@jammmon You're funny! You're like a "clown" kinda funny! Say something else clown! Say something else! You entertain me! Say something with the "F" word in it again! Can you do that for me clown? We're you born a clown? Did your parents teach you how to be a clown? Did you go to some sort of "clown school"? HAHA! Say something else! Say something else!
Come on - Mike Love doesn't get the credit he deserves. He wrote a lot of the lyrics for some of the Beach Boys most beloved tunes. Give the guy a break. He made that stupid event interesting.
His screws have been loosened by his own sense of self-importance - it borders on delusional - who the hell does he think he is, Donald Trump (tongue firmly in cheek)??
Geez, Love, you're a damn pop-band singer, for Christ's sake - that's it
For this fucking JIZZMOP to even put himself against Sir Paul or Sir Mick and to go even further by challenging The Rolling Stones and calling Mick a "chickenshit"? I don't think it's so much balls , as it is a drunken fucking baffoon. Compare fucking album sales vs these idiots, go one further! Compare longevity to these clowns! The Rolling Stones have remained extremely relevant since their inception. The Beach Boys? Only two eras : 61-66 and again in 1988 with that shitty "Kokomo", fuck off!
Has this creep no sense of shame? This is so crass. I think he had a great voice in the Beach Boys - how could you be a Beach Boy if you couldn't REALLY sing? But what an arrogant creep he's shown himself to be! Seeing this makes it very easy to believe the assertions that he used to bully poor sensitive Brian. He used to belittle one of the most gifted melody and harmony composers in popular music, called the sublime Good Vibrations "avant-garde shit". What an ignorant, envious, idiotic CNUT.
Never cared for Mile Love, but now I like him, even though I like all the people he mentioned. Is he dissing them, calling them out in a duel-esque manner (with a possible freestyle battle?), or just poking fun harmlessly?
I don't condone what he said & he comes across as arrogant, BUT Love is 1 of the GREATEST showmen & songwriters of our time, PERIOD. He had a part in the writing & orchestration of nearly EVERY Beach Boys song & is responsible for keeping the band ALIVE the past 2 DECADES......
This just goes to show that SIR. James Paul McCartney had more balls than this bitch by not being a hypocrite and pretending everything is all good between his band mates and going to the induction...unlike this pussy saying "SMILE" was great now when he was the main one talking shit about it back in the 60's. Talks shit about the greatest band on earth then goes on to quote Mr. John Lennon by saying "World Peace and Love"...what a Botox using idiot.
Wow. What a dickhead. He hardly makes any sense. I feel bad for the other Beach Boys who must've been very embaressed over this. If he would have been ousted from the Beach Boys the band would have lost a tambourine player, a lousy saxophonist, a lousy theremin player and a tacky MC. Danny Hutton would have mad a good replacement for Mike Love.
@Goeslightly Yeah, and the food didn't taste very well, right.? How could this guy even attempt to make the statement ; "and we love ALL people"? In my 57 years I've never heard anyone say that Mike Love was "crazy". He's confusing the word "crazy" with "JERK", and how in the world does a frigging singer jam? His reference to Woody Guthrie: "this guy with the guitar". This had to be a put on. No one could be this much of a walking embarassment .
The other Boys must have been cringing in horror backstage throughout this. This guy is hands-down the biggest A-Hole to ever grace a popular music stage. And my theory as to why Mike Love is so miserable comes down to one single issue ... HAIR !!! or more pointedly, the lack of it. the 60's were all about hair. The Beatles had it, the Stones had it, even Diana Ross had it, but due to his lousy Karma the powers that be saw to it that starting in his late teens he would lose his ...
All the Beach Boys' music I've purchased through the years was well worth every cent I spent, but I'm deeply sorry that even one cent of it went to that classless a**hole, Mike Love. The band's musical legacy would have been so much better if Mke had never been a member. (Brian always sang Mike's vocal parts far better than Mike did. With all due respect to Al, Bruce, and David Marks--whom I have nothing against--the Wilson brothers could have done just as well as a trio.)
@waialaebeach Mike begins his classless rant by lamenting that particular rock stars didn't attend the ceremony. I believe his anger stems from their absence. He thinks himself superior to them and generally unappreciated. (He even interrupts Brian's heartfelt speech, thereby spoiling the moment for his genuinely talented benefactor.) The Beach Boys probably are underappreciated, but certainly not Mike. The Wilson brothers always were the heart & soul of that supergroup.
moreover, beach boys are probably even more underappreciated thanks again to Mike Love, due to the fact that he vetoed out Brian's "Smile" project in the mid-60s cause the latter didn't "stick to the formula" (of harmonies) but was trying to create a new psychedelic sound. Lo and behold, Beatles would then release Sgt. Pepper, their most successful and now hailed as the pioneers of psychedelic rock. Thanks Mike.
@teddypicker12345 Your point is well taken. I'm not sure that the "formula" that Mike wanted the band to stick to was the awesome Brian Wilson vocal arrangements. There is some of that on "SMiLE"--the "Prayer" bits and "Good Vibrations." Maybe Mike wanted to stick to the tried-&-true surf/cars/girls/fun themes and to performining live at large venues, instead of going all artsy/psychedelic with Van Dyke Parks' substantial poetry, etc. (I personally like both aspects of the BB's legacy.)
