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Michael Balzary (Flea)
<--pic c/o Q magazine"He appeared like an appocalyptic vision, a man wandered too far
from the edge of the wasteland and out to the reaches beyond
the city beyond the walls. His face obscured by a mask and breathing
apparatus. From just above the tip of the nose covering one could
make out his eyes. The clear plastic screen covering the eyes was
scarred and mared and across the chest a too some kind of machine-
a rhythmic pulsing emanated from it. There were crowds there in
front of him. They had come to pay some kind of homage to him.
To this ghostly abberation from out in the never never land. His
hands beat the sinews of the machine, fast and sure, each finger
picking its mark in succession. They watched from below. Looking
up, the people were mesmerised by this display."
"Yeah he hits the strings with precision and grace. Furious notes twirl
out of nothing and fall down to the crowd below. It's a maelstrom of
percussive snaps, pings, and beats. This is what they want. This
is what the people want. Naked in front of everybody it's the streaker
from the past and he has streaked into the present. It's creation.
It's jazz and funk and it is punk rock superfusion."
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"Hippies once rocked like a hard turtle shell Swedish surprise
hobbit piano men with beards net edge of acid crazed freaks
exploding all over dimensions like there are non wow wow wow
now it is cliff to push over or stand safely Life loving lemmings
can fly. I can fly free of all doubt you can butthole soup
daddytogether at last read for the youth of red school houses
dead not live...."
.....to be newborn is wild All of the beings have chosen to wail at the
temple of their choice life is so bizarre and full of god's greatness
I love myself and my shortcomings this poem sucks stream of
dee dee......".
"....And so it assholes along the razy shit of L.A. and all metropoltergeist
of Finished pretzels dead or alive drugs kill opening up for all the bad shit
Empty out the bad shit is what smack is all about but not me I care and love
too much the joys of a wave and A tree to be hugged by that raw power
animal sophistication Had it love it. Where else is there to go but up the ups
drove the van to the dirt road revolution did MC% oh what is a whisker hippy
glasses and scarf. Let's grease it all up all the good stuff is there for all of us..."
"...Go tell aunt Rosie the young fresh Mary is kicking it by the
basketball nettles in your socks on your young cock jack is nimble
Jack is great wow wow wow wow to be is the thing that fills us
with luck see the joy of it all. New wave hookers garbage can
sex lust is powerful stuff driving people to do the most amazing
things. Nipple peircings really aren't that great guess it means
you like to fuck..."
".....Guitars and blood and love and drugs and fights and fucks
and pretty things screaming and hollerin' it's a girl floating
above this tortured world. Sage burning and learning to be
all new not embarrased by the inside of it trying to learn and
grow withouth being pathetic at all hippie not punk rock
Can you rock and still care about the god stuff incense burns
and meditation yearn to confront the inside stuff passion for
something is incredible and what is so funny...."
"...Lot's of stuff is and punk rock is so serious and funny music
is so important to have a good taste in and know what is the real
shit like Iggy and Miles fuck snorting drugs could be something good
I guess sometimes but it is so destructive but so many great people
did it But it killed them and destroyed their spirit and got them out of
touch. U know ya don't need them. MY body is to be respected and
treated like the love and light of god................................................
AND HEART WHICH OF COURSE ARE THE SAME THING all the same
all the same." FLEA
