Uncanny

LITTLE PAD Goldmine: Did you like [Brian Wilson's] first solo album?
Mike Love: No.

Goldmine: You didn't like it?
Mike Love: Fuck no.

Goldmine: What didn't you like about it?
Mike Love: First of all the lyrics. Second of all the arrangements weren't commercial enough. Third of all it sounded like shit compared to what he could sound like.

Goldmine: That brings up the song "Hang On To Your Ego," which was going to be on Pet Sounds.
Mike Love: That used to be "Hang On To Your Ego" and then it became "I Know There's An Answer." I changed the lyrics because I thought it was too acid for me. That was those guys doing acid, Van Dyke Parks, and Brian and Tony Asher.

Goldmine: So I guess there's no chance for a book?
Mike Love: Who would want to take the fucking time to go through garbage like that just to rectify garbage. What I want is Brian to admit and say that half that stuff he said in his book is outrageous bullshit. And it was because of his paranoid delusions that he came up with this stuff that's not factual, number one. Number two is, yes, Mike Love wrote this and this. And if he actually does not forget, I can have witnesses to say, or we can have a lie detector test brought to bear, then let's go.

I just want to have it be fair. That's the one thing that I'd like to have is a little bit of fairness because he's been very unfair to the rest of the group over the years. Now Brian is very ingenious. You want to like him, you want to feel sorry for him because he's destroyed his life. I mean, who wouldn't feels sorry for a guy who is very gifted and destroyed his life? But the untold story is that he's selfish, he's defrauded his cousin. He's cheated his group. He's been taking money and has not performed. The intent of his getting money to have therapy was not for him to do two solo albums and write a book defaming individuals and the group. The guy has mental problems. The thing is, he's crazy. He's a genius but he nuts so a lot of things he imagines like the two-by-four his father was supposed to be beating him with, that's delusions.

[Brian] wouldn't fuck with anybody else but he screwed me over royally.