Notes & Comments - We're Only In It For The Money
February 1968, 39:04 min
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WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY
Notes and Comments
ver.27-Nov-1995
put together by
Vladimir Sovetov
words from CD booklet
special thanks for
whispering, whistles and
censored stuff to
Robbert Heederick
and
baake@irt.com (Don Baake(VAX))
Who Needs The Peace Corps?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What's there to live for?
Who needs the Peace Corps?
^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: John Henley
# The Peace Corps was a highly-touted "alternative service" program pitched
# to young folks who might not be ready to get a job immediately. It was
# introduced by Pres. Kennedy. Young college-age people were recruited to go
# to poorer, mostly "third world" countries, to help them with medical needs,
# school or road or sewer construction, teaching English, things like that.
# They lived with the folks for about two years, mostly in the "native"
# manner. The song is saying, "That's just more cop-out - forget it and be a
# hippie." Of course, it's _lampooning_ that idea, not preaching it.
Think I'll just drop out
I'll go to Frisco
Buy a wig & sleep
^^^^^^^^^
# Was there really such inpatient guys that couldn't wait for they own
# hair to grow?
#
# From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Yes, but also with a wig they can easily remove it and be normal again.
# It's just a temporary fashion thing.
On Owsley's floor
^^^^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov
# As far as I know Augustus Owsley was drop out chemist and famouse
# manufacturer of very pure and strong LSD. For more reference see
# Tom Wolfe _Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test_ book.
Where phony hippies meet
Psychedelic dungeons
Popping up every street
GO TO SAN FRANCISCO
I will ask the Chamber Of Commerce
How to get to Haight Street
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Charles Ulrich
# The center of the hippie movement was the Haight-Ashbury area of San
# Francisco, near the corner of Haight St. and Ashbury St.
I will wonder around barefoot
I will have a psychedelic gleam in my eye all the time
I will love every one
* I will love the police as they kick the shit * Censored out on
* out of me on the streets * the original vinyl
# From: krfield@mmm.com (Kerry R. Field)
# The last line is _not_ censored on the original vinyl I have.
#
# From: wpmadden@tx.ncsu.edu (Bill Madden)
# Mine is V6 5045X
# Okay, here is some more catalyst. Collectors will pay 3 times as much,
# up to $500 for a near mint copy of WOIIFTM that has the line:
# "I will love the police as they kick the shit out of me" deleted from the
# song "Who Needs the Peace Corps"
# This was a late edited version and went out as V6-5045 as well.
# My copy does not have this, and I have listened carefully.
#
# From: biffyshrew@aol.com (Biffyshrew)
# We seem to be talking about two different levels of censorship. I
# specified in my post that I was referring to the version of Money with no
# publicity "balling," no "flower power sucks," no "I still remember Mama
# with her apron and her pad, feeding all the boys at Ed's Cafe," etc. This
# is the first pressing, with the matrix number MGS-1250-REV. Zappa got all
# those sequences restored for the second pressing, which has the matrix
# number MGS-1250-REV-F. (Zappa explains the circumstances in The Real
# Frank Zappa Book.) So the CD is NOT the censored version in this sense.
# However, all vinyl editions have "Harry You're A Beast" and "Mother
# People" censored, and the new CD DOES repeat this censorship.
#
# From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# There's the "very censored" version that is quite rare - I've never seen a
# vinyl copy of it. The restored CD is the "slightly censored" version, and
# is the same as every vinyl copy I have heard. I never liked that extra
# verse on Mother People anyway. The meter doesn't quite fit with it's
# counterpart earlier in the song. Two many syllables are squozen in. Plus
# you can find decent live bootlegs with Flo and Eddie singing the extra
# verse.
#
# From: Vladimir Sovetov
# OK, this is an official FAQ editor statetment :-) I have no vinyl too.
# All censored stuff I found comparing old Ryko CD with the tape that was
# made for me long time ago by Bill Madden. So see his comments above for
# the details of that very rare but REAL release.
I will sleep, I will go to a house
Where there's a rock'n'roll band
And I will stay with them
And I will get the crabs
But I want care
* Because... * Edited out on
* the original vinyl
Concentration Moon
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AMERICAN WAY
How did it start?