Now I know why he wears the hat, not because he's bald, but because it keeps that loose brain of his from falling on the floor. Could you imagine working with this bitter fuck? Major props to the Wilsons, Jardine, Johnson, et al.
Oh wow, this looks like a crowd recording. The angles and stuff are different than the other video on YouTube. You should have seen John Lennon's son's expression when Mike snubbed The Beatles.
Wow seriously? I'm a giant Beach Boys fan but jesus Mike that was kinda douchey... And take the fuckin hat off, it doesn't match your tux. You just look awful.
Mike Love is a Douche.... but I find solace in the fact that even when he was the "frontman" for the beach boys, he was always overshadowed by Brian's voice, looks, and stage presence.... Long Live the Wilsons... that being said... Mike Love is the "original" Surf voice.... so he does get props... but still....
I've heard/read about this infamous Mike Love rant, & now that I've finally gotten around to tracking it down on YouTube, my reaction is as follows:
It is definitely an incoherent train wreck. However, on the Mike-Love-Douche-Baggery scale, it registers barely a blip. Compare it w/ all of the cringe-inducing footage from the 80s. You know, like when he's wearing Stars-&-Stripes-themed stage outfits, w/ a red-white-&-blue mesh baseball cap, sucking Ronald Reagan's cock, or lip-syncing to Kokomo?
what a prick. i like how he rags on people within the group pursuing lawsuits against other members, when he is the epitome of the same. the rambling is just a bonus. lol
Mike has always been a douchebag. I talked with him at a hotel bar after a beach Boys perfomance in the early 80's. A couple of nice Swedish girls who I knew came up to him and told him that they thought the Beach Boys were great. He was nice to their faces but when they left he turned to me and said "Swedish girls have such fat asses". These girls did not have fat asses, they were normal looking and very sweet girls. He is a total dick.
@hippojuice23 I've read this several places so I take it to be true but the real story wasn't drugs/drink.......Everyone knows Mike Love has been into transcendental meditation for years, well he had been fasting for well over a day if not day(s) (for reasons related to his TM beliefs) before doing this speech (real smart!).....but anyone who has ever fasted or attempted to do so knows the effect it can have on your judgement. Not making an excuse for this ass at all just explaining it.
What a dumbass... Name dropping McCartney, Jagger, Joel and the Boss as if he is anywhere remotely in the same league as any of them artistically or musically.
I have shaken hands with Mike Love, gotten his autograph, etc. I try to be fair-minded. Constructively, all I can say is that he would be better served to have any public comments written by a public relations pro, so that he imparts a coherent, articulate, diplomatic message. Frankly, I did not even "get" what the USA having 6% of the world's population has to do with Muhammad Ali. He did not need to insult Mick Jagger or Paul McCartney. A rambling, somewhat abrasive speech.
@cattymanly I don't really know what his point here was, but I love him, unlike the other one's you know. How did you get to shake hands with him? have you met the other beach boys too?
@M3town33 I saw the Beach Boys at Duke University, Durham, NC, spring of 1971. I ran up to the stage ropes, outdoor performance, after they ended their show. Another group came up 1/2 hour later. I briefly chatted & shook hands with both Alan Jardine and Carl Wilson. In 1973, I met Mike Love at the Transcendental Meditation Center of Washington, DC. He signed an autograph, posed for a photo with me and we shook hands. Gaithersburg, MD show in 2000, wife and I shook hands with Mike Love.
@M3town33 One needs to be aggressive and alert to meet rockers. Check their web site. My wife and I saw them outdoors at Montgomery County Fairgrounds in 2000, Gaithersburg, MD for $20 a head. We simply moved in on the van taking the band, Mike and Bruce away on the grassy field, it got "caught in traffic" with people milling about. We just reached in a side window and basically we just touched fingers with Mike. Bruce was on the other side of the bus, signing T-shirts, etc.
@jammmon WHATHEHELL! I take that as a compliment because Mike Love is a wonderful person!!!1 fuck that comment. what the hell are yor fucking brain into this shit of hell is leading nowhere freaking fucking moron asshole darning daring comment shit from helll!!!!!!!
Mike Love calls out Paul McCartney. At least Paul McCartney still makes relevant music to this day and continues to sell out arenas and stadiums. What a friggin' douche Mike Love is!
For how long is this guy gonna carry that surname? Doesnt fit him.
Fuck You Mic Luv
He's dissing Paul McCartney over lawsuits??? Mike Love sued Brian Wilson over royalties and Al Jardine over the use of the term "Beach Boys" and even kicked Al Jardine out of the band after decades. Then he disses the Beatles, the Rolling Stones? GET THE HOOK and SHUT THIS FREAK UP.
Pet Sounds contains a few great tunes. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder), God Only Knows, Caroline, No... But if I had to choose a favorite Beach Boy song, it would most likely be You're So Good To Me.
@jammmon Once again you prove your intelligence to us. Back up your opinion. Why are the other songs good? Because Rolling Stone Magazine told you? I respect opinions, as should you, but you're just a fucking idiot, plain and simple. Sometimes I sit and think why I even bother with brain lacking internet morons...
