San Bernardino
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San Bernardino is a city in Southern California.
In the late 1950s, Zappa played in Tommi Sandi's Club Sahara in San Bernardino, as part of a lounge band named Joe Perrino & The Mellotones. Between 1960 and 1964, he lived in Ontario in the San Bernardino county.
After being arrested for recording a pornographic tape in 1965, Zappa spent ten days in the San Bernardino County Jail.
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References to San Bernardino in Frank Zappa's work
- Lumpy Gravy. Interviewed in 1974 for Melody Maker, Zappa said the title was partially inspired by a TV commercial for Loma Linda Gravy mix. Loma Linda is a town just south of San Bernardino.
- Let's Make The Water Turn Black: "Every morning Daddy Dink went to work/Selling lamps and chairs, to San Ber'dino squares"
- San Ber'dino
- Dupree’s Paradise (Intro): "And now direct to the Bankers Club in San Bernardino, California, where we feature Don Preston with his amazing Farfisa Organ..."
People born or from San Bernardino
- The Jewels
- Dink Williams worked as a furniture salesman in San Bernardino.
Frank Zappa about San Bernardino
"I don't have too many fond memories of San Bernardino." - Frank Zappa remembers San Ber'dino, Mark Lundahl, The San Bernardino Sun, 7 April 1980. [1]
