Mike Love rules. He's provided me with countless hours of entertainment and none of those were from his music. I admire his dedication to the craft of clowning.
You have to laugh when Mike talks about dealing with the "egos" during his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame speech. There is no bigger ego in the music business than his.
"Brian Wilson is the Beach Boys, we are his messengers" -- Dennis Wilson (RIP Denny) Mike Love does deserves credit for some lyrics but in many cases of them, not all, he only contributed a small amount or even a just a tag in many cases. But that does not take away that Brian *ALWAYS wrote the music and arranged those legendary vocal harmonies to accompany his musical melodies*. Brian is the brainchild of the Beach Boys and we would not even know who "Dr. Love" if not for Brian's talents. Mike still deserved the credit for lyrics that he was not credited for, but not to the extent he would have you believe. Brian >> Love. Not to mention, Mike played a pretty substantial factor in Brian's unfortunate drug-induced breakdown. He put a lot of pressure on Brian not to "fuck with the formula" and tried denying Brian his artistic creative ambitions for his own selfish reasons. By 1967 an already drug-using person prone to mental illness simply had enough of his ways. Mike Love can talk about meditation and all that fashionable stuff, but overall he is a bad person.
***** The main contributor to Brian's breakdown was the collapse of "Smile ' He lost his confidence after that and if it weren't for "Smile" being assigned to confinement for 4 decades, he could have made some great records. I love the records after "Pet Sounds" but think of what could have been if "Smile would have been released at the time
***** I love how you dumb douchebags who weren't there know who deserves "credit" and who doesn't.Who PAYED to have Brian brought back down to Earth and SAVED his life through psycho therapy and Rehab? THE BEACH BOYS.
***** Smile was spotty... had amazing moments like cabinessence and surf's up but a lot of odd throwaways that could only be described as bizarre glimpses into the psyche of a mentally ill man in the midst of a nervous breakdown. To me, even the lousy tunes are interesting from an almost scientific point of view. Pet sounds was better. SMiLe's bright moments shine as bright as any, however.
***** Good for you... my opinion is mine and yours is yours. There are some masterpieces on Smile and i am not alone in regarding them as such, there are also throwaways like in so many Beach Boys albums after Pet Sounds. Although i thiink the era from Friends to Sunflower/Surf's Up is highly underrated in the Boys' catalog.
Stern is the worst interviewer ever. He never lets any guest answer his questions, constantly interrupting them to go on some rant about something else. So obnoxious.
Somehow Howard got the idea that he was a great interviewer, but he really is not. He's had some good ones, but not often. Oddly enough one of Howard's best interviews, in my opinion, was the times he interviewed Tiny Tim. He let Tim talk, and talk and talk. The compilations of 2 separate interviews that Howard did with Tim used to be here on YT, it makes for great listening. I know Tiny Tim isn't the most famous person, but Howard let Tim do his thing, and it was great.
+Rob Hendrick Hard to say. I think Mike was an important piece vocal wise. I don't believe all the song writing errors he's accusing Brian of. I also don't agree with Mike taking ownership of the Beach Boys name. Everyone knows the Wilson are The Beach Boys. Without them, Mike love would certainly not have been as successful.
+Rob Hendrick Does Mike own the rights to the Beach Boys name or just the touring rights? I wonder why they would agree to such a thing. Not that Mike doesn't deserve the rights, it just seems it would be better if the original members shared the rights. Who has the rights to the Beach Boys songs? I read that Murray Wilson sold many of them back in the mid 60's.
There was a Beach Boys period when Brian wasn't touring with them between 1964 and 1976. My question is: To you, was the band that toured during that specific period not The Beach Boys? Also, the LP's that had very minimal input by Brian, such as Carl And The Passions, Holland, etc - Are those by The Beach Boys (in your opinion)? 🙂
@@NOWtheband my personal opinion, after Carl passed there was no Beach Boys. none of the 3 Wilson’s are in the Beach Boys anymore, the main driving forces of the band. it’s nothing but a sad cashgrab from the people who grew up with the surfing music and know nothing more about them than that. that’s my personal opinion, however i think Mike Love is one of the biggest bottom feeders on Earth. 🤣
@@NOWtheband I'm assuming the OP means they wouldn't have amounted to jack squat if Brian wasn't there from the beginning. He arranged 90% of the music including all the top hits that made them famous.
Current Beach Boys sound more like Beach Boys than Brian's band...Brian's voice is getting shot...Mike still sounds pretty good, Bruce as well...and Jeff Foskett is with Mike and he sings the high notes perfectly.
You gotta love this. Brian is this musical genius whose nuts and such. Mike Love is all into peace and harmony and has been married and divorced like nine times. Plus, Mike Love gives us the dish on Brian and at the same time he talks like he's the genius of the band. They should totally all tour again just to show us the back stage fighting.
If the Beach Boys had their success in modern times, they ABSOLUTELY would've had a reality show. They were one of America's most famous dysfunctional families.
It's common knowledge. It has been written about in several books about the Beach Boys. Brian Wilson started writing GV during the Pet Sounds sessions. He and Tony Asher wrote the original lyrics. Mike Love added "im picking up Good Vibrations" and changed a few lines. He did not write all the lyrics.
to be fair apart from the opening line he did write the verse lyrics and they're very good, I'm by no means a Mike defender but gotta give credit where credit is due.
@@joshbaker1581 The problem is his ego won't let him be honest and content with his contributions, he has to embelish and tear down others. Example is his HOF speech, when they are being celebrated, have an event with thousands of people watching for them HE HAS to shit on the beatles and the stones, why?
He wrote the verse lyrics, which are amazing. Brian (or his advisors) deliberately changed them when he released his solo Smile album in order not to credit Love.
I'm a MASSIVE Brian Wilson fan, never cared much for Mike Love, but IMO he's incredibly misunderstood. Notice how he forced several corrections, when Howard was trying to make dirt. Mike is very confident, certainly an arrogant streak, but by no means a major "douche." You haven't watched much footage of ML if you haven't seen him humble himself MANY times and admit BW's rightful place. He's one of those personalities that is unfiltered, not concerned with the delicate niceties. ML is straightforward and honest and unlike so many, he really doesn't care if you like him or not. I admire that in people.
Jake Mitchell I understand why people get irritated by Mike Love's ego -- it gets on my nerves at times as well. What I don't understand is how people can say he was "totally replaceable" or was the least significant member of the band. He was by far their most prolific lyricist, and in their earliest days, he was the frontman (not the leader, but the frontman) and did the majority of the lead vocal duties along with Brian. Yes, Brian was the main creative force behind the Beach Boys, but Mike was the "face" of the band, the one who gave them their most easily-recognized image and voice.
Mike gets WAY too much of the blame for the demise of the SMiLE project. Brian wasn't even certain himself how he wanted it to turn out -- he had written only a few complete songs, the rest was mainly bits of music that he couldn't work into a cohesive whole until 2004. (Remember, the technology in 1967 was very limited; in order to edit multiple bits of music together you had to physically cut the tapes with a razor blade and then splice them together with tape.) So the project was pretty much doomed to fail anyway, and I'm sure the drugs didn't help either. Sure, it's easy to look at SMiLE's reputation now and think Mike was an idiot for not liking it, but put yourself in his shoes. If you were in a band that had had a long string of successful singles for several years and your leader suddenly wanted to do a complete 180 in terms of musical direction -- something that could potentially kill your career -- wouldn't you be at least slightly apprehensive about it? Again, remember this was 1967; there wasn't much of a market for "underground" music then as there is now -- if a major label didn't like you, you were pretty much screwed. Don't get me wrong; I still side with Brian for wanting to push boundaries, but I still find it perfectly understandable where Mike was coming from.
