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Introducción

Como comentamos en el anterior artículo, en 1970, Zappa formó una nueva versión de The Mothers. Esta formación debutó en el tercer álbum en solitario de Zappa, Chunga's Revenge (1970).

El siguiente trabajo de Zappa con The Mothers fue la banda sonora del álbum doble de la película 200 Motels (1971), con The Mothers, la Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Ringo Starr, Theodore Bikel y Keith Moon. De ese álbum nos ocuparemos en el siguiente artículo.

Después de 200 Motels, la banda salió de gira, lo que resultó en dos álbumes en vivo, Fillmore East - June 1971 y Just Another Band From L.A.; este último incluyó la canción de 20 minutos "Billy the Mountain", la sátira de Zappa sobre la ópera rock ambientada en el sur de California. Esta canción fue representativa de las representaciones teatrales de la banda en las que las canciones se utilizaron para construir bocetos basados en escenas de 200 Motels, así como nuevas situaciones que a menudo retratan los encuentros sexuales de los miembros de la banda en la carretera. Del primer álbum Fillmore East - June 1971 nos ocupamos también en este artículo.

Portada del álbum Fillmore East - June 1971

Fillmore East – June 1971

El 2 de agosto de 1971 se publicó el álbum Fillmore East – June 1971 en Estados Unidos con Bizarre (MS 2042) y en el Reino Unido con Reprise. Es el duodécimo álbum en la discografía de Frank Zappa, y fue producido por Zappa y mezclado por Toby Foster.

Frank Zappa en la actuación del Fillmore East

Fillmore East – June 1971 es un álbum conceptual en vivo. Retrata un vistazo detrás de la cortina de la vida de una banda de rock en la carretera narrada por Frank Zappa, y contiene muchos elementos temáticos que, debido a limitaciones de tiempo y presupuesto, no pudieron incluirse en la película de temática similar 200 Motels. La parte más famosa del álbum es "The Mud Shark", una narración de una historia contada al miembro de The Mothers, Don Preston por algunos miembros de Vanilla Fudge sobre un hotel, el Edgewater Inn de Seattle, donde los huéspedes podían pescar desde sus habitaciones. En el cuento, un tiburón de barro es atrapado por uno de los miembros de Vanilla Fudge o su tripulación y, cuando se combina con una groupie y una cámara de cine, se produce la depravación. Aunque no se indica en "The Mud Shark", este incidente de 1969, ahora conocido como "el episodio de Shark", también involucró al baterista de Led Zeppelin, John Bonham, y al road manager Richard Cole, con el cantante y tecladista de Vanilla Fudge, Mark Stein, operando la cámara de cine. En el siguiente video se explica el suceso:

some women of Zeppelin - YouTube

La historia del álbum luego retrata a miembros estereotípicamente egoístas de una banda de rock "negociando" por sexo con una groupie y sus amigas. Las chicas son insultadas porque la banda piensa que son groupies y que se acostarían con la banda solo porque son músicos. Tienen normas; solo tendrán sexo con un chico de un grupo con un "single grande y exitoso en las listas, ¡como una bala!" y una "polla monstruosa". En "Bwana Dik", el cantante Howard Kaylan asegura a las chicas que está dotado más allá de sus "fantasías más salvajes salpicadas de Clearasil". Y, para no desanimarse por las normas de estas groupies, la banda canta a las chicas el éxito de The Turtles (de las cuales Kaylan, Volman y Pons habían sido miembros) "Happy Together", para darles su "bala". El álbum termina con un extracto de bis que incluye tanto el familiar "Peaches en Regalia" de Zappa como lo que posiblemente fue su pastiche de rock and roll más exitoso, "Tears Began to Fall" (también publicado como sencillo).

Imagen de la reedición de 2022

Cuando este álbum fue reeditado por primera vez en disco compacto por Rykodisc, "Willie the Pimp, Pt. 2" fue omitido de la lista de canciones. Finalmente fue lanzado en CD en la reedición de 2012 del álbum. Además, en la edición en CD, el último minuto de "Latex Solar Beef" se colocó al comienzo de "Willie the Pimp Part One", haciéndolo más largo. No está claro si esto fue intencional o no.

