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Tommy Rettig

"Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together."

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"Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together."

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"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."

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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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"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."

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"I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don't have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It's always fun."

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"If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation."

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"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"

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"Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together."

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"If Frank and The Beach Boys got together and did a Super Session album, it would be a gas."

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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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"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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"It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection."
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