Mike Love is an arrogant a**hole.
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goes2eleven — 18 years ago(January 24, 2008 03:14 AM)
I can respect your feelings, thegreyarea, and agree that Mike Love has always been a great entertainer. I think it's wonderful that you and others can go to their concerts and have an enjoyable time and I'd never want to take that away from you or anyone else. It's not for me, but if others want to go, that's fine.
I simply don't like Mike Love as a
person
. Many great entertainers have been appreciated for their talents even though they were not nice people. Granted, I don't know him personally, but he's been very vocal in interviews through the years and to me, he does appear arrogant. That's just my perception and it causes me to not respect him, but that's just me.
I do appreciate your civil response to my post, by the way. So many times on these boards, discussions turn into little wars and it's nice to read a post that doesn't tear me apart.
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thbryn — 17 years ago(November 22, 2008 02:04 AM)
Why all the deletions?
Anyway, Brian was super talented. Love was a lot of things that were not exactly positive but the BB's were poorly managed and he didn't exactly get the best direction from Murray or the record companies. Mike was important to the BB's but curiously Brian doesn't consider himself part of the group even though he was integral to their success.
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Picnic10 — 10 years ago(October 04, 2015 01:00 PM)
People who aren't famous and/or talented mistake self assurance and protecting one's name as being arrogance. 100 interviews might be given and only 1 contain some bullishness and it's seized upon. You can't imagine the lovely bubble of creativity, slowly twisting and entering in to 'history' [despite few others in the world creating such a loving 'present') in tour after tour, kids turning in to adults with less than a quarter of the creative force that you had at their age, acting in ways that seem to have no sympathy with your loving and sincere, hopeful and melancholic, songs. Your audience shifts, becomes older then younger , with more available advantages than you had yet with less true angst, drive, innocence. If the public get what the public wants, Love was probably just reflecting the public's arrogance about what is cool right back at them.
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SnoozeAlarm — 13 years ago(May 12, 2012 10:46 AM)
Tusk, the Fleetwood Mac album you're referring to, didn't tank. BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA
Balls. It tanked. To go from Rumors to Tusk was an embarrassment.
Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers!Spoilers! -
bizzybody409 — 13 years ago(July 11, 2012 12:59 AM)
I don't quite get how anyone can bash Mike's contribution to the band. Great vocals aside, the man co wrote most of their hits WITH Brian. So why is he not getting the credit he deserves?
Good Vibrations: Written by Wilson/Love
I Get Around: Written by Wilson/Love
Fun Fun Fun: Written by Wilson/Love
California Girls: Written by Wilson/Love
When I Grow Up (to Be a Man): Written by Wilson/Love
Help Me Rhonda: Written by Wilson/Love
Etc etc. Their biggest hits were written together. So why is Wilson getting all the credit for being "the genius"? Mike and Wilson should both be considered "genius".
"Can I please speak to someone who didn't come to this country on a floating door?!"