(male speaker) The interest of most audiences are to find out what the entertainers are offstage.

You can always see us performing.

You can see us on television shows or see us onstage.

What's really interesting to me to see about a performer is on a bus or a plane or what they talk about backstage.

♪ ♪ Have you been listening?

♪ ♪ Listen to the music.

♪ ♪ Have you been sleeping?

♪ ♪ The sermon's in the music.

♪ ♪ The man standing next to you, ♪ ♪ he must surely be your brother.

♪ ♪ ♪ So, brother, please heed the call.

♪ ♪ ♪ The piper, he's still piping ♪ ♪ the magic in the music.

♪ ♪ The drummer, he's still drumming ♪ ♪ the message in the music.

♪ ♪ Sweet songs of loving, you should be singing.

♪ ♪ ♪ So, brother, please heed the call.

♪ ♪ ♪ Listen to the music, listen to the music, ♪ ♪ Listen to the music, heed the call.

♪ ♪ Listen to the music.

♪ ♪ Heed the call of the music.

♪ ♪ Heed the call of the music.

♪ ♪ Heed the call of the music.

♪♪ As you may or may not know, the original members of The First Edition, which were Mike Settle, Thelma Camacho, Terry Williams, who's still with the group, and myself, were all members of The New Christy Minstrels.

We had actually presented most of the material in our first album to The Christy's in hopes that they would record it.

The people who owned The Christy's at the time felt it was too great a departure from the accepted image.

They were afraid to gamble with it.

At that point we decided that when you get afraid to gamble with your image-- you're willing to accept what your image is-- you can only go downhill.

Aside from that, we were working for other people, so we chose to form our own group.

There's two key factors in our group.

First, there's mutual respect for each other musically.

I think that's terribly important.

I think the second most important thing is the fact that we have...um... that we're very compatible socially.

I want to start with the overall and then get into the individual, because I think that's a key to the individuals involved.

I'll start with Terry, because I've worked with Terry longer than.... (Kenny offscreen) We did a "Johnny Cash Show" three weeks ago-- Ooo...testing.

Ooo...testing... one, two.

We did a Johnny Cash-- Testing... Kenny, this is the only solo that you've given me in the whole show when all these people paid-- some of 'em paid-- to come see us.

I feel as though I owe something to them.

If I'm going to give a performance, it ought to be the best performance possible given by me at the time at this particular college.

I tell you...the guy that's always fascinated me is Tommy Smothers.

To me, he's the most fascinating comedian ever, because the things that he says aren't really hilarious.

It's the way that he says them and the facial expressions, obviously.

You know, it's really kind of funny how we started into comedy.

I was with The Christy's at the time, obviously, and in a period of about an hour and a half, I had managed to lock seven keys in my room, to my room, consecutively.

This is true.

I had one key, and I locked it in, and I went to the office, got another key, locked it in, consecutively, till I got number seven.

I was immediately tagged with the name "Dumb, Stupid Terry."

When we put the group together, we decided we were not going to fabricate characters, that everyone was just going to be themselves.

Consequently, they would be more consistent and more competitive.

It's easy to be yourself every night.

It was fortunate for us that Terry happens to be dumb and stupid, so he comes off that way onstage...he's beautiful!

...became what I wanted to be as an entertainer, what I wanted to do.

It was basically to make people laugh, because I think making people laugh is the ultimate entertainment if you do it properly, in a way that you can say something a little risqué and have it come off cute or come off stupid.

Making people laugh isn't easy to do.

While we're doing-- I love going through the comedy and everything.

I'm trying to figure out, What the hell am I going to do to get these people on our side?

I can see that most of the guys this evening are with very beautiful, lovely young ladies-- (audience member) Ha !

[laughter] Sorry to hear that... that bad?

Would you have her stand up, please, so we can throw a spot on her?

As I said, most of the guys are with very pretty young ladies, whether they be, like, maybe your wife or your girlfriend or your aunt or... [audience member yelling] [laughter] Are you wearing white socks, by any chance?

[laughter and cheering] [laughter and cheering] He has the musical ability to be such a superstar on his own, and that's the sad part of what's happened to the group, the fact that I have-- for whatever reasons, it's awfully hard for the public to identify with five people, so because I had, uh, sung the records-- on the singles-- I was elected to be the image of the group, so to speak.

There's so much individual talent in the group, and Terry's an example of that.

