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Hughie Green

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Drop Dead

Won Ton On

hope you all enjoyed your voyage into the murky realms of Frank Zappa

If anybody can find anything sleazier or funnier feel free to post :guitar:

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Cast

* Thing-Fish—Ike Willis

* Harry—Terry Bozzio

* Rhonda—Dale Bozzio

* The Evil Prince—Napoleon Murphy Brock

* Harry-As-A-Boy—Bob Harris

* Brown Moses—Johnny "Guitar" Watson

* Owl-Gonkwin-Jane Cowhoon—Ray White

Musicians

* Frank Zappa – arranger, composer, director, vocals, producer, Synclavier, guitar

* Tommy Mars – keyboards, vocals

* David Ocker – Synclavier

* Scott Thunes – vocals, bass guitar

* Johnny "Guitar" Watson – vocals, cast

* Ray White – vocals, cast, guitar

* Chuck Wild – piano

* Jay Anderson – string bass

* Ed Mann – percussion

* Chad Wackerman – drums, vocals

* Ike Willis – vocals, cast, guitar

* Dale Bozzio – vocals, cast

* Arthur Barrow – bass guitar

* Terry Bozzio – drums, vocals, cast

* Napoleon Murphy Brock – vocals, cast

* Steve DeFuria – Synclavier

* Bob Harris – keyboards, vocals, cast

* Steve Vai – guitar

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Cheers Arbs and Cap'n B

Pity 200 Motels isnt complete on youtube or that would be next, selected tracks from other albums will appear in due course :guitar:

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Magic Fingers (featuring Ringo Starr as Larry the Dwarf dressed up as Frank Zappa)

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Nice one Hughie - those are totally new to me :D

- d'you like Sheik Yerbouti Hughie ? that was the first Zappa I knew and it's a flipping travesty that Amo*on no longer sell it :<

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Shit!! that takes me back to the Rainbow and a BRILLIANTLY SPARKLING evening of some real music and then over to the Robey to settle the nerves after seeing Mr Frank pushed off stage by some dikwit - thanks Hughie :oldtoker:

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Camarillo Brillo (side note, "Camarillo Brillo" is a song by Frank Zappa and was first included on his 1973 LP Over-Nite Sensation. The song's lyrics make use of many colloquialisms and made-up words. The title itself is a pun; Zappa incorrectly pronounces Camarillo, the name of a city in California, to rhyme with Brillo, a trade name associated with cleaning pads. "Brio" is also a musical term meaning "vigor". Camarillo is also the name of a mental institution in Southern California, usually pronounced the way Zappa sings it. It's likely that a "Camarillo Brillo" is a hairstyle that resembles that of a mental patient who has recently received Electro-Shock Therapy.)

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I know I would Hughie :doh: lights off @ 03.00 though so I won't even be tempted to * my whole crop up onna whim. I am potentially twat enough to pull a branch off it it were't for the 'rescue' of lights out in uh 12 minuits :rofl:

I'll just have another cuppa and LEAVE THE FLOWER ALONE

cheers for eminding me that it's very much something to refrain from :rofl:

eta phew - 03.00 and the Smile's safe :D

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Too late now lights off

Don't Eat The Yellow Snow - Father O'Blivion

top sound Hughie :yep: - loves this :D

'had the unmitigated audacity' :rofl: a generous mittenfull :D e2a great googly moogly :>

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Shit!! that takes me back to the Rainbow and a BRILLIANTLY SPARKLING evening of some real music and then over to the Robey to settle the nerves after seeing Mr Frank pushed off stage by some dikwit - thanks Hughie :oldtoker:

Aye that was crazy, 71 was a bad year for the band

"In December 1971, there were two serious setbacks. While performing at Casino de Montreux in Switzerland, the Mothers' equipment was destroyed when a flare set off by an audience member started a fire that burned down the casino.(recorded for posterity in the song "smoke on the water" by Deep Purple who witnessed the fire) After a week's break, The Mothers played at the Rainbow Theatre, London, with rented gear. During the encore, an audience member pushed Zappa off the stage and into the concrete-floored orchestra pit. The band thought Zappa had been killed?he had suffered serious fractures, head trauma and injuries to his back, leg, and neck, as well as a crushed larynx, which ultimately caused his voice to drop a third after healing. This left him wheelchair bound, forcing him off the road for over half a year. Upon his return to the stage in September 1972, he was still wearing a leg brace, had a noticeable limp and could not stand for very long while on stage. Zappa noted that one leg healed "shorter than the other" (a reference later found in the lyrics of songs "Zomby Woof" and "Dancin' Fool"), resulting in chronic back pain."

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