The Story Of Electricity
FZ: You oughtta tell 'em what happened when you went over to A&M
records with that song 'Electricity'.
Captain Beefheart: We walked into A&M Records with the song 'Electricity', and Jerry Moss told me that it was negative, that it wouldn't be good for his daughter. The words are:
Singing through you to me
Thunderbolts caught easily
Shouts the truth peacefully
Electricity
Go in to bright
Find the light
And know that friends don't mind
Just how you grow
FZ: Well, that would be bad for his daughter. (CB: what.) Ahem. But
they signed you anyway, they offered you a record contract.
CB: No, they-they wouldn't take that record.
FZ: They wouldn't take that one, but you put out, uh, Diddy Wah Diddy
(CB':
Diddy Wah Diddy) and that was safe for his daughter.
CB: That was a real safe one.
