@@Atlas-Heisenberg_756 lol, yeah so I guess technically you could say that the actual term, "Pet Sounds" was Mike's idea. But, I don't think he was referring to the title when he said "Pet Sounds" was his idea.
Mike Love: “Sure, Jimi Hendrix was the one playing the guitar ... but he borrowed $5 from me to buy the strings he was using. So, I’m basically responsible for Voodoo Child”.
@Harold Albert Mike was pumping gas at night and working days at his dad’s failing sheet metal company to support his young wife (a shotgun marriage, and his first of six or seven marriages-accounts vary) when The Beach Boys got started.
Presenting is part of the work though. I always presented because my teammates were too shy. They were replaceable (anyone can make a presentation), I was not (only I could present)
He wrote Hotel California, Hey Jude. Like a Rolling stone, Stairway to heaven and Imagine on the same night he wrote, recorded and Produced Dark Side of the Moon. A very talented man indeed, He can even drive a car .
Bald Mike Love funny enough wrote Rubber Soul the album that included one of Bald Mike Love's best "Drive my car". It was originally titled "Drive my car to the hamburger stand",
I remember paul being interviewed and the interviewer asked if mike love helped with any beatles songs, and paul said, well i dont remember that, but you know it was the 60's, substances were involved. so it might have happened...
Mike was great. He wrote our national anthem. He wrote the Magna Carta . I was there when Mike wrote the preamble to the constitution. Mike once wrote a grocery list. Nothing was beyond his scope. Mike can’t play an instrument, but he did write all of the beach Boys songs. Brian was sad, Mike was a dynamic rocket, blasting off with positivity! Brian was weeds in the grass, Mike was a bouquet of colorful flowers. Lol.
@@scoop1127 never said he did. Mike loves voice is not a contribution, is that what you're trying to say? Then you'd be wrong. His voice is unique, and as much a part of the beachboys sound as anything or anyone else.
Listening to Mike Love talk about music and really anything else is almost torturous if it wasn’t so funny. His arrogance is only matched by his lack of talent.
@@armysniperman80 Bro, Mike Love literally wrote the lyrics to almost every song he sang lead on. He wrote the lyrics to most of their signature classics. Thank God they scrapped the original Good Vibrations lyrics by Asher and had Love rewrite them
He wrote candy-ass lyrics and bubblegum pop songs. Just as many other throwaway bands of that era. Brian was the artist of the band. Mike was always garbage.
@@TheAerovons no, it's just mike. dennis, carl, and al jardine actually had talent and did way more than mike ever did for the band. mike is just the embodiment of everything that is uncool.
@@thevoid99 Mike was still singing on their records while the others were replaced by Brian with the Wrecking crew half the time. Mike may be a jerk, but his voice his integral to their records.
@@TheAerovons Bull! Love didn't sing. He had no vocal range, no vibrato, no timbre, and no depth. Anyone that couldn't sing well could sing just as well as him. The only thing that he had going was being related to the Wilsons.
@@fiddlefaddle1 Love sang great. Is the main lead singer of the Beach Boys for heaven's sake, with Brian doing all the falsetto stuff. His snotty bratty voice was a signature sound for them.. You have zero idea what you are talking about lol
"I remember when Moses came down off the mountain but he had 13 Commandments and i said Man you gotta have just Ten it sounds more timeless"- Mike Love
I said, I am music and I write the songs. I said, hey did you hear that Bruce?! I said, hey Bruce you can have that line for a song. So, I wrote the song.
"So John Lennon came with this song and he had this line that went 'imagine all the great horned owls' and I said 'maybe "people" would make more sense in your song?'" - Mike Love at the "Beach Ball Boogie Woogie" album release party in 1996
He's a humble man indeed. He only ever talks about what he did on his day off, not all that he created on the first 6 days of the week. We should all be so grounded.
Not true. He's very interested in the lives of others, most notably, complete strangers who approach him. True, he'll begin most conversations talking about the group and himself but very hastely switch course by saying, "Well, that's enough about me. Let's talk about you. What do you think of me?"
After Brian Wilson, Mike Love managed to take The Beach Boys from being one of the most respected bands on earth, to playing gigs after farm team baseball games.
No mystery there…Look at the cheese ball…you can totally tell, he has a talent for fucking stuff up? Can you believe someone married that! Proof of unintelligent life is the universe. A total Gommer and self absorbed Grifter GLWT unlovable mike !
And let's not forget [Mike] Love Me Do! Or And I [Mike] Love her! And then there was that Cirque du Soleil Beatle tribute show to Mike, simply called Love!! And Michelle was their tribute to him when Mike was thinking of going transgender (it wouldn't take much doing)!!!
He' really is the only reason, the Wilsons were talentless idiots but Mike Love was a genius that God sent to earth to save our souls. He is our Jesus. Idiots like you will put him on the cross but he will rise from the dead and come back in greatness you've never seen and then go to heaven were he belongs. HAIL LOVE
Gregor Strange Comparing him to Jesus is really not fair. I mean he's a cool dude and all, but he's not Mike Love. He also failed to give Mike Love writing credit for the universe and mankind. Mike should have sued him over that long ago, but our creator and savior is so humble that he doesn't need that.
-Mike Love sued Brian Wilson for songwriting credits on a ton of Beach Boys songs even though his actual contributions were laughably minimal. Like, his contribution to “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” was “Goodnight, my baby/ Sleep tight, my baby.” If It were not for Brian, none of the BBs would be known. Mike Love is one the those lucky no talents who was in the right place at the right time.
Dennis Wilson at least was humble enough to admit many times that Brian was way better than he could ever be and was the very backbone of the entire Beach Boys Band. Dennis was also the only one in the Group who knew how to use a Surfboard. Dennis was a Real Life Beach Boy. Dennis was the most liked in the Band by all the Girls & Women too. Again to me the Beach Boys died after Dennis Wilson died just as Chicago died to me after Terry Kath died.
Bill Presley All so true! I am a big fan of Dennis Wilson too. Dennis didn’t choose drums- he was told to play drums because that was all that was left in the band and had to learn on his own- that goes overlooked I think. Like a lot of BB fans I find Mike Love annoying and self serving. In my opinion he shows all the signs of simple jealousy of Brian and Dennis. He brags like this most likely because he really feels insecure about his talents in comparison.
