:03:01
Are you listenin' to me?
This bullshit you're wallowing in...
:03:05
is happening
outside of yourself.
:03:07
If you could just pick yourself out
of the crap, you'll realize that...
:03:10
Mr. Married Guy let you down,
not your talent.
:03:15
Don't let these other bastards
get you down.
:03:18
- [Sighs]
- Come on.
:03:21
I have the perfect producer
lined up.
:03:24
- [Laughs]
- Come on, sit up.
:03:26
This guy, he's the new "hit-maker"
genius, the next..."wunderkind."
:03:30
- Phil Spector?
- Phil Spector, history!
:03:33
Shadow Morton?
Shadow Morton?
:03:36
This guy's no Liberace,
who I feel is valid in his own right.
:03:39
He's an Einstein
in the control booth. He's a wizard.
:03:42
Direct your eyes right here.
:03:45
# Take a run at the sun #
:03:49
[Reporter] While The Beatles
and The Byrds are both at work on...
:03:52
what are being termed "concept albums",
teen favorites, The Riptides,
:03:55
are also changing directions.
:03:57
Oh, Joel.
:03:59
Jay Phillips, the one on the guitar.
He's the brains behind the band,
:04:02
- And the wizard behind your next hit.
- On their last album,
:04:05
Jay Phillips caught
the critics' attention...
:04:08
when he added orchestral instruments
into their popular surf sound.
:04:11
Surf and turf stuff.
[Laughs] That's not my thing.
:04:14
[Reporter] It seems this was only
the beginning of Phillip's imagination.
:04:18
- Tell us what we can expect
from this new record.
- [Chuckles]
:04:21
Well, I really don't know
what to expect myself.
:04:24
I'm kinda... just gonna sort of
let the album dictate itself to me.
:04:28
But I can guarantee it'll be
different from anything you've
heard from The Riptides before.
:04:33
Very, very talented.
Very sweet.
:04:36
A little out there.
He's from California.
:04:38
Is there any particular theme
or subject stringing it all together...
:04:42
like some of the other
concept albums being recorded now?
:04:47
Childhood. Innocence.
:04:50
How a kid looks at things. How a kid'll
make up a song so the lyrics...
:04:56
don't always make sense to, uh,
[Chuckles] adults.