Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin.

I've been with the group since 1965. I will be beginning my fifth year on April ninth this year.

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.

I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it.

But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.

Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group.

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.

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

You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker.

Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.

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.

We're not trying to top ourselves with each record, obviously.

We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial.

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.

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.