What jumped out at me when you mentioned it, is that Mike Love said he got home from surfing when he decided to write "Do It Again". He never surfed--Dennis surfed!!
@@jillbriska2416 If you read any of the biographical books written on the BB, the competition between the Loves and Wilsons goes back to the previous generation. Mike contributed to the group's success just as everyone did but unlike the rest he tried to control them. After Murry was fired, it became Brian's group in the studio and Mikey's group on the road.
Mike Love is so influential he single-handedly wrote the Bible, directed The Godfather, painted the Mona Lisa, killed Adolf Hitler, solved world hunger, ended climate change, and rebuilt the Roman Empire all in one day
@@rejectionisprotection4448 Nah that’s not all, he’s so humble we don’t know the full extent of everything he’s done. Rumor has it he also prevented World War 3 he’s just too humble to admit it. Truly one of the most humble men of all time
When he sewed the first flag of the United States we were in total awe of him. You know, he’s all about Love. His presence at the Rock n Roll hall of fame was incredible since he filmed it all and was too busy to get on stage. This man is an Icon in the worst way ever!
@@jjrj8568 He also wrote Summer In Paradise, let’s be truthful here. True the guy has some writing credits on some great Beach Boys songs but most of those were primarily written by Brain. Also once the Beach Boy’s become the Mike Love Experience, they released the worst music of their career. Brian, Al, Dennis and Carl are more talented, creative and likable as people.
A minimal talent who road the coat tails of one of the greatest musical talents in modern music. If ever there was picture book perfection of STFU, it is Mike Love.
I never realised what a bit part player Brian was in the Beach Boys story. Thank you so much for posting so Mike can get the credit at last for the brilliant ideas that Brian stole from him!
If he contributed so much and wrote so many songs why did it all stop when Brian had his breakdown. Shouldn't there have been many more wonderful songs written by Mr. Love? Also ,Mike took him to court after the other Wilsons were dead and Brian in a brain fog. Pathetic.
And Paul McCartney said, "Hey you should learn an instrument and write a song of your own. I mean your brilliant and I gotta thank you for all my success."
Mike Love's been alive forever, and he wrote the very first song He puts the words and the melodies together Mike is music and he writes the songs He writes the songs that make the whole world sing He writes the songs of Love and special things He writes the songs that make the lawyers cry Mike writes the songs, he writes the songs
@@17donhol Man, when Love gave that speech at the Rock and Roll HOF saying how much better he and the Beach Boys were than "the moptops" (he embarrassed Carl Wilson so much that Carl flatly said afterward, "Well, we'll never work again"), all I could think was how lucky he was that John was dead, because he would've eviscerated him in his own speech.
He just couldn't wait for Carl to pass. Before that it was really Carl who ran the show, on stage and in the studio. If Mike is such a great song writer, where are the hits he has written without Brian? Brian has written many without Mike.
@@pancakelegend7826 John Phillips (Mamas & Papas), Scott McKenzie ("If you're Going to San Fran") and Terry Melcher (producer of Byrds, Paul Revere & Raiders & more). Oh, and Mikey. Also, from Wiki: "Mike Love and Terry Melcher's major contribution to the song was a re-write of Phillips and McKenzie's existing chorus and the addition of the "Aruba, Jamaica…" lines."
Actually, for many years before Carl died Carl ran the band, but Mike ran the show. I really think losing Dennis, not only as a brother but as a bandmate and as a personal and creative ally, had a huge effect on Carl. It was then, in the mid-1980s, that Mike began to make his move to run the show. It seemed that Carl didn't have much fight left in him, and he just let Mike do it. Soon you'd start seeing the dancers and the cheerleaders onstage with the Boys, which Carl and Al did not like at all. Carl was still the musical director, but Mike added all of those touches onstage that had nothing to do with the music and everything to do with the show.
Love had seized control long before Carl died. In fact, he basically got hold of it after Dennis died. Before that, Brian, Carl and Dennis usually acted as a unit and all three of them wanted to push the creativity of the band (they could usually rely on Al's support as well). But then Brian had his breakdown, and Carl, being the closest to Brian was the one who everyone looked to. Then Dennis died and Carl was going through substance abuse issues which allowed Mike Love to get control of the band.
If you spin a drill bit fast enough on the surface of your forehead, it could possibly penetrate your skull & then provide you with the humour that you don't have
Brians melancholy that Love speaks of drove Brian's muse, allowing him to write such wonderful songs. " In My Room", " God Only Knows" and many others come from a deep place. Love is superficial.
Sure, Brian wrote sad songs, but he also wrote some of the most uplifting, deliriously happy music on the planet: Darlin', This Whole World, Soulful Old Man Sunshine, Wild Honey, etc. Mike made a significant contribution, they all did, but Brian Wilson is the no.1 musician of the rock music era, so gimme a break, Mike Love.
He can live to 200 and be available for interviews the entire time, there is just _no way_ he will convince anyone that his contribution to The Beach Boys came even close to that of Brian Wilson's.
So Herman came to me and said, "I have this story about a ship", and I say "that's great, what if there's a white whale that he's chasing", so He's great but I was the one that came up with the book really, you owe me royalties Herman!
ConcordClark He actually did that in 1963 already and then wrote a song about it called Surfer Moon. He then sued NASA in 1969 for not giving him credit when putting a man on the moon.
Yup Brian was the Group's Studio master even when he wasn't touring live concerts with The Beach Boys for 12 years (late 1964 to early 1976) his blueprint influence was all over the Group's songs. That is exactly what his brother Dennis said. Dennis said without Brian the Beach Boys would never had existed. So there you go Mike.
It's a very little known fact but Mike Love was actually responsible for coming up with not only the actual concept of but also the complex chemical and biological reactions involved in the human experience of love itself.That's why it's named after him. So in essence he should actually be credited with every love story/ poem/ song ever written. Cheers Mike 👍
@@jimmyleon2983 while Brian was only composing, arranging, singing, producing music for all BB's records, doing nothing else for the band, Mike worked hard chosing his base ball caps and practising his holiday camp's dances... Great contribution in BB's music, no wonder he sued everyone !
I wonder what kind of job Mike would have spent his life doing had he not had the incredible luck to be born related to the Wilson family. Pumping gas? Flipping burgers?
