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• You know, The Beach Boys’ image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?

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• You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker.

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• You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group.

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• Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn’t that important, but again, I have to just say that we’re making our records.

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• We’ve recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.

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• We’re not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.

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• We’re just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.

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• We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial.

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• We are a business, and you do a little of what you think’s right, pay your bills, and attract… a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.

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• The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then finally there was a big flare-up with Dave Marks and he left the group.

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• Sometimes one of us might be missing because we might be away or something, but there’s always four or five.

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• Records… a record just shouldn’t be that important.

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• Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.

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• I’ve been with the group since 1965. I will be beginning my fifth year on April ninth this year.

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• I really dig the scene that’s happening now, I really do, because there might be a lot of bad things going on, but if out of all of those bad things ten per cent of the groovy part of it stays, wow… you can’t beat that.

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• I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated – in their original form – pop group.

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• I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it.

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• I mean it shouldn’t hang you up emotionally if your record fails.

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• For us… you know, we’re not The Beatles.

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• Everybody can dig The Beatles, but why should everybody dig us?

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Bruce Arthur Johnston (24)

Birth:	27th June, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician, Record Producer, Singer

About

Bruce Arthur Johnston was born in Peoria, Illinois. He is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as a member of the Beach Boys. He joined the band for live performances in 1965, but then became a contributing member on subsequent albums. Johnston is also known for his early 1960s collaborations with Terry Melcher as Bruce & Terry and with the surf band the Rip Chords, as well as composing the 1975 Barry Manilow song "I Write the Songs". In 1960, Johnston started his record production career at Del-Fi Records, producing five singles and an album – Love You So – by Ron Holden.

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