Notes & Comments - Uncle Meat
March 1969, 120:03 min
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UNCLE MEAT
Notes and Comments
ver.23-March-1996
dialogues
Joined International Transcribing Effort
of :-)
Vladimir Sovetov
Dave Winsor
A little bit of Italian
Francesco Gentile
The Voice Of Cheese
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cheese: Hello, teenage America,
My name is Suzy Creemcheese,
I'm Suzy Creemcheese because
I've never wron fake eyelashes
in my whole life
And I never made it on surfing set
And I never made it on beatnik set
And I couldn't cut the groupie set either
And...Um
Actually I'm really fucked up in Europe.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: David Thomas
# Actually, *I* really fucked up in Europe.
# Makes sense that way.
( Hrrrrrrrrrr )
Now that I've done it all over and
Nobody else will accept me
I've come home to my Mothers
# From: Vladimir Sovetov
# In accordance with book exerpt below the voice of Cheese seems to belong
# to Pamela Zarubica
#
# From: johnscialli@delphi.com (John V. Scialli)
# from "No Commercial Potential" (pp.92-93 of 1980 edition ) about
# Suzy Creamcheese
#
#
# "By the latter part of 1967, success seemed imminent. Zappa was in the
# forefront of the musical explosion, though he was not getting that much
# media exposure because radio stations refused to play his music over the
# air. At this time the Garrick closed. He took a brief respite and toured
# Europe. During June, Pamela Zarubica had returned from Europe. Frank had
# married Gail in the meantime. Gail was expecting, and at first Frank wanted
# Pam to stay with Gail to help her take care of the baby that was soon to be
# born. 'Frank called me and said that there was a great desire to see Suzy
# Creamcheese because the people in Europe couldn't imagine what kind of a
# chick to associate with the picture they had seen of these guys' she recalls.
# 'He said "I'm going to Europe and they want Suzy Creamcheese, you come and
# stay with Gail," and I said "Come and stay with Gail? I am Suzy Creamcheese
# and I'm going with you because if you take some asshole who doesn't know how
# to talk to the press [on the Mothers first promotional tour for *Freak Out*,
# Frank used another girl named Suzy Creamcheese who talked to promotional men
# at MGM throughout the country] that doesn't know how to talk to people,
# you're never going to talk to anybody, period."'
Dog Breath, In The Year Of The Plague
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Primer *mi carucha* ( Chevy'39)