Lol great video. "I asked Van Dyke what does that lyric mean and he he said 'I haven't a clue'" - like that's a problem! then "I was surfing with a friend....that's where that line 'It's automatic when I talk with old friends...' comes from..." Wow, he's a lyrical genius.
When I think of Mike Love, I think "Mr. Positivity." I know we all do. That explains his many public appearances, talk-show bookings, and endorsement deals, not to mention his beloved reputation. And his enormous musical talent just oozes out of him. That explains his prolific solo career and both the massive sales and critical acclaim that work has garnered. What's most amazing is the humility he's retained despite all of that. As this video demonstrates, never will one hear him pat himself on the back. He's all the time expressing appreciation of and giving credit to others. I've said it once and I'll say it again, Mike Love is a national treasure.
Mike Love is sooooo very lucky that Brian Wilson is his cousin and took him out of the sheet metal shop where he was a manual laborer. We all wish that Mike was still cutting and fabricating metal. He is a jealous liar. He would be nothing without Brian Wilson.
Excellent point; I had forgotten about that: Sheet metal laborer working for his dad. Good, honest work, but not exactly rock star status which Brian gave him.
@@marymagdalene3004 He’s just so full of self importance and seems to actually believe that he is a talent. Love ruined… and I do mean ruined, the group’s induction speech into the Rock Hall of Fame. The jerk is probably (at least partly) responsible for Brian’s health issues. Mike Love’s jealousy, insecurity and ego drove him into invading Brian’s space during his (Brian’s) beautiful acceptance speech. And, just as Love has a history of doing, he had to be seen and heard. I was (and remain) embarrassed for the other members of The Beach Boys. Again, Mile Love should be bending tin in the sheet metal shop (which is, by the way, an honorable profession; nothing negative about that line of work). The point is that Mike Love should be the poster boy for “being at the right place at the right time.”We should all be praying for Mike to change (and while at it do the same for ourselves for disliking him so) but Mike Love is a hard pill to swallow. I do pray that life is being kind to Brian. And, by the way, Al Jardine is a good man. He has remained a loyal friend to Brian. I admire Al and his son. Both, have class.
And the thing is he didn't even a really need to tell them to tear it down because he could have done it himself by just pointing at it and a laser would have come out of his finger and blown the whole thing up.
You are not wrong about that. But I like that he gave them the chance to choose o do the right thing instead of just vaporizing them along with the wall.@@Marc-dj5fk
1:32 this is how I will always picture Mike Love, some ridiculous 90s beach button down and wearing a Jeff cap in the most unflattering way imaginable.
I’ve ALWAYS believed ego-centric behavior is actually a cover-up for being insecure . Needing more credit than one gets naturally means needing to take credit where it’s not do. Insecurity!
So, after spending all his money, he suddenly remembered writing songs with Brian Wilson to get a cut of the royalties. Now he remembers co-writing with McCartney. Next stop, Ave Maria by Mike Love. He has so much to be humble about.
@@atombomb31458 nothing would be harder than working with the wilsons it seems accept the artistic fulfillment success and babes money fame legacy and access power property etc..
People liked the Beach Boys because of the Mike Love positivity? But had disdain for Brian's "melancholy"? For god's sake, Brian wrote all the positive and melancholic beach boys songs that ever mattered
I remember talking to him as he waited for his flight in Santa Barbara (I was TSA). It started off great because I mistook him for Carl. When I finally asked if they were getting Mike back in the group, it all came unglued and he turned into the uppity asshole that he's known for. Hells bells....I was only 22 at the time. :(
@@mumblesslam Still no reason for Love to be an a**hole about it. But then when has he ever needed a reason? Also, nobody said when this took place so we really don't know whether Carl had passed at the time.
We celebrate the 4th of July because of Mike Love’s descendants, they advised George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and singlehandedly freed us from British rule....just amazing😂
I've been writing songs and compositions since I was 18 and now I'm 66 and now I know I need to add the name MIKE LOVE to all of my works before I hear from his lawyer! Golly gee I had no idea I had a co-writer from the BEACH BOYS! hahaha
This guy is easily the least talented of the 5 original Beach Boys. Adding a few words to Good Vibrations does not put you on par with the guy that produced and wrote and arranged all the instruments. The best thing Mike Love ever did was sing lead on California Girls but I could easily see any of the Beach Boys singing lead on that tune.
The Beach Boys existed for about 5 years. Then Mike Love continued to tour for another 30-35 years as a tribute band to the Beach Boys. A lifetime parasite.
Of all the Mccartney interviews out there, I've never heard him give credit to Mike Love for writing the lyrics to "Back In The USSR" I'm surprised Mike hasn't sued to get a writing credit.
I’m reading Love’s autobiography right now. As you can guess it’s petty, self serving, and he makes it a point throughout the book to say he helped Brian write this song that song and on and on ( which I have my doubts, even though he sued Brian and won in court for song writing credits with many of their hits). That being said it’s a really great book,. He’s honest and tells his side of the story. I mean I’m sure it was hell dealing with the craziness of the Wilson’s, their drug habits and behavior, and keeping it all together.
I have three good things to say about Mike love 1-No matter what you think of him he is a beach boy and lead singer on a majority of songs 2- he was the one who attempted to keep the band's name current in times of slumps 3-In an age where rockers took drugs he didnt- and to me thats admirable
Emily Graziano if Carl and Dennis hadn’t taken drugs they’d still be here. If Brian hadn’t taken drugs he’d not have the problems he has today.. which is fortunate! By God’s Grace Wilson survived!
I give you point 3. But point 1 is kinda killed by the fact that he's probably the only lead singer in the world who's possibly the worst singer in his band and for point 2 I really think that The Beach Boys should have dissolved in 1978. Would have been better for their legacy had there not been atrocities like Kokomo or Summer In Paradise. Mike instead kept riding a dead horse for 40 years and is still going. Mike plays a big role in why people only think of The Beach Boys as a fun little surfing group instead of the great artists they were.
“Pet Sounds was entirely my idea. I told Brian ‘write something brilliant and timeless, man’...so I deserve most of the credit”-Mike Love
Did he actually say that?
@@killerinstinctstudios9065 No, but he has been quoted as saying, "Who's gonna hear this shit? The ears of a dog?", while they were making the album.
