Damp Ankles
Lyrics
Players On This Song
- Frank Zappa on the Synclavier DMS
Records On Which This Song Has Appeared
Zappa Albums
Tributes & Cover Albums
Notes About This Song
Interviewed on KNON FM (Dallas, Texas) (18 August 1989), Zappa explained: "There's this guy named Steve Sayadian who used to be an art director at Hustler, and Steve is a truly unique individual, you, I mean, this is one of those truly one-of-a-kind type guys. And before he went to work for Larry Flynt he worked as an orderly in a mental institution, and his job—I mean this is gonna sound like a science fiction story, but you want to know about "Damp Ankles," here it is—his job, he was like the scoutmaster in the pinhead hut. And the pinheads liked him. And he had this, you know, like stay overnight with them in the pinhead hut, and they would express their appreciation by licking his ankle. And so he had to start wearing this muffs on his ankles." [1] This same anecdote is also repeated during Den Simms, Eric Buxton and Rob Samler's They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 3, Society Pages (US), September 1990.
