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Spider of Destiny at 15:25, 23 July 2026

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Jason.Kreitzer: There's a Steve Desper (https://www.discogs.com/artist/391025-Stephen-W-Desper ) who's been credited on "Apostrophe (')" and "Little Dots," but not much evidence of a Brian Desper.

2021-11-04T14:54:11Z

There's a Steve Desper (https://www.discogs.com/artist/391025-Stephen-W-Desper ) who's been credited on "Apostrophe (')" and "Little Dots," but not much evidence of a Brian Desper.

Jason.Kreitzer at 15:17, 21 October 2021

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Jason.Kreitzer at 15:28, 4 October 2021

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Jason.Kreitzer at 13:18, 4 October 2021

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Jason.Kreitzer at 19:13, 21 September 2021

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Jason.Kreitzer at 13:44, 21 September 2021

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Jason.Kreitzer at 19:40, 14 September 2021

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 <br>Road tapes engineer: Bill Hennigh.
 <br>Design & Graphics by [[Cal Schenkel]].
-<br>Cover Photography by [https://www.discogs.com/artist/2235287-Sherwin-Tilton Sherwin Tilton].
+<br>Cover Photography by [[Sherwin Tilton]].
-<br>Liner Photography by [https://www.discogs.com/artist/2235287-Sherwin-Tilton Sherwin Tilton], [https://www.discogs.com/artist/2235289-Coy-Featherston Coy Featherston] & [https://www.discogs.com/artist/2235288 Steve Magedoff].
+<br>Liner Photography by [[Sherwin Tilton]], [https://www.discogs.com/artist/2235289-Coy-Featherston Coy Featherston] & [https://www.discogs.com/artist/2235288 Steve Magedoff].
 ==Liner Notes==

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 | align="center" | 2
 | align="center" | LP
-| [[Barking Pumpkin Records]]<br>BPR&nbsp;9999-5
+| [[Barking Pumpkin Records|Barking Pumpkin]]<br>BPR&nbsp;9999-5
 | 1987-12-30
 | &nbsp;
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 | align="center" | 1
 | align="center" | [[wikipedia:Compact disc|CD]]
-| [[Barking Pumpkin Records|Barking Pumpkin]]<br>D2&nbsp;74241
+| Barking Pumpkin<br>D2&nbsp;74241
 | 1992?
 | 0013347424125?

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 | align="center" | 2
 | align="center" | [[wikipedia:Long playing record|LP]]
-| [[Warner Brothers]] [[DiscReet Records|DiscReet]]
+| [[Warner Brothers|Warner]] [[DiscReet Records|DiscReet]]<br>2DS&nbsp;2202
 | 1974-09-10
 | None
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 | align="center" | 2
 | align="center" | LP
-| Warner DiscReet
+| Warner DiscReet<br>K&nbsp;69201
 | 1974-10<ref name="MStrong">Martin C. Strong, 2004, ''The Great Rock Discography'', p. 1721.</ref>
 | None
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 | align="center" | 2
 | align="center" | LP
-| [[Zappa Records|Zappa]]
+| [[Zappa Records|Zappa]]<br>ZAPPA&nbsp;39
 | ?
 | 5016583603915?
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 | align="center" | 1
 | align="center" | [[wikipedia:Compact disc|CD]]
-| [[Barking Pumpkin Records]]<br>D2&nbsp;74241
+| [[Barking Pumpkin Records|Barking Pumpkin]]<br>D2&nbsp;74241
 | 1992?
 | 0013347424125?

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 Most of the album’s material comes from [[The Mothers]]’ six-night residency at the Roxy in Hollywood, Dec 7-12, 1973. The "gymnasium extravaganza" at Edinboro State College in Pennsylvania on May 8, 1974 provided some additional material ("[[Son Of Orange County]]" and “[[Trouble Every Day|More Trouble Every Day]]”), as did the second of two concerts performed at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago, Illinois on Mothers’ Day (May 11): a section of "[[Penguin In Bondage]]". Some overdubs, mainly to double [[Napoleon Murphy Brock]]’s vocals, were added that summer. The album came out in the fall.
-The “Brian” Frank asks to turn up the onstage floor monitor volume is [[Brian Desper]], his 1973-'74 sound man.
+The “Brian” Frank asks to turn up the onstage floor monitor volume is Brian Desper, his 1973-'74 sound man.
 The reference to a penguin (a white groupie bound in black straps, considering the bondage-related introduction) follows up on the frozen wasteland of the suite about Nanook on [[Apostrophe (')]]. Knirps, a German umbrella company, is mentioned, hinting that a closed umbrella might be used as a sexual implement (and foreshadowing, in opened/protective form, the giant dog’s ejaculation in "[[Cheepnis]]" later on Roxy). "Knirps" is also German slang for "short person." Frank might have been aware of this tie-in to his munchkin ethic. The first word of the next song title is, after all, "Pygmy."

