After the group got real popular, Fender asked us to endorse their instruments. I think the deal was they'd give them to you then you'd let them print ads and stuff like that. This was around 1962. |
He's the master of delay. |
I can tell you that the current process is fraught with uncertainty. I like this proposal very much. |
I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments. |
I haven't talked to Brian in a while. I don't even know his current phone number. |
I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick. |
I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal. |
In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures. |
It's fun to use a capo 'cause you can get the strings to really have a bell-like sound. It's a thing I got into when I was writing songs. When I started to really write a lot, I would use the capo to try different keys and different combinations. |
My folks got me a single cutaway Kay. It was acoustic but it also had a pickup. That's the guitar I learned to play on. |
Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water. |
the most moving experience of my life. It was an awe-inspiring moment. |
Today our direction is clear: centralizing systems to reap advantages from our size. |