THE BABY BOOMER MAGIC MUSIC BUS

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT:

by: Kilgore Trosky Trout.

FORWARD: This is the revolutionary ebook test. I combined music and ords in essays and stories that should get you to !um" u" and "urchase some sort o# instrument and start #inding that thing that makes us human. Don$t be shy or give u"% !ust give it a go. Find a used instrument at your local #lea&market or some canvas and create something. I# you are a teenager avoid the blues by learning something or creating something% avoid the "it#alls o# boo'e% drugs% etc. Those things only dull the "ain and don$t solve your real "roblems. This book orks on Adobe and ill ask you to allo to go to the ebsite (ou tube to atch the videos. I A) *ORR( A+O,T A-- T./ 0O))/R0IA-* O1 (O, T,+/% +,T T.AT I* T./IR +,*I1/** )OD/-% 1OT )I1/. (ou can al ays "ress ski" and avoid the commercial. 2ust right click on the link and you ill have a musical !ourney to the center o# the earth.
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1o i# you noticed the W.O ere bouncy and bright in this tune% they later evolved into covering teenage angst or youth#ul asteland$s discontent. I# at this stage% you start noticing that most adults can be #ull o# bullshit% mainly your #uture boss or esteemed elected o##icial. .o ever% be#ore I de"ress you about reality o# orking #or a living or the "it#alls o# marriage let$s take a ride on that magic bus "o ered by old RO0K A1D RO--. Okay Kids% i# you$re a city kid% you have most likely been on a bus% i# you are a "am"ered gated limo "rivileged "rogeny% you most likely only sa movies ith "eo"le on buses. +eing on a +us can instruct you about humanity% so let tell you a short little story about going on a +us to school. It as 2unior .igh% and I had to alk a #e blocks do n my street to get on that big yello beast% the school bus. It as no the turning "oint o# meeting ne eirdos and #ello victims o# the "ublic school system. .uddled ith kids on the corner% one o# the boys decides he doesn$t ant to go to school or a least delay the time o# arrival. *O the kid decides to "ut a nail under the tire o# hile the bus as "icking u" us the corner. This "lan seemed #easible% as the kid smirked that he had beat the system. The kids no sitting on those #iberglass seats smirked and aited ith an almost 0hristmas glee that are #irst day ould be canceled% as e thought the bus ould come to a screeching halt ith a #lat tire. .o ever% the bus rolled magically on. +ingo% the bus terrorist didn$t reali'e that the bus had dual tires on each back heel so i# one ent #lat% it ould still roll on. )r. +rilliant got o## the bus and smirked in shame that his "lan #ailed. .e also didn$t reali'e that the orld is #illed ith narcs. One girl ho may be !oined the F+I or the 1*A in the #uture ent into the school administration o##ice and re"orted to the "rinci"al hich kid had #lattened the tire ith the nail. The lesson learned his #irst day in 2unior high cost his "arents about T.R// .,1DR/D DO--AR* #or a re"lacement tire. Okay this little story should make you

a are that don$t commit a crime unless you ork #or a ma!or bank. 1o since you may be a teenager that isn$t #ond o# the ritten ord% I ill "rovide another musical interlude #rom the 8uess Who ;0anadian rock band< Their song: +us rider. This one really sums u" the orking&class li#e o# my generation%or maybe your #uture status i# you don$t get that over"riced degree. Don$t orry kid% being a orking class "erson is nothing to be ashamed o#. It !ust doesn$t "ay ell anymore. I on$t lie to you about that one. One career ti"% "lumbers are orking class%and they do make a lot o# money. htt":33 .youtube.com3 atch4v5l2=>!c(l1n?

Okay, here is some of he !yri"s so yo# "a$ si$% a!o$%: 8et u" in the mornin@% get on the bus 8et u" in the mornin@ like the rest o# us :laces to go% im"ortant "eo"le to meet +etter not get u" or you might lose your seat +us rider. -eave the house at siA o@clock to be on time -eave the i#e and kids at home to make a dime 8rab your lunch "ail check #or mail in your slot (ou on@t get your che9ue i# you don@t "unch I ho"e you "layed some air "iano on that one. Alright% I kno the song is really old% but it is so much more truth#ully than that skanky )iley% hatever her name is. Alright% no the key to real rock is the energy and "o er. 2ust avoid the drugs and learn an instrument #or your edi#ication. -earn #rom my generation drug #illed mistakes% but en!oy the "o er and o"en minded thoughts o# music% art and social commentary.

