On the heels of the majestic Sunflower and a visual rehabilitation campaign, an appearance at 1970's Big Sur Folk Festival was a calculated effort for The Beach Boys to endear themselves with broader counterculture appeal. Sans Dennis Wilson who was off filming the cult movie Two-Lane Blacktop, California's native sons delivered an excellent seat featuring predominantly material from Pet Sounds onward, perhaps a prophetic rehabilitation of infamously dropping out of 1967's landmark Monterey Pop Festival at the very same venue. Despite all the vault-emptying archival box releases out of the band's camp over the . . .
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