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You can’t do that on stage anymore Vol. 5

 

Disc 1
  1 The downtown talent scout
  2 Charles Ives
  3 Here lies love [Que Martin, Ray Dobard]
  4 Piano / Drum duet {Redneck eats}
  5 Mozart ballet [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frank Zappa]
  6 Chocolate Halvah [Lowell George, Roy Estrada, Frank Zappa]
  7 JCB & Kansas on the bus #1 {+ Lovesick blues}
  8 Run Home Slow: main title theme
  9 The little march {Run home slow}
10 Right there [Roy Estrada, Frank Zappa]
11 Where is Johnny Velvet?
12 Return of the hunchback duke {The little house I used to live in}
13 Trouble every day
14 Proto-minimalism
15 JCB & Kansas on the bus #2
16 My head?
17 Meow
18 Baked-bean boogie {King Kong}
19 Where’s our equipment?
20 FZ / JCB drum duet
21 No waiting for the peanuts to dissolve {Trouble every day}
22 A game of cards
23 Underground freak-out music {King Kong}
24 German lunch [The Mothers of Invention]
25 My guitar wants to kill your mama

 

Disc 2
  1 Easy meat
  2 Dead girls of London [Frank Zappa, Lakshminarayana Shankar]
  3 Shall we take ourselves seriously?
  4 What’s new in Baltimore?
  5 Mōggio
  6 Dancin’ fool
  7 RDNZL
  8 Advance romance
  9 City of tiny lites
10 A pound for a brown (on the bus)
11 Doreen
12 The black page #2
13 Geneva farewell

 

All compositions by Frank Zappa, except as noted above.


Disc 1

1. The downtown talent scout


[Notes by FZ] The lyrics refer to the guys who used to spy on the freaks in Hollywood in the early 1960’s. We never knew if they were FBI, CIA, DEA or what, but they’d do stupid stuff like rush into restaurants (on one occasion I saw, it was Ben Frank’s, on Sunset) and take 8mm movies of anybody who looked too weird, then rush out again to a waiting car. They’d also sneak around your house in the early morning hours, snooping. I found a pair of them (little suits and ties on) outside my door at 6:00AM once when we lived on Kirkwood.
 
[FZ] The kids are freaking out, everybody is goin’ nuts
The heat’s out every night to call up names and kick their butts
Well, everytime you turn around you’ll see some joker staring back
He’s got a secret tape recorder and a camera in a sack
Pretending that he’s just another of the kiddies freaking out
But they pay him off in acid ‘cause he’s a downtown talent scout
 
He’s got your name and he’s got your face
He’s got your ex-old lady’s place
He’s here to see what’s goin’ down
And they don’t believe the things he’s found
 
The badges gleam and the minors scream, the heat pulls on the scene
They got no warrants in their pockets but that badge makes them supreme
 
You kids are smoking dandelions, you’re sniffing paper bags, baby
You’re dropping Good & Plenties, we can tell, your posture sags
Now line up here against the wall, your bodies frail and thin
And open up your pockets while we dump the evidence in
 
Well, they know that smoking flowers won’t win a case in court
And they know that Good & Plenties aren’t the psychedelic sort
But they tear your place apart because they simply couldn’t pass
A chance to drag some freaks downtown for smoking devil grass
 
Well, you never get your day in court, the food downtown is foul
The day of trial you nearly die with maggots in your bowel
But modern law and justice has advanced to such a point
That a jury trial is useless, they simply take you to the joint
‘Cause after all you look so freaky, how could anyone believe
That what you think and what you feel comes close at all to what is real?
 
Blow your harmonica, son!

2. Charles Ives


[Notes by FZ] Some people might recognize the “Charles Ives” vamp section as the background to “The blimp” on Beefheart’s “Trout Mask Replica” album. When it was included there, the recording was done in a unique manner: I was at Whitney Recording in Glendale working on some MOI material and a call came from Beefheart, excited about his new lyrics. Antennae Jimmy Semens was ordered to recite them to me over the phone. I recorded his recitation and superimposed it on the vamp. This strange sandwich was eventually used on the album.
 
[Instrumental]

3. Here lies love


[Notes by FZ] “Here lies my love” was an old R&B tune (the flip side of “WPLJ”) I used to like. When Lowell joined the band, it became a frequent item on the concert song list.
 
[Lowell George] Here lies love
In a grave caused by jealousy
Here lies love
In a grave caused by jealousy
Hate was the pall bearer
And on the tombstone was written “misery”
 
It was a bad situation
From the beginning to the end
It was a bad situation
From the beginning to the end
I say, baby, you killed my love
Now the undertaker is your friend
 
Now I’m sad and I’m blue
There’s not much I can do
If these blues don’t leave me
The UNDERTAKER WILL GET ME TOO
 
Oh oh, here lies love
In a grave caused by jealousy
You know that hate was the pall bearer
And on the tombstone was written “Misery”

4. Piano / Drum duet {Redneck eats}


[Notes by FZ] This selection was originally performed as part of the “Festival Hall Drama” in 1968. The orchestral themes formed the basis for the “200 Motels” score. This module has also been included in “Bogus pomp” (on the “L.S.O.” and “Orchestral Favorites” albums).
 
