The Wrecking Crew! Page #7

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then we would fall together,

and we'd do the thing.

Three months,

two, three dates a week,

but Capitol Records

was picking up the tab.

And we liked to work for him.

The word was,

"Do you have the date

with Brian Wilson

tomorrow?"

I'd say, "Yeah, I do."

"Oh, good."

Well, Carol played

on Good Vibrations

and California Girls,

and she was, like,

the star of the show.

I mean, she was

the greatest bass player

in the world.

And she was

way ahead of her time.

She would play

a tonic in a fifth

or a third instead of a fifth,

you know.

She was one

of the first bass players

to start playing that way.

But he definitely wrote out

some neat lines on the bass,

like, for instance:

I'd never played that.

I'll just go into this...

Now, that's a jazz walking line.

You knew that this kid was into

something really, really great.

The room had a spirit to it,

with Hal being the leader,

you know, and all the guys

working together,

and thumping and pumping.

He would get things

like he wanted to hear them.

And when he got 'em that way,

it was good.

When I heard Good Vibrations

the first time on the radio,

I just...

It just blew me away.

Now.

Very good.

I remember Carol though.

I still have to remember,

'cause your favorite thing,

no matter what day we went on

after that, "Would you like me

to use my Beach Boy pick?"

And so she'd

impress the sh*t out of...

This one, and...

She picked it up

on her way to the studio.

And they're looking

at this pick,

- and they're looking at her.

- You have to sell it,

- you know.

- She was selling this sh*t

like I couldn't believe.

One little pick made this girl

hundreds of thousands

of dollars.

I was very jealous of the guitar

when we were first dating

and got engaged,

and he paid a lot more

attention to the guitar, I felt.

So I gave him an ultimatum,

"It's me or the guitar."

And he said, "Honey,

the guitar doesn't have legs.

you do."

I got so upset with him,

I took my ring

and I threw it at him.

Then I went looking for it.

And I was one of these

late starters in life.

I wasn't one of these guys that

you read about in the books.

You know, you read

these articles

in Guitar Player magazine,

the guy says,

"Well, when I was 12 years old,

I had the chops of a reindeer

and all this stuff, you know."

When I was 12 years old,

I was playing marbles myself,

I don't know, you know.

And when I was 24,

I was at Douglas Aircraft,

you know, moving boxes

and trying to play guitar.

I was 24, I was still into this.

"Wow, I'm in seventh position."

And I finally learned

one hip chord.

Whoa.

So I'm not one of them guys

you read about.

We went to the prom,

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