Eating shit on stage???
nycfan
on stage?? I never heard that before. Can someone shed some light on
that for me. Thank you!
Lloyd Devonshire
"nycfan" <ho...@cegmusic.com> wrote in message
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> What's up with the rumor from the VH-1 movie about Frank eating shit
> on stage?? I never heard that before. Can someone shed some light on
> that for me. Thank you!
The rumor is usually this: Alice Cooper joined Frank on stage, and they
proceeded to have a gross-out contest including the aforementioned act of
coprophagy.
The light to be shed is: What Frank said about the rumor in the movie is
exactly what he said about it in real life.
My own take: The rumor is spread by people who really only know Frank from
the Phi Zappa Krappa poster. It's in the same realm as someone who wrote the
line about "wink, wink, drank purple kool-aid I got from Frank": He's a
"foul-mouthed wild and crazy rock-and-roller" so he must take drugs and have
gross-out contests.
He never did it, man. And like Dee Snider said, Alice never killed a
chicken, either, but Ozzy really bit the head off a bat.
One out of three ain't bad.
Sam Rouse
"Lloyd Devonshire" <no-...@noemail.com> wrote:
It was a dead bat, though. The dove, on the other hand, was live.
-
OO
he did that at a Québec show nearly 1976......
False all the way if you manage to know a "bit" about FZ.......
Really.....
"OO"
"The world's most plentiful ingredient is STUPIDITY"(Zappa)
"nycfan" <ho...@cegmusic.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
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-**NINJA**-
i eat shit on stage all the time
twinkees
cupcakes
cookies
chocolate chocolate and more chocolate
apple pie
Its not your fault son,The devil made you do it
-**NINJA**-
wrote:
the next time i run in to him im gonna bitch slap him
for hurtin that little birdie
kiz...@attbi.com
He did it for the corn...
David Wills
Sam Rouse wrote:
>
> It was a dead bat, though.
not quite. rubber bats were used as props and thrown on stage
untill...
someone in the crowd threw a REAL dead bat onstage and of course ozzy
thinking it was rubber bit the head off as Sharon was motioning to ozzy
in horror 'its real dummy'. so off the ozz man went to the hospital for
those rabies shots.
The Late Budie Holie
--
"Vergessen Sie nicht, bitte, mein ohr in der Plastik Tasche zu bringen.
(Please don't forget to bring my ear in the plastic bag.)"--Mick Foley
L.B.H.O.L.I.E.: Lifelike Biomechanical Humanoid Optimized for Logical
Infiltration and Exploration
http://davidbowieeatspie.4mg.com
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Kevin C. McDonald
wrote:
Now THAT would be a funny "The Osbornes" episode. Not that the others
are anything but delightful.
KCM
Dave White
up by people who were burned out on too much acid. There is absolutely NO
truth to it whatsoever.
Dave
"nycfan" <ho...@cegmusic.com> wrote in message
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Sneelock
even heard the exact same story but with Ted Nugent instead of FZ.
Provide your own punchline.
Bloody Mary
-**NINJA** eats shit!
Greg Henry
Dear God! You made my day. I haven't laughed that hard in way too long.
Thank you.
-g
Michael Gula
>
> I think this is an Urban Legend like the Vanishing Hitchhiker. I've
> even heard the exact same story but with Ted Nugent instead of FZ.
>
> Provide your own punchline.
Mr. 392
Duane Allman... ;)
Mike Patton
Ville Kinnunen
If you have read it somewhere or seen it on tv, it must be true. Black
on white = true.
Ed Mann
*****I forget the specifics but I do remember Frank explaining how
that rumor got started - it was silly stuff - and absolutely no truth
to it whatsoever - something like pretending to eat a stage prop and a
certain press individual....I am sure tha Gail knows.
OK
*e
-**NINJA**-
maybe you could ask her she doenst like us
GeorgeCO
Ville Kinnunen wrote:
Yes, and this is one the few eternal "Zappa legend" that will absolutely
never vanish and will probably survive not only everyone here but anyone
born this day and probably longer.
