All Is by My Side Page #6

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- He your ooga-booga man?

- Sod off, you gobshite.

You talk like you're pissed. Are you drunk?

You want a public morals charge?

You in the military?

Yeah. I'm a soldier.

Which war?

All of them.

I'm in a constant,

constant struggle against...

the color gray, fat mattresses,

you know, small minds.

I'm always losing that one though.

- Having a laugh?

- Yeah. Yeah, we are. We're having a laugh.

- Off the path, please, sir.

- Sorry, sir.

- My pa was in the military.

- Yeah.

God bl-God-God-God bless him.

Died wearing that jacket.

This one?

'Cause this is from the Veterinary Corps.

Your pa died, like, handling donkeys and

asses or something like that?

- Don't you-

- It's all right, mate.

Don't do that,

'cause it ain't worth it, is he?

You're a disgrace to every man

who wore that uniform.

Take it off.

Take it off.

Bop it. On your bike.

Bike? We don't have no bike.

F***ing-

You shouldn't have given him your jacket.

You shouldn't have given it to him.

You don't know what it's like.

You don't have to go through it.

Don't even need to talk about it.

It was a hell of a show... on paper.

- Yeah?

- McCartney phoned up himself.

Says he's recommending you personally.

There's only two acts representing the UK.

- What's the other?

- Well, The Who is the other.

Of course, yeah.

Monterey.

I've never even been to Monterey.

Is it warm?

No, it's Northern California,

but you don't have to worry about that.

I think I'd better bring a proper coat.

Do you think I'll need a new coat?

We should get new coats.

Hey, who-who else is playing?

Uh, Otis Redding, he's on.

The Mamas and the Papas.

- John Phillips, it's his thing.

- Yeah, yeah.

Uh, The Who, like I said.

Jefferson Airplane.

And you.

Jimi. Come on. Give us a smile, son, huh?

- This is a good day.

- Yeah.

It's a hell of a day.

You know, talk

about the guitar and,

I mean, it's about

what you do on stage.

I mean, you are just electric up there.

I mean, we don't even care-

it's what you do, essentially.

You can feel this vibe. We all feel it.

Can you feel it? I think we should just-

It's the herald of a new age.

CHATTERING, AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

Hey, hey, hey.

Put that back. Come on now.

What are you doing?

What time is it?

I don't know. 2:
00, maybe.

2:
00.

The Salvation Army band's playing outside.

Do you want to go have a listen?

I want to go out.

Yeah, okay.

I want to go out with you.

IFS 2:
00!

I heard you the first time.

It's 2:
00 and you're just sitting there.

You never want to go out.

Woman, I gig every night.

You play music. That's not socializing.

Don't lay this sh*t on me now.

I want to go out with people.

W-Well, go-

I don't wanna go out with people.

It just make me uptight.

They're always just-just bullshitting.

Everyone makes you uptight.

They're not always bullshitting.

But if they're not talking

about Dylan or Howlin'

Wolf, you don't wanna

hear what they say.

There are more things

to talk about, you know.

Wh-Wh-Okay, what?

What do you want to talk about?

Speak.

AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

One way or the other, man.

There was no middle of the road.

I've got friends.

- Who?

- Right.

I've got people that I can hang out with.

F***'s sake. F*** does he think he is?

Ooh, oh, my God. You're so f***ing cool.

You're not f***ing cool.

You're f***ing boring is what you are.

Uptight f***ing bastard.

Thinks the f***ing sun shines

out of his f***ing ass.

Who does he think I am,

for f***'s sake, an old maid?

Bastard.

F*** you.

Stay-at-home bloody girl.

You know what? Get the f*** out of here.

I don't need this sh*t.

CHATTERING CONTINUES,

AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

It's good? You like it?

Yeah, I dig it. I-It's cool.

What's it about?

It's about this star child, this

super-intelligent being

out in the universe.

Right. Okay.

And it's just out there, just waiting.

Then one day it's gonna

come down from outer

space and save us

all from ourselves.

You know, teach us, you know, not to hate,

you know, and how to really, really love.

Well, that's-that's heavy.

- You know, it's for real.

- Yeah?

Yeah. There's all sorts of things out there

we don't even know about.

Like, other people in the solar system that

have the same feelings that we do.

Okay.

Without the bad feelings, you know.

You know, like, our negative vibrations

upset their way of living, for instance.

- Yeah.

- And they're a whole lot-

Nothing but negativity bringing us down.

But the solar system is

going through this huge change.

It's gonna affect Earth

in about 30 years, yeah.

And our space brothers,

they're gonna come down...

and they're gonna show us the way.

- The way?

- Yeah.

I dig that.

- Oh, hey.

- What are you doing?

- We were just hanging out.

- What have you done to him?

Jimi, wake up! Open your eyes!

- What have you given him?

- Nothing.

- Come on. Get up now. Wake up.

- He's good.

- We just smoked some weed.

- You've got to get up now.

Get out!

You have to get up now. Come on.

No, no. it's cool. We

were just hanging out.

I missed you.

W-We were just talking.

You know, he was going on about the star

child and science fiction and all that.

He just wanted me to stay with him

until you got back.

You want this?

He just bought it.

Okay.

I get it.

You're all right. You can stay.

- No, I'm gonna-

- No, you're all right.

All right.

I've seen him play. He's good.

- He's great.

- Yeah, he's gonna be a rock star one day.

He is a rock star. He already is one.

All right.

- Where's that accent from?

- Milwaukee.

- Don't know it.

- There's nothing to know.

- You been together long?

- Since he arrived.

Since last September.

Really? That's a long

time in groupie years.

I'm not a groupie. I'm his girlfriend.

All right, girlfriend. Okay.

What's your magic?

I'm a bloody good time.

We have a laugh. That's my magic.

Should have seen what I

got him away from. God.

All fixed teeth and plummy talk.

Boring..

- Easy's always boring.

- Hmm.

You ever been with any

rock 'n' rollers then?

Yeah, I been with plenty.

What was the longest?

Uh, one time I was with

the same cat for, uh...

five and a half months.

Five and one half. Yeah.

What happened?

Oh, he met a better-looking girl.

Wasn't no thing.

Then I met a bigger rock star.

It's all about the bigger, better deal.

But you don't gotta worry about that.

I'll never meet a bigger rock star?

He'll never meet a finer-looking girl.

We're not even on the damn charts, man.

Top 100, and we don't even

make any kind of ripple or nothing, man.

People need to put a face to the music.

You know, you need to get seen over there.

What you said-You said if we wanted to win,

we have to take London.

You have. You have taken London.

But we've got nowt if

we don't take America.

It's always something with you, man.

You start with one thing

and then it turns into some other bullshit.

- What is that, man?

- I'm not bullshitting you.

Not with the record where it's at.

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