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First, this is a rush job so apologies in advance for any typos, mistakes, or if this photo collection has already been posted on the board somewhere else. I was excited to find these and get some other sets of eyes on them! If these have been seen before, or cause any issues, let me know immediately.

Beach Boys gold has been found in Oklahoma.  :)

After the Ida B 1964 video surfaced, I did some further researching and searching, and came up with a photo archive from the same Oklahoma historical society which made available the Ida B film archives. And lo and behold, there was a collection of just over two dozen Beach Boys photos from their visit there in April 1969! I had never seen these, I hope that is the same for the other fans reading this post.

These seem to come from a few sources, one is a photographer from the OK parks service (or something...), another is former Oklahoma governor and then-lieutenant governor George Nigh who is actually in quite a few of the photos and somewhat resembles Glen Campbell), and others are from a photographer from a long-gone area newspaper.

According to Andrew's concert date listings, The Beach Boys were in Oklahoma on April 13, 1969, which was a Sunday. They made at least four appearances, and I believe at least three of them if not all four can be seen in the photos.

Also, according to a report from a fan who was there, The Beach Boys played at the "S. Arch Thompson Auditorium" at the McAlester (OK) High School, and that show according to that fan started at 8:30 in the morning. They invited the band and the band actually showed up, as innocent as that according to that fan's memory.

From Andrew's list, still on that same Sunday 4/13/69, the Boys played at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester, and those photos are the more obvious to ID of the lot. Then there was a stop at the Children's Memorial Hospital - again, not too difficult to ID those - and a "Decency Rally" that seems to have been pulled together by or involving Lt. Gov. Nigh. That rally was reported the next day in the local papers (issue dated Monday April 14 '69) as having had a successful turnout.

I'll post the photos grouped as best as I can by the location or event, and the ones which are unknown I'm hoping someone can ID. This again shows what a valuable and great resource BB's fans have with Andrew's gig and timeline resources - Thanks! And all of these came from the Oklahoma Historical Society, where I believe you can purchase or license the non-watermarked versions of these for official publication.

These I believe to be from the 8:30am high school gig:
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Photos from the penitentiary at McAlester:
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Possibly from the Children's Hospital:
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Unknown, possibly the Decency Rally or more shots from the other events:
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Wow, now there are some great shots there! All from a period that is less well seen than the usual suspects.

Magnificent!


Oh, and let the caption contest begin:

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 ;D

Wow, what a human history of music as healing, a deep literary tradition going back at least to (but much further) to Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. Mike playing guitar. Making the kids smile!  Talk about moments that bring a tear to the eye. Guitarfool, you have done a great service to history and to the fans of spiritual music and magic moments. Thank you.

Beach Boys Unplugged!
Amazing stuff, thanks Craig.

Pretty interesting. I can't remember seeing Mike playing a guitar before

'She once had a doggy named Wrinkles.....'

Stuff just keeps surfacing, eh?  Cool, Guitarfool!

Bruce's chisel chin in those pictures looks bigger than Jay Leno's!

Best caption so far is by Paulos!   ;D

Great stuff, GF2002!  Thanks so much for finding and posting! 

Well, he is playing a G chord...That's gotta count for something.

A chimpanzee could play an open G chord.

Great find man!

(now we know how Mike Love was able to write songs on his own ... or was he just posing ?!?)

Is it just me, or does it look like they have rented instruments? Never seen them play with this stuff before.

Who's the older cowboy guy ?

"... and that's when I came up with the idea to change 'that's where we used to go' to 'that's where we wanna go' ..."

I think you mean a monkey's uncle.

And then I said to Paul, "Why don't you make a Beach Boys'  thing out of it, like a 'California Girls' kind of thing, you know, the Ukraine girls..."

Awesome stuff! Were these part of Carl's 'conscientious objector' public service?

Del Smith, Oklahoma Journal Staff Photographer

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Great photo! Looks like Mike and Del Smith are having a spirited argument over whose hat is better.

