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Live at Titan Gymnasium of the California State University, Fullerton, CA - November 8, 1968
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| [FZ] Could the people who are standing directly in front of the PA speakers please move out of the way so the… the sound gets out a little better? An’ a— and also be careful of the cables on the floor over there so that your feet don’t light up. OK, now we’ll tune up and prepare to rock out for you.
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| OK, we… (Hello?) we’re gonna start off with a uh… a very old song, it was originally recorded in 1956 by Andre Williams. The name of this song is “Bacon fat”.
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| In fact… (Roy, Roy? Roy, d’ya wanna take this microphone an’ I’ll jump over this)
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| [Roy Estrada] OK
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| [FZ] Bop. OK.
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| [Roy Estrada] How are we gonna get outta here?
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| [?] I don’t know
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| [FZ] A giant vocal extravaganza
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| [Instrumental]
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| While I was down in Tennessee
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| All my friends was glad to see me
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| We sat down by the railroad tracks
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| Seein’ some cotton pickers with their sacks on their backs
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| They said: “Hey, man, we’re glad to see you back
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| We got a new dance they call ‘The Bacon Fat’
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| It goes:
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| Diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly wah
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| Diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly wah
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| Diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly wah”
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| Then I went down to see my local DJ
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| His name is King, he lives down Tennessee way
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| I said: “Hey, man, what’s this new kind of jump
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| Where you wind up twice and then you end up with a bump?”
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| He said: “Dig, daddy, it’s a natural fact
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| It’s sweeping the south, that thing, The Bacon Fat
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| It goes:
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| Diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly wah
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| Diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly wah
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| Diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly diddly wah”
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| [FZ] Thank you. Still tryin’ to get the sound adjusted so it sounds more teen-age and appealing for you. The problem is that gymnasiums were not designed to have music played in them. They’re for sucks and people who like to jump around with balls and stuff.
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| [FZ] OK, this is one of those songs that is bound to sound funny without the alto sax but, what the heck. This is a tune from our uh… new album which is gonna be out in a couple of weeks called “Uncle Meat”. It’s an album of the music of the Mothers’ movie of the same name. And the name of this piece is “The string quartet”. “String quartet”.
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| Ready?
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| [Larry Fischer] The name of this song is called “The Wild Man Fischer story”
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| In the year of 1961 I did it all in fun
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| “Davy!”
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| “What, mother?”
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| “Larry is in the bathroom, Dave, and he’s singing”
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| “Larry, are you singing?”
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| “Mother, I don’t know what he’s doin’ but he’s not singing”
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| In the year of 1962 I got thrown out the school
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| “Larry, you’re not supposed to sing in class”
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| “What’s wrong with singing in class?”
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| “I’m sorry, Larry, I’m gonna have to throw you out of school”
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| In the year of 1963 I was committed to a mental institution
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| “David, I don’t know what we’re gonna do about it, David. But, David, I don’t know what we’re gonna… we gonna have to get rid of Larry, David. He keeps singing”. “You gotta understand, Larry, mother loves you. But it’s my […], Larry, you know I love you, I’ll always love you. Why can’t you be like every other Jewish boy in the neighborhood, a nice decent boy?”
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| “Mother I only wanna sing”
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| “I’m sorry, Larry”
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| In the year of 1964 I was released from the mental institution
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| I was…
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| Yeah, tell ‘em
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| “Mother, I’m back, I’ve changed, mother, I’m gonna be normal, I’m gonna go out and get a job, I’m gonna be… I’m gonna be alright, you’ll see, I’m not… I’m gonna do what you want. I’ll be alright”
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| “Can I have this job sir?”
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| “OK, you’re hired”
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| “Fischer, sing us a song, sing us a song, Fischer, yeah, sing us a song”
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| “I can’t sing you a song or I get fired”
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| “Come on, Fischer, sing us a song”
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| “Fischer, sing me a song”
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| Come on let’s merry-go, merry-go, merry-go-round
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| Poo poo poo, merry-go, merry-go, merry-go-round
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| Poo poo poo, merry-go, merry-go, merry-go-round
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| “You’re fired”
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| In the year of 1965 I was committed to the mental institution again
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| “I’m sorry, Larry, but what will I do, this is your last chance, you haven’t stayed […] yet, you haven’t had a job, I’m gonna have to commit you again”
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| In the year of 1966 I was released from the mental institution again
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| “This time I’m gonna be alright, I’m… be normal, you know”
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| In the year of 1967
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| “Do you wanna hear a new kinda song for a dime?”
