Some of what happens on this set was driven by the Beach Boys manager Jack Rieley. What was he like? I’d rather not go into that one.
Brian’s supply of songs from the Smile sessions had been used by the time of Carl And The Passions… Were you concerned?
Brian wasn’t really… present on that album so much, so we started writing our own songs about this time. We really became producers on the and albums – we stepped up to producer level, each one of us produced our own music and