Great pictures! Bruce looks very cool with the sideburns.

Great photos!! Interesting to see the BBs playing in their street clothes.  As photos from other shows in 1969 and even early 1970 attest they were still playing the vast majority of shows at this time in their white uniforms.  Indeed I have photos of them in Florida earlier on this tour with them in the uniforms and Mike in his Maharishi robes.  The African American gentleman in some photos is Joe Hicks-who was a Brother Records artist and opened for them a lot in 1969 (He was on the European tour in May-June too).

OOps!  Major faux pas.  Going back again, I find that I have misread the captions I found for these pictures( what an idiot!) and this guy is NOT Del Smith, but is "unidentified". 

Man In Chair 18:  If I weren't in this chair, I'd kick you in the nutz...

Fans: "Play Classical Gas!"
Mike: "Uhh, well, I could play it but I'd rather sing something for you."
Fans: "We want Classical Gas!"
Mike: "Uhh, well, I would but I can't remember what key it's in."
Fans: "A MINOR!"
Mike: "Oh sh*t..."

Keep in mind the exact same scenario played out again in the late 1980's as Mike was shooting the Kokomo video and a group of fans watching the video shoot began asking him to play "Yakety Sax"...

So, Mike is playing guitar to get the chicks now?
We all know he took her home.

Mike: "It may take me another 29 years, but as soon as I learn enough rhythm guitar, Al is totally out of the band!"

Mike: "This one is called Kokomo. It's gonna be a smash someday."

Thanks for all those captions so far!  :-D  :-D

I spilled some milk snorting at this one:

:lol

Nice one!!!  :-D

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Can anyone offer a guess as to who the younger man in this photo might be? He's in one other shot too. I thought he might be a local radio station guy, but from what I've found from the local stations which would have been playing top 40 music in '69, he's not. Unless I missed something.

Also, addressing some of the other 20-something aged people around the band in various photos, including the guy shown above: How big was the Beach Boys' traveling road crew at this time? Could some of them be their touring staff?

Kinda looks like Al, but at least in that pic, he's taller

Neat pictures! And Mike is wearing tasteful clothing -- a rarity indeed!

I think his name is Poindexter.

For real? What did this Poindexter guy do?

Mike: Here is a song in G, called The G Spot Blues


By the way, he does seem like a jerk, ignoring the kids in the wheel chair for the hot chick. If he had his robe he could heal them and make them walk!

Hee heeeee!  Guitarfool, you're gullible!

 :lol

My sarcasm isn't as obvious as it needs to be sometimes...

If I believed that guy was really named Poindexter, I'd post pictures of the Rolex watch I bought in Times Square for 100 bucks... ;D

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Wow, Guitarfool, you bought a Rolex watch for only 100 bucks??

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Not only that, but I had just won the 100 bucks playing Three Card Monte on the same corner in New York! And the dealer's name was Poindexter!

New York, hell of a town. :lol

Why the hell didn't I see this post before?! Thanks for sharing!


Looking at Dennis' shirt here, I wonder if the short footage of him with the Maracas in Endless Harmony (during Wouldn't It Be Nice iirc) comes from this gig


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Hey baby, do you believe in luHv at first sight, or should I keep strumming?

Hey baby, why don't we go behind a rock and get a little bolder?

Hey baby, if this was a meat market, you'd be prime rib.


none of them worked-she went home with Dennis, of course.   :psyche

Normally, I don't play guitar; but when I do, it's a 12 string acoustic.

So now we know Mike knows a G chord, and Bruce knows a D chord!  ;)

Seriously, fascinating photos.

So how long after this did Mike wear the flowing robe and let his beard really grow?

I don't believe I've ever seen Mike's hippie / 1930s gangster / pimp outfit before. 

If this was 1969, I think he went to the flowing robes in 1970. 

Then, it was the legendary Cowboy Jesus. 

Mike was rocking the robes getup by the time Breakaway was released, so he adopted it sometime in '69.

You can see that get up in the video from the Czech concert, in the An American Band doc.