ARF: Notes and Comments: LUMPY GRAVY: Lumpy Gravy, part2

LUMPY GRAVY

Lumpy Gravy, part2

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		Index Point	Elapsed Time
1.	Very Distraughtening	1	00:00
2.	White Ugliness	2	01:33
3.	Amen	3	03:55
4.	Just One More Time	4	05:28
5.	A Vicious Circle	5	06:26
6.	King Kong	6	07:38
7.	Drums Are Too Noisy	7	08:21
8.	Kangaroos	8	09:19
9.	Envelops The Bath Tub	9	10:16
10.	Take Your Clothes Off	10	13:58

1. Very Distraughtening 00:00

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Ah, there it is again.
It's a little pig with wings.
I hear you've been having trouble
with pigs and ponies!
It's very distraughtening.

Here is what was said about LG dialogs in CPIII booklet.

"Because all the dialog had been recorded in (to borrow a phrase from _Evelyn, A Modified Dog_) "pan-chromatic resonance and other highly ambient domains", it was not always possible to make certain edits sound convincingly, since the ambience would vanish disturbingly at the edit point. This severely limited my ability to creat the illusion that various groups of speakers, recorded on different days, were talking to each other. As a result, what emerged from texts was a vague plot regarding pigs and ponies, threatening the lives of the characters who inhabit a large piano.

And about subjects on _This is All Wrong_ of CPIII

MOON: This is all wrong. This is all wrong.

F.Z.: The pigs run the city, the ponies run the TV station and you wanted to apply for a job.

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Everything in the universe is, is,
is made of one element,
which is a note, a single note.
Atoms are really vibrations, you know.
Which are extensions of the BIG NOTE,
everything's one note.
Everything, even the ponies.
The note, however, is the ultimate power,
but see the pigs don't know that,
the ponies don't know that.

From: s0420778@let.rug.nl (R. Bartelink)
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 94 18:27:47 GMT

Yesterday, I was doing a bit of channel hopping with my tv when I bumped into a German guy ( a doctor) named Hans Jenny (I think it was Hans anyway). This program amazed me, since mr. Jenny did some experiments with 'soundscopes' or something in his spare time. He would unleash some sound of a certain frequency on different kinds of material, like sand, water, sault, crystals or whatever. He found out some pretty amazing stuff, like the patterns were often 5-pointed stars (like many flowers and even cells) or resembled certain shells you can find at the beach, or even made swirling patterns that resemble galaxies! (BTW, he resented to these comparisances (sp.??) since they weren't really scientific, but what the hell). He (like Frank did) pointed out the possibility that the universe began with one SOUND (aka THE BIG NOTE) rather then THE BIG BANG. I wonder if Frank ever heard of this guy and his experiments. Anway, it made me realize once again that Frank was much much more than just a composer/ musician. It's a way of live...

From: erikjan@lunatix.icce.rug.nl (Erik-Jan Vens)
Funny, I've also seen this program. But it didn't hit me at that time. Now it does, because I know so much more now.

According to mystics the basic sound of the universe is denoted by /Om/, the first word of the Tibetan mantra: /Om Mani Padme Hum/: "the sound of silence, the diamond in the lotus".

It is this sound which emerges when the energy of life is experienced. It is an experience which cannot be experienced by simply repeating the mantra, but which comes all by itself from your consciousness of the energy of existence.

From: konradfs@netcom.com (Konrad)
If a BIG BANG isn't a sound then i don't know what we're talking about here.

And there are other mystics who believe that this basic sound is "ahh." (This is true)

And then there are those who think that it was this argument between whether "ohh" or "ahh" is the basic sound of the Universe that actually caused the big bang which created the Universe.

(This is also true, in a way)

Vladimir The Editor Note :-)))

I sincerly believe that although the absurd ideas discussed above seem to be just casual coincidence here they are still are part of intercontinental absurd project/object relations Frank tried to trace all his life :-)))

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You mean just we know that?

RIGHT!

Merry-go-round, Merry-go-round,

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tu-tu-tu-tu tu-tu-tu tu-tu-tu

The CPIII edition of this cut (see below) don't seem to confirm my impression but this line suspectably points to Larry _Wild Man_ Fischer infamous classic track Merry-Go-Round from 1970 (1968) Bizarre 6332 _An Evening with Wild Man Fischer_

Can anyone provide lyrics of that Larry hit?

BTW, May be it was just standard paste time cliche ditty in early 60th L.A.?

From: bzavitz@fres2.glfc.forestry.ca (Brian Zavitz)
I don't think that Larry's song was popular. It's probably included because Frank liked it. Merry-go-round is a carousel ride for children, and is a euphemism used by Larry to mean "the bump and grind", "the buff 'till ya shine", "the tube snake boogie".

