Merle,

Ah, the Flexible Now.  Thanks for being understanding and inclusive.

How about a track *relevant* to now?  Thinking here not much beyond our 
Election Day.  Oh, and, OK, about 4 years onward, too, and wondering how it's 
going to be.

This relates to Zen, because the political situation can effect our practice 
environment.

So, we take you back to a release only thirty years ago, to "President Gas", by 
the Psychedelic Furs.  Nice album cover.  It's a strong song.  It has some 
memorable, if strange, lines, and goes through interesting changes.

The tempo of this track is about twice as fast as the lazy, sleepy-headed stuff 
that passes for pop music these days, called Hip Hop: neither hip, nor hoppy.  
And this track has no x-rated lyrics nor misogyny nor gratuitous filthy 
language.  Ah, the good-old days, NOW revisited.

I think these guys are more into something besides psychedelia, but I'm not 
sure what.  It's not Punk, really, and it's not latter-day Disco; so, I don't 
know.  I was already tuned-out of the pop music scene pretty much when this was 
new:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5QLQb2324c

--Joe

> Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote:
>
> hey billlllllllll and joe...let's get NOW and find rock and roll that's NOW




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