Without Brian Wilson, Mike Love would still be pumping gas. Oh, wait. They have self-service pumps now, so he'd be in a Valvoline store yelling "Oil pressure bay TWO!"
Haha, his mop tops comment is great too. The Beatles are the highest selling group of all time - I'd like to see the Beach Boys top that. The Beatles had 5 songs in the U.S. Top 5 in 1964 - I'd like to see the Beach Boys top that.
Yeah they're the greatest band ever... I agree.. but talkin about Greatest Album? let me, paul mccartney mccartney and george martin put it this way: PET SOUNDS
@jammmon I couldn't disagree any more. Pet Sounds is one of the most overrated albums of all time. Jesus, I'd take Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) or Sunflower over Pet Sounds any day. There are only a few tracks on Pet Sounds that I listen to. Critics and buyers should really rate music on its sound, not its inspiration or originality. This is not a biased comment by me, I also consider Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band an overrated disc.
@jammmon Was I supposed to take offense to that comment? Look, I brought up an intelligent argument as to why I believe mainstream music is overrated, and all you can come up with is that I "don't know shit about music"? Have you even listen the Sunflower or Summer Days LPs? Until that day comes, you have no right to judge or compare the albums, let alone accuse me of not knowing anything. I may "not know shit", but I have my opinions that I don't take from other people's lists/record reviews.
Yeah summer days and sunflower and holland and beach boys today
I like them all....... but if you ask me whats the album I enjoy listenin to from the first to the last song.. thatd be..... Pet Sounds and Magical Mystery Tour :)
@TinyMontgomery204 I sometimes think Amusement Parks USA was the most adventurous track they recorded at that time. These two are great albums - you can listen to them both when you are over 40, but not Pet Sounds, although there are 4 classics on that one.
@mullwharchar 4 classincs on Pet Sounds? The whole album is... You should know, but you dont, and I dont care, really... you aint bringin it down.. its not overrated.. your mind is.
But yeah.. Amusement Parks is very adventurous...I love it... And thank god Mike doesnt sing on it.
@TinyMontgomery204 Yeah but the Beatles most adventurous music is still nowhere near SMiLE, the most avant-garde ahead-of-it's-time structurally advanced complex and beautiful pop album of all time. Brian's influence peaked in 2007 when PandaBear released his epic masterpiece Person Pitch which every critic writing conceded a masterpiece,( Rolling Stone called it the most influential album of the decade/NYTIMES the best of 2007) and which lays bare the debt to Brian from it's first note
Mick Jagger is too "chicken shit" to get up on stage with the Beach Boys? Brian Wilson was too "chicken to shit" to get up on stage with the Beach Boys.
@TinyMontgomery204 Mick Jagger is a white trash hedonistic turd that eats meat(roadkill) and does not meditate. Brian Wilson is a member of the Bohemian Grove.
@TinyMontgomery204 He did get up on stage in 1978 when I saw them. Mike was an ass to say the things he did, though. Paul said he had a hard time deciding whether to go or not. I think he should have gone, but that was his decision at the time and I have to respect him for it. He probably regrets it now.
@njriley55 I was lucky enough to see Brian Wilson and his band last month and it was an amazing show. Gave Paul a run for his money, who I saw a year ago. Brian was basically a stage prop - barely played his piano, and it looked like he was being manipulated by strings. But when you've accomplished as much as he has, you don't need to do anything. Mike on the other hand, has accomplished NOTHING.
@TinyMontgomery204 He made the effort to sue Brian for not giving him songwriting royalties for single lines, such as the "good night, my baby, sleep tight, my baby" outro on 'Wouldn't it Be Nice'.
He's a jerk.
biglloyddobbs 3 days ago
what an idiot!
vinnybking 1 week ago
It's okay Brian. We all know the truth.
plojka1 1 week ago
and those people laughing and applauding man, what the fuck? those are just as bad as Mike
jammmon 1 week ago
fucking piece of shit man, this fucking prick should burn in hell forever man, what a disgrace
How come he's alive and Carl and Dennis are not, man, what the fuck
look at that face ,its the DEVIL
jammmon 1 week ago
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jammmon 1 week ago
this fucking prick man, Mike Love should be run over by a 409, fucking devil
jammmon 1 week ago
Mike Love says it like it is! Bravo Mike!
runescapegodzammy 1 week ago
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FUCK YOU
jammmon 1 week ago
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runescapegodzammy 1 week ago
@jammmon You're funny! You're like a "clown" kinda funny! Say something else clown! Say something else! You entertain me! Say something with the "F" word in it again! Can you do that for me clown? We're you born a clown? Did your parents teach you how to be a clown? Did you go to some sort of "clown school"? HAHA! Say something else! Say something else!
runescapegodzammy 1 week ago
Come on - Mike Love doesn't get the credit he deserves. He wrote a lot of the lyrics for some of the Beach Boys most beloved tunes. Give the guy a break. He made that stupid event interesting.
hollywoodautographs 1 week ago
Who is this guy again??
nownow1983 2 weeks ago
I HATE THIS PRICK.
uleugdl 1 month ago
Elton John is the man.
ZeroCool00769420 1 month ago
@ZeroCool00769420 5:20 lol
ZeroCool00769420 1 month ago
Mike Love: The true genius of the Beach Boys.
juslookin3 1 month ago
@juslookin3 Really? You'd pick Mike Love over Brian Wilson? Brian Wilson WROTE PET SOUNDS. Like, pretty much the whole thing.
matteyes1 2 weeks ago
What a horse's ass.
