프랭크 자파가 남긴 불후의 라이브 명반으로 백 밴드의 화려한 면면만으로도 그 가치가 빛을 발하는 대작 실황 음반. 키보디스트를 맡은 조지 듀크를 비롯한 록 계의 실력자들이 대거 참여해 프랭크 자파와 함께 멋진 연주를 들려주고 있다. 3곡을 제외한 나머지 모든 곡들이 할리우드에 위치한 록시 클럽에서 녹음되었기에 ‘Roxy & Elsewhere’로 이름 붙여진 본 음반은 이후 마스터링 과정을 충분히 거쳤기 때문에 음질 면에서도 최상급임을 뽐내고 있다.
Frank Zappa (lead guitar, vocals) George Duke (keyboards, synthesizer, vocals) Tom Fowler (bass) Ruth Underwood (percussion) Jeff Simmons (rhythm guitar, vocals) Don Preston (synthesizer) Bruce Fowler (trombone) Walt Fowler (trumpet) Napoleon Murphy Brock (tenor saxophone, flute, lead vocals) Ralph Humphrey (drums) Chester Thompson (drums) Debbie (background vocals) Lynn (background vocals) Robert Camarena (background vocals)
Thank you. Brian, I could use a little bit more monitor. Hello hello, can't you turn up any more than that? Hello hello, hey! Alright! Pardon me folks.
The name of this song is Penguin in Bondage, An' it's a song that ah, deals with the possible variations on a basic theme which is...well, You understand what a basic theme is. And then the variations include ah, manoeuvres that might be executed with the aid of ah, extra-terrestrial gratification and devices which might or might not be supplied in a local department store or perhaps a drugstore but at very least in one of those fancy new shops that they advertise in the back-pages of the free press. This song suggests to the suggestible listener that the ordinary procedure ah, That I am circumlocuting at this present time in order to get this text on television, Is that ah, if you wanna do something other than what you thought you were gonna do when you first took your clothes off and you just happened to have some DEVICES around... Then it's, it's not only okay to get into the PARAPHERNALIA of it all but...Hey! What did he say? Ready?
She's just like a penguin in Bondage, boy Oh yeah, Oh yeah, Oh... Rennenhenninnahenninnenninahennn Way over on the wet side Of the bed (Knirps for moisture)
Just like the mighty Penguin Flappin' her eight ounce wings
Lord, you know it's all over If she comes atcha on the strut & wrap 'em all around yer head
Flappin her eight ounce wings, flappinumm
She's just like a Penguin in Bondage, boy
Shake up the pale-dry Ginger ale Tremblin' like a Penguin When the battery fail
Lord, you must be havin' her jumpin' through a hoopa real fire With some Kleenex wrapped around a coat-hang wire
She's just like a Penguin in Bondage, boy Oh yeah, Oh yeah, Oh... Rennenhenninnahenninneninahenn Howlin' over to some Antarcticulated moon
In the frostbite nite With her flaps gone white Shriekin' as she spot the hoop across the room
Lord, you know it must be a Penguin bound down When you hear that terrible screamin' and there ain't no other Birds around
She's just like a Penguin in Bondage, boy Oh yeah, Oh yeah, Oh... She's just like a Penguin in Bondage, boy Oh yeah, Oh yeah, Oh... Rennenhenninnahenninneninahennn Aw, you must be careful Not to leave her straps TOO LOOSE
'Cause she just might box yer dog She just might box yer doggie An' leave you a dried-up dog biscuit...
Frank Zappa (lead guitar, vocals) Napoleon Murphy Brock (saxophone, vocals) George Duke (keyboards, vocals) Ruth Underwood (percussion) Tom Fowler (bass) Chester Thompson (drums)
Green hocker croakin' In the Pygmy Twylyte
Crankin' an' a-coke'n In the Winchell's do-nut Midnite
Out of his deep on a 'fore day run Hurtin' for sleep in the Quaalude Moonlight
Green hocker in a Greyhound locker Smokin' in the Pygmy Twylyte Joined the bus 33rd seat Doo-doo room Reek replete
Crystal eye, crystal eye Got a crystal kidney & he's fraid to die In the Pygmy Twylyte Downer midnite Pygmy Twylyte Downer midnite Pygmy Twylyte Downer midnite Pygmy Twylyte Downer midnite
Waahhh! Wait a minute Don't spray that stuff in my eyes All we're tryin' to do is to have a little party Somebody tell me if the bluesy ... was your little party Make me wanna jump up and down I said aaahhh!
