The Association is a pop music band from California in the sunshine pop genre. They are best known for their popularity in the 1960s, when they had numerous hits at or near the top of the Billboard charts. They are also notable for being the lead-off band at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival.1 They are known for their tight vocal harmonies and pop-oriented sound, which occasionally moved into psychedelia and, much more rarely, into a harder, almost garage-punk. That same sound, along with their AM radio popularity, however, proved a liability as the music environment around them changed at the end of the decade. Additionally, their ensemble singing, essential to the group's sound and appeal, all but ensured that the individual members never emerged as personalities in their own right. The Association was as anonymous an outfit in terms of any individual names or attributes, despite the fact that they generated immensely popular hits that millions of