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The Beach Boys
1974-06-14
Nassau Coliseum
Uniondale, NY
FM Broadcast
320 kbps
Artwork Included
CD 1:
01. Wouldn't It Be Nice
02. Sail On Sailor
03. Funky Pretty
04. Marcella
05. California
06. We Got Love
07. Little Deuce Coupe
08. Trader
09. All This Is That
10. Feel Flows
11. Surfer Girl
12. God Only Knows
13. Heroes And Villains
CD 2:
01. Don't Worry Baby
02. Sloop John B
03. Help Me Rhonda
04. I Get Around
05. Good Vibrations
06. California Girls
07. Barbara Ann*
08. Surfin' USA*
09. Fun Fun Fun**
*with Elton John
**with Paul Simon
According to several sources, the Beach Boys, the ultimate summer band, were actually scheduled to headline and close the concert that epitomized the Summer of Love, the Monterrey Pop Festival. Brian Wilson was part of the of festivals advisory board, along with Paul McCartney, that had helped conceive the event. The band pulled out of the show however, for a host of reasons. Carl Wilson was in a feud with government officials for his refusal to be drafted into military service during the Vietnam War. In addition, the band feared that their older, surf music wouldn't play to the counter-culture crowd. the band had no new materiel because they had aborted work on Smile, an album Brian had hoped would rival discs such as Rubber Soul and Revolver. Brian suffered a nervous breakdown in the process, as the workload coupled with his dependence of drugs, keft him mentally and emotionally scarred. He could barely take care of himself, let alone play live in front of hundreds of thousands of fans. Smile would become , however, another element in 1967's legacy. as over the next 5 decades years, the legends surrounding the disc grew until it became possibly the most famous unreleased album in the history of popular music. In any event, ths FM broadcast captures the Beach Boys 7 years later, at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale Ny on June 14, 1974, 43 years ago today.
6 comments:
Thanks especially for this. This is likely one of the best lineups of the group to have played and they were still committed to performing new music. Smile would eventually be released in 2004 by Brian alone, and a huge box set covering all sessions would come out three years later.
Tony - thanks for sharing! And I appreciate all your kind words!
Really looking forward to this - it's got some rare songs like "Feel Flows" that I don't think they do live anymore. Thank you!
Thanks for the show, You cant have summer with out these guys.
The Accountant
Hi, may I ask you to revive this link?
@Tony - new link is up - enjoy, my friend!
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