Imagen de la edición de 2022

Lista de canciones del álbum

Todas las canciones compuestas por Frank Zappa excepto donde se indique.

Enlaces al álbum completo: Frank Zappa 1971 live Filmore East ( version Lp)

Enlace a la lista de reproducción del álbum: Fillmore East - June 1971

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A1 Little House I Used To Live In 4:58

A2 The Mud Shark 5:16

A3 What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are? 4:51

A4 Bwana Dik 2:27

A5 Latex Solar Beef 4:22

A6 Willie The Pimp Part One 2:50

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B1 Willie The Pimp Part Two 1:54

B2 Do You Like My New Car? 7:49

B3 Happy Together 2:57

B4 Lonesome Electric Turkey 2:34

B5 Peaches En Regalia 3:22

B6 Tears Began To Fall 3:50

Letras

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A1 Little House I Used To Live In 4:58

Ooh!

Lalalalala...

Hoopla!

Oink! oink!

Lalalala...

Aah!

Yayayayayaya...

Lalalala... mud shark

That's right, you heard right

The secret word for tonight is mud shark

And of course with the mud shark secret word is the mud shark arpeggio

A marvellous little arpeggio

And now the mating call of the adult male mud shark:

A2 The Mud Shark 5:16

FZ: That's right, you heard right, the Secret Word for tonight is Mud Shark! And of course with the Mud Shark Secret Word is the Mud Shark Arpeggio . . . a marvellous little arpeggio, and now the mating call of the adult male Mud Shark

Mud Sh-sh-shark

FZ: THE MUD SHARK DANCING LESSON!

Mud Sh-sh-shark

Mark: Wait a minute . . . we're gonna do a little dancing . . . a little dancing thing called the Mud Shark . . . Now, this dance started up in Seattle

Howard: Yes

Mark: The story

FZ: Lemme tell you the story 'bout the Mud Shark

Mud Sh-sh-shark

FZ: Bring the band on down behind me, boys
Howard: Say! Good God! Ain't it funky! Say!
FZ: The origins of the Mud Shark are as follows

Mud Sh-sh-shark

FZ: There's a motel in Seattle, Washington, called the Edgewater Inn . . . The Edgewater Inn is built out on a pier . . . so that means that when you look out your window you don't see any dirt, it's . . . got a bay or something out in your backyard

Mud Sh-sh-shark

FZ: And to make it even more interesting, in the lobby of the aforementioned motel there's a bait and tackle shop where the residents can go down and, whenever they want to, rent a fishing pole and some preserved minnows and schlep back up to their rooms, open the window, stick their little pole outside and within a few minutes actually catch a fish of some sort that they can bring into their motel room and do whatever they want with it, you know what I mean?

Mud Sh-sh-shark

FZ: Now in this bay there's quite a variety of . . . fish!

Mud Sh-sh-shark

FZ: Not only do they have mud sharks up there, they got little octopusses that you can catch

Fish!
Mud Sh-sh-shark

FZ: And all of these denizens of the deep can come in real handy
Mud Sh-sh-shark

FZ: Let's say you were a travelling Rock and Roll band called The Vanilla Fudge . . . let's say one night you checked into the Edgewater Inn with an 8mm movie camera

Mud Sh-sh-shark

FZ: Enough money to rent a pole, and just to make it more interesting

Mud Sh-sh-shark

FZ: A succulent young lady!
Howard: Nooo!
FZ: With a taste for the bizarre

Mud Sh-sh-shark

FZ: My mind drifts back . . . to a meeting, a chance meeting in the Chicago O'Hare Airport

Mud Sh-sh-shark

FZ: Where the members of The Vanilla Fudge told Don Preston about a home movie they made at the Edgewater Inn . . . with a mud shark!

