Frank Zappa - Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You? (200 Motels)
Mark Volman (vocals)
Howard Kaylan (vocals)
Ian Underwood (keyboards, woodwinds)
Aynsley Dunbar (drums)
George Duke (keyboards, trombone)
Martin Lickert (bass)
Ruth Underwood (orchestra drum set)
Jim Pons (vocals)
Bad Concience:
Does this kind of life look interesting to you? Night after night, dinners with Herb Cohen. Thrill-packed, fun-filled evenings on the French Riviera at the MIDEM convention. A big tie, the whole bit. Watch Mutt eat, and Leon feed the geese. One thousand green business cards, with your name and the wrong address. Plus six royalty statements, inspected and customized by ran toon tan han toon frammet and dee. Followed by twelve potential suicides as the members of your group, past and present, find out they can't collect unemployment. A dog, a car, an epidemic of body lice with your own record company, your name on the door, electric buzzer to the inner office, and [?] tits, and a three month supply of German bookings with tickets on Air Rangoon. Does this kind of life look interesting to you? As a big rock and roll guitar player in a comedy group?
Frank Zappa - 200 Motels excerpt (04:15)
Clip from Frank Zappa's 1971 movie '200 Motels', comprising of the 'Pleated Gazelle' sequence ('The
Lad Searches The Night For His Newts'; 'The Girl Wants To Fix Him Some Broth'; 'Little Green
Scratchy Sweaters & Corduroy Ponce'; 'A Nun Suit Painted On Some Old Boxes') and the ensuing Cal
Schenkel animation ('Dental Hygiene Dilemma'; 'Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You'). The
original mono audio has been redubbed with the stereo mix from the CD release. As such it lacks the
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Thanks for posting. One of my all time favorite Zappa compositions, and that is saying a lot! He was in such a differen musical universe, I think the majority cant quite comprehend or appreciate. Wish he was not just thought of for the toilet/sex humor trash, he has claimed he did those songs ( to appeal to adolescent boys) to fund his serious compositions. Which this one is a prime example of!
RIP, Frank.
Autor: classicbronco200
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Very Nice
Autor: SteveSparx
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its amazing
Autor: ziggyplayguitar
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reety alwrighty this is delicious. thank you zappa for making music what it truly should be - a delight to listen to! or sometyhing., i dunno. drunk. eitherway, zappa is what i listen to, and it keeps the trouble every day at bay!
Autor: pseudoMuso
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I tend to agree.
Autor: cjk9013
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There is just NOTHING else like this in the musical universe. NOTHING!