Thousands of creeps
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Killed in the park
# From: bzavitz@fres2.glfc.forestry.ca (Brian Zavitz)
# It wasn't Kent State because that happened in 1970 or 1971, and WOIIFTM
# was recorded in 1967/8. There was another shooting previous to Kent
# State, and this is the one that Zappa refers to, but I can't remember the
# incident.
#
# From: John Henley
# I don't think the song refers to an actual incident. Frank was carrying
# the hostility between hippies (or, in L.A., freaks) and the police to what
# was for him the logical end. It just so happened that within a couple of
# years, it started coming true.
SUDDENLY: DIE DIE
COP KILL A CREEP! pow pow pow
Tomorrow I get to do another Frank Zappa...Creation
And the day after that...
And the day after that...
Also at the same time I get a work with Velvet Undeground
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* which is as shitty group * Censored out on
* as Frank Zappa's group * the original vinyl
# From: db832@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Phillip A. Freshour)
# I don't know that they *didn't* get along, but if it's true, it's quite
# possibly due to Frank's intolerance of substance abusers. Mr. Reed was
# once booed off the stage in Cleveland because he was too drunk to perform.
# Even though it happened 20 years ago, it's still a local legend in the
# Northeastern Ohio area.
#
# From: natola@coos.dartmouth.edu (Mark A. Natola)
# I read once that Lou Reed had called Frank "An Untalented Asshole". On
# WOIIFTM, the comment about the Velvet Underground is being made by the
# recording engineer (whose name I can't think of), who happened to be
# working on both the Mother's and The Velvet's albums at the same time.
# Both the MOI and the VU were stablemates at MGM/Verve in those days,
# and if you look at the release numbers on the spine of the records, you
# will see that they are similar.
#
# From: spb0377@OCVAXA.CC.OBERLIN.EDU
# The engineer on WOIIFTM is Gary Kellgren. Tom Wilson was the producer
# for the first couple of MOI albums and also produced the first VU album, I
# believe.
# As for Zappa vs. Reed, there is a long anti-Zappa diatribe from Reed
# sometime in the 60's quoted in the VU biography "Up-Tight." Apparently
# Zappa, in turn, made nasty comments about VU during some concerts from
# those days. Ironic that both Zappa and Reed were embraced as heroes by
# Vaclav Havel.
#
# From LP liners notes
# GARY KELLGREN (picture in badge on cut-out page), engineer for
# two months of basic sessions at MAYFAIR STUDIOS is the one
# doing all the creepy whispering.
#
# From: John Henley
# "Also, at the same time, I get to work with the Velvet Underground, which
# is as shitty a group as Frank Zappa's group."
# Spoken by recording engineer Gary Kellgren, and no doubt reflecting his
# true personal opinion. ("Kellgren, who cordially despises Zappa's music..."
# from Walley's book, paraphrased from memory) Included by Frank as being
# suitably irreverent.
#
# From: robert@sybase.com (Robert Garvey)
# I'm not sure of the origin of this animosity, but first became aware of
# it when leafing through a book of rock 'n roll quotes. There was one
# from Lou Reed about playing the theatre in London where Zappa had been
# pitched into the orchestra pit 1971 and how much pleasure he got
# thinking about that.
# Another good quote in that book was about Lou Reed. I can't remember
# the source, but that person said that it was about a decade between good
# Lou Reed songs.
#
# From: John_Dessi
# Over the years I've seen lots of quotes from Lou Reed slagging off FZ
# in a big way, but I've never heard any negative stuff back from FZ about
# Lou Reed. In fact, in 1982 when he did his special dee-jay slot on Radio 1
# (UK) he played 'All tomorrow's parties' from the first VU album,...er.....
# whatever that tells us.
#
# From: saul+@pitt.edu (Alan Saul)
# From Miles' Visual Documentary:
# 3-29 May (1966)
# Double bill opening for Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable with the
# Velvet Underground and Nico at The Trip, Los Angeles. The hometown crowd
# naturally cheered The Mothers and booed the Velvets whose sombre black New
# York outfits didn't fit in with the garish Californian Freaks. The Byrds,
# Jim Morrison (still at UCLA Film School at the time) Sonny & Cher and Mama
# Cass were all in the audience for the opening night. Lou Reed developed a
# seething hatred for Zappa: "He's probably the single most untalented person
# I've heard in my life. He's two-bit, pretentious, academic, and he can't
# play rock 'n' roll, because he's a loser. And that's why he dresses up
# funny. He's not happy with himself and I think he's right." [Reed]
# This is because Zappa would make fun of the Velvets as part of his stage
# rap... "These guys really suck!"
# It's hard to imagine how the Velvets and The Mothers could have shared the
# bill for the whole month without violence occurring. It was perhaps
# fortunate that the Sheriff's office closed down the club on the third day
# of the engagement. However, the Warhol gang and The Mothers played one more
# gig together:
#
# 28-29 May
# Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco. The opening audition band (who didn't
# get paid) was The Jefferson Airplane.
#
# From: John_Dessi
# Apparently, if I remember correctly, FZ and Herb Cohen supposedly blocked
# the release of 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' until after 'Freak Out'
# came out, so that the latter would be forever remembered as the first
# 'weird' album to be released. Sounds totally preposterous doesn't it, but
# is there any truth in it?
#
# From: rotovibe@cats.ucsc.edu (Alexander Shane Dickey)
# Actually, in "Up-Tight:The Velvet Underground Story" it all but says that.
# It definitely alludes to the fact that Lou was pissed that Verve was
# releasing "Freak Out" first. This could be Lou's side of the argument. As
# for Frank, I just think he thought the VU sucked.
#
# From: Vladimir Sovetov
# It's interesting also to note that when FZ was poshumously inducted to
# Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame ( Jan, 1995 ) it was Lou Reed who did the honors
