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, laRoyal 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.
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:
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.
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:
A2The Mud Shark5:16
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
A3What 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...
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)
B3Happy Together2:57
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!
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 LennonSome 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:
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 1992Playground Psychotics. Son las cuatro últimas pistas de 23 a 26, cambiando algunas de título:
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:
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