Klarinet Archive - Posting 000701.txt from 1999/04

From: Ken Wolman <Ken.Wolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Beta blockers: and bananas
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 14:19:40 -0400

charette@-----.org wrote:

> > You all remember Donovan's "Electrical Banana" , don't you?
>
> They're gonna be the very next craze ...
>
> Walter, if that stupid song, which brought with it "Atlantis", doesn't
> get out of my head soon I'm coming after you. Justifiable homicide. Now
> I'm going to have to hum some Mother's of Invention tunes all day to
> conteract the "Donovan" effect. Wonder what my customers are going to
> say when they hear me humming things about sweet Susie Creamcheese, or
> that I'm the god of the video, or maybe I'm somewhere in Kansas ...

Yeah, Walter, thanks tons. Not:-). Even back in the Sixties when I
spent most evenings doing things I'd rather not confess, Donovan made me
want to throw up. SO sweet...so fulla love and acid...so full of other
more noxious substances associated with stables.... Right now I've got
a medley of "Season of the Witch" and "Guinevere" going through my
head. Urp.

Actually, I remember the Fugs, the group that made Zappa's bunch look
positively tame by comparison: I mean, the most outre thing The Mothers
did was simulate sexual relations with stuffed animals. Ed Sanders got
up on stage one night and excoriated the selfsame Donovan in language I
would rather not quote on a company-owned email system, then turned
around and played a couple of ditties like "Saran Wrap" and "Dirty Old
Man," the lyrics to which I still remember, maybe because I've grown
into the role by now:-). The Fugs were awful musicians but I don't
suppose that was the point of any act where one of the headline songs is
called "Kill for Peace."

Ken
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1251 Sixth Avenue New York, NY 10019 212-469-6494

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