Brian Wilson disavows Beach Boys performance at TROPHY hunting convention featuring Donald Trump Jr.

[Demovictory9]

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-02-03/brian-wilson-beach-boys-donald-trump-jr-hunting


Beach Boys founding members Brian Wilson and Al Jardine alerted fans Monday that they have no part in an appearance later this week by a version of the group fronted by cofounder Mike Love at a trophy-hunting convention where Donald Trump Jr. will be the keynote speaker.

Love’s touring edition of the Beach Boys, for which he holds the legal rights to the name, also includes longtime band member Bruce Johnston. They are slated to play Wednesday, Feb. 5, at the Safari Club International Convention in Reno, where hunting enthusiasts can arrange trips to hunt exotic animals. Trump Jr. and his brother, Eric, are longtime trophy-hunting supporters.

“This organization supports trophy hunting, which both Al and I are emphatically opposed to,” Wilson tweeted on Monday. “There’s nothing we can do personally to stop the show, so please join us in signing the petition” protesting the private event at Change.org.

[Goodheart]

1. Mike Love has always been a shit.

The shit songs by the Beach Boys (Kokomo, Fun Fun Fun) were Mike Love.
The genius songs (Wouldn't It Be Nice, Good Vibrations, God Only Knows) were Brian Wilson.

[panader0]

4. I met Brian Wilson once in'67 when I delivered a piano to his Honolulu bungalow.

I was 16, working for a music store through Manpower. He gave me and my
co-worker each five bucks, a big tip when I made about 1.50 an hour. So I like him.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

39. I share a birthday with Brian Wilson.

We were born in different years, though.

I might share a birth year with you. I turned 16 in 1967.

[panader0]

41. 1950--year of the tiger

[mahatmakanejeeves]

42. 1951 for me. NT

[dchill]

51. 1951.

[sweetloukillbot]

8. Love won a lawsuit for credit on Good Vibrations

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It destroyed Brian. And all he came up with was like one line, supposedly.
Listen to him in interviews though, he always brings up “When I wrote Good Vibrations...” And completely shits on Smile.

[Goodheart]

16. Good case in point.

[DFW]

27. Then I guess Mike Love would NOT appreciate THIS version of Fun Fun Fun:

[raccoon]

29. Thanks for posting that brilliant parody! Nt

[DFW]

31. I'm not allowed to call it brilliant, but thanks!!

(I wrote the lyrics!)

[denem]

34. Sell Kansas? LOL

... or was that Missouri

[trueblue2007]

47. i LIKE that the parody showed how FAT and UGLY Donald Rump is. #LockHimUp

[maveric]

2. Mike Love is an asshole.

[BadgerMom]

12. Bingo!

Always has been. Brian is a genius.

[pazzyanne]

37. Anyone who supports trophy hunting is an asshole.

That is all.

[ChiTownDenny]

40. +1

[dchill]

52. And proud of it!

[SharonClark]

3. Mike Love is the evil Beach Boy.

It doesn’t surprise me in the least.

[Bradshaw3]

5. I know from personal experience Mike Love is a jerk

His politics fit right in with his personality.

[LuvNewcastle]

6. So the real talent behind the Beach Boys is against this.

That makes sense. They can have Mike Love and Kid Rock and Ted Nugent at their little shitshow.

[rufus dog]

7. Five posts and no Pet Sounds reference

Super Bowl hangover😄

[Hekate]

18. See below. I posted before seeing your post.

[SunSeeker]

9. WTF? If Brian Wilson is not in it, it's not the Beach Boys. Fuck Mike Love.

[Rhiannon12866]

44. +100!

[lame54]

10. Mike Loves the money

[jmbar2]

11. Just watched "Love and Mercy" biopic last week

I was not all that familiar with the whole back story on the Beach Boys. That film was really eye opening. It beautifully captured the musical brilliance of Brian as a composer. He got screwed over by so many people.

I am a huge fan now. He's a genius. And now gets more kudos for his stand on trophy hunting. Still a genius.

[Demovictory9]

20. I will look for the movie

[CentralMass]

26. A video detailing the creative process behind the recording if God only knows.

After abd ad in starts into part 2. The final song is pretty anazing.

[Demovictory9]

45. thank you!

[jmbar2]

49. OMG - stunning

I'll never hear Beach Boy songs the same after this. It's absolutely brilliant how many levels of complexity he is hearing all at once - instrumental parts and harmonies, multilayered rhythms, multilayered vocals, plus the lyrics.

I am simply in awe. Thanks for posting this.

[SunSeeker]

46. Saw it in the theater. Such a great movie.

Really gave insight into the creative process, and the hell Brian Wilson went through.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

13. sign here

https://www.change.org/p/beach-boys-stop-supporting-trophy-hunting/psf/promote_or_share?recruiter=

[soldierant]

21. I already found it through the linked article.

But thank you for posting it. Not everyone is as stubborn as I am.

