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6- WE’RE OFF
Seed
Chillum: It’s been nice in New Jersey
But we must be going
It’s just a matter of time
This MAGIC TUBE is moving

We’re off to find that magic man
Who’ll tell me what I am, who’ll tell me what is wrong
Please tell me the secret of your ways
The perfect buzz-on every day
The highest high of all
Freedom, free from the clutches of real life
Wisdom, to know why we want freedom

We’re off, we’ll go from land to land
Gotta find Panchilla Man
Gotta make him understand
That we’re all just looking for a way to get by,
Always looking for another high
But life just passes by
Power, some people seek it by the hour
We don’t care, we just need power for our stereos
And radios
And micro-wave ovens and fridge

Gotta get out, don’t want to think much
Don’t wanna be here, I want to lose touch
Gotta find him one of these days
Seed to
Chillum: Look Carlos,
( He sometimes called him carlos, I don’t know why…)
the TUBE….it..speaks…

( The TUBE starts moving around until it transforms into a near-human looking head, kinda like Howard Cosell. )

TUBE: We will pass through many lands on the way to Panchilla: each village will be a different high in itself. The Perfect High may be found in any one…Or possibly not at all….

( The boys soon enter into the first of a host of strange places. Here, the alcoholic high is on constant tap. People are Ga-Ga, trashed, Billy Ray’d, blasted. The TUBE cautions that they might indeed find themselves VERY happy here – and not want to ever leave. After passing statues of Ulysses S. Grant, W.C. Fields, Ray Davies and Jerry Falwell, Seed & Chillum come to the town square. With four bars on every corner, it kinda looks like South River – but they are far away…in the Land of Lush…)

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from THE PANCHILLA GORILLA - 40th Anniversary Edition, released December 23, 1979
6- WE’RE OFF (c. breetveld)
Drums- Bill DiMartino
Lead guitar- Hal Gertrude Ketofsky
Guitars, bass, piano, clavioline, lead Vocals- Chris Breetveld
Bongos- Dennis Diken
Percussion- Rob Rothschild, Dino & Chris
“Tube”- Rob Rothschild

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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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