Notes & Comments - Chunga's Revenge
23 October 1970, 40:22 min
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CHUNGA'S REVENGE
Notes and Comments
ver.24-Jan-1995
Put togehter by
Vladimir Sovetov (sova@bank.kemerovo.su)
Lyrics was originaly
transcribed by
C. Gordon Keeble [gordo] (ck7263@csc.albany.edu)
Transylvanian Boogie
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# From: sundin@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# Transylvanian Boogie is great. Combines a truly "non-rock" guitar
# improvisation with a really mean guitar sound.
#
Road Ladies
~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: sundin@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# Road Ladies: OK, musically this is rather traditional blues.
# The lyrics are amusing the first times, however.
#
Don't it ever get lonesome? {yeah! . . . sure gets lonesome}
Don't it ever get sad when you go out on the road?
{oh, there was one time in Minneapolis.. when I thought I
had the clap for sure}
Don't it ever get lonesome? [whoa-ho!] {lonesome ain't the word}
Don't it ever get sad when you go out on a thirty day tour?
# From: Colin Gateley
# these quotes {} are Mark Volman...
# the other voice is probably Howard Kaylan and I can't work out
# what he is saying. It may be simply appropriate blues response
# mumbling.
When the P.A. system eats it,
^^^
# From: "Tony Pfarrer"
# P.A. System is short for Public Address system. Before the days of
# good amps, mixers and monitors, bands used relatively crude set-
# ups for amplification. FZ complains about the P.A. system the
# Mothers used during the '68 European tour in the "Ahead of Their
# Time" CD booklet.
#
# From: linetramp@delphi.com
# About the time this album was put out, the trend in arena shows was to
# have an enormous and POWERFUL public address system (P.A. system), most of
# which were rented from sound and light companies. Not all such companies
# were reliable. Powerful amplification was EXTREMELY expensive in those days
# and many of the "fly by night" sound contractors would show up with a huge
# buch of plywood cabinets made to look like working speakers and rack panels
# filled with a few good power amps and a lot of broken stuff with the red
# lights wired up so they would look good.
# Frank was apparently referencing those performances where the rented
# sound equipment sounds like shit ("Eats It" in American slang) and as every
# road musician can attest to; not every performance goes entirely as rehearsed
# (as in:"And the band plays some of the most terrible-est shit you ('ve) ever
# known")
#
# From: "Ottis R."
# The sense is right, but I think that "Eats it" refers to the point
# at which the Public Address system actually breaks down, as in what
# happens to you when you get a bad burrito and some rancid beer and
# Eat It.
#
# From: natola@coos.dartmouth.edu (Mark A. Natola)
# Well, I grew up in the Boston area, and "Eats it" basicly means IT SUCKS!
# So, if you apply that meaning to the song, FZ is saying the PA system sucks,
# and the band is playing like shit. Just my 2 cents.
Don't you better get a shot from the doctor for what the
Road Ladie do to you
# From: joe@cs.tu-berlin.de (Johannes Labisch)
# Means: get an injection agains the clap or whatever the Road Ladies give
# you. (This was written before AIDS came up.)
#
# From: linetramp@delphi.com
# Referencing, of course, getting an injection of penicillin from the doctor
# to cure the strain of venereal disease you picked up while boffin' groupies
# after the show.
# HEY anybody out there old enough to remember when sex didn't KILL YOU?
Twenty Small Cigars
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: sundin@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# This is a really great ultra-cool jazz, in the same
# vein as "It must be a camel" from Hot Rats.
# The only problem is that it's too short.
#
The Nancy & Mary Music
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: sundin@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# A fun jam, including a vocal drum solo by George Duke.
#
Tell Me You Love Me
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: sundin@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# Nothing very special, but it became a Flo & Eddie Classic.
#
Would You Go All the Way?
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# From: sundin@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# A funny Flo & Eddie Song
Remember Freddie and Joe
The night you went to the show. (a monster movie)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#CC
# There are a few lines from FZ intro to Roxy _Cheepnis_
#
# Cheepnis... lemme tell you something: do you like monster movies, anybody?
# (YEEAAH!) I love monster monster movies. I simply adore monster movies. And
# the cheaper they are, the better they are. And cheapness, in case of monster
# movie, has nothing to do with the budget of the film -- althought it helps
# -- but true cheapness is exemplified by visible nylon strings attached to
# the jaw of the giant spider...
The monster came out; everybody shout.
People all around you, screamin at the monster --
the monster from the USO.
^^^^
# From: pepke@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
# United Service Organization. This is a partially federal, partially
# voluntary organization whose job it is to boost the morale of troops in the
# United States armed forces. The USO typically puts on shows (Bob Hope
# used to do one a year), maintains coffeehouses, puts on dances, provides
# counseling, etc. The song is a reference to the suspicion that female
# volunteers for the USO occasionally perform morale-boosting services of a
# more personal nature.
#
# From: Colin Gateley
# United Service Organisation...I think they're the ones
# who provide "entertainment" for American troops...
# So - the monster is in the movie provided by this
# recreation-for-government-authorised-killers organisation.
Chunga's Revenge
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: sundin@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# Improvisation over a rather simple riff, but the
# wha-wha sax of Ian Underwood is really good.
The Clap
~~~~~~~~
# From: sundin@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# Offers some percussive relief after the hot title track,
# and FZ at the drums.
Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: sundin@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# This is really funny, including an
# Elvis inpersination and trombone by George Duke.
Hi and howdy doody.
I'm a union man; you can call me Rudy.
Any you boys not paid up on your cards? [huh?]
^^^^^
# From: todd@cup.hp.com (Todd Poynor)
# ... I think, as in, "Have you been paying your union dues?"
# (you get this AFM -- American Federation of Musicians -- card in the US).
to check and see
no wrong been done
that's one good reason
I carry a gun.
I hope the bulge
^^^^
# From: pepke@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
# I envision Rudy as wearing a dark suit concealing a pistol in a
# shoulder holster.
#
# From: valerio@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (Peter Valerio)
# Sounds to me like Frank is taking a common, everyday experience like
# concealing firearms and trying to make our inner children giggle and
# think about our (and in the case of the women, their) willies.
#
# From: ivester@utkvx.utk.edu (Stan Ivester)
# as in the bulge a gun makes in a wise guy's jacket. Plus it's kind of a play
# on the bulge that most rock stars are more concerned about.
#
Sharleena
~~~~~~~~~
# From: sundin@cs.chalmers.se (Ulf Sundin)
# Never really cared for this one, in any of the any released versions.
#
# From: "Tony Pfarrer" #
# Why did he keep recording it? I guess he found songs like that fun
# to listen to as well as play, and Sharleena is certainly a good
# vehicle for highlighting Flo & Eddie's talents and is a logical
# extension of the Ruben & Jets/Valarie greasy teen age love
# song themes. He honestly LOVED stuff like that. For instance
# when I saw the Mothers in 1971, the final encore was a very
# slow, very straight version of the Shep & the Limelighters doo-wop
# classic "Daddy's Home".
# Back to the topic, I find the version of Sharleena on Playground
# Psychotics to be lots of fun to sing along with in the car.
# That "Sharleena-leena doodledooledoodledoodledoodledoo" stuff makes
# me want to sing every time.
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