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July 1969

The Cool Dozen

Don't read this if you're over thirty. . .

  1. COPPED OUT that we were the least with the Lush--and, like, everything we were puttin' down was nowhere.

  2. CAME ON that the Big Daddy-O could free us from Camarillo.

  3. MADE IT TO TURN the whole Gig over to the Top Cat.

  4. LIKE, WE SCANNED it all--our Cool Scenes and our Evil Riffs.

  5. COPPED OUT to the Big Man, another Cat and to Number One just where we lost the Beat.

  6. TOLD THE TOP CAT--"Like, Take it, Man!"

  7. WALKIN' HUMBLE, we told the Man--"Let me cool these Evil Gigs."

  8. MADE BOOK on all the Cats we had cut and came on to make it groovy.

  9. MADE IT COOL with all these Cats, but not, like, if it bugged them or some other Stud.

  10. KEPT SCANNING the Scene, and if we came on funky--Copped out.

  11. CONTINUED TO MAKE IT with the Big Dad and tried to pick up on his Arrangement--and blow the Right Sounds.

  12. HAVING DUG OUR DHARMA we came on with the Lush who is still turnin' on, and tried to be cool in all our Gigs.

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