Brian's Autobiography

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Yup...the was "Saucerful of Secrets"...came out in 1991. The author passed away due to AIDS complications shortly after the book came out, if I recall correctly.

[The Heartical Don]

Mike isn't evil....OK he's lawsuit-happy and can be an ass at times but most of what he is documented as having done or said can be understood and explained. We don't have to agree with it all to understand it.

There was a 'biography' of Pink Floyd published in the early 90's where the author made many attempts to interview Roger Waters (in addition to Wright/Mason/Gilmour) in order to get a fair and balanced picture. He didn't achieve an interview with Waters so he talked to people who were likely to be on his 'side'. The book turned out to be pretty balanced.

Oh to have a BB biography as carefully written.

Good call. My view on all things Mike has changed over the years. He is no melodic genius, but he surely is a very hard worker. He kept an operation alive and afloat through many, many bad times.

Still, I like a good joke on him from time to time...

[absinthe_boy]

That's right "A Saucerful of Secrets - The Pink Floyd Odyssey" by Nicholas Schaffner. I didn't realise he'd died but a google search shows you're entirely correct.

Mike has a side to the story to tell.

[Mike's Beard]

That's right "A Saucerful of Secrets - The Pink Floyd Odyssey" by Nicholas Schaffner. I didn't realise he'd died but a google search shows you're entirely correct.

Mike has a side to the story to tell.

Lawsuits, TM, divorces, unwanted lovechild, Smile, premature male pattern baldness, Manson, ghosts, levitating, horny housecats and fronting America's greatest band - yep I'd say the guy has a story to tell.

[The Heartical Don]

That's right "A Saucerful of Secrets - The Pink Floyd Odyssey" by Nicholas Schaffner. I didn't realise he'd died but a google search shows you're entirely correct.

Mike has a side to the story to tell.

Lawsuits, TM, divorces, unwanted lovechild, Smile, premature male pattern baldness, Manson, ghosts, levitating, horny housecats and fronting America's greatest band - yep I'd say the guy has a story to tell.

  ...and who will be the male lead in: 'Mike Love: American Action Hero'?

[Mike's Beard]

Some guy not allergic to headwear would be a good place to start.

If I was Mike's PR guy I'd have him do a Transcendental Meditation DVD called "Levitating With Love".

[Paulos]

That's right "A Saucerful of Secrets - The Pink Floyd Odyssey" by Nicholas Schaffner. I didn't realise he'd died but a google search shows you're entirely correct.

Mike has a side to the story to tell.

Lawsuits, TM, divorces, unwanted lovechild, Smile, premature male pattern baldness, Manson, ghosts, levitating, horny housecats and fronting America's greatest band - yep I'd say the guy has a story to tell.

  ...and who will be the male lead in: 'Mike Love: American Action Hero'?

Simple: Mike Love

[summerinparadise.flac]

Mike Love: A Ghost Story

[ukulelejesus]

Coming soon...

Mike Love, Not War: THE MOVIE

Starring:
John Stamos as Mike Love
Bobcat Goldthwait as Brian Wilson

Featuring new music by Mike Love, the legendary songwriter responsible for California Girls, Back in the USSR, and Good Vibrations.

Featuring the hit singles: Wouldn't it Be Nice (to be in Kokomo), Kokomo Girls, Aren't You Glad (To Be in Kokomo), Kokomoessence, In My Room (In Kokomo), Let the (Tropical Kokomo) Wind Blow, and Barbara Ann's Goin' to Kokomo

Produced by Mike Love
Written by Mike Love
Directed by Mike Love

[rogerlancelot]

If only Don Knotts were still alive. He could have played the part of Dennis Wilson.

[Pretty Funky]

That's right "A Saucerful of Secrets - The Pink Floyd Odyssey" by Nicholas Schaffner. I didn't realise he'd died but a google search shows you're entirely correct.

Mike has a side to the story to tell.

Lawsuits, TM, divorces, unwanted lovechild, Smile, premature male pattern baldness, Manson, ghosts, levitating, horny housecats and fronting America's greatest band - yep I'd say the guy has a story to tell.

Title of a Mike Love album you will never see.

# Love Child

[oldsurferdude]

That's right "A Saucerful of Secrets - The Pink Floyd Odyssey" by Nicholas Schaffner. I didn't realise he'd died but a google search shows you're entirely correct.

