The Weirdest Photos Of Mike Love You Can Find

[leggo of my ego]

An album of reimagined standards in the style of "Student Demonstration Time".


1 Lazy Surf
2 For Me and My Chick
3 It Had to Be Cars
4 All Waves
5 Makin' Whoopee [practically unchanged, although extra-creepy because of ML's vocal delivery]
6 You Made Me Meditate You
7 Lullabye in Drag Time
8 I Wonder Who's Denny Kissing Now [probably his wife]
9 What'll I Boo? [quasi-sequel to Mike's version of "Monster Mash"]
10 Nevertheless (I'm in love with the formula)
11 This Is All I Ask Is That
12 As Time Goes By [lyrics include historic 1st appearance of the phrase "Looking Back With Love"]

Very Good. I just picked up Harry's LP and enjoyed it very much - nice to listen to at dinner.

[Mayoman]

"That oughta hold the little bastards..."

All joking aside, that's actually a really cool photo.

[Mayoman]

Mike's lunch is about to take a trip down to Kokomo.

[schiaffino]

Ok found this today...wtf??

[Amanda Hart]

I recently picked up Dean Anthony's The Beach Boys and there is a treasure trove of weird Mike Love photos in it. I'll scan and post at some point, some of them are a riot and stuff I hadn't seen before.

[smilethebeachboysloveyou]

This must be a still from the documentary that Orson Welles was planning to make about the life of Mike Love.

[schiaffino]

This must be a still from the documentary that Orson Welles was planning to make about the life of Mike Love.

 

[Mr. Cohen]

"I finally started calling him... dog ears. Because he could hear - OBVIOUSLY - hear something that most human beings cannot."

When Mike says it you can still hear and see in his face how pissed off he was to have to keep singing Brian's ego music over and over again. Makes you wonder if the dogs barking at the end of Pet Sounds was a joke on Mike.

[Lowbacca]

"That oughta hold the little bastards..."

All joking aside, that's actually a really cool photo.

Now that's a great photo!




My entry for today. Look at his weird waving fingers.

[Pretty Funky]

But if you visualize him holding a mic while waving the fingers it all makes sense. He does it every show.

[Ron]

"That oughta hold the little bastards..."

All joking aside, that's actually a really cool photo.

It's cool because he's sweating.  Because he was working his ass off to make that money. 

[Ron]

She's grabbing my.... oh wait that's not her...

[Ron]

"With a gentle.... Clip!  Clop!

In our pretty little Surry with the FRINNNNNNGGEEEEE on the TOOOOPPPPPPPPP!"

[Ron]

"LOOK MOTHERFUCKER, it *IS* my Beach, I bought it with the house.  3 acres!  It goes 334 feet that way, see the rock?  I put the rock at the edg.... NO, IT IS NOT public property!  Call them then!  Call them!  Here, I'll Call them!  You're not getting your board back, trespasser!'

[Pretty Funky]

In earlier interviews on the subject, Beck was quoted as saying "He doesn’t speak. He’s clearly in need of attention. But that’s just my opinion.”

A picture of Brian not speaking with Beck at a session.

I'm not being an arse for the sake of it but seriously, have you ever seen a more staged 'candid' photo ? No movement whatsoever.

I hadn't.....until now.

[Mike's Beard]

Whispers to self under his breath, "Com'on Mike, you can do this. It's just a little water, nothing to be afraid of. You've sung about it a thousand times over - how hard can it be?"

[J.G. Dev]

Here Mike recreates the Surfer Girl album cover shoot with his version of the Beach Boys. He has Bruce snapping the picture.

[Lowbacca]

Here Mike recreates the Surfer Girl album cover shoot with his version of the Beach Boys. He has Bruce snapping the picture.

"Damnit Bruce!! Stop adjusting that godd*** lense and take the picture already!!"

[Shady]

"She doesn't look 18 but hey, it never stopped me before"

[Rocker]

"She doesn't look 18 but hey, it never stopped me before"

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoeFuaARqXc

[RangeRoverA1]

Ok found this today...wtf??

Thanks, Mr. fino! That's a rare one. He looks kinda Russian here. In an uncle Vanya sort of way.

[Niko]

The "Let's Talk From A Distance"

[Lowbacca]

The "Let's Talk From A Distance"

Mike's always the whitest guy in the room anyway. Here he becomes almost diaphanous.

[southbay]

The "Let's Talk From A Distance"

Mike's always the whitest guy in the room anyway. Here he becomes almost diaphanous.

Uh, not when he's with Bruce...

[Lowbacca]

The "Let's Talk From A Distance"

Mike's always the whitest guy in the room anyway. Here he becomes almost diaphanous.

Uh, not when he's with Bruce...

You're right, of course. Actually, Bruce is in the picture. Like you said, he's even whiter than Mike. That's why he's not even visible anymore - which makes it appear as if Mike is the whitest guy in the room. I took it to Photoshop and after hours and hours of pro-tooling I managed to filter Bruce's image to the foreground: