Notes & Comments - Studio Tan
15 September 1978, 39:09 min
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STUDIO TAN
Notes and Comments
ver.29-July-1996
put together by
Vladimir Sovetov
lyrics was bravely transcribed
by
patrick.gaumond@fsa.ulaval.ca (Patrick Gaumond)
and
Dave Winsor
special thanks to
Yury July
The Adventure Of Greggery Peccary
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The adventures of GREGGERY PECCARY!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# Is it kind of funny coincidence or an intentional pun on the name of famous
# Hollywood star?
Oh, here comes GREGGERY,
Little GREGGERY PECCARY
The nocturnal gregarious
Wild swine
# From: kerryy@bnr.ca (Kerry Yackoboski)
# I assumed it was FZ, with the voice the result of tape-speed twiddling.
# One way to confirm this would be to play it back slower and see if it sounds
# like him... I have a deck that can do this so I can try it.
#
# From: mitch.goldman@turner.com (Mitch Goldman)
# It's definitely FZ...play it slow and you'll hear it... plus, I thought he
# was credited with the vocals on this track on the CD liner notes...
#
# From: 92ul08@chestud.chalmers.se (NAURIN, JON)
# I've also always assumed it was Frank, but come to think of it, isn't
# George Duke credited for vocals? And I can't remember hearing his voice
# elsewhere on GP.
#
# From: kerryy@bnr.ca (Kerry Yackoboski)
# I slowed down a tape of the song to check out the voice... it's definitely
# FZ as the nocturnal gregarious wild swine.
#
# From: segue@ix.netcom.com (Scot Beidelman)
# I always felt it was George Duke with a little tape tinkering. To me,
# Duke's phrasing is unique and unmistakable, even post-tinker.
A peccary
Is a little pig
With a white collar
That usually hangs around
Between Texas and Paraguay
Sometimes ranging as far
west as Catalina
^^^^^^^^
# From: mike_quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
# And island just off the coast of California near Los Angeles.
#
# From: Charles Ulrich
# Santa Catalina is an island off the coast of California, near Long Beach.
#
# From: segue@ix.netcom.com (Scot Beidelman)
# Catalina is an island off the coast of Southern California. It's a big
# tourist attraction, and there's these big glass-bottom boats that take
# you out there.
This particular peccary
Is part of that bold (bold),
New (new) breed (breeding)
That extinguishes itself
By markings which resemble a
WIDE TIE
^^^^^^^^
Directly below the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
White collar
^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: bzavitz@fres2.glfc.forestry.ca (Brian Zavitz)
# Peccarys (Javelinas in Spanish) have a white collar of hair around their
# necks. In 1972, the fashion was wearing wide ties. Greggery is hip...
# so he wears a wide tie.
#
# From: whatthat
# White collar is American slang for rich folks. I would imagine it refers
# to a generic business suit, with tie and white shirt, consequently a white
# collar. The lower class is called "blue collar", referring to denims, I
# imagine, because of the manual labor.
Every morning, GREGGERY drives
His little red Volkswagen to the ugly
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: bzavitz@fres2.glfc.forestry.ca (Brian Zavitz)
# They were cheap and they were everywhere. All the hippies started growing
# up and needed cars...so they got the cheapest and most economical on gas...
# there was a gasoline crisis in the early 70's don't forget.
Voodn, Voodn!
Boy it's so hard to find a place to park around here!
GREGGERY PECCARY takes the elevator
Up to the eighty-third floor of a grim,
Gray, evil-looking building
With a sign on the front reading:
'BIG SWIFTY ASSOCIATES. TREND-MONGERS'.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
#CC
# OK, it is a name of beautiful piece from Waka/Yawaka. But may be there are
# also some meaning behind it?
#
# From: whatthat
# Frank often said that there are little links in all the songs for nothing
# more than the purpose of "unifying the collection." This and the future
# references to Billy The Mountain, Ethel, and The Short Forest are probably
# just used as names, because the audience might identify more with such a
# long, non-repetitive piece better if they have these little links to help
# them along through 20 minutes of this type of music.
#
# From: David G. Walley
# Could be a play on words and dealing with Irving "Swifty" Lazar, a famous
# Hollywood agent.
And so it was, one fateful morning,
GREGGERY PECCARY made his way through the Steno Pool . . .
