OK, here's a new one. The fact that they live by the SMPTE code means that baby snakes are something that come out on tape when you've been cooped up in a studio all night and for days on end. SMPTE is a professional syncing code so that sound and pictures are perfectly aligned. Frank created some sounds that were often evocative of slippery wet things, so "pink and wet" might be what the image that he associated with these weird sounds. That's my theory.
OK, here's a new one. The fact that they live by the SMPTE code means that baby snakes are something that come out on tape when you've been cooped up in a studio all night and for days on end. SMPTE is a professional syncing code so that sound and pictures are perfectly aligned. Frank created some sounds that were often evocative of slippery wet things, so "pink and wet" might be what the image that he associated with these weird sounds. That's my theory.
SMPTE ="Society of Motion Picture and Telvision Engneers." get a mention on the original 200 Motels Album, in the booklet.
SMPTE ="Society of Motion Picture and Telvision Engneers." get a mention on the original 200 Motels Album, in the booklet.