later Mike will be with Dennis and Carl......maybe that will finally shut you up.....but I doubt it.

[Wild-Honey]

I'm not anti-Mike AT ALL.  I was thrilled to see him with the others last year. I just think he says and does some questionable things, so what?  I would have also preferred that the band split into two bands in the 70's and that the Wilson's at THAT point would have been better off, but who knows?

[Cliff1000uk]

Curiously I think that most audiences who watch the shows seem to like Mike's corniness. They laugh at the old, 'we'll now take an intermission...followed by a nap' lines and the like. Obviously everybody on the board has heard them a hundred times but they still seem to work for the masses strangely.

I totally agree and after seeing some of the audience's faces when Brian asked them to hold up lighters or do Row Your Boat Ashore, hearing lines like that from Mike are a lot less uncomfortable!
Although hearing everyone sing God Only Knows back at Brian at one of the PS shows (I think) more than made up for it.

[Cam Mott]

I'm not anti-Mike AT ALL.  I was thrilled to see him with the others last year. I just think he says and does some questionable things, so what?  I would have also preferred that the band split into two bands in the 70's and that the Wilson's at THAT point would have been better off, but who knows?

I'm thinking that without the balance of Mike, Al, and Bruce, the Wilsons would crashed and burned harder and more definitively than they did.

[Nicko1234]

I'm not anti-Mike AT ALL.  I was thrilled to see him with the others last year. I just think he says and does some questionable things, so what?  I would have also preferred that the band split into two bands in the 70's and that the Wilson's at THAT point would have been better off, but who knows?

Then we could have had two crappy bands instead of just one. 

I'm not being serious but I don't think that would have worked.

The problems that the Wilsons had went way beyond what was happening in the group.

And it's said that Al voted with Mike not because he agreed with him particularly but more because the Wilsons were so out of it that he felt he didn't have a choice.

[Shady]

How anyone can say Brian wasn't sexy is beyond me. I'm a guy and I can appreciate how handsome he was.

[Sam_BFC]

One of Brian's sexiest moments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BkkWOqI4lb4#t=182s

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

I think all the Beach Boys (yes, even Mike) were/are handsome guys. Dennis was the hottest, Brian was next, Carl got very handsome in the 70's, Al was Al and Mike was good looking and in very good shape for a long long time. I actually think Dave was the most handsome next to Dennis, but it's a toss up between him and young Brian..... But yes, they were ALL shy other than Mike... Dennis too. He slouched weirdly when he would be up front. I think if he hadn't been so drunk often, he would have came off even more shy..... But like he said: the music is the superstar of the group. They didn't need a hot charismatic fontman. What Mike did was great because he was confident and energetic, but still a dork from the Beach Boys

[SMiLE Brian]

Al was Al....

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

Oops! And I forgot Bruce!

Bruce looks like he was genetically engineered from each Beach Boy's DNA to be a Beach Boy, so he doesn't really count.

[Lonely Summer]

Bruce looked like a Kennedy in in his younger days.

[Heysaboda]

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Thanks ORR!

[zachrwolfe]

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[Mikie]

Bruce looked like a Kennedy in in his younger days.

Bruce is no Jack Kennedy!

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

William Kennedy Smith then??

[Mikie]

Yeah, Kinda.  Man, whatever happened to him after the trial - did he fall off the Earth?

[AndrewHickey]

Bruce looked like a Kennedy in in his younger days.

Bruce is no Jack Kennedy!

Strangely Bruce looks exactly like a Kennedy from the front (especially Ted Kennedy) but like Jimmy Cagney from the side.

[Pretty Funky]

Well he is adopted and we all know the stories about Joe.

Summer days on ol Cape Cod indeed.

We may be on to something here!

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

I don't know how many Kennedy family get-togethers Bruce would be invited to knowing what we do about his politics....

[Pretty Funky]

Remember bloods thicker than water, can choose your friends...not your family and all!

[rn57]

Then have me banned for not agreeing with you. 50% huh? No, you need to plant your self over on the mYke Luhv fan club message board. All three of them over there will luhv your act.

I gotta say, OSD, that at that little-frequented Official Fan Club board, there are more than a few posts about the man that are so acid and sulphurous in describing him that they might almost bring a blush to your cheek - emphasis on almost, of course.

[Micha]

I agree, I don't like it how fans are called "brianistas" for saying that Brian was the force behind the group.

If that were the reason we would all be Brianista. Of course Brian was the force behind the group and is much more talented musically than Mike. Mike himself acknowledges this and praises Brian all the time. What makes a Brianista is that strange disgust and deep hatred against Mike that seems to me, honestly, a bit insane. I agree Mike's decisions are often not the best ones and he has absolutely no understanding for Brian's problems. But I just can't understand the fun in hating Mike so deeply.

If people have an already stated opinion of Mike why must they continue to state said opinion in a variety of threads and or topics. I am not fond of some of Mike's actions but, I do not feel it is necessary to ram my opinion of Mike down someone elses throat.

Absolutely.