Difference between revisions of "I Was A Teenage Malt Shop"
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''"It was supposedly about a kid, Ned the Mumbler, who came into one of these small closed-up towns where they didn't allow rock 'n 'oll and so he wrote these songs. He was going to get the whole town singing and enjoying music."'' ([[Jim Sherwood]], cited in BARNES, Mike, ''"Captain Beefheart"'',Quartet Books, 2000, page 12.) | ''"It was supposedly about a kid, Ned the Mumbler, who came into one of these small closed-up towns where they didn't allow rock 'n 'oll and so he wrote these songs. He was going to get the whole town singing and enjoying music."'' ([[Jim Sherwood]], cited in BARNES, Mike, ''"Captain Beefheart"'',Quartet Books, 2000, page 12.) | ||
| − | Ned the Mumbler was based on the characters [[Ned & Nelda]] from the single, ''"Hey Nelda"''. | + | Ned the Mumbler was based on the characters [[Ned & Nelda]] from the single, ''"[[Hey Nelda]]"''. |
==CC Clues In This Song== | ==CC Clues In This Song== | ||
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Revision as of 04:07, 2 January 2011
Contents
Lyrics
Players On This Song
Don Van Vliet: vocals
Frank Zappa: guitar
"Motorhead" Sherwood: guitar
Vic Mortenson: drums
Records On Which This Song Has Appeared
Notes About This Song
This song was recorded in 1963 at Studio Z. It was originally part of an opera, "I Was A Teenage Malt Shop", thought up by Zappa and with Don Van Vliet as the character Captain Beefheart. The opera was never performed or finished, but several songs that were written for the project would later turn up on Zappa's records, like Ned The Mumbler, Ned Has A Brainstorm, My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama and Status Back Baby.
"It was supposedly about a kid, Ned the Mumbler, who came into one of these small closed-up towns where they didn't allow rock 'n 'oll and so he wrote these songs. He was going to get the whole town singing and enjoying music." (Jim Sherwood, cited in BARNES, Mike, "Captain Beefheart",Quartet Books, 2000, page 12.)
Ned the Mumbler was based on the characters Ned & Nelda from the single, "Hey Nelda".
