Notes & Comments - 200 Motels

October 1971, 86:21 min

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200 MOTELS
          Notes & Comments
           ver.05-April-96

             put together by
  Vladimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su)

  lyrics was originaly transcribed by
    gordo 

  corrected and reorganized with the help of
    _Plastic People. Corrected Version_
              songbook by
  Vladimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su)

            special thanks to
    Johannes Labisch 
     "David G. Walley" 



     M  - Mark Vollmam,
     H  - Howard Kaylan,
     Jm - Jimmy Carl Black
     Jf - Martin Lickert
     T  - Theodor Bikel
     Ch - Chorus
     Sp - Female Soprano
     Tr - Male Tenore
     GC - Good Concience
     BC - Bad Concience
     Evr - Everybody :-)


Semi-fraudulent/Direct-from-Hollywood Overture
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

T:   Ladies and gentlemen!
Ch:  200 motels
T:   200 motels.. Life on the road.

#          From: Vladimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su)
#  It seems that an explanation of Mr. Rance Muhammitz heavy german accent
# can be found on various bootleg tracks of Flo'n'Eddie era. Here goes the
# prince of boots... The Swiss Cheese :-)
#
#           From: Johannes Labisch 
#
#  And addressed them formaly
#  With the little song in Deutsch
#  Because that is the way he talks whenever it's heavy business
#
#  Take it away God
#
#  Gib zu mir
#  Etwas Fußbodenbelag
#  Unter diesem fetten, fließenden Sofa
#
#  So if we remember that Rance Muhammitz is just one of the Devil's many names
# we must admit that accordingly to FZ model of Heaven and Hell the mother
# tongue of the angels should be deutsch! Ich bin Maroon !!!!!!!


Mystery Roach
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

M&H: How long? How long?
     Till that MYSTERY ROACH be arrivin' soon
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     Ya-ooo Ya-ooo Ya-ooo Ya-ooo

# The Concise Oxford Dictionary
#
#      roach 1. n. small freshwater fish allied to carp
#            2. n. coackroach
#            3. (sl.) marijuanna cigarette-butt
#  So the question arised. Who is approachin' soon? The freshwater mudshark?
# Or stinky dope butt for Jeff Simmons? Or are there any kind of little
# home pets ( see 2 ) in USA motels?
#
#           From: "David G. Walley" 
#  Jeff Simmons was a pothead, I should know, I got stoned with him in London
# during 200 Motels, so I think it's more likely a stinky dope butt.


     Mystery, mystery, mystery, mystery,
     mystery, mystery, mystery, mystery, roach!

Tuna Fish Promenade
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ch:  All the people in the Sandwich Town
     think the place is great.
     What if part of it's crumbling down?
     Most of them prob'ly won't be 'round ...

H:   They'll either be dead..
M:   or moved to San Francisco.

H:   ( Where everybody thinks they're Heavy Business.
       But it's just a Tuna Sandwich from another catering service. )

# from _The Real FZ Book_
#  "San Francisco in the mid-sixties was very chauvinistic, and ethnocentric.
# To the Friscoids' way of thinking, everything that came from THEIR town
# was REALLY IMPORTANT ART, and anything from anyplace else ( espesially L.A.)
# was dogshit. Rolling Stone magazine helped to promote this fiction,
# nationwide."
#                p.68

The Sealed Tuna Bolero
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

M&H:
     from a matron in La Habre
                      ^^^^^^^^
#           From: "Charles H. Ulrich" 
#  La Habra, a city in Orange Country, California, just north of Fullerton.

     with a blown-out crack who dies to suck the fringe off  Jimmy Carl Black.
                      ^^^^^^
#           From: chris@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
#  'Crack' in this case refers to 'Vagina'


Lonesome Cowboy Burt
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

M&H: He's LONESOME COWBOY BURT.
     Don'tcha get his feelings hurt.