# and said how much he missed Zappa's integrity and his firebrand politics.
# And even as cited by John_Dessi said
# "I respected Frank Zappa, and I know that he respected me"
# And Frank's daughter Moon in her turn started the acceptence speech
# by this words ( johnscialli@delphi.com (John V. Scialli) transription )
# "This is so nice. Thank you, Lou. I really appreciate that."
#
# From: Cliff Heller
# Vlad, just one quick comment
# You devoted a lot of time to the FZ/Lou Reed controversy, but I don't think
# it's fair to end with this anecdote without including Gails commentary on
# the whole Hall of Fame thing. From her comments, and what I know about the
# industry, Lou and Moons on-stage comments were just show-business
# nicey-nicey between people that hate each other.
# The choice of Lou to induct Frank was a great insult to the Zappa family.
# Gail said, among other thing "Lou never had a nice thing to say about
# Frank".
# Also include that quite some time before the Hall of Fame induction Ahmet
# led audiences at Z shows in loud chants of "Fuck Lou Reed!" (At least he
# did this in New York, I can only presume he did so elsewhere - unless the
# fact that it was Reed's home town made it special).
# Unfortunately, I don't have the text of the Gail quotes, but I suspect
# they are available somewhere. Feel free to include any of these comments
# in upcoming revisions of this Notes & Comments.
# It seems like a lot of space to devote to the FZ/LR stuff, but this might
# be the best place to include it, if it isn't documented elsewhere.
#
# Thank you, Cliff, for a great suggestion. Here is it straight from our
# fabulous Dr. John.
#
# From: scialli@primenet.com (John V. Scialli)
#
# Text of Lou Reed Introductory Speech, Rock and Roll Hall of
# Fame (2:17 min)
#
#
# It's very rare in life to know someone who affects things; changes
# them in a positive way. I've been lucky enough to have known
# some in my life: Andy Warhol, Doc Pomus. People whose
# vision and integrity was such that it moved the world a bit. People
# who, through the articulation of their talents and intelligence, were
# able to leave things better than they had found them. People who
# were not only not in it for the money, to paraphrase Frank Zappa.
# Frank Zappa was such a person and of the many regrets I have in
# life, not knowing him a lot better is one of them.
# Whether writing symphonies, satirical broadsides or casting a
# caustic glow across the frontier of madness that makes up the
# American political landscape; whether testifying before Congress
# to put the PMRC in its rightful lowly place, or acting as a cultural
# conduit for President Vaclav Havel and the Czech government,
# Frank was a force for reason and honesty in the business
# deficient in those areas. As we reward some with money for the
# amusement they supply to the cultural masses, I think the
# induction of Frank Zappa in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
# distinguishes the Hall as well as the inductee. [applause]
# Musicians usually cannot speak. That's why they communicate
# through their instruments. But Frank was one who could. And
# because music is pure, the musician is pure as well and when
# Frank spoke he demonstrated the power of purity. Who will do
# that now? I admired Frank greatly and I know he admired me. It
# gives me great pleasure to give this award to his daughter, Moon
# Zappa.
#
#
#
# Text of Moon Zappa's Acceptance Speech (1:44 min)
#
#
# This is so nice. Thank you, Lou. I really appreciate that.
#
# I'm a little dyslexic and earlier I freed my ass.