[Maraya1969]

32. That is the wrong link. Here is to the beginning of the petition.

https://www.change.org/p/beach-boys-stop-supporting-trophy-hunting

[yaesu]

14. Yep, they are a shitshow. nt

[Hangdog Slim]

15. No talent jerk

If it wasn't for his genius cousin, Brian Wilson, Mike Love would have been selling used cars somewhere and touring around the Southern California Holiday Inn circuit with his top 40 cover band. Putz

[Norbert]

19. If it were up to Mike Love and not Brian Wilson,

their career would have nosedved in '64.

[Hekate]

17. Not exactly Pet Sounds...

[Baked Potato]

22. Not acceptable, NOT good vibrations at all !

[BobTheSubgenius]

23. I absolutely LOATH trophy hunting and truphy hunters.

HATE them. I always have a little internal celebration when the prey somehow turns it around and kills the hunter.

Fuck them.

[Neema]

36. Me too. Everyone one of them are scum.

I hate them with the fire of a 1000 burning suns.

[MarcA]

24. safari club intl, a nasty org with a dirty history. n/t

[pressbox69]

28. Maybe

The J Geils Band said it best. LOVE STINKS!

[BeckyDem]

30. I love that Brian and Al are doing this and not at all surprised they are taking a stand.

Shame on the rest of them, its disgusting. They don't have enough money, or is this just their true values on display?

Please sign the petition everyone.

[RhodeIslandOne]

38. Mike Love and Bruce Johnston have always been hucksters

Mike’s an angry dick who feels he’s never gotten his due in comparison to Brian and Bruce has that face of a used car salesman trying to lift your wallet while he shakes your hand.

[BeckyDem]

50. What a shame he never got past it.

[rsdsharp]

33. I saw the Beach Boys in concert twice.

The first time was in May 1978. They really were the Beach Boys. Carl and Dennis were still alive, and Brian had (briefly) resumed touring, along with Love and Jardine. It was an amazing show, even if I did have to spend 2 1/2 hours standing because those in "festival" seating rushed the stage at the start of the concert.

The second time was probably 10-12 years ago after a minor league baseball game. It was Love, Jardine, Johnston and some guys. They played for about an hour, and it was a shadow of the first concert.

A trivia question: The Barry Manilow hit, "I Write the Songs" was actually written by Bruce Johnston.

[Neema]

35. If a meteor fell on that trophy-hunting convention (preferably during the middle of

Con Jr's speech), I would not shed a single tear.

[marble falls]

43. Mik Love dissing other bands ...

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-mike-love-rages-at-the-1988-rock-hall-ceremony-197737/

Nobody knows what got underneath Mike Love’s skin when the Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. It was only the third ceremony and they were getting in alongside the Beatles and Bob Dylan, so he could hardly feel his group was somehow getting dissed. But when he took to the podium, out came the most notorious speech in Hall of Fame history.

“The Beach Boys did about 180 performances last year,” he said. “I’d like to see the Mop Tops match that! I’d like to see Mick Jagger get out on this stage and do ‘I Get Around’ versus ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash,’ any day now. And I’d like to see some people kick out the jams, and I challenge the Boss to get up on stage and jam.”

At this point Paul Shaffer and his band kicked into “Good Vibrations” in an attempt to get him to stop, but Love wasn’t quite done. “I wanna see Billy Joel, see if he can still tickle ivories,” he said. “I know Mick Jagger won’t be here tonight, he’s gonna have to stay in England. But I’d like to see us in the Coliseum and he at Wembley Stadium because he’s always been chickenshit to get on stage with the Beach Boys.


It was a night of notable absences, with Diana Ross and Paul McCartney staying home due to feuds with their groups, but Mick Jagger was indeed in the audience. To put it mildly, the rest of the Beach Boys were horrified. “Carl Wilson came up to me afterward,” said Shaffer. “He handed me his award and said, ‘Our career is over.'”

Longtime Beach Boys touring guitarist Jeff Foskett was on hand for the event. “He wanted it to be a challenge,” he told Rolling Stone in 2009. “But it just came out wrong.” In a 2013 interview with the Guardian, Love tried to explain himself. “I hadn’t meditated that morning,” he said. “It was so funny. Someone said to me: ‘Hey Mike. You’re either meditating too much or not enough!'”

Bob Dylan took the stage not long after the Beach Boys and delivered the line of the night. “I want to thank Mike Love for not mentioning me,” he said. “I play a lot of dates every year, too. Peace, love and harmony is greatly important indeed, but so is forgiveness and we gotta have that too.”

Ringo Starr, who will receive the Award For Musical Excellence at next year’s ceremony, was in the ballroom that night, but doesn’t remember the speech. “Yeah,” he said. “I don’t ever listen to what he has to say.”

[B Stieg]

48. Never liked these guys or their music.

Sorry.

[Phoenix61]

53. I just saw Brian play a could of weeks ago.

He isn’t getting around very well. Using a walker and needed help sitting down and standing up. I felt bad for him. It was ridiculously cold but he hung in there.