ROXY & ELSEWHERE Village Of The Sun Notes and Comments |
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FZ: Good... Ken, turn me up so they can hear what I'm saying... |
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Who's Ken? | ||
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Goin' back home To the Village of the Sun Out in back of Palmdale Where the turkey farmers run, I done Made up my mind |
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It take the paint off your car And wreck your windshield too, I don't know how the people stand it, But I guess they do |
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Cause they're all still there, Even Johnny Franklin too In the Village of the Sun |
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This was the only R&B band in the entire Mojave Desert at that time. Three of the guys (Johnny Franklin, Carter Franklin and Wayne Lyles) were black, the Salazr brothers were Mexican and Terry Wimberly represented the other oppressed people of the earth. | ||
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Well... Little Mary, and Teddy, |
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Mary: "We like the band, but we don't like you. Now, get off." MC: "Well Little Mary, we like you." |
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and Thelma too, now Where Palmdale Boulevard |
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Jim Cohen's lecture brought forth the information (from Frank's brother Bob, father of noted saxophonist and contributor to BANANAFISH, Stanley Jason Zappa) that "Thelma" in the song refers to Johnny Franklin's mother, providing gasps of delight from the hardcore fact fiends in the audience. ` | ||
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Wo! Cuts on through Past the Village Inn, well, & Barbecue, now, yeah (I heard it ain't there... Well I hope it ain't true) |
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Where the stumblers gonna go To watch the lights turn blue? Where the stumblers gonna go To watch the lights turn blue-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-wahhh? |
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I watched this for a few weeks and finally, one night, decided to talk to him. I thought he'd be some kind of space-wino. He wasn't- he was an okay guy. He was drunk, to be sure, but not out of his mind- just happy. He invited me to go to his house. I couldn't turn this offer down- like it says on the Freak Out! album: "Who could imagine..." what kind of a place Mr. Stumbler would live in? I had to find out. | ||
After the gig, I followed him out into the desert a few miles, to a small turkey ranch. There was a handmade sort of house with cinder-block steps. The light was on in the front window. I followed him in. In spite of the shabby exterior, the living room was pleasant, with new furniture and a very large, very new Magnavox stereo. Apparanly he'd been listening to some records before his evening romp in front of the jukebox- maybe a pregame warmup. The album on the turntable was Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. | ||
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