Honey, honey Honey, honey TUSH TUSH Honey, honey Too young! Honey, honey Wait a minute!
Get him down Get him down Get him down What you're gonna do When your time is up? What you're gonna do When your time is up? Are you gonna take me? What are you gonna be? I might just tell you please What are you gonna say? One thing I wanna know One thing, baby I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know... Right over there, there's a Doo-doo room Right upstairs there's a Doo-doo room Right out back here there's a Doo-doo room In Perellis' pocket there's a Doo-doo room
Frank Zappa (lead guitar, vocals) George Duke (keyboards, synthesizer, vocals) Tom Fowler (bass) Ruth Underwood (percussion) Jeff Simmons (rhythm guitar, vocals) Don Preston (synthesizer) Bruce Fowler (trombone) Walt Fowler (trumpet) Napoleon Murphy Brock (tenor saxophone, flute, lead vocals) Ralph Humphrey (drums) Chester Thompson (drums) Debbie (background vocals) Lynn (background vocals) Robert Camarena (background vocals)
Sunrise Get up in the mornin' You know, I dig this mornin' The sun is shinin' bright I'm gonna get outside Gonna wash my face Grab my hat Put it on my head I take a walk downtown Yeah... Because I feel so-oh good I think I'm gonna take a walk downtown Hey! Sunrise!
Wo! Somethin' I never seen before Been walkin' down the street every day Nobody like you ever passed my way Maybe it must be too much sun Couldn't be my hat, must be too much...
Wait a minute! Is that you? What's that?...What, what's that?... What, what's that?...What?...
Dummy Up
What is that?... I know what that is, I know what that is... I bet you that's a restaurant menu... Let me see!...Let me see!
Not only do you get the Desenex burger
What?
Not only...the Desenex burger Well you are in for a real treat, Jim
Wait a minute...I think I like that dance better than... What are you talkin' about, creep?
What I'm talkin' about is you've been in this killer fog down here too long
What?
You need somethin' to get up and go to school with
Wait a minute, you're not talkin' to an old fool now, You know I wasn't born yesterday! Heh heh heh! Wait a minute... I like that little dance you were doin' there...
(Jeff Simmons tries to corrupt Napoleon Murphy Brock by showing him a lewd dance and suggesting that he'd smoke a high-school diploma...) Hey! Wait a minute!
Hey this, this stuff...
I never seen one of these before...that's not a menu...
This stuff is expensive
What is that?
You shoot it, you'll conserve all winter.
I do what?
It lasts longer
(Not only do you get the Desenex burger)
Now come on, try it.
No, no.
It's really good.
No. Smoke THAT?!
Have I ever lied to you? Have I ever seen you before?
I don't, I don't even know you!
Look...
I don't even know what that is! And you're drivin' me to smoke it?!...
Just before, we smoked the tapes that you made.
Smoked the tapes?
Smoked the tapes of your group.
I think I'm with the damned. You can really get off.
Let's try a joint of this.
A what?
A joint.
You mean this kinda joint?
No man! Where you been in livin'?...Reseda?
No, San Jose. (The evil dope pusher is cutting up a white gym sock, Formerly owned by Carl Zappa and still damp. The shredded sock will be placed inside of a high-school diploma And ignited with a sulphur-preparation... His first taste of big city life!...)
That's okay, wait...
Hey! The roach of this is really gonna be good, so I'll...
Have mercy!
What do you do with that thing? WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THAT THING? YEAH! Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Wait a minute!
What do you do with that thing? I wanna know! Wait a minute!
(Now the next step of this operation: The evil corrupter of youth is going to take him from Step One, Which is a mere high-school diploma stuffed with a gym sock, To Step Two, Which is a college-degree stuffed with absolutely nothing at all. Smoke that and it'll really get you out there!...)
I still don't feel as good as I felt this mornin'...yeah yeah...
(You'll grow out of it...) DUMMY UP!
I heard it again, somebody said...
You see this?
Wait a minute!...
College! College! That's college-rhythm.
