(airy guitar music)
(gentle piano chords)
♪ Well East Coast girls are hip ♪
♪ I really dig those styles they wear ♪
♪ And the Southern girls with the way they talk ♪
♪ They knock me out when I'm down there ♪
♪ The Midwest farmer's daughters ♪
♪ Really makes me feel all right ♪
♪ And the Northern girls with the way they kiss ♪
♪ They keep their boyfriends warm at night ♪
♪ I wish they all could be California ♪
♪ I wish they all could be California girls ♪
- Stop it.
(airy piano chords)
Ah, the Beach Boys, the Beach Boys inspire me.
The sound of a Fender guitar inspires like
rock and roll melodies.
Inspiration comes from my love for music.
And my piano.
♪ Girls, girls, girls, California girls ♪
Alright (crowd clapping)
we're full, thank you.
Well, Chuck Berry influenced me
to write rock and roll melodies.
Phil Specter tauht me how to produce pianos and guitars
and keyboards and bass and drums.
He taught me how to combine all those together.
Just the track of a,
♪ That rock and roll music ♪
It's just his melodies were so great.
My father bought us the amps and the guitars,
the Fender bass and guitars.
And we loved the Fender bass,
Fender bass was like a great bass.
- I think it was a Precision.
- A Precision.
- That's what he was playing.
- Fender because we were told that Fender was the best.
The best, you know, the best.
My advice is for a songwriter to try not to write too hard
try not to, too hard to write.
But follow through and write the whole song.
A song starts with a chord. (piano chord)
And music.
And then the melody comes in, the lyrics.
So it goes chords, melody, lyrics.
It's always, always the same.
Music is love for me.
Music is like feeling love and happiness and joy.
- I'll start this way, it's just, when I was a kid
hearing the opening chords of California Girls
to me was like an epiphany.
I didn't know what music was, or what chords were
or anything like that,
but hearing that on a little radio driving
actually by the beach, coincidentally,
and then meeting the guy and having to
have him show us the right way to play it and all that,
that's a memory, our initial meeting
it was just like, wow, man.
I'm here, I never thought I would be.
- Ah, California Girls, it's my favorite.
Cause of Mike's singing.
My biggest memories are working with the voices,
giving the guys chords to sing and parts to sing.
That's my favorite.
- You're so quick, and uh
when he's designating voices to everybody, he's on fire.
It's like you do this, you do this,
and you can't figure out what's going on
but you just do your thing and it comes together like this.
- Pet Sounds, I just remember working with the musicians
and the wrecking crew
and I remember giving them chord sheets to play
or write the notes for them to play.
I loved the way they played their parts, you know?
The saxophones, the drum, percussion, bass,
pianos, guitars,
I loved the way they all played together, you know?
The process took about three hours for us to get it right.
We wanted to get a harmonic, spiritual sound.
Mostly harmonies, tight harmonies and blissful harmonies.
In My Room, oh I loved the (mimics piano melody)
(gentle piano chords)
♪ Do my dreaming and my scheming ♪
♪ Lie awake ♪
At that part, the bridge.
We wanted to get the sound of heaven,
like a heavenly blissful sound.
I Get Around, my brother Carl suggested
that we use two guitar.
I said sure, fine, so we did it, we used two guitars.
We wanted to achieve a very commercial guitar sound
and a commercial melody for Mike Love to sing.
It was like a complete event, it was a whole event
to hear it over the speakers, it really was.
My favorite memory was when Mike sang.
♪ I get around ♪
♪ I wanted to tell it ♪
♪ Do do do ♪
♪ Yeah the bad guys know us and they leave us alone ♪
♪ I get around ♪
That Mike part, that was my favorite part.
There wasn't a process actually,
there was just a recording studio and the Beach Boys.
Hardest part was when we dubbed it down,
we mixed the guitars and pianos with the voices all together
that was the hardest part, doing the dub down.
One, two, three, four.
♪ Round round get around, I get around ♪
♪ Yeah get around round round, I get around ♪
♪ Get around round round, I get around ♪
♪ From town to town ♪
♪ Get around round round, I get around ♪
♪ I'm a real cool head ♪
♪ Get around round round, I get around ♪
♪ I'm making real good bread ♪
♪ Get around round round I get around ♪
♪ I'm gettin' bugged driving up and down this same old strip ♪
♪ I gotta find a new place where the kids are hip ♪
♪ My buddies and me are getting real well known ♪
♪ Yeah, the bad guys know us and they leave us alone ♪
♪ I get around round round, I get around ♪
♪ From town to town ♪
♪ Get around round round, I get around ♪
♪ I'm a real cool head ♪
♪ Get around round round, I get around ♪
♪ I'm making real good bread ♪
♪ Get around round round, I get around ♪