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My friend Jonathan pointed me to The Fendertones – a project our old boss, Tony Rose, has been working on to reconstruct The Beach Boys original recordings in live performances. Here’s the description from The Fendertones website:

No details were spared to recreate the sounds of the original recordings. Using period correct instruments, the music featured everything from marimbas and accordians to horns and strings…the keyboardist even built what is most likely the only exact replica of Paul Tanner’s electro-Theremin that he played on the original “Good Vibrations”

As my friend Jonathan put it, “So if the recording has 5 beach boys singing 3 parts each they need 15 singers to do it live, and if a 1963 Fender guitar played 2 parts and was redoubled in the recording session they need 4 1963 Fender guitars. You get the picture.”

Just in time for the holidays, here are the Fendertones doing “Little Saint Nick.”