Swinging 60s DVD - erm...

[The Shift]

Just watching the Swinging 60s: The Beach Boys DVD.

Amazing live footage of the band in London in 1967, playing live at the Hammersith Odeon, and quite an amazing set list.

Includes Lavender, Long Tall Texan, Luau, Surfin ... an amazing insight into the band at that time as it appears that in the wake of Pet Sounds they went right back to basics and... erm...

actually this is one of the worst DVD offerings about the Beach Boys I've seen (though there's plenty of almost eqully bad sh*t out there, I know).

It's the Peter Whitehead footage with overdubbed crowd applause and Lost & Found audio CD tracks, and other live audio, all badly (very badly) dubbed over the footage. A few overdubbed interviews with Carl sounding very jetlagged (or stoned), trying to make sense of his own answers.

Was Whitehead really such a bad film maker? Or is this just the sh*t someone picked up off the cutting room floor and sold to the DVD makers in a pub for a fiver? 

One of the bonus features is an approx 3 min docu-sort-of-thing with a tubby bloke presenting, outside the Apple and Abbey Road studios in London, blethering about the Beatles, Hendrix, the Stones and some other US band... oh yeah, the Beach Boys being there. 'Pparently the BBs were present for the Pepper and White Album sessions.  Other bonus tracks are very early BBs demos. Three of them.

When  ae we going to get this Whitehead stuff in good quality? And do we want it on the evidence of this?