General Discussion

...who see the Mike Love "Beach Boys" AS "THE BEACH BOYS."

Had a friend in California like that. He went to the Saratoga Winery and saw the Love covers band and told me "I saw the Beach Boys last night."

And, since he was my friend, I just smiled and said "No, you didn't."

His anger with the Brian Wilson Pet Sounds era and beyond is well documented.

And, it's ironic, because I saw an interview with Brian, in which he described Pet Sounds as his desire to start moving beyond "songs about cars and girls," and Love whittled the band's catalog down to nothing but those songs.

Bands "getting their name back" is the ultimate vindication.

Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman just did it with "The Guess Who."

Several years before he died, Paul Kantner did it with "Jefferson Starship."

I'd say any ACTUAL fan of The Beach Boys knows the Mike Love band is NOT "The Beach Boys," regardless of his ownership of the name.