Molly2838 1 month ago
Mike Love is an embarrassment.
keaton1895 1 month ago
Mike, there is a reason why people have said for years that Mike Love is crazy. They are right! You're crazier than a shithouse rat!
gamecock366 1 month ago
@gamecock366 Crazy, no; a**hole, yes.
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ahhhhhhh that was just terrible love. not right there and then.
john came to save the day though lol hats off
davidallenroth 1 month ago
I hope Love realizes that the only reason he's there is because of Brian
theSuperMetroid02 2 months ago 2
His screws have been loosened by his own sense of self-importance - it borders on delusional - who the hell does he think he is, Donald Trump (tongue firmly in cheek)??
Geez, Love, you're a damn pop-band singer, for Christ's sake - that's it
gunneralquist 2 months ago
For this fucking JIZZMOP to even put himself against Sir Paul or Sir Mick and to go even further by challenging The Rolling Stones and calling Mick a "chickenshit"? I don't think it's so much balls , as it is a drunken fucking baffoon. Compare fucking album sales vs these idiots, go one further! Compare longevity to these clowns! The Rolling Stones have remained extremely relevant since their inception. The Beach Boys? Only two eras : 61-66 and again in 1988 with that shitty "Kokomo", fuck off!
clockworkmike83 2 months ago 2
Has this creep no sense of shame? This is so crass. I think he had a great voice in the Beach Boys - how could you be a Beach Boy if you couldn't REALLY sing? But what an arrogant creep he's shown himself to be! Seeing this makes it very easy to believe the assertions that he used to bully poor sensitive Brian. He used to belittle one of the most gifted melody and harmony composers in popular music, called the sublime Good Vibrations "avant-garde shit". What an ignorant, envious, idiotic CNUT.
194jerry 2 months ago
Sad, mad, deluded and sad again.
jjdesmondinteriors 2 months ago
Never cared for Mile Love, but now I like him, even though I like all the people he mentioned. Is he dissing them, calling them out in a duel-esque manner (with a possible freestyle battle?), or just poking fun harmlessly?
SCBianchi 2 months ago
@SCBianchi I think he's drunk and being arrogant.
TheOneartist 2 months ago
so badass
WesB 3 months ago
I don't condone what he said & he comes across as arrogant, BUT Love is 1 of the GREATEST showmen & songwriters of our time, PERIOD. He had a part in the writing & orchestration of nearly EVERY Beach Boys song & is responsible for keeping the band ALIVE the past 2 DECADES......
MrSummertime81 3 months ago
@MrSummertime81 if by kept alive you mean turned them into a parody of themselves...
theSuperMetroid02 2 months ago
This just goes to show that SIR. James Paul McCartney had more balls than this bitch by not being a hypocrite and pretending everything is all good between his band mates and going to the induction...unlike this pussy saying "SMILE" was great now when he was the main one talking shit about it back in the 60's. Talks shit about the greatest band on earth then goes on to quote Mr. John Lennon by saying "World Peace and Love"...what a Botox using idiot.
zacatecas3 3 months ago
The wrong Beach Boys died.
Mrsilenciobackgammon 3 months ago 17
@Mrsilenciobackgammon Brian's still alive!
hippojuice23 3 months ago
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@hippojuice23 Who said anything about Brian?
Mrsilenciobackgammon 3 months ago
Mike Love is nothing compared to the artists he's dissing here. He wouldn't be shit without Brian Wilson.
finylvinyl66 3 months ago 5
WHY IS JOHN LENNON DEAD, AND THIS GUY IS STILL RAKING IN THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AND HITTING ON GIRLS 30 YEARS YOUNGER THEN HIM? FFFUUUUUUUUUUUU
alliant 3 months ago 6
@alliant Hahahahahaa!!!!!
jettyd69 2 weeks ago
@alliant That's the philosophical problem of evil in a nutshell. The real world is absurd.
DrNSalmon 1 week ago
mike love is obviously the daddy of this genre, gervais can only aspire to this
NautilusJones1 3 months ago
fucking republican twat
RBIKO5 3 months ago
Brian was the normal one after all
Vertigo2903 3 months ago 4
ARSEHOLE
nedmobile 3 months ago
He was always a knob.
clivedxb 3 months ago
welcome to the jungle
Joncarlingdotcom 4 months ago
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I have always heard Mike Love not war but now Im not so sure
C10WOODY 4 months ago
YES..... BUT..... you cant argue with Mike from 2:20 - 2:34 maybe he should do less Meditation and more thinking
C10WOODY 4 months ago
Why is he one to talk about Paul? This guy fucking sued his own band mates...... great band, but he's an asswipe
queenkixass 4 months ago 2
LoL!! Mike Love sings "Kick Out the Jams" ... :-) Elton's comment at the end is PERFECTION!! :-) hahahaa!!
itsstillfriday 4 months ago
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Mike Love might be the biggest dickhead that has ever walked the earth. I hope he dies really soon.
thankseddie100 4 months ago
Geez, get out the straightjacket.