***** Well, maybe Brian would have finished it eventually in 1967 (or a year or two later), but the record company wanted something NOW, and Brian obviously realized at that point that SMiLE wouldn't be it. Mike's reaction to the project was perhaps the final nail in the coffin, but the coffin was being built for a long time before then. I think the SMiLE material is gorgeous as well, but my point is, it was a radical departure for the Beach Boys, so I don't blame Mike for feeling hesitant about going forward with it. He couldn't have had any idea back then that the Beach Boys would still be going strong nearly 50 years later; such a change in direction could have ended their career shortly. (And, considering the relatively poor fan reaction to the "Heroes And Villains" single, he may have had a point.) So, I think his negative reaction was more out of concern for the Beach Boys' future than anything against Brian's musical abilities.
*****g Didn't ML love say "Don't F with the formula" about Pet Sounds, not the Smile stuff (although I'm not suggesting ML liked the Smile tracks)? And, frankly, this conversation has taken a very strange turn for me, because I've never even considered ML a *major* factor in Smile not getting finished, and I've read all the major bios but maybe one. I've always thought ML was much more averse to Pet Sounds. The Smile sessions produced "GV," only their 3rd #1 hit, and ML was certainly on board with hits. And no doubt ML was NOT kind or receptive to VDP, but, it's a bit unfair to apply the appreciation we NOW have for BW's work to those days. VDP's lyrics ARE strange! They ARE inaccessible! They ARE....well...just plain weird. Let's not forget that as hit makers the BB's were vastly more successful before PS, and Mike Love simply isn't an "artist" at heart, so he - and a LOT of other people - simply could not see the potential in much of what was produced during the Smile sessions. And I'm one of those minority in the BW fan club that isn't so sure Smile would have made the massive splash often imagined. And I believe BW was going to bed (checking out) either way. Geniuses are notoriously tortured souls. How long is the list of brilliant minds who just couldn't deal with the realities of business and "normal" interpersonal relationships? I'm just glad BW didn't go the way of so many others and he's still with us.
Jake Mitchell I'm not sure where the "Don't fuck with the formula" comment came from. I've heard some sources say it was actually a record company executive, not Mike. As for Good Vibrations, it was actually completed and became a hit single before the SMiLE sessions began. Mike thought the arrangement was too weird at first, but he eventually came to like it, although he did alter the lyrics (and I'm glad he did; his lyrics are quite a bit better than Asher's on this song.) As for VDP's lyrics, I think they're clever at times (I especially like "Vegetables"), but other times they're rather obscure nonsense. (In the Smile Sessions CD booklet, Brian tries to explain the lyrics to "Surf's Up" but he's obviously not quite sure about them, and VDP himself more or less admitted that the ending to "Cabin Essence" was meaningless.)
***** for the most part Brian was the band, like Dennis said: "Brian Wilson is the Beach Boys. He is the band. We're his fucking messengers. He is all of it. Period. We're nothing. He's everything."
HE is a Beach Boy and deserves credit, but idiots like you love to discredit him and believe every rumor you read on some third party shit site. One of Rock N Rolls best front men and Brian himself admits that.
Mike Love is a real bastard. What he did to Brian Wilson and the other two Beach Boys last month was UNCONSCIONABLE. He wouldn't have a career without Brian's brilliance.
Exactly! No one knows a single tune of Mike Love's. Even Kokomo was John Phillips and Terry Melcher with a sprinkle of Love in it, the BS of repeating islands, an original idea back in 1962 with Surfin USA repeating beaches.
Dennis' LP wasn't a hit, neither was Bruce's, nor both of Carls. Neither were David's, Al's or Blondie's albums. Plus, the majority of Brian's solo LPs haven't got in the higher reaches of the LP charts. Of course, it's all personal opinion but for me, a hit does not mean good. I love plenty of unknown, underground or uncommercial music that gets nowhere near "the charts". Good music is just good music for each individual. It's entirely subjective! Enjoy what YOU enjoy! 🙂
That happens to alot of band members..this comment is just dumb lol. The beach boys were magic together, all of them brought something. Just because he wants credit for what he did or believes he did, doesn't mean he wants to discredit other members. When he tours, the money goes to him and all of the members estates including Dennis and Carl. Without him their families don't get that money and you guys hate him? For what? Because a misinformed youtuber convinced you to? Good job 👏. If you do your own research you'll find out
I saw Mike Love perform with the "Beach Boys" recently. He is a great performer. He really connects with the audience and seems to be a nice guy, He sincerely believes in TM, Why all the haters out there?
If you knew their history ....read a few books you will find he is important to their history but his personality and how he treated Brian is horrible.
robin was successful without howard. ever heard howard without robbin? it’s irritating and almost intolerable. the chemistry they have is great. Except Brian Wilson wrote all the music without mike.
Is this right time to tell everybody I wrote all the words to Beethoven's stuff? :) I listened to the Beach Boys (20 Greatest?) -while walking my dog with my walkman on -for *months* -some of the best days of my life. "Why stay married to keep the half that you don't have?" I didn't realize Mike wrote all of those great lyrics? (It's hard to play ball when you can't find the lights). #Peace&Love
Brian Wilson did producing and arranging along and writing. This dude love was good, but come on now, this dude love wants more credit than he deserves.
By the time the Beach Boys recorded I Get Around, California Girls and Good Vibrations, they had been in the business a few years. Mike Love would have "damn-well" understood the writers of hit songs made the lion's share of the money. Otherwise, you're just a sideman dependent on live shows for your bread. He would have INSISTED on writing credit. I don't believe a word of this interview.
Looks like he never got credit for writing the songs but in fact, he and Brian were a song writing team. Too bad that Brian got all the credit all those years, but that was the reason for the legal battle.
You can hear Good Vibrations minus Mike's contributions on Brian Wilson Presents Smile. While it's true that he did not write every word, his lyrical contributions did help the song.
He drops the Manson girls' names like they're 1st class celebrities, not sick freak murderers that they really are. He must have 0 respect for the people that they killed. All of this would make Dennis sick to his stomach. He's so transparently jealous of DW. He wishes he had DW's talent and hair, among everything else. Pacific Ocean Blue is stunning. He said that was the only falling out between them, but doesn't say 1 kind word about him. He caused ALL Wilson brothers much grief. Still is.
That’s ridiculous. Dennis enjoyed Charles and his time at Spahn so much he recorded Charles and used 2 songs on the 20/20 album. Clearly the Manson tie was horrible, but Dennis clearly enjoyed Manson enough to record him, and live together for some time.
Howard "If Brian was a decent guy he'd come forward and give Mike Love credit". Even Mike has to admit Brian has said and given plenty of credit to Mike. I do love Howard but so many of these interviews are him just talking out of his ass and don't even know what he's talking about.
