What's the secret word....
Rob Flynn
I didn't see this mentioned in the FAQ and never saw FZ live, but have
heard on a couple of live recordings, requests from the audience for the
"secret word for tonight". What is this all about? When did it start?
On "the best band you never heard in your life", Frank says that "ring
of fire" is the secret word and then inserts it at random in a couple of
songs that follow. In another live recording (the ark?) he is handed
the request, but then says nothing. What gives????
Jari Lehtinen
Just to refresh memories... In the 1950's NBC started the Ultimate
Quiz Show ever, called 'You Bet Your Life', host Groucho Marx.
In this wild quiz show (to say it mildly) was the original secret
word gig. The secret word was an average household word, and in the
case some contestant happened to say it aloud during the show, a RUBBER
DUCK was dropped to the scene, and the lucky winner won some cash.
Obviously, this astonishing burst of imagination in TV entertaiment
was respected by FZ - or anybody, who has seen You Bet Your Life even
once, or Groucho Marx anyway, in that matter.
(Naturally, I believe this 'secret word' thing had been invented
already during radio days, but where and how - to solve that question
we need assistance from other gentlemen with wider knowledge and
understanding in American popular culture)
Tekno-Kekko, smelling the spring spirit in the basement of Hotel
Leningrad
Charles Ulrich
In article <5g71ut$6...@tron.sci.fi>, newsgroups wrote:
> Just to refresh memories... In the 1950's NBC started the Ultimate
> Quiz Show ever, called 'You Bet Your Life', host Groucho Marx.
> In this wild quiz show (to say it mildly) was the original secret
> word gig. The secret word was an average household word, and in the
> case some contestant happened to say it aloud during the show, a RUBBER
> DUCK was dropped to the scene, and the lucky winner won some cash.
> Obviously, this astonishing burst of imagination in TV entertaiment
> was respected by FZ - or anybody, who has seen You Bet Your Life even
> once, or Groucho Marx anyway, in that matter.
> (Naturally, I believe this 'secret word' thing had been invented
> already during radio days, but where and how - to solve that question
> we need assistance from other gentlemen with wider knowledge and
> understanding in American popular culture)
Well, it had probably been used on a radio show called "You Bet Your
Life", which was hosted by Groucho Marx.
Mr. Henley, can you verify?
--Charles
krk...@aol.com
BTW: Which secret words were handled during the ´88 Tour?
The show I saw here in Cologne (Ko:ln), Germany included the word "SHEEP".
The band then changed the original words of some of the songs to sheep, shepherd and so on. They also had a nice song-variation with extensive sheep-plooking. Sorry, can´t remember the original song, but they (and me) laughed a lot....
And then the shepherd might say:
"Why is everybody pickin´ on me?"
FzDolfan
krk...@aol.com wrote:
> The show I saw here in Cologne (Ko:ln), Germany included the word "SHEEP".
>
> The band then changed the original words of some of the songs to sheep, shepherd and >so on. They also had a nice song-variation with extensive sheep-plooking. Sorry, can´t >remember the original song, but they (and me) laughed a lot....
Exactly what do you people in Cologne do with sheep? ;)
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Jon Naurin
krkier writes:
>BTW: Which secret words were handled during the ´88 Tour?
Here's a rather complete list of the secret words. (MK) indicates that the
comment is from Mike Keneally.
- Jon
Washington, 8,9-Feb
Secret Word: "Confinement Loaf"
Comment: Explained on "Broadway the Hard Way" LP
Philadelphia, 14-Feb
Secret Word: "Bubbles the Chimp", "The Love Boat"
Comment: Bubbles is Michael Jackson's best friend; a chimp. The Love
Boat became secret word after Chad Wackerman had sung the song on
request from Den Simms in the audience.
Hartford, 16-Feb
Secret Word: "Tuna(fish)"
Comment: Some guys in the audience handed Frank a can of tunafish at
the beginning of the show. With it was a note: "Hi Frank. We have an
old custom in Framingham, Ma, of giving a tuna can to the guy in the
van, or in your case, the band, who hasn't got laid in the longest
period of time. He must sit with the can throughout the duration of
the ride, or in your case, the concert, so he may recieve full
gratification and satisfaction, knowing the end is near. Please take
our bag and distribute." The can was given to Harry, the audio mixer.
Boston, 19-Feb
Secret Words: "Thing-Fish"/"Galoot Colog-nuh"
Comment: Maybe not intended to be the secret word(s), but get a lot
of mentions.
Boston, 20-Feb
Secret Word: "Just the Tip"
Comment: This was the show after the news "Jimmy Swaggart under
investigation" as heard on "Jazz Noise". Frank wondered what "the
sex act wasn't fully consumated" really meant, maybe did he stick
in "just the tip" (or in Al Malkin's words: "just the helmet")
- Jimmy Swaggart was then the secret word, or "theme" throughout
the Februar concerts.
