"You Are What You Is" Tour Factbook
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EXCITING STATISTICS
REGARDING BAND AND CREW
(utilizing statistics derived using the same ingenious methods employed by
the United States government for illustrating various facets of the national budget)
Ages range from 21 to 40 years
Total age of the band is 417 years old
There are three Scorpios, three Capricorns, three Cancers, two Aries, one Sagittarius, one Pisces and one Gemini
They have been with the Frank Zappa band or crew for from two weeks to 17 years
The total amount of time they have worked with Frank Zappa is approximately 49 years, two months and two weeks
Two come from California, one from Texas, one from Maryland, two from Pennsylvania, one from New York, one from Connecticut, one from Minnesota, one from Colorado, one from Missouri, one from Tennessee and one from Austria
They have played their respective instruments for from seven years to "forever"
The total number of years they have been playing is somewhere between 159 years and "forever"
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ZAPPA FACTS
(to be used only in case you run out of other persons' articles and opinions)
| REAL NAME: | Frank Zappa |
| AGE: | 40 |
| ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Sagittarius/Capricorn |
| SCHOOLS-ATTENDED: | Antelope Valley High School |
| HOW LONG IN BAND: | 17 years |
| INSTRUMENTS: | Guitar, drums, vocals |
| FORMER EMPLOYERS: | Nile Running Greeting Card Co. |
OTHER INFORMATION:
Has completed two films:
200 Motels
Baby Snakes
Has written a musical stage play entitled "Hunchentoot"
Discography:
Freak Out!
Absolutely Free
Lumpy Gravy
Mothermania
We're Only In It For the Money
Cruising With Ruben and the Jets
Uncle Meat
Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Hot Rats
Chunga's Revenge
Fillmore East
Just Another Band From L.A.
Waka/Jawaka
Grand Wazoo
Over-nite Sensation
Apostrophe
Roxy and Elsewhere
One Size Fits All
Bongo Fury
Zoot Allures
Zappa in New York
200 Motels
Sheik Yerbouti
Joe's Garage Act I
Tinseltown Rebellion
Joe's Garage Acts II and III
Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar
Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar Some More
Return of the Son of Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar
You Are What You Is
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ZAPPA FACTS
Discography (continued)
Studio TanREPACKAGED ALBUMS:
Orchestral Favorites
Sleep Dirt
24 Carat From the Underground
Superstarshine, Vol. 26
The Best of the Mothers The Mothers of Invention
The #$@!* of the Mothers
The Worst of the Mothers
Pregnant
Pop History Vol. #7
Mothers Day
The ***** of the Mothers
Underground Superstarshine, Volume 13
Dolf Hartmann Präsentiert The Frank Zappa Story (Pop History Vol. 27)
Has composed four ballets:
Lumpy Gravy
Pedro's Dowry
Bob in Dacron
Sinister Footwear
Has composed many works for orchestras of various sizes:
Bogus Pomp
Centerville (Book 1)
Dance of the Just Plain Folks
Dance of the Rock & Roll Interviewers
Dog Meat
Envelopes
The Girl's Dream
The Girl Wants to Fix Him Some Broth
The Adventures of Greggary Peccary
I'm Stealing the Room
Janet's Big Dance Number
The Lad Searches the Night for His Newts
Little Green Scratchy Sweaters and Corduroy Ponce
Lucy's Seduction of a Bored Violinist and Postlude
Mo 'n Herb's Vacation
Motorhead's Midnight Ranch
Music for Electric Violin and Low Budget Symphony Orchestra
Mysterioso
Naval Aviation in Art
Ne Pas Deranger (work in progress commissioned by Pierre Boulez for his Ensemble InterContemporain)
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ZAPPA FACTS
Orchestral (cont.)
A Nun Suit Painted on Some Old Boxes
Sad Jane
The Sealed Tuna Bolero
Semi-Fraudulent Direct-From-Hollywood Overture
Penis Dimension
The Pleated Gazelle
Strictly Genteel
This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich Prologue and Reprise
Touring Can Mek You Crazy
Tuna Fish Promenade
200 Motels – Book 2
Would You Like a Snack?