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
# From: David Thomas
# Primer: To apply primer paint, a dull gray undercoat applied before
# painting an automobile. "Primer" derives from the verb "to prime" (meaning
# to prepare) the surface prior to painting. Young men with little money often
# applied primer to prevent rust on used automobiles, while saving enough
# money to buy the paint to finish the job. Eventually, "primer gray" became
# a style itself within the Chicano subculture.
#
# mi carucha: Spanish. Literally, "my carriage". "My car" of course.
#
# Chevy '39: A 1939 Chevrolet. A favorite model for modification by "hot rod"
# enthusiasts of the 1950's. Chevrolets were particularly favored by
# Mexican-American youth.
#
# From: Charles Ulrich
# "My car". Carrucha (correctly spelled with two Rs) means 'pulley' in
# standard Spanish, but 'car' in Chicano slang.
Going to El Monte Legion Stadium
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: David Thomas
# Probably not to any organized sporting event. More likely to hang out with
# other young automobile enthusiasts in the empty parking lot.
#
# From: Charles Ulrich
# It's nowhere now, but it used to be in El Monte, California, east of Los
# Angeles. Frank Zappa and Ray Collins wrote a song called "Memories of El
# Monte", which reminisces about the dances that were held there.
# It was recorded by the Penguins (of "Earth Angel" fame) in 1963. I don't
# know when they tore down the stadium, but the song certainly suggests that
# the dances were no longer being held as of 1963. A photograph of one of
# these dances shows that they were racially integrated, with blacks, whites,
# and hispanics plainly visible in the crowd.
#
#CC
# From: jgeluk@inter.nl.net (Jos Geluk)
# On the bootleg 'No commercial potential' Zappa says 'Welcome to El Monte
# Legion Stadium'. Was he actually performing there at that moment or was it
# just a form of conceptual continuity?
#
# from alt.fan.frank-zappa FAQ (8/12) Bootlegs info - Part 1
# currently maintained by sweet@skat.usc.edu (Rob Sweet)
# version 2.2 (last change 7-4-94)
#
# KNOWN BOOTLEGS 1969:
# "Poot Face Boogie" (1) - Live and studio 68-69.
# "Vitamin Deficiency" - rerelease of "Poot Face Boogie" (and "Safe
# Muffinz", see 1971)
# "No Commercial Potential" - rerelease of "Poot Face Boogie"
# (and "Safe Muffinz", see 1971)
# ..............................................................
#
# Safe Muffinz (partial)
#
# Date: mid-1971
# Loc: El Monte Legion Stadium
# Length: ~45 min
# Catalog: takrl 1929
# X-Ref: Zappalog #212
#
# Musicians: FZ, Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Don Preston, Aynsley Dunbar,
# Jim Pons, Ian Underwood
#
# 1. Call Any Vegetable
# 2. The Air
# 3. Dog Breath
# .........................................................
Pick up on my *weesa* ( she is so divine)
^^^^^^^
# From: David Thomas
# Diminutive for "Louisa".
#
# From: Charles Ulrich
# Huiza (pronounced weesa) is Chicano slang for 'girl'.
Helps me stealing hub caps
^^^^^^^^
# From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Hub cabs cover the center of a car wheel. You must pop them off in order
# to undo the bolts and change the tire. The end of the axle is called the
# "hub" so "hub cap" is really a self-explanatory term.
# During the 60's and 70's, these were very fancy - ornate with much chrome
# and they were often stolen. You used to hear talk about stealing hub caps
# a lot back then. These days, I guess they are more mundane and you don't
# hear about them being stolen as much.
Wasted all the time
Fuzzy Dice
^^^^^^^^^^
# From: David Thomas
# (Heh-heh. We're getting deep into Mexican-American culture here, aren't
# we?). A pair of oversized dice (as in gambling) made of a hairy fabric,
# tied together with a short string and usually suspended from the interior
# rear-view mirror as a good luck token. These are for appearance only,
# and never actually used for anything.
Louie Louie
~~~~~~~~~~~
Cheese: The first thing that attracted me to the Mothers music
Was the fact that they played for twenty minutes
Everybody was hissing, and booing, and falling of the dance floor
And Elmer was yelling at them to get
Off the stage and turn down they're amplifiers
# From: Vladimir Sovetov
# Once again the piece appeared to be kind of Pamela Zarubica recollection
#
# From: johnscialli@delphi.com (John V. Scialli)
# Text taken from the notorious 1972 poor-excuse-for-a-book "No Commercial
# Potential" by David Walley. (pp.56-57 of 1980 edition )
#
# "She first saw Frank Zappa while she and Julia were waiting to get into the
# Trip. The guest guitarist came in from the back. 'He used to wear this big
# fur coat that looked like it was made out of dead cat....I thought he looked
# like Omar Sharif. I always called him Omar. He played a tune with the Grass
# Roots.' After that, she saw him around with Vito and Carl Franzoni. Finally Frank opened at
# the Trip. 'I sat there through the first set while they were playing Brown
# Shoes Don't Make It, and I was thinking to myself that I was a creep because
# my shoes were brown and then I remembered they were moccasins so I was okay
# again. They played Help I'm A Rock for twenty minutes and everyone went
# *Ugh*....I loved it. He came over after the set and said, 'I'm glad you
# could make it' and I said, 'So am I.''
FZ: Ah! I know perfect thing to accompany this man's trumpet,
None other than the mighty majestic Albert Hall pipe organ
From: chris@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace)
