Lei'd in Hawaii
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| Live album unreleased by The Beach Boys | ||||
| Recorded | August 25–September 11, 1967 | |||
| Venue | Hawaii (August 25–26) | |||
| Studio | Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles (September 11) | |||
| Label | Brother (projected) | |||
| Producer | Brian Wilson | |||
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Lei'd in Hawaii is an unreleased live album by American rock band the Beach Boys featuring performances recorded by the group in August and September 1967 after the completion of their twelfth studio album Smiley Smile (1967). Some of these recordings have seen release on subsequent compilation albums, box sets, and bootleg recordings.
Shortly after the band shelved Smile, dropped out from the Monterey Pop Festival, and completed recording of the imminent Smiley Smile, they scheduled two performances in Hawaii that would be released on Brother Records as a live album and possibly a concert film. Difficulties arose around this time. Member Bruce Johnston refused to travel for the reason that "it had all got too weird." To alleviate this, Brian Wilson was persuaded into making the trip, but only on the condition that he be allowed to bring his Baldwin organ, thus forcing bass guitar duties on Carl Wilson and Al Jardine per Johnston's absence despite neither possessing apt capabilities for the instrument. The band was also chronically under-rehearsed, adding new songs to their set list such as "Gettin' Hungry", "Heroes and Villains", and a cover of the Box Tops song "The Letter". Ultimately, the band performed too poorly for the material to be released, and the recording allegedly suffered technical problems that could not be fixed with overdubbing or other studio doctoring.
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