In May 1968, the American rock band the Beach Boys undertook a concert tour of the United States with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, their Indian meditation guru.The tour preceded the release of the Beach Boys' Friends album, which similarly reflected the influence of the Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique on the band, and was a commercial and artistic failure.
The program comprised a set of songs by the Beach Boys, followed by a lecture from the Maharishi on the benefits of meditation.
Twenty-nine concerts were originally scheduled, many of them in college venues, but the venture was abandoned after three days of low ticket sales and hostile audience reaction to the Maharishi's segment. The guru's commitment to making a documentary film about himself, for Four Star Television, was cited as a further impediment.
- Associated album: Friends
- Start date: May 3, 1968
- End date: May 6, 1968 (originally scheduled to end on May 21)
- Legs: 1
- No. of shows: 5 (24 further shows canceled)
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