He probably does believe that and I'm surprised he hasn't sued.
@@keymaster430 which led to the name of the album “Pet Sounds”
@@Atlas-Heisenberg_756 lol, yeah so I guess technically you could say that the actual term, "Pet Sounds" was Mike's idea. But, I don't think he was referring to the title when he said "Pet Sounds" was his idea.
Mike Love: “Sure, Jimi Hendrix was the one playing the guitar ... but he borrowed $5 from me to buy the strings he was using. So, I’m basically responsible for Voodoo Child”.
Bwaaaaaaaaaa!!!😂🤣
that describes his logic to a T
Mike Love, and yet another attempt at trying to take credit for other people's ideas. Fucking prick.
Perfect 😂
That is such an absolutely accurate representation of Mike Love that I literally read it in his voice.
I used to suffer from depression, until one day Mike Love said to me “maybe you should just not be sad,” and I was cured. Thank you, Mike Love!
LMAO 🤣🤣🤣!!!
ARE YOU FOR REAL???!!!
@@871720 this is my 100% true and honest testimony
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That wasn't depression then .
I'll never forget when Mike rescued the Apollo 13 crew.
That's ed harris hahaha. 🤣
Hysterical!
But you already forgot he rescued Chuck Norris ?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏. Classic
Lol... it’s been bugging me for years, but I could never put my finger on it!
Classic!
The greatest accomplishment of Mike Love's life was being born the cousin of Brian Wilson
Mikey's mother was Murry's sister!
That "splain's" a LOT!
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@Harold Albert Mike was pumping gas at night and working days at his dad’s failing sheet metal company to support his young wife (a shotgun marriage, and his first of six or seven marriages-accounts vary) when The Beach Boys got started.
I just saw your comment referring to this comment on another video lol
@@TarantuLandoCalcuLingus I get around! ;-)
What he said
Mike Love was that kid in school that didn’t do shit for the group projects, but gladly presented it as if he came up with the whole thing.
truth...you had me laughing too
Presenting is part of the work though. I always presented because my teammates were too shy. They were replaceable (anyone can make a presentation), I was not (only I could present)
I think he has probably accomplished a hell of a lot more than you have, kid.
@@secondcomingofbast9908 Ok boomer
@@secondcomingofbast9908 Dude, the only reason he was a beach boy was blood.
"what people don't know about beethoven's 6th symphony... is that i actually wrote that symphony"
-mike love
LMBO! :-) :-P
LOL !
infjard 😂
infjard suck it. Myk
Ludvig had some of the chords,but I was Mr. Positive Symphony.
He wrote Hotel California, Hey Jude. Like a Rolling stone, Stairway to heaven and Imagine on the same night he wrote, recorded and Produced Dark Side of the Moon. A very talented man indeed, He can even drive a car
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Bald Mike Love funny enough wrote Rubber Soul the album that included one of Bald Mike Love's best "Drive my car". It was originally titled "Drive my car to the hamburger stand",
@@John-cp9ez Drive My Car To The Hamburger Stand *Now
I had a pretty good laugh, not gonna lie
Lol
Ha ha ha 😂😂🤣 he really is a complete nuct isn't he !! Ha ha 🤦😂🤣
He takes credit for the Beach Boys' success always, but the kicker here is taking credit for Back In the USSR. bahaha
He's so awful
Rabbi Goldschlong Sure
I remember paul being interviewed and the interviewer asked if mike love helped with any beatles songs, and paul said, well i dont remember that, but you know it was the 60's, substances were involved. so it might have happened...
TheRootBear That’s the nice way of saying Mike Love was high and doesn’t know what the hell he’s saying.
@@guyincognito5706 yep
Mike was great. He wrote our national anthem. He wrote the Magna Carta . I was there when Mike wrote the preamble to the constitution. Mike once wrote a grocery list. Nothing was beyond his scope. Mike can’t play an instrument, but he did write all of the beach Boys songs. Brian was sad, Mike was a dynamic rocket, blasting off with positivity! Brian was weeds in the grass, Mike was a bouquet of colorful flowers.
Lol.
Wow America doesn't deserve him. You all must be thankful for him to exist hahaha
Wrong, he can play an instrument. Mike is probably the best tambourine player in the world.
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@@GoodGamer3000 Bob Dylan wrote a song about him? Wow!! 😁
Stop it! You just made me cry.
If Mike was on wheel of fortune… He would spend all his money on I’s
That's funny!
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This is good stuff.
The reason Brian has a bad back is because he’s been carrying Mike Love for 60 years
Mike contributed as well. So. Maybe. A tad unfair. They were a group.
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@@scoop1127 never said he did. Mike loves voice is not a contribution, is that what you're trying to say? Then you'd be wrong. His voice is unique, and as much a part of the beachboys sound as anything or anyone else.
@@bigteddy66Mike contributed a voice. He also called in Brian's abusive father when Brian started doing things he didn't like
Remember that one day, he had some extra time to kill so he went ahead and invented fire. Thanks Mike. You're the best.
He's planning to sue Paul McCartney for writing credit on Back In The USSR.
He wouldn’t do that, too close to being an endorsement of communism for him
Who's that? Oh, PAUL McCartney!
hahahahahaha
Listening to Mike Love talk about music and really anything else is almost torturous if it wasn’t so funny. His arrogance is only matched by his lack of talent.
Those rings, though. All that glitters is not gold.
He had a unique vocal on those signature songs and he wrote a lot of lyrics. He's not brilliant but he doesn't lack talent.
@@80steen44 unique doesnt equal talent. William Hung has a unique voice, too.
@@armysniperman80 Bro, Mike Love literally wrote the lyrics to almost every song he sang lead on. He wrote the lyrics to most of their signature classics. Thank God they scrapped the original Good Vibrations lyrics by Asher and had Love rewrite them
He wrote candy-ass lyrics and bubblegum pop songs. Just as many other throwaway bands of that era. Brian was the artist of the band. Mike was always garbage.
Mike Love would be washing cars in Hawthorne if it wasn't for Brian.
You could say that for any of them except Brian.
@@TheAerovons no, it's just mike. dennis, carl, and al jardine actually had talent and did way more than mike ever did for the band. mike is just the embodiment of everything that is uncool.