1o you may be slightly con#used by the 8uess Who and the Who% but in the siAties% names ere more likely a !oke name. -ike% hat is the name o# the band4 The ho% W.O4 1O T./ W.O. 1o% hat is the name o# the band4 Okay% hat does the W.O teach us4 2ust stay a ay #rom "artying like a rock star% and you might make it to #orty. The band% the W.O had a sense o# humor% but really needed a #ull time "sychiatrist and rehab clinic on their magic bus to kee" them alive. *AD-(% only t o no eAist as like that movie s"inal ta"% the drummer% the acky and onder#ully Keith )oon is long gone%and even the thunderous bass "layer /nt istle succumbed to girls and cocaine in his old age. Their anthem to youth )y 8eneration as a sad but true message to those manics% BI .O:/ I DI/ +/FOR/ I 8/T O-D.C Kids% I ant you all to live a long #ul#illing li#e% although I can$t lie to you. O-D A8/ 0A1 +/ A +IT0.. It occurred to me that e really need that >6DEs vibe to make a comeback. O# course minus the drugged out cra'iness or being stuck in a #oreign country #ighting a ar% that ends u" a stalemate. Fietnam are no in the hands o# the 0ommies% but the art o# American business doesn$t mind their "olitics since it is no a hi" and cool "lace to setu" a s eatsho" #or com"anies looking #or chea" labor.
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.ey Kid% I anted to go to Woodstock% but being t elve I as scre ed by a lack o# trans"ortation. I even asked my "arents i# I could get on one o# that hi""ie FW buses that sho ed u" ith a load o# 2esus$s #reaks. -ike most concerned "arents% they had this res"onse: BAR/ (O, 0RAH(4 1O WA(IC
Woodstock as a sea o# mud and hi""ies% so maybe the "arents ere right. Ironically% ent to the concert movie and kids stood in line and smoked "ot to get the #eel o# the atmos"here. *imilar to Rand :aul and the biscuit he is tossing to the younger generation ith legali'ing "ot. I have no "roblem ith "ot smoking being legali'ed% but it really destroys short&term memory lose. 1o hat as I saying4

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Well come on all o# you big strong men% ,ncle *am needs your hel" again%he got himsel# in a terrible !am% ay do n yonder in Fietnam% "ut do n your books and "ick u" a gun% e$re gunna have a hole lotta #un. 0.OR,* and its >%J%K hat are e #ightin #or4 don$t ask me i don$t give a dam% the neAt sto" is Fietnam% and its L%D%M o"en u" the "early gates. Well there aint no time to onder hy...W.O:// e$re all gunna die. no come on all street don$t be slo % hy man this$s ar a&go&go% there$s "lenty good money to be made% su""lyin$ the army ith the

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Ironically% the drumbeats o# the ar machine led by the neo&cons kee"s beating a#ter years o# asting lives and money in #oreign countries. Korea and Fietnam ere both undeclared ars. In both con#licts e lost or !ust resolved the ar ith a stalemate% but in ay they serve as re"lacement "lan to rid the America orker ho ants a union age or the right to #orm a union. 1o these "laces are mere s eat sho"s #or American ca"italism% tagged ith the good seal o# globali'ation to make them seem less odious to the consumer. Ironically% *outh Korea sells us more "roducts than e sell them. 1o good deed goes un"unished. We saved the *outh #rom a #uture o# leaders such as Kim *um )entally Ill. It ould be nice i# the *outh Koreans could buy more 0hevy$s and Fords% instead !ust a lousy can o# 0oke and a +ig )ac. 1o since you as unem"loyed t enty something% you may be #orced into the o"tion o# not having a !ob in America% but !oining the military% so e can kee" this one&"ercent et dream running. (ou see% as a baby boomer% I noticed that t o in#amous dra#t dodger actually lied and "romoted the ar in Ira9. *adly% +ob Dylan sto""ed riting "rotest songs and one Dick 0heney a ar "ro#iteer as still s"otting his nonsense. Fice :resident 0heney loves a ar% as long as he didn$t have to #ight it in. During the Fietnam ar% he received #ive% yes #ive de#erments.

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On you tube you can travel back in time to those days ithout the side e##ect o# -*D% hich has been kno n to "roduce a bummer o# a tri". /s"ecially i# you think% you are a chicken% or that you can #ly out a indo . *eeing a t elve girl "lay the solo to *moke on the Water like Ritchie +lackmore is im"ressive. Weirdly% it as the most "layed songs o# kids o# my generation henever they alked into a music store to try out a ne guitar. It brings me to the #aith and ho"e hen I see the younger generation take u" a musical instrument and eA"lore learning. The Internet seems to be the ans er to chea" learning% music lessons% educational tutoring #rom Kahn academy is really a thing that should be "romoted. Ironically% this has not trickled do n to colleges and universities that seem to be able to raise their "rices yearly. I# you have a little one the current cost o# KE%EEE.EE% a year ill be something like >EE%EEE.EE year i# costs o# running a #ootball team ke"t rising at its current rates. I am sorry about ho tough it is to get a head. For anybody struggling being a orking&class hero% the American dream is mostly "art myth and #or some% that ladder is missing a lot o# rungs. Those rungs ere removed #or those to kee" all the "ro#its. +e are o# those claiming to be heroes o# "atriotic A)/RI0A1 "rinci"als. /ven those ho claim to be #or you% like the tea&"arty are #unded by big& money "eo"le like the Koch brothers ho string the masses along ith bigotry and bullshit. The Koch$s goal ould be kee"ing ages and bene#its lo % and not deal ith cleaning u" the environment #rom any o# their "roduct$s s"illing and scre ing u" the earth.

