Numbah 100!
Google “Suzy Creamcheese” and Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention come up. FFO!
1968. I had refused to get my hair cut while I was in the VA Hospital. Were they pissed or what! On a weekend pass I found a secondhand record store called the Wax Museum near my shack on 7 corners. Down the street on the West Bank was the Electric Fetus. The Wax was a lot cheaper. I would buy their used albums, record them on my Sony reel-to-reel, return them, and do it again.
I sold them my 800 album collection,$1.50 a piece. With the $1200.00 I bought a ‘65 ford van, powered it with my crushed Mustang 289. The engine and auto transmission were still good. It was where I found The Mothers of Invention and their album Freak Out! I would name my 1965 Ford van “Freak Out”. My painter friend decorated it superbly. On the back doors he stenciled “Suzy Creamcheese' is aboard”. To find these “FREAKS” I was
'Freaked'. In my world, I was shunned. The VA put a psych file on me! I was Harley-ridin', long-haired, and tattooed- livin' (or as it was called, “crashin”) wherever!
In them days I was 40% disabled. Along with a little hustlin' and buyin' and sellin', I ate, rode, and partied. Usually every day! VA wanted me to work or go to school on “Rehab money”. Then I heard the Zappa and the Mothers of Invention! FFO! No more John Denver, Glen Campbell, or the rest of that Yummy Yummy Yummy, I got love in my Tummy bubble gummer shit! These were my kinda people.
Frank Zappa was a Musical Genius. He would write music and was a guest director for a Philharmonic Orchestra!
Anyhoo, I was forbidden to play the Mothers at the VA. They preferred Polka Musik! A few years later, my bud Fat Frank scored us work as security for rock shows at the Minneapolis Auditorium and Armory. I was “flush” plus I got a lot of free “Snort”. Frank Zappa and the Mothers were playin'. I would find out Frank wouldn't touch dope, including the Mothers.
Anyhoo, during a break in the session, Frank announced that his drummer loved womens panties, and then scurried off the stage as women threw hundreds of skivvies at the stage. Some of them hippie chick bloomers moved by themselves; they were so nasty. The clean up boys used sticks to pick them up!
Frank Zappa was here from 1940-1993, of what disease he perished from, I cannot recall, if I ever knew. Rat...
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