Are from Brown Shoes don't Make It, from the Mothers second album, Absolutely Free.

Another nice song from that album is Plastic People, due in part to this line: "Take the day and walk around. Watch the Nazi's run your town....."

I think the line "your children will murder you in your sleep" is from a show at the Whiskey A-go-go on the Sunset Strip in the time just preceding their contract for Freak Out happened.

I'm a musically illiterate Zappaphile. Thanks to the internet, I now have potential access to a boot of the first Mothers show I ever went to, the Oct 16, 1971 Stony Brook late show!


Misc Zappa stuff that resonates with me - He sued Warner Brothers in the mid 70's and won! (Battling the greedy corporations of his time on their turf!) His arrest and jailing in the early 60's for an entrapment style arrest for making pornography must have been a profound effect on his understanding of police and government. Taught him some lessons and made him ineligible for the draft, as a convicted felon.

He took on anyone, any time, any place for any reason at all during the mid 80's ROCK RECORD RATINGS DEBATE. That led to his Senate Testimony, where Al Gore confessed he was a fan of Frank's work. When Frank knew he was dying, the Gore's sent him a personal note. Frank made it a point to mention that. Also, Tipper played drums on some single that Dweezil and a few siblings made.

Langdon Winner or some other rock journo of that era said Frank had "an overdeveloped justice gland".

The Chrome plated Megaphone of Destiny would be the most appropriate song for the OWS movement. There are instructions on the album (We're Only in It For The Money) to give you the background to enjoy the song to it's fullest.

-jim