Frank Zappa – Funny Mother - Revision history

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 "Y'know, some of those people are good to use on record sometimes. But er ... they're not exactly what I want to build my future out of."
-So who else would he like to work with? "Well, let's see ... I like [[Joe Farrell]]. I like the way he plays but I wouldn't go out of my way to make an album with him. I'd probably get in his way."
+So who else would he like to work with? "Well, let's see ... I like [https://www.discogs.com/artist/257008-Joe-Farrell Joe Farrell]. I like the way he plays but I wouldn't go out of my way to make an album with him. I'd probably get in his way."
 Was there anyone he would go out of his way to record with? – "No, not really." But after a second thought he quickly added : "Oh, wait a minute ... [[Howlin' Wolf]]."

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 And with a sly look, he added: "I think The Stones get away with far more than we do – because they can afford it."
-How about the lyrics of other songs which, although minus horny connotations, were just as crazy? What was his fixation with zircon encrusted [[Tweezers|tweezers]] on the same album? And [[Sears ponchos]], which crop up again on "[[Apostrophe (')]]"?.
+How about the lyrics of other songs which, although minus horny connotations, were just as crazy? What was his fixation with zircon encrusted [[Tweezers|tweezers]] on the same album? And [[Wikipedia:Sears|Sears]] [[Wikipedia:Poncho|ponchos]], which crop up again on "[[Apostrophe (')]]"?.
 "Well ... I first discovered the zircon in nineteen ... fifty ... seven," (I was obviously in for an historical account) "when the piano player in the band I had in high school decided that in order to really play like Fats Domino he had to have the same amount of weight on his hand that Fats Domino had. 'Y'know, Fats had that big diamond ring on his finger. Well, Wimberly couldn't afford a diamond so he saw an ad in a comic book said he could get a zircon as big as yer fist for $10." Between laughter, he went on : "So the zircon has always seemed to me the symbol of complete cheapness."

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 "So when we play instrumental things I like to construct vehicles that will give me the chance to play in the style I like to play in."
-The vehicles in this case were [[Ruth Underwood]] on percussion, [[George Duke]] on keyboards, [[Chester Thompson]] behind the drums, bassist [[Tom Fowler]], plus [[Jeff Simmons]], and [[Napoleon Murphy Brock|Napoleon]] on lead vocals and tenor sax.
+The vehicles in this case were [[Ruth Underwood]] on percussion, [[George Duke]] on keyboards, [[Chester Thompson]] behind the drums, bassist [[The Fowler Brothers|Tom Fowler]], plus [[Jeff Simmons]], and [[Napoleon Murphy Brock|Napoleon]] on lead vocals and tenor sax.
 He met Ruth in '67 when she recorded on the "[[Uncle Meat]]" album.
-[[Tom Fowler]] is the brother of [[Bruce Fowler]], who once played trombone with The Mothers. Frank told me how Tom had come to join them: "We had another bass player for a while and he couldn't cut it so I was looking for a bass player and Bruce said 'my brother can do it'. So he brought his brother in from Salt Lake City. And he did it."
+[[The Fowler Brothers|Tom Fowler]] is the brother of [[The Fowler Brothers|Bruce Fowler]], who once played trombone with The Mothers. Frank told me how Tom had come to join them: "We had another bass player for a while and he couldn't cut it so I was looking for a bass player and Bruce said 'my brother can do it'. So he brought his brother in from Salt Lake City. And he did it."
 He's worked with George on and off for five years, although he quit for two years to work with Cannonball.

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 And with a sly look, he added: "I think The Stones get away with far more than we do – because they can afford it."
-How about the lyrics of other songs which, although minus horny connotations, were just as crazy? What was his fixation with zircon encrusted [[Tweezers|tweezers]] on the same album? And [[Sears Poncho (CC)|Sears ponchos]], which crop up again on "[[Apostrophe (')]]"?.
+How about the lyrics of other songs which, although minus horny connotations, were just as crazy? What was his fixation with zircon encrusted [[Tweezers|tweezers]] on the same album? And [[Sears ponchos]], which crop up again on "[[Apostrophe (')]]"?.
 "Well ... I first discovered the zircon in nineteen ... fifty ... seven," (I was obviously in for an historical account) "when the piano player in the band I had in high school decided that in order to really play like Fats Domino he had to have the same amount of weight on his hand that Fats Domino had. 'Y'know, Fats had that big diamond ring on his finger. Well, Wimberly couldn't afford a diamond so he saw an ad in a comic book said he could get a zircon as big as yer fist for $10." Between laughter, he went on : "So the zircon has always seemed to me the symbol of complete cheapness."

