It was a moment of bittersweet vibrations. That was the mood when the Beach Boys frontman Mike Love was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday night. The enshrinement at New York’s Marriott Marquis came just one day after it was confirmed that his brilliant bandmate — and cousin — Brian Wilson died at 82.

“Mike and I were together when I got the text, and I had to tell him,” Stamos said through tears. “Without Brian Wilson, life would be a mistake.”