Jm:  Come on in this place
     an' I'll buy you a taste.
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#           From: chris@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
# I will buy you a drink

      You can sit on my face.
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#           From: chris@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
# I will perform cunnilingus on you

     Where's my waitress?
     OPAL, YOU HOT LITTLE BITCH!
     ^^^^^
#           From: Valdimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su)
#  That not very common in english spoken world girl's name is appeared to be
# directly from Frank Lancaster boyhood.
#
#           From: mdryden@cix.compulink.co.uk (Martyn Dryden)
# Transcribed from BBC Television tribute movie interview, Dec 18, 1993
# FZ:
#  I hadn't been raised in an environment where there was a lot of music
# in the house.  This couple that owned the chili place, Opal and
# Chester, agreed to ask the man who serviced the jukebox to put in
# some of the song titles that I liked, because I promised that I would
# dutifully keep pumping quarters into this thing so I could listen to
# them.  So I had the ability to eat good chili and listen to Three
# Hours Past Midnight by Johnny Guitar Watson, for most of my junior and
# senior years.
#
#           From: Robert Moore 
#  Actually, the true derivation of the name Opal is the fact that it is still
# quite  common  for  rednecks  and  other  rustic country folk to name their
# daughters   after   gemstones   and  other  objects  of  value.   A  social
# anthropologist  might  make  the  argument that, at least in the beginning,
# many  of these people started out being so poor that a "grand name" was the
# only grand thing they could give to their female children.
# The  name  Opal  is  a  right  and  proper  name  when  one wishes to put a
# "down-home  country aroma" on something.  Other names which have equal spin
# are: Pearl, Crystal, Ruby, Viola.
#
#CC
#           From: Valdimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su:-)))))
#  It's interesting to note that in the movie, Devil aka Rance Muhammitz
# also don't mind to be called Opal Hot Little Bitch. He appeared behind
# Lonesome Cowboy of the group Jimmy Carl Black right after his final Opal cry,
# and tryed to sale Mr.Black bottle of beer for his eternal soul. Not long
# ago he offered very similar deal - cheesburger for soul to Mr.Jeff Simmons.
# No one agreed. It seems that poor bastard played low. The real market price
# of 20 century soul was correctly estimated later ( see _Titties and Beer_
# from FZ in New York )

Would You Like a Snack?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

M&H: Went on the road
     for a month touring.

#CC
#           From: Valdimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su:-)
#  Of course it's BWS's Holiday in Berlin with rascal vocal of two clowns.
# See also BWS N&C.

Shove It Right In
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

M&H: She chooses all the clothes
     she'll wear tonight to dance in.
     (She dances, she prances, she dances, she prances)
     The places that she goes
     are filled with guys from groups,
        yeah-yeah-yeah
     Waiting for a chance to break her pants in.

     PROVOCATIVE SQUATS!
     Gum me on m'lunga
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#           From: Vladimir Sovetov ( sova@bank.kemerovo.su )
#  The line is from corrected by FZ copy of Plastic People Songbook, so no
# reason to talk about thickness of an earwax :-)))
#
#           From: ivester@utkvx.utk.edu (Stan Ivester)
#  I always heard this line as "Will help me up the ladder"--i.e., achieve
# higher groupie status. But if it's this way in the printed lyrics, then I
# dunno. Maybe it's from the same language as "Krega Bondolo"???
#
#           From: "David G. Walley" 
#  No, that's the right line, it all depends on how you hear what you hear.
# I'm assuming you know that the lyrifcs to the infamous "Louie, Louie" were
# totally incomprehensible and so people made up their own salacious ones?



Dental Hygeine Dilemma
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Jf:  Man! This stuff is great! It's just as if Donovan himself had appeared
                                               ^^^^^^^
#           From: ivester@utkvx.utk.edu (Stan Ivester)
#  Donovan Leitch, of "Atlantis" fame. His daughter, Iona Skye Leitch (who
# I believe now goes by just "Iona Skye") is a fairly well-known movie actor
# in the US. She was in "The River's Edge" a few years back.
#
#           From: chris@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
#  He was a peace and love version of Bob Dylan. Major hits in 67-68, appeared
# at the Bath festival in 1970 and bored everybody shitless.
#
#CC
#           From: joe@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# "Remember Donovona, the guy with the brocate coat? He used to sing to you
# about atlantis.."
#	(From: "The Blue Light", "Tinseltown Repellion")




Jf:  In this group, all I ever get to do is play Zappa's comedy music.
     _He_ eats!
     ^^^^^^^^^^
#           From: Vladimir Sovetov ( sova@bank.kemerovo.su )
#  HE SUCKS! ( See Chunga's Revenge N&C _Road Ladies_ )


