― Alba (Alba), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Only a weirdo because they're hanging out with Mike Love?
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 13 May 2005 02:52 (nineteen years ago) link
http://wcjw.com/love.JPG
can't work out if this one is comically doctored or a genuine attempt to remove red-eye by drawing pure black circles on top of eyes.
― schlump, Saturday, 3 January 2009 06:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Black holes, man -- itty bitty black holes.
I love how the text is arranged strategically so that Mike seems to be fixating on it, tell-tale heart style, with his blue, vulture-like, wandering right eye. Of course in reality there was probably a sushi bar/massage parlor/naked lady positioned just outside the frame.
― aruba (unregistered), Saturday, 3 January 2009 09:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.careytorrice.com/photogallery/photos/223.jpg
http://www.careytorrice.com/photogallery/photos/221.jpg
http://www.careytorrice.com/photogallery/photos/38.jpg
― aruba (unregistered), Saturday, 3 January 2009 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link
http://patstjohn.net/Graphics/Gallery/Mike_Love.jpg
― aruba (unregistered), Saturday, 3 January 2009 09:55 (fifteen years ago) link
lmao
― WAFFLES ADMIN (wilter), Saturday, 3 January 2009 09:57 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2008/08/29/1220017635_3924.jpg
http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2008/08/29/mike_love/
Closer now to the destination of his culinary pilgrimage, Love made a beeline through the crowd into Quincy Market, weaving through the throngs of grazing tourists with his arm around his daughter. We pushed through the sensory overload of grilled meats, fried fish, pizzas, spices, and sweets that permeated the stuffy food court. Mango drinks and dosas from the Bombay Club were procured. "I love Indian food," Ambha explained. "My name is Indian.""It's actually an ancient goddess name," said her father as he searched for a table. He traveled to India for the first time in 1968 to take a course by the Maharishi. "It was the same time the Beatles were there. George Harrison and I had our birthday parties there the same month, thrown by the Maharishi," he said.A lengthy discussion on the history of transcendental meditation followed as Love unpacked the bag of dosas and spicy Indian soup, placing a spoon in our bowl and making sure we had enough napkins. His hands were bejeweled in a dazzling array of rings and bracelets. Love walked us through his techniques of chanting, meditation as a means to invoke the powers of nature, spiritual safaris to the temples of Southern India, and harnessing the powers of positive energy.A lot to take in between spoonfuls of lentils. He's been meditating daily since that first trip to India and even became a teacher of transcendental meditation."There is fascinating knowledge to be gained," he said.Indeed there is. All you have to do is listen.
"It's actually an ancient goddess name," said her father as he searched for a table. He traveled to India for the first time in 1968 to take a course by the Maharishi. "It was the same time the Beatles were there. George Harrison and I had our birthday parties there the same month, thrown by the Maharishi," he said.
A lengthy discussion on the history of transcendental meditation followed as Love unpacked the bag of dosas and spicy Indian soup, placing a spoon in our bowl and making sure we had enough napkins. His hands were bejeweled in a dazzling array of rings and bracelets. Love walked us through his techniques of chanting, meditation as a means to invoke the powers of nature, spiritual safaris to the temples of Southern India, and harnessing the powers of positive energy.
A lot to take in between spoonfuls of lentils. He's been meditating daily since that first trip to India and even became a teacher of transcendental meditation.
"There is fascinating knowledge to be gained," he said.
Indeed there is. All you have to do is listen.
I ♥ this guy. I don't know why I ever doubted him.
― aruba (unregistered), Saturday, 3 January 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
His hands were bejeweled in a dazzling array of rings and bracelets.
― psychgawsple, Saturday, 3 January 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
o hell yes. perfect opportunity to show this picture of my friends backstage with that snapple-drinking prick Mike L0ve at some private BB function that we snuck in to.
http://photos-g.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v170/208/121/662253824/n662253824_520254_359.jpg
i'm just to the left, but cropped myself out to make a card and can't find the original file. Love was actually pretty nice to us; Johnston ended up being the real prick of pricks that night.
― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Saturday, 3 January 2009 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link
here we go
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c163/wvferrell/j3rryyv0nn3.jpg
(and yes they are weird)
― extremely intoxicated & uncooperative outside a Hסּסּters in Winston-Salem (will), Saturday, 3 January 2009 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
wow this thread is a lost classic-- gr8 revive
― ♪㋡♫㋡ (gr8080), Saturday, 3 January 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.miamibeachsandcastle.com/images/Mike_Love_Beach_Boys_with_Victor_Leong_Grand_Bahamas.jpg
― fit and working again, Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:35 (fifteen years ago) link
This thread!
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
http://oldiesradionc.com/images/jocks/goldy/photos/mike_love_beach_boys.jpg
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ssschool.org/images/BeachBoyConcert.jpg
― fit and working again, Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
http://raymondpronk.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/reagans_with_the_beach_boys.jpg
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
http://lh3.ggpht.com/beachboysfanforever/RrJbt8q5rkI/AAAAAAAABxs/12IB56jv_fk/DWF15-387687.jpg
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:50 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.wbtm1330.com/BeachBoys-Aug24-2007/BBfan3.jpg
― fit and working again, Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.wbtm1330.com/aaaa-alex-beachboys.JPG
― fit and working again, Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://beachboyz.info/Scotty-&-Mike-Love.jpg
― fit and working again, Thursday, 28 May 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I feel threatened looking at this thread. Mike Love is gonna kick my ass.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
http://liquidbluetour.com/photos/celebrities/images/MikeLove.jpg
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
He sure does have a collection of zany shirts.
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_aTwBJJolVNM/Sf-_G-TMqlI/AAAAAAAALL0/uA_L2cJ9CBI/IMG_7262.JPG
― fit and working again, Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
The butchest Beach Boy of 'em all
http://www.barrysides.com/images/bsml.jpg
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
http://media.nowpublic.net/images//41/1/411513c0b3a7a803f8923282f77c645c.jpg
― m coleman, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
― m coleman, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry for the repeat but it's so funny -- the guru & his disciple
― m coleman, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
And his fanny pack.
― fit and working again, Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Think Brian was on acid when he took this pic:
http://www.ranchocanyonmusic.com/squirrels/fanboyrob/bboys.jpeg
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
He Gets Around... 'round 'round 'round!
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0c8p7kn4rn6wN/261x.jpg
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Brian_Peters_%26_Mike_Love_2006_Birmingham_170152337.jpg/800px-Brian_Peters_%26_Mike_Love_2006_Birmingham_170152337.jpg
― m coleman, Thursday, 28 May 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Not smiling in photos is cool
― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
http://macleans.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/79712936.jpg
― m coleman, Thursday, 28 May 2009 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
That orange outfit is spectacular.
― fit and working again, Thursday, 28 May 2009 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I feel sad about Bruce. I like his songs and he seems like such a nice guy. He should composing maudlin and melancholy masterpieces and not following Mike Love around on the nostalgia tour.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 28 May 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
revive
http://annietour.com/BeachBoy2.jpg
http://www.cristino.ca/photogallery/with-Bruce-Johnson-Mike-Love-The-Beach-Boys-Sept-06.jpg
http://a343.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/88/l_3eca4d5edce1c9f3238985553c7b0eee.jpg
http://www.speakeasyboys.com/Matt_with_Beach_Boy.jpg
― m coleman, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
man he can't even smile anymore
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.kyriakisunday.com/images/mike_love_from_the_beach_boyz.jpghttp://www.writerhits.com/uploads/WritingSamples/VirginiaAndMikeLove.s.jpg
― dad a, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
What a shirt! (xpost)
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
is stamos back in the band?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
a friend of mine was doing some studio production work with his daughter (brother of Christian, blanking on her name right now... that's right, Mike has a child named Christian Love....) and she seemed, erm, rather bitter towards the old man, to say the least.
― go Nick go! Scrub that paint! Scrub it!! Yeah!! (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
isn't her name Wrinkles Love?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Slap an eyepatch on him and you've got yourself one hell of a frakkin' XO.