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Robert Moore
# A Steno Pool refers to a Stenographer Pool and is a feature-ette of many
# large corporations. Many times these large corporations place all the
# stenographers in a central location (in THE BIG UGLY CORPORATE BUILDING) so
# that documents requiring editing or dictated documents requiring
# transcription can be processed by stenographers in one central location (as
# in "Hey, send this prospectus on down to the steno pool."). The main
# stereotyped image of a Steno Pool consists of: a bunch of air-head females
# who, since they are air-head females, are not particularly suited to
# anything but stenography and (probably) fellatio.
All the girls in the BIG SWIFTY
Steno Pool
KNEW . . .
Here was a
Nocturnal,
Gregarious
Wild swine
ON HIS WAY UP!
A Peccary of Destiny,
Adventure
And
ROMANCE!
# Any CC connection here with _Sleep Dirt_ Spider of Destiny or _Bongo's
# Advance Romance?
#
# From: whatthat
# I wouldn't think so. American culture bombards you with the idea that
# fucking is the ultimate to aspire to, romance leading to the actual fucking.
# No mention is ever made of the nice stuff that comes once you find a partner
# for life, i.e. the rewards of the relationship. I take this as a rather
# tame way of saying that all the girls in the steno pool just simply want to
# "romance", i.e. court, Greggary Peccary because being on his way up, he'll
# eventually be a rich man. Then they'll be able to break into SOCIETY.
SWIFTY'S!
THIS IS BIG SWIFTY'S!
AT BIG SWIFTY'S WE ALL KNOW-OW-OW
YOU'LL GO
FOR ANY GIMMICK OR GIZMO!
^^^^^^
# From: segue@ix.netcom.com (Scot Beidelman)
# Gizmo is just another word for gadget; just a random object used in
# performing some trivial task (such as a calendar).
#
# From: whatthat
# No. [ It's not jism] Not everything in Frank's stuff is sexually explicit,
# and that misconception is probably a large part of why he doesn't get played
# on commercial radio in the states. A gizmo is nothing more than something
# you don't know the name for, like a whatchamacallit, thingumybob, or a
# what'sit.
WOULDN'T YOU RATHER BE INVOLVED
IN A SERIES OF COLORFUL
TIME-WASTINC TRENDS?
AIR HOCKEYs . . . biff . . . dush-h-h!
^^^^^^^^^^
# From: segue@ix.netcom.com (Scot Beidelman)
# Maybe it's a U.S. thing, or maybe just a California thing, I don't know.
# Air hockey is a game played usually in arcades. It's the size and shape of
# a billiard table, but instead of green felt, there's a white, smooth surface
# with holes punched all over it. Tiny airjets blow through those holes. Two
# people play, standing at opposite ends of the table, and on the table at
# each end something like a pocket or a slot. There's a plastic puck that
# glides over the table's surface (hovering smoothly over the airjets) and
# gets batted around by the opponents wielding these things that look like
# plastic bagels with handles sticking out of the middle. With those paddles,
# the opponents try to knock the puck into each other's slot. Much like
# hockey. The puck action is pretty smooth, so a good game can get pretty
# frantic with this mini-guillotine frantically zipping all over the table.
# Trust me... much fun.
#
# From: whatthat
# This is a really fond memory of mine in American culture. You can still
# find air hockey tables around, but it takes some searching. An air hockey
# table has little holes in the surface that air shoots out of, making the
# puck airborne. You have a gizmo to hit the puck with. It's this little
# plastic dome with a plate on the bottom, the plate having a rim around it.
# Your hand fits between the rim and the dome. On the table there is a little
# slit for a goal. You have to try to get the puck in the goal (obviously).
# First to reach specified number of goals wins.
Does it matter that this waste of time
Is what makes a LIFE for you? Hmmmmm?
