Mike Love memoir due 2016

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

Legendary Hall of Fame material. Archival. Readily deserves incredibly more than a  .

[Shady]

CSPAN BOOK-TV written all over it!

[Theydon Bois]

I personally do think it takes a certain amount of bravery to release something that you know is going to be vilified regardless of its quality by a certain percentage

If he's that brave, he should make his solo albums available for download.

[HeyJude]

That Mike has decided to do this book at all, in the firm knowledge that there isn't a hope in hell of it getting a fair hearing in the media at large (never mind on the BB forums) is probably the most amazing fact concerning this project.

I'd say with the exception of the demise of C50 and the incorrect "firing" headlines (which had more to do with lazy reporting than being out to get Mike; and which could have been avoided to some degree by a better PR staff), Mike has had a pretty easy go of it from the "mainstream media." That is, everyone but a hand full of snarky folks specifically in music industry-related media.

But when he has gone on talk shows and whatnot, he gets lobbed largely softball questions, and nobody ever broaches the subject of why he's using the name without the other surviving BB's (talking about Brian not touring since 1965 doesn't count).

I predict all hell may break loose among hardcore BB fan communities, and there might be a snarky review in Mojo or Rolling Stone or something, but I also predict that Mike will hit the typical media outlets to promote his book and will not be confronted and will instead be allowed to essentially restate the talking points of whatever is in his book. He might hit a few of his friendly outlets like O'Reilly, and he'll do whatever daytime talkshow iterations are going in 2016, etc.

I don't think Mike or a publisher would be worried at all that the media will bash the book. It will go down like most rock "memoirs." I would guess a lot of what we'll see in the coverage and interviews will be the same cliche sound bites from both Mike and the media that we get now:

"Please welcome original Beach Boy Mike Love to "INSERT NAME OF SHOW." He has just released a new memoir titled "Good Vibrations." Thanks for being with us this morning, Mike. What was it like to be singing about surf and sand and hot rods and being the great soundtrack to our lives?"

"The Beach Boys had some turbulent times in the later 60's. In the book you talk about Brian Wilson's struggles with drugs. How did you keep the group together during that time?"

"A lot of fans talk about the genius of Brian Wilson. You were the lyricist on many of our favorite hits. What was your contribution to the band?"

"You resurrected the group's hit-making potential in the late 80's with "Kokomo." Tell us about that."

"You've been touring pretty much non-stop for over 50 years Mike, carrying the torch for the group. What does it mean to you, and how do you do it?"

[Nicko1234]

I'd say with the exception of the demise of C50 and the incorrect "firing" headlines (which had more to do with lazy reporting than being out to get Mike; and which could have been avoided to some degree by a better PR staff), Mike has had a pretty easy go of it from the "mainstream media." That is, everyone but a hand full of snarky folks specifically in music industry-related media.

But when he has gone on talk shows and whatnot, he gets lobbed largely softball questions, and nobody ever broaches the subject of why he's using the name without the other surviving BB's (talking about Brian not touring since 1965 doesn't count).

I predict all hell may break loose among hardcore BB fan communities, and there might be a snarky review in Mojo or Rolling Stone or something, but I also predict that Mike will hit the typical media outlets to promote his book and will not be confronted and will instead be allowed to essentially restate the talking points of whatever is in his book. He might hit a few of his friendly outlets like O'Reilly, and he'll do whatever daytime talkshow iterations are going in 2016, etc.

I don't think Mike or a publisher would be worried at all that the media will bash the book. It will go down like most rock "memoirs." I would guess a lot of what we'll see in the coverage and interviews will be the same cliche sound bites from both Mike and the media that we get now:

"Please welcome original Beach Boy Mike Love to "INSERT NAME OF SHOW." He has just released a new memoir titled "Good Vibrations." Thanks for being with us this morning, Mike. What was it like to be singing about surf and sand and hot rods and being the great soundtrack to our lives?"

"The Beach Boys had some turbulent times in the later 60's. In the book you talk about Brian Wilson's struggles with drugs. How did you keep the group together during that time?"

"A lot of fans talk about the genius of Brian Wilson. You were the lyricist on many of our favorite hits. What was your contribution to the band?"

"You resurrected the group's hit-making potential in the late 80's with "Kokomo." Tell us about that."

"You've been touring pretty much non-stop for over 50 years Mike, carrying the torch for the group. What does it mean to you, and how do you do it?"

He`s been asked dozens of times about this surely...

[ontor pertawst]

Well, yes, that being his whole point about cliche sound bites.

[The Shift]

I'd like to hear someone ask…

"So Mike, apart from some flash in the pan Kokomo, the Beach Boys didn't really have a hit new record in all the years between the Brian-produced Rock and Roll Music single in 1976 and the album TWGMTR in 2012.  You musta really missed Cousinn Brian during those 36 years…?"

