Leroy and Lard loaded up the van and drove out to a place called ‘Jonestown’. They were moving to a small hippy community on Lake Travis about 20 miles northwest of Austin. They found a furnished house to rent and it was just a short walk to the lake.
Just as they entered the small town which was only a general store, Leroy lit up a joint, took a hit and handed it to Lard and said, “Lard, this is going to be a nice place to live and work on our music.”
They pulled up along side the large wooden front porch attached to their house and hopped out. Off the front porch facing the lake was a field of colorful wild flowers. The were both pretty buzzed and sat down on the porch for a minute and just took in the quiet beauty of their new place.
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Leroy and Lard were sitting on their porch in Jonestown Texas with their feet dangling over the edge. They were both pretty buzzed and looking down at the red ants moving along a narrow path just below their feet. They just stared at them for a long time and then looked at each other and smiled. Lard said, " Whoa...those ants are really cool! Look at them go." Then Leroy said, "Yeah, they really seem to know what they're doing, I wonder where they are going."
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Lard said with a grin, "I bet they're going to hook up with the queen...ha ha ha"
Leroy : "Yeah...awesome."
Lard: "Look, some of them are carrying white things in their mouth!"
Leroy : Yeah...awesome."
Lard: "And half of them are going the other way...what's the deal with that?"
Leroy : "Whoa. Maybe they're running from the King....ha ha ha !!"
Lard looked over a Leroy and said, "Heavy thought man."
Leroy : "Hey, let's get our guitars and play some rock-n-roll for them and see what they do. They might like it."
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Leroy and Lard got up and went into the house. They moved their amps out onto the porch and then got their guitars and plugged them in. They sat back down and Leroy said, "Ok...how about 'Whole lot a love' by the Led?"
Lard says, "Awesome, but wait, let's light up a joint first."
They took a couple of hits off the joint and then Lards said, "Let's do it, 1 2 3 4..."
They played for a few minutes and then stopped to look down at the ants. The ants didn't change or seem to even notice the fine music coming at them. Leroy turned around, cranked up the volume on his amp and looked back down at the ants and ripped off a nice lead guitar riff.
NOTHING
Lard said, "Wow, nice riff Leroy , but they didn't seem to notice....oh well let's just keep playing.
