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ACT 1

( Somewhere in deep suburbia, nowadays…
A group of good American alcohol consumers gather round…)

1- TALES OF TWO GUYS NAMED JOE
Some Sailor:
Sitting all night in a Chinese pub in the country
Spinning out tales of my life at sea
And two guys named Joe
Their awkward tale of a three-year trip
And a guru who left them high and dry
( Sailor, munching a pouch of spinach, points to a video screen above the bar. We see two over aged hippies on screen…)

Hippies: Dreaming, dreaming of a perfect high
Dreaming, dreaming of the perfect high

Sailor: They traveled fifteen hundred miles
To comes to grips with life on Earth
The neighbors only sat and smiled,
“They’ll only find their just dessert..” ( Dreaming…..)

So this is the tale of two guys named Joe Seed and Joe Chillum
And their do-nothing lives, and a bicycle tube, And the C.I.A.
There’s not much to tell, they weren’t doing too well
They were unhappy as hell TILL THEY HEARD THE WORD

Voice on TV: And the word was BUM. Seed and Chillum were BUMS. They spent every day out on the street corner, Bumming for a dime.

( Flashback to three years earlier –
somewhere in central New Jersey…)

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from THE PANCHILLA GORILLA - 40th Anniversary Edition, released December 23, 1979
1- TALES OF TWO GUYS NAMED JOE (c. breetveld)
Acoustic guitar- Hal Ketofsky
Drums- Bill DiMartino (Dino)
Piano, bass, acoustic & electric guitars, tambourine,
woodblocks & Vocals-Chris Breetveld

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The Breetles Princeton, New Jersey

The Breetles, an American power-pop band, are Chris Breetveld and anyone who plays Breetles songs, with or without him. They became one of the founding rocks of the "Kendall Park (New Jersey) Sound" starting around 1982. They have been described as the illegitimate flower-child of The Who, The Beatles, XTC, The Kinks, Mrs. Miller and Cheap Trick. Power-pop, cleverly-stupid, quiet is the new loud. ... more

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