I think about their beginning at Reprise. I mean, Sinatra started the label with a vision that artists would have complete creative control, and yet Sunflower went through several rejections until the final product. Ironically a great album critically, but less than stellar commercially, which is what I assume was the motive for Reprise management(commercial sales). Would a Geffen type representative have been tearing Mo Ostin a new one?
The flip side is that history shows that Steve Love's attempt to move the band into real estate investments in Hawaii and Texas would have, produced spectacular financial gains. Apparently there was a less than enthusiastic response to these deals by the group...resulting in a messy extraction of Love management.
I don't really get why the Beach Boys relied so often on amateur and amateurish management.
The real estate thing for example, did they not have professional financial managers who were separate from the band managers who were separate from the corporate managers? I mean, what's the story here?
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