I would say that to

@Nigel Day, Mike Love is one of the reasons Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar left the Beach Boys in the first place. They contributed some amazing material in the early '70s, and certainly wrote better songs in those two years than Al ever did.

Well to be fair, Al often sided with Mike Love in deciding the band’s direction during the 1970s and 1980s, orienting the band in a more “oldies act” direction. That’s a reason why he isn’t as admired as Carl or Dennis. But Al has really come around to be a major champion of Brian and a great companion to his career (and have a great solo career in his own right.) I think Al is great.

And his wife Melinda.

A true friend.

@peterweisz6973: ABSOLUTELY SPOT ON!!!!!! This song is one of my all-time favorites of all the Brian Wilson/Beach Boys songs!

Yes, amazing!!!! When I first heard it I said to myself, "Where did he come up with this??" It's a work of absolute genius!!

Instrumental intro certainly compared with Sloop. But the song has a more laid-back and mellow feel. Kind of like a grown up Margaritaville. Sloop was more if an sailing Irish drinking song.

When someone keeps at it constantly like Al has, that's why he sounds so good. All of our gain!

YES!!!! It's every bit as good as the 60's stuff! Amazing!!!!

Yes!

I'm like him. I am.

His son sings in this as good as dad :)

Thank you!

Yeah … but a nice juke it is

@@yvesdevriendt928 -Ha ha, exactly! :-)

Yes!

That's a really nice moment.

Watch the soundcheck. Al plays a little, sings a little, gets his in-ear volume set, and crosses his arms. Done this song 1000 times. Doesn't need the practice. This is for the sound crew.

Not by Brian. His favourite voice

Because Brian’s a genius and knows who he needs and how many people it takes to make his music sound great

@@beachboys2029 Too right......

Al Jardine and Blondie are treasures as are Matt Jardine (who was an adjunct Beach Boy in the 90s), guitarist Nicky Wonder (RIP), and the rest of the band. Brian...it goes without saying. A tortured genius but a master.

@@msoileau83 Ricky Fataar is on stage too.

Yeah. And true Beach boy sound.

I think that Jeff Foskett was a dead ringer for Carl Wilson in the blend. But this is just as good if not better.

Matt Jardine has been with the Beach Boys for many years. Nice to see him up there. He has a great high voice. I read he joined the band last year to sing the falsetto parts. He did that with the Beach Boys in the 90's.

Dan Cutchen Not trying to be a jerk but its Al Jardine

No he's right, Matt Jardine also toured with the Beach boys singing falsetto as well as with his father's band. It's Al Jardine's son.

my bad did not know that. I'm actually taking a class on the beach boys and have not got to that point in history, still in the 80s

Yes.

A highlight of the excellent "Holland" LP, is a composition of theirs: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/epdgkth_y6m7ZI0.html

They made a great contribution to the excellent "Holland" LP: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/epdgkth_y6m7ZI0.html

So did 3 other guys.

qué increíble ver este comentario en español!

Ja ja en el Pais Vasco se aprecia a The Beach Boys

+Kent Duffy Now now...Mike Leech Love has had a stellar career sounding like a man who needs deviated septum surgery, telling the dumbest jokes on earth, and supplying the most banal lyrics in the history of music.

+ms8596 Not only that, but his nephew is the most overrated player in the NBA.

Shot for doing that Fred! I was close friends with Blondie back in Durban, when we were teens. Still very close friends of Steve Fataar. Blondie's vocals suited that style and he made them the best band to come out if S.A. Of course his harmonies with Ricky Fataar were so special.

+Raymond Volshenk Thanks for the feedback, Raymond--yes, "The Flame" had a great debut album, produced by my dear lifelong friend--and 'brother in spirit,' Carl. Unfortunately, regardless of how great it was--and several very obvious 'radio friendly' singles, "See The Light" only made it into the 80's on the Billboard chart--Brother Records lacked the promotional and advertising dollars to properly back it--and it's distributor--Starday-King Records--did not have the staff, credibility or funds--to properly promote it. It remains--44 years later--a great album by a great group of guys.

Thanks for sharing. It the age old truth, not what you know, but who you know! And of course money is what makes it happen, or not happen. And it's not always the best that makes it in music, probably more do now than ever. My son's grew up on stuff like The Flames, Beatles, BeachBoys, and later on Oasis, U2 etc. My influence obviously. They went into music, and landed a recording contract with Sting Records, one of the bigger stables in South Africa. Got a number one with one of their songs, and 4 on the charts, in about 2003-5. Interestingly, Phil Doherty Bono's guitar tech heard them, while they were in Ireland and wanted to manage them, but at the time we had to go back to S.A to get paperwork sorted out. They are called Saints of Bliss, and you'll find them on Reverbnation. One of their old songs has just been launched on a Radio station in California, I believe, called AVA RADIO? Maybe you could check them out. We now in Edinburgh, Scotland, and it's a dead end street! Hoping to visit the States, and have a recce! Regards Ray Quinton!

jsgreen1000 Mike has said on good vibrations...he made one line...one fucking line...and he gets an equal share of the royalties from it..for one line...thats not 'claiming rights', thats thievery.

jsgreen1000 Mike love did not write all the lyrics of good vibrations...show me evidence to prove this? On every song that ginger cunt spewed his shit, he got a 50/50 cut...for contributing nothing.

jsgreen1000 No, Brian just walked away from it with another wave of his hand "Let it go" instead of fighting a bully. Source: articles from the time it happened. not "revisionist" history coming from the ML camp.

jsgreen1000 Mike Love Beach Boy, lyricist My first impression of “Good Vibrations” was that the band could have been James Brown’s Famous Flames. The original takes were very R’n’B. There are several different versions and it took months for my cousin Brian to decide which one would be the final one. Then he asked me to bring the lyrics over. And I kinda lagged on it. Being the Pisces procrastinator that I am, I left it until the drive from North Hollywood to the studio to write them. It took me about five minutes. We were in the yellow Convertible XKE I’d bought for my wife Suzanne, who was pregnant. We were driving down to the city and I asked her to take down these words. We got to the studio, I wrote them out on a scrap of paper and Carl went ahead and sang the lead. And of course, I came up with the part that goes: “I’m pickin’ up good vibrations/She’s giving me excitations”. That’s my musical contribution. This was before the Summer of Love, but there were definitely psychedelic rumblings on the West Coast. I felt “Good Vibrations” was The Beach Boys’ psychedelic anthem or flower power offering. So I wrote it from that perspective. The track itself was already so avant-garde, especially with the theremin, that I wondered how our fans were going to relate to it. How’s this going to go over in the Midwest or Birmingham? It was such a departure from “Surfin’ USA” or “Help Me Rhonda”. So I thought the one thing that everyone can relate to is boy-girl. You know, “she’s giving me excitations”. Had that track not had anything to connect to people intellectually or emotionally, then it would have been a brilliant piece of music, but perhaps not gone to No 1. Read more at www.uncut.co.uk/features/the-making-of-the-beach-boys-good-vibrations-34867#JACOM8COzM3xtogy.99 To this day, how is it that this fool didn't see, with a number 1 song on both sides of the Atlantic, the direction Brian was taking them instead of fighting it tooth and nail. Accolades from everyone, from Leonard Bernstein, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cream, The Who...the list is endless! No, he guaranteed they'd be relegated from top of the heap to the "has-been" oldies bin within a year.

+Ben Donlon, +ms8596, I was going to rant about the bully Mike Love, but you guys have said it all. I'm unable to add anything to your well-spoken posts.