["Sharleena"]--in perhaps a still longer version--will appear on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, a Rykodisc CD scheduled for mid '87 (Barking Pumpkin plans to release a 10-album LP set under the same name in early '87).
And of course, Sophia Warren on guitar.
AG: One obvious question I've got to ask you is why you were called "Sophia"?
Warren Cuccurullo: That was because I was always wearing women's clothing.
AG: I thought it was after Sophia Loren -- Sophia War-ren.
WC: And she's Italian, too! We both came up with the name. I used to wear glass earrings, tiger coats, big boots, it was my first time in the UK and I went to Kensington Market. I was buying, like, jackets for 50p and I came out wearing everything I bought. I used to go to rehearsals at the Rainbow like that.
Scared of the future
'N I wish I was dead
(Mattie told Hattie . . . )
I don't know why, but it was a pretty good bet that I would fuck up the lyrics about 30% of the time. The songs that were most in danger of getting fucked up were "Tryin' To Grow A Chin" and "Tiny Lites." Whenever you hear Frank start singing "Mattie told Hattie" (from Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs' song, "Wooly Bully") that was the signal that I had just fucked up the lyrics. I would scramble for some new never before heard lyrics of my own design to try and fill the void. The results were mixed.
How about David Crosby? I mean, [...] he almost cut his hair, but he didn't, well . . .
(Cakes! Cakes! Cakes!)
Warren, do you know one called LeFrak City?
| Minute | Date | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | 2/19 | Yellow Snow |
| 2:25 | 2/17 | Nanook |
| 3:03 | 2/18L | "LEAD!" |
| 4:11 | 2/18E | "HEY..." |
| 5:16 | 2/18L | "Enforced recreation..." |
| 5:40 | 2/18E | "Hi, are you okay?" |
| 9:26 | 2/18L | "I CAN'T SEE" |
| 10:30 | 2/18E | "Trudgin' across the tundra" |
| 11:42 | 2/18E | ("LeFrak City" edited out) |
| 12:12 | 2/19 | Religion rap |
| 13:28 | 2/18E | St. Alfonzo synth intro |
| 16:34 | 2/18L | "Dominus Vo-bisque 'em" |
| 17:26 | 2/18E | Rollo Goes Out |
| 20:12 | 2/18E | (about three seconds edited out) |
date: February 13, 1969 location: THE FACTORY, THE BRONX, NEW YORK [...]
Probably the date is wrong in the official releases where appears: Feb. 13, 1969 - The Factory - The Bronx, NYC
[...] It says a lot about the Mothers concert last Thursday [February 13] at Woolsey Hall [Yale University].
I found a couple of references by Bronx residents to the fact that the same club had been known as The Factory and as Fantasy East. The name change must have taken place between February 1969 (when the MOI played The Factory) and October 1969 (when Dr. John played Fantasy East).
The club was located at 4653 White Plains Rd. at 241st St.
Also recorded at The Factory, The Bronx, NYC, February, 1969: "Get A Little" from Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970), "Tiny Sick Tears" from You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4 (1991) and "Where Is Johnny Velvet?," "Return Of The Hunch-Back Duke" and "Trouble Every Day" from You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 5 (1992).
The spring tour of 1969 was a bus tour. It was cold and miserable. Many of the venues we were performing in were small and "unfashionable." This rare recording finds the Mothers playing a bar in The Bronx, for an audience that probably would have preferred The Vanilla Fudge.
When we worked at this music fair out in Long Island, we were the opening act for the Vanilla Fudge. 1968, I think it was. I remember this one guy out in the audience -- it was the Weatbury Music Fair -- and the quote was [loud and belligerent], "Youse guys stink! Bring on the Fudge!"
That cracked everyone up and was the subjet of infinite days and nights of humor for years to come.
The Vanilla Fudge are also mentioned on "Uncle Meat Film Excerpt Part 1" from Uncle Meat (CD version, 1987), "The Mud Shark" from Fillmore East -- June 1971 (1971) and "A Game Of Cards" from You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 5 (1992).
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