Okay% I kno my teenager reader. What is this old #art talking about4 .o ever% you seeP I have been you striving to #ind out hat my #uture ould bring. I am not selling you those bullshit lines about your #uture is bright and onder#ul. Fuck noI (ou might get hit by a truck or get the cla". )ost likely% you on$t in a 1oble "ri'e or climb )t. /verest. .o ever% you can try to do things and be kind and com"assionate% along ith being tough and #ight #or your rights. 1o kid% I ill be tough #or most o# you% es"ecially i# you don$t come #rom a #amily ith money and connections. (ou my #riend% are being lulled into slee"iness by your cell&"hone% and your digital "aci#iers. )y generation also lulled into con#ormity by TF and #ashion to get in line ith the rest o# the lemmings. It most likely that your high&school da'es ill be s"ent trying to #it into the "ro"er cli9ue. *adly% the tribal rites o# being a teenager is #illed ith bullies and the sameness o# attractive and shallo things being o# the utmost im"ortance. Do you con#orm or be cast out4 Does it matter or be yoursel#% hat you really ant to be.

1o #or you a musical interlude on Teenager blues #rom another 0anadian rock band% Rush: htt":33 .youtube.com3 atch4v5-u6(c9D78y7
Rush is technically "ro#icient but never really eA"anded their musical "alate ith more instrumentation or ne sources o# material. World music or di##erent global sources ould have eA"anded their sound. .o ever% they are still a rock band orth res"ect. Try to shine on in your daily li#e% but be a are o# greedy leaders and "eo"le selling you hate and bigotry. Do the best that you can do. .o"e#ully% you en!oy the drums that "ro"el 2ohn -ennon$s Instant Karma. -i#e is "art Karma and mostly sho ing u"% along ith a lot o# dumb luck. It also hel"s to have connections like rich relatives or trust #unds. One key to li#e is looks. I# you are an attractive "erson% "eo"le ill treat you better hether you deserve it or not. It is the la o# human nature that the visually handica""ed are given usually the orst !obs and get stuck on the back o# the

bus o# the social li#e. (our li#e ill be surrounded by "eo"le !udging you so take it all ith a grain o# salt and ho"e that Instant Karma "rovides a "ayback. htt":33 .youtube.com3 atch4v5FK9vos..cWc )ost likely% you are saying right oh those .i""ies as so yesterday% so hy should I bother. Well% musically as a grou"% the +eatles and the >6DEs ada"ted% changed and led to an eA"loration o# li#e. The +eatles started their o n 0om"any A""le and made money and lost money. It tells us ho #riendshi"s dissolve and ho to run and not run an em"ire. I learned the same lesson "laying in bands% that it is incredibly hard to ork ith others as egos and being a team is much harder in "erson than on "a"er. 1o I ould not recommend trying to break into the music business% as no it is even more shallo and the economic model is no been corru"ted by the ease o# stealing music along ith the decline o# the record business. The reason #or the eA"losion o# rock and roll as the boom o# the American economy. 8) as number one in the orld% and the American #actory system as humming% and unions ere "ushing u" ages. There#ore% you had middle&class and kids ith cash in their "ockets. *adly% this condition may never be re"eated again at least not in America. )aybe 0hina or India ill have the neAt Rock and roll generation% but they have closed&o## cultures that most likely develo" such "roducts #or a global orld. When I see a teenager absorbed almost inside their cell&"hone% I onder i# this technology is actually making us more alled o##% more sel#&absorbed and less intelligent. )aybe the kids are alright and ill eventually #igure out that the circuit and "lastic device are not a real #riend% but a mere tool. Well global kids% I ho"e you are doing okayP it is very tough% but I ish you "eace. For those lucky kids born into money or the ones that have made it u" the rung o# success thinks about the orld around you.

Is that diamond encrusted atch necessary% does a +)W really make you have bigger "enis or #or the omen obsessed ith being a career climber. Is it really necessary to #ocus only on your career and shu##le your children into daycare and the care o# nannies4 As a married cou"le do you really need a mansion4 In "arting let 8eorge .arrison$s song guide us into stream o# hat is truly necessary in li#e: WIT.I1 (O, WIT.O,T (O, htt":33 .youtube.com3 atch4v5l!nvKK8tcyI

We ere talking&about the s"ace bet een us all And the "eo"le& ho hide themselves behind a all o# illusion 1ever glim"se the truth&then it$s #ar too late hen they "ass a ay. We ere talking&about the love e all could share& hen e #ind it To try our best to hold it there& ith our love With our love& e could save the orld&i# they only kne . Try to reali'e it$s all ithin yoursel# 1o&one else can make you change And to see you$re really only very small% And li#e #lo s on ithin you and ithout you. We ere talking&about the love that$s gone so cold and the "eo"le% Who gain the orld and lose their soul& They don$t kno &they can$t see&are you one o# them4 When you$ve seen beyond yoursel#&then you may #ind% "eace o# mind% Is aiting there& And the time ill come hen you see e$re all one% and li#e #lo s on ithin you and ithout you.