I must plummet boldly
forward
To my ULTRA-AVANT
Laminated,
Simulated
Replica-mahogany desk,
With the strategically-placed,
Imported, very hip water pipe,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: segue@ix.netcom.com (Scot Beidelman)
# Well, last I knew, "water pipe" is a polite way to refer to a "bong", which
# is something used to smoke copious amounts of marijuana.
#
# From: whatthat
# It's also called a bong or a hookah. There's water in the pipe to cool the
# smoke from the stuff you're smoking so that it doesn't burn the fuck out of
# your throat while it's on its way to your lungs.
And with that.
GREGGARY turned
And strode nonchalantly
Into his dinky little office
With the desk and the catalog
And the very hip water pipe.
And proceeded,
With a vigor and determination
Known only to piglets
Of a similarly diminutive
proportion,
To single-handedly invent
THE CALENDAR!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: mike_quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
# I wonder if there's supposed to be some kind of pun here between Greggary
# and "Gregorian" calendar??
#
# From: whatthat
# Well, Greggary has to invent something that's already invented, and take
# credit for it. That's the nature of American culture, to distill everything
# and then charge fuckloads for it.
Because NOW. AT LAST,
CRECGERY PECCARY's exciting new
invention
Had made it possible
For everyone
To find out
HOW OLD THEY WERE!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: segue@ix.netcom.com (Scot Beidelman)
# Now, I don't know if this is strictly a U.S. fascination, but here there
# is a tremendous superficial concern over aging (particularly here in
# California, where FZ spent most of his time). Everybody wants to stay young
# and beautiful, and the commercialization of products and services intended
# to aid this process has gotten totally out of hand, and in my opinion, the
# whole thing is an embarrassment to our society. Zappa's attacking our
# obsession with age.
#
# From: bzavitz@fres2.glfc.forestry.ca (Brian Zavitz)
# The hip young people are PLASTIC, remeber? They follow colourful
# time-wasting trends, and spend money looking GOOD and YOUNG. They are
# slowly ageing and the calendar reminds them that they are getting OLDER.
# When you get OLD, you aren't young and HIP anymore. And plastic people only
# care about outer appearences. Therefore they want to LYNCH Greggery for
# inventing the CALENDAR. (Hope I didn't spoil the storyline for anyone)
#
What hath GOD wrought?
# From: davewpkn@aol.com (DaveWPKN)
# First complete telegraph message sent over newly constructed line by
# Samuel F.B. Morse from Washington DC to Baltimore (!) on May 24, 1844.
Unfortunately,
There were some people
Who simply DID NOT WISH TO
KNOW,
And that's why,
On his way home from the office
one night,
GREGGERY was attacked
By a RAGE OF HUNCHMEN!
^^^^^^^^
# From: bzavitz@fres2.glfc.forestry.ca (Brian Zavitz)
# The hunchmen are the hip young people. A hunchman is someone who is usually
# hired for money to carry out shady tasks.
#
# From: Charles Ulrich
# That's a henchman, with an E. FZ's term also suggests hunch (a premonition
# or suspicion) and hunchback (like Quasimodo).
#
# From: whatthat
# Probably it refers to organized crime (gangsters) wherein the competition
# (unspecified company) has hired henchmen (this is the real word) to kill
# Greggary Peccary so he can't sell his calendar and they can steal the idea
# and make the money. I imagine it has the "hunch" corruption to link it to
# Hunchentoot which was written about the same time.
#
# From: John Henley
# ...the brief bit about "the rage of Hunchmen", where Frank describes them
# as "showing evidence of hostile intention", followed by the Elmore James
# lick from Dust My Broom. I may have the verbal quote wrong, but the musical
# quote always makes me chuckle.
Making his way through the
evening traffic, GREGGERY notices
that the other vehicles which
crowd and bump his little red car
are all inhabited by slowly-aging
'VERY HIP YOUNG PEOPLE',
# From: alxs_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Alex Slotkin)
# Anyways, I was listening to "The Adventures of Greggery Peccary" off of
# _Studio Tan_ the other day with one of my friends for the 20th time (no
# small feat), when I heard it! I made him rewind it a little bit, and lo
# and behold, there it was! When Frank is talking about Greggery driving
# home from work in his little red Volkswagen, and right after he mentions
# that all of the cars that are bumping him are driven by a bunch of "slowly
# aging, very hip young people...." you can hear a couple measures of
# Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters' classic jazz-funk tune, "Chameleon"!
