Posted on 11/04/2005 8:25:49 PM PST by MikeD
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Mike Love is suing his cousin and former Beach Boys bandmate Brian Wilson, but Love's lawyer hopes the lawsuit won't mar their good vibrations.
Love filed the lawsuit in federal court Thursday accusing Wilson of promoting his 2004 album, "Smile," in a manner that "shamelessly misappropriated Mike Love's songs, likeness and the Beach Boys trademark, as well as the 'Smile' album itself."
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Didn't they play SeeBee GB's? Or did the turnaround in court cancel their unnecessary reunion? Cheetah played with RFTT reunion which was more crucial.
Relative, he seems better off than Syd Barrett or Sky Saxon but less well off than Roky Erickson.
Paying Brian in cocaine and hamburgers to write songs certainly didn't help his addictions, so it is rumored.
Yeah, they did a beautiful version of "Sloop John B." Seems like some of their earlier big hits, like "Dance Dance Dance" and "Shut Down" rarely made the oldies station playlists. Not to mention more modest hits like "Please Let Me Wonder" and "The Little Girl I Once Knew."
Yeah, it's a travesty. No group without a Wilson brother in it can be The Beach Boys. No matter how many versions of Bruce Johnston they can come up with.
I've read about his dr trying to take over his life.
Besides his drug addiction, which I believe was a result of trying to treat his depression, he has a history of attempted suicide. According to what I've read, he did receive electroshock therapy treatments for his depression. Sometimes I wonder if he had some sort of partial lobotomy.
He was the real talent behind the Beach Boys and is still a talented person. It is sad to see him now, as he has some sort of brain disorder which makes his facial expressions odd and sometimes inappropriate for the situation. Yes, from what I've seen of him, he has improved over the past couple years.
Thanks for the ping. What a sad thing. Brian has received a lot of well-deserved praise the last few years. It is sad to see Mike doing this now.
It's accepted that Dennis would show up at Brian's house with cocaine and a sack of McDonald's Cheeseburgers, back when BW weighed 350 pounds. That's the other thing -- he's lost a lot of weight over the years. He's gained some of it back since his mid-80s days, but who hasn't? He's not nearly as big as he was in the early '70s.
Thanks for the link. If I hadn't already donated a bit to the local church efforts, I might have done that one too. Plus, I love the fact that he was matching the donations of the fans. He's got a new song that he's selling for Katrina victims as well. Say what you want about his mental state, but his heart seems in the right place. If only his cousin would get a clue.
Yeah, Brian was the guy who wrote, arranged, produced, sang, and played on the records. He's one of two Beach Boys to play an instrument on "Pet Sounds" -- he played some organ, and Carl played some guitar. By 1966, Brian would write the songs while the boys were on tour, record the backing instrumental parts, record the demo vocals, then call the boys in for the final tracks. Brilliant.
"Brian was ALWAYS the creative guy."
There were 2 people in the 60s with total personal control over the production of records, to my knowlege---Phil Specter and Brian Wilson. Few people know of his stature.
"Relative, he seems better off than Syd Barrett or Sky Saxon but less well off than Roky Erickson."
Don't really know those people, but I get your drift---his state of well being is somehere in the middle range for those who've had this kind of problem.
Syd Barrett - Pink Floyd (e.g. Intersteller Overdrive, Arnold Layne, See Emily Play...)
Sky Saxon - The Seeds (e.g. Pushin' Too Hard, Can't Seem To Make You Mine)
Roky Erickson - The 13th Floor Elevators (e.g. You're Gonna Miss Me, Slip Inside This House, first psychedelic band)
" first psychedelic band)"
Thanks for info. We've actually saying this was the very first psychedelic band? If so, wow!
"Trips to San Francisco established the group as up-and-coming underground favorites, but Erickson's drug problems led to the singer's commission to a state mental hospital in the late '60s, an ordeal from which he has never fully recovered."
Unfortunate he was sent there.
Speedy - Thank you. That is exactly the way I phrased it when someone asked if I wanted to go see the Beach Boys: "Not unless a Wilson brother is on the stage."
I hope the court b*&^hslaps Mike Love for this. Brian waged a very, very expensive battle back in the early 90's to get better compensation for the rights to his songs that his abusive father sold off for peanuts in the early 1970's. After it was over and Brian won, Mike Love, POS Extr'ordinaire, sued BRIAN to get money owed him (rather than stand with Brian in the initial lawsuit).
Love probably SERIOUSLY needs the money. The gigs are falling off. Wait'll they start parading Van Dyke Parks, Andy Paley, and the rest of the talent that tried to put SMiLE out back in the 60's to the witness stand and they start talking about Mike Love's serious objection to it. Van Dyke Parks' testimony ALONE would be worth the price of admission.
Best line I ever heard about Mike Love: "He should get on his knees every night and thank Brian Wilson, because he gave him a job that no one else would have: singing in a band."
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