Beach Boys' Bruce Johnston says you're "fucked" if "asshole" Obama gets a second term. Fun Fun Fun!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

By Rolling Stone
May 11, 2012 11:55 AM ET
Bruce Johnston
Larry Busacca/Getty Images For The Recording Academy



http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beach-boys-bruce-johnston-blasts-obama-20120511

The Beach Boys' Bruce Johnston had some heated words for President Obama while signing autographs for fans in New York on May 10th, according to TMZ.

"Obama? Unless you're interested in never having any money," said Johnston in a video clip when asked about the President. Johnston reportedly called Obama "an asshole" and suggested the president was a Socialist, but the exact quotes are hard to decipher from the clip.

Johnston was also unhappy with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, asking fans, "And who's the Republican asshole? Our guy isn't any good."

He finished with a barb towards a fan expressing support for Obama. "Wait until Obama doesn't have to try anymore," said Johnston. "You're fucked."

[bigwillq]

1. It's a free country.

Johnston is free to say what he wants.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Didn't say he wasn't.

If you think I did, point it out to me. The exact quote.

[DevonRex]

4. +1 nt

[bigwillq]

5. I didn't.

I am just expressing my opinion on the subject.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Yes you did

In your post. Somewhere. You did. Have you no shame? Why do you hate freedom?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. OK, you're right, I admit it. Here is the hidden subliminal text I planted in my original post.

I've beern busted by you and bigwillq...two proud and perceptive Americans.

Beach Boys' Bruce Johnston says you're "fucked" if "asshole" Obama gets a second term. Fun Fun Fun!

By Rolling Stone
May 11, 2012 11:55 AM ET
Bruce Johnston
Larry Busacca/Getty Images For The Recording Academy

[font color="red"]*****BEGIN SUPER-SECRET SUBLIMINAL TEXT HERE*****

Hi, this is Amerigo Vespucci, and this is the portion of the post you CANNOT read UNLESS you are wearing your special DU Super Secret Subliminal Goggles©, or you are simpy SO BRILLIANT and PERCEPTIVE that you can READ and COMPREHEND words that, for the other 99.9% of the population, DO NOT EVEN APPEAR ON THIS PAGE.

YES, I DO have an agenda in this post, and it is to DENY Bruce Johnston his right to FREE SPEECH! It's not the idea that I DISAGREE with him...I just feel like messing with Bruce Johnston. After all, he wrote Barry Manilow's "I Write The Songs," and for that reason alone, he should be denied ALL of his rights.

So please respond to my post CONDEMNING Bruce Johnston as a human being, as a musician, and I PRAY TO GOD bigwillq isn't reading this post, because if there is ANYONE on DU smart and perceptive enough to discover my SUPER SECRET HIDDEN AGENDA, it is bigwillq. If bigwillq sees this thread, I will most vertainly be exposed for the fraud that I am. He truly is SMARTER and more PERCEPTIVE than ALL of us put together.

That is all. Remember to vote for Mitt Romney in November.

*****END SUPER-SECRET SUBLIMINAL TEXT*****[/font]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beach-boys-bruce-johnston-blasts-obama-20120511

The Beach Boys' Bruce Johnston had some heated words for President Obama while signing autographs for fans in New York on May 10th, according to TMZ.

"Obama? Unless you're interested in never having any money," said Johnston in a video clip when asked about the President. Johnston reportedly called Obama "an asshole" and suggested the president was a Socialist, but the exact quotes are hard to decipher from the clip.

Johnston was also unhappy with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, asking fans, "And who's the Republican asshole? Our guy isn't any good."

He finished with a barb towards a fan expressing support for Obama. "Wait until Obama doesn't have to try anymore," said Johnston. "You're fucked."

[Cali_Democrat]

16. ROFL!!!

Happy Friday

[DevonRex]

19. Hahaha. nt

[Arugula Latte]

22. Aaahh ha ha!

Amerigo, here's to you:

[Voice for Peace]

23. I can read that, and have to say I'm proud of you for fessing up

your true agenda. Few have the guts.

[bigwillq]

24. See. I knew it!!

LOL

Ha Ha Great post.

[DevonRex]

33. ...

for having a great sense of humor. with you. Hey, we should have a group smiley

[Amerigo Vespucci]

39. I'm man enough to admit when I've been caught red-handed. Well played, sir.

[Ikonoklast]

54. Secret hidden 'red' script; admits to being caught 'red-handed'....

Methinks I am starting to see just where your Commie loyalties lie, while trying to stifle the Free Speech Rights of a RED-BLOODED AMERICAN.