FZ himself in The Real Frank Zappa Book told about a guy from some band in
the late '60s who asked him (Zappa) about it and, who,upon hearing from
Zappa himself that he'd never done anything of the sort was absolutely
crushed because he thought Zappa was so fantastically cool for doing the
"shit bit" which he never did. FZ said he almost felt bad for this poor
nitwit upon breaking him this sad news to him. After that, FZ always
recounted the story of the Holiday Inn in Fayetteville, SC in whose dining
facility he felt that he'd come about as close to eating shit as you can
without actually doing it!
--GeorgeCO
John Henley
> My own take: The rumor is spread by people who really only know Frank from
> the Phi Zappa Krappa poster. It's in the same realm as someone who wrote the
> line about "wink, wink, drank purple kool-aid I got from Frank": He's a
> "foul-mouthed wild and crazy rock-and-roller" so he must take drugs and have
> gross-out contests.
In sort of the same vein, the used-CD-&-LP store
near where I work, which almost always has some
FZ in the racks, some time ago altered the name
tag on the LP divider to say: "Frank 'Poo-Poo' Zappa'
If you think this doesn't express an attitude, I
was in there last week and somebody'd unloaded a Verve
copy of Lumpy Gravy. On the price tag, right under-
neath the $19.95, the clerk had written:
"The Dangerously Over-Rated Frank Zappa"
Sigh.
John Henley
Austin TX
computeruser
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I would say "The Dangerously Under-Rated Frank Zappa"
Lumpy Gravy is a masterpiece.
computeruser
Whoopysnorp
Mr. 392 <mr...@webtv.net> wrote in message
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> Maybe they mistook Frank for G.G. Allin.Hey, they thought he was
> Duane Allman... ;)
>
>
> Mike Patton
>
You shouldn't impersonate Mike Patton.
Gary
rehearsal, but when it came time on stage, Frank couldn't bring
himself to do it.
Ville Kinnunen
LOL
Lewis R. Saul
> was in there last week and somebody'd unloaded a Verve
> copy of Lumpy Gravy. On the price tag, right under-
> neath the $19.95, the clerk had written:
> "The Dangerously Over-Rated Frank Zappa"
>
> Sigh.
>
> John Henley
> Austin TX
This sounds like one of John Cusack's friends in "High Fidelity" -- or Diane
Keaton and Michael Murphy in "Manhattan," speaking of Mahler and Van Gogh as
"over-rated"...
These people need to take a spin on the cosmic utensil for chrissakes.
Dangerously Over-Rated...
Go punch that guy out, John...
Mr. 392
Trey Spruance
Ed Mann
> >that rumor got started - it was silly stuff - and absolutely no truth
> >to it whatsoever - something like pretending to eat a stage prop and a
> >certain press individual....I am sure tha Gail knows.
> >
> >OK
> >
> >*e
>
>
>
> maybe you could ask her she doenst like us
**I think maybe she does....but it is just not readily
apparent.Although I cannot speak for her. I have no bad feelings
toward Gail. Read that interview w/her up on their site. That really
brings through the whole Zappa experience - and a great understanding
of Frank and Gail.
*ed
Ed Mann
**not true. Frank always treated the clonemeister(s) with respect. BTW
- historical trivia - that name "clonemeister" comes from me and
Tommy Mars.
*ed
Ville Kinnunen
How did you like being the clonemeister? Did you at any point wonder
if a certain passage could be played in a certain way, to your and not
FZ's likeness? And if you did, how did you tell it to Him?
Ed Mann
> >**not true. Frank always treated the clonemeister(s) with respect. BTW
> > - historical trivia - that name "clonemeister" comes from me and
> >Tommy Mars.
>
> How did you like being the clonemeister? Did you at any point wonder
> if a certain passage could be played in a certain way, to your and not
> FZ's likeness? And if you did, how did you tell it to Him?
*I was honored that Frank chose me for the job after only one year
with the outfit -altho the way it came down was odd - I just walked
into rehearsal one day and Tommy said -"Ed - Frank called and said you
are the new rehearsal director, starting now - he will be in later,
wants you to get started right away.."