(Feel free to pick the stats apart but) it would be good to at least have the questions put Mike on the back foot Nd have him think up something other than stock answers to stock questions…

… and I hope he'll address such stuff openly and honestly (as he sees it, least) in the book.

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

Mike is an absolute genius for putting out this book at this time.

It's like he went "oh wait, a massive contingent of fans of my band absolutely hate my guts? Great, I'll write a book and make a bunch of money off them" ))

[Rocker]

I'd like to hear someone ask…

"So Mike, apart from some flash in the pan Kokomo, the Beach Boys didn't really have a hit new record in all the years between the Brian-produced Rock and Roll Music single in 1976 and the album TWGMTR in 2012.  You musta really missed Cousinn Brian during those 36 years…?"

Just to be nitpicking, I think that "Come go with me" "Wipe out" (he'd surely mention this) and "Getcha back" all were quite succesfull, of course not in the "Kokomo" way. And none of them had very much Brian involvement.

[Mayoman]

I'd like to hear someone ask…

"So Mike, apart from some flash in the pan Kokomo, the Beach Boys didn't really have a hit new record in all the years between the Brian-produced Rock and Roll Music single in 1976 and the album TWGMTR in 2012.  You musta really missed Cousinn Brian during those 36 years…?"

Just to be nitpicking, I think that "Come go with me" "Wipe out" (he'd surely mention this) and "Getcha back" all were quite succesfull, of course not in the "Kokomo" way. And none of them had very much Brian involvement.

I never listen to it, but isn't Brian probably the most prominent BB on "Wipe Out"?

[Jim V.]

I'd like to hear someone ask…

"So Mike, apart from some flash in the pan Kokomo, the Beach Boys didn't really have a hit new record in all the years between the Brian-produced Rock and Roll Music single in 1976 and the album TWGMTR in 2012.  You musta really missed Cousinn Brian during those 36 years…?"

Just to be nitpicking, I think that "Come go with me" "Wipe out" (he'd surely mention this) and "Getcha back" all were quite succesfull, of course not in the "Kokomo" way. And none of them had very much Brian involvement.

I never listen to it, but isn't Brian probably the most prominent BB on "Wipe Out"?

And there was also two other top 40 hits, "It's OK" and "Good Timin'", both written by Brian.

And arguably "Getcha Back" was a hit in part to Brian's classic vocals on it. So yeah.

[Cam Mott]

I hope the rest of the Boys also write their own memoirs before it is too late because the group's legacy deserves it.

[Micha]

I doubt anyone will be buying the book with expectations of getting `the truth`.

I'm not, but I do look forward to read what Mike has to say about his perception of things. I hope there is some self-critical content as well.

No autobiography is going to be `the truth` though because we are all unreliable witnesses in our own lives.

I could not agree more.

[drbeachboy]

I'd like to hear someone ask…

"So Mike, apart from some flash in the pan Kokomo, the Beach Boys didn't really have a hit new record in all the years between the Brian-produced Rock and Roll Music single in 1976 and the album TWGMTR in 2012.  You musta really missed Cousinn Brian during those 36 years…?"

Just to be nitpicking, I think that "Come go with me" "Wipe out" (he'd surely mention this) and "Getcha back" all were quite succesfull, of course not in the "Kokomo" way. And none of them had very much Brian involvement.

I never listen to it, but isn't Brian probably the most prominent BB on "Wipe Out"?

Brian is the only Beach Boy on Wipeout.

[Rocker]

I'd like to hear someone ask…

"So Mike, apart from some flash in the pan Kokomo, the Beach Boys didn't really have a hit new record in all the years between the Brian-produced Rock and Roll Music single in 1976 and the album TWGMTR in 2012.  You musta really missed Cousinn Brian during those 36 years…?"

Just to be nitpicking, I think that "Come go with me" "Wipe out" (he'd surely mention this) and "Getcha back" all were quite succesfull, of course not in the "Kokomo" way. And none of them had very much Brian involvement.

I never listen to it, but isn't Brian probably the most prominent BB on "Wipe Out"?

Ha! You're right. I kinda got confused because he was so on-off during that time when it comes to the Beach Boys.

And arguably "Getcha Back" was a hit in part to Brian's classic vocals on it. So yeah.

The falsetto is great. But I don't know if it was that much a reason for the song's success. It's a damn catchy tune that fit right in those nostalgic times. 

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

I'd like to hear someone ask…

"So Mike, apart from some flash in the pan Kokomo, the Beach Boys didn't really have a hit new record in all the years between the Brian-produced Rock and Roll Music single in 1976 and the album TWGMTR in 2012.  You musta really missed Cousinn Brian during those 36 years…?"