He's had records of his own.

♪ ♪ What am I gonna do?

♪ ♪ What am I gonna do?

♪ ♪ I love you so much, what am I gonna do?

♪ ♪ What am I gonna do?

♪ ♪ What am I gonna do?

♪ ♪ I love you so much, what am I gonna do?

♪ ♪ What am I gonna do?

♪ ♪ What am I gonna do?

♪ ♪ I love you so much, what am I gonna do?

♪ ♪ Ooo ♪ ♪ Hmm ♪ ♪ Ooo.

♪♪ [drums beating to finish] (Terry) People ask how we got Mary in the group.

It's kind of a long and involved story.

She's been with us almost two years now.

Just before she joined the group, she came over to my apartment, and... [muffled speaking, audience laughing] Thelma was the original girl, Thelma Camacho.

She was my roommate at the time.

Since the group started, I was at their rehearsals, because we were like sisters, you know, very good friends.

I just grew into that whole thing, so I knew them all.

When Thelma decided to leave the group, they were holding auditions and everything, and Kenny asked me why didn't I audition.

Why didn't I just see about being in the group?

Mary's truly one of the most professional people I've ever worked with in my life.

She comes in, she's always in a good mood.

She's one of the most consistent people, as far as moods, that I've ever met.

She comes in.

She's always up.

If she were really ever down, she wouldn't show it, or she'd stay away.

She doesn't like to hassle anybody with her problems.

I just feel, if you can--like happiness.

If you can spread that or give a little moment of that-- it sounds corny, but it is that, really-- or take people's minds off of something for an hour, other than everything that's going on, then you've accomplished something.

(Kenny) One, two, three, four.

♪ ♪ Love and love is music, if you know what I mean.

♪ ♪ Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da...

I have ever seen.

♪ (Kenny) One more time.

Wait a minute.

I know, but let me get these words right...okay.

(Kenny) One, two, three.

♪ Music is love, and love is music, ♪ ♪ if you know what I mean.

♪ ♪ People who believe in music ♪ ♪ are the happiest people I have ever seen.

♪ ♪ Clap your hands and stomp your feet, now, ♪ ♪ and shake your tambourine.

♪ ♪ Lift your voices to the sky.

♪ ♪ God loves it when you sing.

♪ ♪ I...

I believe in music, ♪ ♪ and I...

I believe in love.

♪ ♪ I believe in music.

♪ ♪ I believe in love.

♪ (Kenny) Do es that bo ther you, Mary, after we get in to the tune?

[singing] I...I....

Terry, you'll have to sing, [singing tenor harmony] "I believe in music"...I think.

(Terry singing) I believe in music.

Can he stay up there?

I'm singing, like, a really weird line on the bottom.

Okay...one, two, three, four.

[singing three-part harmony] ♪ I believe in music, ♪ ♪ and I...

I believe in love.

♪ Yeah!

♪ I believe in music, ♪ ♪ and I...

I believe in love.

♪ (Kenny) Are you gonna delay your fall on the end?

(Mary) I love it!

One, two, three, four.

♪ Music is the universal language, now, ♪ ♪ and love is the key ♪ ♪ to peace and hope and understanding ♪ ♪ and living in harmony.

♪ ♪ So take your brother by the hand ♪ ♪ and, baby, come along with me, ♪ ♪ and find out what it really means ♪ ♪ to be young and rich and free.

♪ ♪ I...

I believe in music, ♪ ♪ and I...

I believe in love.

♪ ♪ I...

I believe in music, ♪ ♪ and I...

I believe in love... ♪ ♪ love!

♪♪ ♪ (Mary voice-over) Take people's minds off of something for maybe an hour, other than everything going on.

Then you've accomplished something.

(Kenny) Kin Vassy, on the other hand, I think, is an extreme musical talent.

I think that's one of Kin's problems.

He suffers from... too much ability.

I've been... traveling about seven years.

[bus engine rumbling] I first sang professionally when I was fourteen... rock and roll.

[engine rumbling] Rock and roll, the really, you know, raunchy kind... banging rock and roll that started in the mid-'50s.

[engine rumbling] Hm...I think my first idol was Jerry Lee Lewis.

(Kin voice-over) Well, of course, I was in school, in high school.

We had a three- or four-piece band there in Carrollton.

We used to rehearse in the second story of the educational building at the church at night, praying we wouldn't get caught.