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 And with a sly look, he added: "I think The Stones get away with far more than we do – because they can afford it."
-How about the lyrics of other songs which, although minus horny connotations, were just as crazy? What was his fixation with zircon encrusted [[Tweezers (CC)|tweezers]] on the same album? And [[Sears Poncho (CC)|Sears ponchos]], which crop up again on "[[Apostrophe (')]]"?.
+How about the lyrics of other songs which, although minus horny connotations, were just as crazy? What was his fixation with zircon encrusted [[Tweezers|tweezers]] on the same album? And [[Sears Poncho (CC)|Sears ponchos]], which crop up again on "[[Apostrophe (')]]"?.
 "Well ... I first discovered the zircon in nineteen ... fifty ... seven," (I was obviously in for an historical account) "when the piano player in the band I had in high school decided that in order to really play like Fats Domino he had to have the same amount of weight on his hand that Fats Domino had. 'Y'know, Fats had that big diamond ring on his finger. Well, Wimberly couldn't afford a diamond so he saw an ad in a comic book said he could get a zircon as big as yer fist for $10." Between laughter, he went on : "So the zircon has always seemed to me the symbol of complete cheapness."

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 So who else would he like to work with? "Well, let's see ... I like [[Joe Farrell]]. I like the way he plays but I wouldn't go out of my way to make an album with him. I'd probably get in his way."
-Was there anyone he would go out of his way to record with? – "No, not really." But after a second thought he quickly added : "Oh, wait a minute ... Howling Wolf."
+Was there anyone he would go out of his way to record with? – "No, not really." But after a second thought he quickly added : "Oh, wait a minute ... [[Howlin' Wolf]]."
 As an Englishman recently arrived in Canada I was wondering how he felt about li'l ole Britain and going back there on his September tour.

