Zappa's got other irons in the fire as well. "I've put together an album called Ahead Of Their Time," he says. "It's the last Mothers Of Invention album, and it has the entire performance from the Royal Festival Hall in 1968 in London, with all the rock music from the show. We were our own opening act for that show. Everybody in the band was in this play, and the music -- which I had written -- was supplied by 14 members of the BBC symphony. The performance of that play is contained on one of the (vinyl) 'Mystery Discs,' but none of the rock music from that show has ever been released. What I've done is put together this complete concert, done up as a double LP/single CD. I think there's a market for this, since its probably the most interesting of all the archival tapes. We did the remix from four-track one-inch masters to digital, and it's pretty crisp; it was a pretty solid recording. I'm trying to figure out whether the market can stand adding it to the list, because of all the other releases coming out this year."
When I came in, it was from a call from the Japanese distributor, who contacted me to do the cover for the Japanese release. Which, when Frank saw it, he decided he wanted to use it on the U.S. version. Which didn't actually happen until the Ryko 95 release.
What's that say? "Thanks for coming, what's the secret word for tonight? Your buddies Dirk, Tom and Tommy." Okay . . . Alright, guys, you're looking for another secret word?
There are these three guys from Germany, Dirk [Weitz], Tom [Nagla] and Tommy [Mikkat], I don't know their last names, but they came to almost every concert in Germany in '88, and they would hold up a big sign in the audience that would say: "Frank, what's the secret word for tonight?"
And so every time I would see the sign I would just come up with a word, and that word would be like a virus that would infect every song during the show. And once I knew that there were kids in the audience that wanted to see that happen, we just did it more and more and more. There will be some good examples of that in this album that's coming out called "The best band you never heard in your life". In fact, on one- it's a quadruple CD- a lot of the stuff is from the German concerts, especially from the one in Würzburg. And I see the sign in the audience, and I read it, and you'll hear me, and you'll hear the results.
(Now exactly what kind of a RING OF FIRE are we talking about here tonight?)
Don't you know,
You could get better results with Anusol
Anusol is a medication that can be used to treat hemorrhoids (also known as piles).
No joke -- a Florida TV production company plans to pitch Preparation H and other hemorrhoid-relief products with a commercial that features the country classic Ring of Fire.
The idea is hilarious to the song's co-writer, Merle Kilgore, who penned the Johnny Cash hit with Cash's late wife, June Carter Cash.
You see, Kilgore, an ex-country artist and 20-year veteran of the road, used to use a hemorrhoid joke onstage whenever he'd introduce Ring of Fire.
"I'd say, 'Ladies and gentlemen, I want to give credit where credit is due. I dedicate this song to the makers of Preparation H,' " Kilgore said yesterday. "And they would just fall out. So when the song publisher called and told me about it, I said, 'I can't believe it!' "
"There is no way we will ever let that happen," Rosanne Cash told the newspaper. "We would never allow the song to be demeaned like that."
The script for the commercial would have featured Kilgore's own rendition of the song, not Cash's, but the Cash children still hold veto power through June Carter Cash's songwriting credit.
"He [Kilgore] started talking about this moronic tie-in without talking to any of us," Rosanne Cash added. "The song is about the transformative power of love and that's what it has always meant to me and that's what it will always mean to the Cash children."
June Carter Cash died a few months before her husband last year.
"I certainly didn't want to upset the Cash family because I love them," said Kilgore, who now manages Hank Williams Jr. "I just thought it was kind of funny."
(Oh, my God, it's Tipper!)
I mean to say that every day
Is just another Voodoo Fudge
Vaginal discharge is sometimes called "voodoo butter". Butt discharge is called "voodoo fudge".
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