[Instrumental]

5. Mozart ballet


[Notes by FZ] Before being banned from the Royal Albert Hall for purportedly naughty lyrics , we played there twice. This was from the second appearance. Noel Redding (then bassist for Jimi Hendrix) was hanging out backstage. We invited him to participate in our ballet extravaganza. This involved him being picked up by our roadie (Kanzus) and collided violently with Motorhead Sherwood.
Dick Barber, our road manager, made an appearance with a rubber chicken (pre-rigged with its little belly full of brown ale and shaving foam). After announcing his deep feelings about the species, he vocalized a few of his special snorks and strangled it, causing the grotesque stew within to splotch all over the hallowed stage.
 

[FZ] While the well-disciplined Ian Underwood plays selected fragments from Mozart’s “Piano sonata in B-flat” and we make electric noises, some members of our rocking teen combo will hop around on stage in a grotesque parody of the art of ballet dancing.
 
[Instrumental]
 
Hey, double path!
Double path
You get a double?
 
Oh, you have to carry him
Carry him?
You have to carry him
Come on over, you told to her, I mean…
 
He looks fat!
 
God, oh m’ God!
 
Where’s the chicken?
 
Bock! Bock! BE-REHH!
Bock! BE-REHH!
ACTION!
Bock bock BE-REHH!
Boy, do I hate chickens!
Bock bock BE-REHH
Bock bock BE… SNORK
SNORK SNORK
 
[FZ] During this part of our extremely zany ballet, Don Preston disguised as a mad scientist will convert the unwilling Motorhead Sherwood into a walking zombie.
 
Bock… bock bock… bock… BOCK!
 
No, let him get his smock on!

6. Chocolate Halvah


Hal-a-vah, Hal-a-vah
Hal-a-vah, Hal-a-vah
Hal-a-vah, Hal-a-vah
A-hal-a-vah
Chocolate Hal-a-vah
Chocolate Hal-a-vah
Chocolate Hal-a-vah
 
Hal-a-vah
Hal-a-vah
[Repeat]

7. JCB & Kansas on the bus #1 {+ Lovesick blues}


[Jimmy Carl Black] Hands UP!
 
[Kanzus J. Kanzus] […] he’s got them two microphones taped together. What if we taped our dicks together that way? What would they say?
[Dick Kunc] You’d have a helluva time gettin’ your pants on, I tell ya that
 

I got a feelin’ called “the blues”

Oh Lord, since my baby said goodbye

Been gonnnnne

Dee dee dee dee

Lord, I don’t know what I’ll do

To dooo

All I do is sit and cry, oh Lord

Since my dead long days you said goodbye

Well, Lord, I thought I would die

The beer that made Milwaukee famous but Braves didn’t hurt it any

She do me, she do you

She got the kinda lovin’

Lord, I love to hear her when she call me “sweet da-ay-ay-ddy”

8. Run Home Slow: main title theme


[Notes by FZ] These two selections were themes (originally written in 1959) from a cowboy movie for which I did the music in 1962 or 1963, starring Mercedes McCambridge. The script was written by my high school English teacher, Don Cerveris. The plot had something to do with a bad ranch lady, a nymphomaniac cowgirl, and a hunchback handyman named Kirby who eventually winds up pooching the nympho in a barn, next to the rotting carcass of the family donkey.

 Run Home Slow

 
[Instrumental]

9. The little march {Run home slow}


[Instrumental]

10. Right there


[Notes by FZ] The tape in the background was recorded by Bunk and used in several live concerts during that tour. This performance begins on stage in Miami, dissolves into the recording studio, then back to the stage.
 
UH HA HA! UH HA! UH HA HA HA!
OH, BUNK! OH, DON’T STOP!
HA HA HA HA!
OH GOD! OH GOD!
HA HA HA!
 
OH! HA HA HA!
OH GOD!
LEAVE IT THERE…
RIGHT… RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE!
Perfect! Perfect!
RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE!
OH OH OH HA HA!
 
AH AH AH AH AH!
AY AY AY AY AY
AH AH AY!
RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE!
AH, OH GOD! OH GOD!
AY!
OH GOD!
AY!
AH! OH OH OH
OH… AY… AY
OH GOD, OH!
BLOOD… BLOOD… OH… OH NO
I MEAN IT! I MEAN IT!
 
Oh yeah, alright!
Oh baby, right there
Oh oh oh… me…
Oh yes… oh yes… oh… ahh… hh
 
Why don’t you… I don’t know why
Don’t… Oh God, when you talk, I can’t stand it!
 
RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE
RIGHT! RIGHT! RIGHT!
RIGHT THERE! RIGHT THERE!
OH, RIGHT THERE
OH… AH AH AH!
OVER THERE
RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE
HA HA HA HA!
OH, BUNK
 
Oh yes… oh… ahh… Bunk… Oh God
Oh… oh… oh
Oh yes… oh… ahhh… hh
 
Pip… WAAAH!
 
Oh yeah… oh yes… oh yes… oh
Oh yes… oh yes… oh… that’s good!
Oh yes… oh, wonderful… oh… Bunk
Oh God… oh no… no… aw… aw
 
No, no, no
More, more, more, more, more!
AHH… ah… ahh… oh no… oh no… no… ah… hh… hhh
 
More, more, more, more
More, more
MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE
 

What… What we’re gonna do, “All night long”?
 
[FZ] Thank you
 
We do “All night long” now?
 
OH GOSH! HA HA HA!
OH GOSH! OH OH… OH…
POO-AHH WAH!
 
I FEEL SO GOOD!
WAH!
I FEEL SO GOOD!
WAH!
Uh ha ha ha ha!
HANDS UP!