Has composed many instrumental works:
Alien Orifice
Amnesia Vivace
Ancient Arnaments
Apostrophe
Aybe Sea
Be Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Chuch)
Big Swifty
Black Napkins
Black Page Drum Solo & Black Page
Blessed Relief
Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Chunga's Revenge
The Clap
Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus
Cruising for Burgers
Deathless Horsie
Dew on the Newts We Got
Dog Breath Variations
Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?
Drowning Witch
Duck, Duck Goose
The Duke Regains His Chops
Dupree's Paradise
Dwarf Nebula Processional March and Dwarf Nebula
Easter Hay (aka Watermelon in Easter Hay)
Eat That Question
Echidna's Arf (Of You)
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ZAPPA FACTS
Instrumental (cont.)
Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue
Father O'Blivion
Filthy Habits
For Calvin And His Next Two Hitch-hikers
Friendly Little Finger
Get A Little
The Grand Wazoo
The Gumbo Variations
He Used To Cut the Grass
Holiday In Berlin
I Promise Not To Come In Your Mouth
The Idiot Bastard Son
Igor's Boogie – Phases 1 & 2
Invocation & Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin
It Must Be A Camel
Key of Q
King Kong
Legend of the Golden Arches
Little House I Used To Live In
Little Umbrellas
Lobster Girl
Lonesome Electric Turkey
Manx Needs Women
Medium Cool 52
More Streets and Roads
Mr. Green Genes
Nancy & Mary Music (Parts 1 – 3)
Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
Nine Types of Industrial Pollution
No More Mr. Nice Girl
Now You See It – Now You Don't
Ocean Is the Ultimate Solution
On the Bus (aka Toad-O-Line)
The Orange County Lumber Truck
Rollo
Rubber Shirt
The Sheik Yerbouti Tango
Sleep Dirt
Sofa No. 1
Son of Mr. Green Genes
Son of Orange County
Son of Wild Love
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ZAPPA FACTS
Instrumental (cont.)
Peaches En Regalia
Persona Non Grata
Prelude to the Afternoon of A Sexually Aroused Gas Mask
Project X
The Purple Lagoon
Rat Tomago
Rdnzl
Regyptian Strut
Streets and Roads
Thirteen
T'mershi Duween
Toads of the Short Forest
Transylvania Boogie
Treacherous Cretins
Twenty Small Cigars
Uncle Meat
Uncle Meat Variations
Waka Jawaka
Weasels Ripped My Flesh
What's the Name of Your Group?
Zolar Czakl
Zoot Allures
Has composed over 200 other songs:
Absolutely Free
Advance Romance
The Air
America Drinks and Goes Home
Andy
Any Downers?
Any Kind of Pain
Any Way the Wind Blows
Babbette
Baby Snakes
Bamboozled By Love
Beauty Knows No Pain
Big Leg Emma
Big Surfer
Billy the Mountain
The Blue Light
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ZAPPA FACTS
Songs (cont.)
Bobby Brown
Bow Tie Daddy
Boy Wonder, I Love You
Broken Hearts Are For Assholes
Brown Shoes Don't Make It
Bwana Dik
Call Any Vegetable
Camarillo Brillo
Can't Afford No Shoes
Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy
Charlie's Enormous Mouth
Cheap Thrills
City of Tiny Lights
Cocaine Decisions
Concentration Moon
Conehead
Cosmik Debris
Cruising For Burgers
Cucamonga
Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
Dancin' Fool
The Dangerous Kitchen
Dead Girls of London
Debra Kadabra
Dew on the Newts We Got
Dickie's Such An Asshole
Did you Get Any Onya?
Dinah-Moe Humm
Dirty Love
Disco Boy
Does This Kind of Life Look Interesting To You?
