Tracks
- A Token Of My Extreme
- Stick It Out
- Sy Borg
- Dong Work For Yuda
- Keep It Greasy
- Outside Now
- He Used To Cut The Grass
- Packard Goose
- Watermelon In Easter Hay
- A Little Green Rosetta
Joe’s Garage Act II & III
November 19th 1979
Official Release #29
Originally Released: November 19, 1979
Catalog Number: SRZ-2-1502
Produced by Frank Zappa for Zappa Records
The Musicians:
Frank Zappa—lead guitar, vocals
Warren Cuccurullo—rhythm guitar, vocals
Denny Walley—slide guitar, vocals
Ike Willis—lead vocals
Peter Wolf—keyboards
Arthur Barrow—bass, vocals
Ed Mann—percussion
Vinnie Colaiuta—drums, optometric abandon
Patrick O’Hearn—bass on Outside Now
The Cast:
Central Scrutinizer
L. Ron Hoover
Father Riley B. Jones
Frank Zappa
Joe
Ike Willis
Sy Borg
Warren Cuccurullo & Ed Mann
Bald-Headed John
Terry Bozzio
Mary
Dale Bozzio
Mrs. Borg
Denny Walley
The Utility Muffin
Originally Released: November 19, 1979
Catalog Number: SRZ-2-1502
Produced by Frank Zappa for Zappa Records
The Musicians:
Frank Zappa—lead guitar, vocals
Warren Cuccurullo—rhythm guitar, vocals
Denny Walley—slide guitar, vocals
Ike Willis—lead vocals
Peter Wolf—keyboards
Arthur Barrow—bass, vocals
Ed Mann—percussion
Vinnie Colaiuta—drums, optometric abandon
Patrick O’Hearn—bass on Outside Now
The Cast:
Central Scrutinizer
L. Ron Hoover
Father Riley B. Jones
Frank Zappa
Joe
Ike Willis
Sy Borg
Warren Cuccurullo & Ed Mann
Bald-Headed John
Terry Bozzio
Mary
Dale Bozzio
Mrs. Borg
Denny Walley
The Utility Muffin
Research Kitchen Chorus
Al Malkin, Warren Cuccurullo, Dale Bozzio, Geordie Hormel, Barbara Issak & most of the people who work at Village Recorders (circa 1979).
Studios Village Recorders “B” & Ken-Dun “D”
Recording engineer Joe Chicarelli
Re-mix engineers Mick Glossop & Steve Nye
Mastering Bernie Grundman, Bernie Grundman Mastering 2016
Source Original 1979 Analog Master Safety
Cover photo Norman Seeff
Art director/illustrator John William
Eventually it was discovered
That God
Did not want us to be
All the same
This was
Bad News
For the Governments of The World
As it seemed contrary
To the doctrines of
Portion Controlled Servings
Mankind must be made more uniformly
If
The Future
Was going to work
Various ways were sought
To bind us all together
But, alas
Same-ness was unenforceable
It was about this time
That someone
Came up with the idea of
Total Criminalization
Based on the principle that
If we are All crooks
We could at last be uniform
To some degree
In the eyes of
The Law
Shrewdly our legislators calculated
That most people were
Too lazy to perform a
Real Crime
So new laws were manufactured
Making it possible for anyone
To violate them any time of the day or night,
And
Once we had all broken some kind of law
We’d all be in the same big happy club
Right up there with the President.
The most exalted industrialists,
And the clerical big shots
Of all your favorite religions
Total Criminalization
Was the greatest idea of its time
And was vastly popular
Except with those people
Who didn’t want to be crooks or outlaws,
So, of course, they had to be
Tricked into it . . .
Which is one of the reasons why
Music
Was eventually made
Illegal
That God
Did not want us to be
All the same
This was
Bad News
For the Governments of The World
As it seemed contrary
To the doctrines of
Portion Controlled Servings
Mankind must be made more uniformly
If
The Future
Was going to work
Various ways were sought
To bind us all together
But, alas
Same-ness was unenforceable
It was about this time
That someone
Came up with the idea of
Total Criminalization
Based on the principle that
If we are All crooks
We could at last be uniform
To some degree
In the eyes of
The Law
Shrewdly our legislators calculated
That most people were
Too lazy to perform a
Real Crime
So new laws were manufactured
Making it possible for anyone
To violate them any time of the day or night,
And
Once we had all broken some kind of law
We’d all be in the same big happy club
Right up there with the President.
The most exalted industrialists,
And the clerical big shots
Of all your favorite religions
Total Criminalization
Was the greatest idea of its time
And was vastly popular
Except with those people
Who didn’t want to be crooks or outlaws,
So, of course, they had to be
Tricked into it . . .
Which is one of the reasons why
Music
Was eventually made
Illegal