#
# From: epcordes@umich.edu (Pheezy)
# I have always thought the significance was that the young 'n' hip yuppies
# would be interested in this music, and Frank was most definitely pokin fun
# (he does that once in a while) at this fact.
#
# From: ken@claris.com (Ken Walter)
# Zappa is making fun of the the "slowly aging, very hip young people," who
# are trying to show how hip they are by listening to fusion music. At least
# that's how I hear it.
To elude them, GREGGERY takes the
SHORT FOREST EXIT off the express-
^^^^^^^^^^^^
#CC
# _Overnite Sensation_. Camarillo Brillo
#
# She ruled the Toads
# Of the Short Forest
#
# and also instrumental piece from _Weasels_ Toad Of The Short Forest
# Where is it? I really want to know.
#
# From: bzavitz@fres2.glfc.forestry.ca (Brian Zavitz)
# I don't know if there really is one. I always thought Frank was referring
# to pubic hair. Toads of the short forest would be inhabitants of the pubic
# hair (yum!). I think this is just a CCC in Greggery Peccary.
GREGGERY takes a bumpy trail
off the main SHORT FOREST ROAD,
which leads him up the side
of a FAMOUS (and convenientlv
placed) MOUNTAIN, and into a strange
^^^^^^^^^
cave on the edge of a cliff, not far
from a LITTLE TWISTED TREE. . .with
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
eyes on it.
#CC
# Billy The Mountain and his wife Ethel The Tree.
# See _Just Another Band From L.A. N&C.
Meanwhile, the enraged HUNCHMEN
(and HUNCH-'WOMEN) rumble
through the SHORT FOREST until
(realizing the little swine has
escaped, they decide to park their
steaming vehicles in a circular
pseudo wagon-train formation. . .
^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Charles Ulrich
# The wagons formed a circle for defense against hostile Indians.
#
# From: whatthat
# Yes and no. A wagon-train formation points the back of each wagon train,
# which is open to the elements, towards the campfire, so that the people in
# the wagon train can sleep with warmth. It gets cold in the desert at night,
# especially the further north you get.
and have a LOVE-IN!
^^^^^^^^
# From: mike_quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
# A love-in doesn't necessarily involve sex, though it might. Usually it just
# refers to a gathering by hippie types and others to indulge in cosmic vibes!!
#
# From: bzavitz@fres2.glfc.forestry.ca (Brian Zavitz)
# Yes...but it specifically refers to a Flower Power groovy orgy and didn't
# necessarily have to involve sex, but often did. People today don't have
# love-ins anymore. Tupperware parties maybe....
Under the influence of a fantastic
amount of TRENDY CHEMICAL AMUSEMENT
AID, they proceed to perform lewd
acts, rip each other off for small
personal possessions, and dance
with depraved abandon in the vicinity
of a six-foot pile of transistor radios
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
each one tuned to a different station).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Robert Moore
# This is an oblique reference to the music of recently-deceased avant-garde
# composer John Cage. One of his works was for 6 radios each tuned to a
# different station.
GRECGERY doesn't realize
He has concealed himself
Inside the very mouth of
BILLY THE MOUNTAIN!
#CC
# See _Just Another Band From L.A. N&C.
HO! HO! HO!
And, as you all know,
Whenever BILLY laughs,
Rocks and boulders hack up,
And the air for miles around
Is filled with tons of dust,
Forming a series of huge
BROWN CLOUDS!
WHO IS MAKING THOSE NEW BROWN CLOUDS?
WHO IS MAKING THOSE CLOUDS THESE DAYS?
HO IS MAKING THOSE NEW BROWN CLOUDS?
BETTER ASK A PHILOSTOPHER 'N SEE WHAT HE SAYS!
