Mike Love just doesn't know when to quit. Any time his cousin, Brian Wilson, seems to find success, Love is there, lawsuit in hand. This time, Love has filed suit because he says Wilson promoted his remaking of Smile in a way that "shamelessly misappropriated Mike Love's songs, likeness and the Beach Boys trademark, as well as the Smile album itself," according to Billboard by way of the AP. Never mind the fact that Love stopped supporting Wilson's flights of creative fancy long before Smile's implosion. Hasn't Love wrung enough money from the Beach Boys and Wilson by now?

Actually, no. In between lawsuits, Love continues to tour with what he calls the Beach Boys Band, a travesty that features no Wilson brothers. Yes, this is the moral high ground on which Love stands. At issue in the suit is the creation and distribution of 2.6 million copies of a Beach Boys compilation given out with a British newspaper to promote Smile. Love's suit claims that the disc undercut sales of Beach Boys music. Sure, and Mike Love backed by a bar band playing under the name only bolsters that marketability, right?