11. Where is Johnny Velvet?


[Notes by FZ] This was, unfortunately, our only opportunity to perform in the Bronx. Considering our repertoire at the time, contrasted with what was on the radio as “good music”, we found this nightclub audience to be fairly receptive. There is another cut from this show on “YCDTOSA Volume 1” .
 
[FZ] Thank you
[Guy #1] No violence here, it’s part of the evening
[FZ] Would you like to come up here and sing with us? Come on, anybody can sing this stuff.
[Guy #2] Yeah, I bet… I wanna… I wanna think that stuff
[FZ] You wanna what?
[Guy #2] Think it
[FZ] You wanna think it?
[Guy #2] Yeah, right
[FZ] Why don’t you make up some words for us and we’ll sing ‘em?
[Guy #3] Johnny Velvet on the loose
[Guy #4] Johnny Velvet!
[FZ] Where is Johnny Velvet?
[Guy #5] Where is him? Where’s Johnny Velvet on now?
[Guy #6] Why don’t you look inna Central Park?
[Guy #2] “Help, I’m a rock”
[FZ] “Help, I’m a rock”, you really want us to play that?
[Audience] Yeahhh! Yeah! No! No! Yeah!
[FZ] Yeah! No! Who gives a shit?
[Guy] Right!

12. Return of the hunchback duke {The little house I used to live in}


[Instrumental]

13. Trouble every day


Well, I’m about to get sick from watchin’ my TV
Been checkin’ out the news until my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day is just another rotten mess
And when it’s gonna change, my friend, is anybody’s guess
 
So I’m watchin’ and I’m waitin’, hopin’ for the best
Even think I’ll go to prayin’ every time I hear ‘em sayin’
That there’s no way to delay that trouble comin’ every day
No way to delay that trouble comin’ every day
 
Wednesday I watched the riot, I seen the cops out on the street
Watched ‘em throwin’ rocks and stuff, and chokin’ in the heat
Listened to reports about the whisky passin’ ‘round
Seen the smoke & fire and the market burnin’ down
Watched while everybody on his street would take a turn
To stomp & smash & bash & crash & slash & bust & burn
 
And I’m watchin’ and I’m waitin’, hopin’ for the best
Even think I’ll go to prayin’ every time I hear ‘em sayin’
That there’s no way to delay that trouble comin’ every day
No way to delay that trouble comin’ every day
 
You can cool it, you can heat it
‘Cause, baby, I don’t need it
Take your TV tube and eat it
An’ all that phony stuff on sports
An’ all those unconfirmed reports
You know I watched that rotten box
Until my head begin to hurt
From checkin’ out the way
The newsmen say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so-and-so
And further they assert
That any show they’ll interrupt
To bring you news if it comes up
They say that if the place blows up they will be the first to tell
Because the boys they got downtown are workin’ hard and doin’ swell
And if anybody gets the news before it hits the street
They say that no one blabs it faster, their coverage can’t be beat
And if another woman driver gets machine-gunned from her seat
They’ll send some joker with a brownie and you’ll see it all complete
 
So I’m watchin’ and I’m waitin’, hopin’ for the best
Even think I’ll go to prayin’ every time I hear ‘em sayin’
That there’s no way to delay that trouble comin’ every day
No way to delay that trouble comin’ every day
 
Well, I seen the fires burnin’
And the local people turnin’
On the merchants and the shops
Who used to sell their brooms and mops
And every other household item
Watched a mob just turn and bite ‘em
And they say it served ‘em right
Because a few of them were white
And it’s the same across the nation
Black and white discrimination
Yellin’: “You can’t understand me”
An’ all that other crap they hand me
In the papers and TV
And all that mass stupidity
That seems to grow more every day
Each time you hear some asshole say
He wants to go and do you in
Because the color of your skin
Just don’t appeal to him
No matter if it’s black or white
Because he’s out for blood tonight

14. Proto-minimalism


[Instrumental]

15. JCB & Kansas on the bus #2


[Dick Kunc] Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh
[Kanzus J. Kanzus] […]
[Jimmy Carl Black] My name’s Kanzus and…
[Jimmy Carl Black & Kanzus J. Kanzus] I’m from Lyons
[Kanzus J. Kanzus] The Lyons Lions
[Jimmy Carl Black] L-Y-O-N-S
[Dick Kunc] You got any smokes?
[Kanzus J. Kanzus] Y’damn right
[Jimmy Carl Black] Huh?
[Dick Kunc] You got any smokes?
[Jimmy Carl Black] What kind of smokes?
[Dick Kunc] Cigarettes
[Kanzus J. Kanzus] Wanna Chester booger?
[Jimmy Carl Black] What else did you think I meant? I got some cigars up there too, brother.
[Dick Kunc] No, I jes’… Frank wanted to know if you had any Winstons. Anybody have any Winstons?
[Jimmy Carl Black] No, I don’t
[Kanzus J. Kanzus] Gimme a Chesterfield
[Dick Kunc] Does Motor have any more Winstons? I know he just bought a carton.
[Jimmy Carl Black] I’ll pass, man
[Kanzus J. Kanzus] Boy, I’m havin’ another one. You can’t beat another Chesterfield, like the 48 others.
[Jimmy Carl Black] After 48 others
[Kanzus J. Kanzus] Suck ‘em right up. EUCLID, GET UP!
[Dick Kunc] Let him sleep
[Kanzus J. Kanzus] Fuck him, all he does is sleep
 

[Jimmy Carl Black] Dee-dee-do do-dab-dewn

Dub dab dab doo da down

Dabbe doobbe doobbe

Down down doo doo

Dee dee dee dee

Put that pistol down, babe

Put that pistol down, girl

Put that pistol down

 

[Kanzus J. Kanzus] Don’t take your guns to town, Bill

Leave your guns at home

[Arthur Dyer Tripp III?] I gotta fart, Bunk

16. My head?


[Notes by FZ] This was recorded during a photo shoot on the occasion of Art Tripp’s birthday. The commentary is the result of the MOI attempting to assume some sort of mutant cluster-fuck pose, and enjoying it more than anyone would have suspected.
 