     Ahmet Ertegun used this towel as a bathmat six weeks ago at a rancid
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#           From: chris@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
# The founder of Atlantic Records and a big wheel in the music business
#
#           From: ivester@utkvx.utk.edu (Stan Ivester)
#  One of the Ertegun  brothers, who founded Atlantic Records, which put
# out some great jazz and R&B in the '50s & '60s. The other brother's name
# is Nesushi . I believe they are of Arab descent. Ahmet Zappa was named
# for Ahmet Ertegun.

     motel in Orlando, Florida, with the highest mildew rating of any
     commercial lodging facility within the territorial limits of the United
     States, naturally excluding tropical possessions. It's still damp. What
     an aroma! This is the best I ever got off! What can I say about this
     elixir? Try it on steaks! Cleans nylons! Small craft warnings! It's
     ^^^^^^^
#           From: Vladimir Sovetov ( sova@bank.kemerovo.su )
#  In the movie this infamous liqiud is a content of a bottle labeled
#
#        -----------------------
#        |       SHMERTZ       |
#        |                     |
#        |   Golden Rot Gut    |
#        |        BEER         |
#        -----------------------
#
#           From: pepke@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
#  I think it was a corruption of German/Yiddish "Schmerz," which means ache
# or pain.
#
#           once again From: Vladimir Sovetov ( sova@bank.kemerovo.su :-)
#  May be I am wrong but in Russian Shmert' is Death. The Russian comes to my
# mind just because of three cyrillic characthers on the front of unforgetable
# Rance cap .
#  O|O A K is a Russian spelling of the word FUCK.

M&H: What can I say about this elixir?

M:  Jeff has gone out there on that stuff!

#           From: Vladimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su)
#  In the movie Flo'n'Eddie part of _Dental Hygeine Dilemma_ existed
# as separate piece. And can be heard  ( while multicoloured Jeff very
# unnaturly simulating drug induced madness ) right before Teodor Bikel
# final _Strictly Genteel_ benediction :-).
#

BC:  He should have never have used the elixir and only stuck to the incense.
     Oh, Atlantis.
        ^^^^^^^^^^
#           From: chris@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
#  This was the title of an album by Donovan, referred to above. I think
# Donovan is used throughout the album to define a plastic, definitely
# non-hip musician type. There is no doubt that he started out well, but
# became the sort of 'pop' star so often produecd in Britian who mimics
# American styles, not too well, and with little substance. Cliff Richard is
# another example of this. You can always tell, they sing with American accents
# even if they've never been further West than Uxbridge.

M:   That was Billy the Mountain, dressed up like Donovan, fading out on the
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     wall-mounted TV screen. Jeff _is_ flipping out. Road fatigue! We've got

M:   Howard, that was Studebacher Hoch, dressed up like Jim Pons, giving
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#CC
#           From: Vladimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su)
#  The mysterious creatures from _Just Another Band From L.A._. The last one
# some folks say ( despite being dressed like Jim Pons ) looks like Zubin
# Mehta :-)))
#  BTW, many people think that the last is not Hoch
#           From: Bruce Lowenthal (lowenthal_bruce@tandem.com)
#  A "Studebaker Hawk" is a type of car that went out of production around
# 1960. Studebaker was one of the oldest US companies and manufactured
# Conastoga  wagons which were used to cross the plains in the mid 1800's.
#  While Studebaker made what many thought were "funky" cars the Hawk seemed
# pretty "snazzy" and perhaps FZ.  In any case it is pretty clear that
# "Studebaker Hawk" was named after the car.
#
#  OK, but it still wasn't named , it's a pun, because in mentioned above
# corrected by FZ Plastic People Songbook _Studbaker Hawk_ of the original
# transcribing rewrited by Frank own hand on _Studebacher Hoch_.
#
#           From: Robert Moore 
#  Yes,  but  it's  BOTH a pun and the name of a car. This same bird-pun idea
# was  used later in Act III of Joe's Garage for the song "Packard Goose".  A
# "Packard" was another defunct automobile of an earlier age.