(*) I'm hoping my
# mind will follow. [sigh, sniff] [Applause] Um, thank you and, uhh, I
# know you know I had said that this is the year of the end of the
# bullshit promises and I am really sorry that my father missed that.
# And, um, uhh, I've almost, almost, forgiven the Wait Staff here
# because my heart is open from watching all of this. [gestures
# towards the screen on which Zappa montage had been shown]
# and it's very odd to be back there [backstage] before you come
# up because you actually hear the command given but I just want
# to say that this really belongs to his, his fans and um, music really
# is a language and I think that some languages are easy to
# understand than others. I don't think it's any accident that the
# Slavic countries really appreciated my father the most because it's
# really hard to get the accents down and everything. And, um, I
# just really want to say thank you and I think that he would really
# have enjoyed this. Thank you.
#
# (*) From: metzler@pablo.physics.lsa.umich.edu (Chris Metzler)
# Sure. It's a musical joke. It refers to the classic George Clinton /
# Funkadelic album, "Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow." Funkadelic
# was way cool.
# Moon is saying that she's dyslexic and did it in the wrong order. Why?
# I don't know. But I'm sure that's what it's a reference to.
#
#
# Here's Gail's interview comments:
#
# Slightly edited by the Freditor of T'mershi Duween:
#
# ZAPPA & THE ROCK UNROLLED HALL OF FARCE
#
# "Ten days before the actual ceremony," says Gail Zappa, "we still hadn't
# received invitations. The producer said, 'Oh that's unconscionable! We can
# give you two free tickets.' Well, there's _five_ of us of course. He said,
# 'Well, we can sell you additional tickets at fifteen hundred dollars a
# piece, but you can't sit together.' I just laughed. Moon had expressed an
# interest in going, so we decided she'd accept the award. A week before the
# ceremony, they called me and said Edward Van Halen -who would have been
# perfect - had turned down their offer to induct Frank because he doesn't do
# these things. So I suggested Johnny "guitar' Watson whom Frank knew, loved
# and had worked with. They said 'No.' I won't say why because I don't want to
# hurt Johnny, but I did tell them that Johnny was one of the most lucid and
# articulate people I'd ever heard interviewed. I suggested Aerosmith, but was
# told they were going to induct Led Zeppelin. So I suggested Led Zeppelin.
# Again they said no. I asked them who chooses these
# things and was told 'The Board.' I asked if there were any musicians on the
# board, and more importantly are there any black musicians. They had to call
# me back and they replied 'Yes one: Berry Gordy.'
# "They then said 'We've invited Lou Reed to do it.' I was laughing. It was
# just _so_ ironic. I said I'd talk to my kids and they were against it; they
# believed Lou had millions of chances to make up with Frank. So Lou called. I
# told him 'Listen, you said lots of shitty things about Frank.' We discussed
# it and he finally said 'If I said anything flip that was _meant_ to be
# funny, I'm sorry.' Actually Frank admired him as a songwriter; 'Femme
# Fatale' and 'All Tomorrow's Parties' were two of Frank's favorites.
# "We asked for a car to take Moon to the ceremony. The producer told Moon
# that I said she'd be giving clearance to use the Frank footage on MTV which
# was totally not true! He said 'That's OK, the show's running long, so we'll
# just cut Frank.' Moon called him back and made him apologize for making her
# father sound insignificant. A limo did take her to the show, but there was
# no-one to pick her up afterwards! I have this vision of her standing in the
# rain, flagging down a cab with the award in her hand...