@@thevoid99 Mike was still singing on their records while the others were replaced by Brian with the Wrecking crew half the time. Mike may be a jerk, but his voice his integral to their records.
@@TheAerovons Bull! Love didn't sing. He had no vocal range, no vibrato, no timbre, and no depth. Anyone that couldn't sing well could sing just as well as him. The only thing that he had going was being related to the Wilsons.
@@fiddlefaddle1 Love sang great. Is the main lead singer of the Beach Boys for heaven's sake, with Brian doing all the falsetto stuff. His snotty bratty voice was a signature sound for them.. You have zero idea what you are talking about lol
"I remember when Moses came down off the mountain but he had 13 Commandments and i said Man you gotta have just Ten it sounds more timeless"- Mike Love
😂😂😂
“‘The very existence of music is something I actually came up with back in the mid 50’s” - Mike Love probably
I said, I am music and I write the songs. I said, hey did you hear that Bruce?! I said, hey Bruce you can have that line for a song. So, I wrote the song.
Then he wrote the entire Pet Sounds album. And he played every instrument. Mike WAS the Wrecking Crew!
I'm just glad that he keeps Chuck Norris in line.
"So John Lennon came with this song and he had this line that went 'imagine all the great horned owls' and I said 'maybe "people" would make more sense in your song?'"
- Mike Love at the "Beach Ball Boogie Woogie" album release party in 1996
“I do not like Mike Love at all. He’s too egotistical. Can barely stand five minutes with him in a room” - Brian Wilson
Wow. Now I know why Brian left the band & make his own music.
He's a humble man indeed. He only ever talks about what he did on his day off, not all that he created on the first 6 days of the week. We should all be so grounded.
Not true. He's very interested in the lives of others, most notably, complete strangers who approach him. True, he'll begin most conversations talking about the group and himself but very hastely switch course by saying, "Well, that's enough about me. Let's talk about you. What do you think of me?"
Word has it that Mike Love gave Neil Armstrong the inspiration to be the first man on the moon.
What "word" was that???? INSANE?? Mike Love sucks
Mike does know a lot about space. He’s been a space case all his life.
@@WolfRun59Mike wrote the words for Armstrong about the One Small Step.
After Brian Wilson, Mike Love managed to take The Beach Boys from being one of the most respected bands on earth, to playing gigs after farm team baseball games.
Sad but true.
I hope no one goes to see his trying to copy the REAL beach boys!!!!
@@871720 No Brian . No Beach Boys !
No mystery there…Look at the cheese ball…you can totally tell, he has a talent for fucking stuff up? Can you believe someone married that! Proof of unintelligent life is the universe.
A total Gommer and self absorbed Grifter GLWT unlovable mike !
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No Mike, no CRINGE.
Come on! The Beatles praised his importance with 'All You Need Is Love'.
And he has a legendary summer named after him! The Summer of Love!
Ratelzwatel And?? Are we to fall n Love too?? Or just fall for him??
Don't give Mike any more ideas brother lol
He also co-wrote the song.
Even in 73 Lennon with Mind Games was still talking about him, saying Love is the answer, and you know that, for sure.
And let's not forget [Mike] Love Me Do! Or And I [Mike] Love her! And then there was that Cirque du Soleil Beatle tribute show to Mike, simply called Love!! And Michelle was their tribute to him when Mike was thinking of going transgender (it wouldn't take much doing)!!!
"Thank you for saving us, Mike Love".... The Beatles.
Love the last part, basically says "I am the only reason people like The Beach Boys."
For me he's the only reason why i dislike The Beach Boys.
He' really is the only reason, the Wilsons were talentless idiots but Mike Love was a genius that God sent to earth to save our souls. He is our Jesus. Idiots like you will put him on the cross but he will rise from the dead and come back in greatness you've never seen and then go to heaven were he belongs. HAIL LOVE
wow!!!! talk about delusional
Hi @Joanie, welcome to the internet.
Gregor Strange Comparing him to Jesus is really not fair. I mean he's a cool dude and all, but he's not Mike Love. He also failed to give Mike Love writing credit for the universe and mankind. Mike should have sued him over that long ago, but our creator and savior is so humble that he doesn't need that.
-Mike Love sued Brian Wilson for songwriting credits on a ton of Beach Boys songs even though his actual contributions were laughably minimal. Like, his contribution to “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” was “Goodnight, my baby/ Sleep tight, my baby.” If It were not for Brian, none of the BBs would be known. Mike Love is one the those lucky no talents who was in the right place at the right time.
Dennis Wilson at least was humble enough to admit many times that Brian was way better than he could ever be and was the very backbone of the entire Beach Boys Band. Dennis was also the only one in the Group who knew how to use a Surfboard. Dennis was a Real Life Beach Boy. Dennis was the most liked in the Band by all the Girls & Women too. Again to me the Beach Boys died after Dennis Wilson died just as Chicago died to me after Terry Kath died.
Bill Presley All so true! I am a big fan of Dennis Wilson too. Dennis didn’t choose drums- he was told to play drums because that was all that was left in the band and had to learn on his own- that goes overlooked I think. Like a lot of BB fans I find Mike Love annoying and self serving. In my opinion he shows all the signs of simple jealousy of Brian and Dennis. He brags like this most likely because he really feels insecure about his talents in comparison.
What jumped out at me when you mentioned it, is that Mike Love said he got home from surfing when he decided to write "Do It Again". He never surfed--Dennis surfed!!
@@jillbriska2416 If you read any of the biographical books written on the BB, the competition between the Loves and Wilsons goes back to the previous generation. Mike contributed to the group's success just as everyone did but unlike the rest he tried to control them. After Murry was fired, it became Brian's group in the studio and Mikey's group on the road.
I think you like Dennis Wilson a lot.
Dennis also wrote fantastic songs that often rivaled what Brian was doing
Mike Love is so influential he single-handedly wrote the Bible, directed The Godfather, painted the Mona Lisa, killed Adolf Hitler, solved world hunger, ended climate change, and rebuilt the Roman Empire all in one day
Is that all? Well he did nothing then.
@@rejectionisprotection4448 Nah that’s not all, he’s so humble we don’t know the full extent of everything he’s done. Rumor has it he also prevented World War 3 he’s just too humble to admit it. Truly one of the most humble men of all time
@@jamesdean9183 He even brought you back to life. Praise be!
