From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
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   Jan Dean   wrote:   
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   >elaich wrote:   
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   >> BTW, Brian is dead right about Monterey in '67. The Beach Boys would have   
   >> stuck out like sore thumbs there. That crowd came to watch guitars burn,   
   >> not to hear vocal harmony. Someone who did not live through that period can   
   >> never appreciate the amount of hatred the hippie types had for the kind of   
   >> stuff the Beach Boys did.   
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   >Not so.   
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   >I lived through that period.   
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   >The "hippie types" would have loved to hear something as clever and   
   >intricate as "Good Vibrations" performed live, note perfect.   
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   >The problem was, the Beach Boys in 1967 was simply not a very good live   
   >band.  They could no longer rely on screaming teeny boppers drowning out   
   >their flubs.   
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   >The band was unable to reproduce the sound of its records live on stage,   
   >especially since Wilson was utilizing the cream of L.A. studio cats to   
   >play the backing tracks.   
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   I was only 6 back then and not seeing any rock shows, but they sound pretty   
   good to me on the "Leied in Hawaii" rehersal stuff, and absolutely great   
   on the 69 Live in London album.  Were they really sloppy in the Monterey   
   time frame?   
      
   				Ted   
      
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