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==Players On This Song==
 
==Players On This Song==
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[[The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life|THE BEST BAND YOU NEVER HEARD IN YOUR LIFE]] version
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* [[Frank Zappa]] - lead guitar, computer-synth, vocal
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* [[Ike Willis]] - rhythm guitar, synth, vocal
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* [[Mike Keneally]] - rhythm guitar, synth, vocal
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* [[Bobby Martin]] - keyboards, vocal
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* [[Ed Mann]] - vibes, marimba, electronic percussion
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* [[Walt Fowler]] - trumpet, flugel horn, synth
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* [[Bruce Fowler]] - trombone
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* [[Paul Carman]] - alto sax, soprano sax, baritone sax
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* [[Albert Wing]] - tenor sax
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* [[Kurt McGettrick]] - baritone sax, bass sax, contrabass clarinet
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* [[Scott Thunes]] - electric bass, mini-moog
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* [[Chad Wackerman]] - drums, electronic percussion
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==Records On Which This Song Has Appeared==
 
==Records On Which This Song Has Appeared==
 
===Zappa Albums===
 
===Zappa Albums===

Revision as of 14:53, 28 April 2006

Lyrics

What's there to live for?
Who needs the peace corps?
Think I'll just DROP OUT
I'll go to Frisco
Buy a wig & sleep
On Owsley's floor

Walked past the wig store
Danced at the Fillmore
I'm completely stoned
I'm hippy & I'm trippy
I'm a gypsy on my own
I'll stay a week & get the crabs &
Take a bus back home
I'm really just a phony
But forgive me
'Cause I'm stoned

Every town must have a place
Where phony hippies meet
Psychedelic dungeons
Popping up on every street
GO TO SAN FRANCISCO . . .

How I love ya, How I love ya
How I love ya, How I love ya Frisco!
How I love ya, How I love ya
How I love ya, How I love ya
Oh, my hair is getting good in the back!
Every town must have a place
Where phony hippies meet
Psychedelic dungeons
Popping up on every street
GO TO SAN FRANCISCO . . .

Hotcha!

First I'll buy some beads
And then perhaps a leather band
To go around my head
Some feathers and bells
And a book of Indian lore
I will ask the Chamber Of Commerce
How to get to Haight Street
And smoke an awful lot of dope
I will wander around barefoot
I will have a psychedelic gleam in my eye at all times
I will love everyone
I will love the police as they kick the shit out of me on the street
I will sleep . . .
I will, I will go to a house
That's, that's what I will do
I will go to a house
Where there's a rock & roll band
'Cause the groups all live together
And I will join a rock & roll band
I will be their road manager
And I will stay there with them
And I will get the crabs
But I won't care
Because...

Players On This Song

THE BEST BAND YOU NEVER HEARD IN YOUR LIFE version

Records On Which This Song Has Appeared

Zappa Albums

Tributes & Cover Albums

Notes About This Song

On The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life version, Mike Keneally sings parts in his Johnny Cash voice. The joke is that Cash is the exact opposite of the hippie they portray him to be in the song.

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