Mike has a side to the story to tell.

Lawsuits, TM, divorces, unwanted lovechild, Smile, premature male pattern baldness, Manson, ghosts, levitating, horny housecats and fronting America's greatest band - yep I'd say the guy has a story to tell.

And don't forget an ego larger than the known universe-only hard core fans would possibly consider it-Luhv most likely would opt not to do it because of low sales-a "bad for the image" thing.

[urbanite]

Mike Love's side would be very interesting if it were candid.  Imagine all those different eras in the history of the Beach Boys with a relatively accurate account of what happened, not just the unraveling of Brian Wilson in the late 1960's.

[Ed Roach]

Always shocked me, some of the Dennis/Shawn stories that he opens the book with...  Now, I know where Gaines got my stories from, (in spite of him referring to me as a 'hanger on', after I told him what he should/could do with the money he offered me - after telling him I wanted it in crisp singles -  ), but I never understood where some of these stories came from, since by that time I was more careful who I spoke to, regarding such things!

[Pablo.]

I recommend to all, especially the Lovester's apologists to read the article comic book artist Peter Bagge published (with some very funny illustrations) for his Hate Annual #2. He makes a very articulate defense of Mike, including things like his controversy with Van Dyke over the Smile lyrics.

Bagge is a huge fan; some of you may know his comic stories or animated shorts dedicated to... Murry Wilson! (Rock and Roll Dad)

[Jay]

Sometimes I don't know what was worse, the side affects of Landy's "medicine", or the damn near permenant and irrepairable damage he caused between Brian, and virtually every single person in his private life.

[The Heartical Don]

Sometimes I don't know what was worse, the side affects of Landy's "medicine", or the damn near permenant and irrepairable damage he caused between Brian, and virtually every single person in his private life.

Hard to judge. From what I know:

1. Landy saved his life.

2. Other therapies failed (Brian being pretty therapy-resistant, from what I gather).

3. The meds caused much harm (perhaps loss of spontaneity being the worst; always fearful and on guard, methinks).

4. Yes: the separation from all and sundry is very sad.

I'd say, in all  humility, that nos. (1) to (4) form one, and indivisible riddle. Perhaps AGD can add, or correct?

[Andrew G. Doe]

#2 is open to debate - after the first Landy era, Brian was seeing someone else, Steve Schwartz, and getting along pretty well. Sadly he was killed in a climbing accident and Brian ended up being looked after by Stan Love & Rocky Pamplin.

[The Heartical Don]

#2 is open to debate - after the first Landy era, Brian was seeing someone else, Steve Schwartz, and getting along pretty well. Sadly he was killed in a climbing accident and Brian ended up being looked after by Stan Love & Rocky Pamplin.

Did not know that. Very, very sad.

[Mike's Beard]

Ah yes! The ex basketball thug with a nasty habit of suckerpunching your brother and a ex playdude who's sticking it to your wife on the sly. Excellent choices all round.

[Sam_BFC]

#2 is open to debate - after the first Landy era, Brian was seeing someone else, Steve Schwartz, and getting along pretty well.

No relation to Loren tho ehhh?

[Andrew G. Doe]

#2 is open to debate - after the first Landy era, Brian was seeing someone else, Steve Schwartz, and getting along pretty well.

No relation to Loren tho ehhh?

Nope.

[the captain]

Ah yes! The ex basketball thug with a nasty habit of suckerpunching your brother...

Hey, watch it: that's my home-team's arguably best player's dad you're talking about.

[Ed Roach]

Ah yes! The ex basketball thug with a nasty habit of suckerpunching your brother...

Hey, watch it: that's my home-team's arguably best player's dad you're talking about.

Guess the apple doesn't fall far from the uncle's tree... That same basketball player
appeared in this seasons final episode of Entourage last Sunday.

[the captain]

Ah yes! The ex basketball thug with a nasty habit of suckerpunching your brother...

Hey, watch it: that's my home-team's arguably best player's dad you're talking about.

Guess the apple doesn't fall far from the uncle's tree... That same basketball player
appeared in this seasons final episode of Entourage last Sunday.

Busy guy. Team USA's designated rebounder and cheerleader at the World Championships, offseason complainer (though that is justified...he is a Wolf, after all), and now actor.