On July 7, 1967, the Who played the Malibu Beach & Shore Club at Lido Beach on Long Island, New York -- not California, despite the name -- in second billing on a multi-act bill, a surviving ticket stub the primary evidence for the night. It fell about three weeks after their American breakout at Monterey Pop, where they had smashed their equipment to a stunned crowd, and the night before a show at the Village Theater in Manhattan. A band at the hinge between English curiosity and American force.