Bruce Johnston
Bruce Johnston
Bruce Arthur Johnstonis an American singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as a member of the Beach Boys. In 1965, Johnston joined the band for live performances, filling in for the group's co-founder Brian Wilson, who had quit touring in order to spend more time in the studio. Johnston then became a contributing member on subsequent albums. He is also known for his early 1960s collaborations with Terry Melcher as Bruce & Terry and with the surf band the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth27 June 1942
CityPeoria, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails.
For us... you know, we're not The Beatles.
Everybody can dig The Beatles, but why should everybody dig us?
Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin.
Brian came back in on the road and Al stayed, but Al's the original member of the group.
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.
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?
We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.
Of course The Beach Boys will be camp.
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.
But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.
There are not enough seats in the steel lifeboat for everybody.
There were no signs of life at all. There is still hope but one has to be honest, that hope is diminishing.