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| Frank Zappa – Mom & Dad Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I borrowed We're Only In It For The Money from a friend in 1968. After a few plays, this was the first Zappa song I came to like and so my Zappa album collection grew from here. |
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| Frank Zappa – Baby Snakes Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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SMPTE ="Society of Motion Picture and Telvision Engneers." get a mention on the original 200 Motels Album, in the booklet. |
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| Frank Zappa – A Pound for a Brown Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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What a great site! Zing, I was at a Mothers concert at the Albert Hall in the UK in 1969, the last tour by the original Mothers. "Uncle Meat" had just been released, with the first released version of "Brown" on it. Before performing the song, Frank explained it's origins for us. You are correct but I can add more detail: In Frank's words as best I can remember them: "Last time we were here we were met at the airport by a big glass bus with big glass windows so we could see everything outside and everyone outside could see everything inside. As we were driving to the hotel, Jimmy Carl Black said to Bunk Gardner "I bet you a pound you won't do a brown out in this here bus". Bunk did a swift conversion in to Sterling currency and had his pants off in no time!." Frank then explained the construction of the song thus: "The first part is a happy bouncy part to describe how the Mothers of Invention just love to go cruising around the countryside in a big glass windowed bus. This changes in to a less melodic section which describes the altercation between Jimmy and Bunk" I can't remember anymore from there. I witnessed the section of the concert that is at the end of "Burnt Weeny Sandwich" including the "invasion" of the stage, which was actually by a small party of U.S. kids aged about 12. No idea how they came to be there. The rest of the Albert Hall crowd stayed politiley and quietly in tirre seats, apart from the idiot freaking out about "get the unifroms of that stage MAAANN!!!" |
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