You mean if I smoke that, it's the same as this, As if I was at college? Roll it on up! Roll it on up! Roll it on up! Give me that!...
No no, the college degree is stuffed with absolutely nothing at all. You get, you get nothing with your college-degree...
But that's what I want! I forgot, I'm sorry...
Well, if you get nothin', well that's what I want.
(A true Zen saying: Nothing is what I want. The results of a higher education...)
Frank Zappa (lead guitar, vocals) George Duke (keyboards, synthesizer, vocals) Tom Fowler (bass) Ruth Underwood (percussion) Jeff Simmons (rhythm guitar, vocals) Don Preston (synthesizer) Bruce Fowler (trombone) Walt Fowler (trumpet) Napoleon Murphy Brock (tenor saxophone, flute, lead vocals) Ralph Humphrey (drums) Chester Thompson (drums) Debbie (background vocals) Lynn (background vocals) Robert Camarena (background vocals)
Goin' back home To the Village of the Sun Out in back of Palmdale Where the turkey farmers run, I done Made up my mind And I know I'm gonna go to Sun Village, good God I hope the Wind don't blow
It take the paint off your car And wreck your windshield too, I don't know how the people stand it, But I guess they do Cause they're all still there, Even Johnny Franklin too In the Village of the Sun Village of the Sun Village of the Sun, son (Sun Village to you)
Little Mary, and Teddy, and Thelma too Where Palmdale Bouldevard Cuts on through Past the Village Inn & Barbecue (I heard it ain't there... Well I hope it ain't true) Where the stumblers gonna go To watch the lights turn blue Where the stumblers gonna go To watch the lights turn blue-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-wahhh?
Goin' back home To the Village of the Sun Out in back of Palmdale Where the turkey farmers run, I done Made up my mind And I know I'm gonna go to Sun Village, good God I hope the Wind don't blow
It take the paint off your car And wreck your windshield too, I don't know how the people stand it, But I guess they do Cause they're all still there, Even Johnny Franklin too In the Village of the Sun Village of the Sun Village of the Sun, son (Sun Village to you)
Frank Zappa (lead guitar, vocals) George Duke (keyboards, synthesizer, vocals) Tom Fowler (bass) Ruth Underwood (percussion) Jeff Simmons (rhythm guitar, vocals) Don Preston (synthesizer) Bruce Fowler (trombone) Walt Fowler (trumpet) Napoleon Murphy Brock (tenor saxophone, flute, lead vocals) Ralph Humphrey (drums) Chester Thompson (drums) Debbie (background vocals) Lynn (background vocals) Robert Camarena (background vocals)
Cheepnis. Let me tell you something, do you like monster movies? Anybody?
(YEAH!)
I love monster movies, I simply adore monster movies, And the cheaper they are, the better they are. And cheepnis in the case of a monster movie has nothing to do with the budget of the film, although it helps. But true cheepnis is exemplified by visible nylon strings attached to the jaw of a giant spider. I'll tell you, a good one that I saw one time, I think the name of the film was "It conquered the world" (YEAH!) And the... Did you ever see that one? The monster looks sort of like an inverted ice-cream corn with teeth around the bottom. It looks like a, like a teepee or a sort of a rounded off pup-tent affair. And ah, it's got fangs on the base of it, I don't know why but it's a very threatening sight. And then he's got a frown and, you know, ugly mouth and everything, And there's this one scene where the ah monster is coming out of a cave. See? There's always a scene where they come out of a cave, at least once. And the rest of the cast...it musta been made around the 1950's. The lapels are about like th at wide, The ties are about that wide and about this short, And they always have a little revolver that they're gonna shoot the monster with. And there is always a girl who falls down and twists her ankle. Hey hey! Of course there is! You know how they are, the weaker sex and everything, Twisting their ankle on behalf of a little ice-cream corn. Well in this particular scene, In this scene folks, they ah, they didn't wanna re-take it 'cause it musta been so good they wanted to keep it, but they... When the monster came out of the cave, just over on the left hand side of the screen you can see about this much two-by-four attached to the bottom of the Thing as the guy is pushing it out, And then obviously off-camera somebody's goin': "No! Get it back!" ...and they drag it back just a little bit as the guy is goin': "KCH! KCH!" Now that's cheepnis.
