Louis Cuneo - Revision history

Spider of Destiny at 23:03, 27 May 2026

2026-05-27T23:03:09Z

Spider of Destiny: /* Frank Zappa */

2026-05-27T21:54:17Z

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Spider of Destiny at 21:53, 27 May 2026

2026-05-27T21:53:50Z

Duncan: Removed point of view

2010-12-10T22:42:55Z

Removed point of view

Spider of Destiny at 20:57, 10 December 2010

2010-12-10T20:57:32Z

Duncan: paragraphed

2007-09-29T17:34:41Z

paragraphed

Emdebe: more supporting cast than bandmember

2006-04-13T21:35:50Z

more supporting cast than bandmember

KillUglyRadio at 13:23, 20 September 2005

2005-09-20T13:23:39Z

Emdebe at 12:08, 5 June 2005

2005-06-05T12:08:34Z

Emdebe at 21:03, 10 May 2005

2005-05-10T21:03:48Z

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 [[Category:Actors|Cuneo, Louis]]
 [[Category:Supporting Cast|Cuneo, Louis]]
 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)|Cuneo, Louis]]

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 Cuneo was invited to record his stammering narrative voice and loud signature laugh in Zappa's studio, immortalized on the tracks ''[[White Ugliness]]'' and at the start of the track ''[[Amen]]'' on ''[[Lumpy Gravy]]''. <ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/lyrics/Lumpy_Gravy.html</ref>.
-Recordings of his voice and laugh can also be heard during ''[[Filthy Habits]]''<ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/lyrics/Lather.html</ref> , ''[[What Ever Happened To All The Fun In The World]]'' <ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/notes/Sheik_Yerbouti.html</ref> and particularly on the ''[[Civilization Phase III]]'' tracks: ''[[Beat It With Your Fist]]'' <ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/lyrics/Shut_Up_'N_Play_Yer_Guitar.html</ref>, ''[[Oh-Umm]]'', ''[[A Very Nice Body]]'', ''[[Religious Superstition]]'', ''[[Saliva Can Only Take So Much]]'', ''[[I Wish Motorhead Would Come Back]]'' and ''[[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]''<ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/lyrics/Civilization_Phaze_III.html#Phaze</ref>
+Recordings of his voice and laugh can also be heard during ''[[Filthy Habits]]''<ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/lyrics/Lather.html</ref> , ''[[What Ever Happened To All The Fun In The World]]'' <ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/notes/Sheik_Yerbouti.html</ref> and particularly on the ''[[Civilization Phaze III]]'' tracks: ''[[Beat It With Your Fist]]'' <ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/lyrics/Shut_Up_'N_Play_Yer_Guitar.html</ref>, ''[[Oh-Umm]]'', ''[[A Very Nice Body]]'', ''[[Religious Superstition]]'', ''[[Saliva Can Only Take So Much]]'', ''[[I Wish Motorhead Would Come Back]]'' and ''[[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]''<ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/lyrics/Civilization_Phaze_III.html#Phaze</ref>
 His laugh was also sampled at the end of each episode of ''[[Duckman]]'' during its first season.
 ==Later career==

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-<blockquote><p>Another regular was a guy we called 'Louie the Turkey' - because of his laugh. His real name was [[Louis Cuneo]]. He wound up on the [[Lumpy Gravy]] album as one of the people talking about incomprehensible stuff, inside a piano. </p>
+'''Louis Cuneo''', nicknamed ''"The Turkey"'', was an audience member with a distinctive laugh that sounds like a turkey, hence his nickname. He can be heard on several Zappa albums, most famously ''[[Lumpy Gravy]]''.
-<p>We would always know when Louie was in the theater because we could hear him in the back of the room. I would invite him onstage, give him a stool to sit on, hand him the microphone and stop the music. He would sit there and laugh - at nothing - and the whole audience would laugh with him for five minutes. Then we thanked him, and he'd leave.</p></blockquote>
 <div align=right>[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]</div>
-Cuneo's laugh can be heard on ''[[White Ugliness]]''.
+Cuneo was invited to record his stammering narrative voice and loud signature laugh in Zappa's studio, immortalized on the tracks ''[[White Ugliness]]'' and at the start of the track ''[[Amen]]'' on ''[[Lumpy Gravy]]''. <ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/lyrics/Lumpy_Gravy.html</ref>.
 [[Category:Supporting Cast|Cuneo, Louis]]
 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)|Cuneo, Louis]]
-[[Category:People Who Do Stuff That Is Not Normal|Cuneo, Louis]]
+[[Category:Editors|Cuneo, Louis]]

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 <div align=right>[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]</div>
-Cuneo and his strange laugh can be heard on ''[[White Ugliness]]''.
+Cuneo's laugh can be heard on ''[[White Ugliness]]''.
 [[Category:Supporting Cast|Cuneo, Louis]]
 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)|Cuneo, Louis]]
 [[Category:People Who Do Stuff That Is Not Normal|Cuneo, Louis]]

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 <p>We would always know when Louie was in the theater because we could hear him in the back of the room. I would invite him onstage, give him a stool to sit on, hand him the microphone and stop the music. He would sit there and laugh - at nothing - and the whole audience would laugh with him for five minutes. Then we thanked him, and he'd leave.</p></blockquote>
 <div align=right>[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]</div>
 [[Category:Supporting Cast|Cuneo, Louis]]
 [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)|Cuneo, Louis]]

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-FZ in [[The Real Frank Zappa Book]] (1989): "''Another regular was a guy we called 'Louie the Turkey' - because of his laugh. His real name was [[Louis Cuneo]]. He wound up on the [[Lumpy Gravy]] album as one of the people talking about incomprehensible stuff, inside a piano. We would always know when Louie was in the theater because we could hear him in the back of the room. I would invite him onstage, give him a stool to sit on, hand him the microphone and stop the music. He would sit there and laugh - at nothing - and the whole audience would laugh with him for five minutes. Then we thanked him, and he'd leave.''"
+FZ in [[The Real Frank Zappa Book]] (1989):
-[[Category:Supporting Cast]]
+[[Category:Supporting Cast|Cuneo, Louis]]
-[[Category:Bandmembers]]
+[[Category:Bandmembers|Cuneo, Louis]]
-[[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)]]
+[[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)|Cuneo, Louis]]

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