From: biffyshrew@aol.com
Here are the complete lyrics to "Merry-Go-Round":

Come on let's Merry-Go, Merry-Go, Merry-Go-Round (Boo boo boo!)
Merry-Go, Merry-Go, Merry-Go-Round (Boo boo boo!)
Merry-Go, Merry-Go, Merry-Go-Round (Boo boo boo!)
Me and you can go Merry-Go-Round
It's very easy, just go up and down

Come on come on let's Merry-Go, Merry-Go, Merry-Go-Round (Boo boo boo!)
Merry-Go, Merry Go, Merry-Go-Round (Boo boo boo!)
Merry-Go, Merry-Go, Merry-Go-Round (Boo boo boo!)
Everybody's going Merry-Go-Round
Let us go-ho-ho up and down

Come on come on let's Merry-Go, Merry-Go, Merry-Go-Round (Boo boo boo!)
Merry-Go, Merry-Go, Merry-Go-Round (Boo boo boo!)
Merry-Go, Merry-Go, Merry-Go-Round (Boo boo boo!)
Mary taught me to go Merry-Go-Round
Let us going (?) Merry-Go-Round [this line garbled by WMF]

Come on come on let's Merry-Go, Merry-Go, Merry-Go-Round (Boo boo boo!)
Merry-Go, Merry-Go, Merry-Go-Round (Boo boo boo!)
Merry-Go, Merry-Go, Merry-Go-Round (Boo boo boo!)
I say let's Merry-Go, Merry-Go, Merry-Go-Round
I say let's Merry-Go, Merry-Go, Merry-Go-Round

And they call that doing their thing. Oh yeah? That's what doing your thing is! The thing is to [put a motor in yourself].

Another edition of what obviously was the same original dialog can be heard on _This Is Phaze III_ track of CPIII

SPIDER: Right, man... and all it was like people sitting in doorways freakin out tourists going " Merry Go Round, Merry Go Round, Do-Do-Do Do-Do-Do Do-Do-Do!" and they called that "doing their thing."

JOHN: Oh yeah, that's what doing your thing is!

SPIDER: The thing is to put a motor in yourself.

2. White Ugliness 01:33

[Arf] arf arf!

It seems to be first appearance of Fido :-)))

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Ponies...if, if, if...
Was it white? 're you sure?...it wasn't white,
I mean uh...black, uh...
But I was too scared to notice their physical...
...gold or something...
...I was too, I was too scared to
no-no-no-notice their physical,
ah, appearance, 'cause they...they...
they were attackin' me!
They were?
They were attackin' me.
What were they doin' to you?
They were, they were,
they were come and surrounding me
and attackin' me and I had
to fight back and fight,
fight and fight back and pick up sticks.
Pick up sticks?
Yes, pick up sticks.
I used to play that game, Pick Up Sticks.
Me too, did you ever play that game?

From: demery@natlab.research.philips.com (David Demery)
Pick Up Sticks (or Pick-A-Stick) is a very simple game, making use of a number of thin wooden sticks, rather like giant cocktail sticks. You gather the sticks together in your hand, hold them vertically on some surface (floor/table), and let them go. Generally, they fall in a heap, with sticks overlapping other sticks. The object of the exercise is to use another stick (which sometimes has a small groove cut in it to aid the picking of sticks) to slowly, and carefully dislodge sticks from the jumbled pile. If you remove a stick *without* moving any other stick, you continue on picking sticks. As soon as you move one, it becomes your opponent's turn (more than 2 people can play). The person with the most sticks at the end is the winner.

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Ha Ha Ha!
We'll hope for the best.
Ha Ha Ha!

(Alfred Motorhead).

Seems to be just rhyming joke. The guy's real name is Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood

From: John Henley <jhenley@mail.utexas.edu>
that isn't right, but it's hard to hear... something like "I'll pray for us Motorhead"

Now I lay me down to sleep.
Amen!

3. Amen 03:55

4. Just One More Time 05:28

I think I can explain about
how the pigs music works.
Well, this should be interesting.
....

Discussion from here to the final phrase

Yeah, it's a vicious circle, you got it!

Reappeared with colorful details on CPIII track _How The Pig' Music Works_.

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Any sort of motion has its effect on,
on the pony's manes.
You know, the thing on their neck.
Hmm...
As soon as the pony's manes
starts to get good in the back

Really funny pan on hippies emotions expressed in WOIIFTM _Who Needs The Peace Corps?_

How I love ya, How I love ya
How I love ya, How I love ya Frisco!
How I love ya, How I love ya
How I love ya, How I love ya
Oh, my hair is getting good in the back!

From: demery@natlab.research.philips.com (David Demery)
Also remember that long hair gathered at the back of the head is usually termed a `pony-tail.' Many hippies were wearing their hair that way in the Sixties.

6. King Kong 07:38

Try _Uncle Meat_ album (side 4/CD 2) for the theme full-blown.

And YCDTOSA vol.3 for glory return of the son of the King Kong

10. Take Your Clothes Off 13:58

Check WOIIFTM _Take Your Clothes Off Then You Dance_ for funny and viciously flower-power-sucks lyrics.

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