# It was 1969, as I remember (I was at the concert at the Royal Albert Hall
# in London). The RAH has a stage in front of a tiered seating arrangement
# (for a choir) and in the centre of this is a large pipe organ. After FZ
# made the statement, Someone who memory tells me was Don Preston (I might
# be wrong here) opened a little gate, went rushing up the stairs to the
# organ and really let it rip.
# I remember this particular concert (out of the 5 I went to) because
# the PA system really *did* eat it. Frank gave one of his monologues which
# was almost unintelligible due to the PA system and the legendary terrible
# acoustics in the Royal Albert Hall; the bits you could hear seemed to
# indicate that the entire band had their naked buttocks pressed against the
# windows of the bus that picked them up all the way from the airport into
# central London. Frank described this as 'Brown Eyeing'
# 'Louie Louie' has a remarkable influence on 'Florentine Pogen' as well...
#
# Now I come to think of it I can probably confirm the date even better. At
# the concert they were selling programmes which were made up from the cover
# of the booklet which came out with 'Uncle Meat'. FZ actually said that the
# concert was being taped and would be on the album. I never bought the
# album on vinyl; Reprise refused to release it in the UK and it actually
# came out on Transatlantic, an independent label (and quickly went out of
# print). I bought the CD a few years ago and the Concert Booklet (which I
# still have) is basically a full-sized version of the booklet which comes
# with the CD, using the same cover but different inside pages.
# On the back inside cover is one of Cal Shenkel's little notes which says
# something about working all night so that the films could be flown to
# London; I presume that he was working on the album cover some time before
# it was released and they decided to use the cover art for the cponcert
# programme.
Louie Louie
^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: ep183@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steve Roche)
# A neat book by Dave Marsh is called 'Louie,Louie: The History & Mythology
# of the World's Most Famous Rock 'n' Roll Song; Includeing the Full Details of
# Its Torture and Persecution at the Hands of the Kingsmen, J. Edgar Hoover's
# F.B.I., and a Cast of Millions; and Introducing, for the First Time Anywhere,
# the Actual Dirty Lyrics.' Also includes Zappa explaining Louie, Louie as a
# stock module, Hendrix, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Stooges, et al.
# A nice documentaion of pop history.
#
# From: JSULLIVA@cclink.fhcrc.org
# And let's not forget maybe 4 seconds [of Louie Louie] on "Welcome to the
# US" on The Yellow Shark.
#
# From: Charles Ulrich
# Not to mention the whole basis of "Plastic People". It also pops up in
# "Dupree's Paradise" on YCDTOSA Volume Two, and various other places.
# Richard Berry is in the list of influences on Freak Out. Society Pages ran
# a story on "Louie Louie" in FZ's music.
Our Bizarre Relationship
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cheese:
That house had your shit all over
And we had cats, we had [flies, fleas] we had lot of crabs
That we proceeded to give to everyone in Laurel Canyon
except Elmer and Phil,
^^^^^ ^^^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov
# OK! Elmer seems to be Elmer Valentine. Whisky-a-Go-Go owner. But who is
# Phil? Spector? Any evidence?
The Uncle Meat Variations
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
FUZZY DICE
I got'em
At the Pep Boys... at the BOYYYYYYYYYYS
^^^^^^^^
# From: Charles Ulrich
# The Pep Boys is a retail chain that sells fuzzy dice and other automotive
# parts. The founders' names are Manny, Moe, and Jack.
# The Dickies did a song called "Manny, Moe, and Jack" that also mentions
# fuzzy dice.
#
# From: lsprague@cass.ma02.bull.com (Lindley Sprague)
# Pep Boys was (maybe still is?) a chain of Auto Parts stores. The sign
# featured cartoon faces of the the Boys: Manny, Joe, and Jack.
Fuzzy Dice & bongos
*Brodie knob & spinners*
^^^^^^
# From: lsprague@cass.ma02.bull.com (Lindley Sprague)
# Brodie made "hot rod" type auto parts, like replacement knobs for your
# stick shift. I think a "spinner" is a knob that you attached to your
# steering wheel so you could steer with one hand.
Chromium plated
Ha Ha Ha
Electric Aunt Jemima
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Electric Aunt Jemima
^^^^^^^^^^^
Goddess of Love
Khaki Maple Buckwheats
Frizzle on the stove
# From: Vladimir Sovetov
# That's what printed in my German songbook.
# Aunt Jemima: das amerikanische Gegenstuck zu Dr. Oetker. Das Wahrzeichen
# der Marke Aunt Jamima ist eine pausbackige Negerkochin.
#
# From: richts@frege (Joern Richts)
# The English translation is:
# "Aunt Jemima: the american counterpart of Dr. Oetker. The emblem of the
# brand Aunt Jemima is a chubby-cheeked negro cook."
# Dr. Oetker is a german food brand, famous for its baking ingredients. I
# think this isn't very helpful for non-Germans but now at least I know what
# Aunt Jemima.
#
# From: Charles Ulrich
# Aunt Jemima (a division of the Quaker Oats Company) makes pancake mix
# and syrup. They may make other products, but pancakes and syrup are what
# they're known for. I believe the name was already part of American folklore
# before Quaker Oats used it commercially, but I'd have to check on this.
# The phrase "Khaki maple buckwheats" certainly suggests pancakes. Maple
# syrup is the traditional accompaniment for pancakes, though most commercial
# syrups contain cheaper syrups (e.g. corn syrup). Buckwheat is a grain from
# which pancakes are sometimes made.
# Khaki is a dull yellowish brown (etymologically, 'dust-colored') or cloth
# of this color used to make pants (i.e. trousers). I guess pancakes are
# more-or-less this color.
#
#CC
# From: Vladimir Sovetov
# Her testy stuff could be used not only by naughty freaks, but also by
# decent american secret agents in time of great danger. Look
#
# Billy the Mountain. Just Another Band From L.A.
#
# ...And he pulled down his blue denim policeman-type pants, and he spread
# even amounts of Aunt Jemima maple syrup over the inside of his legs!...
#
# From: lantz@primenet.com (Bill Lantz)
# Electric Aunt Jemima was a name Frank used for one of his guitar amps. He
# always was good at naming stuff.
#
# And Our Masters's voice at last to clear it out forever :-)))
#
# From _Frank Zappa - A Visual Documentary by Miles_ p.42
# "I get kind oflaugh out of the fact that other people are going to try
# to interpret that stuff and come up with some grotesque, interpretations
# of it. It gives me a certain amount of satisfaction. You can imagine how
# insane that must get on a song 'Electric Aunt Jemima' which was written
# about an amplifier. Yes, it's Standall amplifier, about this big, that
# I used on a couple of sessions" (Zappa: 1969)
Queen of my heart
Please hear my plea
Electric Aunt Jemima
Cook a bunch for me
Brownies in the basin
^^^^^^^^
# From: Charles Ulrich
# The crucial ingredient is chocolate.
Monza by the street light
^^^^^
# From: RighetRo@crmail.crd.lord.com
# Monza - Another make of automobile.
Ian Underwood Whips It Out
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ian: My name is Ian Underwood
And I am straight member of the group
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: David Thomas
# I think the interpretation would be rather literal. Ian, with his music
# degree, is not a freak, and considers himself to be the "straight"
# (conservative) member of the band. I doubt that the other meaning of
# "straight" (erect) "member" (penis) was intended by Ian when he spoke the
# line, but it was immediately exploited by FZ as he dropped in the "Wowie
# Zowie" comment.
#
# From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Three related meanings, in no particular order of importance:
# straight: 1) heterosexual
# 2) Not on drugs
# 3) Normal
# I believe 2 was implied (perhaps 3). I always found it amusing since I
# knew that Frank insisted that all members of his bands be drug free. That
# may not have been the case with the early mothers.
( Wowie Zowie)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov
# And if we believe in written word it must be our sweet Pamela again.
# Here liners note for Freak Out! song You Didn't Try To Call Me...
# that
# ... was written to describe the situation in which Pamela Zarubica
# found herself last spring ( Wowie Zowie is what she says when she's
# not grouchy ... )
And I said I like your music,
I'd like to come down to play with you.
Two days later I came up to the recording session
And Frank Zappa was sitting at the control room
I walk up and said
# From: Vladimir Sovetov
# I believe it was We're Only In It... recording session.
A Pound For A Brown On The Bus
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: jjr@panini.att.com (Jeff Rocca)