I played trumpet... for like eight years, starting from the time I was about ten until I graduated from high school.

Never professionally, but that was my main thing.

It's where I learned all my music, there and in the church, and then I started with the rock thing with different groups of people all the time.

We sang, and we worked as often as we could.

Went away to college-- went to college there in my hometown and later went away to school.

That was a bust, and I finally just took off out West.

♪ Well, I packed everything I owned ♪ ♪ and put it in a knapsack.

♪ ♪ I'm leaving Birmingham, yes, I am.

♪ ♪ Ain't never gonna go back.

♪ ♪ I bought me a guitar, wrote me a song, ♪ ♪ played it to the DJ on the telephone.

♪ ♪ I'm going out to Hollywood, feeling good...yes, I am!

♪ ♪ Hello L.A., bye, bye Birmingham.

♪ I started playing guitar, learning as many chords as I could, and started working these little folk places, Worked my way out to... Phoenix, Arizona.

I was working in a little club there... and Randy Sparks came through town one night... [background chatter] ...took me to Los Angeles.

♪ Oh-ho, yeah!

♪ ♪ ♪ Riding on a Greyhound bus ♪ ♪ across the Tennessee borderline, ♪ ♪ eating from a po' boy sandwich, ♪ ♪ taking drinks from a quart of wine.

♪ ♪ I got to get off at the next stop.

♪ ♪ My ticket's only good to Little Rock.

♪ ♪ Going out to Hollywood, feeling good, yes, I am.

♪ ♪ Hello L.A., bye, bye Birmingham.

♪ ♪ Well, got mixed up with a big-city woman in Little Rock, ♪ ♪ spent two days and nights in the county jail.

♪ ♪ I had to take a two-day job ♪ ♪ to get my guitar out of hock.

♪ ♪ That's what it takes ♪ ♪ when you ain't got friends to make bail.

♪ ♪ Yeah!

♪ ♪ ♪ I've just run out of transportation.

♪ ♪ God, I gotta hitchhike.

♪ ♪ Caught a ride with a long-haired, tattooed dude ♪ ♪ on a motorbike.

♪ ♪ People gonna know when I'm in town.

♪ ♪ Heads are gonna turn when they hear my sound.

♪ ♪ Going out to Hollywood, ♪ ♪ feeling good, yes, I am...yes, I am.

♪ ♪ Hello L.A., bye, bye Birmingham.

♪ ♪ Hello L.A., bye, bye Birmingham.

♪ ♪ Hello L.A., bye, bye Birmingham.

♪ ♪ Kin has got more throat than any two people I've ever met!

He can sing higher, harder, longer, for any length of time, than anybody I've ever met.

He's got a lot of soul... for a white man!

♪ Ah, yeah!

♪ ♪ Ahh!

♪ ♪ Yeah, yeah!

♪ ♪ Hello L.A., by e, bye Birmingham.

♪ ♪ Yeah!

♪♪ ♪ [Kin playing piano] ♪ We were talking before... ♪ about... ♪ pretty much what I had done prior to The First Edition.

♪ I think more than that, I wanted to get into more of a reason of why I'm even doing this, and even deeper than that, into why anyone does it... or why there's even a need...to do it.

[background chatter] He's such an enormous talent.

I think he can't understand why he's not a really big star.

It's awfully hard for me to explain.

He's got the capability, the talent, everything.

He's ripe for today's market.

Kin has a tendency to get irritable with people sometimes because he's so much of a perfectionist.

Sometimes you think, Now, my occupation on this earth.... Everybody always says, "What is my purpose in life?

What is my meaning in life?"

Which is kind of foolish, anyway.

People do what is there to be done, and if they do it well and enjoy doing it, then that's what they "were put here to do."

Sometimes I sit and think, Well, I sing and play an instrument and write music and lyrics for a living.

Sometimes I find that incredibly silly.

[background chatter] Then, when I think that's very silly, and I wonder why I'm doing it, then I think, Well, you're doing a wonderful thing.

You're entertaining people.

You're making people enjoy themselves.

Then I stop and think, What on earth do people need to be entertained for?

[Kin playing piano] Thanks for coming.

I enjoyed it tremendously.

I'm glad you did.

I hope we get to come back.

I won't be here, but I hope to hear you again.

Well, thank you.

♪ Mickey Jones actually has been with us second longest.

