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 A Token Of My Extreme

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From: Brian Zavitz <bzavitz@fres2.GLFC.Forestry.CA>
  "A token of my extreme" is a play on words with the old phrase "A token of my esteem" which is something someone would say if they were giving a small gift to a person they admire or are proud of.
From: Vladimir Sovetov <sova@kpbank.ru>
  It's the theme from early 70's. You can hear it on couple of bootlegs, for example
  Untitled. 8-Sept-1974. Bologna, Italy
and
  with Captain Beefheart harmonica and words
  from
Don't you be Tarot-fied
It's just a token of my extreme
  to
And you might be surprised
At what you find when ya go!
  On _A Token Of My Extreme_ 11-Apr-1975. Claremont College
From: ulrich@sfu.ca <Charles Ulrich>
  This might be considered an overly picky point, but there is no Claremont College. Bridges Auditorium is physically located at Pomona College (in the town of Claremont, California), and run by the Claremont Colleges, a group of six affiliated colleges (none of which is named Claremont College).
From: spb0377@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu (Pat Buzby)
  "A Token Of My Extreme" appeared (with words - I didn't check to see how they compare to the JG version) as a set-opener during the Bongo Fury tour. The earlier vamp incarnation appears on YCDTOSA 2.
  To Album Refs
To Global Refs
L. Ron Hoover:
Don't you be Tarot-fied
It's just a token of my extreme
  CC
  It seems to have a special meaning and be a CC Look, it's from Overnite Sensation's _Camarillo Brillo_ song
She said she was
A Magic Mama
A she could throw a mean Tarot
From: ulrich@sfu.ca <Charles Ulrich>
  Tarot cards are a pack of 78 illustrated cards. In the United States they are associated only with fortune-telling, though I believe in Italy they are used for playing games.
From: Brian Zavitz <bzavitz@fres2.GLFC.Forestry.CA>
  tarot (tare-o) cards are used to predict the future. tarot-fied (tare-o-fide) is double-entendre with "terrified" and meaning a person who has had their future read with tarot cards (tarot-fied).
From: eraserhead@iglou.com (Gloria Wallgren SLIP/PPP)
  "Tarot" is a kind of occult-new-age-mystical thing, in which someone takes out a special deck of cards with extra cards (21 face cards and I think 40 numbered suit cards), has you pick out 13, and then tells you what your personality/past/future/etc. will be from looking at the cards and the order you placed them in. Of course, it's just another religious superstition. I believe Tarot was trendy sometime in the '70s, though as a divination device it's pretty old- the Tarot deck was the ancestor of today's playing cards.
  To Album Refs
To Global Refs
L. Ron Hoover:
If you been
Mod-O-fied
It's an illusion, an yer in between
  CC:-)))
From: Vladimir Sovetov <sova@kpbank.ru>
  Once again is it only me who sees the link between Joe and Evelyn, A Modified Dog of One Size Fits All fame ?-)
From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
  No, you are not alone.
From: Brian Zavitz <bzavitz@fres2.GLFC.Forestry.CA>
  I think it is different.
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