Does This Kind of Life Look Interesting to You?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

BC: Does this kind of life look interesting to you? Night after night, dinners
    with Herb Cohen. Thrill-packed, fun-filled evenings on the French Riviera
    at the MIDEM convention.
           ^^^^^
#           From: Vladimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su)
#  I don't know what it stands for but I believe it's kinda pop music festival
# for guys like Herb Cohen to sell some Hot Meats, Hot Zits and Hot Ritz.
#
#           From: chris@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
# Exactly. It is the music business equivalent of the Cannes film festival.

    A big tie, the whole bit. Watch Mutt eat, and Leon
                                    ^^^^          ^^^^^
#           From: gordo 
#  On pages 67-8 of _The Real Frank Zappa Book_, I just noticed this:
#
# "Eventually they became joint managers of our band, with a contract
# negotiated 'on behalf of the group' by Herb's brother, an attorney named
# Martin (Mutt) Cohen."
#  So maybe it is "Mutt" and maybe that has something to do with it.

# Who's Leon????

    can't collect unemployment. A dog, a car, an epidemic of body lice with
    your own record company, your name on the door, electric buzzer to the
    inner office, and Ona tits, and a three month supply of German bookings
                      ^^^
#          From: moamosan@primenet.com (Zoogz Rift--The Liquid Moamo)
#  Ona was one of Frank's secretaries, and answered the phones they set up for
# UNITED MUTATIONS (which was essentially The Mothers' fan club). I used to
# talk to her on occasion in 1971, before Zappa decided to close up United
# Mutations. She was very friendly, but that's all I remember about her.
#  YES, the song's reference is to ONA'S TITS! (whom I unfortunately never had
# the pleasure of meeting...)

    feed the geese. One thousand green business cards, with your name and the
    wrong address. Plus six royalty statements, inspected and customized by
    ran toon tan han toon frammet and Dee.
                                      ^^^
#          From: moamosan@primenet.com (Zoogz Rift--The Liquid Moamo)
#  Dee is Herb Cohen's wife.
#
#CC
# This straight member of the executive board :-) was also mentioned later
# ( and with her husband on _Bongo Fury_ Caroline Hard-Core Ecstasy
#
#    It might seems strange for Herb and Dee
#    Caroline Hard-Core Ecstasy

    with tickets on Air Rangoon.


Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

M&H: Ooo-ooo, do you like my new car?
     Ooo-ooo, do you like my new car?

     She left her place after midnight,
     she drove to the club.
     You know that her and her partner,
     came here lookin' for love.
     They want a guy from a group
     That's got a thing in a charts
     If your dick is a monster
     If your dick is a monster
     If your dick is a monster
     They will give him their hearts.

#CC
#           From: Vladimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su)
#  The Easy Teenage New York version of this Hard Centerville stuff can be
# found on Fillmore East, June 1971 album ( see _Bwana Dik_ and _Do You Like
# My New Car_ )

     FAM-BAM-YAK-A-TA-TAHHH!

Penis Dimension 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


M:   Yes! and isn't it the truth? And if you're a guy, one night you're
     at a party and you're trying to be cool, I mean, you aren't even wearing
     any underwear your being so cool, and somebody hits on you one night,
     and looks you up and down and he says uh,

H:   "Eight inches or less?"

M:    Well let me tell you, brother, that's the time when you got to turn
      around and look that son of a bitch right between the eyes. And you got
      to tell him these words:

#           From: Vladimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su)
#  In the movie this did not seque into philosophical _What Will This Evenig..._.
# Instead of this very mundane face of Ringo Starr aka Larry The Dwarf
# appeared on the screen to inform us all ( sorry for earwax :-)
#     I stuff three pairs of socks and a  bottle down in front of
# my pants

What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

M&H: WHAT WILL THIS EVENING
     BRING ME THIS MORNING?

    A succulent fat one!
    A mod little flat one,
    maybe a hot one (to give me the clap!)
                                    ^^^^^
    maybe a freak who gets off with a strap.

