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It\u2019s hard to find anyone in the music industry who seemed as in love with creating as Brian Wilson<\/a> did. <\/p>\n Even though anyone else would have considered Wilson to be one of the almighty gods of rock that made everyone think about the genre in a different way, Wilson felt that every single song he ever made was done in service of him trying to make the best tunes that he could find. He was only happy to have written them and not focus on the showmanship of it all, but that\u2019s easier said than done when he was a part of the biggest concert draws of the 1960s.<\/p>\n The Beach Boys weren\u2019t going to quit performing live just because their musical genius didn\u2019t want to perform anymore, and the plan of them going out on tour while Wilson cut most of their records wasn\u2019t exactly a terrible idea. That way, Wilson could have a way to air out all of his creative ambition, and the rest of the band could show up in a few months and be able to sing to their heart\u2019s content in the studio before going back out on the road.<\/p>\n Except there is one fly in the ointment here. You see, Wilson was the kind of person who wanted to experiment with anything and everything, and while that was all well and good, that doesn\u2019t present a bit of a problem when everyone wants the same formula. Any other band usually likes to fight back against those who are trying to keep them in their place, but that kind of issue was also Wilson\u2019s main problem with Mike Love.<\/p>\n Suffice to say, Love wasn\u2019t exactly thrilled over the idea of making such upbeat music suddenly be about drugs, and given that Brian wanted to make the best music he could, Love turned into another stumbling block for him. He had to rewrite all of the lyrics to a song like \u2018I Know There\u2019s An Answer\u2019 to make sure that satisfied Love, but that wasn\u2019t the first time that the frontman would insert himself into places where he didn\u2019t belong.<\/p>\n By the time that Wilson was out of the picture in the 1970s, the band had become a nostalgia act, and Love had decided to turn them into one of the more embarrassing casualties of the Love generation. Wilson\u2019s troubled period with Eugene Landy<\/a> was no picnic in the slightest, but the idea of him going along with whatever Love wanted to do and having the frontman insist on having a certain amount of time at the front of the stage wasn\u2019t the kind of band that he wanted to form back in the day.<\/p>\n So by the time that Wilson reached his twilight years, he didn\u2019t really have many kind words left to say to Love for the rest of his career, saying<\/a>, \u201cI don\u2019t like Mike Love at all because I don\u2019t like his attitude. He\u2019s just too egotistical. I can\u2019t be around the guy. Five minutes around him is about all I can take.\u201d And even then, getting them all together again seemed to be pushing it after a while. <\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/strong><\/p>\n That\u2019s Why God Made the Radio\u00a0was a decent way for them to wrap up their career together, but it\u2019s not like Love has been the easiest person to deal with, either. He was the one who insisted that he be given a co-write on a song like \u2018Wouldn\u2019t It Be Nice\u2019<\/a> despite not writing any words and coming up with only one tag at the end of the song, and even when working on some of the band\u2019s masterpieces with Van Dyke Parks, Love would want to rip the lyricist\u2019s work up if he found out some of them were drug-related.<\/p>\n Love does get a bit more points for being the spirit of the band whenever they play live, but there\u2019s not exactly a warm heart hiding underneath that sun visor hat. Wilson was always the soul of the band in many ways, and while Love could still churn out the hits every single summer, it wasn\u2019t like the rest of the band was all that thrilled at how Wilson was treated by their leader. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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