The sound was essentially background sound, myself, and Carl, Dennis and Al Jardine, Mike was our lead singer. The four of us put our voices together. We had done it really beautifully. We had a beautiful blend. We really did.

Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.

My cousin came over to my house one day just to fool around and we said - he said, some day we should start a rock n' roll group. We could all get together. An…

It started out - my mom and dad took a little vacation to Mexico and they left $250 for food. But instead of food we went and bought some instruments. We got a…