Shortly after the band shelved Smile, dropped out from the Monterey Pop Festival, and completed recording of the imminent Smiley Smile, they scheduled two performances in Hawaii that would be released on Brother Records[REF] as a live album and possibly a concert film.[REF]
On September 11,[REF] the band migrated to Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco and attempted to rerecord the entire performance as a live-in-the-studio album with the intention of inserting an audience response track later.