Mike Love v. Brian Wilson

Yoko Ono apologizes for ‘June with spoon’ comment aimed at McCartney
NEW YORK (AP) — Yoko Ono has apologized to Paul McCartney for insinuating that his songs are trite.
Accepting an award on behalf of John Lennon last month, Ono said Lennon had sometimes felt insecure about his songs, asking “why they always cover Paul’s songs and never mine.”
“I said, ‘You’re a good songwriter, it’s not June with spoon that you write.”’
After reports of the apparent slight circulated, Ono apologized in the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine, now on newsstands.
“I certainly did not mean to hurt Paul, and if I did, I am very sorry,” she says.
McCartney has sometimes clashed with Ono, Lennon’s widow.
She objected when McCartney reversed the traditional “Lennon-McCartney” songwriting credit on his 2002 album, Back in the U.S. Ono’s spokesman accused him of attempting to “rewrite history.”
McCartney had earlier complained that Ono wouldn’t let him take credit for Yesterday, a song written entirely by McCartney.

B. WILSON: I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

KING: So even through the depression everything, you took care of yourself?

B. WILSON: Yes, I always had that money in the bank. yes.

KING: How do you explain that, Melinda? Normally you would think when someone goes on the downward spiral everything goes down.

M. WILSON: He had people -- well, actually, to be honest with you, after the Landy years it wasn't great. Because Brian wrote the songs he continues -- he gets paid for the songs, and the amazing part about the Beach Boys catalogue is that it doesn't take a dive. Probably the Beatles, Beach Boys, maybe the Rolling Stones that each year a new generation finds the music and it increases.

B. WILSON: Our catalogues keep moving. The Beach Boy catalogue moves. We get a substantial amount of money from Rondor Music, A&M Records owns. They bought the catalog from my dad.

M. WILSON: Well, actually, your father sold it to them.

B. WILSON: My father sold the catalog to A&M.

B. WILSON: When I'm not singing or writing.

B. WILSON: No, because we played him what we wrote and he started smiling. He goes: "That's great. That's a great song." I thought he was going to go: "Get in the bathroom you're going to get beat with a belt.," you know, like he usually does.

(LAUGHTER)

Wednesday, June 14, 2006; Posted: 8:18 a.m. EDT (12:18 GMT)

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- The surviving founders of the Beach Boys -- Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine -- made their first public appearance together in 10 years Tuesday, standing atop the historic Capitol Records building in Hollywood.

The trio gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the landmark "Pet Sounds" album and the recent double-platinum certification of 2003's "Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys." The trio was joined by veteran band member Bruce Johnston and former Beach Boy David Marks.

"It's always good to do this while we're living," Jardine quipped to reporters before the event, in which band members were presented with framed plaques each containing two platinum vinyl records.

Plaques also were issued posthumously to Wilson's brothers, Carl and Dennis -- both original Beach Boys members.

The reunion of the Beach Boys came after decades of animosity between Love and Wilson, who are cousins.

Love sued Wilson in November, saying Wilson "shamelessly misappropriated (Love's) songs, likeness and the Beach Boys trademark, as well as the 'Smile' album itself" when Wilson was promoting 2004's "Smile." Love previously sued his cousin in the mid-1990s, seeking more songwriting credit on the band's back catalog.

The two shared a friendly rapport Tuesday, standing side by side and patting each other on the back. In thanking his bandmates, Love lauded "my cousin Brian Wilson, for his incredible abilities that gave us all this amazing life."

When asked if all hatchets have been buried, Love pointed to his back.

"The hatchets are right here," he said with a laugh.

Loved added that between the band members "there's issues that arise, and you resolve them over time."

Of the reunion, he said: "We've been together, just in different configurations and different situations. But this is a great one because everybody's in a celebratory mood, everybody's on their good behavior and everybody's enjoying the fact that our records have been recognized even 40 years after we first put (them) out."

A second greatest-hits compilation, called "The Warmth of the Sun," is planned for release next spring, Love and Wilson said.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

"The hatchets are right here," he said with a laugh."

Why is it Mike Love cannot stop being an asshole for even 5 seconds?

Yeah pretty much. Brian sings ghostly backing vox on "Getcha Back" from '85, and I think that part was recorded way before then.

Supposedly, Brian sings a backing vocal on the Spanish version of "Kokomo" which was 1988, I think? Brian definitely did not sing on the hit version, though. Then there is the commercial promo for Baywatch Nights which featured Brian along with the other Beach Boys, if that counts. Well, Brian's definitely on screen with Mike at the same time, anyway, and he seems to be singing. That was made in the 90's sometime.