― Wee Tam and the lolhueg (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
<img src="http://image06.webshots.com/6/0/87/23/92208723rPgdtY_ph.jpg" class="noborder"></img>
― fit and working again, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Mike Love claims he is afraid to perform 'Surfer Girl' because it is "gender specific", implies that he fears retaliation from the FBI and the Budweiser corporation. (2023) pic.twitter.com/sBKcho8CNs— Crazy Ass Moments in Beach Boys History (@beachboysmoment) July 9, 2023
― Bittern Storm Over My Hammy (morrisp), Sunday, 9 July 2023 22:34 (one year ago) link
(Should he performing it anyway? It's a Brian song...)
Get ready for your monocle to pop when you see how many songs in the average 38-song BB’s headline set were written by Brian (I went to the Unleash The Love solo album launch at Amoeba, and even that was strictly one Unleash song, one Beach Boys song, rinse & repeat (and the band was the touring Boys))
― serving bundt (sic), Sunday, 9 July 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn23LFLka_8
looked up who is playing the county fair this summer (would probably be a solid thread) and I found a duo called LoCash, and I thought, who are these people, and it turns out they are weirdos + Mike Love
― Florin Cuchares, Saturday, 15 July 2023 05:00 (one year ago) link
Mike used to be down with Budweiser...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELxEKPyp9DU
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 16:29 (one year ago) link
https://preview.redd.it/gorgeous-new-photo-of-lana-backstage-at-the-beach-boys-v0-atq8gduekexc1.jpeg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b87ee44210f39143ba620e65660e10eb0d25852f
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Monday, 29 April 2024 17:57 (four months ago) link
so not gonna happen
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 April 2024 17:58 (four months ago) link
Did You Know that Mike Love Lives in a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd?
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Monday, 29 April 2024 18:02 (four months ago) link
Dropping my recent cover connection again here...
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Monday, 29 April 2024 18:07 (four months ago) link
Read Steven Gaines' early 80s Beach Boys tome for the first time recently and on that evidence every single one of the Boys was a shit (except maybe Bruce Johnston), and they were p racist as well. And yet still Mike came out on top (bottom).
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 07:54 (four months ago) link
Wasn't Al OK?
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:35 (four months ago) link
Mike Love wrote in his book that Al didn't approve of "race mixing"
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:52 (four months ago) link
Oh also in the "Heroes and Villains" book, all of the other Beach Boys disapprove of Brian dating a black woman and try to get her arrested so she can't follow them on tour. Al says something like “does he really have to put his arm around her”
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:54 (four months ago) link
ffs Alan Jardine!
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 15:55 (four months ago) link
I'm not a big BB fan but the Jokermen podcast is now going through every Beach Boys album (having already done Dylan & Lou Reed/John Cale).
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 17:09 (four months ago) link
Also one of Dennis's wives/gfs (clearly the one Gaines had the closest rapport with) calls a black bouncer at a Bill Graham venue the N word, and when Graham bans the group from his venues as a result Gaines clearly takes the wife/gf's side.
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 19:50 (four months ago) link
So their biographers are also racist?!?
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 25 May 2024 21:53 (four months ago) link
maybe one for the controp thread
i mean i fucking LOVE brian dgmw and SMiLE is just... classic. very classic. but i've thought about this probably too much: i've just assumed they were all horribly racist in that goid old fashioned incorrigible old white person baby boomer "ya we're just kinda better than them" sorta way. i mean they came from the institution that co-signed brian's outright theft of chuck berry so they obviously are from a very racist system. not "fuck them all" outright forever but let's not feign any shock or outrage here. also perhaps i've just mentally prepared myself for the worst when it comes to establishment white men.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Saturday, 25 May 2024 23:59 (four months ago) link
https://bsky.app/profile/porksweats.bsky.social/post/3l45k5qgtet2t
― Judge Judy, executioner (stevie), Sunday, 15 September 2024 16:26 (one week ago) link
The weirdos are coming from inside the band.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 15 September 2024 18:13 (one week ago) link