Mickey's our drummer-- as everyone probably knows, because it's been in all our biographies, was with Trini Lopez for eight years, Johnny Rivers for two years, Dylan for a year and a half.

My mom and dad are very young people.

We kind of all grew up together.

Mickey is probably the straightest of all of us.

I mean that Mickey is probably the most down-home of any of us.

I started writing about a year ago, and I just signed with the Glaser Brothers in Nashville.

I'm in the process of doing an album by myself.

(Mickey voice-over) I wanted to play just guitar and sing, but I ended up playing drums on a couple things, laying down a guitar track first, with a bass and steel.

My album's going to be very country.

[Mickey strumming guitar] ♪ So we loaded up the family car ♪ ♪ for Tallahassee.

♪♪ ♪ Hey, man, I've been trying to get you all day long!

You're phone's screwed up.

(male in brown shirt) Ho ld on just a minute.

Y'all know th ese folks here.

That's Terry Williams, that's Mary Arnold.

[background chatter] (Mickey) Hey, get your guitar.

Why don't you go get your guitar?

(group) Yeah!

(Male in brown shirt) I believe they afraid to get showed up, boys!

[Mickey strumming guitar] ♪ Today I started loving you again.

♪ ♪ ♪ What a fool I was ♪ ♪ to think I could get by.

♪♪ Even more importantly, the thing about Mickey is that he's a good-natured person.

He's fun to be around.

I'm the kind of guy that, I love when we get into town and have a day off, I say, "Okay, let's go to the movies" or let's do this or let's do that Very rarely anybody ever wants to do that, and I usually have to go by myself!

He's easy to get along with.

Anybody can get along with Mickey.

I don't care who you are.

An ex-con can get along with Mickey.

Got a heart of gold.

I talk to my kid every time.

I always talk to my little boy, and he gets such a charge.

I always drop him a postcard, and he loves to get postcards in the mail, you know.

That's the whole-- that's the whole reason for doing all this, is for my family.

I'm in the process of writing a book right now too.

The tentative title right now is called "The Drummer Boy."

Hah!

[Mickey playing drum finale] [applause] [applause] [silence] We have a new boy with the group.

I call him a boy because he's 20 years old and nobody's 20 years old anymore.

John is probably the real-- he's going to be a very, very big musical factor to the group, because we've just added him about three weeks ago.

He came in, really, on a trial basis.

He did some recording sessions with us in L.A.

I did a few sessions for Kenny.

I found out later that the group had been thinking about adding an organ/piano player for about a year, but they couldn't find anybody that they could get along with musically, and personally, I suppose, too.

We didn't know how compatible he was going to be.

It's funny because you get a good working thing going, and you don't want to let anybody screw it up.

We were afraid no one would fit in with our personalities.

I was living with my parents in Long Beach.

Kenny calls from Kansas City and says, "How'd you like to fly out to Kansas City and meet the guys in the group?"

I said, "Why, sure!"

An hour later, I was on the plane.

He came in and within two days, it was like he'd been with us all his life.

On this album we had a gentleman play piano and organ, and we were so knocked out by the job he did that we decided then and there that we couldn't go very much farther without him.

He has become a permanent member of The First Edition, a brother.

One of the finest men on keyboard that we've ever seen, Mr. John Hobbs, ladies and gentlemen!

[John playing in the style of Mozart] ♪ [boogie style] ♪ [boogie style] ♪ [contemporary style] [John playing discordantly] I've tried to explain to him, "You have no conception "of what's gonna happen to you in the next couple of years, and how this is going to change your life."

I wish I could explain what it's going to do for him.

[silence] ♪ [John playing in contemporary style] ♪ [boogie style] ♪ [jazz style] ♪ [jazz style] [silence] ♪ [jazz style] (male) Wow!

♪ [jazz style] [silence] [slow contemporary style] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [blues style to finish] ♪ [blues style to finish] [silence] (Terry) Russell, our road manager, who is the guy that sort of keeps us all living on the road-- Russell is a complete trip in himself!

Russell is unreal!

♪ [John playing in country piano style] ♪ [piano, pedal steel guitar music] ♪ ♪ ♪ [rock music, full band] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [music fades to finish] [silence] I don't know whether you're interested in musical training.

I was born in Houston, Texas.

The first professional job I had was when I was four years old.

I sang for nurses around the corner from my house at Saint Joseph's Hospital...

