From: jandean@surfcity.com   
      
   elaich wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Not so.   
      
   I lived through that period.   
      
   The "hippie types" would have loved to hear something as clever and   
   intricate as "Good Vibrations" performed live, note perfect.   
      
   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.   
      
   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.   
      
   If the Beach Boys had augmented the band with additional musicians --   
   Hal Blaine, Barney Kessel, Billy Strange, Glen Campbell, Leon Russell et   
   cetera -- and spent lots of time perfecting their vocals, singing all   
   the notes in tune and on key, they probably would have done just fine at   
   Monterey.   
      
   Don't forget that one of the main drawing cards of both the Association   
   and the Mamas and the Papas, acts which repectively opened and closed   
   the festival, was close, carefully arranged vocal harmony. As good as   
   the Assocation and the Mamas and Papas were, the Beach Boys, being such   
   old pros, could have shown them a thing or two about the art of group   
   harmony.   
      
   And they didn't HAVE to wear those damned striped shirts.   
      
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