Funny how you never got around to mentioning that use of your Commie color.




Just who is your 'handler' here?



Probably some poster from Cooking & Baking.

Never trusted that lot.

Bunch of subversive radicals.

[DevonRex]

56. I NEVER go into cooking and baking.

oops

[Amerigo Vespucci]

59. They'll CUT you over there...

...then they'll BAKE you. They don't mess around. They expect you to read the sign over the door BEFORE you enter.

[Mika]

27. This is classic DU.

Thanks, Amerigo Vespucci, for the reminder of what makes DU so special.

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[HarveyDarkey]

28. Nicely done

LMFAO

[zeemike]

38. Where can I get me some of those glasses...

I wanna see it too....Just think of all the great stuff i miss without them...

[JustAnotherGen]

44. Ha!

[hifiguy]

48. LOL

One more example of the sooper-secret technology developed for Project, well, you know...

[redqueen]

57. LMAO!

I'd love to use something like that the next time someone reads a whole load of random crap into one of my posts. Some people seem to find me an irresistible subject to practice their nonexistent mind-reading talents on.

[tinymontgomery]

66. Where do I get the glasses?

Can't believe I haven't been able to find them. Do I need secret glasses to find the super secret glasses?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

67. Super. They've GOT to be SUPER.

Trust me, I wasted $29.95 on the "secret" glasses and I was STILL missing out on MOST of the good stuff.

[Serve The Servants]

80. DU Super Secret Subliminal Goggles?!?

Holy crap! I need those.

No wonder I haven't been able to figure out just what the Hell "Beer and travel money" means.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

81. !!!!!!!! special DU Super Secret Subliminal Goggles© !!!!!!! this is what DUers wear when they read

self deleted messages and can determine the entire conversation from one half of the replies. DUers are smart like that, yanno.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

83. LOL.

A nice spankin'

[southernyankeebelle]

14. Even though he has the right to say what he wants he still lost me as a fan. It was

disrespectful period. Obama isn't perfect but he sure is no socialist.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. Dementia, Delirium, and willful political ignorance, also contribute greatly.

[CreekDog]

55. I'm not listening to anybody wearing a leather jacket with a Hawaiian shirt

[Politicalboi]

6. Bitch Boys

They copied their sound from Jan and Dean. And were just a pop band with shitty music.

[Mutiny In Heaven]

9. Actually

They were Beach Boy collaborators and worked extensively with Brian Wilson.

Wilson at his best is genius and also a very vulnerable man, so it's kind of a shame to see him reunite with idiots like Mike Love and Johnston, who treated him poorly.

[hifiguy]

12. Indeed. Brian Wilson was the single greatest talent of

the rock era. Lennon and McCartney had each other and George Martin. Brian had, well, Brian.

Also, Brian wrote songs for Jan & Dean and produced a few of their records. They were all buds back in the day.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

18. Johnston was hired because Brian "wasn't available" to tour.

I've always considered Johnston to be a hack at best. He's spent the last couple of decades playing Mr. Smithers to Mike Love's Mr. Burns as the two of them...and NO OTHER ORIGINAL MEMBERS...toured state fairs, casinos, and wineries as the oldies act known as "The Beach Boys."

I've always considered Johnston to be a lucky barnacle on the hull of the good ship Beach Boys. I didn't develop that attitude because of his Pbama remarks. I've never cared for him, period.

[sufrommich]

10. Good Lord, not even close. Just because

one of The Beach Boys is an asshole,doesn't take away the incredible contribution Brian Wilson has made to music through the Beach Boys. Yeesh.

[southernyankeebelle]

20. They were one of my favorite bands way back when. But they have lost that touch. Time

to retire.

[Zambero]

31. They did retire. This is their obligatory 50th anniversary reunion tour.

Hopefully after this they will call it a day.

"Pet Sounds" is awesome by the way.

[rug]

8. Be still

[Zambero]

32. One of Dennis Wilson's first compositions

He is missed, as is Carl.

