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"The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!"
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"When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey."
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"Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin."
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"Miami Beach is where neon goes to die."
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"It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all."
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"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."
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"They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette."
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"Of course The Beach Boys will be camp."
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"Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water."
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"The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up."
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"But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing."
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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."
Now
"You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker."
Now
"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."
Road
"I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it."
Brother
"We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial."
Being
"Of course The Beach Boys will be camp."
Beach
"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."
Royalty
"I've been with the group since 1965. I will be beginning my fifth year on April ninth this year."
April
"Before I joined The Beach Boys, I was working at Columbia Records as a producer, and saw The Byrds come in and do their first overdub before Terry even met them."
Beach
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