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 "Actually, I tone down quite a bit when I have to go out in public. Off-stage it's much worse," he chuckled.
-As for toning down, hadn't I heard something about him reenacting [[Dinah-Moe Hum]] in public?
+As for toning down, hadn't I heard something about him reenacting [[Dinah-Moe Humm]] in public?
-"No. It was a situation that happened in Australia when a girl requested that we act out Dinah-Moe Hum while the song was played on a cassette machine and I just announced to the audience that was listening that it's fun to try, but you'd be surprised how fast you have to go to make the events happen as fast as they're being described on record, ya know."
+"No. It was a situation that happened in Australia when a girl requested that we act out [[Dinah-Moe Humm]] while the song was played on a cassette machine and I just announced to the audience that was listening that it's fun to try, but you'd be surprised how fast you have to go to make the events happen as fast as they're being described on record, ya know."
-Dinah-Moe Hum is one of my favourite Zappaisms and as he obviously enjoyed rapping about it I thought I'd ask how he overcame the problem of censors, especially since the lyrics appeared in full on the sleeve of the "[[Over-Nite Sensation]]" album. After all, even The Stones wound up labelling Starfucker as StarStar" because the original title was considered unprintable.
+[[Dinah-Moe Humm]] is one of my favourite Zappaisms and as he obviously enjoyed rapping about it I thought I'd ask how he overcame the problem of censors, especially since the lyrics appeared in full on the sleeve of the "[[Over-Nite Sensation]]" album. After all, even The Stones wound up labelling Starfucker as StarStar" because the original title was considered unprintable.
-He tried sounding faintly indignant as he asked: "Well, what's wrong with [[Dinah-Moe Hum]]? I think it's a very wholesome, conservative sort of appraisal of what was really going on."
+He tried sounding faintly indignant as he asked: "Well, what's wrong with [[Dinah-Moe Humm]]? I think it's a very wholesome, conservative sort of appraisal of what was really going on."
 And with a sly look, he added: "I think The Stones get away with far more than we do – because they can afford it."
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 To me, "[[Apostrophe (')]]" seemed a logical continuation of "[[Over-Nite Sensation]]". What direction would the next album take?
-"I've already got another album finished. It's ready for September. It's called "[[Roxy and Elsewhere|Zappa, Mothers, Roxy and Elsewhere]]". It's mostly a live album. Two-thirds of it was recorded at The Roxy in Los Angeles and some other tracks were recorded at The Auditorium Theatre in Chicago and at a gymnasium at Edinburgh, Pennsylvania."
+"I've already got another album finished. It's ready for September. It's called "[[Roxy & Elsewhere|Zappa, Mothers, Roxy and Elsewhere]]". It's mostly a live album. Two-thirds of it was recorded at The Roxy in Los Angeles and some other tracks were recorded at The Auditorium Theatre in Chicago and at a gymnasium at Edinburgh, Pennsylvania."
 He added that it would contain a lot of the material he was playing on his tour. The gig I'd been at smacked of nostalgia – a trip back to rock and roll.
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 "So when we play instrumental things I like to construct vehicles that will give me the chance to play in the style I like to play in."
-The vehicles in this case were [[Ruth Underwood]] on percussion, [[George Duke]] on keyboards, [[Chester Thompson]] behind the drums, bassist [[Tom Fowler]], plus [[Jeff Simmons]], and [[Napoleon Morphy Brock|Napoleon]] on lead vocals and tenor sax.
+The vehicles in this case were [[Ruth Underwood]] on percussion, [[George Duke]] on keyboards, [[Chester Thompson]] behind the drums, bassist [[Tom Fowler]], plus [[Jeff Simmons]], and [[Napoleon Murphy Brock|Napoleon]] on lead vocals and tenor sax.
 He met Ruth in '67 when she recorded on the "[[Uncle Meat]]" album.
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 Jeff was in the group before, touring with them for about a year. He split just before the filming of 200 Motels and came back to The Mothers around March.
-As for Napoleon, Zappa had met him in Hawaii. He recalled: "He was working in a club called The New Red Noodle. I went in there one night while I was on vacation and just happened to see him and I thought he was a really good performer and I asked him to join the group. He said he'd like to but he couldn't as he still had a seven-week contract at the bar. And so I said 'well, here's an honest musician', and after his contract ran out at the bar he came over and rehearsed with us and he's been in the band ever since. It's been about a year."
+As for [[Napoleon Murphy Brock|Napoleon]], Zappa had met him in Hawaii. He recalled: "He was working in a club called The New Red Noodle. I went in there one night while I was on vacation and just happened to see him and I thought he was a really good performer and I asked him to join the group. He said he'd like to but he couldn't as he still had a seven-week contract at the bar. And so I said 'well, here's an honest musician', and after his contract ran out at the bar he came over and rehearsed with us and he's been in the band ever since. It's been about a year."
 It seemed a small lineup in comparison to his albums and he explained: "The way it works is that if it's a Mothers' album the instrumentation consists of the group I'm touring with at the time the album was made. And if it's a Frank Zappa album it'll contain people who are not necessarily in the group. And that's why there are 24 on "Apostrophe (')" as compared to eight, or whatever it was, on "Over-Nite Sensation"."
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 But no. "I like variety and I like all different kinds of music. Not every musician can play every style of music so if I want to do a song in a certain style I'll get people who are good for that style."
-Some names had a habit of cropping up almost as if they were Zappa fixtures – [[Jean-Luc Ponty]], [[Sugar Cane Harris]] and [[Ian Underwood|Ian]] and [[Ruth Underwood]].
+Some names had a habit of cropping up almost as if they were Zappa fixtures – [[Jean-Luc Ponty]], [[Don "Sugarcane" Harris|Sugar Cane Harris]] and [[Ian Underwood|Ian]] and [[Ruth Underwood]].
 A thing of the past: "As a matter of fact I haven't worked with Ian for over a year and Jean-Luc has been out of the group for six or eight months. And Sugar Cane never did tour with us. He worked a couple of jobs in Los Angeles.

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