[Capt. Obvious]

11. News?

Let me know when he drops dead. Only time a Beach Boy should be in the news

[Zambero]

15. Bruce the beach boy (Small "b's" emphasized)

Johnston is a born silver-spooner (and consumate one-percenter) whose musical career consisting of B-grade early 60's car songs would have faded out decades ago had he not gotten the call to be an onstage stand-in for Brian Wilson, who had retired as a touring member in 1965. Oh, I almost forgot that he wrote Barry Manilow's "I Write the Songs". Great stuff, huh? Bruce does not have a rock & roll bone in his body, and contributes nothing noteworthy to the band's repertoire ("Disney Girls" was a tragic waste of vinyl groove space and almost ruined the "Surfs Up" album). Given his recent remarks, it comes as no surprise that he has been able to co-exist with fellow asshole Mike Love as part of their bogus Beach Boys road show during the past 15 years or so. At least Love has an arguable degree of talent, as a lyricist, front man, and key element of the classic BB's vocal blend. Why bring all of this up? Because by virtue of being there Johnston was in a position to spout out his stupid remarks, and not because he is a Beach Boy of any standing as are the other 4 performing members on the current tour. For remaining dates, I'm hoping that Johnston gets a loud chorus of well-deserved boos during the band intros. Some in the audience may well believe that he is indeed "fucked".

[Amerigo Vespucci]

26. He's a Beach BOY among Beach MEN...LMAO! n/t

[hifiguy]

49. Johnston and Love touring as the "Beach Boys"

with no other real members is like Ringo recruiting some buddies and touring as "The Beatles."

[Zambero]

52. Ringo's too honest to attempt that

Every couple of years he goes out on tour with "Ringo's All Stars", featuring a different line-up of rock star "who's who's" from the 60's, 70's and 80's.

[hifiguy]

53. True - which is why it's "Ringo's All-Starr Band"

He has toured with some heavyweights, including Jack Bruce, Gary Brooker of Procol Harum, Peter Frampton and other top-shelf musicians.

[LadyHawkAZ]

17. That's funny

I thought Obama wanted to give away money! Because that's what Socialists *do*, right?! If he's giving us all money, how will we never have any money?

I'm confused now. Who's got the Kool-Aid? Hit it and pass it, dude.

[zeemike]

21. I tired of the beach boy sound after about the third time I heard it.

Which is longer than it took me to tire of the suffer scene...and all those idiot surfer movies...
Besides there was really much better music coming out at that time..fare better and far more memorable.

[sufrommich]

68. The Beach Boys were the first surfer band to leave surfer

music behind.They were also the only surfer band to do it successfully,nothing they did after 1966 would be considered "surf music".There would be no Sgt. Peppers without Pet Sounds,ask Paul McCartney. Most musicians of that era would disagree with your assessment.

[zeemike]

69. I am just telling you what I thought as a consumer.

I tired of the music quickly...
But it was the technical part that influenced SPLHCB...not the sound...and that took music in a whole different way and it did not sound like the Beach Boys.

[sufrommich]

71. "It was Pet Sounds that blew me out of the water.

I love the album so much. I've just bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life ... I figure no one is educated musically 'til they've heard that album ... I love the orchestra, the arrangements ... it may be going overboard to say it's the classic of the century ... but to me, it certainly is a total, classic record that is unbeatable in many ways ... I've often played Pet Sounds and cried. I played it to John so much that it would be difficult for him to escape the influence ... it was the record of the time. The thing that really made me sit up and take notice was the bass lines ... and also, putting melodies in the bass line. That I think was probably the big influence that set me thinking when we recorded Pepper, it set me off on a period I had then for a couple of years of nearly always writing quite melodic bass lines. "God Only Knows" is a big favorite of mine ... very emotional, always a bit of a choker for me, that one. On "You Still Believe in Me", I love that melody - that kills me ... that's my favorite, I think ... it's so beautiful right at the end ... comes surging back in these multi-colored harmonies ... sends shivers up my spine." - Paul McCartney

"I consider Pet Sounds to be one of the greatest pop LPs to ever be released. It encompasses everything that's ever knocked me out and rolled it all into one." - Eric Clapton

[zeemike]

73. I went to youtube and listen to both of them again

And I don't like it any better now than I did then....I guess it is just me....but it is the sound that is tiresome to me. and every song has that same sound.
And at the time there were much more interesting music out there than that...coming out of Motown and from across the waves.
And those songs had soul and variety.

[panader0]

74. I was never a big fan of the Beach Boys. I went to high school in Honolulu (class of '68)

and every Friday night was surf movies at Roosevelt High. Great stuff, Bud Brown, Bruce Brown, on stage with a stereo record player, narrating the movie. Every good surfer in town was there. 'Slippery when Wet'., 'Surfing Hollow Days', man that was fun times.
You must be refering to the Annette Funicello style movies.......