I made 50 cents.

I didn't pay any commissions on it, so it was really clear money!

Instead of the relationship going further as a friendship, it's gone further as a business relationship, because we've been confronted with that, being that the two of us are partners now.

There was more demand for bad bass players than bad guitar players, so I took up bass.

Kenny puts himself down a lot, thinking that he's not as good a musician as other people think he is.

I'm not a good bass player.

I play relatively good time, and I play the right notes most of the time.

I'm sloppy...I just believe in doing what feels right.

♪ [Kenny playing bass] Kenny has a knack for having ideas, and his ideas, generally, are right.

When we put the group together, we had a, if you will, game plan, in the choosing of the name, the choosing of our clothes, our physical appearance, choosing of material, so forth and so on.

We decided that we wanted to include the kids but not exclude the older people, mainly, I guess, for no specific reason other than-- well, I'm 32 years old, and it's awfully hard.

I don't care how hard you try.

I'm in the midst of the-- the teenage music, and it's awfully hard for me to relate to the really younger market-buying public.

I would love to...

I think that's the secret for getting professional attitude.

I think that's the secret in the "generation gap"-- closing it-- is being able to understand their music and see what it is they see about it.

I don't think it's really-- quite honestly, I don't think it's possible.

It's a music of their time.

It's a music about their experiences.

I don't think it's something that we can really relate to, no matter how hard we try.

♪ [Kenny playing acoustic guitar] ♪ Well, morning's come, and Lord, my mind is achin'.

♪ ♪ ♪ The sunshine's quietly standing at my door.

♪ ♪ ♪ Just like the dawn, my heart is slowly breakin', ♪ ♪ ♪ and with my tears, goes tumbling to the floor.

♪ ♪ ♪ Once again, the whole town will be talking.

♪ ♪ ♪ Yes, Lord, I've seen the pity in their eyes.

♪ ♪ ♪ They could never understand.

♪ ♪ It's her sorrow, not a man.

♪ ♪ No matter what they say, I know she tried.

♪ ♪ ♪ Baby's packed her soft things, ♪ ♪ and whoa, she's left me.

♪ ♪ ♪ I know she never meant to make me cry.

♪ ♪ [spoken] It's not her heart, Lord.

♪ It's her mind.

♪ ♪ She didn't mean to be unkind.

♪ ♪ Why, she even woke me up... ♪ ♪ to say goodbye.

♪♪ ♪ [comedic advertising voice] After a hard day's game, this hits the spot!

I will move the rock now!

[laughter] That's the football player.

(Kin) St ay away from dynamite caps.

Save your hands and eyes.

(Terry) I smoke these, but then, I do not have to run.

I am on the line.

[laughter] Now he is going through his workout.

Just working out, Coach!

How's the lather?

It's still moist.

Yeah, sure is.

[laughter] (Kenny) We got a letter.

It says, "We've gone through these pieces completely.

I want to talk to you about..." I find myself waking up wondering, Where am I?

Are we still in the United States?

Then people come up and ask you, "I saw you guys so-and-so.

Where have you been since?"

♪ Uh... ♪ Well, I don't know!

The road is a place that's chock-full of experiences, one right after another.

There's a whole different experience every day.

Something new is constantly happening.

You wake up and say, "I wonder what could happen to us today."

(Kin) Is this our bus driver?

What have you got?

Pizzas, beer, and pizzas...get back!

(Mickey singing) Get back...get back... get back to where you once belonged.

♪ [rock introduction, "Get Back"] ♪ ♪ ♪ Jo Jo was a boy who thought he was a loner, ♪ ♪ but he knew it couldn't last.

♪ ♪ Jo Jo left his home in Tucson, Arizona, ♪ ♪ for some California grass.

♪ ♪ Get back... get back... ♪ ♪ get back to where you once belonged.

♪ ♪ Get back... get back... ♪ ♪ get back to where you once belonged.

♪ ♪ Get back, Jo Jo.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Oh, no, no!

♪ ♪ ♪ Back, back, back, back, back, back, back.

♪ ♪ ♪ Ahhh, back, back!

♪ ♪ ♪ Back, back, back, back.

♪♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (Kenny) Now, my thumb's under there.

(Mickey) Li ght it down th rough here so a big wad of it will catch.

[background chatter] [male imitating reveille] (Terry) I don't believe you guys are having this much trouble!