Mud Sh-sh-shark

FZ: And I'm gonna tell you, this dance, the Mud Shark, is sweeping the ocean!
Hey! Mud Sh-sh-shark

Mark: Ah, we're goin'! Go 'head! Ah, we're goin'! Now we're gonna go out, somehow! Come one!

Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby

Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
(Now show 'em what they do with the Mud Shark!)
Out
You go out
(Now show 'em what they do with the Mud Shark!)
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Hey!
Out
You go out
(Catch the Mud Shark)
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby

A3 What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are? 4:51

What's a girl like you

Doin' in a place like this?

I left my place after midnight
And I came to this hall
Me and my girlfriend, we came here
Lookin' to ball

You came to the right place
This is it
This is the swingin-est place
In New York City

(Chorus line) NO SHIT!
How true it is
Me and my girlfriend, we come here
Every night looking for that
Hot romance we need
We like to get it on --
Do you like to get it on, too?

Well now, what did you have in mind?

Okay: well I get off bein' juked
With a baby octopus
An spewed upon with cream corn! AAH... UNH!
An' my girlfriend, she digs it
With a hot YOOHOO bottle
While somebody's screamin':
CORKS 'N' SAFETIES
PIGS 'N' DONKEYS
ALICE COOPER'S GONNA ... AAAAAAH!
Well, it gets me so hot
I could scream

(Chorus line) ALICE COOPER, ALICE COOPER! YAAAAH!
ALICE COOPER, ALICE COOPER! YAAAAH!

You two chicks sound real far aout and groovy
Ever been to a Holiday Inn?
Mna-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaa...
Magic Fingers in the Bed (Picture it!)
Wall-mounted TV screen:
Coffee-Wost plugged into the bathroom wall
Formica's really keen!

(Chorus line) What kind of girl do you think we are?
What kind of girl do you think we are?
Don't call us groupies
That is going too far
We wouldn't ball you
Just because you're a star

These girls wouldn't let just anybody
Spew on their vital parts
They want a guy from a group with a
Big hit single in the charts
Funny you should mention it:
Our new single just made the charts this week
With a bullet! With a bullet!
Lust let me put a little more
Rancid Budweiser on my beard right now, Baby

And you can show me how a young girl such as you
Might be thrilled and overwhelmed by me...

What hotel did you say you are staying at?

Wanna split right away?

Not so fast, you silly boy... there's one thing I gotta say:

(Chorus line) We want a guy from a group who's got a thing in the charts
We want a guy from a group who's got a thing in the charts
We want a guy from a group who's got a thing in the charts
We want a guy from a group who's got a thing in the charts

And if his dick is a monster
If his dick is a monster
If his dick is a monster
We will give him our hearts...

Hold it! Please hold it!

My God, Madge... you voluptuous New York City slit...
Why didn't you tell me before?
It was so hard to tell with your little blousey-poo on
But.. now that I see you... I would have helped...
I didn't know you were so obviously.. PREGNANT...

A4 Bwana Dik 2:27

I've got the thing you need

I am endowed beyound your wildest

Clearasil-spattered fantasies, oh oh oh..

Girls from all over the world

Love to write my name on the toilet walls

At the Whisky a Go Go

For I am Bwana Dik

I am Bwana Dik

Me Bwana Dik

My dick is a monster

Give me your heart

My dick is a Harley

You kick it to start

(Chorus line)

When Bwana Dik speaks

The heavens will part

My dick is a dagger

I'll force it to fit

My dick is a reamer, Baby

To scream up your slit

Steam it!

Ream it!

Cream it!

