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"What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid."

"I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs."

"When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists."

"I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I."

"I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time."

"Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were."

"After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive."
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