#CC
#           From: Vladimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su)
#  On Chunga's Revenge this hot one was from Minneapolis ( see Road Ladies ),
# on Joe's Garage roman catholic pussy christened Carmenita Scarfone
# ( Catholic Girls ) :-)))))))))))
#
#           From: Bruce Lowenthal (lowenthal_bruce@tandem.com)
#  No, No [it's not just VD]. There's a danger of missing some CCC with this
# error. Since the mid 16th century, the clap has been specific in English to
# gonorrhoea (the final o is missing in standard US spelling), the disease
# caused by the bacterium _Neisseria gonorrhoeae_. The clap is not to be
# confused with syphilis (the pox, the French pox, the Spanish pox etc).
#  Conceptual continuity comes in a number of levels with the clap. First
# there's the delightful percussion piece (remember FZ started with drums)
# on Chunga's Revenge. Second, note that _N gonorrhoeae_ is a spherical
# bacterium, ie a coccus shape, hence called the gonococcus. And its
# symptoms include a burning sensation on urinating. It can also spread and
# infect the testes: ie 'Why does it hurt when I pee' on Joe's Garage
# referring to the 'gono-co-co coccus' that makes 'my balls feel like a
# pair of maracas'. Third, since World War I there has been a triad of
# 'crabs, cooties and the clap' (US and others soldiers did the vectoring
# around the world) which obviously continued in the groupie world that FZ
# got into in the late '60s. One of his biog's reports (from Pamela Z, I
# think) that FZ caught crabs (ie pubic lice). Who knows about the other
# two, but there are several references to cooties (body lice in general)
# in addition to the clap.



A Nun Suit Painted on Some Old Boxes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sp:  Why don't you strap on this here bunch of cardboard boxes daddy-o?

#           From: Vladimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su)
#  In the movie there was really cardboard boxes with nun suit painted on
# them. And Ruth Underwood really lured Motorhead ( The Penis Replica Vacuum
# Cleaner operator :-( to strap on.
#  But the real question - can anyone explain the idea behind this nun
# paraphernalia in the movie. What did all this Keith Moon provocative squats
# mean?

Sp:  Pink gums. Stumpy gray teeth.
Ch:  Dental floss.
Sp:  Gets me hot. Want to watch a dental hygiene movie?

#CC
#           From: Vladimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su)
#  Later after this well done dental hygien propoganda stuff :-). Frank
# decided to make money on this ignited by his music desire to chew forever:-)
# See Over_Nite Sensation's Dental Floss tycoon song _Montana_ :-)))))


Magic Fingers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~


H:   HOLD IT,  HOLD IT,  HOLD IT,  HOLD IT!

     Well, there are a lot of reasons why I'd drag a girl such as yourself
     back to this plastic hotel room ...  and rip you off for spare change
     to run a ...to run a vibrating machine attached to this queen-size,
     bulk-purchase, kapok-infested, do-not-remove-tag-under-penalty-of-law
     type bed and, and make you take off all your little clothes ... until
     you are nearly stark raving nude. ( save for your chrome-with-heavy-
     duty-leather-thong Peace Medallion) and make you assume a series of
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#           From: chris@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
#  Yes, very common indeed [ for Vietnam era]. As illustrated on the steel
# helmet in the 'Apocalypse Now' movie posters. However it predated Vietnam,
# originally being the symbol used by the British Campaign for Nuclear
# Disarmament.



     marginally erotic poses involving a plastic chair and an old guitar
     strap while I did a wee-wee in your hair ... and beat you with a pair
                         ^^^^^^^
#           From: chris@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
#  It means that he intends to urinate on her head. The term is both a noun
# and a verb, and as a noun means both urine and the organ which delivers
# it :-)
#            From: ck7263@albnyvms.bitnet (C. Gordon Keeble (gordo))
#  "did a wee-wee" Childrens phrase for urinated. Wee-wee is sometimes used
# as a synonym for dick too.



Dew on the Newts We Got
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ch: Dew on the newts we got. Newt money dew.
    It's a payment on the rental for the dewy little newts we got.
    We got 'em dewy. Left 'em in the yard all night,
    though they didn't get uptight.
    The little vixens, the saucy little vixens,
               ^^^^^                    ^^^^^^
    I hope they didn't get pissed off.
    I know that they did not, did not,
    I know that they did not dash off into the night.

# It seems that in BTHW _What Kind of Girl_  this word is a synonym of
# a whore
#   This unfortunate little vixen wouldn't let just ANYBODY
#   Spoo over her lap
# Is it so here too?

