David Beard

“Also, the technology caught up too. We had two-track tape recorders, where we go from machine to machine, soon thereafter we had four-track, and we started stacking vocals. When we heard The Four Seasons, we realized that we didn’t have to hire background singers to sing that stuff. We could actually multitrack and sing it ourselves. For us it was actually ending up where we really wanted to be. When”
― David Beard, All Summer Long: Conversations with The Beach Boys from Surfin' to SMiLE

“The Drag City LP was the first time we could get out of the studio—and have pictures taken on location—about a place that you’re actually singing about … tying the visuals into actual songs, so the continuity was finally there. I felt really, really good about that. That was the breakthrough! We got the whole cover, and every song on the record was about the car industry and the California lifestyle, which was totally totally unique.”
― David Beard, All Summer Long: Conversations with The Beach Boys from Surfin' to SMiLE