Just to be nitpicking, I think that "Come go with me" "Wipe out" (he'd surely mention this) and "Getcha back" all were quite succesfull, of course not in the "Kokomo" way. And none of them had very much Brian involvement.

I never listen to it, but isn't Brian probably the most prominent BB on "Wipe Out"?

And there was also two other top 40 hits, "It's OK" and "Good Timin'", both written by Brian.

And arguably "Getcha Back" was a hit in part to Brian's classic vocals on it. So yeah.

And arguably every single Beach Boys hit was a hit in part due to The Beach Boys classic vocals.

[Mr. Cohen]

wrong topic

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

The book will tank exactly like SIP tanked along with the released solo fodder. The only aspect of the book that may be intriguing is whether or not he'll wear his hat on the cover picture.  

[ontor pertawst]

Will the hat say LOVE or THE BEACH BOYS on it? It could go either way.

[guitarfool2002]

[The LEGENDARY OSD]

Will the hat say LOVE or THE BEACH BOYS on it? It could go either way.

Actually, the cover photo, the table of contents, the forward, the text, pictures and index will be forever tattooed on his rarely seen horseshoe spread.

[drbeachboy]

"The White Autobiography" in honor of his Beatles connection.

[Andrew G. Doe]

The more I learn about this project, the less I feel it's going to be an airbrushed snow job. Going to be an interesting read.

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

I'd like to hear someone ask…

"So Mike, apart from some flash in the pan Kokomo, the Beach Boys didn't really have a hit new record in all the years between the Brian-produced Rock and Roll Music single in 1976 and the album TWGMTR in 2012.  You musta really missed Cousinn Brian during those 36 years…?"

Just to be nitpicking, I think that "Come go with me" "Wipe out" (he'd surely mention this) and "Getcha back" all were quite succesfull, of course not in the "Kokomo" way. And none of them had very much Brian involvement.

I never listen to it, but isn't Brian probably the most prominent BB on "Wipe Out"?

And there was also two other top 40 hits, "It's OK" and "Good Timin'", both written by Brian.

And arguably "Getcha Back" was a hit in part to Brian's classic vocals on it. So yeah.

It's OK: co-written by Mike

Good Timin: co-written by Carl

..... for accuracy's sake.

[Emdeeh]

Excerpt from a new interview with ML that details some of what he's planning for the new book:

Mike Love's Vibrations -- the stories he's planning to tell in his autobiography:

Now that he's in his 70s, is it easier for Love to look back and tell his story? "I don't know about easier. There were some extraordinary things I lived through, participated in or witnessed. Sociological things, political things."

An era of rapid change started the year he was born 1941, with Pearl Harbor, Love said. He remembers the Korean War, his dad putting together the first TV on their block, and "being told to drop under your desk because, obviously, the Russians were gonna nuke us."

Then dawned The Beach Boys, "and it got even more interesting." Surf instrumentals were popular, but they put words to the music in 1961 with their first 45, "Surfin'." In 1962 they got on Capitol, with "Surfin' Safari" and the flip-side "409" launching a string of hits.

Aside from "Good Vibrations," other songs Love is proud of include "The Warmth of the Sun," 1963. After writing it with Brian and playing it for the first time, they woke up to the news that President Kennedy had been shot, Love remembered. The song was about still loving a girl who'd stopped loving you, he said. "But at least, at one time, you'd felt that feeling, and that feeling was the warmth of the sun."

"'California Girls' is not bad, either," he said. He wrote the lyrics to that, as well as "Help Me Ronda," "I Get Around," "Surfin' Safari" and "Surfin' USA" "On some of those, I wasn't given credit." The Wilson brothers' father and the group's domineering manager, Murry Wilson, controlled the publishing and the credits, Love said. "Brian wanted to rectify it, but he wasn't allowed, he was in a conservatorship." Love eventually established credits through lawsuits. 

Love hung out with Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Marlin Brando; he had "some spectacular experiences I've never written about," he said.

He learned transcendental meditation from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1967, along with Dennis, Carl and Al. He went to India to learn from the guru. "Who should be there when I got there, but the Beatles" as well as Mia Farrow, Donavan.

In 1967-'68, "I had Maharishi and meditation on one side, and then my cousin Dennis had a roommate named Charlie Manson. I call it the diabolical and divine," Love said, laughing. Manson and the beginnings of his "Family" crashed at Wilson's house, hoping to break into recording with the Beach Boys' help. Eventually Wilson broke ties with Manson because of his threatening vibrations.

Love met Manson? "Oh, yeah. That'll be in my book ... He was more than creepy. Malevolent is a word that comes to mind."

He still meditates, every day and always backstage before each Beach Boys concert, Love said. "I am primarily a person that is positive, and looks for the silver lining even if it is a cumulous nimbus cloud."

Source: http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2014/12/the_good_vibrations_of_being_a.html