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 The reference to a penguin (a white groupie bound in black straps, considering the bondage-related introduction) follows up on the frozen wasteland of the suite about Nanook on [[Apostrophe (')]]. Knirps, a German umbrella company, is mentioned, hinting that a closed umbrella might be used as a sexual implement (and foreshadowing, in opened/protective form, the giant dog’s ejaculation in "[[Cheepnis]]" later on Roxy). "Knirps" is also German slang for "short person." Frank might have been aware of this tie-in to his munchkin ethic. The first word of the next song title is, after all, "Pygmy."
-The subject of penguins first came up during the 1967 [[Garrick Theatre]] shows, and then onstage with the [[Mark Volman|Flo]] & [[Howard Kaylan|Eddie]] Mothers: A stuffed penguin would be shot through a hoop of fire made out of coat hangers wrapped with tissues. This explains some of the lyrics in "[[Penguin In Bondage]]," as well as the inclusion of the [[Johnny Cash]] tune "[[Ring Of Fire]]" on [[The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life]].
+The subject of penguins first came up during the 1967 [[Garrick Theatre]] shows, and then onstage with the [[Flo & Eddie]] Mothers: A stuffed penguin would be shot through a hoop of fire made out of coat hangers wrapped with tissues. This explains some of the lyrics in "[[Penguin In Bondage]]," as well as the inclusion of the [[Johnny Cash]] tune "[[Ring Of Fire]]" on [[The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life]].
 The "hocker" mentioned in "[[Pygmy Twylyte]]" is a ball of phlegm in the throat, probably caused by chronic pot-smoking in this case; the lyrics are based on another foolish character in Frank’s real-life cast, the druggie. A diploma, stuffed with a gym sock to simulate the stench of marijuana, will be smoked in the next song. The "croakin’" denotes both the guy’s voice (or the sound he makes when trying to expel a hocker) and death by drugs. The line about "crankin’ an’ a-coke’n" updates the character’s drug repertoire, while the remark about trying to quell the munchies ("in the Winchell’s do-nut Midnite") and the mention of a stash-ready "Greyhound [bus station] locker" -- again foreshadowing the gym-sock part -- return to pot. The Winchell’s could also be unwittingly servicing narcotics junkies looking for sugar fixes.

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 Produced by FZ.
 <br>Overdubs at [[Bolic Sound|Bolic Studios]] & [[Paramount Recording Studios|Paramount Studios]], Hollywood.
-<br>Roxy remote recording by [[Wally Heider]].
+<br>Roxy remote recording by [https://www.discogs.com/artist/403480 Wally Heider].
 <br>Re-mix engineer: [[Kerry McNabb]].
 <br>Road tapes engineer: Bill Hennigh.
 <br>Design & Graphics by [[Cal Schenkel]].
-<br>Cover Photography by [[Sherwin Tilton]].
+<br>Cover Photography by [https://www.discogs.com/artist/2235287-Sherwin-Tilton Sherwin Tilton].
-<br>Liner Photography by [[Sherwin Tilton]], [[Coy Featherston]] & [[Steve Magedoff]].
+<br>Liner Photography by [https://www.discogs.com/artist/2235287-Sherwin-Tilton Sherwin Tilton], [https://www.discogs.com/artist/2235289-Coy-Featherston Coy Featherston] & [https://www.discogs.com/artist/2235288 Steve Magedoff].
 ==Liner Notes==

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 | align="center" | 1
 | align="center" | CD
-| Barking Pumpkin/[[Music Scene Incorporated|MSI]]<br>MSI&nbsp;80039
+| Barking Pumpkin/[https://www.discogs.com/label/734889-MSI-2 MSI]<br>MSI&nbsp;80039
 | 1992
 | &nbsp;