Modern interpretation of "I Am The Slime."

[alfredo]

His words are just as true today.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6215005118227095194&q=frank+zappa&hl=en

[peekaloo]

1. Take it away Don Pardo.

:kick:

[Pab Sungenis]

3. Wasn't the announcer in "I'm The Slime" Vin Scully?

It wasn't Don Pardo at any rate.

[alfredo]

7. Don Pardo was the announcer on the New York album

and the SNL version. Kin Vassy was on the original 1973 version.

Zappa may have used other voice overs over the years.

[peekaloo]

9. Thank you.

My older brothers were into Zappa which is how I discovered his music.

:kick: since I was out yesterday.

[alfredo]

11. He was a perfectionist. He could hear a missed note in

the most chaotic sounding passage.

If you can find it, check out his "The Yellow Shark" CD. It is his last appearance. On this CD he has an ass kicking version of "G Spot Tornado." You can hear another version on the Grammy winning "Jazz From Hell."


http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics/The_Yellow_Shark.html

[XOKCowboy]

2. 1973 - What a year...

Some of us were very lucky to have grownup with music like that. I was just out of high school and my musician friends turned me onto th Mothers of Invention. Frank was always a genius.

[Junkdrawer]

4. Check your link...I found this SNL clip...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8317081455063717911&q=frank+zappa+slime

[alfredo]

5. I saw that when it was broadcast. I was blown away.

[bbernardini]

10. I have that on DVD...

The two episodes featuring FZ were broadcast on Canadian television not too long ago, and somebody put together a DVD with all of the FZ segments. It will be somewhat obsolete when that SNL season DVD set comes out, but it's nice to have them in one place.

[alfredo]

12. His performance on SNL was terrific. Loved when the slime

started pouring out over the monitor screen. They took on the appearance of prison bars.

[EnviroBat]

6. Damn, I miss Frank...

I can't believe it's been 13 years...

[alfredo]

8. Sure miss his social commentary

Frank Zappa - "When the Lie's so Big" 1988

They got lies so big
They don't make a noise
They tell 'em so well
Like a secret disease
That makes you go numb

With a big ol' lie
And a flag and a pie
And a mom and a bible
Most folks are just liable
To buy any line
Any place, any time

When the lie's so big
As in Robertson's case,
(That sinister face
Behind all the Jesus hurrah)

Could result in the end
To a worrisome trend
In which every American
Not "born again"
Could be punished in cruel and unusual ways
By this treacherous cretin
Who tells everyone
That he's Jesus' best friend

When the lies get so big
And the fog gets so thick
And the facts disappear
The Republican Trick
Can be played out again
People, please tell me when
We'll be rid of these men!

Just who do they really
Suppose that they are?
And how do they manage to travel as far
As they seem to have come?
Were we really that dumb?

People, wake up
Figure it out
Religious fanatics
Around and about
The Court House, The State House,
The Congress, The White House

Criminal saints
With a "Heavenly Mission" -
A nation enraptured
By pure superstition

Do you believe in the Invisible Army?
(Yes, indeed!)

When the lie's so big
And the fog so thick
And the facts kept forgotten
Then the Republican Trick
(Ketchup is a vegetable!)
Can be played out again
People, please tell me when
We'll be rid of these men