A5 Latex Solar Beef 4:22

Mud Shark

You could hear the steam baby

You could hear the screamin' steam right now

As the reamer steams up the lake

Reenie weenie up to the snake

Acetylene Nirvana

Haemorrhoids

Talkin' 'bout your haemorrhoids baby

Acetylene Nirvana

Haemorrhoids

Talkin' 'bout your haemorrhoids baby

Steam roller

(Talkin' 'bout your haemorrhoids baby)

Steam roller

(Talkin' 'bout your haemorrhoids baby)

Steam roller

Now now girl

Acetylene Nirvana

Haemorrhoids

Talkin' 'bout your haemorrhoids baby

Acetylene Nirvana

Haemorrhoids

Talkin' 'bout your haemorrhoids baby

I need somebody to help me, help me

Help me, help me, help me, help me, help me

Hear the steam

See the steam

Hear the steam

Hear the screaming hot black steaming

Iridescent naugahyde python's gleaming steam roller

Mud Shark

All groupies must bow down

In the sacred presence of the Latex Solar Beef

All groupies must bow down

In the sacred presence of the Latex Solar Beef

Steam roller

(Talkin' 'bout your haemorrhoids baby)

Steam roller

(Talkin' 'bout your haemorrhoids mama)

Steam roller

(Do it Miles Davis)

A6 Willie The Pimp Part One 2:50

Mud Shark

All groupies must bow down

In the sacred presence of the Latex Solar Beef

All groupies must bow down

In the sacred presence of the Latex Solar Beef

Steam roller

(Talkin' 'bout your hemorrhoids baby)

Steam roller

(Talkin' 'bout your hemorrhoids mama)

Steam roller

(Gooey piles, baby!)

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B1 Willie The Pimp Part Two 1:54

Instrumental

B2 Do You Like My New Car? 7:49

You are... you gotta tell me something... I mean, seriously, I'm tellin' you this is the first time that any of my girlfriends and I have ever met anybody really from Hollywood... I mean, really... my girlfriend Jim, and Ian, and Aynsley, and Bob, and Frank... I mean, none of us...

Pleased to meet you...

Hi Howie

We never met a pop star from Hollywood... tell me something: have you ever met Davey Jones? or Bobby Sherman?

No.. no, I ..

I mean... David Cassady, he's so...

Jimmy Greenspoon, once I...

Three Dog Night?!!

Yeah...

Oh! I love them! They're my favorite band!.. ow gawd.. oh, do you like my new car? I'm ah.. my Dad just gave it to me for graduation..

Ah yeaah?!! I'ts a ... it's a Fillmore, isn't it? Real futuristic, ah.. I dig the fins... listen: do you know how to get to the ah Hollywood Inn from here?

No, ah.. which one is it?

(burp) excuse me. It's the one by the airport... you know... cause we gotta get up early an'.. fly outta here in the morning, y'know...

Oh, I didn't know that... Where do you guys play tomorrow night? I mean, I'd like to come maybe... in your bus or somethin'...
Yeah?..

(Voice in background):
In the BUS!

Come in the bus, huh?... Tomorrow we're in ah, let's see... Tierra del Fuego...

Ook! You're so professional, Howie!

Oh, it's not... it's nothing...

Howie, I mean, the way you gettin' tp-tp to play, an all these exotic places, I mean...

Yeah

Tell me something.. tell me and my girl-... TELL me: Do you really have a hit record... on the charts now?... with a BULLET? ... I mean that's really important to me...

Listen, honey: Would I lie to you just to get in your pants?

He-Het! Listen! Hey, listen to me tellin' ya: WE ARE NOT GROUPIES!

Naw, I never.. I never said...

We are not groupies! You better understand that!.. I told Robert Planet, I told Elton John, I told all those big guys...

Robert PLANET?!
We are not groupies!

No, I never..

Roger Daltrey never laid a hand on me!

Yaw.. it's obvious to see why... listen, I never...

(2nd non-groupie):
Howie..

(1st non-groupie):
Tell him! Tell him right now!

(2nd non-groupie):
We only like musicians for f-friends. You know?

(voices in back):
Real straight arrow, Howie, Really... just for friends, Howie...

(2nd non-groupie):
But we still like you Yeah.. we wouldn't mind coming in your bus, but..

(2nd non-groupie):
I mean, we still want to hear your record...

Listen you chicks!now didn' .. didn't you just say that you got off bein' juked with a BABY OCTOPUS and spewed upon with cream corn? an' that your hair-lipped dyke-o bass-playing girlfriend on the backseat had to have it with a YOO-HOO bottle or she went apeshit?!..

