Just Another Band From LA
Just Another Band From LA
So I’ve been away from the zappa beat for a while. Don’t know why I
got stuck on this one. I’ve actually been listening ot a lot of zappa
the last couple months since i last updated my sequential zappa
reviewathon, just not the old stuff in order. I am thinking that i might
now veer somewhat form the sequential beat and bounce around a bit,
still planning to hit al of them. 
So my story about this album involves this ex navy seal dude i worked
with while I worked at EDS Cadillac Endineering (that was a lot to say
when you answered the phone, especially if you tried to get “bob
anzLovar” in there, too). He was this crazy old vietnam era dude. Hmm..
Could tell lots about him, but all that is really important is that his
son killed himself, and he was trying to give his son’s stuff away to
people who would appreciate, i guess. He tells me he has this zappa tape
that belonged to his son, did i want it? Be brings it in, and it’s not a
store-bought tape, but rather is a home made tape, one that has been
through the wars, seemingly. The tape had been broken at some point and
it was repaired by making a square knot of the tape itself. When you
played it, the tape deck would stop there, and you would just have to
hit play again and it would resume. So the significant bit of this is
the store of Billy the Mountain, aned his wife Ethel, who was a tree
growing out of his shoulder. One day some dude in a suit driving a
lincoln or cadillac or soomething, drops a large briefcase of money for
Billy. It’s his royalty check for all the postcards he’d been in. He
decides to take Ethel on a cross-crountry trip to New York, lveving a
path of destruction in his wake (imagine if a mountan came strolling
through your town.) Billy the Mountain is featured as a bit
player later on Sleep Dirt in the story of Gregory
Peccary. We are introduced (or reintrocudced, i am not sure) to Quentin
Robert deNaneland, greatest living philosopher known to mankind. FZ
liked to reuse character names, bot always for any kind of real
consistency, i just think he liked how they sounded. After Billy the
Mountain, we get to Call any Vegetable. Dweezil played this early on in
the recent ZPZ show. This review will have to be continued..