UberYooTuber 4 months ago
Ramble on....
dab4546 4 months ago
Wow. What a dickhead. He hardly makes any sense. I feel bad for the other Beach Boys who must've been very embaressed over this. If he would have been ousted from the Beach Boys the band would have lost a tambourine player, a lousy saxophonist, a lousy theremin player and a tacky MC. Danny Hutton would have mad a good replacement for Mike Love.
WilsonVanGarneau 4 months ago
Shit! What a painful sight! What a lucky shit to be a cousin to the Wilsons!
kjetin99 4 months ago
@Goeslightly Yeah, and the food didn't taste very well, right.? How could this guy even attempt to make the statement ; "and we love ALL people"? In my 57 years I've never heard anyone say that Mike Love was "crazy". He's confusing the word "crazy" with "JERK", and how in the world does a frigging singer jam? His reference to Woody Guthrie: "this guy with the guitar". This had to be a put on. No one could be this much of a walking embarassment .
LOOKN450 5 months ago
@LOOKN450 That's the word 'JERK', spelled A-S-S-H-O-L-E.
DrNSalmon 1 week ago
We couldn't surf very... good.
Goeslightly 5 months ago
It must pain this guy to no end to even utter the words MOP TOP ...
LOOKN450 6 months ago
The other Boys must have been cringing in horror backstage throughout this. This guy is hands-down the biggest A-Hole to ever grace a popular music stage. And my theory as to why Mike Love is so miserable comes down to one single issue ... HAIR !!! or more pointedly, the lack of it. the 60's were all about hair. The Beatles had it, the Stones had it, even Diana Ross had it, but due to his lousy Karma the powers that be saw to it that starting in his late teens he would lose his ...
LOOKN450 6 months ago
You know why Brian Wilson developed mental problems, he realized that Mike was his cousin...
mrguy561 6 months ago 2
"thank fuck he didn't mention me" - HAHAHAHA classic elton!
teddypicker12345 7 months ago 20
This guy is a flipping d-bag. Always was. Who the hell does he think he was? He should have been happy the 3 bros let him tag along.
mtj8 7 months ago 2
What arrogance for someone with such little talent he did little for the beach boys, compared to b. Wilson and Wilson comes off as a much kinder man
YKAEYA 7 months ago
"i'd like to thank, erm, mike love, for not mentioning me" - bob dylan, making his speach just after this!
ingateman 7 months ago 2
When he's not insulting other performers, he just keeps babbling and babbling.
Rustina61 7 months ago
What an asshole
CommonwealthCelt 7 months ago
blithering, boring, idjut...
worth watching for the Elton John punch line at the end !!
phnuggle 7 months ago
Brian should have just suckerpunched him
waialaebeach 7 months ago
All the Beach Boys' music I've purchased through the years was well worth every cent I spent, but I'm deeply sorry that even one cent of it went to that classless a**hole, Mike Love. The band's musical legacy would have been so much better if Mke had never been a member. (Brian always sang Mike's vocal parts far better than Mike did. With all due respect to Al, Bruce, and David Marks--whom I have nothing against--the Wilson brothers could have done just as well as a trio.)
DrNSalmon 7 months ago
@DrNSalmon I agree
waialaebeach 7 months ago
@waialaebeach Mike begins his classless rant by lamenting that particular rock stars didn't attend the ceremony. I believe his anger stems from their absence. He thinks himself superior to them and generally unappreciated. (He even interrupts Brian's heartfelt speech, thereby spoiling the moment for his genuinely talented benefactor.) The Beach Boys probably are underappreciated, but certainly not Mike. The Wilson brothers always were the heart & soul of that supergroup.
DrNSalmon 7 months ago
@DrNSalmon
moreover, beach boys are probably even more underappreciated thanks again to Mike Love, due to the fact that he vetoed out Brian's "Smile" project in the mid-60s cause the latter didn't "stick to the formula" (of harmonies) but was trying to create a new psychedelic sound. Lo and behold, Beatles would then release Sgt. Pepper, their most successful and now hailed as the pioneers of psychedelic rock. Thanks Mike.
teddypicker12345 7 months ago 2
@teddypicker12345 Your point is well taken. I'm not sure that the "formula" that Mike wanted the band to stick to was the awesome Brian Wilson vocal arrangements. There is some of that on "SMiLE"--the "Prayer" bits and "Good Vibrations." Maybe Mike wanted to stick to the tried-&-true surf/cars/girls/fun themes and to performining live at large venues, instead of going all artsy/psychedelic with Van Dyke Parks' substantial poetry, etc. (I personally like both aspects of the BB's legacy.)
DrNSalmon 7 months ago
How could this guy insult the "Mop Tops," Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ray and Davies, Pete Townshend were way better songs writers than this idiot.
jamaral81 7 months ago
*sigh*
Xavygravy 7 months ago
Now I know why he wears the hat, not because he's bald, but because it keeps that loose brain of his from falling on the floor. Could you imagine working with this bitter fuck? Major props to the Wilsons, Jardine, Johnson, et al.
rutgers1961 7 months ago 2
Nothing says "love and harmony" like rudely insulting other people while accepting an award. I applaud you, Mr. Love.
lbsmrbrb1 8 months ago 2
FUNNY STUFF, BOOZE TALKIN SAYS SOME TRUE STUFF...
mosesmoses2000 8 months ago
wanker of the highest order.
macmaghnusa 8 months ago
this is like a WWE promo
pigobenis 8 months ago
Why doesn't Mike take that hat off so we can see the beautiful hair of his?