Right. And this is cheepnis here: One two three four...
I ate a hot dog It tasted real good Then I watched a movie From Hollywood
(repeat)
Little Miss Muffett on a squat by me Took a turn around, I said: Can y'all see? The little strings on the Giant Spider?" The Zipper From The Black Lagoon? The vents by the tanks where the bubbles go up? (And the flaps on the side of the moon)
The jelly & paint on the 40 watt bulb They use when the slime droozle off The rumples & the wrinkles in the cardboard rock And the canvas of the cave is too soft
The suits & the hats & the tie's too wide And too short for the scientist man The chemistry lady with the roll-away mind And the monster just ate Japan
Ladies and gentlemen, The monster, Which the peasants in this area call FRUNOBULAX (Apparently a very large poodle dog) Has just been seen approaching The Power Plant Bullets can't stop it Rockets can't stop it We may have to use NUCLEAR FORCE!
HERE COMES THAT POODLE DOG! BIG AS A BLIMP WITH A RHINESTONE COLLAR SNAPPIN' OFF THE TREES LIKE THEY WAS BONSAI'D ORNAMENTS ON A DRY-WOBBLE LANDSCAPE KEEP IT AWAY! DON'T LET THE POODLE BITE ME! WE CAN'T LET IT REPRODUCE! OH! SOMEBODY GET OUT THE PANTS!
The National Guard has formed up at the base of the mountain And is attempting to lure the enormous poodle towards the cave Where they hope to destroy it with napalm A thousand of the troopers are now lined up and are calling to the monster... Here Fido Here Fido Here Fido
GOT A GREAT BIG SLIMEY THING GOT A GREAT BIG HEAVY THING GOT A GREAT BIG POODLE THING GOT A GREAT BIG HAIRY THING
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C'mon! Everybody! Let's go! Get the distilled water! Get the canned goods! Get the toilet paper! You know we need it!
GO TO DA SHELTER MY BABY, MY BABY, GO TO DA SHELTER GO TO DA SHELTER
(repeat)
Little Miss Muffett on a squat by me, Can ya see the little string danglin' down Makes the legs go wabble an' the mouth flop shut An' the HORRIBLE EYE, HORRIBLE EYE, HORRIBLE EYE Go rollin' around Can y'see it all Can y'see it from here Can y'laugh till yer weak on yer knees If you can't, I'm sorry 'cause that's all I wanna know I need a little more cheepnis please Baby, I'm sorry 'cause it's all I wanna know I need a little more cheepnis please Baby, I'm sorry 'cause it's all I wanna know I need a little more cheepnis please
And in your dreams, you can see yourself as a prophet. Saving the world, with words from your lips. (I am not a crook) I just can't believe you are such a fool.
I just can't believe, you are such a fool I just can't believe, you are such a fool I just can't believe, you are such a fool I just can't believe, you are such a fool
Frank Zappa (lead guitar, vocals) George Duke (keyboards, synthesizer, vocals) Tom Fowler (bass) Ruth Underwood (percussion) Jeff Simmons (rhythm guitar, vocals) Don Preston (synthesizer) Bruce Fowler (trombone) Walt Fowler (trumpet) Napoleon Murphy Brock (tenor saxophone, flute, lead vocals) Ralph Humphrey (drums) Chester Thompson (drums) Debbie (background vocals) Lynn (background vocals) Robert Camarena (background vocals)
Well I'm about to get sick From watchin' my TV Been checkin' out the news Till my eyeballs fail to see I mean to say that every day Is just another rotten mess And when it's gonna change, my friend Is anybody's guess, so I'm Watchin' and I'm waitin' Hopin' for the best Even think I'll go to prayin' Every time I hear 'em sayin' There's no way to delay That trouble comin' every day No way to delay the trouble Comin' every day Wednesday I watched the riot Seen the cops out on the street Watched 'em throwin' rocks & stuff & chokin' In the heat Listen to reports About the whisky passin' 'round Seen the smoke & fire And the market burnin' down Watched while everybody On his street would take a turn To stomp & smash & bash & crash & slash & bust & burn And I'm Watchin' and I'm waitin' Hopin' for the best Even think I'll go to prayin' Every time I hear 'em sayin' that there's No way to delay That trouble comin' every day No way to delay That trouble comin' every day