[Roy Estrada] See my head here?
[Roy Estrada] See my head? My HEAD? Ha ha ha ha!
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III?] No, no, no
[Bunk Gardner] Let’s see if you can put your knees all the way up to your armpits, Art
[Jimmy Carl Black] Artie, Artie, ArtieArtie
[Band member #4] See, I’m getting… easier
[Roy Estrada] Suck, suck… suck more
[Bunk Gardner] Sit on his face, girl
[Roy Estrada] Suck it, suck it a little bit. Suckit.
[Jimmy Carl Black] Bunk
[Bunk Gardner] What?
[Jimmy Carl Black] Stick it in
[Roy Estrada] Juice it, juice it
[Jimmy Carl Black] Stick it in
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Lemme, lemme see your cock
[Band member #5] White skin women
[Band member #4] Oh God, oh, Jesus
[Band member #5] Look at it, man. Oh yeah, oh, look at…
[Roy Estrada] One, two, three
[Band member #5] Oh, look at that
[Roy Estrada] One, two, three? Is it succulent?
[Band member #5] She is so wonderful
[Band member #4] You grabbed… You grabbed a tuft of hair there. Oooh, I like it.
[Band member #4] Do you? Ha ha ha… WOOF
[Roy Estrada] Hooh-hoh-ha-ay, BRAP! Come up here, we’re havin’ a party.
[Roy Estrada] Oh Art oh. Jizz you.
[FZ] Ha ha
[Roy Estrada] Jizz you, Art!
[Band member #4] Gimme, gimme some nose
[Roy Estrada] Jizz you
[Band member #4] You’re gonna tear the fuckin’ buttons
[Roy Estrada] Jizz you
[Roy Estrada] Jizz you. I didn’t even believe it.
[Band member #4] You didn’t believe it?
[Roy Estrada] Jizz it
Oh, look at that
Boy, I didn’t believe it
Oh, that’s good
I didn’t even believe it
I didn’t beleeeeve it
How ‘bout that, you’re going to…
All that hair coming out of me
Happy birthday, Artie
[Roy Estrada] How many humps do we give him? How many humps do we give him? Twenty four? Twenty four big ones.
[Roy Estrada] Twenty four big ones. Twenty four jizzers.
[Jimmy Carl Black] Get one and one to count. And one to grow on.

17. Meow


[Instrumental]

18. Baked-bean boogie {King Kong}


[Instrumental]

19. Where’s our equipment?


[Notes by FZ] On the Scandinavian portion of our first Euro tour, several disasters occurred. On a side trip to Rome to visit the set of “Barbarella” (Roger Vadim was considering part of the “Freak Out!” album for the sound track), I made the error of drinking a minute amount of Italian tap water. By the time I had rejoined the tour in Stockholm I was stricken with a severe case of gastro-enteritis.
The following day we were scheduled to make our first appearance in Copenhagen. The truck with all of our gear was delayed in a snow storm, forcing us to make our Danish debut as a “semi-acoustic” combo, with just a few amps borrowed from John Mayall. This tape was made by a Danish radio journalist who was following us around (this bit was recorded in the dressing room, with his mike near the monitor speaker which allows waiting performers to hear what’s happening on stage).
 
[Instrumental]

20. FZ / JCB drum duet


[Instrumental]

21. No waiting for the peanuts to dissolve {Trouble every day}


[Instrumental]
 
So many myriads. Oh, there’s my… my all-time favorite though, instantly.
There’s no waiting for the peanuts to dissolve
That’s $2.53
Somebody’s…
 
They don’t have my all-time favorites
Mary?
It’s really upsetting, you know
This gentleman here wants to know how… Right here is fine

22. A game of cards


[FZ] They’re really getting professional now in the dressing room, waiting for the Vanilla Fudge to go off, Motorhead and Arthur Dyer Tripp the Third are playing cards
[Jim Sherwood] Pair of queens! What is this shit?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Pissy, pissy, poop
[Jim Sherwood] Can I go down with two cards?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Pissy, pissy, poop
[Jim Sherwood] Do it this way. Give you a good chance, buddy.
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] I’ll take that son’bitch
[Jim Sherwood] You better not
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] I took it
[Jim Sherwood] Oh, you’re running for a spade straight, are ya?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] I took KUT!
[Jim Sherwood] Oh, I got your number, man
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Well, whaddaya know?
[Bunk Gardner?] I know it
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] You had the other one I wanted?
[Jim Sherwood] PRT!
[Ian Underwood?] I hear a buzz-tone
[Roy Estrada?] Wahhh-ha ha ha ha! Indio!
[Jimmy Carl Black?] You zink evvyzinnn be awright?
[Ian Underwood] Is this an accounting office?

23. Underground freak-out music {King Kong}


[FZ] This is uh… underground, psychedelic, acid-rock freak out music
 
[Instrumental]
 
Yea-uh!
POO-AHH!
 
[…] Immer ist der Himmel über alles
Where are your papers?
 