In the 1964 "In Concert" album, Mike Love says of Brian Wilson speaking of the 4 Freshman how they influenced "Brian Wilson and HIS writings," NOT OUR writings. Then in 1976 at the Hollywood Bowl, Mike says of Brian, "HE is the reason we are here, period." So now, because of the money, Mike all of a sudden wrote all these songes? BS. Adding a liine or two to a song is NOT co-writing a song
CadillacFleetwood75 No. Not really. First of all Brian automatically gets credit for 50% of any song, as he writes the music. Mike adding 2 lines to a 24 line song is worthless. Listen to the original lyrics to GV, for example that Brian wrote. Really not much difference that what Mike eventually put down on paper. And, should Brian give Audry credit for she was that one that spoke of how dogs give off "vibrations" to people? And, if Mike was so fcuking creative, how come he did not pick up after Brian left the group? Where was Mike then? I will tell you. He was 28, going on 29 still signing, "Be true to your School." He has never matured
CadillacFleetwood75 Glad to see we are on the same page. Suggestions to songs are one thing. actually sitting down and composing a song are another. BY the way, Mike Love DID pen the words to "Do it again." He got the idea from an old friend he had not seen in several years. They got together at his friends suggestion, went to the beach and hung out all day. At the end of the day, the friend suggested he and Mike get together and "Do it again." Mike does tell this story himself. Hmmm. Do you think Mike gave his friend ANY credit for the song? But if that was HIM suggesting it to Brian, he would have claimed a co-writing credit
IF SMILE HAD COME OUT, DO IT AGAIN WOULD HAVE NEVER HAD BEEN RECORDED!! IT WAS CUT MAINLY AT BRIAN'S HOME STUDIO! THE STUDIO WAS PUT IN BRIAN'S HOUSE TO GET HIM TO RECORD TRACKS AFTER THE SMILE DEBACLE!!
Mike love saying he cowrote where you wanna go, is like Ringo suggesting to Paul that Father McKenzie should be darning his socks, and then claim he co-wrote the song! Come on Mike!
Howard and Robin are terrible with interviews especially with musicians. They kept talking over him and finishing his sentences and a lot of inaccurate crap comes out as a result.
Mike Love and Howard Stern in one place? Wow. GREATNESS OVERDOSE. I can't even decide who of them two is better. Mike Love? Best guy ever. He's such a loveable, humble, down to earth man. Without Mike love there would be no Beach Boys. He's the heart and soul of the band, a creative genius and a progressive musical thinker -- and SO VERY humble about his collosal input. And he's so cool to his bandmates, who did not do nearly as much as him. So supportive. And Howard Stern is the most polite interviewer ever. He's just so cool to everyone. Love them both so much!
+Arthur Fonzarelli the Fonz failed to mention that his farts cure cancer and the aboral sun in his colon allows the sun to shine from where the sun doesn't shine on mere mortals! And he shits 24 karat gold! And pisses molten platinum! Asbestos urethra don't you know!?!
Gary Usher wrote the words to The Lonely Sea and not Mike Love. Gary Usher also wrote the lyrics for In My Room. Mike Love could never write lyrics like that.
@@Tank4Life I believe Love only wrote the main chorus “I’m pickin up good vibrations, she’s giving me excitations”. Love didn’t contribute until after both Brian Wilson and the group’s Pet Sounds lyricist, Tony Asher, had already contributed substantially to the lyrical composition
I didn't realize how intelligent and mentally well organized Mike Love is. Nothing rattles this guy. No matter how annoying Stern is, Mike is cool and in control
I'm just getting into learning about the Beach Boys. So far, everyone seems to hate Mike Love, but whether I learn to love or hate him myself, I have to say it's his voice that I identify with their music. Surfin USA, 409, Catch A Wave, Shut Down, Surfin Safari, etc etc. I'm not interestd in their non-surfing/girls/cars music. I know it's more sophisticated, but that's not what I listen to the Beach Boys for. I like the fun, shallow stuff early on, and that's mostly Mike.
I think saying that you wrote songs but didn't actually write any of the music, only the lyrics, is slightly misleading. Ok, you wrote some lyrics. Fine. But its the melodies and harmonies that make those songs. But that's just me. Personally, I care more about the music then the lyrics.
Mike is a dick, but as to his writing/not wriging songs: a set of words -- lyrics -- written for the purpose of being sung is a "song"; hence, one who writes lyrics is indeed a "songwriter". Mike's songs could be pretty awful -- "Salt Lake City", for example -- but they occasionally were great -- "California Girls", "Fun, Fun, Fun", "Good Vibrations". Those songs work as much for the words as they do Brian's music. If anything, Brian used the words as a way to construct his music and make hit songs. Having said that, we shouldn't forget that Mike was and is a major league dick.
beagle123ist The only thing Mike wrote in "Good Vibrations" was the "I'm picking up Good Vibrations / She's giving me excitations" part. Hardly what makes the song great.
Mike of absolutely did not write all the lyrics for Good Vibrations. He is the Antonin Salieri to Brian Wilson's Mozart. He ad-lib one thing at the end of Good Vibrations and now he's saying he wrote the whole song
Just like Carl Dick Dale was one of my influences as a kid. But as time went on the Beatles Dave Clark Five Eric Clapton Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan were later added to my list.
howard stern is trying to instigate problems between the beach boys? Mike Love had to stop him several times and say no, 90 % great, Brian did give him credit in interviews etc.
Well despite the inter-band squabbles, they did manage to release a lot of music over the years... of course we were robbed of Smile and a semi-great album from '77 called 'Adult/Child'... at least they were recorded and you can hear them today. But really, even if Mike and Brian had stayed songwriting partners, it's unlikely they would've been popping Good Vibrations-quality songs into the 80s and 90s.
"The drug experience" aka writing timeless classics that you couldn't ever achieve and experiencing life in full the way you were always too uptight to do.
Don't know if I'm the only guy (besides Mike Love) who appreciates Mike Love's contributions to the Beach Boys. He may or may not be the prick he's made out to be (okay, he IS) - I really don't care. There's no denying Mike wrote some classic lyrics, and his vocals & sax playing helped define the early Beach Boys. So there ya go. Mike, I've said it - can I have my money now?
The "Dr. Love" thing is nauseating. Mike went to Manson's house for "servicing". He left that out intentionally. He DID sleep with the Manson girls.That's so disrespectful to Dennis to even TALK about Manson, especially since Dennis has passed and after he realized Manson was a creep (before the murders) he had tried to get away from him over and over. Manson threatened him several times and his family too. Dennis didn't want to talk about him after all of this, even before the murders.
Mike Love has frequently mentioned how other people always tried to take advantage of Brian Wilson. Poor Mike ... all he wanted was to be the ONLY ONE taking advantage of Brian Wilson. How can Bruce Johnston have anything to do with this Douchebag? The money must be really good.
He's not being straight about the divorce scenario- If I'm not mistaken, a wife is entitled to half of the IMPROVED value of the partnership, while they are married. A woman would not get half of what you had coming into the marriage.
Did Mike Love ever come back on the Howard Stern Show to analyze his Rock n Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech or was this his only interview with him?
Mike Love charges 260.00 for a meet and greet-he doesn't sign anything but a laminate-no albums-his rep grabs your camera-takes your pic with him and Bruce Johnson[who I totally respect]gives it back to you whether its good or not and they push you out-you get 2 old books in the mail and his new cd-so who's not money crazy? Was the worst meet and greet I've ever been on. I also wanted to meet John Cowsill the drummer-they said they didn't know who he was-total bullshit.
I wouldn’t pay for a meet and greet with anyone. It just shows a lack of respect for the paying audience and a total disdain for the individual fan. I’d rather watch an up and coming band in a small club and have a drink with them at the bar. Far more fun, and cheaper too !! As for Mike Love, he’d have to pay ME for the pleasure of my company and maybe, just maybe he’d get me to sign one of those silly hats of his 😎
Love was on for the stage a long time. I was laughing my butt off when Love said Mick Jagger did not have the balls To be on stage with The Beach Boys but an hour later Jagger would not let him sing with him
dbaum23 I think he actually might of, their are other versions of the verses with different words. Mike love and Brian are on the single as the songwriters. But I mean Jesus Christ those words wouldn’t be shit without the complex and amazing arrangement of the music
"Who wants to hear about Brian's mental problems anyway? I mean, to call a record "Sweet Insanity", imagine that. A whole album of Brian's madness that no one wants to release and still everyone says he's a genius! I make "Kokomo", it goes to number one in the charts and I'm still the dumb, know-nothing, talentless Mike Love". -Mike Love Pffft what a fucking wanker. At least he knows where he stands though lol!
