So many questions and so many answers that would take far too long to explain here

Brian HATES and FEARS Mike Love. Love is an asshole who would be cleaning toilets today without Brian.

That's because he doesn;t speak entirely through his nose.

To it’s credit, “Pitter Patter” from MIU is a jam. The only one on the album tho.

When you shine a light onto negativity, that's all your going to see. It's best to look at things with a more balanced approach because life is complicated. Your thesis is that the Beach Boys broke up in '77 and they were a shell of their former selves every year after, and you're willfully ignoring history to make that thesis a reality. The truth is that the Beach Boys had been a band of little pockets for years. You had some members working on x tracks, and some members working on y tracks, and the whole band working on z tracks. Just because that also happened *after* 1977 doesn't mean that's unequivocal evidence that they were dead as a group. It's funny - when people generally talk about songs like, say, Sail On Sailor, they say they were comeback hits for the group, but when it comes to Almost Summer, it's always a "minor hit." People love to discount the success of songs they don't like. When The Beach Boys Love You charts at 53, it's an underrated gem. When The Beach Boys '85 charts at 52, it's a flop. Maybe history and people are more complex than just "before x year it was this and after x year it was that." I don't know where you got the story that Mike cut Brian out of the band after 2012 "because he wanted to make more money for himself," but if that's the case then he made a very grave error because 1. the size of shows they were doing in 2012 were much larger comparatively and 2. he still contractually has to pay Brian and Al major royalties for using the Beach Boys name. The 2012 tour was a major, major ordeal with a lot of cooks in the kitchen. You had two touring groups which had both been used to performing a certain way for years suddenly forced to change. A follow-up reunion tour was not an inevitability and no one ever made any mention of it. If Brian was indeed cut out as the story goes, why wasn't there any effort at securing a contract for said follow-up tour? These things have a lot of moving parts and take a lot to get off the ground. If the plan was to continue, then they would have attempted to make those plans. You don't wait until the last minute at the point where you can already start booking venues, because at that point it's too late! Those venues you want to book will already be filled up by the time you negotiate your contract. The narrative just doesn't make sense when you put it into context with reality. I really resist fans constantly pitting Brian and Mike against one another because it makes for a better story. They've said good and bad things about each other. Brian has said scathing things about Carl and Dennis too, but that surely doesn't mean he always hated them or still hates them. People change and evolve. 60 years is a long time. Life is complicated.

Wow, thanks for your comment. Where did you get all this? Is there a book that talks about it? I'm still a freshman at this.

@@monte4503 Your comment is also very good. I don't think Mike fired anyone either. From my understanding it's much more likely that Brian wanted to leave, right?

.ike deserves a lot more credit than he often gets because he, more than anyone, has kept their music alive and true to their core, for decades. He has been a tireless champion of the Beach Boys.

Flying burritos

Kokomo is not a beach boys song. It's a Terry Melcher/John Phillips song commissioned by Mike (who as usual changed a couple words around an took songwriting credit). NO BRIAN NO BEACH BOYS.

I don't doubt that he said that because although he's always seems to have the claims of being peaceful and diplomatic by various people, I've always got an undercurrent of anger and negativity from Carl (which isn't a bad thing for a musician to have, of course!) ;-)

@@NOWtheband It was an unguarded moment, to be sure. I kind of wish Carl had had more unguarded moments, though. Perhaps he would have lived longer.

Hi there.. how are you doing? Hope you are fine and staying safe over there??

Carl said Loves group is shit

@spacepatrolman Yep. And he was right.

@@spacepatrolman - I don't doubt that he said that because although he's always seems to have the claims of being peaceful and diplomatic by various people, I've always got an undercurrent of anger and negativity from Carl (which isn't a bad thing for a musician to have, of course!) ;-)