TinyMontgomery204 8 months ago 4
Does anyone know if Mike was drunk during this?
TheOneartist 8 months ago
Oh wow, this looks like a crowd recording. The angles and stuff are different than the other video on YouTube. You should have seen John Lennon's son's expression when Mike snubbed The Beatles.
TheOneartist 8 months ago
Wow seriously? I'm a giant Beach Boys fan but jesus Mike that was kinda douchey... And take the fuckin hat off, it doesn't match your tux. You just look awful.
raterroyale 8 months ago
Fuck you Mike Love. Douchebag.
just4tunes 8 months ago
Even Mike Love has to give his props to the greatest of all time, Ali
bigpmc 8 months ago
Mike Love, Not War!
MrDhoover 9 months ago
This is some speech! Jesus! I never saw this!
stevedrums 9 months ago
Mike Love is a Douche.... but I find solace in the fact that even when he was the "frontman" for the beach boys, he was always overshadowed by Brian's voice, looks, and stage presence.... Long Live the Wilsons... that being said... Mike Love is the "original" Surf voice.... so he does get props... but still....
ElectricKGod 9 months ago
I shall now love, adore and worship Reggie Dwight for the rest of my freaking life!!!! LOL. S'TRUTH!
chandramaofficial 9 months ago 2
thank fuck he didnt mention me ;)
paudiemaguire1 9 months ago 3
I've heard/read about this infamous Mike Love rant, & now that I've finally gotten around to tracking it down on YouTube, my reaction is as follows:
It is definitely an incoherent train wreck. However, on the Mike-Love-Douche-Baggery scale, it registers barely a blip. Compare it w/ all of the cringe-inducing footage from the 80s. You know, like when he's wearing Stars-&-Stripes-themed stage outfits, w/ a red-white-&-blue mesh baseball cap, sucking Ronald Reagan's cock, or lip-syncing to Kokomo?
idealtypical 9 months ago 4
apparently Brian is not the only Beach Boy with mental problems...
Riconnaissance 9 months ago 28
what a prick. i like how he rags on people within the group pursuing lawsuits against other members, when he is the epitome of the same. the rambling is just a bonus. lol
Riconnaissance 9 months ago 5
lol EVERYBODY hates Mike Love. Good.
LeaveDenbyAlone 9 months ago 3
Mike must burn in hell
along with all those fucking people clapping
jammmon 10 months ago
Mike has always been a douchebag. I talked with him at a hotel bar after a beach Boys perfomance in the early 80's. A couple of nice Swedish girls who I knew came up to him and told him that they thought the Beach Boys were great. He was nice to their faces but when they left he turned to me and said "Swedish girls have such fat asses". These girls did not have fat asses, they were normal looking and very sweet girls. He is a total dick.
dcburgess58 10 months ago
Hahaha Elton John for the win! Beach Boys (minus that turd Love) rock
groundedsax 10 months ago 2
mike love - the cousin from hell
larkjd 10 months ago 4
They all quit listening after the first 15 minutes---:)
denise007dm 11 months ago
I think we all know who influenced Charlie Sheen now. The only thing missing here is Mike Love declaring that he has dragon blood in his veins.
pajmf 11 months ago 5
@pajmf Explain.
TinyMontgomery204 10 months ago
Is he on something?
hippojuice23 11 months ago
@hippojuice23 I've read this several places so I take it to be true but the real story wasn't drugs/drink.......Everyone knows Mike Love has been into transcendental meditation for years, well he had been fasting for well over a day if not day(s) (for reasons related to his TM beliefs) before doing this speech (real smart!).....but anyone who has ever fasted or attempted to do so knows the effect it can have on your judgement. Not making an excuse for this ass at all just explaining it.
pendletone77 9 months ago
nice to find this video, hadn't seen it in a long time. Mike definitely made some liquor store's night very profitable back then.
TCC309 11 months ago
just shut up about the damn harmonies!
fede018 11 months ago
I just witnessed enough hot air to film a balloon go around the earth a number of times. This guy is definitely the Duke of Douche!
pmoyer50 11 months ago
The most minor person who could conceivably be called a rock star. Unfortunately not the most minor ego.
furfledurfle 11 months ago 4
Mike Love is an idiot..The people he ripped have more talent in there in little finger than Love does...
MrGroucho58 11 months ago
What a dumbass... Name dropping McCartney, Jagger, Joel and the Boss as if he is anywhere remotely in the same league as any of them artistically or musically.
mrjamesgrimes 11 months ago
I have shaken hands with Mike Love, gotten his autograph, etc. I try to be fair-minded. Constructively, all I can say is that he would be better served to have any public comments written by a public relations pro, so that he imparts a coherent, articulate, diplomatic message. Frankly, I did not even "get" what the USA having 6% of the world's population has to do with Muhammad Ali. He did not need to insult Mick Jagger or Paul McCartney. A rambling, somewhat abrasive speech.
cattymanly 11 months ago
@cattymanly I don't really know what his point here was, but I love him, unlike the other one's you know. How did you get to shake hands with him? have you met the other beach boys too?