Mike is out for himself - period He was just lucky Al and the Wilson brothers allowed him to go go dance and act like a weirdo on stage while they actually performed
Summer in Paradise could've been so great if they would've just played their damn instruments and brought Brian into the writer's room for a minute. Wilson-Love is a great team.
Do you really need to save face on this argument? It is a known fact that Mike Love did not write all the lyrics to song. He wasn't even in LA when Brian and Tony Asher wrote the original lyrics and recorded most of the tracks. Theres a three cd bootleg of recording sessions just for this song if you are that bored. Or you could just buy the twofer cd with the alt version of Good Vibrations. As for BW not saying anything about ML's claims, so what? Theres a lot of things BW doesnt talk about.
To the best of my knowledge Mike hasn't been on Howard's show since. And he sure wouldn't go on now because he knows Howard would ask about the Reunion aftermath. I believe Brian also went on Howard around the time his Imagination album was released.
Once heard Love described as "the lead singer in a 5 member band, who had the 4th best voice" The only reason he was a Beach Boys in the first place was because of his pushy mother who happened to be Murry Wilson's sister.
the most important thing Mike suggested love, on "good vibrations" is "Im pickin up good vibrations Shes giving me excitations "which is something, by force taking on the core of chorus, in addition to their contributions to the original lyrics.
"Interview?" "...blah, blah, and of course, more 'blah'. (what the hell is this?)I can understand Love being severely pissed...but without Brian, Love has nothing! He can't seem to see this, or just doesn't want to see it.
+Rob Hendrick You could probably say the same for all of us who were post WW2 kids growing up in the '60's.The Beach Boys from 1963-67 were really cool.BUT, personally loved the '70's & 80's but by the 90's the 'roof fell in'. Since then I've taken care of parents,loved ones, and may be out of the loop.
Wow, Stern is really irritating, to me (obviously). Interrupting & idiocy. Although the penis & boob questions were actually pretty cool. Not many music-folks get asked that kind of thing & not many would answer so coolly! I like Mike more & more. He seems genuine (or as genuine as someone in The Spotlight can be!)
Mike Love rules. He's provided me with countless hours of entertainment and none of those were from his music. I admire his dedication to the craft of clowning.
His Hall of Fame speech deserves its own wing at the hall of fame, a padded on at that.
Agreed! Ppl bust his balls but he's a great frontman.
Absolutely 100% on point, Buck. Nailed it.
He is a narcissist hat wearing tool. If you can't see that than you are too
"Mike Love is a great guy!"
- Mike Love
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Holy shite. He almost quit in ‘71. The Beach Boys would have taken a turn for the best.
If only. I wish I wish wish. Oh please bring back 1971.
@@dalehood1846 you no nothing about the Beach boys. Mike Love wrote almost every single beach boys hit.
@@sallybrown4947 you left off the "s"
1971 - coincidentally the year he makes one of his very few BB appearance that I actually enjoy: the baritone under the coda for the song "Surf's Up."
You have to laugh when Mike talks about dealing with the "egos" during his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame speech. There is no bigger ego in the music business than his.
Sting. =)
Not even close.
John Moeller Bono
steveziv Not even Bono ... Maybe Kanye.
And no less talent. Mike Love was and is worthless.
"Brian Wilson is the Beach Boys, we are his messengers"
-- Dennis Wilson (RIP Denny)
Mike Love does deserves credit for some lyrics but in many cases of them, not all, he only contributed a small amount or even a just a tag in many cases. But that does not take away that Brian *ALWAYS wrote the music and arranged those legendary vocal harmonies to accompany his musical melodies*. Brian is the brainchild of the Beach Boys and we would not even know who "Dr. Love" if not for Brian's talents.
Mike still deserved the credit for lyrics that he was not credited for, but not to the extent he would have you believe. Brian >> Love. Not to mention, Mike played a pretty substantial factor in Brian's unfortunate drug-induced breakdown. He put a lot of pressure on Brian not to "fuck with the formula" and tried denying Brian his artistic creative ambitions for his own selfish reasons.
By 1967 an already drug-using person prone to mental illness simply had enough of his ways. Mike Love can talk about meditation and all that fashionable stuff, but overall he is a bad person.
The main contributor that lead to Brian's breakdown was the albums. They all did poorly after Pet Sounds and I am sad because of that.
***** The main contributor to Brian's breakdown was the collapse of "Smile ' He lost his confidence after that and if it weren't for "Smile" being assigned to confinement for 4 decades, he could have made some great records. I love the records after "Pet Sounds" but think of what could have been if "Smile would have been released at the time
***** I love how you dumb douchebags who weren't there know who deserves "credit" and who doesn't.Who PAYED to have Brian brought back down to Earth and SAVED his life through psycho therapy and Rehab? THE BEACH BOYS.
*****
Smile was spotty... had amazing moments like cabinessence and surf's up but a lot of odd throwaways that could only be described as bizarre glimpses into the psyche of a mentally ill man in the midst of a nervous breakdown. To me, even the lousy tunes are interesting from an almost scientific point of view. Pet sounds was better. SMiLe's bright moments shine as bright as any, however.
***** Good for you... my opinion is mine and yours is yours. There are some masterpieces on Smile and i am not alone in regarding them as such, there are also throwaways like in so many Beach Boys albums after Pet Sounds. Although i thiink the era from Friends to Sunflower/Surf's Up is highly underrated in the Boys' catalog.
I love how Howard Stern interviews himself by answering the questions himself.
Stern is the worst interviewer ever. He never lets any guest answer his questions, constantly interrupting them to go on some rant about something else. So obnoxious.
I get the feeling that Howard likes Howard very, very much..........
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I understand what you're saying is you want to hear more.
Somehow Howard got the idea that he was a great interviewer, but he really is not. He's had some good ones, but not often. Oddly enough one of Howard's best interviews, in my opinion, was the times he interviewed Tiny Tim. He let Tim talk, and talk and talk. The compilations of 2 separate interviews that Howard did with Tim used to be here on YT, it makes for great listening. I know Tiny Tim isn't the most famous person, but Howard let Tim do his thing, and it was great.
Stem has grown and evolved so much. He credits all his therapy. Now he is the best interviewer out there👍
Without Brian Wilson Mike Love would be NOTHING
+HRDixie11 even with Brian he's nothing
+Rob Hendrick Hard to say. I think Mike was an important piece vocal wise. I don't believe all the song writing errors he's accusing Brian of. I also don't agree with Mike taking ownership of the Beach Boys name. Everyone knows the Wilson are The Beach Boys. Without them, Mike love would certainly not have been as successful.
+Rob Hendrick Does Mike own the rights to the Beach Boys name or just the touring rights? I wonder why they would agree to such a thing. Not that Mike doesn't deserve the rights, it just seems it would be better if the original members shared the rights. Who has the rights to the Beach Boys songs? I read that Murray Wilson sold many of them back in the mid 60's.
That's crazy! It seems fair, but then it doesn't. As long as they're all happy that's all that matters. Thank you very much for sharing the info.
They were all brothers, cousins
and friends, but then money/
The 300 pound ape shows up.
And it all goes to hell.
Without brian wilson there is no beach boys period
There was a Beach Boys period when Brian wasn't touring with them between 1964 and 1976.
