How About Some Fantastic Frank Zappa!

steveb63 said:
The tour , the year before the Aragon Ballroom, the old Uptown Theater.

Where the union held up Zappa for money, as did the venue.

Zappa wanted a live recording, and in true Chicago style, they tried to extort ghost payments.
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Was just wondering. My youngest lives in Uptown. Look out his kitchen window at the Aragon sign across the street.
 
Never thought I’d be living here (in the County of)..... :pound-hand:

Come on and let's all go down to San Ber'dino
Ooo-ooo
Ooo-ooo
Ooo-ooo
Let's-a go down down down
Down in San Ber'dino
Wouldja be'lieve it
Wouldja be'lieve it
San Ber'dino
San Ber'dino
(got to call it)
San Ber'dino
(C'mere)
San Ber'dino
The rest of their lives
In San Ber'dino
 
Don O said:
Never thought I’d be living here (in the County of)..... :pound-hand:

Come on and let's all go down to San Ber'dino
Ooo-ooo
Ooo-ooo
Ooo-ooo
Let's-a go down down down
Down in San Ber'dino
Wouldja be'lieve it
Wouldja be'lieve it
San Ber'dino
San Ber'dino
(got to call it)
San Ber'dino
(C'mere)
San Ber'dino
The rest of their lives
In San Ber'dino
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I'm sorry you got a head like a potato Bobby........




She lives in mojave in a winnebago
His name is bobby, he looks like a potato

She's in love with a boy
>from the rodeo
Who pulls the rope on the chute
When they let those suckers go


He's a slobberin' drunk at the palomino
They give him thirty days in san ber'dino
Well there's forty-four men
Stashed away in tank "see"
An' there's only one shower
But it don't apply to bobby
You may think they're
Dumb an' lonely
But you're wrong
'cause their love is strong
Stacked-up hair
An' a cheap little… More

Etc........
 
The listing of musicians from that track is inspiring

Frank zappa (guitar, vocals)
George duke (keyboards, synthesizer, vocals)
Napoleon murphy brock (flute, tenor saxophone, vocals)
Chester thompson (drums)
Tom fowler (bass)
Ruth underwood (vibes, marimba, percussion)
Bloodshot rollin' red (harmonica)
Johnny "guitar" watson (vocals)
 
Zappa............I may have been a june bug on a ticks ear of a hound dawg --- or something liek that -- but I mean -- I was a kid and this -- this -- IMPRESSED me then --
(perhaps this explains my "SG"obsession?)
no pedals......a PIGNOSE amp -- and SG-- and a microphone -- on LIVE ---DAYTIME TV...................

Oh and that other thing SKILL...........
 
Here are some lyrics from "Billy the Mountain" where Frank mentions Palmdale, CA where I live. Frank spent his teens in Lancaster, CA which is the next city over. Captain Beefheart also lived in Lancaster.

Franks dad worked at Edwards AFB which is up north a few miles in Rosamond, CA.

Beginning lyrics mention Rosamond.

Billy the mountain
Billy the mountain
A regular picturesque
Postcardy mountain
Residing between lovely
Rosamond and Gorman

"Word just in to the KTTV news service undeniably links
This mountain and his wife to drug abuse
And pay-offs as part of a San Joaquin Valley smut ring!
However, we can assure parents in the Southern California area
That a recent narcotics crack-down
In Torrance, Hawthorne, Lomita
Westchester, Playa del Rey, Santa Monica
Tujunga, Sunland, San Fernando, Pacoima, Sylmar
Newhall, Canoga Park
Palmdale, Glendale, Irwindale
Rolling Hills, Granada Hills, Shadow Hills, Cheviot Hills
Will provide the secret evidence
The Palmdale grand jury has needed to seek a criminal indictment
And pave the way for stiffer legislation, increased federal aid
And avert a crippling strike of bartenders and veterinarians throughout the inland empire
But it is this reporter's opinion that Ethel is a former Communist"
 
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