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Call
Any Vegetable
by Frank Zappa and the Mother's of Invention
Call any vegetable
Call it by name
You’ve gotta call one today
When you get off the train
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
The vegetable will respond to you
La la la la
The vegetable will respond to you
La la la la
Call
any vegetable
Pick up your phone
Think of a vegetable
Lonely at home
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
The vegetable will respond to you
La la la la
The vegetable will respond to you
La la la la
Rutabaga, rutabaga, rutabaga, rutabaga, rutaba...
No one will know
If you don’t want to let them know
No one will know
’less it’s you that might tell them so
Call and they’ll come to you
Smiling and covered with dew
Vegetable dream
Vegetable dream
Vegetable dream of responding to you
Standing there shiny and proud by your side
Holding your joint while the neighbors decide
Why is a vegetable something to hide
To hide, to hide, to hide,...
Shooo, shooo, shoo, shoo ....
You know a lot of people don’t bother about there friends in
the vegetable kingdom.
they, they think: what can I say? some times they think: where can
I go?
Where can I go to get my poodle clipped in burbank?
At ralph’s vegetarian poodle clippin’, where you can come
this...
Where can I go to get organic vaseline for my ? ? ? ?
At bob and ray’s swaheli restorant, where you can come this close.....
Where can I go to get my jeans embroided at fullurton? .....
At jeans, at jeans north where nothing fits
Where can I go to get my zipper repaired in hollywood?
Who gives the fuck anyway
Where can I go to get my speakers fixed?
Where can I go to get my exit lights? ,
At jack lalane hamburgers on 312 woodier(? ) boulavard.
Where can I go to get my stomach pumped?
Where can I go to colapse
Hey, de-due.
Questions, questions, questions, flooding into the mind of the concerned
young person today.
ah, but it’s a great time to be alive ladies and gentlemen. and
that’s the theme of our program for t
T, it’s so fucking great to be alive! is what the theme of our
show is tonight, boys and girls.
and
I’m wanna tell ya, if there is anybody here who doesn’t
believe that it is fucking
T to be alive, I wish that they go now, because this show will only
bring them down so much... ]
God bless america
Land that I love
Call any vegetable
Call it by name
You’ve gotta call one today
When you get off the train
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
Oh, that the vegetable will respond to you
And if you are a consenting adult we want you to call today in los
angeles,
the number is richmond9-6935 , in downey it’s 347-8932.
Call it direct,
Call it collect,
But call it today.
Peace
LionHeart
March 2006
Frank
Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Frank
Zappa's Website
Frank
Zappa turned out an immense body of work--that it is totally impossible
to offer all of his music here..so I picked his and the 'Mothers'
60s & 70s albums plus a couple of 90s releases. -LH-
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was
an American composer, guitarist, singer and satirist. In his 33-year
musical career, Zappa proved to be one of the most prolific musician-composers
of his era, releasing over 60 albums during his lifetime, almost all
of which consisted of original compositions. He was also a virtuoso
electric guitarist and a gifted producer-engineer who self-produced
almost every recording he made (other than his 1966 debut LP)
His work spanned virtually every contemporary musical genre including
avant-garde, rock, doo-wop, jazz, jazz fusion and contemporary classical),
and was often noted for its blend of high art, rock opera, absurdity,
scatological humor, and for its hilariously caustic social satire.
He was also noted as a spotter of talent and his various groups included
such musical luminaries as Lowell George, Jean-Luc Ponty, George Duke
and Steve Vai.
The Mothers signed with Verve Records, which insisted that they officially
re-title themselves "The Mothers of Invention" out of a
concern (likely justified) that the band's original moniker had obscene
undertones. With Wilson credited as producer, The Mothers recorded
their groundbreaking double album debut Freak Out! (1966), a mixture
of often topical R&B and experimental sound collage that attempted
to capture the 'freak' subculture of Los Angeles at that time. One
of the first record albums united by an underlying theme, it was also
only the second double LP of rock music ever released, and firmly
established Zappa as a major new voice in rock music.
During the late Sixties Zappa continued his rapid artistic development,
emerging as a superb lead guitarist, a skilled producer and engineer,
and a composer and arranger of extraordinary range and facility. He
increasingly used tape editing as a compositional tool; his editing
skills are apparent on the stunning work he produced in the late Sixties
with The Mothers. Allegedly, a theremin was used at some live performance
making use of the unique sound characteristic.