My question is: To you, was the band that toured during that specific period not The Beach Boys?
Also, the LP's that had very minimal input by Brian, such as Carl And The Passions, Holland, etc - Are those by The Beach Boys (in your opinion)?
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@@NOWtheband my personal opinion, after Carl passed there was no Beach Boys. none of the 3 Wilson’s are in the Beach Boys anymore, the main driving forces of the band. it’s nothing but a sad cashgrab from the people who grew up with the surfing music and know nothing more about them than that.
that’s my personal opinion, however i think Mike Love is one of the biggest bottom feeders on Earth. 🤣
@@NOWtheband I'm assuming the OP means they wouldn't have amounted to jack squat if Brian wasn't there from the beginning. He arranged 90% of the music including all the top hits that made them famous.
Mike has over 30 million... and still crying for more... Brian was the music mastermind.
This guy is touring as the beach boys today and the "real" talent is touring separately as Brian Wilson and Al Jardine across the USA today.
Current Beach Boys sound more like Beach Boys than Brian's band...Brian's voice is getting shot...Mike still sounds pretty good, Bruce as well...and Jeff Foskett is with Mike and he sings the high notes perfectly.
@@thenaturallyinsane1 Thank you! The ML band sounds amazing
Brian was the MAJOR writer, so far as Mike getting credit, Brian doesn't like confrontation and just let it go.
agreed
You gotta love this. Brian is this musical genius whose nuts and such. Mike Love is all into peace and harmony and has been married and divorced like nine times. Plus, Mike Love gives us the dish on Brian and at the same time he talks like he's the genius of the band. They should totally all tour again just to show us the back stage fighting.
If the Beach Boys had their success in modern times, they ABSOLUTELY would've had a reality show. They were one of America's most famous dysfunctional families.
James Bingham u r right. How do you proclaim harmony, and married and divorced eight times. "Reality check, mike"
@@dalehood1846I think it's five times married, four times divorced.
I gotta say this interview is freaking hilarious
It's common knowledge. It has been written about in several books about the Beach Boys.
Brian Wilson started writing GV during the Pet Sounds sessions. He and Tony Asher wrote the original lyrics. Mike Love added "im picking up Good Vibrations" and changed a few lines. He did not write all the lyrics.
to be fair apart from the opening line he did write the verse lyrics and they're very good, I'm by no means a Mike defender but gotta give credit where credit is due.
@@joshbaker1581 The problem is his ego won't let him be honest and content with his contributions, he has to embelish and tear down others. Example is his HOF speech, when they are being celebrated, have an event with thousands of people watching for them HE HAS to shit on the beatles and the stones, why?
He wrote the verse lyrics, which are amazing. Brian (or his advisors) deliberately changed them when he released his solo Smile album in order not to credit Love.
@@JoeDiego I agree. Brian's 'Good Vibrations' lyrics on the solo Smile album are very weak and not up to par with Mike's lyrics.
@@hokahey7236 agreed, although I learned after this comment that they are Tony Asher's original lyrics before Mike rewrote them.
Summer in Paradise was the worst album in the Beach Boys career and it can be exclusively credited to Mike Love.
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Loved this interview of Howard Stern interviewing Howard Stern
I'm a MASSIVE Brian Wilson fan, never cared much for Mike Love, but IMO he's incredibly misunderstood. Notice how he forced several corrections, when Howard was trying to make dirt. Mike is very confident, certainly an arrogant streak, but by no means a major "douche." You haven't watched much footage of ML if you haven't seen him humble himself MANY times and admit BW's rightful place. He's one of those personalities that is unfiltered, not concerned with the delicate niceties. ML is straightforward and honest and unlike so many, he really doesn't care if you like him or not. I admire that in people.
Jake Mitchell I understand why people get irritated by Mike Love's ego -- it gets on my nerves at times as well. What I don't understand is how people can say he was "totally replaceable" or was the least significant member of the band. He was by far their most prolific lyricist, and in their earliest days, he was the frontman (not the leader, but the frontman) and did the majority of the lead vocal duties along with Brian. Yes, Brian was the main creative force behind the Beach Boys, but Mike was the "face" of the band, the one who gave them their most easily-recognized image and voice.
Mike gets WAY too much of the blame for the demise of the SMiLE project. Brian wasn't even certain himself how he wanted it to turn out -- he had written only a few complete songs, the rest was mainly bits of music that he couldn't work into a cohesive whole until 2004. (Remember, the technology in 1967 was very limited; in order to edit multiple bits of music together you had to physically cut the tapes with a razor blade and then splice them together with tape.) So the project was pretty much doomed to fail anyway, and I'm sure the drugs didn't help either.
Sure, it's easy to look at SMiLE's reputation now and think Mike was an idiot for not liking it, but put yourself in his shoes. If you were in a band that had had a long string of successful singles for several years and your leader suddenly wanted to do a complete 180 in terms of musical direction -- something that could potentially kill your career -- wouldn't you be at least slightly apprehensive about it? Again, remember this was 1967; there wasn't much of a market for "underground" music then as there is now -- if a major label didn't like you, you were pretty much screwed. Don't get me wrong; I still side with Brian for wanting to push boundaries, but I still find it perfectly understandable where Mike was coming from.
***** Well, maybe Brian would have finished it eventually in 1967 (or a year or two later), but the record company wanted something NOW, and Brian obviously realized at that point that SMiLE wouldn't be it. Mike's reaction to the project was perhaps the final nail in the coffin, but the coffin was being built for a long time before then.
I think the SMiLE material is gorgeous as well, but my point is, it was a radical departure for the Beach Boys, so I don't blame Mike for feeling hesitant about going forward with it. He couldn't have had any idea back then that the Beach Boys would still be going strong nearly 50 years later; such a change in direction could have ended their career shortly. (And, considering the relatively poor fan reaction to the "Heroes And Villains" single, he may have had a point.) So, I think his negative reaction was more out of concern for the Beach Boys' future than anything against Brian's musical abilities.
*****g Didn't ML love say "Don't F with the formula" about Pet Sounds, not the Smile stuff (although I'm not suggesting ML liked the Smile tracks)? And, frankly, this conversation has taken a very strange turn for me, because I've never even considered ML a *major* factor in Smile not getting finished, and I've read all the major bios but maybe one. I've always thought ML was much more averse to Pet Sounds. The Smile sessions produced "GV," only their 3rd #1 hit, and ML was certainly on board with hits. And no doubt ML was NOT kind or receptive to VDP, but, it's a bit unfair to apply the appreciation we NOW have for BW's work to those days. VDP's lyrics ARE strange! They ARE inaccessible! They ARE....well...just plain weird. Let's not forget that as hit makers the BB's were vastly more successful before PS, and Mike Love simply isn't an "artist" at heart, so he - and a LOT of other people - simply could not see the potential in much of what was produced during the Smile sessions. And I'm one of those minority in the BW fan club that isn't so sure Smile would have made the massive splash often imagined. And I believe BW was going to bed (checking out) either way. Geniuses are notoriously tortured souls. How long is the list of brilliant minds who just couldn't deal with the realities of business and "normal" interpersonal relationships? I'm just glad BW didn't go the way of so many others and he's still with us.
