THE ELECTRIC FLAG - "FINE JUNG THING" ['THE TRIP' 1967] . . . . JEEZ I WISH I'D BEEN JUST A BEE'S DICK OLDER DURING THE LATE SIXTIES . . . . SHIT WAS SO BRAND NEW, SO TOTALLY UNIMAGINED, SO SPARKLINGLY FRESH . . . . THE ARTS, BIKES, CARS, COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS, THE VIBE . . . . THERE'S NO SHAME IN IT ALL BEING DERIVATIVE THESE DAYS . . . . AS IN DERIVED FROM, COPIED, PURLOINED, STOLEN.

ALL THIS CHOPPING OF MOTORCYCLES, HOPPING UP OF CARS, PLAYING OF ROCK AND ROLL AND BLUES, WEARING OF SPECIFIC CLOTHES, SPEAKING IN PARTICULAR TONGUES, GROWING BEARDS AND DOPE, ALL OF IT, NONE OF IT'S NEW, NONE OF IT'S ORIGINAL, NONE OF IT'S OURS, IT ALL BELONGED TO SOMEONE ELSE, WE'RE ALL WEARING HAND-ME-DOWNS IN THIS CAPER . . . . AND THAT'S WHY SOME PEOPLE'S POMPOSITY AND OUTTA WHACK EGOS REALLY GET UNDER MY FORESKIN, YOU DIDN'T INVENT THIS SHIT, YOU WEREN'T THE GROUND POINT ZERO, YOU'RE JUST ANOTHER SLIGHTLY TWEAKED FACSIMILE OF THE GENUINE ARTICLE, A PRETTY DECENT MIMIC AT BEST . . . . AND THAT'S OKAY, IT'S ALL GOOD, THIS 'THING' DESERVES TO LIVE ON, BE KEPT ALIVE AND VIBRANT BY THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED IT ALL THEIR LIVES, CONSTANTLY REBIRTHING AND METAMORPHOSING INTO THE NEXT VARIATION ON A TIME HONOURED THEME . . . . JUST STOP TRYING TO CLAIM OWNERSHIP OF SOMETHING THAT ISN'T YOURS TO OWN, YOU'RE JUST ANOTHER THIEF IN THE NIGHT OF HISTORY, ANOTHER SCENE STEALER, EVERYBODY'S DOING IT AND HAS BEEN FOREVER AND SEVERAL DAYS . . . . YOUR SHIT STINKS JUST AS BADLY AS THE REST OF US, IT'S JUST BEEN DRESSED UP IN FLANNEL, DICKIES AND VANS.