# Before playing "A Pound For A Brown On The Bus" at the 6/6/69 Royal
# Festival Hall show in London, England, Frank Zappa told the audience
# the legend behind the song. What follows is a transcription I made from
# a recording of this show.
#
# Frank Zappa: "In California, there's a cult known as surfers. And, some
# of you might know about surfers, a lot of you might have missed out on this
# part of your social history. Surfers are young people with bleach-blond
# hair and they have a sun tan -- you don't know what that is here -- and they
# have cut-off pants which makes them look sort of funky and authentic and
# nature-boy style. And they have rubber sandals called Birachies. And they
# have these things called surf boards which are made out wood and fiberglass,
# gayly painted. And of course they have the Woolly Wagon, which is an old
# station-wagon with wood panelling on the side, or if you're too cheap, you
# paint wooden panelling on the side. And you live this life where you like
# to go to the beach all the time, even if its freezing cold, jump out there
# and flop around in the water, and then swim out with your surf board and
# ride in on the waves. It's very thrilling and it gets you a lot of pussy
# with the surfer girls. And similar mating practices exist in all walks of
# life. Truck drivers have certain things they do to get laid. Newspaper
# writers. They all have their own little thing and there's girls that go
# along with each one of these stupid games. They're all broken down into
# little pockets of resistance. Anyway, we have these surfers and they have
# this curious thing called the Brown Out, which is part of their culture.
# Now, the Brown Out is the thing that you do to impress your surfer friends
# and to make other people's eyebrows go up and down. And what you do is you
# get the other person's attention -- you wave at them or you say something
# amusing -- and they turn around and look at you and then suddenly you
# reverse your position, drop your pants, and stick your buns out at them.
# That is a Brown Out. Also known as a Brown. And also known as Mooning on
# the East Coast. There are a number of variations on this procedure.
# If you Brown Out against a wire screen, its called a chipped beef. And if
# you do it against a plate glass window at a delicatessen, its called a
# pressed ham.
# Last year, before we did our Festival Hall show, we arrived at the airport
# and were provided with a touring bus with nice big windows so that everybody
# on the outside could see in and we could see out. The lovely ride from the
# airport to the Winton Hotel. During this trip, a wager was made between
# Jimmy Carl Black, the Indian of the group, and Bunk Gardner, our
# silver-haired tenor saxophone virtuoso. Jimmy Carl Black turned to Bunk
# Gardner and said "I'll bet you a pound you won't Brown Out on this here
# bus." Bunk Gardner, being the crafty silver-haired devil that he is,
# quickly computed the difference between a pound and a dollar and had his
# pants off before anybody knew what was happening.
# I can tell by the applause that you admire him for
# doing this. And I can tell that you are trying to project into it
# desperately, maybe even be able to identify with it. Who knows, on the
# street a new rash of social disturbances, maybe the thing to replace flower
# power? We know what will replace flower power -- The Revolution.
# This piece of music is program music because it tells you the story with
# pictures that go along with different parts of the music to evoke realistic
# scenes in your imagination. This is an inferior kind of music designed for
# audiences who can't stand to just listen to music, but need pictures. It was
# invented here in Europe a long time ago. The first part of the piece has
# the simulated effect of London traffic. We do this ingeniously by using
# actual horns which you squeeze with your hand, that go "oo-bah." The next
# thing that happens in the piece is a jolly little theme which gives the
# impression that the Mothers Of Invention love to go around the country-side
# in a bus with big windows. Followed by another abstruse-type section that
# simulates the conversation on the bus, the calculation of the monetary
# difference, and this leads up to a throbbing, and otherwise surging climax,
# wherein the pants come off and the buns are revealed. Followed by some
# low-grade rocking out and instrumental improvisation for about the next
# 20 minutes or something."
Mr. Green Genes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: Vladimir Sovetov
# From _The Real FZ Book_
# Because I recorded a song called "Son of Mr. Green Genes" on the
# Hot Rats album in 1969, people have belived for years that the character
# with the name on the Captain Kangaroo TV show ... was my "real" Dad.
#
#CC
# Seems to be directly related to the Absolutely Free _The Duke of Prunes_
# suite
# From what appears to be AF liners note
# "The Duke of Prunes is surrealistic love songs. Euphemistic sexual imagery
# popular in country blues tunes, ..., is transmuted in this popular piece
# from the basic '- - - me, suck me, till my eyes roll back, baby' to 'prune
# me, cheese me, go-kart...' or something like that"
Eat your greens
Don't forget your beans & celery
Don't forget to bring
Your fake I.D.
"If We'd All Been Living in California"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- There's some months when you're not going to work as much as other
months. There's some months when you're going to make a lot of
money and if you average it out, you do make more than two hundred
dollars a month.
- Expenses are sure high to.
If we'd all been living in California,
it would have been different.
- If we'd all been living in California,
we wouldn't have worked at all.