Jake Mitchell I'm not sure where the "Don't fuck with the formula" comment came from. I've heard some sources say it was actually a record company executive, not Mike. As for Good Vibrations, it was actually completed and became a hit single before the SMiLE sessions began. Mike thought the arrangement was too weird at first, but he eventually came to like it, although he did alter the lyrics (and I'm glad he did; his lyrics are quite a bit better than Asher's on this song.) As for VDP's lyrics, I think they're clever at times (I especially like "Vegetables"), but other times they're rather obscure nonsense. (In the Smile Sessions CD booklet, Brian tries to explain the lyrics to "Surf's Up" but he's obviously not quite sure about them, and VDP himself more or less admitted that the ending to "Cabin Essence" was meaningless.)
Like him or not still a good interview.
why is Mike Love always talking? why is he always presenting himself as representative of the Beach Boys ????
The Wilson Brothers were the BB. end of.
anastasia10017 Amen!
anastasia10017 uh...cause that's the job the band gave him?
***** for the most part Brian was the band, like Dennis said: "Brian Wilson is the Beach Boys. He is the band. We're his fucking messengers. He is all of it. Period. We're nothing. He's everything."
He co wrote how many of the hits? Come on now, no need to be a jaded fool
HE is a Beach Boy and deserves credit, but idiots like you love to discredit him and believe every rumor you read on some third party shit site. One of Rock N Rolls best front men and Brian himself admits that.
Mike Love is a real bastard.
What he did to Brian Wilson and the other two Beach Boys last month was UNCONSCIONABLE.
He wouldn't have a career without Brian's brilliance.
If Mike Love is such a genius, how come none of his solo albums have been hits?
Exactly! No one knows a single tune of Mike Love's. Even Kokomo was John Phillips and Terry Melcher with a sprinkle of Love in it, the BS of repeating islands, an original idea back in 1962 with Surfin USA repeating beaches.
Dennis' LP wasn't a hit, neither was Bruce's, nor both of Carls. Neither were David's, Al's or Blondie's albums.
Plus, the majority of Brian's solo LPs haven't got in the higher reaches of the LP charts.
Of course, it's all personal opinion but for me, a hit does not mean good. I love plenty of unknown, underground or uncommercial music that gets nowhere near "the charts".
Good music is just good music for each individual. It's entirely subjective!
Enjoy what YOU enjoy!
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That happens to alot of band members..this comment is just dumb lol. The beach boys were magic together, all of them brought something. Just because he wants credit for what he did or believes he did, doesn't mean he wants to discredit other members. When he tours, the money goes to him and all of the members estates including Dennis and Carl. Without him their families don't get that money and you guys hate him? For what? Because a misinformed youtuber convinced you to? Good job 👏. If you do your own research you'll find out
@@joshuasimber8588 - To be clear, I am not part of "you guys" because I don't hate him.
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@@NOWtheband nice I was talking to original comment lol
I saw Mike Love perform with the "Beach Boys" recently. He is a great performer. He really connects with the audience and seems to be a nice guy, He sincerely believes in TM, Why all the haters out there?
If you knew their history ....read a few books you will find he is important to their history but his personality and how he treated Brian is horrible.
So much for TM!!!
Mike Love: I was firing on all those ego maniacs
POT.....KETTLE...... OH YES!!!!
Ok
8:07 "I wrote Every Word of California Girls." Uuhhh hemm. Watch out for lightning, mike
seriously, Dennis picked up the Manson girls hitchicking, not Charles manson. that's the story I read.
That's what I heard,then Manson moved into Dennis's mansion after Dennis went to the studio.he snuck his dirty people in his house.
Mike Love would be pumping gas if not for Brian. He’s as lucky as Robin.
@Michael Fleming -
No one can be as dumb as you appear to be.
Yes, Batman is extremely lucky to have Robin by his side!
robin was successful without howard. ever heard howard without robbin? it’s irritating and almost intolerable. the
chemistry they have is great. Except Brian Wilson wrote all the music without mike.
@@smkxodnwbwkdns8369 No. Just no.
@@theoriginalaceofspades7829 mike even says so in other interviews
Thank you kpackard!
Is this right time to tell everybody I wrote all the words to Beethoven's stuff? :) I listened to the Beach Boys (20 Greatest?) -while walking my dog with my walkman on -for *months* -some of the best days of my life. "Why stay married to keep the half that you don't have?" I didn't realize Mike wrote all of those great lyrics? (It's hard to play ball when you can't find the lights). #Peace&Love
"Are they orgy-ing?!" OMG! That was hilarious! This was a great interview. Thanks for posting!
Mike Love's version of history.
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The one without drug and alcoholism so it's most likely 100% true!
Brian Wilson did producing and arranging along and writing. This dude love was good, but come on now, this dude love wants more credit than he deserves.
By the time the Beach Boys recorded I Get Around, California Girls and Good Vibrations, they had been in the business a few years. Mike Love would have "damn-well" understood the writers of hit songs made the lion's share of the money. Otherwise, you're just a sideman dependent on live shows for your bread. He would have INSISTED on writing credit. I don't believe a word of this interview.
I've been saying the exact same thing for years!!! Thank you
Looks like he never got credit for writing the songs but in fact, he and Brian were a song writing team. Too bad that Brian got all the credit all those years, but that was the reason for the legal battle.
You can hear Good Vibrations minus Mike's contributions on Brian Wilson Presents Smile. While it's true that he did not write every word, his lyrical contributions did help the song.
Mike Love has Kokomo. Brian has: Pet Sounds, Smile, Holland, etc.
Truthfully, Mike wrote a small sliver of Kokomo
Oh how I wish he'd go...go down to Kokomo. And never come back.
Awesome interview!
xoxo The Clarences
He drops the Manson girls' names like they're 1st class celebrities, not sick freak murderers that they really are. He must have 0 respect for the people that they killed. All of this would make Dennis sick to his stomach. He's so transparently jealous of DW. He wishes he had DW's talent and hair, among everything else. Pacific Ocean Blue is stunning. He said that was the only falling out between them, but doesn't say 1 kind word about him. He caused ALL Wilson brothers much grief. Still is.
Dennis WilsonForever Dennis Wilson is the one that brought Charlie Manson into the mix and we all know what came of that..
That’s ridiculous. Dennis enjoyed Charles and his time at Spahn so much he recorded Charles and used 2 songs on the 20/20 album. Clearly the Manson tie was horrible, but Dennis clearly enjoyed Manson enough to record him, and live together for some time.
Dennis was the surfer and girl magnet of the group. I don't even know if Mike can swim. lol
Howard "If Brian was a decent guy he'd come forward and give Mike Love credit". Even Mike has to admit Brian has said and given plenty of credit to Mike. I do love Howard but so many of these interviews are him just talking out of his ass and don't even know what he's talking about.
I think he is just being an instigator. I love Howard as well but sometimes he is full of shit.
In the 1964 "In Concert" album, Mike Love says of Brian Wilson speaking of the 4 Freshman how they influenced "Brian Wilson and HIS writings," NOT OUR writings. Then in 1976 at the Hollywood Bowl, Mike says of Brian, "HE is the reason we are here, period."
So now, because of the money, Mike all of a sudden wrote all these songes?
BS. Adding a liine or two to a song is NOT co-writing a song
If Mike added 2 lines to a 24 line song, he should get 1/12th of the money from it.
CadillacFleetwood75 No. Not really. First of all Brian automatically gets credit for 50% of any song, as he writes the music. Mike adding 2 lines to a 24 line song is worthless. Listen to the original lyrics to GV, for example that Brian wrote. Really not much difference that what Mike eventually put down on paper. And, should Brian give Audry credit for she was that one that spoke of how dogs give off "vibrations" to people?
And, if Mike was so fcuking creative, how come he did not pick up after Brian left the group? Where was Mike then? I will tell you. He was 28, going on 29 still signing, "Be true to your School." He has never matured
yanks7543 Dude. I agree with you. Mike's a douche, and deserves little to no credit on stuff he barely contributed to.