Also he gave God the idea to create man.
A legend in HIS OWN MIND
Twisted mind.
YOU GOT THAT !!!!!
MIND. Mike Love has a MIND? I thought his skull was just filled with stale air?😮
Come on he is a legend, has just also a douche, like axl rose
When he sewed the first flag of the United States we were in total awe of him. You know, he’s all about Love. His presence at the Rock n Roll hall of fame was incredible since he filmed it all and was too busy to get on stage. This man is an Icon in the worst way ever!
I love when he tries to take songwriting credits. He'll write one line of lyrics and act like it's his song
He wrote "I'm picking up" in the line I'm picking up good vibrations.
it is widely accepted that he co-wrote most of the lyrics of the 62-64 songs. Haters gonna hate and deny.
JJRJ 85 yeah and those songs had awful lyrics
@@carterc9171 BS. Best summer and surf lyrics of all time
@@jjrj8568 He also wrote Summer In Paradise, let’s be truthful here. True the guy has some writing credits on some great Beach Boys songs but most of those were primarily written by Brain. Also once the Beach Boy’s become the Mike Love Experience, they released the worst music of their career. Brian, Al, Dennis and Carl are more talented, creative and likable as people.
A minimal talent who road the coat tails of one of the greatest musical talents in modern music. If ever there was picture book perfection of STFU, it is Mike Love.
I like MIke the most...
Mike Love, still dancing like your creepy uncle since 1961...
PR52 😂
As a creepy uncle that hurts!
This is one of the best comments I've ever read. 🤣🤣
@@olderthandadirt this one too. 😭😭🙏
I never realised what a bit part player Brian was in the Beach Boys story. Thank you so much for posting so Mike can get the credit at last for the brilliant ideas that Brian stole from him!
If he contributed so much and wrote so many songs why did it all stop when Brian had his breakdown. Shouldn't there have been many more wonderful songs written by Mr. Love? Also ,Mike took him to court after the other Wilsons were dead and Brian in a brain fog. Pathetic.
EXCELLENT POINT !!!
Thank God for his upbeatness and shifting the universe with his non melancholic vibes
And Paul McCartney said, "Hey you should learn an instrument and write a song of your own. I mean your brilliant and I gotta thank you for all my success."
Watch your back Paul, he might sue you for songwriting credit.
Mike actually wrote 80% of Sgt Pepper ...Just ask him...
Mike Love's been alive forever, and he wrote the very first song
He puts the words and the melodies together
Mike is music and he writes the songs
He writes the songs that make the whole world sing
He writes the songs of Love and special things
He writes the songs that make the lawyers cry
Mike writes the songs, he writes the songs
@@2-d_in_a_bag IAnd all this time I didn't know Bruce was referring to Mikey !
@@17donhol Man, when Love gave that speech at the Rock and Roll HOF saying how much better he and the Beach Boys were than "the moptops" (he embarrassed Carl Wilson so much that Carl flatly said afterward, "Well, we'll never work again"), all I could think was how lucky he was that John was dead, because he would've eviscerated him in his own speech.
"I'm basically the creator of everything"
-Mike Love
He just couldn't wait for Carl to pass. Before that it was really Carl who ran the show, on stage and in the studio. If Mike is such a great song writer, where are the hits he has written without Brian? Brian has written many without Mike.
I mean he wrote Kokomo but whether that's a good thing or not is up for debate
Baxter Brown he “wrote” kokomo with like 5 other writing credits on the song
@@pancakelegend7826 John Phillips (Mamas & Papas), Scott McKenzie ("If you're Going to San Fran") and Terry Melcher (producer of Byrds, Paul Revere & Raiders & more). Oh, and Mikey. Also, from Wiki: "Mike Love and Terry Melcher's major contribution to the song was a re-write of Phillips and McKenzie's existing chorus and the addition of the "Aruba, Jamaica…" lines."
Actually, for many years before Carl died Carl ran the band, but Mike ran the show. I really think losing Dennis, not only as a brother but as a bandmate and as a personal and creative ally, had a huge effect on Carl. It was then, in the mid-1980s, that Mike began to make his move to run the show. It seemed that Carl didn't have much fight left in him, and he just let Mike do it. Soon you'd start seeing the dancers and the cheerleaders onstage with the Boys, which Carl and Al did not like at all. Carl was still the musical director, but Mike added all of those touches onstage that had nothing to do with the music and everything to do with the show.
Love had seized control long before Carl died. In fact, he basically got hold of it after Dennis died. Before that, Brian, Carl and Dennis usually acted as a unit and all three of them wanted to push the creativity of the band (they could usually rely on Al's support as well). But then Brian had his breakdown, and Carl, being the closest to Brian was the one who everyone looked to. Then Dennis died and Carl was going through substance abuse issues which allowed Mike Love to get control of the band.
I remember tuning in to a live concert of theirs and being puzzled at the man in white pants dancing in a ridiculous manner, ruining the show.
A. One of history's worst-dressed people
B. I never trust a man with that many rings
C. You always need a third point but I don't have one
LOL
Mike Murphy agree he looks like a bum that hadn’t washed his clothes nor his hat in years..
He’s a dick. There’s your third point
If you spin a drill bit fast enough on the surface of your forehead, it could possibly penetrate your skull & then provide you with the humour that you don't have
"I told Tchaikovsky at the time, hey dude, try it with real cannons. That was my idea."
Brians melancholy that Love speaks of drove Brian's muse, allowing him to write such wonderful songs. " In My Room", " God Only Knows" and many others come from a deep place. Love is superficial.
Sure, Brian wrote sad songs, but he also wrote some of the most uplifting, deliriously happy music on the planet: Darlin', This Whole World, Soulful Old Man Sunshine, Wild Honey, etc. Mike made a significant contribution, they all did, but Brian Wilson is the no.1 musician of the rock music era, so gimme a break, Mike Love.
James Dunn according to liar the briar Love Johnston wrote “In My Room” 🤢 Horseshit!
@@mr.sensitive9963 there isn't a number one musician because it's art and not a contest.
Mike Love is on the prayer credits for helping God write the ‘Our Father’ prayer 🙏
God didn't write that prayer. If he had, it would have started: "Me, who art in heaven, hallowed be my name."
LOL!!!!