Chicago, 4-Mar, Cleveland, 5-Mar
Secret Word: "Llama"
Comment: Derived from a sample that Ed Mann did of Frank imitating Willie
Nelson singing "mama" (a la "Mama, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be
Cowboys"), which Ed inserted liberally into the concerts, and which Frank
eventually vocally mutated into "llama". Hear "What Kind Of Girl" for a
usage thereof. (MK)
Might also have something to do with Michael Jackson's pet Llama, related
to the lore of the origins of the Ziphilis (Siphillis came from Spanish
sailors taking liberties with Llamas).
Burlington, 12-Mar, Springfield, 13-Mar
Secret Word: "Eric Buxton"
Comment: Known as "Mr Regular" to the band, Eric attended most of
the shows in the US. Some jokes about his shoes/boots, which
apparently were huge.
Portland, 15-Mar
Secret Word: "Stainless the Maiden"
Comment: At the beginning of the show, Frank recieved a devotional songbook
with, among many songs, the hymn "Stainless the Maiden", which Robert
Martin sang/played, sight reading.
Binghampton, 17-Mar
Secret Word: "Training Exercise"
Comment: In reference to "Operation Golden Pheasant", war games the
US was jointly conducting with Honduras in that country along their
border to Nicaragua.
Allentown, 19-Mar, Teaneck, 20-Mar, Syracuse, 21-Mar
Secret Word: "Golden Pheasant"
Comment: See 17-Mar
Frankfurt, 13-Apr
Secret Word: "Bruce Fowler"
Comment: Starts out when Frank introduces the band with pompous
adjectives (e.g "the marginally incomprehensible Mike Keneally"),
but can't find any for the trombone player.
Cologne, 14-Apr
Secret Word: "Sheep", "mutton", "shepherd", "sodomy"...
Comment: ????
Wurzburg, 22-Apr
Secret word: "Ring of Fire"
Comment: Explained on "Best Band..."
Bremen, 24-Apr
Secret Words: "Xenakis", "mbl, mbl" (the sound caused when you use
your voice while brushing one finger over your lips)
Comment: Yannis Xenakis is a greek composer, for whom Frank has
expressed admiration.
Copenhagen, 25-Apr
Secret Word: "Airhose", "Falcum"
Comment: An airhose was broken in one of the touring buses, causing
trouble with the air conditioning, which in combination with the
phonetical similarities with the danish town Aarhus was the reason to
the secret word. Falcum is John Smothers' pronouncation of the arena
they played in, Falkoner Theater. "Falcum, take me to the Falcum".
Lund, 26-Apr
Secret Word: "Hoonna Haenna Hoonna"
Comment: Frank's all purpose representation of the beautiful swedish
language.
Oslo, 27-Apr
Secret Words: "Sausage"/"Fornebu"
Comment: Sausage is pronounced in John Smothers fashion "schaushage".
Fornebu is Oslo's airport, I guess the band liked the phonetics of the
name.
There was a dog act which Frank saw on TV. The dog was touted as a talking
dog. This was achieved by the dog's trainer grabbing the hapless canine
somewhere near the balls and squeezing, at which point the dog emitted a
grunting noise which sounded vaguely similar to "schaushage". Frank's
description of this event to the band was VERY fucking funny. (MK)
Helsinki 29-Apr
Secret Word: "Reindeer"
Comment: Earlier, somebody in the band or crew had been offered reindeer at
a restaurant. (MK)
Stockholm, 1-May
Secret Words: "Dragonmaster", "Fernando"
Comment: DragonMaster is the name of a spoof heavy-metal song FZ was
working on. I think later Dweezil recorded it but only used his
Dad's lyrics.
We did record it, in fact it turned out wonderfully. We played it live a
couple of times also. I hope DZ releases it someday. The music was all
new, and some new lyrics were written as well (by AZ). (MK)
Fernando, of course since they played in Abba's homecountry.
Rotterdam, 3-May
Secret Word: "Fishbone", coughing noises
Comment: Obviously Robert "Fishbone in his throat today" Martin had
choked on a fishbone during the flight from Scandinavia.
Rotterdam, 4-May
Secret Word: "Rehearsal", stuttering
Comment: Frank was unhappy with the band's performance at the actual show,
and this was his way of saying more rehearsal was required. (MK)
Munich, 9-May
Secret words: Mudshark and jazz noises - ayeee!
Comment: The legend of the mudshark can be heard on "Fillmore East '71".