The Girl Wants to Fix Him Some Broth
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Tr:  The girl wants to fix him some broth.
Sp:  Tinselcock!
Ch:  Tinselcock!
     ^^^^^^^^^^
#           From: "Charles H. Ulrich" 
#   Tinsel is long, narrow, strips of foil used to decorate Christmas trees.
# It is also known as "icicles".
#
#           From: robert@sybase.com (Robert Garvey)
#   I'd heard from Janet Ferguson Hof about the making of 200 Motels. Janet
# was the blond groupie in the movie.  There was a little car shaped like a
# penis and covered with foil that was to be used in a scene which was never
# shot.  Ringo Starr put the little car in his backyard.


Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Courderoy Ponce
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Sp: Broth reminds me of nuns.
Ch: ( Nuns...  Nuns...)
Sp: I see them smashing with rulers
    disciplining munchkin cretins.
    Tortured munchkins, tortured munchkins
    I wish irish catholic victims.

#           From: David Thomas 
#  This all seems to relate to the harsh discipline and repressed
#   sexuality of Catholic parochial schools.  These schools mainly
#   turn out good little Catholics, but when they fail, they sometimes
#   fail spectacularly, producing twisted personalities like FZ and
#   George Carlin.]


Strictly Genteel (the finale)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

T:  This, as you might have guessed, is the end of the movie. The entire cast
    is assembled here at the Centerville Recreational Facility to bid farewell
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#CC
#           From: Vladimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su)
#  Early in the movie the placed was called by Larry the Dwarf
# The Reorientational Facility ( erected to bring about the final solution to
# the orchestra question ), the lecture goes like this:
#
#   Hello there...  When you go on tour with musical group it's possible that
# any town [can? be? seen?] like this, whatever it's large or small or busy or
# nothing happend in it. The reason for this is quit simple. A musician if you
# consider the normal pattern of modern civilized life is on the outside of
# the road. He doesn't build things, he doesn' work regular hours like a
# decent God-fearing citizens and the life he leads in many ways seems useless
# and irrelevant to those of us who prefered a quiet evening in front of the
# television and a bottle of beer .
#   Amazing as it might seems to some of us musician's basical physical needs
# are just like [of?] real people.  Many of them study for years, learnig to
# play the violin, for instance, only to be rewarded with humdrum job in the
# forth row of the symphonic string section. That's why the goverment have
# constructed at great expanse this experimental reorientation facility to
# find the way perhaps to retrain this useless  musicians [???]  fiddles and
# horns the reasons to exist in modern world, a chance of happy and more
# productive life, some [send?] to the militry, some [????] and some disappear in
# the middle of the night on the special training assigned to them.
#
#  So it seems that when time comes for Joe's Garage the main idea was ten
# years old.



Ch: Help everybody, so they all get some action,
    some love on the weekend, some real satisfaction.

M&H: Reach out your hand to the girl in the dog book,
     the girl in the pig book, and the one with the horse.


#           From: "David G. Walley" 
#  This refers to porno magazines and his invitation to sexually enjoy
# yourself....literally ;-)))); ie. go out and enjoy yourself after watching
# 200 Motels
#
#CC
#           From: windt@physics.att.com (David Windt)
#
#  In the (instrumental) MAJNH version of this song, when they get to the end
# of this verse, right after the word "horse", Walt Fowler plays that little
# trumpet diddy that they play at the racetrack, you know, when they announce
# "The horses are on the track..."


M&H: The Swedish apparatus with a hood and a bludgeon
     with a microwave oven. "Honey, how do it feel"

#           From: Vladimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su)
#  Accordingly to the Keith Moon, dressed up like Nun in the movie,
# this is special means to make your cock monstrous enough.

M&H: We're all going to get wasted.
     We're all going to get twisted.
     We're all going to get wasted.
                            ^^^^^^^
     We're all going to get twisted.
                            ^^^^^^^
H:   And I am definitely going to get. . .

M&H   REAMED
      ^^^^^^
#           From: Charles Ulrich 
#  ...I think it's more likely that getting "out of it", "bent", "reamed",
# "wasted", and "twisted" all referred to getting drunk on alcohol and/or
# stoned on marijuana. But in 1970 I was thirteen years old and unfamiliar
# with most of these terms, so I'm basing my interpretation on later usage
# and on context.
#
#           From: "David G. Walley" 
#  Yes, absolutely correct!


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