@@jeffrobertson527 But, but, but...isn't that why we named love, love? Because of God's other son, the one and only Mike?
He's working on the cure for cancer too. What a national treasure.
OMG! It must be so hard to be in such a humble & perfect human being!! What an asshole!
He can live to 200 and be available for interviews the entire time, there is just _no way_ he will convince anyone that his contribution to The Beach Boys came even close to that of Brian Wilson's.
1 million years!!!
The group’s name was also his idea, although his original suggestion was “Mike Love and The Beach Boys”.
So Herman came to me and said, "I have this story about a ship", and I say "that's great, what if there's a white whale that he's chasing", so He's great but I was the one that came up with the book really, you owe me royalties Herman!
Underrated comment 🤣
So much positivity in this video. I was picking up good vibrations the whole time.
I'll always remember reading about how Mike beat the Germans at Stalingrad.
Legend has it, he walked on the Moon as well.
ConcordClark He actually did that in 1963 already and then wrote a song about it called Surfer Moon. He then sued NASA in 1969 for not giving him credit when putting a man on the moon.
*Spos Kanal : )
He also walked on water
He never walked on the moon although he did invent the moon walk
Kind of like a line cook throwing fruit loops at an master chef.
You just nailed it.
Mike Love once shifted the axis of the earth so we could all enjoy all the seasons, including summer.
Yup Brian was the Group's Studio master even when he wasn't touring live concerts with The Beach Boys for 12 years (late 1964 to early 1976) his blueprint influence was all over the Group's songs. That is exactly what his brother Dennis said. Dennis said without Brian the Beach Boys would never had existed. So there you go Mike.
It's a very little known fact but Mike Love was actually responsible for coming up with not only the actual concept of but also the complex chemical and biological reactions involved in the human experience of love itself.That's why it's named after him. So in essence he should actually be credited with every love story/ poem/ song ever written. Cheers Mike 👍
Such a humble, self-deprecating joy of a man.
Mike Love was the musical genius of the Beach Boys. It's beyond me why they didn't call the band, Mike Love & The Beach Boys.
Mike Love would call it Mike Love and *His* Beach Boys.
😂😂😂😂😂.
Mike Love and his Mike Lovers 🤩
@@MarwinEthel-Mollusk Brian took a lot of credit for Mike's contributions to the band.
@@jimmyleon2983 while Brian was only composing, arranging, singing, producing music for all BB's records, doing nothing else for the band, Mike worked hard chosing his base ball caps and practising his holiday camp's dances... Great contribution in BB's music, no wonder he sued everyone !
I wonder what kind of job Mike would have spent his life doing had he not had the incredible luck to be born related to the Wilson family. Pumping gas? Flipping burgers?
PANHANDLING OVER AT "SKID ROW" IN DOWNTOWN L.A., I AM MOST SURE OF THAT, LMBO! :-) :-P
I could've seen him working at a gift shop at a beach somewhere
Sales manager at a car dealership. Divorced six times, each one because of spousal abuse, so though he makes money, the alimony kills him
Only two problems with that Wilson family!
Murry, and Hateful Mikey!
stev
Waxing surfboards at the beach
Probably the most suitable use of the word "PRICK" ever.
“ I invented the first flushable toilet” Mike Love
Lol great video.
"I asked Van Dyke what does that lyric mean and he he said 'I haven't a clue'" - like that's a problem!
then "I was surfing with a friend....that's where that line 'It's automatic when I talk with old friends...' comes from..."
Wow, he's a lyrical genius.
When I think of Mike Love, I think "Mr. Positivity." I know we all do. That explains his many public appearances, talk-show bookings, and endorsement deals, not to mention his beloved reputation. And his enormous musical talent just oozes out of him. That explains his prolific solo career and both the massive sales and critical acclaim that work has garnered. What's most amazing is the humility he's retained despite all of that. As this video demonstrates, never will one hear him pat himself on the back. He's all the time expressing appreciation of and giving credit to others. I've said it once and I'll say it again, Mike Love is a national treasure.
hi, mike!
Wins
Mike, nothing and nobody is preventing you from starting a solo career. Get out there and do it!
YEAH,....does the "HIT" chart go lower than ZERO??!!
Mike Love is sooooo very lucky that Brian Wilson is his cousin and took him out of the sheet metal shop where he was a manual laborer. We all wish that Mike was still cutting and fabricating metal. He is a jealous liar. He would be nothing without Brian Wilson.
Excellent point; I had forgotten about that: Sheet metal laborer working for his dad. Good, honest work, but not exactly rock star status which Brian gave him.
@@marymagdalene3004 He’s just so full of self importance and seems to actually believe that he is a talent. Love ruined… and I do mean ruined, the group’s induction speech into the Rock Hall of Fame. The jerk is probably (at least partly) responsible for Brian’s health issues. Mike Love’s jealousy, insecurity and ego drove him into invading Brian’s space during his (Brian’s) beautiful acceptance speech. And, just as Love has a history of doing, he had to be seen and heard. I was (and remain) embarrassed for the other members of The Beach Boys.
Again, Mile Love should be bending tin in the sheet metal shop (which is, by the way, an honorable profession; nothing negative about that line of work). The point is that Mike Love should be the poster boy for “being at the right place at the right time.”We should all be praying for Mike to change (and while at it do the same for ourselves for disliking him so) but Mike Love is a hard pill to swallow. I do pray that life is being kind to Brian. And, by the way, Al Jardine is a good man. He has remained a loyal friend to Brian. I admire Al and his son. Both, have class.
My life changed when I heard Mike play sax after his 2 notes with shut down.
You can't polish a turd. And this one has corn in it.
LMBO! :-) :-P
yeahhh!! hahahaha
That was good, haha!
Mike turns eighty-two next month (March 2021): Be true to your assisted living facility!
The best thing Mike Love did was say "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!" And it came down!
And the thing is he didn't even a really need to tell them to tear it down because he could have done it himself by just pointing at it and a laser would have come out of his finger and blown the whole thing up.
You are not wrong about that. But I like that he gave them the chance to choose o do the right thing instead of just vaporizing them along with the wall.@@Marc-dj5fk
“I guess starred on a couple episodes of Full House and now they had an additional five seasons on Netflix, all because of me”. - Mike Love probably
I love how in most of the beach boys videos the band looks like they don't even acknowledge Mike Love being there.