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| “Pardon me, sir, would you like to hear a new kinda song for a dime?”
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| “I’m sorry, man, I’m late for my last class, I can’t…”
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| “It’s just… only cost a dime”
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| “OK go ahead”
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| Uhmm puppu uhm
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| ✄ “The leaves are falling”
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| “The leaves are what?”
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| In the year of 1968 have I made a mistake. Will I end up a bum, will I end up a crumb, will I end up in hell, will I end up in jail, will I end up in Jezus, will I end up in trees, will I end up Wild Man Fischer, Wild Man Fischer.
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| Merry-go
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| Merry
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| [FZ] Larry is going to unveil for you now a new song that he has written called “The meany”. This is a song about why he doesn’t like the Beatles.
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| Ready?
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| [Larry Fischer] It’s just a song, it’s just… eh
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| John ksssh, Paul ksssh
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| George ksssh, Ringo ksssh
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| Dylan ksssh
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| I’m the meany
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| I’m the meany
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| I am wicked and vicious and stingy
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| I’m the meany
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| I’m the meany
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| The Beatles talk about me in their movie, movie
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| I once had a girlfriend named Sue
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| I took her out to the zoo
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| She told me she was pregnant
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| So I hit her in the stomach
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| I’m the meany
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| I’m the meany
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| I am wicked and vicious and stingy
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| I’m the meany
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| I’m the meany
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| The Beatles talk about me in their movie, movie
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| I once had a girlfriend called Tina
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| I took her out to the show
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| She told me she didn’t love me anymore
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| So I hit ‘r in the face
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| I’m the meany
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| I’m the meany
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| I am wicked and vicious and stingy
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| I’m the meany
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| I’m the meany
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| The Beatles talk about me in their movie, movie, movie
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| [FZ] That’s pretty good! Haven’t heard that one before.
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| [Larry Fischer] It’s a new one
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| [?] Larry will be back in a few moments, boys and girls. Meanwhile, here’s a few words from the Mothers of Invention.
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| [FZ] We accomplished this by taking two toilet paper rolls and stuffing them completely packed full and then, putting a little funnel on the end of each one, proceeded to smoke them before we went to the dance.
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| We was tore to the core.
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| And, boy, if our parents knew we was doing that it would pissed them off.
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| We would show them. We would get so wasted we didn’t even know who we were. You and me, Valarie, come on. Do you know what your name is anymore?
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| “No, I don’t know, Ruben” ▶. Then, when we’re really ripped we jumped out of the sharp ca— charp car and went in to the gymnasium where they were holding the hop. A place similar to this as I recall. And they had red and blue bulbs in the corner of the room, crepe paper droozling down all over the walls, a punch bowl in the corner ▶.
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| And Alice Cooper
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| And Alice Cooper?
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| It’s a very strange stream of consciousness synchronization there.
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| Punch bowl, Alice Cooper. Investigate this boy.
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| You live in Orange County? ▶
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| Yep!
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| That’s it
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| And then I tried to play with your tits and you hit me in the face.
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| La-la la-la-la la-la
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| La-la la-la-la la-la
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| La-la la-la-la la-la
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| La-la la-la-la la-la
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| Thank you
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| [FZ] The name of this song is “King Kong”. It is also included in our new album. It occupies all of side four of the two record set and uh…
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| It’s actually the story of a large gorilla. You all know the story I’m sure. The gorilla is on an island, eats bananas, has a good time all day long. Plays out there in the bushes and uh… some Americans find out about the gorilla and they hear how big he is, you know. They’re very impressed with the size of the beast. So they make it to the island, you know, they check out the gorilla. And… And they get a… a thing and they catch him, you know. They catch the gorilla and they stick him in a boat and they bring him back to the United States. And they show him off to everybody. And they make a bunch of money on the gorilla, and then they kill him.
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