Thank you

24. German lunch


[Lowell George] Uhh, may I see your papers pleez?
[Jimmy Carl Black] Uhhh, lemme see. I’ll try…
[Lowell George] Hand me your suitcase, let… let me open it
[Jimmy Carl Black] I’m… I’m just a bit nervous, you understand
[Lowell George] Open ze suitcase
[Jimmy Carl Black] This hasn’t happened uh… too often
[Lowell George] Uh-huh, I see!
[Jimmy Carl Black] See, I… I don’t think you…
[Lowell George] How many… Sixty-two packages of cigarettes? Why are you carrying all zees into Germany for? What are you doing this for?
[Jimmy Carl Black] I… I… Hey!
[Lowell George] How long have you been livin’ in Berlin?
[Jimmy Carl Black] Uh… I don’t live in Berlin
[Lowell George] Where do you live?
[Jimmy Carl Black] I live in Texas
[Lowell George] Texas?
[Jimmy Carl Black] Texas
[Lowell George] Oh, I see, Lyndon Johnson lives in Texas too
[Jimmy Carl Black] I know
[Lowell George] Does he not?
[Jimmy Carl Black] Sure does
[Lowell George] Oh, this is alright
[Jimmy Carl Black] You mind… Is it alright if I shut my suitcase off?
[Lowell George] Shut it off?
[Jimmy Carl Black] Would you care for one of these cigarettes?
 
[Lowell George] Now, who’s this lady you are wizz?
[Jimmy Carl Black] Uh… What lady?
[Lowell George] This lady here, standing next to you
[Jimmy Carl Black] Oh, this is… this is uh…
[Lowell George] Has she her papers too?
[Jimmy Carl Black] Mrs. Tucker
[Lowell George] PAPERS!
[Roy Estrada] Hello
[Lowell George] Lemme see your papers!
[Roy Estrada] Hi
[Jimmy Carl Black] How come you have to yell so much? What did we do?
[Lowell George] I DON’T YELL!
[Jimmy Carl Black] We’re just trying to get into the country
[Lowell George] This is MY country. It’s not YOUR country. I’m coined here, I’ve been standing here for years and years doing zis every time. You… You’re making me very angry.
[Jimmy Carl Black] Is this the… Is this ze fazerland?
[Lowell George] This is ze fazerland, yes
[Background voice #1] What’s happenin’?
[Background voice #2] I don’t know what…
 
[FZ] Listen, you ought to check all the Mothers through customs. Hey, line… line up as soon as you’re finishing going through customs.
[Jimmy Carl Black] Are you uh… through with me, sir?
[Lowell George] You may step over here to the right
[Jimmy Carl Black] Thank you
[Lowell George] My name is Fritz, open ze suitcase, please
[Bunk Gardner] Just a moment here, just a moment
[Lowell George] Open… What is zis? There’s sixty two copies of Horseshit Magazine
[Bunk Gardner] Ah, ha
[Lowell George] What are you carrying Horseshit Magazine around for?
[Bunk Gardner] It’s a hoax, hold it, hold it here
[Lowell George] Where izzit?
[Roy Estrada] Right there, Bunk!
[Lowell George] What is zis?
[Bunk Gardner] Hold it, hold it, ha ha! Hold it.
[Roy Estrada] Right there! Right there!
[Bunk Gardner] I’ll never forget you, Fritz
[Lowell George] Alright, next, you may close zis now
[Bunk Gardner] Alright
 
[Lowell George] Next. Who’s up? Oh, here he comes. Who are you? You, hand me your paper.
[Roy Estrada] All the paper?
[Don Preston] Here’s my papers
[Lowell George] Oh
[Background voice] All ze paper
[Lowell George] Your name is Duke? What’s this Duke here?
[FZ] Duke DeWild!
[Lowell George] Duke, Duke DeWild. Have you seen many German movies? You ever go to ze movies? Have you been…
[Don Preston] I never go to the movies
[Lowell George] What is zis? You bring zis into Germany?
[Background voice] No wreck it all over
[Lowell George] These are Japanese tools. Why do you bring Japanese tools to Germany where we make the finest tools EVER, you, what are you doing? Zat’s 60 marks for you, oh my God, what’s the matter with you?
[Don Preston] WARRGH WARRGH
[Lowell George] Oh my God, please
[Don Preston] WARRGH-H-H-H
[Lowell George] Please not here
[Don Preston] WARRGHNN
[Lowell George] Step, oh my God, please
[Don Preston] UH… URGH
[Lowell George] Oh my God, OH AH UH URGH! OH MY GOD! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? AH!
 
[Lowell George] Who are you? What is your name? Hand me your paper. Is your name Larry? Larry Fanoga?
[Jim Sherwood] Yezz
[Lowell George] Larry Fanoga?
[Jim Sherwood] Larry Fanoga
[Lowell George] Oh my God, what are you doing? What are you doing zat for?
[Jim Sherwood] I’m beatin’ da horz to make it go fazter
[Lowell George] That’s not a horse, that’s a table
[Jim Sherwood] What’s the difference?
[Jim Sherwood] Don’t go too fast, does it, for a table
[Lowell George] What is this? Ohhh, Zephiran! “CL brand of benzalkonium […] present by Ann Eglenut”.
[Lowell George] Ah, nasal spray
[Ian Underwood] That’s right
[Lowell George] You have a cold?
[Lowell George] How long have you had a cold?
[Ian Underwood] About a year
[Lowell George] You had a cold for a year?
[Ian Underwood] About
[Lowell George] Are you trying to bring a cold in… into zis country?
[Lowell George] Oh my God, don’t cough on me
[Lowell George] What does this medal say? Says: “Berlin Survival Award, 1968”.
[Ian Underwood] That’s where I got my cold
[Lowell George] You were here before in Berlin
[Ian Underwood] That’s right
[Lowell George] What… What were you doing in Berlin?
[Ian Underwood] We gave a concert
[Lowell George] You gave a concert in Berlin?
[Ian Underwood] That’s right
[Lowell George] To whom?
[Ian Underwood] The German people
[Lowell George] The German people?
[Ian Underwood] Yes
[Lowell George] Don’t take ze German people lightly, I say
 
