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Bruce Johnston
American
Musician
About the author
You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
#Right
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.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
#Road
We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
#Right
#Attention
#Business
We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
#Being
We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
#Trying
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.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
#Royalty
Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
#Will
#Boys
#Beach
You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
#Now
#Years
You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
#Day
#Boys
#Beach
We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
For us... you know, we're not The Beatles.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
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.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
#First
#Boys
#Beach
Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
#Road
But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
#Cleanliness
Sometimes one of us might be missing because we might be away or something, but there's always four or five.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
Everybody can dig The Beatles, but why should everybody dig us?
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
Records... a record just shouldn't be that important.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
#Brothers
I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated - in their original form - pop group.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
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.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
#Now
I've been with the group since 1965. I will be beginning my fifth year on April ninth this year.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
#Will
#Beginning
#April
Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin.
Bruce Johnston,
American
Musician
#Love
#Brothers