non-recreational listening

ray's making cd-r's for all the bandboys, but i'm spinning the mc5's high time on vinyl to get the lyrics to "future now" and remember how the gtr to the slow part at the end goes. (structurally, the song's very similar to fleetwood mac's "oh well.") funny how the five's best political lyric (penned by rob tyner) came near the end, long after they'd severed ties with john sinclair and the white panthers. playing those shimmering chords (using the phase 90 to simulate what was probably the tremelo from a fender amp), i'm reminded of doing the same thing in my room when i was a snotnose, before i'd ever been in a band. a weird feeling. i'm hoping the slow part works so we don't have to drop it (as wayne kramer, deniz tek, and scott morgan did when they covered the tune on the dodge main cd).