If I Could Talk To Love

[BananaLouie]

Does anyone think this song from Carl's solo album was a personal message to Mike or just a song about love (the emotion)?

[Aegir]

Love, the emotion. He didn't write the lyrics to it, right?

[BananaLouie]

Probably not, I think he collaberated with Myrna Smith on most of the tracks.  I thought it was possible the song may have been a personal message to Mike who at that time during Carl's departure from the Beach Boys had basically steered the group towards being a permanant oldies act.

[Cam Mott]

I thought it was possible the song may have been a personal message to Mike who at that time during Carl's departure from the Beach Boys had basically steered the group towards being a permanant oldies act.

I'm pretty sure that, post-Brianocracy, one member could not have steered the group in any direction but if one member did steer the direction of the act in that timeframe it would have been Carl I'll bet.

[Andrew G. Doe]

So you're saying that Mike had absolutely nothing to do with the return to the travelling jukebox post 1975 ?

Cameron Quincy Mott, what did your mother say to you about telling lies ?

 

[Rocker]

So you're saying that Mike had absolutely nothing to do with the return to the travelling jukebox post 1975 ?

Cameron Quincy Mott, what did your mother say to you about telling lies ?

 

I guess he meant that it wasn't only Mike. Al had his part in that, too probably.

[Cam Mott]

So you're saying that Mike had absolutely nothing to do with the return to the travelling jukebox post 1975 ?

Cameron Quincy Mott, what did your mother say to you about telling lies ?

 

I guess he meant that it wasn't only Mike. Al had his part in that, too probably.

[giggle]

No, Andrew ol' pal.  I think it was a mutual decision by equals but if anyone were more equal in this regard in this timeframe it was Carl.  All of it presupposes it was a bad choice which I think is far from proven in the first place.

Quincy.   

[AMDG]

I find it interesting that pictures and videos from 1970 through 1973 show Carl front and center while Mike is on the side and his demenor is subdued (on the 'In Concert' album he sounds very mellow!).  Compare that to the post 'Endless Summer shows where Mike is front and center and very obnoxious.

[Cam Mott]

I find it interesting that pictures and videos from 1970 through 1973 show Carl front and center while Mike is on the side and his demenor is subdued (on the 'In Concert' album he sounds very mellow!).  Compare that to the post 'Endless Summer shows where Mike is front and center and very obnoxious.

That may be but it seems to me the tour was far from an oldies act right into '79, playing standards and new album stuff just as always.  Maybe it's just me, but the oldies begin to ascend as Brian's attendance increases in late 70s and early 80s and the new albums become scarcer and the new releases aren't selling [why flog what most of the audience and fanbase won't buy?].

[SG7]

If it was about Mike Love, there would have been more violence in it