M3town33 10 months ago
@M3town33 I saw the Beach Boys at Duke University, Durham, NC, spring of 1971. I ran up to the stage ropes, outdoor performance, after they ended their show. Another group came up 1/2 hour later. I briefly chatted & shook hands with both Alan Jardine and Carl Wilson. In 1973, I met Mike Love at the Transcendental Meditation Center of Washington, DC. He signed an autograph, posed for a photo with me and we shook hands. Gaithersburg, MD show in 2000, wife and I shook hands with Mike Love.
cattymanly 10 months ago
@cattymanly Sounds great! How can I ever be able to meet them? I'm a musician myself and a big fan.
M3town33 10 months ago
@M3town33 One needs to be aggressive and alert to meet rockers. Check their web site. My wife and I saw them outdoors at Montgomery County Fairgrounds in 2000, Gaithersburg, MD for $20 a head. We simply moved in on the van taking the band, Mike and Bruce away on the grassy field, it got "caught in traffic" with people milling about. We just reached in a side window and basically we just touched fingers with Mike. Bruce was on the other side of the bus, signing T-shirts, etc.
cattymanly 10 months ago
@M3town33 You don't know what the point here was?
Can't ya see you are the same kind of shitty person Mike Love is
jammmon 10 months ago
@jammmon WHATHEHELL! I take that as a compliment because Mike Love is a wonderful person!!!1 fuck that comment. what the hell are yor fucking brain into this shit of hell is leading nowhere freaking fucking moron asshole darning daring comment shit from helll!!!!!!!
M3town33 10 months ago
Elton is funny lol
EnjoyTheSurface 11 months ago
That was pretty dull
EnjoyTheSurface 11 months ago
Like Mike or not, at least he has the balls to speak his mind and not worry about "offending" people.
mysteric70 11 months ago
@mysteric70 Mike is a drunk piece of shit just like you
jammmon 10 months ago 2
Looking back with Love... can be a distinctly long-winded and cringeworthy experience.
dancindandanson 11 months ago
"The United States is 6% of the population [of the] world. That's why I came here tonight with Muhammed Ali."
Muhammed Ali is thinking, "Whew! Good thing the U.S. doesn't make up 5 or 7 percent of the world's population. Otherwise, I'd be home tonight!"
pajmf 1 year ago
Mike Love calls out Paul McCartney. At least Paul McCartney still makes relevant music to this day and continues to sell out arenas and stadiums. What a friggin' douche Mike Love is!
pajmf 1 year ago 2
1st class turd herder
juiceman1965 1 year ago 5
If creating Avant-garde music is what makes an artist good, Yoko Ono will forever remain the greatest musician of all time... I rest my case.
TinyMontgomery204 1 year ago 6
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Fuck the Beatles! John lennon insincere piece of shit.
anothercountyheard 1 year ago
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For how long is this guy gonna carry that surname? Doesnt fit him.
Fuck You Mic Luv
He's dissing Paul McCartney over lawsuits??? Mike Love sued Brian Wilson over royalties and Al Jardine over the use of the term "Beach Boys" and even kicked Al Jardine out of the band after decades. Then he disses the Beatles, the Rolling Stones? GET THE HOOK and SHUT THIS FREAK UP.
jammmon 1 year ago
Mike Love Must Burn In Hell
jammmon 1 year ago
Pet Sounds contains a few great tunes. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder), God Only Knows, Caroline, No... But if I had to choose a favorite Beach Boy song, it would most likely be You're So Good To Me.
TinyMontgomery204 1 year ago
@TinyMontgomery204 A few? stupid cunt
jammmon 1 year ago
@jammmon Once again you prove your intelligence to us. Back up your opinion. Why are the other songs good? Because Rolling Stone Magazine told you? I respect opinions, as should you, but you're just a fucking idiot, plain and simple. Sometimes I sit and think why I even bother with brain lacking internet morons...
TinyMontgomery204 1 year ago 3
@TinyMontgomery204
LOL.. go suck Mike Love's balls as long as you like
jammmon 1 year ago
@jammmon I pray for your sake that that was not an attempt at being funny.
TinyMontgomery204 1 year ago 3
1:11
man.. what the fuck
anybody please jump over the stage and punch this cunt
jammmon 1 year ago
@ChetR
fucking idiot
jammmon 1 year ago
"paul mccartney... who couldnt be here tonight because he's in a lawsue with ringo"
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH YOU OR THE BEACH BOYS
WHAT A FUCKING MORON!
jammmon 1 year ago
we love.... harmony?
FUCKING IDIOT
jammmon 1 year ago
god, what an idiot
jammmon 1 year ago
Bob Lemke wants to suck your cock now!Call me at 715-445-2709 and I will swallow your nuts!
BlankFracksmokesdix 1 year ago
Without Brian Wilson, Mike Love would still be pumping gas. Oh, wait. They have self-service pumps now, so he'd be in a Valvoline store yelling "Oil pressure bay TWO!"
