The Beach Boys are coming back to Tuscaloosa Amphitheater https://t.co/8zduXxOi9p pic.twitter.com/jpXAHCyDVT— AL.com (@aldotcom) June 14, 2021
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 June 2021 21:53 (three years ago) link
Half those members only joined in the MAGA era.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 00:04 (three years ago) link
They look like the lineup for a megachurch’s music festival.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 00:07 (three years ago) link
pretty sweet assortment of shirts there
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 01:38 (three years ago) link
Curious that only Mike and Bruce have the honour of wearing Beach Boys baseball caps in that photo.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 01:56 (three years ago) link
Weird that John Cowsill (shirt at extreme right) has played w/ the Beach Boys almost as long as Dennis Wilson did
― Josefa, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 01:58 (three years ago) link
Hey he’s more than just a shirt but damn that is a shirt
― tobo73, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 02:02 (three years ago) link
cool another excuse to post this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdYbymafUd0
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 02:12 (three years ago) link
They look like they are all outfitted to go hunting, but hunting for what, I don't know.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:59 (three years ago) link
Fun
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 12:01 (three years ago) link
Props to the one guy in the back respecting the BBs striped heritage
― Josefa, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 12:23 (three years ago) link
John Cowsill was a beast on the 50th anniversary tour, made it clear why he was the only guy that got brought over from Mike's band for his playing / singing.
(Mike's bandleader / guitarist was the only other guy brought over at all, and I'm sure he did heroic work as a mediator & played well, but the Wondermints dude just stayed home to make room for Cowsill.)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 19:39 (three years ago) link
I don't remember who was in the band when I saw that 50th show (besides the Beach Boys and Wondermints guy(s)), but I do know there were like 8 guitars on stage, and they didn't need 8 guitars.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
Was just thinking the other day that one of the many unusual things about the Beach Boys is that there are so many songs *about* surfing and surf culture, but not much actual surf music.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FAd5nC7WUAYY8pj?format=jpg&name=medium
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
Ugh.An another note, I’m a huge John Cowsill stan.
― He POLLS So Much About These Zings (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
Mike Love looks more like a human being in that photo.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
Mike Love visits the Dublin wax museum.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 29 September 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
Where was that photo taken? I can’t make out the event badge Love is wearing around his neck.
― juristic person (morrisp), Wednesday, 29 September 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
With the exception of The Band’s Robbie Robertson, Mike Love might be the most polarizing person to ever be in the music business.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 18:03 (two years ago) link
Is he really polarizing if no one likes him?
― Josefa, Saturday, 19 March 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
Lol.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 19:41 (two years ago) link
That came from this publicly visible FB page that keeps showing up in my feed recently. Guy seems to be trying to walk some tricky middle ground here.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 19:46 (two years ago) link
Seems like everyone likes Carl, but that maybe Brian is actually the most polarizing BB, for varying reasons
― Josefa, Saturday, 19 March 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link
There are definitely Mike Love stans out there.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Saturday, 19 March 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
Think that guy says he started that page because other BB sites were either Mike-leaning sites or Brian-leaning sites and he is tilting at the windmill of splitting the difference. He also goes into some Brian vs. Carl beefing that I didn't really know about.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link
The Beach Boys are basically the Ship of Theseus now.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 19 March 2022 21:22 (two years ago) link
Lol
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 March 2022 21:29 (two years ago) link
I used the read The Smile Shop a lot from 1999-200? and the Mike-Brian stan wars were kind nuts.
― move over GAPDY, now there's BIG THIEF! (PBKR), Saturday, 19 March 2022 21:40 (two 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