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He reminds me of Peter Marshall, the host of the original Hollywood Squares.

[quote author=dean link=board=albums;num=1030248002;start=15#27 date=09/21/03 at 01:28:01]He reminds me of Peter Marshall, the host of the original Hollywood Squares.[/quote]<br><br> [img width=165 height=200]http://www.magnumradiogroup.com/PMarshall.jpg[/img]<br><br>I can see it, I can SEE IT<br>If you could just stretch (elongate) the head a bit and then attach the weasel...<br><br>By the way, <br><br>"Best known as the five-time EMMY AWARD winning host of “Hollywood Squares”, <br>Peter’s career has demonstrated a versatility and flexibility that few entertainers <br>can show.   He’s been a big band singer, performed on Broadway, appeared as a <br>frequent guest on the “Ed Sullivan Show” as well as numerous TV and film projects.   <br>It’s no wonder that Peter has been called, appropriately enough, <br>“the complete entertainer”. "  <br>;D

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Just a little footnote about Peter Marshall.  His son, Pete LaCock, was a major league baseball player.  He played first base for the Chicago Cubs in the 70's.  If LaCock is the family name I can see why the senior might have changed it for show biz purposes.  Would have been a good porn star name though.

the guy's actual name was john newlands he was a taxi driver from oklahoma

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[quote author=slime.oofytv.set link=board=albums;num=1030248002;start=30#32 date=04/10/05 at 22:09:49]<br><br><br>[/quote]<br><br>Bloody hell, that's astonishing.<br>

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that got me wondering...

did zappa/neon rip off the album title/cover art or did they pay royalties¿

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I'm fairly sure that you don't have to pay royalties on cover art, even if it rips off something else.

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[quote author=Lumpy Gravy link=board=albums;num=1030248002;start=30#37 date=04/12/05 at 09:13:40]<br><br>I'm fairly sure you would have to, if the photographer would happen to see the cover art.<br>It depends on, of course, if the photographer can prove that an actual photo of his (or hers) was ripped off.[/quote]<br><br>Surely if this rule was enforced in any serious way Zappa would have to pay royalties on the We're Only In It For The Money cover?<br><br>And what about all the album covers Led Zeppelin ripped off?

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[quote author=Lumpy Gravy link=board=albums;num=1030248002;start=30#40 date=04/12/05 at 13:15:27]<br>Well, technically Zappa didn't copy the Sgt. Pepper-cover, since he didn't use any of the actual photos used by the Beatles. <br>Zappa (and Schenkel) made a parody of the Sgt. Pepper-cover, but they were still using their own 'material.'[/quote]<br><br>Well, it's clearly a sendup of Sgt. Pepper, with a few changes. Surely the same can be said of the weasels cover?<br><br><br><br><br>The cover to Physical Graffiti, for instance.

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WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH The Mothers Of Invention Bizarre/Reprise, 1970<br><br>Artist: NEON PARK<br><br>NEON PARK was working as a poster artist with the Family Dog, a San Francisco design group, when he got a call from Frank Zappa asking him to come down to Los Angeles. Zappa had seen the drawings Park had done for a group called Dancing Food and wanted him to paint the jacket for the next Mothers of Invention record. At their meeting, Zappa showed Park a magazine cover. "It was one of those men's magazines like *Saga*," says Park.<br><br>"The cover story was *Weasels Ripped My Flesh* and it was the adventure of a guy, naked to the waist, who was in water. The water was swarming with weasals, and they were all kind of climbing on him and biting him. So Frank said, `This is it. What can you do that's worse than this?' And the rest is history."<br><br>Park's painting, for which he was paid $250, almost didn't see the light of day. Zappa butted heads with Warner Bros. over its suitability for release. "Evidently," says Park, "there was quite a confrontation that occurred over this cover. It wasn't up to their standards." Even after Warner Bros. finally consented to use it, there were problems. "The printer was greatly offended," says Park. "The girl who worked for him, his assistant, she wouldn't touch the painting. She wouldn't pick it up with her hands." Zappa and Park, meanwhile were tickled silly by the brouhaha: "I was greatly amused by the cover, and so was Frank," says Park. I mean, we giggled alot."<br><br>Park still can't see what all the fuss was about. "It was an infamous cover," he says, "although by today's standards, it's pretty tame. It's not like eating liver in Milwaukee."<br><br>

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