Zappa evolved a unique compositional approach — which he
dubbed 'conceptual continuity' — that ranged across virtually
every genre of music. His work combines satirical lyrics and pop melodies
with virtuoso instrumental prowess, where long, jazz-inflected improvisational
passages are counterbalanced with densely edited and seemingly chaotic
collage sequences that mix music, sound effects and snatches of conversation.
The Mothers' anarchic stage shows were legendary — during
one famous 1967 performance at the Garrick Theatre in New York, Zappa
managed to entice some soldiers from the audience onto the stage,
where they proceeded to dismember a collection of baby dolls.
His last tour in a "rock band format" took place in 1988
with a 12-piece group which was reported to have a repertoire of over
800 (mostly Zappa) compositions, but which split acrimoniously before
the tour was completed. The tour was documented on the albums The
Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life (Zappa "standards"
and obscure cover tunes), Make a Jazz Noise here (mostly instrumental
and experimental music), and Broadway The Hard Way (new original material),
with bits also to be found on You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Volume
6.
Zappa was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. That
same year the only known cast of Zappa was installed in the center
of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Zappa was immortalized by Konstantinas
Bogdanas, the famous Lithuanian sculptor who had previously cast portraits
of Vladimir Lenin. In 2002 a bronze bust was installed in a square
in Bad Doberan, a small town in the north of Germany, where, since
1990, there has been an international Festival celebrating the music
of Frank Zappa, the "Zappanale". Zappa received a posthumous
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997.
Frank Zappa died on December 4, 1993 at 52.
For
listen samples and reviews, click on CD cover photo. In new window,
click on CD photo again and scroll down.
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Freak
Out! (1966)
Tis the Season to Be Jelly (Sweden Concert-1967)
Absolutely Free (1967)
We're Only in It for the Money (1968)
Lumpy Gravy (1968)
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Cruising
with Ruben & the Jets (1968)
Uncle Meat (1969)
Hot Rats (1969)
Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970)
Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)
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Freaks
& Motherfu*%!!@ [LIVE] (1991)
The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life (1991)
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Chunga's
Revenge ( 1970)
Fillmore East - June 1971 (1971)
200 Motels (1971)
Just Another Band from L.A. (1971)
Shut Up & Play Your Guitar (79-80)
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Cosmik
Debris
by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
The
mystery man came over
And he said I’m outta sight!
He said for a nominal service charge
I could reach nirvana tonight
If I was ready, willing and able
To pay him his regular fee
He would drop all the rest of
His pressing affairs and devote
His attention to me
But I said look here brother
Who you jiving with that cosmik debris?
Now who you jiving with that cosmik debris?
Look here brother, don’t waste your time on me
The mystery man got nervous
And he fidget around a bit
He reached in the pocket of his mystery robe
And he whipped out a shaving kit
Now I thought it was a razor
And a can of foaming goo
But he told me right then when the top popped open
There was nothin’ his box won’t do
With the oil of aphrodite, and the dust of the grand wazoo
He said you might not believe this, little fella
But it’ll cure your asthma too
And I said look here brother
Who you jiving with that cosmik debris?
Now what kind of a guru are you, anyway?
Look here brother, don’t waste your time on me
(don’t waste your time)
I’ve got troubles of my own, I said
And you can’t help me out
So, take your meditations and your preparations
And ram it up your snout!
But I got the crystal ball, he said
And held it to the ligh
So I snatched it, all away from him
And I showed him how to do it right
I wrapped a newspaper ’round my head
So I looked like I was deep
I said some mumbo-jumbo, then
I told him he was going to sleep
I robbed his rings and pocketwatch
And everything else I found
I had that sucker hypnotized
He couldn’t even make a sound
I proceeded to tell him his future, then
As long as he was hanging around
I said the price of meat has just gone up
And your old lady has just gone down!
And I said look here brother-who you
Jiving with that cosmik debris?
Now is that a real poncho or is that a sears poncho?
Don’t you know, you could make more money as a butcher?
So, don’t waste your time on me
Don’t waste it, don’t waste your time on me
(shanti)