# "I watched the broadcast and they didn't play any of his music, although
# they played at least one song by every other artist. And then I heard Joe
# Perry say that Led Zeppelin has asked Aerosmith to induct them months
# before, so how come we only got word a week before? This is a man who went
# to Capitol Hill for these people! When Moon said Frank would have enjoyed
# it, she meant the musicians. As Lou said, it honored the Hall to induct
# Frank and not the other way round. It was stupid, insensitive and just
# thoughtless."
AMERICAN WAY
Threatened by US
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: "Kerry R. Field"
# I think back to the Vietnam war protests I experienced. Anytime the
# police or National Guard clubbed and arrested people they were handcuffed
# and dragged to a bus for transport to the police station for processing.
# What was always ironic to me is that it was usually a yellow school bus,
# The same vehicle that transported most of us to and from our formal
# education. I also believe FZ capitalized US to state that the American
# Way was threatened from within, but us from the US of A.
Drag a few creeps
^^^^^^^^^^
Away in a bus
# From: pepke@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
# The other thing to remember is the difference between "freaks" and
# "hippies." It's a bit like the difference between "punk" and "new wave"
# was in the early eighties, or the difference between some soup kitchens for
# winos and a multimillion-dollar Homelessness Industry. Freaks were
# basically a bunch of dissatisfied reasonably young people, sometimes
# imaginative, sometimes angry, sometimes destructive, and sometimes stupid.
# Hippiedom was built supposedly on the foundation of freak culture but was
# really Big Business. When most of the album was recorded, the scales were
# still pointing toward freaks. When it was released, it was Hippiedom all
# the way.
#
# From: rouse@teleport.com (Sam &/or Karen Rouse)
# I remember reading in some FZ related material (maybe The Real FZ Book?)
# that it was a reference to the fact that after the "real" freak scene had
# started, it was promptly glommed onto by tourists (speaking
# metaphorically, i.e. folks that had found an exciting new trend to
# emulate).
# Getting back to the original thread - I think the songs in question are
# referring to "creeps" rather than "freaks" (e.g. "Cop kill a creep - pow
# pow pow"). I think this sort of makes sense, in that "freaks" seems to
# encompass more sociological ground than "creeps," the latter referring
# more to appearance than other matters - and "creeps" being a group that
# could be victimized on more superficial grounds by those not interested in
# looking further.
Bow Tie Daddy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
...operator?
phone for a minute, please...
Hello?
...yes sir...
Ah, can you call six seven eight nine eight six six
...
Yes
Right
Is that Vickie?
^^^^^^^
He's gonna bump you off the ass
# OK, it's silly question, but as far as liners notes point to Pamela
# Zarubica
# SUZY CREAMCHEESE: Telephone
# may be someone happen to know who the hell was Vickie The Pam friend
# in trouble?
Harry, You're a Beast
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
MADGE, I WANT YOUR BODY!
HARRY, GET BACK!
MADGE, IT'S NOT MERELY
PHYSICAL!
HARRY, YOU'RE A BEAST!
* Don't come in me in me * Censored out on
* Don't come in me in me * the original vinyl
* Don't come in me in me *
MADGE... I COULDN'T HELP IT
.../... DOGGONE IT!
Absolutely Free
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I don't do publicity balling for you anymore...