[Lowell George] Who is this man here, is it Arzzur, Arzzur Tripp?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Arthur, Arthur
[Lowell George] Arzzur. Tripp.
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Yeah
[Lowell George] It’s a German name, is it not?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] English
[Lowell George] Tripp?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Ja
[Lowell George] Tripp?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Ja
[Lowell George] Is it… Is it… JA?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Ja, ja, ja
[Lowell George] Stop giggling!
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Sorry
[Lowell George] You’re having too much fun, you know we arrest people for having too much fun here
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] I beg your pardon
[Lowell George] When you come to someone else’s country do you run around on the grass and make it dirty everywhere you go?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] No, I stick pretty close to the bars
[Lowell George] You know you people all look, you… bars?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] You know…
[Lowell George] We have a lot of bars here
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Y’sure do, heh-heh-heh
[Lowell George] Oh
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Excuse me for laughing
[Lowell George] Don’t laugh
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Alright, now, I’ll do that
 
[Lowell George] Who is this man here, the other man?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Uh… He’s our leader
[Lowell George] He is your leader?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Ja
[Lowell George] Wh what is his function and how does he lead you?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] He directs us by… with signals
[Lowell George] Why? What?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Well, they’re for various vocal noises that we use
[Lowell George] Vocal noises?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Uh-huh
[Lowell George] What are some of ze noises?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Eh, peep
[Lowell George] Peep?
[Arthur Dyer Tripp III] Poo-ahh!
[Mothers] POO-AHH!
[Lowell George] I see you all are very well organized, we all like order in Germany, you know
 
[Lowell George] You have such a pleasant smile, may I see your papers?
[Buzz Gardner] Well, you see, I… I don’t exactly have my papers with me, I… it seems…
[Lowell George] You don’t have papers?
[Buzz Gardner] I may have left them in my other bag
[Lowell George] In your…
[Officer #2] He has no papers, huh?
[Lowell George] He has no papers
[Officer #2] Ahh
[Buzz Gardner] I mean if there was uh… if there was something I could do for you
[Lowell George] Do you have any identification?
[Buzz Gardner] Identification…
[Lowell George] It’s a nice watch you have on
[Buzz Gardner] Lemme see
[Officer #2] Was ist los?
[Buzz Gardner] Well, it used to have a Mickey Mouse there, I don’t…
[Lowell George] I tell you what I’ll do: if… if… if you give me zat watch…
[Buzz Gardner] NEIN!
[Lowell George] You got…
[Officer #2] That’s a very strange German accent
[Lowell George] Ja
[FZ] Arrest him!
[Lowell George] Are you sure…
[Officer #2] He was transport etwas
[FZ] He’s a spy!
[Lowell George] Are you sure you’re not a Russian? He’s a Russian, I zink.
[Officer #2] I think so
[Lowell George] Get him
[FZ] HANDS UP!
[Lowell George] Oh God
[Officer #2] What… What’s goin’ on?

[Lowell George] You want an enema?
[Buzz Gardner] No, I’ll take a cheeseburger
[Lowell George] Why is the bow tie growing from your neck?
[Buzz Gardner] I’m practicing to fly
[Officer #2] What the… ahh
[Lowell George] Why is everyone in this group having bow ties growing from ze neck?
[Buzz Gardner] They’re all weird
[Lowell George] Gimme your watch
[FZ] I still don’t trust this guy’s accent
[Lowell George] Who is this? Come here, come over here.
[Officer #2] Who’s… Who is… Who?
[Lowell George] Do you have a suitcase?
[Officer #2] We must watch this one
[Lowell George] We must watch this one, right. Let’s open ze suitcase. Awright. What is zis? Oh, you too carry many cigarettes. Ah, what is this lyrics? Ah, these are lyrics? “My… My guitar want to kill you mama”.
[Officer #2] Mmm
[Lowell George] “My guitar wants to burn your dad, I get real mean when he makes me mad”. This is… This is very good, this is very normal. German lyrics. You’re welcome to our country.
[FZ] Ha ha ha!
[Lowell George] Don’t laugh

25. My guitar wants to kill your mama


[FZ] You know, your mama and your daddy
Saying I’m no good for you
They call me “Dirty from the alley”
Till I don’t know what to do
 
I get so tired of sneakin’ around just to get to your back door
I crawled past the garbage and your mama jumped out, screamin’: “Don’t come back no more!”
I can’t take it!
 
My guitar wants to kill your mama
My guitar wants to kill your mama
My guitar wants to burn your dad
I get real mean when it makes me mad
Ay!
 
Later I tried to call you
Your mama told me you weren’t there
She told me don’t bother to call again
Unless I cut off all my hair
 
I get so tired of sneakin’ around just to get to your back door
I crawled past the garbage and your mama jumped out, screamin’: “Don’t come back no more!”
I can’t take it!
 
