Tubegroover---"Don't Worry Baby" is just gorgeous! My first live concert was The Beach Boys in the Summer of '64, and when Brian sang the line "and she makes love to me" in DWB, the girls in the audience went completely insane. But I didn't really know insane until seeing The Beatles the following Summer. The screaming was absolutely deafening! I hate to say it, but The Beatles live were only okay, as far as I could tell. I was pretty close to the P.A. column on John's side of The Cow Palace stage, and could sort of hear the vocals.
Things were changing so rapidly in those times. Two years later I was seeing Cream, Hendrix, The Who, and The Grateful Dead live, and sound systems had come a long way in those two years. The stacks of Marshall and HiWatt guitar and bass amps and speaker cabinets were mostly for show, 'cause there was only one mic put in front of one driver in one cabinet of each player's stack. If you were close enough to the stage at The Fillmore or Winterland, however, you could hear sound directly from all the drivers in all the cabinets. My tinnitus proves I was!