^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: bzavitz@fres2.glfc.forestry.ca (Brian Zavitz)
# I think the philostopher is just some guy who gives you a bunch of non-sense
# answers about life to part you with your money. Today were have phone-in
# psychics!
#
# From: whatthat
# It's a corruption of the word "philosopher." This is another thing that's
# a bit too elaborate to explain here, but Americans have a fine tradition of
# paying certain people (television evangelists, psychologists, etc.) huge
# sums of money to tell them things that their own common sense would tell
# them. Fuck knows why.
#
# From: Robert Moore
# While I don't know of any textual CCC clues in this passage (aside from
# the obvious Billy The Mountain Connection), the music which accompanies
# this bit is a direct quotation from "The Grand Wazoo" occurring 3:16 into
# "For Calvin (And His Next Two Hitch-Hikers)".
BY THE CHINESE POLICE
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: whatthat
# No. [ Have they such sqaud in LA? ] It's forbidden (unwritten) to break
# things down by country of origin, except to describe food. You can have
# Chinese food, but you're a bigot if you refer to that group of people as
# Chinese.
And, furthermore, this information
could be HIS,
If only GREGGERY would attend a
'SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC GROUP
ASSEMBLY'
(Classes now forming),
And available at a special
low introductory fee. . .
# From: whatthat
# Yes. That's their fee. They tease you that they have the information
# first, you pay, they talk until they reach a point where they have something
# else to deliver, and then they withhold that until you pay again. This way
# you pay and pay and pay. It's unbelievable how many people get suckered
# into this.
And now, here he is,
'The Greatest Living PHILOSTO-
PHER Known to Mankind',
QUENTIN ROBERT DeNAMELAND!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: whatthat
# The name reminds me of Billy James Hargis. This was one of those TV
# evangelists who had a huge church in Oklahoma, and he went about seducing
# members of his church, male and female. Some couple he married divulged
# to each other on their wedding night that they'd both fucked him, and
# that's how he got exposed. He managed to cover it up and I think he's
# still going at it, but not on the level of Swaggert or Pat Robertson.
# This stuff all happened about 1975, and it's amazing he managed to blow
# it over (no pun intended) considering that bisexuality was still looked
# on as some sort of perversion.
"Folks,
As you can see for yourself.
The way this clock over here
is behaving,
TIME IS OF AFFLICTION!
Now this might be cause for alarm
Among a portion of you, as,
From a certain experience,
I TEND TO PROCLAIM:
'THE EONS ARE CLOSING'!"
# From: Robert Moore
# I would appreciate further info on whether this is an actual person or
# perhaps a twisted version of the name of some noteworthy person (or
# neither). The overall quotation ties in with another bit from the liner
# notes on "Sleep Dirt":
#
# "The Eons are closing...200 years ago (September 25, 1791) exactly
# 12 amendments to the Constitution of the United States were referred to
# the states for ratification. 10 were approved by December 15, 1791,
# and of course we here from a certain experience have come to know them as
# the Bill of Rights."
Make your checks payable to
'QUENTIN ROBERT DeNAMELAND,
Greatest Livin Philostopher
Known to Mankind'!
WHO IS MAKING THOSE NEW BROWN CLOUDS?
WHO IS MAKING THOSE CLOUDS THESE DAYS?
WHO IS MAKING THOSE NEW BROWN CLOUDS?
IF YOU ASK A PILOSTOPHER, HE'LL SEE
THAT YOU PAYS!
Lemme Take You To The Beach
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Can I kiss you,
Maybe I'll just hold your handy.
Lemme take you to the beach again,
La La La La La La La La La La La La
Lemme take you to the beach again,
La La La La La La La La La La La La
Have a freak out!
Later we'll peak out
^^^^^^^^
# From: bzavitz@fres2.glfc.forestry.ca (Brian Zavitz)
# "Peak Out" might mean to have fun. We used to call restriction "grounding",
# as in "You're grounded!" "Aw, Dad!" Later of course, we'd sneak out.
You're on restriction,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So you'll probably sneak out!
# From: Robert Moore
# "You're on restriction" refers to a common punishment
# tactic practised by bewildered parents trying to come to grips with the
# rebellious nature of their teenage offspring. If you break "the rules",
# you run the risk of being "put on restriction", which has many meanings.
# Some of these are probably:
# 1. You can't go out at night to hang out with your friends and do "fun
# stuff".
# 2. You can't watch TV.
# 3. You can't .
# A time-honored tradition among teenagers who have been "put on restriction"
# is to defy the parental authority figures and sneak out of the house in
# order to surreptitiously enjoy "the joys of youth".
RDNZL
~~~~~
# From: james@astro.as.utexas.edu (James McCartney)
# My guess at this is: Ruth Doesn't Need Zappa's Lyrics.
#
# From: bzavitz@fres2.glfc.forestry.ca (Brian Zavitz)
# I agree with this. This studio version of RDNZL was recorded after the tour
# in 1974 that put RDNZL on "Roxy & Elsewhere" and "Helsinki". I think that
# RDNZL was a track that was recorded during the "One Size Fits All" session
# (in 1975 after the the band learned how to play the songs REALLY good on
# tour in 1974 -- check out how much faster "Helsinki" is than "Roxy" since
# it's later in the tour -- Ruth can't even keep up on the "Helsinki" version
# of Montana!) but never made it on the record. At the end of Inca Roads,
# they say "On Ruth, that's Ruth!". I guess if RDNZL was played right after
# Inca Roads, or if Ruth was showcased during the tour on Inca Roads and
# RDNZL, it might back this up.
#
# From:
# That's a good one! When I first saw the title on Studio Tan as "Redunzl",
# I always assumed that it was a pun on Rapunzel ("the chick with the long
# hair," as Peter Wolf - the J. Geils frontman, not the ex-FZ keyboardist -
# once put it). For some reason, that interpretation has stuck with me.
#
# From: Mark Kemper <72302.653@CompuServe.COM>
# RNDZL = Your automatic gear shift. Reverse, Neutral, Drive, 2, 1
#
# From: james@astro.as.utexas.edu (James McCartney)
# Oh yeah, (sorry to post twice) the song's name is RDNZL, not RNDZL.
# I've never seen a car that had the gears in RDN21 order.
#
# From: hackbod@python.CS.ORST.EDU (Dianne Hackborn)
# Heh, whenever I see that song title, I always think: "Ruth, Napolean, Duke,
# Zappa..." Dunno what the L could be, though. :)
#
# From: mdryden@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Martyn Dryden")
# I recall an FZ explanation based on the idea that if the Z were a 2 then it
# would be like the legend on a car's automatic transmission control, ie
# Reverse, Drive, Neutral, 2, Low. Who would guess it could inspire a song?
# No-one would guess. Sorry to say I've no documentation of that, though.
#
# From: "Ottis R."
# I believe all (certainly most) automatics have neutral between reverse and
# drive (RNDZL vs. RDNZL). Hmmmmm .... maybe this is the real reason Frank s
# topped driving.
#
# From: biffyshrew@aol.com (Biffyshrew)
# I've seen this theory before, but I don't think it holds water. Possibly
# they do things differently on British cars, but I can't recall ever seeing
# a car where Drive came before Neutral! Also, FWIW, remember that the
# first release of "RDNZL" (on the Studio Tan LP) had the track spelled
# "Redunzl," although all subsequent releases, including the Studio Tan CD,
# use the shorter spelling. I realize that FZ was not involved in the
# Studio Tan packaging, so the original spelling could have been a
# miscommunication. (Zappa pronounced the word to rhyme with "Rapunzel."
# Anyone who watched Green Acres in the '60s knows that the technical name
# for the PRNDl gearshift is pronounced "pernundle.")
# But what do I know; I don't even drive...but then neither did FZ...
#
# From: norphan@io.com (This Space for Rent)
# The gear setup of automatic transmissions on older cars was:
# PRNDL
# On a 3-speed automatic:
# PRND2L
# There is no transmission I know of what would put "Drive" on one side of
# Neutral, and the lower gears on the other side. Looks like that burst
# that bubble
#
# From: LHSM15A@prodigy.com (Michael Dec)
# Well, this is just my guess, but I always thought if you pronounce RDNZL
# it comes out "Redunzel" which is a combination word-play: Repunzal,
# redundent, repugnant. Frank just seemed to like the sound of some words.
#
# From: rmeckler@interport.net (Ron Meckler)
# Gail once had a white Rolls Royce with RDNZL license plate.
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