[John playing melodica] [laughter] [comedic advertising voice] Baby Sister drinks it!

After a hard day in the trees with the monkeys, we reach for these... nourishing, delicious, and good for you.

The lather is still wet...sure is!

[background chatter] (Terry) Ho w was it?

Oh, it was delicious and nutritious!

[imitating Gomer Pyle] Surprise, surprise!

[coconut hitting grass] thud [background chatter, highway noises] [coconut hitting cement] thwock!

[highway noises] [excited laughter] [background chatter, highway noises] (Mary) Would you push the hair out of my face so it's not in my mouth?

[background chatter] (Kenny) Give me some bread.

(Mary) Where's the cheese?

(Kenny) John, how much footage do you usually shoot on a specific subject?

(Mickey) Terry, Terry!

(Terry) Yea!

[background chatter] (Kenny) I don't want to say anything, but we spent $35.00, and we could have all had steaks for that.

[hands slapping, laughter] (Mary) Hang in there, Ter.

[hands slapping, laughter] (Terry) Oh !

[laughter] (Mary) Your new jacket!

(Terry) Oh , no...

I ripped my jacket!

(Kenny) I got an idea.

Why don't we tear that jacket off of him?

(Mary) Yeah, let's do!

(Terry) Oh , no.

(Kenny) Come on!

(Mary) Whoo!

No, not my jacket!

My new jacket!

Help, help!

[laughter] Ahhh...ahhh!

(Kenny) We got it off of him!

Come on, come on!

Was that your new jacket?

(Terry) Ugh!

(Mickey) It's lit!

[highway noises, laughter] [bottle rocket igniting] woooosh!

[cheering] [coughing] [laughter, background chatter] [bass being tuned] (male) One, one...testing, one, one...repeat, one, testing...one, two, three, testing.

(Mary) We see so much of each other that when we get home, it's a treat to just be by yourself.

We see each other or call each other a lot, but it's nice to just get away if you know you're going to be out another month, because, ach... it gets monotonous!

[silence] (Kenny) Where's Mary?

♪ Lay it down.

♪ [piano introduction] ♪ Travelin' down on different roads... ♪ I enjoy the road.

I really do... if not for too long.

♪ ♪ Trying hard to leave the load.

♪ ♪ ♪ We take it there, though we can't let go.

♪ We've got it down now to where we'll go out for two or three weeks and then go home to LA for a week.

That way, it is possible to keep your sanity and still work.

♪ It's so hard to lay it down.

♪ ♪ There's a certain place along the way where you really just cannot participate.

It's a young man's market in the record business.

You can produce, but you can't travel on the road, and you can't actively be part of it.

♪ ...and you and me should lay it down.

♪ ♪ ♪ Speak to me... ♪ I think I'm doing all of this now, and I'm traveling and I'm on the road now a lot so that maybe in a few years, I won't have to be on the road.

Then I'll be able to spend-- if I want to take 3 or 4 weeks, a month and go somewhere with my family.

♪ ♪ Wish my words could make it well.

♪ ♪ ♪ Wish that I could break the spell.

♪ ♪ ♪ Take us from this self-made hell ♪ ♪ ♪ and find a way to lay it down.

♪ I'll say to people wanting to get into the music business... first and foremost, enjoy it.

Take whatever it has to offer.

Don't let it become a hang up with you.

If you're going to make it, you're going to make it.

If you're not, don't let it become such an issue that it defeats everything else, and don't blow your education to get into it.

I think I could probably, if I put myself to it, do just about anything I ever tried to do really well... but this is about the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

As it turns out, it's the only thing I try hard enough to do to do well... um... [background chatter] and I still have not found out why I even do it.

♪ ♪ Speak to me, be unashamed.

♪ ♪ ♪ There's no time for playin' games.

♪ ♪ ♪ After all, we're all the same, ♪ ♪ ♪ just tryin' hard to lay it down.

♪ ♪ (male doing sound check) One.

♪ Lay it down.

♪♪ [John playing piano melody] (male) Boop-a-doop, beh-beh-boo!

(Kin) Where are we-- Shamrock drugs.

(Kin as Gomer Pyle) Uh-oh, Sergeant, they gonna cut us in here.

They gonna cut us.

[background chatter] Where's all the candy?

I want to know where the candy is.

(Kenny) Hey, hey, Terry, get some batteries for the bus.