# This is a voice of Cheese, aka Pamela Zarubica
Unbind your mind
There is no time
To lick your stamps
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
And paste them in
# From: Chris Boosalis
# Look, Frank had a habit of making fun of cheepnis -- truly cheap
# American culture. The stamps he's referring to are the S and H green
# stamps we used to receive from the gas stations and stores. The stamps
# were green and had a red S and H on them. We would then lick them, and
# paste them in these little S and H green stamp booklets, like amateur
# stamp collectors. After filling up about 5 - 5,000,000 books (each book
# held about 100 - 150 stamps) we would take them to the local S and H
# green stamp store, and BUY stuff with the books. For 30 books, you could
# get a cheap radio, and for 300 books, you could get a crappy ten-speed bike.
# It was an amazing marketing venture, held by the major oil and food
# companies here in the states: people would only go to the stores and buy
# gas from the places where they could "earn" a cheap premium (those stupid
# stamps, and that shitty merchandise).
# That is what he's peeing on, my friend, and not anything else.
DISCORPORATE
And we will begin...
* WAH WAH! * Censored out on
* Flower Power sucks! * the original vinyl
UNBIND YOUR MIND
THERE IS NO TIME
Boin-n-n-n-n-n-g
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From _Dictionary of American Slang_ H. Wentworth & S.B. Flexner
#
# boing boing-boing - exclam. An expression of apprectiation or
# acknowledgement of and toward a sexually attractive girl or young
# woman
# Is there any pan on the name of Boeing aircraft manufacturers?
#
# From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Bizarre. I think there's much too much being read into what is basically
# a nonsense sound. A spring makes the same sound. It does have a comical
# connotation of "popping a boner". I would state with nearly 100% certainty
# that it has nothing to do with Boeing.
Flower Punk
~~~~~~~~~~~
Hey Punk, where you goin' with that
flower in your hand?
Hey Punk, where you goin' with that
flower in your hand?
Well, I'm goin' up to Frisco to join a
psychedelic band.
# Hey Joe ( Jimi Hendrix version )
# --------
#
# Hey, Joe, uh, where you going witn that gun in you hand?
# Hey, Joe, I said, where you going witn that gun in you hand?
# I'm going down to shot my old lady
# You know, I caught her messin' around with another man, yeah.
#
# From: lseemann@oregon.uoregon.edu (Luke Mitchell Seemann)
# I'm assuming that Flower punk came after [ Jimi Hendrix' ] Hey joe and is
# a righteous parody.
#
# From: sundin@adb.gu.se (Ulf Sundin)
# Flower Punk was released in 68, and Hendrix released Hey Joe in '67.
# However, Hey Joe is not a Hendrix tune. It was released sometimes earlier
# by a group I cannot remember at the time.
# Yes [ it's parody ], but if I remember it correctly, Flower Punk is a lot
# closer to the original version of Hey Joe than the much cooler Hendrix
# version.
#
# From: linetramp@delphi.com
# "Hey Joe" is credited to Billy Roberts on the Hendrix vinyl which (I
# think) came out in '67. Deep Purple covered it in '68. I don't have the
# Billy Roberts publishing date. I don't even know if he was a recording
# artist.
#
# From: Charles Ulrich
# Some albums credit "Hey Joe" to Billy Roberts, and others credit it to
# Chet (or Chester) Powers. Chet Powers wrote "Get Together", which was
# recorded by the Youngbloods and countless other bands. Under his real
# name, Dino Valente, he released one solo album and was lead vocalist
# with the Quicksilver Messenger Service (when he wasn't in prison for
# possession of drugs).
# Does anyone know who Billy Roberts was? Who ripped off whom here?
#
# From: Keith Roberts
# Somewhere I read once that Billy Roberts, Chet Powers, Jesse Oris Farrow,
# and Dino Valenti were all the same person. I don't know about Billy
# Roberts, for sure, but the other three names refer to the very same
# person, who was the lead singer for Quicksilver, when the lead singer
# sounded suspiciously like Johnny Rivers.
#
# From: dm144@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey M. Gold)
# I think that the first group to record Hey Joe was The Leaves. Probably
# an early 1960's recording.
#
# From: palmer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (palmer richard allen)
# Hey Joe, by the Leaves: charted July 1966 for 9 weeks, on Mira 222.
# (personally favor, as parodies/tributes, the duwops, as on Cruisin')
#
# From: ep183@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steve Roche)
# Jim Pons (ex-Mothers, ex-Turtles) was a member of a mid-60s band called
# the Leaves who had a minor hit called 'Hey Joe". Small world.
Hey Punk, where you goin' with that
button on your shirt?
