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I just saw stupidity unfold before my very eyes! they don't deserve my sense of humor
When you got to get someone who hasn't been relevant in 30 years to entertain your club members, you should probably give up.
If seems most of Trump's people have already got Covid... so they will probably be good. But some of the higher ups who cut in line and just got the vaccine, as well regular guests&performers are not guaranteed to being protected from Covid yet. So yeah.. most of those people are probably fucked.
Most of the original members have passed. So dipshit number one Mike Love just travels around with basically a Beach Boys cover band at this point.
You would have told me this was a scene from Romero's "Land of the Dead" and I would've believed you.
Brian Wilson Disavows Band's Performance at Trump Fundraiser With Mike Love
The performance is being led by the band's original vocalist and Wilson's cousin, Mike Love, who has been a vocal Trump supporter and who owns a license to perform with a touring band under the Beach Boys name. However, Wilson and Jardine told Variety in a statement that they had not been aware that Love's band was performing at the fundraiser until they read about it in the Times and emphasized that they were not associated in any way.
"We have absolutely nothing to do with the Trump benefit today in Newport Beach. Zero," Wilson and Jardine said.
This isn't the first time Wilson has spoken out against Trump and against Love's use of the band. This past February, Wilson urged fans to boycott Love's version of the Beach Boys after they chose to perform at an annual convention for Safari Club International, an organization that supports trophy hunting. Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., was the keynote speaker at the convention in Reno, Nevada.
Love also performed at one of Trump's inaugural balls in January 2017 and said in an interview with Uncut Magazine later that year that he did not "have anything negative to say" about the president.
"I understand there are so many factions and fractious things going on – the chips will fall where they may," he said. "But Donald Trump has never been anything but kind to us. We have known him for many a year. We've performed at some of his venues at fundraisers and so on."
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Never knew about this. Good on Brian Wilson.
The performance is being led by the band's original vocalist and Wilson's cousin, Mike Love, who has been a vocal Trump supporter and who owns a license to perform with a touring band under the Beach Boys name. However, Wilson and Jardine told Variety in a statement that they had not been aware that Love's band was performing at the fundraiser until they read about it in the Times and emphasized that they were not associated in any way.
"We have absolutely nothing to do with the Trump benefit today in Newport Beach. Zero," Wilson and Jardine said.
This isn't the first time Wilson has spoken out against Trump and against Love's use of the band. This past February, Wilson urged fans to boycott Love's version of the Beach Boys after they chose to perform at an annual convention for Safari Club International, an organization that supports trophy hunting. Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., was the keynote speaker at the convention in Reno, Nevada.
Love also performed at one of Trump's inaugural balls in January 2017 and said in an interview with Uncut Magazine later that year that he did not "have anything negative to say" about the president.
"I understand there are so many factions and fractious things going on – the chips will fall where they may," he said. "But Donald Trump has never been anything but kind to us. We have known him for many a year. We've performed at some of his venues at fundraisers and so on."
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Never knew about this. Good on Brian Wilson.
All I could think here was "fuck Mike Love" also I think that might be Bruce Johnston with him too. Pretty sure Brian Wilson and Al Jardine (the only two other surviving Beach Boys) have disavowed any of Mike Love's performances as The Beach Boys for Trump fundraiser stuff.
Edit: Looks like I was beaten by the above, but yes, that confirms that The Beach Boys are great and Mike Love is trash.
Edit: Looks like I was beaten by the above, but yes, that confirms that The Beach Boys are great and Mike Love is trash.
Apparently Berlin / Terri Nunn performed as well. They've been touring a lot, the past few years, with other retro / 80's bands.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/01/politics/mar-a-lago-new-years-eve/index.html
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/01/politics/mar-a-lago-new-years-eve/index.html
This is some wild shit about The Beach Boys, had no idea this had become of them. I went to grade school with I think Brain Wilson's kid? Wonder how he's doing. Edit - nope wasn't Brian Wilson, it was one of the other ones.
Wow that's nuts. I thought they Got The Band Back Together when they released that new album a few years ago, I assume things deteriorated again since then? Or was Mike Love not part of that
Fake edit: Oh my god, That's Why God Made the Radio came out in 2012? Fuck meeeee
Wow that's nuts. I thought they Got The Band Back Together when they released that new album a few years ago, I assume things deteriorated again since then? Or was Mike Love not part of that
Fake edit: Oh my god, That's Why God Made the Radio came out in 2012? Fuck meeeee
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With these Z listers, it's always a question of if they're doing it for the pay or they're insane enough to actually love Trump.
Everyone in the crowd looks like miserable milquetoasts.
Giuliani, Trump Jr. among guests at Mar-a-Lago New Year's party ditched by Trump: report
thehill.com
Giuliani, Trump Jr. among guests at Mar-a-Lago New Year’s party ditched by Trump: report
President Trump’s two adult sons and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani were reportedly among the guests at a New Year’s Eve party at the president’s Mar-a-Lago club, which the president himself d…
thehill.com
To clear up the Beach Boys situation:
Band had 5 original members.
Brian Wilson
Carl Wilson
Dennis Wilson
Al Jaradine
Mike Love
Dennis Wilson died in 1983. After Carl Wilson died in 1998, Mike Love got a court order giving him exclusive rights to use the bands name, during the 50th anniversary in 2012 he let Al Jaradine and Brian Wilson back into the band, they recorded an album and toured together, I saw them on this tour and enjoyed it a lot.
Brian hadn't been a tour ingmember of the group since the 60s so it was awesome to see him play in the band again. A few months after I saw them together, Mike kick Brian and Al out of the band since he didn't want to pay them, he had a couple concerts canceled on him by a promoter since he had booked the shows with the reunion group advertised and the promoter wasn't happy about being tricked
Mike Love is a shitty trump supporter so fuck him. Brian Wilson and Al Jaradine are cool dudes and have toured together ever since, while they legally can't use the Beach Boys name for all intents and purposes they are the real Beach Boys. I hope once we're past the pandemic I get the chance to see them again in concert, this time without shitty Mike Love.
Band had 5 original members.
Brian Wilson
Carl Wilson
Dennis Wilson
Al Jaradine
Mike Love
Dennis Wilson died in 1983. After Carl Wilson died in 1998, Mike Love got a court order giving him exclusive rights to use the bands name, during the 50th anniversary in 2012 he let Al Jaradine and Brian Wilson back into the band, they recorded an album and toured together, I saw them on this tour and enjoyed it a lot.
Brian hadn't been a tour ingmember of the group since the 60s so it was awesome to see him play in the band again. A few months after I saw them together, Mike kick Brian and Al out of the band since he didn't want to pay them, he had a couple concerts canceled on him by a promoter since he had booked the shows with the reunion group advertised and the promoter wasn't happy about being tricked
Mike Love is a shitty trump supporter so fuck him. Brian Wilson and Al Jaradine are cool dudes and have toured together ever since, while they legally can't use the Beach Boys name for all intents and purposes they are the real Beach Boys. I hope once we're past the pandemic I get the chance to see them again in concert, this time without shitty Mike Love.
Vanilla Ice tried to circumvent and use a loophole to hold a concert in Austin not long ago so of course he's here.
I thought this was a dope bar, but then realized you're just posting.
Are you telling me that the corny-ass pop-rapper of the early nineties who then transitioned into being the corny-ass rap-rocker of the early 2000's may in fact be an artistically mercenary shit-heel who will ride the bandwagon of any social/political movement that will give him a spotlight? I am both shocked and appalled.
There are basically two "the beach boys".
Mike Love and Bruce Johnston are touring under the beach boys name.
And Brian Wilson and Al Jardine are touring under their own names.
