Playground Psychotics

disc 1

15. "Don't Eat There"

Charles Ulrich (November 24, 2005)

The background music at breakfast is "Moonlight Bay".

Charles Ulrich (March 22, 2012)

Howard quotes Autumn Leaves at the end of Don't Eat There (2:21-2:26), with the last note extending into the first second of Brixton Still Life.

It's much easier to identify the quotation on the audience recording of 12/10/71 London.

19. Sharleena

right here at the Rainbow Theatre where Melanie ripped it up last night

Charles Ulrich (January 7, 2009)

Melanie [Safka] had played a sold-out concert at the Rainbow the previous night. Her "Brand New Key" reached #1 in the Billboard chart later that month.

disc 2

23. Going For The Money

Jeff: Smurf mee!
Howard: Smurf meee!

FZ, interviewed by Don Menn, "The Mother Of All Interviews, Part 1," Zappa!, 1992, p. 45

When we went to Holland for the first time with the band with Mark and Howard in '70 or '71, the whole place was riddled with fuckin' Smurfs advertising BP. And the joke in the band was "Smurf mee," because on the billboards that's what they said. "Smurf me" spelled "me-e-e." I don't know what it means.

 

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