The REAL Frank Zappa intro
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From: gworsham@ix.netcom.com (Gary Worsham )
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Rolling Stone Interview, July 20, 1968
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We have two albums in the can. We've been working on this for the past
five months. We bought a huge block of time in a studio in New York with
our own teenage money, secretly knowing all along MGM would bite the
dust.. . because good guys always win. Two albums. One is "Whatever
Happened to Ruben and the Jets?" -- a secret project. The other is "No
Commercial Potential," a three-record set. Six sides. It has such
eight-minute tidbits as police busting our recording session. New York
cops! Live! In person! You can't dance to it. It also has a piece where
Jimmy Carl Black, the Indian in the group, is bitching because we are
not making any money and it's taking too long for the band to make it.
Two songs about El Monte Legion Stadium. A song about fake IDs. Another
song about teats. A surrealistic R&B song called "The Air Escaping from
Your Mouth." Two other surrealistic things: "Mr Green Genes" and
"Electric Aunt Jemima." Lots of instrumentals. On one song we used 40
tracks and the tune lasts 90 seconds.That one took us four days to put
together. It'll probably be released in the fall.
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