# From: Vladimir Sovetov
# Surly the place was NYC
# From _The Real FZ Book_, p. 90
#
# In 1966 and '67, the L.A.P.D. and the Sheriff's Department went to war
# with the freaks in Hollywood...
# The places where they used to eat ... were under constant surveillance.
# The city government threatened to take away Elmer ( Whisky-a-Go-Go )
# Valentine's liquor license if he didn't stop booking long-haired acts
# into his club. There was no place left to work in Hollywood
The Air
~~~~~~~
I got busted
Coming through customs
With a suitcase
Full of tapes
It was special
Tape recording
And they grabbed me
While I was boarding
Then they hit me
# From: Vladimir Sovetov
# Seems to be a fantasie or very obscure recollection of Studio Z episod
And they beat me
And they told me
They don't like me
And I crashed
In my Nash
^^^^
# From: Charles Ulrich
# Nash was an automobile manufacturer some time ago. My father's first car
# was a Nash, and I think it was old then (late forties/early fifties).
#
# From: RighetRo@crmail.crd.lord.com
# In my Nash - Nash is a reference to another defunct automobile company. I
# knew a fellow with a Nash when I was in high school. The last of the
# American automakers to go out of business was Studebaker.
Cruising For Burgers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cruising for burgers
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In daddy's new car
My phony freedom card
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Brings to me
Instantly
ECSTASY
# From: David Thomas
# It still is today [favorite South Californian pastime], among a certain age
# group. Teenagers old enough to drive (over 16 years of age), but not old
# enough to drink legally (possibly 18 years of age back then, 21 now) cruise
# around aimlessly, looking for entertainment of any sort. A fake ID card
# (forged, borrowed, or stolen identification which indicates that the holder
# is old enough to enter an establishment which serves alcohol, or to purchase
# alcohol) would provide an alternative to the endless cruising.
# That is the "phony freedom card".
# "Cruising for burgers" is itself a double-entendre. While teenage life in
# the automobile often centers around meeting friends at various drive-in
# hamburger places, it also centers around sex. "Cruising for burgers"
# literally means driving from one hamburger place to another, but it could
# also be interpreted as prowling for females. The fake ID card would enable
# the purchase of alcohol, which would greatly increase the probability of
# sexual encounters during the evening's excursions.
Tengo Na Minchia Tanta
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# From: John Henley
# From the sound of it, the recording dates from the early 80s, probably 1981
# or 2, around the time that the newer footage in Dub Room Special was shot.
# It's not new bass and drums on an old song, it's a completely new song
# shoehorned into Uncle Meat - and IMO it doesn't fit too well. It's a novelty
# knockoff in the tradition of Valley Girl or I Don't Even Care.
# From: Vladimir Sovetov
# The man who sung this piece ( and obviously wrote/imrovised lyrics ) was
# Massimo Bassoli. Below a little introduction and translation attempt
#
# From: Francesco Gentile
# Massimo Bassoli is an Italian rock journalist. He is the editor of the rock
# magazine "TUTTIFRUTTI" published monthly, and before that he was the editor
# of another magazine called "ROCKSTAR".Both magazines are a kind of fashion
# thing mainly devoted to the USA and UK majors' music with some Italian stuff
# certainly not the best to my taste. He also wrote a book about FZ, published
# in 1982, called "ZAPPA (E' PIU' DURO DI TUO MARITO)" (in English: "Zappa (
# harder than your husband)").
# I don't know exactly why but it seems that this guy was in a sort of
# connection with FZ.
Tengo(1) na minchia(2) tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi'(3) | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Devi usare un pollo, | YOU MUST USE A CHICKEN,
Devi usare un pollo | YOU MUST USE A CHICKEN
Se me la vuoi tastar | IF YOU WANT TO TOUCH IT
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Devi usare un pollo | YOU MUST USE A CHICKEN
Se me la vuoi tastar | IF YOU WANT TO TOUCH IT
Devi usare un pollo | YOU MUST USE A CHICKEN
Se me la vuoi tastar | IF YOU WANT TO TOUCH IT
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Guarda che se la mangia(4) | LOOK THAT HE/SHE(4) IS EATING IT
E mentre se la sta a pappa' | AND WHILE HE/SHE IS GUZZLING IT
Chiedimi che cosa fa | ASK ME WHAT IS HE/SHE DOING
Se la sta a succhia' | HE/SHE IS SUCKIN' IT
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia | I'VE GOT A DICK,
Devi usare un pollo | YOU MUST USE A CHICKEN
Devi usare ... | YOU MUST ...
