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No, I agree with Dave. When you're putting out records like Wild Honey, Friends, 20/20 (in spite of the blatant #9 rip), Sunflower, et al, yeah, Surf's Up too, in 3-4 years, that's hardly oblivion. And some of those records sold respectably considering how out of vogue they became practically overnight. BW has always claimed that he likes Friends as much as any BBs album.

As a live act, that's a different story. I seem to remember reading that a 1968 show was played in front of 150 people. In Alabama or someplace like that? However, they kept at it, and since Wild Honey on the records weren't being made by outside musicians, their stage chops only got better. Within a couple of years they were once again a fairly prominent live act, playing presigious venues, if not arenas or stadiums. After American Graffiti's impact, their continuing success as a live act was virtually assured.

Wenner went out of his way to file them away into oblivion, but it didn't work since they were more than he judged them to be. Same with Hendrix, who was specifically anti-Beach Boys, and the hippie movement was conditioned to reject the BBs by some of the then-newly popular California guitar-based bands.

Crosby, Stills & Nash never backed off their love of the BBs. The Beatles led off the White Album with a BBs rip/tribute. Linda Ronstadt claims that BW has no equal in pop music in the 2nd half of the 20th Century. And on and on. BW did seem to pull some bizarre shit & was probably quite difficult at times given the mental problems & the drug abuse, but I think oblivion is incorrectly used here. Those recs are quite solid, and later absorbing Blondie Chaplin & Ricky Fataar was a good move too.

Although I don't think they ever really came back on the recording side, they still did manage hits (Sail On Sailor, Chuck Berry's Rock And Roll Music, etc.) nearly up to the point where they cashed in on Sunkist using Good Vibrations circa 1978.


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