Chris May, thanks so much for that brief taste of the recording history behind OFFERING. It really whets my appetite for more details about those sessions. To your knowledge, are there still extant records of those work sessions detailing what was done when? Beach Boys fans have (arguably) taken such investigations to extremes, of course, due to the circumstances surrounding the legendary SMILE album, and I don't want to go too far down that road--but it would be interesting to see just how and when Richard and Karen put things together (particularly that first time out of Joe Osborn's garage!!).
If anybody has them from '69 it would be Richard. Jack Daugherty was doing the contracting for the sessions with the local union I believe at that time. In '70 when Herb brought Hal in, he more or less took over the contractual duties based on whatever was needed for the session. I think I've posted one or two of these here before, but this is what some of the Close To You tracking and orch sessions looked like...