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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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"We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook."

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Akiroq Brost

"I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach."

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Akiroq Brost

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

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Akiroq Brost

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

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Akiroq Brost

"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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Akiroq Brost

"I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked."

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Akiroq Brost

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

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Akiroq Brost

"Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water."

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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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"On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week."

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Tommy Rettig
"Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists."

Business

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Tommy Rettig
"There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day."

Day

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Tommy Rettig
"I wanted to go to regular high school - it looked like a lot of fun."

Fun

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Tommy Rettig
"A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then."

Drugs

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Tommy Rettig
"Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education."

Education

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Tommy Rettig
"Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?"

Life

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Tommy Rettig
"My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon."

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Tommy Rettig
"Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it."

Kids

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Tommy Rettig
"I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships."

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Tommy Rettig
"I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties."

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