Ooooh..

What's the deal, baby? Come on..

Howie! Howie, lissen yo me... all that's true..

Come across..

All that's true, and sometimes I even dig it with a Doctor Brown's Cream Soda... or a CEL-RAY!... but! we are not groupies! No matter what you think...

No, I never...

We are not groupies..

You see, there seems to be some kind of a communication problem, honey... because I... I am a lonely guy from outta town, y'know an'... an' I want some ACTION... what I'm talkin' about is, I wanna... a-a-steaming... succulent... ever-widening, gooey, drippy, runny kind of a hole with a... with... how shall I put this... what say we hop in the trunk of your Gremlin AN' GET OUR ROCKS OFF...

Hey! hey-hey-hey-heyyyy.... Jesus!...

(voice in back):
I'm in this band, man...

(voice up front):
Very agile, Howie, very agile...

(voice in back):
I am in this band no matter what we do up here... it's all...

Now lissen! It just so happend... tonight me and my girlfriends, I mean, we've all come here for one thing tonight...

Yeah?

Looking for a guy... And we're looking for a guy from a group

Wow

BUT HE'S GOTTA HAVE A DICK!

WAAAH!

AND HE'S GOTTA HAVE A DICK THAT'S A MONSTER!!

WAAAAAAAAH!... That's me!! That's me! ooh! ... oooohh, you voluptouns Manhattan Island clit.. Take me... I'm yours, you hole... Fulfill my... wildest... dreams!....

Ooooh! Anything for you, my most seductive, seclusive... pop star of a man... picture this if you can: bead jobs! knotted nylons! bamboo canes! three unreleased recordings of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young fighting in the dressing-room of the Fillmore East! Why, 'n enchilada wrapped with pickle sauce shook up and down in between a donkey's legs until he can't it stand anymore! All this and more, Howie! Including! an electric coolde pony harness, with fuel injection... fuel injection... fuel injection...

Oooh! my god, I ... I ... I can't stand it!... I mean... I mean, dou you understand the implications of what I'm saying? I CAN'T STAND IT!!! I CAN'T STAND IT !! I CAN'T STAND IT!! OH NO!!... Oh my god... I'm going home! I'm gonna see my baby... (etc) I really can't stand it... please... give it to me... give it to me right here in the trunk of your Gremlin.. give me... GIVE ME THE ENCHILADA WITH THE PICKLES SAUCE SHOVED UP BETWEEN A DONKEY'S ASS UNTIL HE CAN'T COME ANYMORE!...

Hey-hey! haha! Not until you sing me your big hit record!... and I want to hear the big hit record, and I wanna hear it now, an' I wanna hear the big hit record now with a bullet! With a bullet!

The bullet?

The BULLET! The BULLET! I'ts the part that gets me the hottest... hehe!.. now sing me that record, and I wanna hear it right now or you ain't driving nowhere tonight, buddy...

Well, I know when I'm licked... all over.... Okay, baby: BEND OVER AND SPREAD 'EM!... Here comes my... BULLET!!

(all sing Happy Together)

B3 Happy Together 2:57

Say!

Imagine me and you

I do

I think about you day and night

It's only right

To think about the girl you love

And hold her tight

So happy together

If i should call you up

Invest a dime

And you say you belong to me

And ease my mind

Imagine how the world would be

So very fine

So happy together

(just like a big rock-show)

I can't see me lovin' nobody but you for all my life
When you're with me, baby
The skies will be blue for all my life
(everybody sing along like a big rock-show, come on!)
Babababababababababababababa...
One more time!
Babababababababababababababa...

We'd like to thank you very much for comin' to our concert tonight
I know that ah...in a way it's sad that bill graham is closin'
Down the fillmore, but ah, i'm sure he'll get into somethin' better
It's been lovely, workin' for you this evenin'
Good night, good night, good night boys and girls!
Good night, good night boys and girls, good night!

