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  • Kinda uncomfortable.....but Classic.

  • Kudos to Mike Love for creating an interesting HOF moment.

  • mike love was born with a serious disease its called being a dick head, and if it wasnt for brian he would still be pumpin gas in hawthorn

  • Mike Love is an infamous asshole- read Brian Wilson's auto-biography

  • I always thought Mike was drunk or high when he showed up that night. Looking back on it, I now realize that Mike Love is just an a-hole. 

  • As much as I hate Mike's part of the speech speech, Mike simply adjusted the mic for Brian at 1:40. Brian had to bend down since the mic was so low resulting in Mike adjusting the mic stating, "You're taller than most of these executives in the music business." He didn't mean to cause any harm until his part of the speech.

  • Brian was doing such a fine job until Mike Love felt he wasn't getting enough attention. Everytime I start thinking Mike wasn't so bad, I see this and wake-up....

  • I always gave Mike the benefit of the doubt and thought he just came across poorly to the public, but after seeing this I think he is the biggest asshole in rock and roll history! Way to ruin Brian's beautiful speech...

  • Brian looks great here. What an inspiration. Would have loved to hear Denny's input.....

  • I hate you Mike "so-called" Love.

  • This guy's a fucking idiot. Goes to show all the fame & money don't build character.

  • If anyone asks you why Brian Wilson is so beloved in the music community and Mike Love ain't- show them this. We love you Brian...

  • "Harmony" speech. Mike is such a hypocrite, he sued the shit out of the Wilson's

  • Mike Love has always been such an asshole to Brian

  • Truly an embarrassing diatribe, Mr. Love should hang his head in shame.

  • Alll the verbal abuse makes this video so much more enjoyable . Thanks so much kids

  • Mike Love WHO THE F*CK do you think you are!?? 

  • Mike Love will never suffer problems with his bowel he really is the perfect arsehole .

  • 2:34 Brian, YOU are God's voice.

  • wtf mike just goes up and interrupts Brian? what was that about

  • One thing about Mike, he doesnt give a fuck!

  • What the hell? Mikey just grabs the microphone right out of Brian's hands. He's so rude and has no talent or class in my estimation.

  • They talk about Brian being crazy, but Mike Love seems to have lost his fucking mind. I'm a little disappointed that Carl let him say that shit. At least Elton John was funny

  • lol @ Elton "Thank fuck he didn't mention me!!"

  • Mike Love :  Fuck what an embarassment

  • Give me Mike Love over Mick Fagger any day.

  • @theunsheep : You evidently have no taste. Mikey proved what a senseless jerk he is in this video. Brian is the greatest. Mikey means nothing to me. Mick Jagger smokes Mikey.

  • Mike is refreshing. Not the usual showbiz thank yous.

  • I never knew why people said Mike was a cunt....thanks to this video now I do

  • Brian Wilson's speech was beautiful, touching and he exudes nothing but love and mercy. Don't let Mike's ego stand in the way of Brian's touching truths! :)

  • Poor mike love. It hurt watching this.

  • Its been a little over 27 years, but it is not far fetched that Brian will be inducted as a solo artist!?

  • Can someone explain if Mile was throwing out disses or trying to make jokes. I wish Carl would have spoke more. No Al Jardine?

  • I think instead of Mike Love talk about the dirt between Mccartney and Starr he should of taken the time to apologize to Brian for some things and troubles between the Beachboys like the lawsuit and all other things

  • @xtremerockomaniac Of course, none of the law suits had happened yet! :)

  • BRIAN WILSON AND DENNIS WILSON FTW!!!!

  • Dennis! Dennis! Dennis! Dennis!

  • Fuck you Mike Love!

  • Mike Love is a troll.

  • Hes on Blow

  • What the hell was THAT all about?!?! Did Mike think he was being funny? Sorry Mike, but if you were trying to be funny, NOBODY got it.

  • diana should have come .. i guess that her dislike for ms mary weighed in

  • Mike Love: Biggest cunt in pop?

  • Mike Love is a douche.

  • If Denny were there he woulda socked Mike.

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  • Mike Love was angry because as he walked on stage he farted followed through and shit his pants , notice how all the other Beach Boys and people on the stage around him suddenly started to make a slow retreat because of the smell of shit from Mike Love's soiled trousers and underpants .

  • I don't know if Mike Love has ever commented on his speech but I kind of admire him for blasting McCartney and Diana Ross for snubbing their inductions. The Beach Boys never recovered after Brian's illness and they made their money from staying on the road. Rock and Roll is not about tuxedos at the Waldorf-Astoria. Paul, George and Ringo had not been on the road for years by this point. Mick and Keith hadn't toured since '81 or '82 by then either.

  • Mike cant stand the spot light not being him for more then 1:38, classic ML

  • Mike Clearly Broke Brian's Rhythm here but Brian slowly works around it, reminds me of the making of SMILE. Glad it will finally be released now.

  • Mike, shut up and let Brian talk....what a jerk

  • dennis hooper from apocalypse now ? kew

  • Love is an indignant prick....on a night meant to honor, he chooses to poke his finger into the chests of others

  • I keep coming back to this tape, to try to understand the Beach Boys.

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  • - I think Brian is very sweet here and Carl too....but i really wish Love hadn't talked so much shit- how can his ego be so big when he is surround by such humble band mates- ESPECIALLY Brian who without him Love would never had made it anyway! Too bad he doesn't realize that the way Denny did.

  • WOW...Mike Love...an acid burn out 20 years on...sad...

  • What a piece of excrement Mike Love is.

    What an embarrassment for the band

  • who can spot beatle people in there, i'm sure it#s julian lennon at 5.51

  • @OropherThranduil Sharp eyes - that's Julian.

  • mike love...who are you to talk shit about paul mccartney?

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  • Yeah, Mike, it sure is a real bummer when someone rides on the coat tails of their own relative's extraordinary genius, helps suppress their greatest work, turns one of the greatest bands of all time into an inane, kitschy nostalgia act, and generally acts like the biggest dickhead imaginable. Oh, and incidentally, did it ever occur to you that you yourself were the reason the Stones never played with the Beach Boys?

  • @KokoBWary The Stones did share the bill with the Beach Boys once, on the TAMI show at Santa Monica Arena.

  • Mike Love's rambling remarks were breath-taking, in the most painful way possible. He made every possible public relations gaffe. Given that he has promoted and allegedly practiced Transcendental Meditation, the incoherence, irrationality and sour grapes of his remarks does not reveal any especial enlightenment. I will give him credit for singing well and diligently performing lots of Beach Boys gigs, but this rant was horrendously unbecoming.

  • what is wrong with mike love? Why is he such an ass im supprised they didnt kick him off the stage

  • somebody should get there two cousins to beat the shit out of mike.

  • this guy actually thinks he better then all these people..what an idiot..the Beatles are the only ones who can make fun of the Beatles

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  • "...Ms. Ross can't make it" ?...did Diana Ross not show up for the Supremes induction?

  • @achaserofrocks Only Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong and the daughter of Florence Ballard showed up...Ross was a no show.

  • What we don't see/hear is Bob Dylan's acceptance speech later on, in which he said to Mike Love - "I'd like to thank Mike Love for not mentioning me .... Peace, love and harmony is important indeed, but so is forgiveness."

    I would like to add that I hate Mike Love, I have always hated Mike Love, and watching this just made me hate Mike Love more.

  • Thanks Mike Love, you were terrific.

  • Mike Love is a fucking asshole. Please die....

  • Mike is such a dick

  • Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation© and Transcendental Meditation© in no way endorses Mr Love's words.

  • Mike, as if your the only people that like and sing harmony. As if you are promoting harmony when you down other people. Be the example. But you had your chance and blew it. What in the hell is Glitteradi Lasondo?

  • Somebody shut that fucking mike off. Or, somebody shut that fucking Mike off.

  • I can't decide who's a bigger jerk, Mike Love or Axl Rose.

  • haha why the hell is ali there?!?!? mike love is a crazy bastard

  • Anyone Mike Love did NOT insult ?? Not many people he likes, is there.

  • 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 giant a**hole, Mike Love. The worst of it is that the band's musical legacy would have been so much better Mike 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

    dude, brian had the heavenly falsetto, mikes bass was perfect for their sound and harmony singing, i hate the man, but the voice was perfect for the band, just like his idea for the good vibrations chorus, and his rewritten good vibration lyrics suite the meldy better than the originals.

  • What the fuck is wrong with Mike Love?

  • Jeez, what is that guy Mike Love babbeling about?

  • "Thank fuck he didn't mention me!" Elton John is awesome! 

  • mike love you are an absolute dick

  • I remember watching this live on TV that night. Everything went great until Mike got up to speak. The more he babbled the worse it got. I thought PLEASE GET HIM OFF THE STAGE!! I wish Carl or Al had tugged on him to step down, but they didn't. Mike is very intelligent but has no common sense about people. He should be grateful for being inducted, say " THANK YOU", and then let poor Al speak for once. That's what an overblown ego does for you. Mike, you're exposing your true colors here. : o /

  • "We love all people too ... except the fuckers."

  • Cringe worthy moment.. Pure psycho babble. No wonder Brian went fuckin' bonkers.

  • Brian Wilson is a true musical genius, Carl Wilson had one of the greatest voices ever recorded, Mike Love-Cunt

  • Mike Garfunkel? What a dipshit.

  • theres no love in mike love

  • mike love is the bully of the music industry.

  • Brian's speech was absolutely brilliant.

  • I hope he was high on something. He's picking up some kind of vibrations...

  • Mike Love is the biggest piece of shit ever. If he wasn't in the band 1. Dennis wouldn't have died 2. Brian and the band would have release Smile and who knows what other masterpieces

  • Wow, time passes so freaking quick, it's 2011, 4 more years and we'll have to induct them again already, LOL!

  • @ricadrew

    I was thinking the very same thing. Hope Brian is around to see it! Maybe Michael will keep his mouth shut this time.

    ;oD

  • Carl, like Dennis, put a lot of love into his songs and his speaking for Dennis was a very loving, spiritual moment on that stage...what a classy man Carl Wilson was. I for one was so very touched...blood brothers...forever.

  • 1:41 asshole

  • Beach Boys own!!! Go Mike Love!!!

  • @brivanduran2 if you mean go to hell ML I am in total agreement!

  • lol bruce could out rock the beach boys any day...

  • This was quite surreal,

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  • Elton John: Thank fuck he didn´t mention me! lol

  • @EnjoyTheSurface thats what bob dylan said in his induction that night...

  • Is Mike Love a psychopath? Look how he prey's on Brian's condition. He's not a good person.

  • Cocaine... still God's way of saying you're making too much money.

  • @dancindandanson only wish this were true. actually mike love is able to achieve this pinnacle of ugliness on transcendental meditation alone!

  • @alburtise If he's that enlightened there's not much hope for the rest of us mere mortals...

  • Michael's rant is like some bad stand-up comedy.

  • @ 6:45 to Mohamed Ali: "I didn't hear you say Alaikum Salam"

    .... oh dear

  • God... Mike is really a pile of shit

  • 1:39

    please leave him alone.. you fuckin scumbag

  • Mike you deserve to be set on fire

  • My Lord, please strike him down for this!!!

  • 1:38 - the king's speech

  • ...Well Brian, Carl and Al (and Dennis) were gentlemen anyway....

  • Man, Mike's got the wrong last name!

  • RIP Carl Wilson, passed Feb 6 1998, gone , but will live on in his heartwarming, exquisite music. I love you , my brother!

  • Just think if John Lennon were there he would have got up from his table, went up there and threw Mike Love right off that stage!

  • @relimes HE WOULD

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  • @relimes

    As for John Lennon throwing Michael off the stage...John was a peace maker. Would not have happened. However, Michael would not have said that if he were there. Mike can take pot shots at people if they are no where around. (real gutsy) neither Paul or John were there, Mick or Ms. Ross either. That's why he did it. He still hasn't learned from this horrific blunder of a speech. Have you seen the vid clip of The Beach Boys' reunion? >:o(

  • @Okiemom50 100%

  • @relimes Hahahaha!! That just made my day

  • Funny because that pea-brain (mike love) sued Brian for Releasing Smile in 2004... The world is filled with hypocrites

  • @relimes if John Lennon had been there, he would have got up and also said now can we have a speech from someone who is not a complete talentless a**hole! Brian, Carl, Al, would you like to say something else. I liked your speeches - real groovy!

  • @relimes Right on!

  • @relimes 4:50 what a piece of shit MIke is, for christ sake

  • whoa what the heel got into mike love....notice julian lennons reaction at 5:57. They should have kicked him out of the band in 1967. He totally the beatles the stones and even Woody Guthrie??? what is his damage? Wow what a loser..