Hey Punk, where you goin' with that
button on your shirt?
I'm goin' to the love-in to sit & play
^^^^^^^
my bongos in the dirt.
# From: John Henley
# "Love-in": 1960s hippie happening wherein they sat around, got stoned,
# and let it all hang out, so to speak. [ Was there any fun in it? ] Sure,
# if you were stoned enough. Implication here is that that resultant bongo
# playing was just amateurish banging.
(Just at this moment, the 2700
microgram dose of STP ingested by
^^^
FLOWER PUNK shortly before the
# Once again the Dictionary of American Slang
#
# STP n. A synthetic drug ( 2-5 methoxy-4-methylamphetamine ) which in
# large doses, produces hallucinogenic effects of long duration. The
# initials properly stand for Serenity, Tranquillity and Peace.
# Was it really popular time wastin' substance then?
#
# From: John Henley
# For a while, with some folks, but as I remember it was dangerous, leading
# to psychotic episodes. One of the first manifestations of the whole hippie
# thing going really sour.
#
# From David G. Walley _No Commercial Potential_
# pp.125-126
# "Anyone who depended on street dealers was taking his life in his hands -
# something touted as LSD could just as easy be combination of methedrine,
# stychnine, horse tranquilazer, or even STP, a governement-developed
# hallucinogen for chemical warfare that produced several hallucinations,
# paranoia, and depressionlasting up to three days."
Golly, do I ever have a lot of soul?
I think I love you!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Charles Ulrich
# This is a line from "Wild Thing", a hit for the Troggs.
Questi dominga?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Francesco Gentile
# ... "questi" is italian and means "these", "dominga" is not italian (
# "domenica" is the italian for "sunday") but I think "domingo" is the
# spanish for "sunday". So "dominga" is a kind of mix!
I could barely even play the
changes to this song on my, on
my guitar
But now I'm very professional
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I can play the guitar
#CC
# I'm professional. I can do everything.
#
# the basic expression of Jimmy Carl Black's character in 200 Motels movie
I will say: "Hello Dolly!"
^^^^^^^^^^^^
# Any link to old jazz standard?
And I will walk
I will walk up to her and I
will smile at her
And I will impress her and I
will say: "Hello, baby,
What's a girl like you doing in a place like this?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
#CC
# _Fillmore East_ album. _What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are_ song
#
# What's s girl like you
# Doin' in a place like this?
#
# I left my place after midnight
# And I came to this hall
#
# From: rouse@teleport.com (Sam &/or Karen Rouse)
# I don't think this is CC. "What's a girl like you" etc. is a standard,
# cliche pick-up line used to strike up conversation with a member of the
# opposite camp in a bar.
Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beautiful!
God! It's God!
I see God!
# From: Vladimir Sovetov
# I believe it was Stan Ivester who once said that here we have
# the critical point mentioned in liners note
#
# ERIC CLAPTON (noted philosopher & guitarist
# with THE CREAM) has graciously consented to
# speak to you in several critical areas.
#
/\/|/\/|/\| a few bars of surf tune /\/|/\/|/\|
/\/|/\/|/\| goes there /\/|/\/|/\|
#CC
# From: Don White
# The song in question is called "Heavies" by The Rotations. It was one
# of the singles produced by FZ during the Studio Z days in Cucumonga.
#
# From: rickhall@aol.com (Rick Hall)
# get Cucamonga Years
# cut 10 Heavies (1964) THE ROTATIONS
Let's Make The Water Turn Black
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Now believe me when I tell you that my