CadillacFleetwood75 Glad to see we are on the same page. Suggestions to songs are one thing. actually sitting down and composing a song are another. BY the way, Mike Love DID pen the words to "Do it again." He got the idea from an old friend he had not seen in several years. They got together at his friends suggestion, went to the beach and hung out all day. At the end of the day, the friend suggested he and Mike get together and "Do it again." Mike does tell this story himself. Hmmm. Do you think Mike gave his friend ANY credit for the song? But if that was HIM suggesting it to Brian, he would have claimed a co-writing credit
IF SMILE HAD COME OUT, DO IT AGAIN WOULD HAVE NEVER HAD BEEN RECORDED!! IT WAS CUT MAINLY AT BRIAN'S HOME STUDIO! THE STUDIO WAS PUT IN BRIAN'S HOUSE TO GET HIM TO RECORD TRACKS AFTER THE SMILE DEBACLE!!
Great interview! 👍
Mike love saying he cowrote where you wanna go, is like Ringo suggesting to Paul that Father McKenzie should be darning his socks, and then claim he co-wrote the song! Come on Mike!
Howard stern is now the Mike Love of radio…
Imus Stern
A great band. They still rock.
Howard and Robin are terrible with interviews especially with musicians. They kept talking over him and finishing his sentences and a lot of inaccurate crap comes out as a result.
Robin & Howard SUCK
Mike Love and Howard Stern in one place? Wow. GREATNESS OVERDOSE. I can't even decide who of them two is better. Mike Love? Best guy ever. He's such a loveable, humble, down to earth man. Without Mike love there would be no Beach Boys. He's the heart and soul of the band, a creative genius and a progressive musical thinker -- and SO VERY humble about his collosal input. And he's so cool to his bandmates, who did not do nearly as much as him. So supportive. And Howard Stern is the most polite interviewer ever. He's just so cool to everyone. Love them both so much!
I agree! But you forgot to mention that Mike Love saved the world from nuclear annihilation with his magical transcendental aura.
+Arthur Fonzarelli the Fonz failed to mention that his farts cure cancer and the aboral sun in his colon allows the sun to shine from where the sun doesn't shine on mere mortals! And he shits 24 karat gold! And pisses molten platinum! Asbestos urethra don't you know!?!
Bernie Bandicoot 10/10 troll effort
It’s OK.
GREAT TNTERVIEW ! SATURDAY 3/25/23 MARCH 25, 2023
Gary Usher wrote the words to The Lonely Sea and not Mike Love. Gary Usher also wrote the lyrics for In My Room. Mike Love could never write lyrics like that.
TM hasn’t helped his lack of humility or huge ego.
Ikr. Gives a bad wrap on tm
One of Carl's early influences was Dick Dale. In some of the earlier stuff the Beach Boys did he emulated that style quite well.
Mike Love did not write "every word of Good Vibrations". Not even close.
Actually he wrote every single word of it. His wife dictated it as he wrote it.
@@Tank4Life I believe Love only wrote the main chorus “I’m pickin up good vibrations, she’s giving me excitations”. Love didn’t contribute until after both Brian Wilson and the group’s Pet Sounds lyricist, Tony Asher, had already contributed substantially to the lyrical composition
I didn't realize how intelligent and mentally well organized Mike Love is. Nothing rattles this guy. No matter how annoying Stern is, Mike is cool and in control
Right on!
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Hes well read..it helped him write lyrics..his book is v good..
Transadental meditation!
Moeb4348,. He's cool and in control. Sorry, that will NEVER HAPPEN! ask any of his EX eight wives!
There’s public appearance Mike and then there’s the behind the curtain Mike.
Didn’t Mike also write the words to the Beatles last couple of albums or was it he just created the concept?
Big fan, Kokomo is my fave Beach Boys song. Mr Love is a genius
Please Brian Wilson was out there for so long that Mike Love can take credit for songs that he “wrote “.
I'm just getting into learning about the Beach Boys. So far, everyone seems to hate Mike Love, but whether I learn to love or hate him myself, I have to say it's his voice that I identify with their music. Surfin USA, 409, Catch A Wave, Shut Down, Surfin Safari, etc etc.
I'm not interestd in their non-surfing/girls/cars music. I know it's more sophisticated, but that's not what I listen to the Beach Boys for. I like the fun, shallow stuff early on, and that's mostly Mike.
Howard is pretty funny, I like the wit, but I do wish I could hear Mike actually talk for a bit without being interrupted.
Thats what Stern does to everyone.
I think saying that you wrote songs but didn't actually write any of the music, only the lyrics, is slightly misleading. Ok, you wrote some lyrics. Fine. But its the melodies and harmonies that make those songs. But that's just me. Personally, I care more about the music then the lyrics.
but to be fair, he should get credit for writing lyrics.
Mike is a dick, but as to his writing/not wriging songs: a set of words -- lyrics -- written for the purpose of being sung is a "song"; hence, one who writes lyrics is indeed a "songwriter". Mike's songs could be pretty awful -- "Salt Lake City", for example -- but they occasionally were great -- "California Girls", "Fun, Fun, Fun", "Good Vibrations". Those songs work as much for the words as they do Brian's music. If anything, Brian used the words as a way to construct his music and make hit songs. Having said that, we shouldn't forget that Mike was and is a major league dick.
beagle123ist The only thing Mike wrote in "Good Vibrations" was the "I'm picking up Good Vibrations / She's giving me excitations" part. Hardly what makes the song great.
beagle123ist and released an album that even calling godawful is being nice'Looking Back with Love" I believe that piece of shit was called???
If no Brian wilson, no beach boys. Brian wilson is a living geniuses. Mike love is along for the ride
Mike of absolutely did not write all the lyrics for Good Vibrations. He is the Antonin Salieri to Brian Wilson's Mozart. He ad-lib one thing at the end of Good Vibrations and now he's saying he wrote the whole song
Mike wrote the chorus to Good Vibrations, ie the only part of the song most people know. Don't sleep on his contributions.
This is pure chaos! Ciao !
Just like Carl Dick Dale was one of my influences as a kid. But as time went on the Beatles Dave Clark Five Eric Clapton Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan were later added to my list.
He makes his children proud
Mike write some lyrics, Brian wrote/produced them
howard stern is trying to instigate problems between the beach boys? Mike Love had to stop him several times and say no, 90 % great, Brian did give him credit in interviews etc.
Mike's cool.
Agreed! He may have a large ego but he's a great frontman and songwriter. 👍
@@petestaint8312He not egotistical, maybe tongue in cheek. If he were, he'd sue for all those songs he helped craft and was left high and dry.
The main contributor to his "breakdown"was Murry Gage Wilson.
1992. I saw the Beach Boys that year, Jones Beach NY, with David Cassidy opening. Good time!
And what can you say about Dennis Wilson he was the nicest looking all of them he was absolutely gorgeous.
Well despite the inter-band squabbles, they did manage to release a lot of music over the years... of course we were robbed of Smile and a semi-great album from '77 called 'Adult/Child'... at least they were recorded and you can hear them today. But really, even if Mike and Brian had stayed songwriting partners, it's unlikely they would've been popping Good Vibrations-quality songs into the 80s and 90s.
Stern is a very badgering type of interviewer...Mike starts to answer and Stern steams in with something else!
+Colsoloact He's like the anti Charlie Rose
Yep. He's rubbish.
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"The drug experience" aka writing timeless classics that you couldn't ever achieve and experiencing life in full the way you were always too uptight to do.
Pretty much.