The jazz noises are in reference to jazz pianist Errol Garner who mumbles
in this manner along with what he plays.
Barcelona, 17-May
Secret Word: "Raffle", "Hooker"
Comment: At a large dinner the day before, the touring party had
some sort of raffle where the winner would have one of the dancing
girls/hookers. Monitor engineer Marque Coy (Marqueson) won, but
never got the girl.
Montpellier, 18-May
Secret Word: "Jewelery"
Comment: ????
Grenoble, 19-May
Secret Word: "Hoops", "Poops"
Comment: "Hoops" probably just an extension of the Penguin-mythology, and
"poops" just a corruption of "hoops". (MK)
Paris, 20-May
Secret Word: "Shellfish"
Comment: Most likely more restaurant-related business. (MK)
Stuttgart, 24-May
Secret Word: Reagan-Gorbachow Moscow summit, "Star Wars"
Comment: Before the show, the band had an offer to play in Moscow at
the summit. This was never to be. Star Wars was a name for the space
military projects.
Mannheim, 25-May
Secret Word: Cornhole
Comment: Corn goes in the mouth, and comes out the corn hole. The word can
also be used as a verb, meaning butt-fucking. This may have arisen from
some Mann-Thunes bickering. (MK)
Furth, 26-May
Secret Word: "Shellfish", "Moo", "Big Two"
Comment: The band noticed a, shall we say, rather amply endowed
young woman in the audience. These "big two" obviously led to
bovine associations - "Moo".
Linz, 28-May
Secret Word: "Winge", Scott Thunes' face.
Comment: This was after the incident when Scott's name was removed
from a cake, and his face was scratched off his laminated pass.
"Winge", ie to "complain", which most of the band was doing a lot of. (MK)
Graz, 29-May
Secret Word: "I'll be back"
Comment: Of course a reference to Austria's Big Son, Arnold
"Terminator" Schwarzenegger.
Udine, 30-May
Secret Word: "Turn off the Lights", "Popcorn"
Comment: There were trouble with the lights at the beginning of the
show. "Love of my Life" became "Turn off the Lights".
Torino, 3-Jun
Secret Word: "Don't drink the Water"
Comment: Apparently someone had drunk the italian water and got
stomach problems. "Diarrhea sounds good" in "Any Kind of Pain".
Genoa, 9-Jun
Secret Word: "Pizza", "Jellyfish"
Comment: Genoa was the home of the pizza described in YCDTOSA 1. The
jellyfish was in reference to the italian marine biologist Nando
(Fernando Boero).
CALUMETAIR
The secret word for tonight is "MUDSHARK" twirly, twirly, twirly
A little mudshark dancing lesson from Jim Pons....right hand from the
HEART AH
David Vincent Halpern
: krkier writes:
:
: >BTW: Which secret words were handled during the ´88 Tour?
What, "confinement loaf" was never the secret word? It's all
over _Broadway the Hard Way_.
David
David Demery
>krk...@aol.com wrote:
>
>> The show I saw here in Cologne (Ko:ln), Germany included the word "SHEEP".
>Exactly what do you people in Cologne do with sheep? ;)
You mean you've never heard of uwe de Cologne? :-)
Dem
Paul Hinrichs
dem...@natlab.research.philips.com (David Demery) wrote:
Or, in Scotland, ewe de clone...
(this newsgroup embarrasses me with the dearth of jokes regarding
Scotsmen experimenting with sheep, I expected a plethora)
Mark Edmonds
In article <5goimh$4...@camel4.mindspring.com>, Paul Hinrichs
<paul...@mindspring.com> writes
>Or, in Scotland, ewe de clone...
>
>(this newsgroup embarrasses me with the dearth of jokes regarding
>Scotsmen experimenting with sheep, I expected a plethora)
The thing is, baaaaaaa, it isn`t a joke anymore, its a national pastime.
krk...@aol.com
FzDolfan <nafl...@earthlink.com> wrote:
>Exactly what do you people in Cologne do with sheep? ;)
I don´t know exactly, because I do not live there directly, but I heard they use the outer parts of a sheep for taking theirself warm during the cold and fuckin´ frosty winter. I think they call it "Pullover", or somewhat like that. Other ones, who were living outside in the green are using them as lawn-mower-substitute, While other guys, sometimes, in the middle of the night, are goiPEEEEP! PEEEEP! PEEEEEP! PEEEEP! PEEEEP! PEEEEP!ashing their hands after that at all....