Dog Breath
Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
Doreen
Drafted Again
Drowning Witch
Duke of Prunes
Dumb All Over
Easy Meat
Electric Aunt Jemima
Evelyn, A Modified Dog
Excentrifugal Forz
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ZAPPA FACTS
Songs (cont.)
Fifty-fifty
Find Her Finer
Fine Girl
Flakes
Florentine Pogen
Flower Punk
For the Young Sophisticate
Fountain of Love
Goblin Girl
Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder
Greggary Peccary
Half A Dozen Provocative Squats
Harder Than Your Husband
Harry, You're A Beast
Heavenly Bank Account
Help, I'm A Rock
Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?
How Could I Be Such A Fool?
Hungry Freaks Daddy
I Ain't Got No Heart
I Come From Nowhere
I Have Been In You
The Idiot Bastard Son
If I Could Only Be Your Love Again
If Only She Woulda
Illinois Enema Bandit
I'm A Beautiful Guy
I'm Not Satisfied
I'm So Cute
I'm The Slime
In France
Inca Roads
Is There Life After MGM?
It Can't Happen Here
It Just Might Be A One Shot Deal
Jazz Discharge Party Hats
Jelly Roll Gum Drop
Jewish Princess
Joe's Garage
Jones Crusher
Jumbo Go Away
Kaiser Rolls
Knee Deep In Heaters
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ZAPPA FACTS
Songs (cont. )
Later That Night
Latex Solar Beef
Lemme Take You To the Beach
Let's Make the Water Turn Black
Lonely Little Girl
Lonesome Cowboy Burt
Love of My Life
Magdalena
Magic Fingers
The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
Mom and Dad
Monster Magnet
Montana
Moral Majority Blues
Mother People
Motherly Love
Mr. Green Genes
Mudd Club
Mudd Shark
Muffin Man
My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
Mystery Roach
Nanook Rubs It
Nigger Biznis
No. No. No.
No Not Now
Oh No
Penguin in Bondage
Penis Dimension
Pick Me, I'm Clean
Plastic People
Po-jama People
Portugese Lunar Landing
Poofter's Froth Wyoming Plans Ahead
The Red Throbber
Road Ladies
Rudy Wants To Buy Yez A Drink
Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast
San Ber'dino
Sex
Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously
Sharleena
She Painted Up Her Face
Shove It Right In
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ZAPPA FACTS
Songs (cont.)
Sleeping In A Jar
Society Pages
Soft Cell Conclusions
Solitude
Son of Suzy Creamcheese
Status Back Baby
Stevie's Spanking
Stink Foot
Strictly Genteel
Stuff Up the Cracks
Suicide Chump
Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
Tears Begin To Fall
Teen-Age Wind
Tell Me You Love Me
This Town Is A Sealed Tuna Sandwich
Tinsel Town Rebellion
Titties and Beer
The Torture Never Stops
Trouble Every Day
Truck Driver Divorce
Tryin' To Grow A Chin
200 Motels
Uncle Bernie's Farm
Uncle Remus
Village of the Sun
We're Turning Again
What Kind of Girl Do You Think We Are?
What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning?
What Will This Morning Bring Me This Evening?
What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?
Who Are the Brain Police?
Who Needs the Peace Corps?
Why Don't You Do Me Right?
Wild Love
Willie the Pimp
Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Wind Up Working In A Gas Station
Wonderful Wino
World's Greatest Sinner
Would You Go All the Way?
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ZAPPA FACTS
Songs (cont.)
Wowie Zowie
Yo Cats
Yo Mama
You Are What You Is
You Didn't Try to Call Me
You Look Like A Dork
Your Mouth
You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here
Zomby Woof
(among others)
Note: As you might have noticed, some songs appear more than once in these categories. The reason for this is that certain instrumental or orchestral songs may contain lyrics and vica versa; therefore, such songs are listed in both places where they apply.