Don't know if I'm the only guy (besides Mike Love) who appreciates Mike Love's contributions to the Beach Boys. He may or may not be the prick he's made out to be (okay, he IS) - I really don't care. There's no denying Mike wrote some classic lyrics, and his vocals & sax playing helped define the early Beach Boys. So there ya go. Mike, I've said it - can I have my money now?
The "Dr. Love" thing is nauseating. Mike went to Manson's house for "servicing". He left that out intentionally. He DID sleep with the Manson girls.That's so disrespectful to Dennis to even TALK about Manson, especially since Dennis has passed and after he realized Manson was a creep (before the murders) he had tried to get away from him over and over. Manson threatened him several times and his family too. Dennis didn't want to talk about him after all of this, even before the murders.
Mike Love has frequently mentioned how other people always tried to take advantage of Brian Wilson. Poor Mike ... all he wanted was to be the ONLY ONE taking advantage of Brian Wilson. How can Bruce Johnston have anything to do with this Douchebag? The money must be really good.
Bruce Johnston is a fucking chronically shit-eating grinning republiscum... REALLY LOVEs his Almighty dollar ALLmen! ALLwhitemen!!!
Without Brian there would be no Beach Boys at all. Without Mike Love there would be no Beach Boys after 1967.
I love a lot of the songs he sings lead on, but I love them despite his voice. It makes me wince at times.
Dylan gave him the middle finger in his subtle speech same year.
my brother met him and taught him how to meditate. Check out the book - Symphony of Silence on Amazon.
He's not being straight about the divorce scenario- If I'm not mistaken, a wife is entitled to half of the IMPROVED value of the partnership, while they are married. A woman would not get half of what you had coming into the marriage.
Did Mike Love ever come back on the Howard Stern Show to analyze his Rock n Roll Hall of Fame acceptance speech or was this his only interview with him?
Yes, he came back 2 years later to talk about it. I can't find the clip on TH-cam anymore
Amazing how far off Love is on the Wilson/Manson thing...Wilson didn't discover Manson hitchhiking nor did he see Manson shoot any black man.
Jim Richards Hery stupid the shooting is the ONE CRIME Manson admitted to.
Mike Love charges 260.00 for a meet and greet-he doesn't sign anything but a laminate-no albums-his rep grabs your camera-takes your pic with him and Bruce Johnson[who I totally respect]gives it back to you whether its good or not and they push you out-you get 2 old books in the mail and his new cd-so who's not money crazy? Was the worst meet and greet I've ever been on. I also wanted to meet John Cowsill the drummer-they said they didn't know who he was-total bullshit.
That is bullshit. I have two Beach Boys albums signed by Mike Love.
Surprise! Mike love is an asshole
I wouldn’t pay for a meet and greet with anyone. It just shows a lack of respect for the paying audience and a total disdain for the individual fan. I’d rather watch an up and coming band in a small club and have a drink with them at the bar. Far more fun, and cheaper too !! As for Mike Love, he’d have to pay ME for the pleasure of my company and maybe, just maybe he’d get me to sign one of those silly hats of his 😎
Ok
I was lucky in around 70 in Queens I met Bill Cowsill and he sang Indian Lake and Hair for me and my little brother. I was 11
how cool is that?
19:38 Howard gets Mike good🤣🤣
Love was on for the stage a long time. I was laughing my butt off when Love said Mick Jagger did not have the balls
To be on stage with The Beach Boys but an hour later Jagger would not let him sing with him
Mike is actually pretty funny and easy going in this interview. He's definitely not an uptight guy. So, he does have some redeeming qualities.
jer1er, And those would be???????
who do you think you are?
Always been in love with Mike.....i saw them when they were new.
He claims to have written every word of Good Vibrations...oh please!
dbaum23 I think he actually might of, their are other versions of the verses with different words. Mike love and Brian are on the single as the songwriters. But I mean Jesus Christ those words wouldn’t be shit without the complex and amazing arrangement of the music
@@nopeteys2424 there being so many versions with so many words, quite a few of them actually, I believe brian and mike both wrote some of the words
He did write the words. Brian's genius is music and arranging/producing.
@@nopeteys2424 “I think he actually might’ve. There are…”
That’s what you should have written.
Careful how you write things.
"Who wants to hear about Brian's mental problems anyway? I mean, to call
a record "Sweet Insanity", imagine that. A whole album of Brian's
madness that no one wants to release and still everyone says he's a
genius! I make "Kokomo", it goes to number one in the charts and I'm
still the dumb, know-nothing, talentless Mike Love".
-Mike Love
Pffft what a fucking wanker. At least he knows where he stands though lol!
Mike is out for himself - period He was just lucky Al and the Wilson brothers allowed him to go go dance and act like a weirdo on stage while they actually performed
He said that? What a bastard... Brian had to deal with some assholes in his life; his father Murray, Eugene Landy, Charles Manson and Mike Love
If mike left in 71 , Al Jardin could have sang all of his songs, and better. End of story
Summer in paradise… the single most embarrassing album ever put out. All you Mike.
Summer in Paradise could've been so great if they would've just played their damn instruments and brought Brian into the writer's room for a minute.
Wilson-Love is a great team.
Do you really need to save face on this argument? It is a known fact that Mike Love did not write all the lyrics to song. He wasn't even in LA when Brian and Tony Asher wrote the original lyrics and recorded most of the tracks. Theres a three cd bootleg of recording sessions just for this song if you are that bored. Or you could just buy the twofer cd with the alt version of Good Vibrations. As for BW not saying anything about ML's claims, so what? Theres a lot of things BW doesnt talk about.
To the best of my knowledge Mike hasn't been on Howard's show since. And he sure wouldn't go on now because he knows Howard would ask about the Reunion aftermath. I believe Brian also went on Howard around the time his Imagination album was released.
It's no wonder Mike Love never came back. Jeez, but what a sport he was on the show. All respects to Mike. He showed me something.
Once heard Love described as "the lead singer in a 5 member band, who had the 4th best voice"
The only reason he was a Beach Boys in the first place was because of his pushy mother who happened to be Murry Wilson's sister.
which is what?
the most important thing Mike suggested love, on "good vibrations" is "Im pickin up good vibrations
Shes giving me excitations "which is something, by force taking on the core of chorus, in addition to their contributions to the original lyrics.
Good Vibrations has one of the greatest hooks in music history thanks to Mike's quick thinking on this album. Don't sleep on Mike Love here.
"Interview?" "...blah, blah, and of course, more 'blah'. (what the hell is this?)I can understand Love being severely pissed...but without Brian, Love has nothing! He can't seem to see this, or just doesn't want to see it.
+Rob Hendrick Yes, you are right. BUt without Brian, he'snobody. They had their time and were 60's major hitsbut that's all over over for both them.
+Rob Hendrick You could probably say the same for all of us who were post WW2 kids growing up in the '60's.The Beach Boys from 1963-67 were really cool.BUT, personally loved the '70's & 80's but by the 90's the 'roof fell in'. Since then I've taken care of parents,loved ones, and may be out of the loop.
Shut the fuck up robin you add nothing
Why does he keep bringing up Brian Wilson's drug issues...disrespectful. Puts him down...if it wasn't for Brian...Mike Love would have a career.
You mean he wouldn’t have a career.
@@vickielawson3114 yes thank you.
Wow, Stern is really irritating, to me (obviously).
Interrupting & idiocy.
Although the penis & boob questions were actually pretty cool. Not many music-folks get asked that kind of thing & not many would answer so coolly!
I like Mike more & more. He seems genuine (or as genuine as someone in The Spotlight can be!)