My guitar wants to kill your mama
My guitar wants to kill your mama
My guitar wants to burn your dad
I get real mean when it makes me mad
Ay!

Disc 2

1. Easy meat


[Notes by FZ] Disc two of this set is dedicated to the 1982 band. About half the material here comes from our ill-fated concert in Geneva, Switzerland (which ended with a small riot). The 1982 tour itself ended with a much larger riot in Palermo, Sicily a few weeks later. The ‘82 band could play beautifully when it wanted to. It is unfortunate that the audiences of the time didn’t understand that we had no intention of posing as targets for their assorted “love offerings” cast onto the stage (in Milan they threw used hypodermic syringes).
 
[Guy in the audience] That’s right! Let’s go!
 
This girl is easy meat
I seen her on the street

See-through blouse an’ a tiny little dress
Her manner indiscreet…
I knew she was…
 
Easy, easy, easy meat
Easy, easy, easy meat
Easy, easy…
Easy, easy…
Easy meat, easy meat, easy meat, easy meat
 
She wanna take me home
Make me sweat and moan
Rub my head and beat me off
With a copy of Rolling Stone
I knew she was…
 
Easy, easy, easy meat
Easy, easy, easy meat
Easy, easy…
Easy, easy…
Easy meat, easy meat, easy meat, easy meat
 
[Instrumental]
 
I told her I was late
I had another date
I can’t get off on the Rolling Stone
But the robots think it’s great…
I knew she was…
 
Easy, easy, easy meat
Easy, easy, easy meat
Easy, easy…
Easy, easy…
Easy meat, easy meat, easy meat, easy meat
 
Easy…
She’s so easy
Easy…
I saw her tiny titties through her see-through blouse
Just had to take the girl to my house
Easy… MEAT!

2. Dead girls of London


[FZ] Can you see what they are? Do you hear what they say? People, it is sad but true
They dress really stupid but they think they’re OK and they got no use for you
Oh, the dead girls of London, why do they act that way?
 
Maybe it’s the water, mama, maybe it’s the tea
Maybe it’s the way they was raised
Maybe it’s the stuff what they read in the papers keeps ‘em lookin’ sorta half in a daze
Oh, the dead girls of London, why do they act that way?
 
We’re the dead girls of London
We thinks we are fine
We ain’t hittin’ on nothin’
But the boutique frame of mind
 
You see ‘em dancing at the disco every night like a bunch of little robot queens
Making little noises full of fake delight but they’re really just so full of beans
Oh, the dead girls of London, why do they act that way?
 
We’re the dead girls of London
We thinks we are fine
We ain’t hittin’ on nothin’
But the boutique frame of mind
 
Boutique frame of mind

Gee, I like your pants
Boutique frame of mind
Gee, I like your pants
Boutique frame of mind
Gee, I like your pants

3. Shall we take ourselves seriously?


Uhhh, Mike Scheller says his life is a mess
Fritz Rau says asparagus
Should only be consumed
By people with a large amount
In an unmarked bank account
Fa fa fa fa fa fa
 
Shall we take ourselves seriously?
Shall we talk about it all night long?
Shall we think we are so evolved?
Will we be depressed if we’re wrong?
 
Shall we take ourselves seriously?
Shall we take ourselves elsewhere?
Shall we drink while we squat there
In the middle of this stupid song?
 
Shall we never go out there?
Shall we take us where we don’t belong
When we notice the Spargel is gone?
Shall we weep in the box office dawn?
 

Go away, I’m no good for you
 
Are the tickets all counted?
Are the costs all accounted for?
Shall we bring up the Spargel
For discussion at least once more?
 
Shall we take ourselves seriously?
Shall we think we are so mature?
Shall we be very wrong at the end of this song?
Yes, we will ever more!

4. What’s new in Baltimore?


[Instrumental]
 
Hey! What’s new in Baltimore?

Rockin’ Robin
Hey! What’s new in Baltimore?
Hot rod’s lips
Hey! What’s new in Baltimore?
What’s new in Baltimore?
 
[Instrumental]
 
Hey! What’s new in Baltimore?
I don’t know
Hey! What’s new in Baltimore?
Better go back and find out
Hey! What’s new in Baltimore?
What’s new in Baltimore?
What’s new in Baltimore?
What’s new in Baltimore?

5. Mōggio


[Instrumental]

6. Dancin’ fool


[FZ] I don’t know much about dancin’, that’s why I got this song

One of my legs is shorter than the other an’ both my feet’s too long
‘Course now right along with ‘em, got no natural rhythm
But I go dancin’ every night, hopin’ one day I might get it right
 
I’m a… dancin’ fool
Dancin’ fool
I’m a… dancin’ fool
I’m a… dancin’ fool
Dancin’ fool
I’m a… dancin’ fool
 
Hear that beat, jump outta my seat, but I can’t compete
‘Cause I’m a… dancin’ fool
Dancin’ fool
I’m a… dancin’ fool
 
The disco folks all dressed up like they’s fit to kill
Walk on in an’ see ‘em there gonna give them all a thrill
When they see me comin’ they all steps aside
They has a fit while I commit my social suicide
 
I’m a… dancin’ fool
Dancin’ fool
I’m a… dancin’ fool
I’m a… dancin’ fool
Dancin’ fool
I’m a… dancin’ fool
 
The beat goes on but I’m so wrong
The beat goes on but I’m so wrong
 
The beat goes on but I’m so wrong
The beat goes on but I’m so wrong
The beat goes on an’ I’m so wrong
The beat goes on an’ I’m so wrong
 
