I posted about this at length at TOP but Iâm more than happy to discuss again here.
As a huge fan of the The Beach Boys, Iâve been following this saga closely.
For those that donât know, these days the group that tours as The Beach Boys are founding member Mike Loveâs group. Heâs got an exclusive license with the bandâs corporation to use the name (he does tour with long time group member Bruce Johnston).
Brian Wilson tours under his own name with founding member Al Jardine and former member Blondie Chaplin but performs mostly BB material.
Yes, itâs a confusing mess. The history of the band and family dynamic between the Wilsons and cousin Mike is so unbelievable that a Hollywood scriptwriter would say, ânah thatâs just not plausible enoughâ. (Example: Dennis Wilson married and had a child with Mikeâs illegitimate daughter as payback for Mike taking out a restraining order on Dennis after they had a fistfight during a live show. Like sands through the hourglassâŚ)
Unsurprisingly, Mike and his group performed the show. He could left it at that, but the subsequent message from his fan club president is some next level Trumpian bullshit (not surprising as Mike Love is a Trump supporter):
https://bbs.boingboing.net/uploads/short-url/sB4JFyi67s2AIgdIk8ISi3Ms9cr.pdf
Of note:
Mikeâs appearance performing at the SCI Convention is just that - a performance. The only message that he is sending is one of positivity and love. If people want to take this opportunity to gaslight others instead of focusing on the unifying message of the music, then all one can feel for them is sad.
Gotta love that, âif you donât like it, youâre just a snowflakeâ. Never mind the other two surviving founding members of the group with nothing to gain from a boycott spoke out against this.
His people could have just said, âas is standard in the industry, the band was contracted to do a private gig that paid good money and they were happy to oblige; the group does not endorse the organization or its beliefs.â It still would have been icky, but folks would have largely forgotten about it and moved on. In typical Trumpian fashion he chose to double down on the whole thing in the worst way possible.
Mike Love gets a lot of shit, and in all honesty a lot of it is undeserved. But he just makes it so damn easy to hate him with his absolutely uncompromising arrogance and unlimited capacity for assholery, and this is no exception. Even when heâs in the right, heâs such an insufferable and unrepentant asshole about everything that it just overshadows everything else. His infamous âdonât fuck with the formulaâ quote is actually making a reasonable statement, but in the context of everything else that was going on it just makes him look like the jerk thatâs stifling Brian Wilsonâs genius.
Yup.
I just find it amazing that theyâre still going. My parents listened to them growing up; I used to dance around to their 8-track tapes when I was a wee little lad. The thought that I could actually take my grandson to one of their concerts is kinda mind-blowing. They were already old when I was a child.
For band splits though, itâs not that unusual. One of the bands I liked, I think it was Faster Pussycat, not only split, but toured separately but at the same time, with both bands playing under the same name (and claiming rights to it), but rather different styles. So you wouldnât know what to expect if you went to one of their shows. I think they eventually worked it out, but for some years there were two different bands with the same name touring and playing rather different music, competing against each other.
I canât really imagine what thatâs like. A band at their height is as tight as married, and when they want to go in different directions that just shakes the foundations of it all. That some can just keep on doing it for generations after generations is really impressive.
Why didnât I know this before!
I think the knights include Jimmy Carter.
Same thing happened to Deforest Kelly.
Oh fuck. Night of the Lupus.
In other newsâŚ
Shouldnât that be âDetails Dribble Inâ given the low bit rate?
Another great headline: âItâs not just a space potato.â
Actually, hares are of the genus Lepus, whereas Lupus is the wolf species. And the autoimmune disease. But I quibble. 
But the only reason Iâm contributing this is that your statement got me to looking into rabbits and hares and whatnot. I found it rather hilarious that rabbits include a genera Bunolagus. Alas, that oneâs endangered.
later
I donât want none unless youâve got buns, hun.
If we hew just a little more closely to the original lyrics,
My anaconda donât want none
Unless youâve got buns, hun.
then Sir Mix-a-lotâs paean to prodigious posteriors becomes a slightly more sedate tale of a pet store experiencing supply chain woes such that they must send out âBun alertsâ when their stock of live feeder animals is replenished, and the conversation that then ensues between a store clerk and one of their customers with an (ahem) unusually large snake who has to reiterate that the typical pinkie mice are not going to satisfy their particular pet. 
See the changelog on the Wikipedia page EDIT Well I just noticed the person who posted at BB has the same name as the person who made the change at Wikipedia, so, not an independent source. This might be a never mind.
I canât speak to whether or not Cory left, but that gentleperson is nothing but a troll. Theyâve been stirring up trouble, poking and prodding at how things work, whoâs in charge, and arrogantly announcing their opinion as if it was gospel Truth. With any luck, theyâll be banned soon⌠I wouldnât trust them if they told me it was February (and theyâd say it as condescendingly as possible, too.)
I might just be a little biased, though.
(Someone at TOS mentioned Cory was involved with his bookâs adaptation, so he might be too busy for Boing Boing right now.)
(Edit to take out name, so if they Google themselves they wonât find us.)
That would be me. He moved to the USA mostly because of he was to be about for the movie production of Little Brother.
It is still in production so who knows how much is is involved. Also Coryâs last post was Feb 4th which is hardly a long absence unless you want to use âinternet timeâ.
Ah, thank you! I shouldâve done a thread search so I could cite you, but I got a mite upset.
No harm no foul.