[zeemike]

75. Yep...and the Gidget ones.

they were a waste of film....like most of the Elvis ones.

[hlthe2b]

25. He's a damned poseur. Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, and Al Jardine ARE

and always will be the Beach Boys.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

34. I look at the "reunion" a few different ways.

First, David Marks? He bailed out VERY early in the game (February 1962 to October 1963). He performed on the albums Surfin' Safari (1962), Surfin' USA (1963), Surfer Girl (1963), and Little Deuce Coupe (1963). He may have been one of the "original members," but you can bet your bottom dollar that if Dennis and Carl were still alive, he wouldn't have gotten his invitation in the mail. With two Wilson brothers down, he has marquee value. As far as his being a creative force in the band, that never happened.

Second, without Dennis and Carl, it's really not a reunion. ESPECIALLY Carl. Brian may have been the "creative genius" behind the band, but Carl was the heart and soul.

Third, Brian's band "The Wondermints" is INFINITELY better than the Mike Love / Bruce Johnston edition of "The Beach Boys." In the IDEAL sense, the "reunion" would have been Brian, Dennis Carl, Al Jardine, Mike Love, and any members of The Wondermints needed to fill in the sound. Instead, we got Mike, Bruce, and John Stamos.

Fourth, at least Brian gets to put his stamp on "The Beach Boys" one final time, and Al Jardine...royally and unfairly screwed over by multiple lawsuits from Mike Love...gets one final Beach Boys payday. Let's hope he deposits / invests the money wisely.

[Zambero]

47. How Carl Wilson got into guitar, etc.

David Marks lived across the street from the Wilson clan in Hawthorne. At the age of 12, Marks began taking rock & roll guitar lessons from local musician John Maus, who later went on to greater glory as one of the Walker Brothers. Carl heard Marks playing and got bitten by the rock & roll bug, and on Marks' recommendation Carl was also tutored by Maus. So Carl and David became guitar jamming buddies and developed their own cohesive sound before the Beach Boys even existed. During this time, Brian was into the Four Freshmen sound and their intricate vocal harmonies. Dennis had not even expressed a musical interest, until he suggested that Brian write a song about surfing, which turned out to be "Surfin", a regional top 40 hit. Marks was not even on that record (Al Jardine was but he quit the group shortly thereafter). Brian eventually had the good sense to incorporate Carl & David's more aggressive rock & roll element with his own pop-oriented songwriting. Finally Brian honed his bass skills and Dennis learned drums, and the Beach Boys sound was born. Manager Murray insisted that Carl be the lead player, but they both traded leads onstage and by all accounts were a top notch performing band during this time. With his brief time in the band, David Marks tends to get overlooked but his musical influence in developing the BB's sound is on par with the others (an he's a damn fine guitarist going all the way back).

[Zambero]

40. As is David Marks

He was there on the first 4 albums during the classic "Surf & Car Song" era, and his formidable guitar skills along with fellow axe-man Carl Wilson made them a a live surf band to be reckoned with, albeit briefly. After Marks quit in late '63 (he didn't get along with manager Murray Wilson), Alan Jardine rejoined and was the better vocalist but basically a strummer on guitar.

[ascrodin]

85. As a die hard BBs fan, the ignorance bugs me...but I'm used to it.

THANK YOU for giving props to Dave Marks. He and (guess who???) Bruce Johnston are the only two BBs that are classically trained musicians. The difference being Bruce was a rich kid who got the classical training as just another aspect of his privileged upbringing, and Dave, after being out of the Beach Boys for 8 years and struggling in several bands that went nowhere (Dave and the Marksmen, Band Without a Name, the Moon, a VERY brief, 2 weeks at most, stint with Delaney and Bonnie before being replaced by none other than Eric Clapton-Marks also turned down an offer to join Paul Revere and the Raiders), had to figuratively beg the Berklee School of Music and later the Boston Conservatory to let him in.

[Greybnk48]

29. The Beach Boys were never known for their intellect.

They were known for their music which I love to this day. Their political opinions, I would say, are not worth much if anything so why repeat them.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

35. Dennis "made friends" with Charlie Manson...

...and Charlie's "family" gave the clap to the entire band.

One night Dennis came home and found all of his furniture rearranged. There was a note from Charlie that said "We did this just to show you that we could."

