The Beach Boys - Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, CA, 4-20-1973

Here's a really nice Beach Boys concert from 1973. 

Just a few days ago (as I write this in early February 2026), I found out there's been a leak of about 500 Beach Boys songs, with the bootleg called "Boots a Million." The vast majority of those are alternate versions of songs. I'm having a hard time separating the wheat from the chaff with that release, 'cos there's so much of it (and frankly a lot of it isn't that interesting). If anyone here is a big Beach Boys fan and can give some guidance about that release, please let me know. But luckily, while looking for it, I happened to stumble across this concert.

I believe this actually was officially released on-line for a microsecond in late 2023, as one of the band's many copyright extension releases. That's where musical acts release music within 50 years of origin or else they lose the copyright on that music in some European countries. But I totally missed this in 2023, and just noticed it now. 

No doubt, the band recorded this concert with soundboard quality while collecting material for their live album "The Beach Boys in Concert," released in late 1973. We know this because two songs on that album, "Sail On, Sailor," and "Sloop John B," come from this exact concert. Everything else here is unreleased, unless you count that copyright release. I don't, because it literally would only have been for sale for several hours at most on one day late in 2023.

In my opinion, when it comes to concerts, I think the band peaked around 1973. That's because they were still very creative at that time, regularly releasing a new studio album each year, and playing their new songs in concert. But after 1973, the amount of new material went down, as well as the quality, and they gradually turned into an "oldies" act. This still has quality songs they would soon drop from their set lists, like "Funky Pretty," "California Saga: California," "Marcella," and "Wild Honey."

While the sound quality is excellent overall, there were a couple of issues I dealt with. One was that there was an unusual amount of tuning between songs. (At one point in the banter between songs, one of the band members apologized for all the tuning, saying they had just restrung their guitars before the concert began.) I did a lot of cutting out of the tuning, while keeping all of the actual banter between songs. For instance, there was nearly two minutes of tuning before the first song even began, and I cut that down to less than half a minute. Trust me, you're not missing anything, and there still is a fair amount of tuning that I couldn't cut out due to talking happening over it.

The other thing is that the vocals were rather low in the mix. I used the UVR5 program to fix this for nearly all the songs. "Do It Again" needed extra work, because most of the vocals were completely inaudible for the first verse, so I didn't have enough to simply increase the volume. Instead, I took the vocals from another concert in 1972, and patched those in for a couple of lines there. That's why that song is the only one with "[Edit]" in its title. 

This concert is surprisingly hard to find. For instance, I didn't see it at any of the bootleg sharing websites I frequent. That's probably due to its weird status of being technically legally released, though just barely. Hopefully this post will help it get more attention.  

This album is an hour and 16 minutes long.

01 talk by emcee (Beach Boys)
02 talk (Beach Boys)
03 Help Me Rhonda (Beach Boys)
04 Funky Pretty (Beach Boys)
05 talk (Beach Boys)
06 Darlin' (Beach Boys)
07 talk (Beach Boys)
08 Do It Again [Edit] (Beach Boys)
09 talk (Beach Boys)
10 Heroes and Villains (Beach Boys)
11 talk (Beach Boys)
12 Sail On, Sailor (Beach Boys)
13 talk (Beach Boys)
14 Caroline, No (Beach Boys)
15 talk (Beach Boys)
16 Don't Worry, Baby (Beach Boys)
17 talk (Beach Boys)
18 Surfin' U.S.A. (Beach Boys)
19 California Saga- California (Beach Boys)
20 talk (Beach Boys)
21 Marcella (Beach Boys)
22 talk (Beach Boys)
23 Sloop John B (Beach Boys)
24 talk (Beach Boys)
25 Wouldn't It Be Nice (Beach Boys)
26 talk (Beach Boys)
27 Wild Honey (Beach Boys)
28 talk (Beach Boys)
29 Good Vibrations (Beach Boys)
30 talk (Beach Boys)
31 Surfer Girl (Beach Boys)
32 talk (Beach Boys)
33 I Get Around (Beach Boys)
34 Fun, Fun, Fun (Beach Boys)
35 Jumpin' Jack Flash (Beach Boys) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/3jCRrXHV

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/f9fWkDhddhE250W/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. Note also that some photos shown on the inside of the band's album "The Beach Boys in Concert," are from this concert as well.