song is really true
I want everyone to listen and believe
It's about some little people from a long time ago
And all the things the neighbors didn't know
# From: Mr_Gigabyte@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
# There was an explanation of Let's Make The Water Turn Black in Rolling
# Stone of August 27th, 1987, where We're Only In It... was named one of the
# best 100 albums of the last 20 years:
#
# In addition to lambasting hippie culture, Zappa also sought to immortalize
# some of his more bizarre childhood acquaintances -- in particular, two
# brothers named Kenny and Ronnie, who featured in the song "Let's Make the
# Water Turn Black.''
# "Ronnie had been busted for bootlegging," says Zappa. "He used to make
# raisin wine and sell it to kids in junior high school. Ronnie saved snot on
# a window in his room. He had gotten into this syndrome of flipping boogers.
# One day his mother went in there and started howling because she couldn't
# see through the window -- it was all green. They had to use chisels and
# Ajax to scrape the stuff off. This is absolutely true."
# Kenny, the other brother, lived in a garage in back of the house with
# Mothers sax man and roadie Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood. Since there was no
# plumbing in the garage, they began urinating in some Mason jars Kenny's
# mother kept for canning, then in the earthenware crocks that Ronnie had
# used to concoct his raisin wine. They covered the crocks with a board.
# "One day," says Zappa, "just out of curiosity, Kenny lifted the board to
# see how the whiz was doing, and there were these >things< swimming in it --
# like some mutant tadpoles that had been brewing in there. The father found
# out and made them flush it all down the toilet. So whatever was living in
# the jars is now probably eleven feet long and living in the sewer system in
# California."
# And the song's concluding line, "Wait till the fire turns green"?
# "When they weren't pissing in jars and saving their snot on the windows,"
# says Zappa, "they were lighting each other's farts. So there it is. It's
# like a folk song."
Early in the morning Daddy Dinky went to work
Selling lamps & chairs to San Ber'dino squares
* And I still remember Mama with her * Censored out on
* apron & her pad * the original vinyl
* Feeding all the boys at Ed's Cafe! *
(Ronnie helping Kenny helping burn his poots away!)
^^^^^
# From: John Wittenberg
# 'Poots' are more commonly called 'farts', and are reputed to produce a
# green flame when ignited.
#
# From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# The process known as pyroflatulation.
#
# From: Gregorie@LFGMS.logica.com (Martin Gregorie)
# Fartuous info: They burn with a nice orange flame, but are difficult to
# light unless you use a diffusor (ie underpants) . This also prevents brush
# fires starting in tender places!
Ronnie saves his numies on a window in his room
^^^^^^
# Seems to be something you could drag out of your nose :-)
#
# From: John Henley
# Right - boogers.
Whizzing & pasting & pooting through the day...
^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
# From: GWORSHAM@ix.netcom.com (Gary Worsham)
# Whizzing = pissing.
# Pasting = interesting mucus experiments.
Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# From: Vladimir Sovetov
# I strongly suspect that _Take Your Clothes Off When Your Dance_ was a
# parody at first place. Not in general sense, but in particular :-)
# Look what I found in _Viva Zappa!_ concerning FZ covering by some
# obscure band named Gruppo Sportivo
# "... Take Your Clothes Off When Your Dance ( Zappa) who himself
# re- used a theme from the Drifters _True Love/True Love_ ( Pomus/Shuman )"
Who cares if you're so poor you can't afford
To buy a pair of Mod A Go-Go
^^^^^^^^^^^
stretch-elastic pants...
# From: John Henley
# Neither trade name or pun, but reference to the "scene" where you find
# this kind of clothing. It was often called "mod," here meaning simply
# "modern", [not as formal as the English "mod" style]. Go-go's were the
# 1960s version of disco.
#
# From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
# Making fun of hipster advertising lingo of the day.
#CC
# This same tune became the final part of _Lumpy Gravy_
# a BALLET which probably don't make it :-)))))))
Mother People
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Lemme take a minute & tell you my plan
Lemme take a minute & tell who I am
If it doesn't show
Think you better know
I'm another person
* Better take a look before you say * Censored out on
* you don't care, shut your * the original vinyl
* fucking mouth about the length of my hair, *
* how would you survive *
* if you were alive, shitty little person *
We are the other people
We are the other people
We are the other people
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