Lou was really everything to us, you know, I mean he, in many ways, acted as our manager, our advisor, our producer, tastemaker, you know, he just, Lou's extremely conscious of how things should work, you know,
and he can guide you beautifully along certain lines that he understands, and he has a complete understanding of certain things, such as public images and things like that, and what works and what doesn't work and what's natural.
That's Lou's great talent as a producer, you know, is that he knows when something sounds natural and free, that's it, you got it.
Yeah, Creaky Alley was written as a sort of travel map for Lou Adler, who never could figure out how we all knew each other, how we all got together, and Sebastian and Zal and all those people, and, you know, McGuire, McGuinn, so, got it together for him one night in the form of a song.
Joan and Mitchie were getting kind of itchy just to leave the folk music behind, Zal and Denny working for a penny, tried to get a fish on the line, in a coffeehouse Sebastian sat, and after every number they passed the hat, McGuinn and McGuire's just a-getting higher in L.A., you know where that's at,
and no one's getting fat except Mama Cass.
Zal and Denny said, you know there aren't many who can sing a song the way that you do, let's go south, Denny said, Zolly golly, don't you think that I wish I could play guitar like you,
Zal and Denny and Sebastian sat, and after every number they passed the hat, McGuinn and McGuire's still a-getting higher in L.A., you know where that's at, and no one's getting fat except Mama Cass.
When Cass was a sophomore, planned to go to Swarthmore, but she changed her mind one day, standing on the turnpike, thumb out the hitchhike, take her to New York right away.
When Denny met Cass, he gave her love bombs, he called John and Zol, and that was the month from, McGuinn and McGuire couldn't get no higher, but that's what they were aiming at, and no one's getting fat except Mama Cass.
Mugworms, high jumps, low slumps, big bumps, don't you work as hard as you play, make up, break up, everything you shake up, yes, it had to be that way, Sebastian and Zol formed a spoonful.
Still John and Denny getting very spoonful, McGuinn and McGuire just a-catching fire in L.A., you know where that's at, and everybody's getting fat except Mama Cass.
Robusted, disgusted, agents can't be trusted, and then she wants to go to the sea.
Cass can't make it, she says we'll have to fake it, we knew she'd come eventually, greasing on American Express cars, and slow rent, but keeping out the heat's hard.
These good vibrations in our imaginations can't go on indefinitely, and California dreaming is becoming a reality.