SufferingFoolsMusic 1 year ago 5
what a pompass ass
CommonwealthCelt 1 year ago
I'd be more entertained by listening to Brian Wilson recite the phone book than hearing this guy speak.
pmoyer50 1 year ago
badtown88: I'd be more entertained to Brian Wilson reciting the phone book than listen to this jerk.
pmoyer50 1 year ago
@ChetR
Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba Ba-Ba Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba
acarlisl 1 year ago
Saddest thing is some are CLAPPING. Hey, Mike Love, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there's no place you're goin' to but hell...
blindwilliehighlight 1 year ago 2
@blindwilliehighlight
Mike must burn in hell
along with all those fucking people clapping
jammmon 1 year ago
Haha, his mop tops comment is great too. The Beatles are the highest selling group of all time - I'd like to see the Beach Boys top that. The Beatles had 5 songs in the U.S. Top 5 in 1964 - I'd like to see the Beach Boys top that.
TinyMontgomery204 1 year ago 4
@TinyMontgomery204
Yeah they're the greatest band ever... I agree.. but talkin about Greatest Album? let me, paul mccartney mccartney and george martin put it this way: PET SOUNDS
jammmon 1 year ago
@jammmon I couldn't disagree any more. Pet Sounds is one of the most overrated albums of all time. Jesus, I'd take Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) or Sunflower over Pet Sounds any day. There are only a few tracks on Pet Sounds that I listen to. Critics and buyers should really rate music on its sound, not its inspiration or originality. This is not a biased comment by me, I also consider Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band an overrated disc.
TinyMontgomery204 1 year ago
@TinyMontgomery204 you surely dont care/know shit about music :P
jammmon 1 year ago
@jammmon Was I supposed to take offense to that comment? Look, I brought up an intelligent argument as to why I believe mainstream music is overrated, and all you can come up with is that I "don't know shit about music"? Have you even listen the Sunflower or Summer Days LPs? Until that day comes, you have no right to judge or compare the albums, let alone accuse me of not knowing anything. I may "not know shit", but I have my opinions that I don't take from other people's lists/record reviews.
TinyMontgomery204 1 year ago
@TinyMontgomery204 Man...
Yeah summer days and sunflower and holland and beach boys today
I like them all....... but if you ask me whats the album I enjoy listenin to from the first to the last song.. thatd be..... Pet Sounds and Magical Mystery Tour :)
jammmon 1 year ago
@TinyMontgomery204 I sometimes think Amusement Parks USA was the most adventurous track they recorded at that time. These two are great albums - you can listen to them both when you are over 40, but not Pet Sounds, although there are 4 classics on that one.
mullwharchar 1 year ago
@mullwharchar 4 classincs on Pet Sounds? The whole album is... You should know, but you dont, and I dont care, really... you aint bringin it down.. its not overrated.. your mind is.
But yeah.. Amusement Parks is very adventurous...I love it... And thank god Mike doesnt sing on it.
jammmon 1 year ago
@TinyMontgomery204 Yeah but the Beatles most adventurous music is still nowhere near SMiLE, the most avant-garde ahead-of-it's-time structurally advanced complex and beautiful pop album of all time. Brian's influence peaked in 2007 when PandaBear released his epic masterpiece Person Pitch which every critic writing conceded a masterpiece,( Rolling Stone called it the most influential album of the decade/NYTIMES the best of 2007) and which lays bare the debt to Brian from it's first note
anothercountyheard 1 year ago
Mick Jagger is too "chicken shit" to get up on stage with the Beach Boys? Brian Wilson was too "chicken to shit" to get up on stage with the Beach Boys.
TinyMontgomery204 1 year ago 12
@TinyMontgomery204 Mick Jagger is a white trash hedonistic turd that eats meat(roadkill) and does not meditate. Brian Wilson is a member of the Bohemian Grove.
countdumas 9 months ago
@TinyMontgomery204 He did get up on stage in 1978 when I saw them. Mike was an ass to say the things he did, though. Paul said he had a hard time deciding whether to go or not. I think he should have gone, but that was his decision at the time and I have to respect him for it. He probably regrets it now.
njriley55 7 months ago
@njriley55 I was lucky enough to see Brian Wilson and his band last month and it was an amazing show. Gave Paul a run for his money, who I saw a year ago. Brian was basically a stage prop - barely played his piano, and it looked like he was being manipulated by strings. But when you've accomplished as much as he has, you don't need to do anything. Mike on the other hand, has accomplished NOTHING.
TinyMontgomery204 7 months ago
@TinyMontgomery204 He made the effort to sue Brian for not giving him songwriting royalties for single lines, such as the "good night, my baby, sleep tight, my baby" outro on 'Wouldn't it Be Nice'.
TinyMontgomery204 7 months ago 2
what the fuck is he talking about? no amount of psychobabble changes the fact that this man is a parasite.
eggfleece 1 year ago 4
@ChetR Very wrong, Mike was more to the Beach Boys then Brian in my opinion.
mbhey101 1 year ago
@mbhey101 yeah...and Ringo was more to the Beatles than Lennon.
cwegers1 1 year ago 3
@mbhey101
Your opinion is shit since you dont know shit about the Brian Wilson and his beach boys Band. I mean.. beach boys..
jammmon 1 year ago
@mbhey101 Mike was more evil to the Beach Boys than the satan himself
jammmon 1 year ago
so does this make mike love tupac and mick jagger biggie smalls?
chriskoob 1 year ago