[Greybnk48]

76. Wow! You know I remember that there was some connection

between the Beach Boys and the Manson Family. This was when they were all heavily into drugs. I don't know if it was mentioned in the papers, or the book Helter Skelter, which I read a few years after. I don't remember this detail, just a vague connection. They did a made-for-tv movie about the band and it may have been alluded to there. Scary, huh?

[vankuria]

78. If my memory serves me right

Dennis Wilson was friends with Charlie and used to hang out at the Manson ranch. Charlie wanted to get into the music scene and Dennis arranged for him to audition for Terry Mercer ( son of Doris Day) a record producer. Terry and his girlfriend at the time Candace Bergen lived in the same home as Sharon Tate and Roman Polansky having rented it previously. Mercer was not interested in Charlie's music and blew him off. At some point he returned to Mercer's home and was not treated kindly. When Charlie set out on his deadly rampage with his followers he targeted Terry Mercer but by this time it was rented by the Polanski's.

That's how I remembered it, from a book I read.

[ascrodin]

84. Correction...

That's Terry MELCHER.

[vankuria]

86. Yes, thank-you!

[liberal N proud]

30. Anyone who is 70 years old and still calls themselves a boy can't be taken seriously

Time to grow up Bruce.

[SidDithers]

36. What's his DU name?...nt

Sid

[Arugula Latte]

43. I think it might be RucebayOhnsonjay

Veeeeeery sneaky!

[lpbk2713]

37. Another entertainer who wants to keep every penny he's got.

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"I got mine. The hell with rest rest of you."


Ed: (snap) ... I know what it is. His feelings are hurt because
he wasn't invited to George Clooney's dinner party.




[big] "WAAAH!! No fair!!" [/big]

[Solomon]

65. I was about to say, another rich guy without enough

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money.

[GoCubsGo]

41. Hey, asshole...

I had money until the republicans took over. And, if they get control again, I anticipate losing what little of everything else I have that is left.

You want to see "fucked", Bruce? Look in the mirror. You're about as fucked up as it gets.

[Johonny]

42. and yet I've made more money under Obama than any other president

I must be doing something wrong?

I totally agree if Obama loses and doesn't have to try any more than under President Romney "I'm totally fuck'd".

[msongs]

45. it's NOT the beach boys if there are no Wilson brothers in it. btw Johnston is the talentless one nt

[Zambero]

50. Brian Wilson is indeed part of the reunion

THEE Wilson Brother, although there is no replacing Dennis and Carl.
So that begs the question, since Johnston was originally hired on as an onstage stand-in for Brian, what's the point of including him for this tour?

[HughBeaumont]

46. Oh dear God, Bruce. So what ARE we going to be if that slappy fuck Romney gets elected?

I suppose The Luckiest Coattail-Rider Ever Bruce will be just fine.

I think the term for the rest of us will be "impaled and sliding down ass-first on boiling hot spikes".

[hatrack]

51. Jesus, did Nick Nolte get busted for DUI again?

[okieinpain]

58. the funny stuff is they all say he's socialist but they

haven't lost anything. so they say wait till he doesn't have to run for re-election. then when those four years are up they will be saying that hillary is a socialist and we'll all lose our guns, money and freedom. I'm pretty sure they will start saying that four years of president hillary will make president obama look like president reagan. lol.

when you sit down and think about it, it's really sad that people are that ignorant.

[SammyWinstonJack]

77. More selfish and greedy then ignorant....imo.

[Initech]

60. Well I wanted to see the Beach Boys reunion this year.

Guess I'll be crossing them off my list!

[frylock]

61. shouldn't this asshole be getting ready for his next state fair or post-baseball game gig?

first off, you're not even an original member, so nobody really gives two shits what you have to say, dickwad. secondly, you're 100 years old and playing state fairs because, evidently, you have no other life skills. so fuck you, you irrelevant piece of excrement.

[CreekDog]

62. Well the irony is that he created Barry's Manilow's biggest hit

and added nothing that a session player couldn't have done for the Beach Boys.

everything you like about the Beach Boys is because of people other than Bruce Johnston.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

63. On TMZ, he said Reagan was a great man

In all reality, this great man pulled The Beach Boys of their annual July 4 show and replaced them with Wayne Newton.

[Solly Mack]

64. Who?

[G_j]

82. +100

[mac56]

70. I'm picking up bad vibrations.

[spanone]

72. johnston wasn't an original member to begin with....and fuck you bruce

you boys need to hang it up, i saw you in your hey day and you suck now.

[donheld]

79. He wrote the songs

that made the whole world sing.