  • whoa what the heel got into mike love....notice julian lennons reaction at 5:57. They should have kicked him out of the band in 1967. He totally the beatles the stones and even Woody Guthrie??? what is his damage? Wow what a loser..

  • So why does he turn into Mae West at the end?

  • Mike Love has insecurity and ego issues and really ruins it for the rest of his fellow bandmates and Rock R Rollers with his pathetic tirade.Im surprised that no one has put a bullett in his ass by now.

  • Been looking for this clip. Wow, Mike really is an ass!

  • Theres no bigger anti Mike flag waver than me. I truly believe he contributed to Brian's problems, Dennis' downfall, alot of grief for Carl, & the ruination of the greatest band of all time. But I love what he said here because I do think all those he named have been tremendously overrated, and at the Beach Boys expense. None of these bands could ever touch Brian's talent (or Dennis' & Carl's for that matter) this bands work, impact, or overall kindness & humilty as human beings (Mike aside).

  • @riv4life618 Whenever someone starts with the "nobody could touch them" speech, you know it's bull. Especially when you include Carl and Dennis in that. To imply that Beatles are "tremendously overrated" in comparison to the BBs is a joke. ARGUABLY Pet Sounds is the best pop record of all time, but such an idea doesn't make BB as a band in their own league.

  • @beeswaxlike LOL & Taylor Swift is better than Patsy Cline, huh? I base my taste on my ears, not hype or media propaganda that's been shoved down American throats for nearly half a century by music execs just to make a buck. It would take nothing short of a lobotamy to deprogram blind followers, but for me it takes more than the biggest lie in music history and alot of noise to equal that level of talent. All the mop tops combined can't equal the God given talent Brian Wilson was born with

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  • It make me criedd when he said that they miss Dennis very much

  • @Javier23gol Me too. RIP that beautiful Surfer Boy, he should have been there = (

  • It make me creid wh he said that they miss Dennis very much

  • damm, mike love went all tupac in that bitch

  • I'm betting that Brian was so embarassed by this "speech" of MIke's that he wanted to crawl into the floor.

  • Mike and Muhammed Ali are gonna take the whole audience out back and beat the shit out of them!

  • Respect to the Beach Boys and all, but Jagger and the Stones could upstage the Beach Boys anytime anyplace.

  • Whats with Brians speech, strange, like a kid reading something rehearsed, like a 12 year old reading in grade school. So heartbreaking, is he really being serious?

  • @pongqi Brian's quite shy, and from what I read, was very nervous about making this speech. It was written out, and he read from the sheet of paper.

    Mike did have a point about the absence of both Paul McCartney and Diana Ross. They should have been there.

  • @pongqi I personally think he's high or at least drunk. what do you think.

  • mike what an inappropriate surname

  • Control freak. Talented-front-man...but a control freak. Catch 22, those old surf/beach/girl/car songs would not have had an equal effect had Mr. Love not been there to lend his voice. To be certain. But to manipulate Brian Wilson, to intimidate and bully so he could go on making a grand living just sucks. Too bad Brian could not have had the courage to tell Love (and other users) to fuck themselves and THEY can write/produce/arrange the songs. Beach Boys were far stronger when Brian was in!

  • Mikes speech was an insult to the other artists. Elton is great (at the end)!!!

  • Mike Love's harmony? Egomaniacal asshole. fuck you.

  • Well ISn't thaaaaat SPEEEEECIAL!!!!!

  • hahah that was boss! i came here from the beach boys wikipedia page and i thought what a knob head at first but he had a point. macca,ross,jagger not being there, it's quite poor. i liked elton's closing comment, too!

  • I'm glad Carl was there to usher Brian away from that situation, thus making this ALL Mike's baby.

  • Is it any surprise that he's a Republican? What a jerk!

  • I've just been reading Brian's biography, "Wouldn't it Be Nice". Basically Brian's speech was a really big deal to him and took a lot of guts to do despite all the problems he'd had up to that point. As you can see he's healthier and more sane than he'd been in years. Mike Love (being his usual jealous self) resented Brian's new found independence and had to try and steal the limelight. What a dick! Get's my vote for worst most self-indulgent speech ever.

  • @matmalko

    That biography is an absolute farce. Brian had nothing to do with it; it was written entirely by Eugene Landy and the then-chief editor for People.

  • @DonZabu

    Ah....interesting. How niave am I!

    Mike Love is still a dick however.