Can we be shown weirdos + Mike Love?

http://patstjohn.com/Graphics/Gallery/Mike_Love.jpg

http://www.huntperryfarms.com/graphics/02-03/love.jpg

ML: Without meditation, I'd probably be dead. It has allowed me to transcend all the bothersome things that happen during the course of a day, a week, a month, a career or a lifetime. I go beyond a certain level of thought. Some of those types of thoughts come from a stressed physiology. They appear in your mind as, "I want to kill that person," "I want to kick the dog," "I want to hurt my wife," "I want to emotionally abuse people."

Ummm... no, they don't, Mike.

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Needless to say, I failed it. However,
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check out the hat!

I want that Rick Derringer T-shirt.

no.

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He has to maintain his image as the mysterious, brooding intellectual of the Beach Boys.

What? Like Brian Wilson isn't a weirdo?

http://www.joanhammel.com/JoanHammel/gallery/celebrity_gallery/images/beach_boy.jpg

Only a weirdo because they're hanging out with Mike Love?

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.

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.

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http://patstjohn.net/Graphics/Gallery/Mike_Love.jpg

lmao

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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.

I ♥ this guy. I don't know why I ever doubted him.

His hands were bejeweled in a dazzling array of rings and bracelets.

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.

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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.

here we go

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(and yes they are weird)

wow this thread is a lost classic-- gr8 revive

http://www.miamibeachsandcastle.com/images/Mike_Love_Beach_Boys_with_Victor_Leong_Grand_Bahamas.jpg

This thread!

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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.

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Ugh.

An another note, I’m a huge John Cowsill stan.

Mike Love looks more like a human being in that photo.

Mike Love visits the Dublin wax museum.

Where was that photo taken? I can’t make out the event badge Love is wearing around his neck.

With the exception of The Band’s Robbie Robertson, Mike Love might be the most polarizing person to ever be in the music business.

Is he really polarizing if no one likes him?

Lol.

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.

Seems like everyone likes Carl, but that maybe Brian is actually the most polarizing BB, for varying reasons

There are definitely Mike Love stans out there.

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.

The Beach Boys are basically the Ship of Theseus now.

Lol

I used the read The Smile Shop a lot from 1999-200? and the Mike-Brian stan wars were kind nuts.

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

(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))

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

Mike used to be down with Budweiser...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELxEKPyp9DU

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so not gonna happen

Did You Know that Mike Love Lives in a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd?

Dropping my recent cover connection again here...

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).

Wasn't Al OK?

Mike Love wrote in his book that Al didn't approve of "race mixing"

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”

ffs Alan Jardine!

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).

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.

So their biographers are also racist?!?

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.

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The weirdos are coming from inside the band.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAoKPomPuBR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Mike could do a good "Ya gotta keep 'em separated" guest shot on "Come Out And Play".

'Why Don't You Get A Job' is the logical follow-up to 'Student Demonstration Time'

this isnt michael love but every time this pic comes up i always think it’s him

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— Raccoons Hourly (@raccoonhourly) October 15, 2024

His name is clearly Freddie though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8zp47LjcpI

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apols if this has already appeared in the thread, the algorithm just shared it with me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6xYe-cn5XE

Pretty Fly For A Mike Guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBXcg_O7c3g

^^For non-insta users

This is my fav thread of all time maybe

Harmonies are still pretty sick. Who's the guy way off to the right wearing a nice update of the classic Beach Boys striped shirt?

The first pic is still unbeatable imo

Shame it appears to have gone

From the title down this thread is unimpeachable.