"Then he went to Mexico, with $40K and the bass player's wife." Since we've been talking a lot lately about managers and agents and their role in the story of the Beatles, I thought I'd post this so-sad-it's-funny video done in 1990 by Flo and Eddie, the founders of The Turtles. https://youtu.be/5JHN5HaUg28 As the Fabs discovered, this kind of thing makes it much, much harder to create, and no band -- no matter how touched with genius -- survives for long under these conditions. This is why I endlessly sing the praises of Mister Brian Epstein. This from Flo and [...]