But I did not enjoy the gig because I would have prefered to have been
an equal/colleague with the band members and not the guy who makes
sure that they show up on time. learn the parts etc. Vinnie at the
time - was a very free spirited individual - that showed in his
playing too - fucking brilliant. But it was difficult for me to reign
that free spiritedness into the confines of Frank's strucured
expectations. I would have rather just been able to lay back and dig
everything that he was doing. Anyway- after that year was over I quit,
and the gig went to Arthur - who is without a doubt the best
clonemeister ever.
Frank and I lways saw eye to eye on phrasing - I think he hired me
becasue of the way I phrase thigs- I remember when we recorded the
Black Page - before I was in the band - there was a certain passage
that I played on wood things rthat was very pronounced in the
recording - he looked at me and nodded and said - "yeah!"
But Frank liked things phrased edgey - toward the front of the beat -
in yeasr since I have been learning to phrase in back of the beat -
which took some time given how long I played for Frank.
I really loved working with Frank. We had some great times.
tonyw...@hotmail.com
> But I did not enjoy the gig because I would have prefered to have been
> an equal/colleague with the band members and not the guy who makes
> sure that they show up on time. learn the parts etc. Vinnie at the
> time - was a very free spirited individual - that showed in his
> playing too - fucking brilliant. But it was difficult for me to reign
> that free spiritedness into the confines of Frank's strucured
> expectations.
That pretty much sums up what I feel about teaching. I don't want to be the
one who makes them stay in to finish their homework or forces them to do
their maths quietly else they won't understand it, but there's no other way.
If you let them have too good a time, they don't end up learning as much, or
knowing how to behave.
Not that I could teach a Zappa band, but I can empathise - we all want to be
able to pull our trousers up to our armpits and walk around on our knees
with dustbin lids on our heads, but a primary school environment is not the
one to do it in.
As I found out...
0vercooked
>we all want to be
>able to pull our trousers up to our armpits and walk around on our knees
>with dustbin lids on our heads, but a primary school environment is not the
>one to do it in.
Thanks for the sig
" we all want to be
able to pull our trousers up to our armpits and walk around on our knees
with dustbin lids on our heads, but a primary school environment is not the
one to do it in."
-T.Wilkes
Whoopysnorp
> I didn't say WHICH Mike Patton, did I? ;)
>
> Trey Spruance
>
Oh! Oh! There you go again!
Pike Matton
MC
Whoopysnorp wrote:
He's cuckoo for caca!
Bil Hansen
the UK-based science journal Nature (Vol 416 No. 6883, p. 807
http://www.nature.com).
The article, by 8 biologists and food biotechnologists based in Spain,
discusses the shit-eating habits of the rare Egyptian vulture.
The authors, who declared they have no financial interest in promoting
shit-eating, said coprophagy was rare among birds, because: shit has a
high level of parasites; it is a poor source of nutrients (less than
5% protein and 0.5% fat); and it takes time and effort to search for
it without nutrient compensation.
The Egyptian vulture, they show scientifically, eats cow shit and bull
shit (and sheep and goat shit too) because such shit has a high level
of carotenoids (high in relative terms: the authors cite 185
micrograms of carotenoid per gram of sheep shit and 36 micrograms of
carotenoid per gram of cow shit).
Carotenoids are valuable micronutrients for vertebrates because of
their antioxidant and immunostimulant properties and because
vertebrates cannot make carotenoids themselves and so have to get them
via eating. The Egyptian vulture has a bright yellow head, so the
pigments of the carotenoids do not go to waste.
So Carrot-Headed Vulture, not Potato-Headed Bobby, this time around.
Or maybe not: doesn't the word 'carrot' just mean 'head'? Anyway,
vegetables are involved.
Cheers
Bil
--
Bil Hansen
P Pinang, Malaysia
NINJA
is this worse than drugs ?
i doubt it
DRUGS
Its not your fault son, zappa made you do them
dont like this country then move the fuck away
and heres a little kick in the ass to send you on your way