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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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"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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"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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"To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude."

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

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

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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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"Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it."
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"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."
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"I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help."
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"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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"I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties."
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"A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then."
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"I wanted to go to regular high school - it looked like a lot of fun."
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"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."
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"Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure."
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