April: The band begins a package tour with Buffalo Springfield and The Strawberry Alarm Clock, which is canceled after four dates in the wake of the assassination of 39-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4.

Mike Love said, “It was a dramatic thing for me to be the only white kid in school and being exposed to racism in the late ’50s with all the race issues going on in that period. It culminated in Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination a decade later just when I got back from India. That whole issue was literally in my face; it’s kind of a strange thing… coming from a Beach Boys’ perspective. When I was leaving India and returning to go touring, Maharishi said, ‘You should stay here and become a teacher of TM and everything will be better after that.’ He didn’t say, ‘You must stay here,’ he said, ‘You should stay here.’ He was too subtle for me at that time.

“I flew back and (I think) the day before the tour opened we were sitting in Nashville and Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. Almost immediately more than half the shows were cancelled, because a lot of those cities were burning and the National Guard came out. We lost a lot of money. I was thinking to myself, ‘Had I stayed in India we would have rearranged the tour and not been right in the middle of that thing.’ His words were reinforced dramatically in a very macabre way.

5 – Municipal Auditorium, Nashville Tenn.
[cancelled due to King’s assassination in Memphis]
6 – East Carolina College, Greenville N.C.
[cancelled]
6 – Dorton Arena, Raleigh N.C.
[rescheduled for 24th]
7 – Clemson University, Columbia S.C. [cancelled]
7 – University of North Carolina, Greensboro N.C. [cancelled]
7 – Township Auditorium, Columbia S.C. [all April shows w/Buffalo Springfield and The Strawberry Alarm Clock: this show added The Epics]
8 – Township Auditorium, Columbia S.C.
[cancelled]
9 – Florida Southern College, Lakeland Fla.
[cancelled]
9 – Orlando Sports Stadium, Orlando Fla.
[cancelled]
 9 – Memorial Stadium, Daytona Fla.
10 – University of Florida, Gainesville Fla.
11 – Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta Ga.
11 – City Auditorium, Macon Ga. [cancelled]
12 – Jacksonville Coliseum, Jacksonville Fla.

May: Maharishi Tour
The band commence a second tour, this time with Maharishi. Poor attendances force the abandonment of the tour after seven dates.

3 – Washington Coliseum, Washington D.C.
3 – Civic Center, Baltimore Md.
4 – Singer Bowl, New York N.Y.
4 – Iona College, New Rochelle N.Y.
4 – The Spectrum, Philadelphia Pa.
5 – Bushnell Memorial, Hartford Conn.
5 – Providence RI [cancelled]
6 – Boston Gardens, Boston Mass. [canceled]
7 – Brandeis University, Waltham Mass. [canceled]
7 – New Haven Arena, New Haven Conn. [canceled]
7 – Quinnipac College, Hamden Conn. [canceled]
8 – Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo N.Y. [canceled]
9 – Mike Douglas TV show, Philadelphia Pa.
9 – Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio [canceled]
10 – Syracuse University, Syracuse N.Y. [canceled]
10 – LeMoyne College, Syracuse N.Y. [cancelled]
11 – Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland Ohio [canceled]
12 – Chicago University, Chicago Ill. [canceled]
13 – Capitol Theater, Madison Wis. [canceled]
14 – St. Paul’s Arena, St. Paul Minn. [canceled]
15 – Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Des Moines Iowa [canceled]
15 – Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City Mo. [canceled]
16 – Keil Auditorium, St. Louis Mo. [canceled]
17 – Merv Griffin TV Show, Los Angeles Calif.
17 – Denver Auditorium, Denver Colo. [canceled]
18 – Oakland Stadium, Oakland Calif. [canceled]
19 – Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood Calif. [canceled]
19 – University Of Nevada, Las Vegas Nev. [canceled]
20 – Stanford University, Stanford Calif. [canceled]
21 – Sacramento State College, Sacramento Calif. [canceled]
21 – San Diego International Arena, San Diego Calif. [canceled]

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