On the heels of the majestic Sunflower and a carefully managed image rehabilitation campaign, The Beach Boys’ appearance at 1970’s Big Sur Folk Festival was a calculated effort to align themselves with the counterculture. Sans Dennis Wilson, off filming Two-Lane Blacktop, California’s native sons delivered an excellent set drawn largely from Pet Sounds onward — a quiet corrective to their infamous withdrawal from 1967’s Monterey Pop Festival. Despite years of archival excavations from the band’s vaults, the performance remains officially unreleased . . .
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