Se me la vuoi tastar | IF YOU WANT TO TOUCH IT
Devi usare un pollo | YOU MUST USE A CHICKEN
Se me la vuoi tastar | IF YOU WANT TO TOUCH IT
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia da tastar | I'VE GOT A DICK TO BE TOUCHED
Come on baby
Come on baby, suck my fire!
Oh yeah
Guarda che se la mangia | LOOK THAT HE/SHE IS EATING IT
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Guarda che se la mangia | LOOK THAT HE/SHE IS EATING IT
Mentre se la sta a pappa' | WHILE HE/SHE IS GUZZLING IT
Chiedimi che cosa fa | ASK ME WHAT IS HE/SHE DOING
E' chiaro! se la sta a succhia' | IT'S CLEAR! HE/SHE IS SUCKIN' IT
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Guarda che se la mangia | LOOK THAT HE/SHE IS EATING IT
Guarda che se la mangia | LOOK THAT HE/SHE IS EATING IT
Se la sta a pappa' | AND HE/SHE IS GUZZLING IT
Darling, darling, darling
Look at your sister
Do something like that, thanks
Devi usare un pollo | YOU MUST USE A CHICKEN
Devi usarlo per misurar | YOU MUST USE IT TO MEASURE
Devi usare un pollo | YOU MUST USE A CHICKEN
Cosi' me la potrai succhiar | SO THAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SUCK ME IT
Ooh, you both suckin' stereo
Jesus
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia accussi' | I'VE GOT A DICK THAT MUCH
Tengo na minchia tanta, | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK,
Tengo na minchia, | I'VE GOT A DICK,
Tengo na minchia tanta | I'VE GOT A BIG BUNCH OF DICK
Translator's Notes
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(1) "tengo" is dialectal (Naples dialect mainly), it means "I HAVE".
(2) "minchia" is one the infinite dialectal synonymous of penis. This word
is born in Sicily but now is used in all Italy.
(3) "accussi'" another dialectal word mainly used in the Naples area. Means
"THAT MUCH" and it should be followed, in the great Italian
tradition, with a gesture aimed to show how big is the thing
you are talking about.
(4) The Italian "guarda che se la mangia" is ambiguous. The gender of the one
is eating can be left unknown so in the following I wrote HE/SHE.
Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part II
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# Italian teacher lecture kindly translated once again by
Francesco Gentile
And now dear friends
we are going to translate.
this is my left hand.
Repeat after me
Questa e' la mia mano destra | THIS IS MY RIGHT HAND
Look out |
Guardalo(1) che mangia | LOOK AT HIM EATING
E mentre sta mangiando ... | AND WHILE HE IS EATING ...
Parlami mentre mangi | SPEAK TO ME WHILE YOU EAT
E chiedimi cosa sta facendo | AND ASK ME WHAT IS HE DOING
Cosa sta facendo? | WHAT IS HE DOING?
Sta mangiando! | HE IS EATING!
Adesso chiedimi cosa sta facendo | NOW ASK ME WHAT IS HE DOING
Sta mangiando! | HE IS EATING!
Ma non lo posso fare, | BUT I CAN'T DO IT,
Me ne devo andare | I MUST GO
Devo tornare | I MUST GO BACK
Era un senatore a 37 anni | HE WAS A 37 YEARS OLD SENATOR
And this is my last single
Translator's Notes
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(1) This is the only time the text refer to the masculine gender.
So I decided to use "HE" for the rest of the excerpt even if in the
remainder the gender is unknown (and the meaning of the text is
unknown too!). See also note 4 to TNMT.
Sometimes in this excerpt you can hear a voice repeating after MB
while eating. Exhilarating! Specially when he try to repeat "37 anni".
#CC
# From: lantz@primenet.com (Bill Lantz)
# Remember Roy Estradas' recitation of this from the Baby Snakes movie?
# (10/31/77 NYC Palladium) Conceptual Project-Object Continuity.
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