And I do think that that possibly may play into it as well.

Well, one thing while I was listening to what you were saying, something just came to me that the Strawberry Alarm Clock has a kind of a mystical aura around us.

Like, how do we stay together for like 60 years? Or what have you guys been doing? And people are curious and they want to hear our new songs because everybody remembers Incense of Peverments.

Yeah.

We don't want to be known as a one-hit wonder.

I mean, we have over 110 songs, probably 120 songs in our catalog or more.

And we're trying to pick up where we left off.

yeah

So when you go to Afghanistan for this trip, do you have a, a specific time or are you going open-ended? H- how does your idea or the plan look for you when you're, let's say, let's say when you arrive?

I booked my flight in and out, and that was it.

So I allowed myself, I think, uh, 18 days.

It was two and a half weeks.

So to go to Afghanistan, you gotta fly through, there are only a few countries you can get there from, and one of them is Dubai.

And so first I flew to Dubai and applied for the visa there.

Got the visa and then hopped on my flight with a Afghani airline called Kam Air, uh, and landed in Kabul.

But when you get up and start to walk outside, what do you see?

Mark, number one.

Well, my list of songs would definitely have to include Jimi Hendrix.

I think Uncle Greg and I were on the same wavelength.

I think number one is Are You Experienced? Just did it for me.

When I first heard it, I just said, oh my God, what...

What is he doing, you know? And, you know, Hendrix was so new on the scene and he came on so strong at the beginning that I would say that, you know, headphones on, sometimes you had a little help with some herb.

When I heard that, that was it.

for some reason had to do it anyway that's it that's my five all right

number one.

Well, my list of songs would definitely have to include Jimi Hendrix.

I think Uncle Greg and I were on the same wavelength.

I think number one is Are You Experienced? Just did it for me.

When I first heard it, I just said, oh my God, what...

What is he doing, you know? And, you know, Hendrix was so new on the scene, and he came on so strong at the beginning that I would say that, you know, headphones on, sometimes you had a little help with some herb.

When I heard that, that was it.

for some reason had to do it anyway that's it that's my five

To get that Acapulco gold Ain't nothing it can't fix Old dogs can learn new tricks

They were in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

He mailed the tape to them and asked them to write lyrics to the music track of Not Yet Named Incense and Peppermints.

We had a working title on it at the time.

I'm not going to repeat it.

What came back was the lyrics that John Carter wrote solely It was told to us that he did it with a rhyming dictionary.

He sent back the reel-to-reel tape.

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