You know what I'm saying?
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Club-jumping was fun for us, because we always won in that exchange
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A lot of this was to impress the girls, of course.
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Hell, always to impress them.
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That was pretty much everything . . . the whole idea.
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We used to pull our cars into the parking lot by Knights Beach. The top was always down. Six or seven or eight people in the car.
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We had this one guy, Bob Luskin. His car is in surgery down at the Chevrolet dealer, so he gets a loaner car. Of course, being L.A., even the loaner is a convertible.
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It was this old beater, a '48 Buick convertible. This was in the days when everyone was role-playing and stuff like that. So he puts on this hat kind of like the Blues Brothers and he walks around the beach calling himself Capone.
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He's going, "Hey, who wants to ride in Capone's coach?"
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Anyway, Luskin winds up with only 24 people in his '48 Buickby actual count.
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I don't have to tell you what comes next. He piles the car up. Hits a streetlight. There's bodies flying everywhere. Nobody got killed. But everyone was walking around with, like sprained knees, cracked-up elbows.
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I believe he didn't negotiate a turn. He wasn't going very fast. But we all remember the night Capone's coach ate it.
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Mostly, though, you'd cruise into the lot at Knights Beach with only six or seven or eight people sitting on the back.
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And the night at Knights Beach would begin.
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First of all, we used to have static from the L.A. Police Department. Because you weren't supposed to build bonfires on the beach in L.A. County. You'd have to go to the other side of Malibu to Ventura County to build bonfires, or south to Marina del Rey
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So, of course, when we built our bonfires every night at Knights Beach, we dug holes in the sand and built them lower down and huddled around them. So we didn't get too much static, except if a helicopter came by.
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But we used to have sleepovers and sleep-out parties there.
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In those days, the biggest music system was a portable radio. Or we would take the cars and park them backwards with the top down on the parking lot and turn up the radios so we could hear them down at the water.
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Because we had to listen to KFWBthat was the radio station. They had the disc jocks. Al Jarvis and Bill Balance, Joe Yoakum, Gene Weed, Sam Riddle, B. Mitchell Reed. Those were the guys you had to listen to. You had to quote them. You had to know them.
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Balance would say, "I just got back from the Hollywood Library. Boy, books aren't the only things stacked there."
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