Can we get some batteries for the bus?

[background chatter] Doo-doo- doo-doo-doo.

Oh, no... chewing gum funny face!

[evil laugh] [comedic advertising voice] After a hard day on the stage, I reach for this!

Some people think B.B.

's the only one that knows how to play the blues.

I play the blues myself!

[laughter] Have you ever seen such mass confusion in your life?

♪ Yeah.

♪ ♪ Yeah.

♪ ♪ Whoa, yeah.

♪ ♪ What condition my condition was in.

♪ ♪ ♪ I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in.

♪ ♪ ♪ I found my mind in a brown paper bag within.

♪ Can we cut all these lights off... or do you guys need those?

Never mind cutting the lights off.

(male) Do you want that off?

No, it's too late now.

We'll just hang around here and sweat.

(Terry) The fact that we're hot and roasting and that we're stars, I don't think, should enter into this.

(female) It doesn't.

♪ ♪ Tripped on a cloud and fell eight miles high.

♪ ♪ Tore my mind on a jagged sky.

♪ ♪ Dropped in to see what condition ♪ ♪ my condition was in.

♪♪ (Terry) Ow!

(Kin) Hit him...in the mouth.

[bus engine rumbling] Ow!

(Mary) Come here.

Now, don't do that again!

[engine rumbling] (Kenny) You guys are like real brother and sister.

She beats me up all the time.

Pleasure?

No... it's a passport to payment.

(male) Wh ich implies that it 's foreign, right?

Yeah, right.

Anything out of the county, to a lot of the people, is foreign.

Passport.

Passport also denotes...

"ticket."

In other words, "free ride."

And inn is important, which, in turn, means "the inn of the chains," which is a bunch of inns.

(male) Ho liday?

Uh, holiday...

I don't know.

[laughter] Yes, sir... pleasure.

[engine rumbling] Hey, I am really loaded.

Kenny's busy.

[Mary playing melodica] [engine rumbling, laughter] [engine rumbling, laughter] I'm stoned as a [bleep], man.

God!

[imitating explosion noise] It's hard to explain to anyone or to comprehend what you go through on the road.

You go through an awful lot of garbage.

You put up with an awful lot from a lot of people, because the fact that you have long hair makes you the kind of person that 75% of the United States don't want to have anything to do with.

Yet, at the same time, no matter what you go through on the road hassle-wise, it's all worth it the time you get up onstage.

As soon as you're onstage and the standing ovation at the end of a show... it's worth everything that you go through.

(Kenny) Tell it all, brother.

[band playing drums, tambourine] ♪ Tell it all, brother, before we fall.

♪ ♪ Tell it all, brothers and sisters, ♪ ♪ tell it all.

♪ ♪ How much you're holding back on me, ♪ ♪ when you say you're giving all, ♪ ♪ ♪ and in the dungeons of your mind, ♪ ♪ ♪ who you got chained to the wall?

♪ ♪ Tell it all, brother, before we fall.

♪ ♪ Tell it all, brothers and sisters, ♪ ♪ tell it all.

♪ ♪ ♪ Did you plant your feet on higher ground ♪ ♪ ♪ to avoid life's mud and stone?

♪ ♪ ♪ Did you ever kick a good man when he was down ♪ ♪ just to make yourself feel strong?

♪ ♪ ♪ Tell it all, brother, before we fall.

♪ ♪ Tell it all, brothers and sisters, ♪ ♪ tell it all.

♪ ♪ ♪ Tomorrow just might be too late.

♪ ♪ ♪ Now is the time ♪ ♪ to get your jumbled mind straight ♪ ♪ and seek a new design.

♪ ♪ Did you ever walk before a crippled man ♪ ♪ ♪ pretending you were lame, ♪ ♪ ♪ and what made you think one feeble hymn to God ♪ ♪ was gonna make Him call your name?

♪ ♪ Tell it all, brother, before we fall.

♪ ♪ Tell it all, brothers and sisters, tell it all.

♪ ♪ Tell it all, brother, before we fall.

♪ ♪ Tell it all, brothers and sisters, tell it all.

♪ ♪ Tell it all, brother, before we fall.

♪ ♪ Tell it all, brothers and sisters, tell.

♪ ♪ Tell it all, brother, ♪ ♪ before we fall.

♪ ♪ Tell it all.

♪ ♪ Tell it all.

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