B4 Lonesome Electric Turkey 2:34

Instrumental

B5 Peaches En Regalia 3:22

Instrumental

B6 Tears Began To Fall 3:50

Oooh!

Tears began to fall

The writings on the wall

Tears began to fall

Since my baby go away

And now I'm sittin' here all alone

Without no love of my own

I said my tears began to fall

I ain't got no love at all

Tears began to fall and fall and fall

Down my shirt

'Cause I feel so hurt

Since my baby go away

Tears began to fall
Tears began to fall
Tears began to fall and fall and fall
Tears began to fall
Ayayayaaaa...

And now I'm sittin' here all alone
Without no love of my own
Without no love of my own
Without no love of my own

Tears began to fall
Tears began to fall
Tears began to fall
Tears began to fall
Tears began to fall
Tears began to fall
Tears began to fall
Tears began to fall
Tears began to fall and fall and fall
Down my shirt
'Cause I feel so hurt
Since my baby go away

Wah-wah-wah-wah-wah
Tears began to fall
Tears began to fall
Wah-wah-wah-wah-wah
Tears began to fall
Tears began to fall
Wah-wah-wah-wah-wah
Tears began to fall
Tears began to fall
Wah-wah-wah-wah-wah
Tears began to fall
Tears began to fall
Wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-waaah

Créditos

Músicos

Frank Zappa – guitarra, voces, diálogos
Aynsley Dunbar – batería
Bob Harris – teclados, voces
Howard Kaylan – voces, diálogos
Jim Pons – bajo, voces, diálogos
Don Preston – Moog
Ian Underwood – teclados, voces, viento
Mark Volman – voces, diálogos

Producción

Frank Zappa - productor
Barry Keene - ingeniero
Toby Foster - mezclas
Toby Foster - masterización
Bob Stone - remasterización digital
Cal Schenkel - diseño gráfico

Lennon & Ono con The Mothers

Como bis en una de las dos noches que The Mothers actuaron en el Fillmore East, John Lennon y Yoko Ono subieron al escenario para tocar media hora con la banda. Esta parte del show fue lanzada bajo el nombre de Lennon en un disco llamado Live Jam, que fue incluido como un disco extra con el álbum de Lennon Some Time in New York City.

Portada del álbum Some Time in New York City

Contenido

La cara B del disco adicional del álbum Some Time in New York City incluyó cuatro temas de la actuación de Lennon & Ono con The Mothers:

1. "Well ( Baby Please Don't Go )" ( Walter Ward ) - 4:41

2. "Jamrag" (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) - 5:36

3. "Scumbag" (John Lennon/Yoko Ono/Frank Zappa) - 6:08

4. "Au" (John Lennon/Yoko Ono) - 6:23

Videos

Well (Baby Please Don't Go) - YouTube

"Scumbag" - Zappa, Lennon, Ono - Fillmore East 1971 - YouTube

Portada

Lennon usó una copia de la portada del álbum Zappa (agregando sus propios créditos en tinta roja a los escritos a mano de tinta negra del álbum) para proporcionar notas para Live Jam.

Portada del disco adicional

Contraportada del disco adicional

Reediciones

También las cuatro pistas se pueden escuchar en el lanzamiento de Zappa de 1992 Playground Psychotics. Son las cuatro últimas pistas de 23 a 26, cambiando algunas de título:

23. "Say Please" (John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Zappa) 0:57

24. "Aaawk" (Lennon, Ono, Zappa) 2:59

25. "Scumbag" (Lennon, Ono, Howard Kaylan, Zappa) 5:53

26. "Una pequeña eternidad con Yoko Ono" (Lennon, Ono) 6:07

Portada del álbum Playground Psychotics

Lista de canciones del álbum

También aparecen en su versión completa sin editar, junto con la versión "original" de "Billy the Mountain", en la reedición ampliada de triple LP de Fillmore East-June 1971 publicado el 18 de marzo de 2022. Adjunto link a los temas adicionales de esta edición: