Notes & Comments - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore vol 2

September 1988, 116:42 min

Live in Helsinki, September 22, 1974

You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore vol 2
  1. Tush Tush Tush (A Token Of My Extreme) (2:48)
  2. Stinkfoot (4:18)
  3. Inca Roads (10:54)
  4. RDNZL (8:43)
  5. Village Of The Sun (4:33)
  6. Echidna's Arf (Of You) (3:30)
  7. Don't You Ever Wash That Thing? (4:56)
  8. Pygmy Twylyte (8:22)
  9. Room Service (6:22)
 10. The Idiot Bastard Son (2:39)
 11. Cheepnis (4:28)
 12. Approximate (8:11)
 13. Dupree's Paradise (23:59)
 14. Satumaa (Finnish Tango) (Mononen) (3:51)
 15. T'Mershi Duween (1:31)
 16. The Dog Breath Variations (1:38)
 17. Uncle Meat (2:28)
 18. Building A Girl (1:00)
 19. Montana (Whipping Floss) (10:15)
 20. Big Swifty (2:16)


General notes on the bass drum sound:

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  From: s0602574@let.rug.nl (Remco Takken)
  Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 22:55:36 GMT

  	Well, you just can't believe anything you see and hear, can you
  (sorry for the Hendrix quote on alt.fan.Frank Zappa). Ruben & the
  Jets never mentioned any overdubs on the cd... YCDTOSA #2 believe it
  or not, has the bass drum of Chad Wackerman on it. The original
  Chester notes were put on harddisc, and from there the new bass drum
  sound was triggered. It's still Chester's playing, with a new sound
  attached to it. I heard this information from an extreme Zappa freak
  and sound specialist called Nick Roovers (still a chance that I
  fucked up his information, blame me in that case). I happen to like
  this sound a lot, especially on headphones, check out the other
  Chester Thompson passages on other YCDTOSA volumes. You can now
  recognise Thompson for a sound he never heard himself, because Chad
  Wackerman never played that way...
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There are only other two tracks from this band on the series: "Smell
My Beard" and "The Booger Man" both from YCDTOSA 4. The Gorilla bass
drum sounds different in these two, more natural to me also.

 3. Inca Roads
    The guitar solo for this version has been used, with a different
    edit, for the "One Size Fits All" version of IR (see the OSFA
    liner notes).

12. Approximate
    The "so modern way number 3 'with the feet' " way to perform
    this song is visually very "exhilarating". I highly recommend
    the "Dub Room Special" video for a complete amusement with
    another version of this song from an LA 1974 concert.

14. Satumaa (Finnish Tango)
    Lyrics to this song and a nice photo strictly connected with
    it are available through the Internet from the Robbert Heederik
    web page "St. Alphonzo's Pancake Homepage"
    (http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~heederik/zappa/).
    The photo is a JPEG file
    (http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~heederik/zappa/files/jpg/satumaa.jpg)
    and is described in
    http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~heederik/zappa/files/jpg/satumaa.txt.
    Here is the description:

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      The photograph was taken at the Kulttuuritalo (Culture house)
      concert hall in Helsinki on September 22, 1974. The persons are
      Ruth Underwood, Chester Thompson, Matti Koskiala, George Duke,
      Tom Fowler and Frank Zappa. Matti Koskiala, a veteran Finnish
      drummer and percussionist, is teaching the band to play a Finnish
      tango, Satumaa.
      
      I scanned the picture from the July 1991 issue of "Muusikko", the
      Finnish musicians union magazine. I didn't ask their or Mr.
      Koskiala's permission.
      
      The Finnish RSO plays at the same hall. I am proud to have played
      percussion with them on this very same stage, conducted by Ingo
      Metzmacher, who has recorded an excellent CD of Conlon
      Nancarrow's studies with Ensemble Modern.

      Matti Sunell
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    Here are the lyrics:

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      Aavan meren tuolla puolen jossakin on maa,
      missa onnen kaukorantaan laine liplattaa.
      Missa kukat kauneimmat luo aina loistettaan,
      siella huolet huomisen voi jaada unholaan.

      Oi jospa kerran sinne satumaahan kayda vois,
      niin sielta koskaan lahtisi en linnun lailla pois.
      Vaan siivetanna en voi lentaa vanki olen maan,
      vain aatoksin mi kauas entaa sinne kayda saan.

      Lenna laulu sinne missa siintaa satumaa,
      sinne missa oma armain mua odottaa.
      Lenna laulu sinne lailla linnun liitavan.
      Kerro etta aatoksissain on vain yksin han.

      Oi jospa kerran...
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    And the first two verses translate as follows:

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      From: ola@vipunen.hut.fi (sir Ola Rinta-Koski)
      Date: 8 Jul 92 12:32:22

        There's a land beyond the vast sea
        where waves wash on the shores of happiness
        where beautiful flowers always blossom
        where worries of tomorrow can be forgotten

        Oh if once I could go to that fairytale land
        never would I leave from there like a bird
        but without wings I cannot fly, I'm a prisoner of ground
        only in thoughts that reach so far can I ever there be

      I don't believe an 'official' translation exists...
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