Convince me that Mike Love isn't the biggest wanker in History.

This site is the only place I can find a web citation for this anecdote, but I've seen it elsewhere: "Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys was so impressed by [Hawaii] he invited Sean O Hagan of The High Llamas to fly over to the States regarding the possibilty he work on new recordings by The Beach Boys. Sean arrived at the airport and was apparently immediately called a faggot by Mike Love."

Mike Love must be irony-impaired to a crippling degree, then. I'm sure y'all have seen him in The Beach Boys: An American Band, decked out in sequins, limping-out his wrist, wiggling his butt, mincing and prancing his way Chuck Berry's "Rock & Roll Music": Jesus God, even Richard Simmons couldn't approach that level of camp!

mike love is a fag

And, re a previous post in this thread, Mike isn't the wanker who sold off the rights to the songs.

Having said all this, I did notice on one Beach Boys site that there was a FAQ section... with one of the questions being 'Why does everyone hate Mike Love?'

Tony Asher, surely?

"Do it again" is Mike Love at his best.

I seem to recall some sad story about Love convincing a bunch of female groupies that they would be able to meditate with him a whole lot better if they did so while topless. But I could be misremembering this story.

Lay off Gore, says Beach Boys’ Love

Beach Boy Mike Love thinks that a certain Republican senator from Oklahoma should mind his manners a bit.

Speaking at the National Press Club Monday, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and cousin to the band’s Wilson brothers said he was doing a different kind of surfing — channel surfing — last week when he came across C-SPAN’s broadcast of Al Gore’s testimony on climate change. He happened to tune in right when Sen. James Inhofe, a global warming skeptic, was giving Gore an earful.

“Gore deserves a bit more respect than he was shown by a rancorous senator from Oklahoma,” Love said. “I was offended by the rancorous display of hostility. There’ll be a time in the not-too-distant future when no one will inhabit elective office unless they are environmentally conscious.”

“I’ve evolved a bit from writing songs about gas-guzzling cars,” added the bearded, ballcapped Love, who sported four rings on his fingers and answered several questions by quoting copiously from his songs.

In the Q&A portion, Love confessed that the secret to singing the same songs over and over is “transcendental meditation.”

When asked how D.C.-area girls compared with California girls, he played it coy.

“By no means are we saying that one is better than the other,” he said. “We’re just trying to be inclusive.”

And finally, when asked if he plans to retire, he borrowed a line from another band, joking that he’d never retire as long as he gets “money for nothing and chicks for free.”

I love the way that Love goes all James Ellroy when he's irked ("I was offended by the rancorous display of hostility").

Apropos Sinker above; ML was creatively significant in that he helped shape BW wayward and slightly unsupportable fantasies to make them work as pop - you only have to look at the Love-less "Good Vibrations" which is undeniably interesting but structurally all over the place and unfocused. So ML provided both the glue and the drive. But likewise ML needed BW in the long term for the Beach Boys not to become the Four Freshmen and play gyms and barns for the rest of their lives.

If BW was Coltrane (which he wasn't, and couldn't be) ML would have been Tyner.

i agree with you up until you diss good vibrations. but maybe you're right and im conditioned to its structural madness from hearing it everywhere since i was an infant. it speaks to me and i find every part totally awesome and perfect.

i was watching this crazy new concert on PBS the other day. it was DONAVON FROM THE KODAK THEATER PRESENTED BY DAVID LYNCH FEATURING MIKE LOVE. (!!!) it was pbs so when it started it was like "this has been made possible by a grant from the DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION SCHOLARSHIPS" which was pretty creepy. Mike Love showed up at the end to sing "Mellow Yellow" wearing a yellow jacket and he kept pointing at it like "look IM wearing yellow loll i am the shit!" and his vocals were the worst thing I've ever heard in my life.

As I clearly and legibly stated in my post, "look at the Love-less 'Good Vibrations'."

By that I meant the numerous versions recorded and demoed by BW before ML gave it a chorus and a hook.

I assumed that most ILMers had sufficient intelligence and foreknowledge to discern this. I am sorry if I've been proved wrong.

David Lynch and Mike Love both bat for the same (GOP) side.

i wasnt trying to prove you wrong, dude! sheesh.

David Lynch and Mike Love both bat for the same (GOP) side

Lynch is not a Republican

alleged professed admiration for Reagan aside

http://www.nervepop.com/filmlounge/interview/DavidLynch/printcopy.html

Bono.

David Lynch who said in the nineties that they should reform the law to allow him to shoot "scum" who trespassed on his lawn.

i didn't say he didn't have conservative leanings, but he's hardly someone who "bats for the GOP".

“I’ve evolved a bit from writing songs about gas-guzzling cars,” added the bearded, ballcapped Love,

"however screwing underage girls is still an issue I'm working through" he continued with a wink.

Mind how you go with the quick-to-sue Mike Love!

Ugh, this guy. Useful chiefly as a case study of a bloated rock star.

One time Debbie Clemens called up a Boston radio station and told this tale of her time at the previous night's Beach Boys concert at Great Woods: She and her friend had seats way up front (because she's Roger Clemens' wife) and caught Mike Love's eye, he was winking at them through the show and for laughs they egged him on. He has one of his minions* come out to tell them the band wants to see them backstage after the show. They go, and he's flirting, and somehow the subject of the US of A comes up. "We love America, we're the all-American band!" he says. They ask, do you love apple pie? "We love apple pie!" Do you love baseball? "We love baseball!" Then she hits him with it: "Then maybe you've heard of my husband, Roger Clemens?" He's immediately crestfallen, and stammers out, "Husband? We thought you girls were like 16!" So Debbie says, "If you thought we were 16 then what were you doing bringing us backstage?"

* You have to assume Mike Love's minions are legion.

Hang on...did she hit him with a baseball?

If only.

he was doing a different kind of surfing —

- channel surfing

I'm thinking ML has just picked up the word "rancorous" somewhere and is really jazzed about it. He uses it in two consecutive sentences.

If BW was Coltrane (which he wasn't, and couldn't be) ML would have been Tyner.

Can't let this one just sit there without defending McCoy a bit. Tyner, whatever he might be up to now, was a creative giant in his own right in the 70s. Give a listen to Trident and Enlightenment. I listen to these just as often as the classic JC Quartet stuff.

I...was...using...the...comparison...as...a...compliment...