Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt
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JOE'S GARAGE Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt Notes and Comments |
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| And the the name of this song on LP was The Wet T-shirt Contest | ||
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| Rob asks, "What is a Fembot in a wet t-shirt?" | ||
| FZ replies, "Do you remember the Six Million Dollar Man...?" | ||
| RS: Uh-huh . sure. | ||
| FZ: ... there was an episode where they were being attacked by fembots...these 'Female Robots"...[if] she enters a wet T-shirt contest, what happens? | ||
| DS: Sparks fly. | ||
| RS: So, why did you change the title on the CD? | ||
| FZ: Why, what does it say on the CD? | ||
| :-))))))))) | ||
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And it's WET T-SHIRT TIME AGAIN I know you want someone to show you some tit! BIG ONES! WET ONES! BIG WET ONES! At this point, FATHER RILEY *(who had been recently de-frocked for not meeting his quota, and has grown his hair out and bought a groovy sport |
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coat and moved to Miami and changed his name to BUDDY JONES)* steps onto the crowded bandstand in his exciting new role as a *WET T-SHIRT CONTEST EMCEE...* |
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Buddy Jones: Oh...you were the girl stuck to seat 38 *Phydeaux III...* why don't you |
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| The real name of FZ tour bus. Check out _Stink-Foot_ entry in Apostrophe N&C. | ||
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Buddy Jones: No, you;d squeek more if the water got on you... sounds like you just got an ice pick in the forehead |
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| The expression "ice pick in the forehead" is obviously another figure of speech, and it might derive from the once practised medical treatment called lobotomy, which in the 50's was performed on asylum inmates in order to control unwanted behaviour. It was a treatment fully endorsed by governments in the western world. | ||
| The operation involved having the frontal lobe cut off from the rest of the brain by way of disconnecting the synapses. The frontal lobe is the part of the brain which governs many personality traits, and afterwards the patients were completely different, lacking initiative, uncaring, and the ability to show emotions was gone. | ||
| An American doctor, Walter Freeman, came up with a cheapo lobotomy method which included electricity shocks and an ice pick. After numbing the patient with the shocks he inserted the ice pick under the eye lid, and pushed it slowly 7 cm until reaching the brain right behind the forehead. Here he'd cut off the nerve ends that connected to the frontal lobe. After having had the ice pick in the forehead, the patients acted more or less like robots, or "fembots". | ||
| Also, the lobotomy metaphor connects well to the overall theme in JG Governmantal control of the individuals to the point where these become ignorant and docile. And I'm sure that there are more lobotomy allusions lurking elsewhere in the lyrics; the ice pick and "disconnected synapses" (even if this wasn't Frank's) are just two of them. | ||
| Also much more interesing twist of the discussion (a cote de blues:-)) | ||
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| http://mathrisc1.lunet.edu/blues/Guitar_Slim.html | ||
| Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones | ||
| "Guitar Slim was born Eddie Jones in Greenwood, Mississippi on December 10, 1926. Jones started working club dates in the New Orleans area in the late 1940's. He recorded for the Imperial label in New Orleans in 1951, JB label in Nashville in 1952, and the Specialty label from 1953 to 1956 in New Orleans, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Jones toured with the Lloyd Lambert band mainly in the South and Southwest from 1953 to 1959. He recorded for the Atco label from 1956 to 1958 in New York City. The flamboyant Eddie Jones died of pneumonia on February 7, 1959 after years of heavy drinking at the age of 32. He is buried in Thibodeaux, Louisiana." | ||
| But still it's CC clue if Zappa thought so. | ||
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| "Sonny Boy Williamson (I) wouldn't live to reap any appreciable rewards from his inventions. He died at the age of 34, while at the zenith of his popularity (his romping "Shake That Boogie" was a national R&B hit in 1947 on Victor), from a violent bludgeoning about the head that occurred during a strong-arm robbery on the South side. | ||
| On May 25, 1965, Curtis and Stackhouse were waiting at the KFFA studios for Sonny Boy (II) to do the daily King Biscuit broadcast. When Williamson didn't show, Curtis left the station and headed to the rooming house where Sonny Boy was staying, only to find him lying in bed, dead of an apparent heart attack. | ||
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| The same blues history source again | ||
| http://mathrisc1.lunet.edu/blues/John_Lee_Williamson.html | ||
| "Generally regarded as the original "Sonny Boy", John Lee Williamson was born in Jackson, Tennessee on March 30, 1914. He hoboed with Yank Rachell and John Estes through Tennessee and Arkansas in the late 1920's and early 1930's. He worked with Sunnyland Slim in Memphis in the early 1930's. John Lee Williamson moved to Chicago in 1934 where he worked Maxwell Street and as a sideman with numerous blues groups at the local clubs. His first recording, made in May of 1937 at the Leland Hotel in Aurora, Illinois for the Bluebird label, is also the first recording of Good Morning Little School Girl, which has become a much recorded blues classic tune. Bluebird recorded him until 1945 when Victor recorded him into 1947. Williamson worked frequently with Muddy Waters from 1943 and toured with Lazy Bill Lucas through the 1940's. He recorded with Big Joe Williams for the Columbia label in Chicago in 1947. In 1948 upon leaving the Plantation Club in Chicago after playing a gig, he was mugged and beaten. He died of a fractured skull and other injuries on June 1, 1948 and is buried in Jackson, Tennessee. | ||
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