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Author:  Scorehead [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:43 am ]
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Mike Love has been a PITA for other members of the Beach Boys for 25 years. Love owns the rights to the name & the band & today he fired Brian Wilson, along with Al Jardine. Talk about the tail wagging the Dog...Mike freaking Love fires Brian Wilson?


Beach Boys
September 26 2012, 6:51 PM ET
by Chris Martins
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Mike Love refuses to tour with Brian Wilson, et al.

Mike Love apparently surprised his fellow Beach Boys co-founders Brian Wilson and Al Jardine, plus guitarist David Marks, when he announced on Sunday that all three were fired from the band. After the Boys wrap two London stops on their current 50th anniversary tour, Love will carry on with his own lineup. He cited greed, essentially, as the reason.

"You've got to be careful not to get overexposed," said Love in a statement issued the day the band's Grammy Museum exhibit opened. "There are promoters who are interested [in the o.g. lineup], but they've said, 'Give it a rest for a year.' The Eagles found out the hard way when they went out for a second year and wound up selling tickets for $5."

Love can do this because he has owned the Beach Boys name since 1998, after a series of hard-fought legal battles following the death of Carl Wilson that same year. Since then, Love has toured with his own version of the Beach Boys, featuring longtime member Bruce Johnston and a backing band including Love's son, Christian.

"I'm disappointed and can't understand why he doesn't want to tour with Al, David, and me," said Wilson, Love's cousin and the group's defining singer-songwriter. to CNN. "We are out here having so much fun. After all, we are the real Beach Boys."

As Rolling Stone reports, Jardine has gone as far as to petition his Facebook followers for signatures beneath a letter that reads:

"To Mike Love. In order to preserve the validity of 'The Beach Boys' as a whole, and not as a 'money saving, stripped down version' that only contains one original member, and one member that joined in 1965, we ask you to reinstate the three other members to the touring group for your final years performing. It's the right thing to do, and it's what the fans want!"

With the number of signees at 2,700 and growing, it'd seem that Jardine is right about what the fans want. And yet, Love insists, in the most codger-y voice we can muster up in our minds, that "the 50th Reunion Tour was designed to be a set tour with a beginning and an end to mark a special 50-year milestone for the band." Well, harrumph to you too, sir.
Author:  ZephMarshack [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:51 am ]
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There's something refreshing about such consistent tried and true douchebaggery. I legitimately believe there's a decent shot he only agreed to this reunion in the first place so he could fire them again.

Hopefully this means Wilson can focus on finishing that insane concept album called Pleasure Island he mentioned in a few interviews.
Author:  Beebo [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 6:00 am ]
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Scorehead wrote:
Mike Love has been a PITA for other members of the Beach Boys for 25 years. Love owns the rights to the name & the band & today he fired Brian Wilson, along with Al Jardine. Talk about the tail wagging the Dig...Mike freaking Love fires Brian Wilson?


That's a lot of bullshit. It was known that on completion of the reunion tour that Love and Bruce will continue with their previous band configuration. Love doesn't "own" the name, Brother Records does. He pays for the right to use it.

So the tour is over, Wilson, Jardine and Marks go back to whatever projects they have, and that's that. (Although I can see Wilson playing with the media, with the "Oh, noes" quote.)
Author:  rogers park bryan [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:31 am ]
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Bad Vibrations....
Author:  The Original Kid Cairo [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:32 am ]
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rogers park bryan wrote:
Bad Vibrations....

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Author:  Urlacher's missing neck [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:40 am ]
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I wouldn't put it past Mike Love to sue Kevin Love for 33 percent of his NBA contract for using the Love name.

Regardless, these guys are old as hell. There is no reason for any of them to be touring.
Author:  The Original Kid Cairo [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:48 am ]
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"Mike Love cold as hell..."


Three people get that reference. Maybe.
Author:  Chus [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:56 am ]
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This is the most that anybody has talked about the Beach Boys since they wrote Kokomo, back in the 80's.
Author:  RFDC [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:12 am ]
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Author:  jimmypasta [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:17 am ]
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Looks like Love is trying to pull a little douche coup.
Author:  The Original Kid Cairo [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:18 am ]
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RFDC wrote:
Image

:thumleft: You got it.
Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:25 am ]
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seriously, who gives a fuck?
Author:  sjboyd0137 [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:29 am ]
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jimmypasta wrote:
Looks like Love is trying to pull a little douche coup.

:lol:

doug - evergreen park wrote:
seriously, who gives a fuck?

This
Author:  redskingreg [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:47 am ]
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Denied. Beach Boys have always sucked ass.
Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:52 am ]
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They have one good album.
Author:  redskingreg [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:03 am ]
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Marlee Matlin wrote:
I love all their albums.
Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:11 am ]
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It was all downhill for them after this;

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Author:  spmack [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:17 am ]
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The Original Kid Cairo wrote:
RFDC wrote:
Image

:thumleft: You got it.

Whatever happened to The Diz?
Author:  Hank Scorpio [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:18 am ]
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Author:  RFDC [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:20 am ]
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Hank must be ignoring Frank :lol:
Author:  Hank Scorpio [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:24 am ]
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RFDC wrote:
Hank must be ignoring Frank :lol:


:oops: :oops:

All I saw was a red X.
Author:  C_Howitt_Fealz [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:55 am ]
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Wilson's solo version of "Good Vibration" with the original lyrics and the full orchestration is really good. And Probyn Gregory really handles the tannerin with near perfection. Have to buy me one of those.
Author:  Mini Ditka [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:36 am ]
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So Mike Love has a problem with Brian Wilson and the others, but he's okay with John Stamos on stage?
Author:  Mini Ditka [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:51 am ]
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Mike Love should only be allowed to perform the only hit song he wrote. Needless to say it'd be hard to do 2 hours of Kokomo.
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