Subliminal ML message: "I'm in charge."

http://clatl.com/atlanta/in-the-beach-boys-mike-love-a-hero-or-villain/Content?oid=3930863

http://clatl.com/imager/b/magnum/3930864/f983/Music_feature1-1_19.jpg

"Don't Go Near the Water" was our environmental song. We would have called it "Don't Fuck Up the Water" if we were Canned Heat.

lol

"You're still hitting those high harmonies after all these years?" ???

Canned Heat!
"We would have called it 'I Fuck Around' -- if we were Canned Heat!"

good thread concept

haha, I was going to post that same canned heat quote.

the "beach boys" are playing a free show in Denver (near where I live) on sunday. it's a 9/11 commemorative event. sounds painful in about ten different ways.

Seems have to have done a complete U-turn on SMiLE over the years, hasn't he?

really like the writer's name: CHAD RADFORD

aw, mike seems cool

i gather from the interview he wrote a line on good vibrations

have you heard his #1 hit song, Kokomo, which his cousin Brian Wilson was not involved in

But John Philips was - one of the few rock dudes even creepier than ML

Is Love really that creepy? He just seems really lame and square. Dennis was waaaay creepier (hooking up with Love's daughter, hanging out with the Manson family, etc)

I dunno - listened to some of Summer in Paradise a few weeks ago. Pretty creepy.

two lane blacktop with mike love would have been something to see

The thing is Mike seems to think people think he's lame and square because he doesn't think drugs are cool. I don't think drugs are cool, either, but that has nothing to do with it

Dennis was waaaay creepier (hooking up with Love's daughter, hanging out with the Manson family, etc)

by all accounts, Mike was just as much of a lech as Dennis, the two often "competed" in the womanizing sweepstakes

Hi Shakey,
The problem is that the people who write these things weren't around, and are operating on second- and third-hand accounts. The complete picture, like reality, is a composite. Every person's view — even in the group — is different. When outsiders start looking in and offer conjecture, things get abstract. Also, kiss my ass.
Your friend,
Mike Love
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/33257579/Mike+Love+Mike.jpg

^^^hitting some high harmonies there, I assume

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqerjyWcSH1qjhphb.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP73ZMGiXC8

Summer 2013 Tour

Brian Wilson will be touring with Al Jardine & David Marks for a series of shows that promise to be the musical highlight of the Summer. Following are scheduled dates – please check back often as new dates are added!

July 20, 2013
The Grand @ The Golden Nuggett
Atlantic City, NJ

July 21, 2013
Stage AE – Outdoor Stage
Pittsburgh, PA

July 23, 2013
Kresge Auditorum
Interlochen MI

July 25, 2013
Fraze Pavililion
Kettering OH

July 26, 2013
Ravinia Fesetival
Highland Park, IL

July 27, 2013
Weesner Family Ampithheatre
Apple Valley MN

October 20, 2013
Greek Theatre
Los Angeles CA

the Beach Boys will be the opening act

This one's a doozy.

http://observer.com/2016/06/for-the-love-of-mike-love-its-time-to-destroy-the-legend-of-brian-wilson/

I barely give a fuck who Mike Love has his picture taken with, or what political candidates he supports, or how he may stumble in public speeches; he is a gentle and kind man whose heart is in the right damn place, and he supports many worthwhile causes related to the environment, conservation, and spiritual enlightenment. Have any of you ever met Ric Ocasek or Todd Rundgren, or even, for that matter, the great Lou Reed? Have you ever talked to a waitress or stewardess who had to deal with Paul Simon?

I have met a pile of so-called pop stars, and in terms of being a decent man with a decent heart, Mike Love is pretty goddamn high on the “good guy” list. Most of you just hate him because he’s in a band called the Beach Boys without Brian Wilson. You think that the fact that he keeps the Beach Boys going is somehow denigrating of or defiant of the great achievements of that band, but it’s just the opposite; Mike Love has kept the Beach Boys, a vital American institution, alive and working in the face of great odds and even greater derision.

I barely give a fuck who Mike Love has his picture taken with

Weirdoes usually. We have the thread to prove it.

Somebody should probably break it to that dude gently that the Beach Boys probably wouldn't have become a vital American institution without Brian Wilson, and Mike Love is most likely selling tires in that alternate universe.

But but but he's an 'extraordinary musician'! Now, I have often defended Mike on this board and probably on this very thread, but that is ridiculous.

I'd like to hear a 'good guy Mike" story.

I don't know why you need anecdotes about his beneficence when you can see it written all over his resting 'Oh, goddamnit...' face.