As I remember, Dennis Wilson was the only Beach Boy who could surf - I guess mike love taught him.
Dennis married Mike Love's "love child" by an unknown woman, & had a son with her. BURNT Mike's butt BIGTIME !! What to go Dennis.
Yeah, I think so
1:32 this is how I will always picture Mike Love, some ridiculous 90s beach button down and wearing a Jeff cap in the most unflattering way imaginable.
Considering how much time Mike Love spent on stage, he has never learned to dance.
I’ve ALWAYS believed ego-centric behavior is actually a cover-up for being insecure . Needing more credit than one gets naturally means needing to take credit where it’s not do. Insecurity!
Really, his jealousy of Brian is palpable and alarming!
"And then I suggested to him that this whole preaching thing isn't a great gig, you should go back to being a carpenter"- Mike Love on Jesus
We all get it, It would be a great joke if you left the explanation off the end.
Brian wrote the music. Brian arranged the vocals. Brian produced the records. Mike made the words rhyme. To Mike: equal partners.
"Yeah, and I developed those goddamned Covid vaccines". A truly genius.
“..and on the third day he rose again” as Mike Love had told him it would make for the best story ever.
So, after spending all his money, he suddenly remembered writing songs with Brian Wilson to get a cut of the royalties. Now he remembers co-writing with McCartney. Next stop, Ave Maria by Mike Love. He has so much to be humble about.
C'mon man!!! Mike Love would own 3 Car Washes in South LA if it wasn't for Brian Wilson!!! Brian was the genius behind the Beach Boys, not Mike Love.
I liked Carl the best by FAR but I agree with your point.
3 CAR WASHES--THATS A LOT MORE WORK THAN SINGING IN A BAND
@@atombomb31458 nothing would be harder than working with the wilsons it seems accept the artistic fulfillment success and babes money fame legacy and access power property etc..
@@claymationwaves good point..ps you a real jardine?
I can even see him suing other people for stealing his genius idea to wash cars.
When my wife left me back in 87' I was crushed. She was my everything. Then Mike Love told me to not be sad. I'm alive today thanks to that man.
Now, THAT's the power of Love
People liked the Beach Boys because of the Mike Love positivity?
But had disdain for Brian's "melancholy"?
For god's sake, Brian wrote all the positive and melancholic beach boys songs that ever mattered
I remember talking to him as he waited for his flight in Santa Barbara (I was TSA). It started off great because I mistook him for Carl. When I finally asked if they were getting Mike back in the group, it all came unglued and he turned into the uppity asshole that he's known for. Hells bells....I was only 22 at the time. :(
Well, Carl would've been dead for at least 3 years by then, so that's on you.
@@mumblesslam Still no reason for Love to be an a**hole about it. But then when has he ever needed a reason?
Also, nobody said when this took place so we really don't know whether Carl had passed at the time.
He probably got mad at you for being a fucking idiot and not knowing which Beach Boy is which. Understandable reaction.
@@psychotic.reaction Your name says it all.
@@tabathasheffroth7981 cope.
We celebrate the 4th of July because of Mike Love’s descendants, they advised George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and singlehandedly freed us from British rule....just amazing😂
“Chuck Norris stole his look from me.”- Mike Love
I've been writing songs and compositions since I was 18 and now I'm 66 and now I know I need to add the name MIKE LOVE to all of my works before I hear from his lawyer! Golly gee I had no idea I had a co-writer from the BEACH BOYS! hahaha
This guy is easily the least talented of the 5 original Beach Boys. Adding a few words to Good Vibrations does not put you on par with the guy that produced and wrote and arranged all the instruments. The best thing Mike Love ever did was sing lead on California Girls but I could easily see any of the Beach Boys singing lead on that tune.
Denny wouldve been cool to hear on California girls
This man is a musical genius and Mike told me so.
DIDN'T YOUR MOTHER TELL YOU NOT TO BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU HEAR !!! LOL
The Beach Boys existed for about 5 years. Then Mike Love continued to tour for another 30-35 years as a tribute band to the Beach Boys. A lifetime parasite.
He’s always given me bad vibrations. 😓
If the beach boys were surprise figures Mike would be the character that no one wants to have and you get it twice 😂
Thanks for posting this clip ThisWholeWorld100 -- yes, this beautiful world needs to understand how much better it would be without Mike Love in it.
“I’m not braggin’.” -Mike Love
Mr. Love is truly blessed to be related to a musical family
Of all the Mccartney interviews out there, I've never heard him give credit to Mike Love for writing the lyrics to "Back In The USSR" I'm surprised Mike hasn't sued to get a writing credit.
In his book called the lyrics where he explains his songs’ lyrics and backstory, the section for back in the ussr has no mention of Mike
I’m reading Love’s autobiography right now. As you can guess it’s petty, self serving, and he makes it a point throughout the book to say he helped Brian write this song that song and on and on ( which I have my doubts, even though he sued Brian and won in court for song writing credits with many of their hits). That being said it’s a really great book,. He’s honest and tells his side of the story. I mean I’m sure it was hell dealing with the craziness of the Wilson’s, their drug habits and behavior, and keeping it all together.
Hes just as crazy has the Wilsons....must run in the family
I have a malignant narc in my family. They love taking everything to court and saying it was theirs. That's all I need to hear about him.
I'll be forever grateful to Mike for discovering penicillin.
I have three good things to say about Mike love
1-No matter what you think of him he is a beach boy and lead singer on a majority of songs
2- he was the one who attempted to keep the band's name current in times of slumps
3-In an age where rockers took drugs he didnt- and to me thats admirable
Emily Graziano if Carl and Dennis hadn’t taken drugs they’d still be here. If Brian hadn’t taken drugs he’d not have the problems he has today.. which is fortunate! By God’s Grace Wilson survived!
I give you point 3. But point 1 is kinda killed by the fact that he's probably the only lead singer in the world who's possibly the worst singer in his band and for point 2 I really think that The Beach Boys should have dissolved in 1978. Would have been better for their legacy had there not been atrocities like Kokomo or Summer In Paradise. Mike instead kept riding a dead horse for 40 years and is still going. Mike plays a big role in why people only think of The Beach Boys as a fun little surfing group instead of the great artists they were.
@@Babyboss65 I do see your point.