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I mean, what the f*ck was all that about - seriously!?!?!

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"drums are too noisy, 'n you've got no corners to hide in"

No idea. Was always one of the very few FZ items I never understood, or had interest in.

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“The power of pop music to corrupt and putrify the minds of world youth are virtually limitless."

It's just a comedy number, right? I really like it anyway.

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I suppose you are right Cal. It's just quite bizarre how he pieced this little snippets together and how they made little songs, inside of the entire tune, out of words like "Beef pies, he was born next to the beef pies...."
What came first in that case, the tune or the words? What fitted around what?

Anyway, I know that the answer isn't out there I suppose but what the hell. A mountain is something you don't wanna f.......

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"drums are too noisy, 'n you've got no corners to hide in"

I don't really know. Maybe it's just a pastiche of ideas he had.

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I'm sure someone else will provide better detail...

I've always seen BTM as one of the several pieces that are FZ images that relate to personal or band inside-jokes that were either explained due to FZ history, FZ interviews or sometimes not at all. Conceptual Continuity lives here. As with many of FZ's large-format pieces it is comprised of smaller bits and segued together, with the storyline perhaps being unclear, but for the hardcore fans provides new insights year after year. I saw it performed as a play on stage in Chicago several years ago and it was great!

Here's the Zappa Wiki Jawaka for it:
http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/Billy_The_Mountain

Some day that page will be filled with highlighted links rather than the few they have now!

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Don't Be Stupid Unless You Want To

Bruce Bickford, and his animations, had a hand in it, too.

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Thanks chaps

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"drums are too noisy, 'n you've got no corners to hide in"

I think it's just another example of Frank's wonderfully silly sense of humor. Maybe with a little politics mixed in with the draft and everything.

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Everytime we picked a booger we'd flip it on this one winduh. Every night we'd contribute, 2, 3, 4 boogers. We had to use a putty knife, man, to get them damn things off the winduh. There was some goober ones that weren't even hard...

funny you mention this. one of the first albums i bought. the first time i heard it, the parody of the song "suite: judy blue eyes", was the first time i realized that i truly loved frank and his music.

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I can't tell when you're telling the truth.
>I'm not.
How do I know anything you've said to me is...
>You don't.

Check out Baby Snakes....the movie, as Doug mentioned Bruce Bickford being quized by FZ about the inspiration for some of his claymation ideas, some Billy content and also Gregory Peccary mentioned by Bruce, as things that had come to him while he was wasted.....and as we know FZ wasted nothing...



Spit it out boy!

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Thanks for the music Frank.

Well I'm about to get sick from watching my TV

there's a bootleg where frank says BTM is going to be their next movie after 200 motels.

i figure it was just frank making fun of "serious" rock operas like Tommy

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Who's this dude with his hair straight back?
His new white socks, 'n his pants all black
His T-shirts rolled His watch is gold
A '55 Chevy that his brother just stoled

Give me GREGGERY PECCARY anyday!

Boo!

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Nah, Billy the Mountain shits on Greggery Peccary vocally..it's a classic performance
Give me Greggery Peccary without the vocal track vaultmeister!

Wazoo?

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Hey calvin, I'm so outta touch I haven't heard any releases since FZ/OZ
I've got some treats in store for me I suspect

I believe you do. Get to it, asap!

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Don't know if you've seen this but it is a fantastic acapella version of BTM by one guy. It opened it up to me.

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZa2uhtZDg

When I first encountered it on JABFLA I must admit, I was less than taken, and quite confused, but the first time I ever actually listened to the entire song it became progressively funnier and more impressive. And besides, now I can see just how much conceptual continuity is strewn throughout the lyrics (and music itself!), and that's always enjoyable.



I can't lie, this is pretty awesome.

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Oh No! I don't believe it...
You say that you think you know the meaning of love...

Conceptual continuity ... the closing croons of Ray Collins in America Drinks And Goes Home were reused by Frank for "... he was so he was so-o ... mysterious ...".

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

How much of the lyrics were improvized by Howard and Mark or were they reading them off a piece of paper?