Now, after the concert in Cologne I was thinking about to build a present for Frank for the concert in Dortmund, three weeks later. Finally, at all, I was too lazy to do that. I wasn´t even at the concert. Here is my idea I had:
Buying a big sheep, one of those for children, which they could sit above, with rollers. Dress it up all in leather clothes (tiny leather-skirt, boots, leather-brassière and forage). For audio-amusement built in a small cassette-recorder with tape speed control. Määääääh! Why tape speed control? Easy: Everytime you stick your finger(s) in the.... errr...you know where to stick your fingers in....the sheep will say "Hello" to you. The deeper you stick your finger(s) in, the faster the tape speed, the higher the voice of it (her). So Frank (or Ike, or Mike, or any other bandmember) would be immediately able to play a song on it (or her, or whatever you might say to that toy).......
overcooked
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997 11:20:57 GMT, paul...@mindspring.com (Paul
Hinrichs) wrote:
snip
>(this newsgroup embarrasses me with the dearth of jokes regarding
>Scotsmen experimenting with sheep, I expected a plethora)
I take my wife very seriously, please no jokes.
However, pig-fucking is hilarious no matter what the second species
is.
:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;:;overcooked
Fact #827:
We had a hard time finding a printshop that would print our comic book
because it had a comic where a guy was fucking a pig even though that
comic was the only one with substance.
Joe
What do you people with sheep do with cologne?
FzDolfan (nafl...@earthlink.com) wrote:
: krk...@aol.com wrote:
:
: > The show I saw here in Cologne (Ko:ln), Germany included the word "SHEEP".
: >
: > The band then changed the original words of some of the songs to sheep, shepherd and >so on. They also had a nice song-variation with extensive sheep-plooking. Sorry, can´t >remember the original song, but they (and me) laughed a lot....
: Exactly what do you people in Cologne do with sheep? ;)
: --
Jeff Wormsley
>Or, in Scotland, ewe de clone...
>
>(this newsgroup embarrasses me with the dearth of jokes regarding
>Scotsmen experimenting with sheep, I expected a plethora)
Well, before that, since it is 1997, and people have taped shows from
at least as far back as 1967, my question is, when did the secret word
start? It would be really neat if people in th group posted a message
with the secret word on the 30th aniversary of every show. Now, of
course, if it didn't start till the 80's, well I may still be around
to see it, but not at the pace I'm going now!
Now, back to the baaad humor...
Dennis Weaver, Hugh Hefner, and Abe Vigoda were all at Cannes for the
famed film festival. Turns out they had all been registered in
neighboring rooms at the hotel. They met each other in the hallway
when checking in, and decided to meet in the hotel lounge. They met a
while later and spent some time discussing some of their various
projects. They had had a few drinks, and after a while Dennis and
Hugh excused themselves and headed towards the elevator. Abe finished
his stayed and had a few more, and got righteously drunk. As he
staggered up to his room, he opened the wrong door, and he saw Hugh
Hefner cornholing Dennis Weaver. In surprise, he exclaimed "Hey,
Hugh, get off of McCloud!"
In a similar vein, what the difference between the Rolling Stones and
a Scottish shepherd? (should be obvious)
What do you wash a sheep with? Woolite, of course!
Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow
It tasted like a sailor's dick
Covered with escargo
An American, an Irishman, and a Scot were travelling through the
countryside when their car broke down. Unlike most travellers in
these stories, they had a cellular phone, so they called a tow truck.
While waiting for the tow truck to arrive, they noticed a single sheep
standing in the field next to the car. The American said, "I wish
that were Cindy Crawford. If it were, I'd run over there and fuck her
brains out!" The Irishman said, "Well, I wish that were Kate Bush.
It it were, I'd run over there and fuck her brains out." The Scot
said, "I wish it were dark!"
You can't use swear words on Scottish television. If you try, they
are all bleeted out.
Worm.
Matt-a-roo
Jeff Wormsley <daw...@at.cdc.net> wrote in article
<333341fe...@news.cdc.net>...
> In a similar vein, what the difference between the Rolling Stones and
> a Scottish shepherd? (should be obvious)
.....it's not...
-Matt-a-roo
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In message <5goimh$4...@camel4.mindspring.com>
paul...@mindspring.com (Paul Hinrichs) writes:
> Or, in Scotland, ewe de clone...
> (this newsgroup embarrasses me with the dearth of jokes regarding
> Scotsmen experimenting with sheep, I expected a plethora)
Er, I think that should be WELSHmen, as in:
What do you call a Welshman with 2,000 lovers?
A shepherd.
etc...
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Not all drumers are thick.
Jeff Wormsley
On 22 Mar 1997 04:51:53 GMT, "Matt-a-roo" <matt...@ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
>> In a similar vein, what the difference between the Rolling Stones and
>> a Scottish shepherd? (should be obvious)
>
>.....it's not...
> -Matt-a-roo
Same punch line as the one above...
But you knew that, didn't you!
Worm.