I may be totally wrong but I’m a… dancin’ fool
I may be totally wrong but I’m a… dancin’ fool
 
I got it all together now with my very own disco clothes
My shirt’s half open, just to show you my chain an’ the spoon for up my nose
“I am really somethin’”, that’s what you’d probably say
So smoke your little smoke an’ drink your little drink, while I dance all night away
 
I’m a… dancin’ fool
Dancin’ fool
I’m a… dancin’ fool
I’m a… dancin’ fool
Dancin’ fool
I’m a… dancin’ fool
HE’S A… DANCIN’ FOOL
 
I may be totally wrong but I’m a…
I may be totally wrong but I’m a…
I may be totally wrong but I’m a…
I may be totally wrong but I’m a FOOL-UH!
 
Say darlin’ what’s a girl like you doin’ in a place like this?
Do you come here often? And if so, why?
Wait a minute… I’ve got it… you’re an Italian!
Ki-ni-shinai!
What? You’re Jewish?
Love your nails…
You must be a Libra…
Ki-ni-shinai!
Your place or mine?

7. RDNZL


[Instrumental]

8. Advance romance


No more credit from the liquor store
My suit is all dirty, boy, my shoes is all wore
I’m tired and lonely, my heart is all sore
Advance romance
I can’t stand it no more
 
She told me she loved me, I believed what she said
Took me for a sucker, boy, all corn-fed

The next thing I knew she had a bolt on the door
Advance romance
I can’t use it no more, no, no more
 

She took George’s watch like they always do
It was a Timex, too!
Wah-hoo wah-hoo-oo
And a shame on you
No more money, boy
I shoulda knew
The way she do me, boy
She might do you too
The way she do me, boy
She might do you too
The way she do me, boy
She might do you too
 
[Instrumental]
 
Advance romance
He wanna try one time
 

Potato-Head Bobby was a friend of mine
He open three of his eyes in the food stamp line
He open four of his eyes in the food stamp line
He open five of his eyes in the food stamp line
He open six of his eyes in the food stamp line
He said she might be the Devil
But she sure was fine
 
Advance romance
He wanna try it one time
Yeah
 
Later that night he drop on by
He say all he wanna do is come up and say “Hi”
HI-HI HI-HI HI-HI HI-HI HI-HI HI-HI HI-HI HI-HI
Half an hour later she had frenched his fry
Advance romance
Bobby, say goodbye

9. City of tiny lites


City of tiny lites
Don’t you wanna go?
Hear the tiny auto horns
When they tiny blow
 
Tiny lightnin’
In the storm
Tiny blankets
Gonna keep you warm
Tiny pillows
Tiny, tiny, ti-tiny sheets
Talkin’ ‘bout the tiny cookies
That the peoples eat
 
Well, city of tiny lites
Maybe you should know
That it’s over there
In the tiny dirt somewhere
 
You can see it any time
When you get the squints
From your downers and your wine
[FZ] You’re so big
It’s so tiny
Every cloud is silver line-y
The great escape for all of you
 
Tiny is as tiny do
Tiny is as tiny do
Tiny is as tiny do
Tiny is as tiny do
 
[Instrumental]
 
City of tiny lites
Do-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-on’t you wanna go?
Hear the tiny auto horns
Whe-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-en they tiny blow
 
Tiny lightnin’
In the storm
Tiny blankets, tiny blankets
Are bound to keep you warm
Tiny pillows
Talkin’ ‘bout those tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny sheets
 
Talkin’ ‘bout those tiny cookies
That the peoples eat
 
City of tiny lites
Maybe you should know
That it’s over there
Well, and it’s over there
Say, and it’s over there
Well, and it’s over there

10. A pound for a brown (on the bus)


[Instrumental]

11. Doreen


Doreen… don’t make me wait ‘til tomorrow
Woh no
Please, darling, let me love you tonight
An’ it’ll be awright
 
You… can’t make me say
I don’t want you
Woh no
My heart is burning with love
And I want you tonight
Tonight
 
You know I-I…
I really love you
I really love you
You make me feel good
You make me feel good
Please don’t deceive me
Oh no
Doreen, you know you should
Stay with me always
Stay!
We could be lovers
Oh!
Doreen, you’re different
Than all the… oh, others
 
Doreen… don’t make me wait ‘til tomorrow
Woh no
Please, darling, let me love you tonight
An’ it’ll be awright
 
You-you-woo… can’t make me say
I don’t want you
Oh no
My heart is burning with love
And I want you tonight
Said, girl, I…
I want you tonight
Sweet Doreen
I want you tonight
You’re gonna feel no pain, baby
I want you tonight
Sweet Doreen
I want you to…
I want you tonight
Open up the door, baby
I want you tonight
Sweet Doreen, said I
I want you tonight
Oh, Doreen, oh, well
I want you tonight
Well
You know I want you to…

12. The black page #2


[Instrumental]

13. Geneva farewell


[FZ] OK, if you throw anything else on the stage, the concert is over
 
[Bobby Martin] Cherchez les personnes qui jettent les cigarettes sur l’étage, s’il vous plaît, hein. Ne jetez pas les objets sur l’étage. Ne jetez pas les objets. Cherchez les personnes qui jettent les cigarettes sur l’étage, s’il vous plaît.
 
[FZ] Houselights, the concert’s over
 
[Audience] Zappa! Zappa! Zappa! Zappa!


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