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ARTHUR BARROW
| AGE: | 29 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | San Antonio, Texas |
| ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Pisces |
| SCHOOLS ATTENDED: | North Texas State University |
| HOW LONG IN BAND: | Three years |
| INSTRUMENT(S) PLAYED: | Bass, keyboards, guitar |
| NUMBER OF YEARS PLAYED: | 22 |
| FORMER EMPLOYERS: | The Doors, Loose Connection |
| OTHER INFORMATION: | Currently not touring with the band but acting as "clone-meister" helping rehearse the band. Now writing and recording his own music as well as doing session work with Frank and other people. |
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MARQUE COY
| AGE: | 27 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | Denver, Colorado |
| ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Cancer |
| SCHOOLS ATTENDED: | Mullen Prep School Mesa College |
| HOW LONG IN CREW: | 1 1/2 months |
| INSTRUMENT(S) PLAYED: | Piano |
| NUMBER OF YEARS PLAYED: | 10 years |
| FORMER EMPLOYERS: | Boulder, Danny Kortchmar, Chris DeBorgh |
| OTHER INFORMATION: | "The Son's Sounds Abound." |
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GEORGE W. DOUGLAS
| AGE: | 30 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | Jellico, Tennessee |
| ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Scorpio |
| SCHOOLS ATTENDED: | Daytona Junior College |
| HOW LONG IN CREW: | One year |
| FORMER EMPLOYERS: | Audio Tools, Quad Eight, Numerous Music Halls |
| REMARKS: | Came at music from audio and technical side – 12 years as engineer./ mixer |
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ED "LEROY" MANN
| AGE: | 26 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Capricorn |
| SCHOOLS ATTENDED: | Hartt College of Music |
| HOW LONG IN BAND: | Three years |
| INSTRUMENT(S) PLAYED: | Percussion, keyboards |
| NUMBER OF YEARS PLAYED: | 15 |
| FORMER EMPLOYERS: | Don Ellis |
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TOMMY MARS (MARIANO)
| AGE: | 29 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | Waterbury, Connecticut |
| ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Scorpio |
| SCHOOLS ATTENDED: | Naugatuck High |
| HOW LONG IN BAND: | 5th year |
| INSTRUMENT(S) PLAYED: | Piano, organ, vocoder, synthesizer, violin and recorder |
| NUMBER OF YEARS PLAYED: | All his life |
| FORMER EMPLOYERS: | Churches, hotels, rich women type-thing |
| OTHER INFORMATION: | Strives for tone, nuns and animals |
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BOBBY MARTIN
| AGE: | 33 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Cancer |
| SCHOOLS ATTENDED: | Curtis Institute of Music |
| HOW LONG IN BAND: | Since 8/24/81 |
| INSTRUMENT(S) PLAYED: | Keyboards, french horn, saxes, vocals |
| NUMBER OF YEARS PLAYED: | Keys – age 3; horn – age 9; sax – age 13 |
| FORMER EMPLOYERS: | Orleans, Eric Burdon, Etta James |
| OTHER INFORMATION: | Played french horn on Gamble and Huff Productions hits such as "Love Train", "Backstabber", "Me and Mrs. Jones", "Love Won't Let Me Wait". Fanatical skier, athlete, health nut. |
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THOMAS NORDEGG
| AGE: | 35 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | Austria |
| ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Capricorn |
| SCHOOLS ATTENDED: | High School |
| HOW LONG IN CREW: | Four and 1/2 years |
| INSTRUMENT(S) PLAYED: | Guitar |
| FORMER EMPLOYERS: | NA |
| OTHER INFORMATION: | ZAPPA ZAPPA ZAPPA ZAPPA ZAPPA ZAPPA ZAPPA . . . |
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MARK G. PINSKE
| AGE: | 31 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | Arlington, Minnesota |
| ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Scorpio |
| SCHOOLS ATTENDED: | University of Minnesota |
| HOW LONG IN CREW: | Since February, 1980 |
| INSTRUMENT(S) PLAYED: | Recording engineer, live mixing engineer, bass guitar (formerly) |
| NUMBER OF YEARS PLAYED: | 12 |
| FORMER EMPLOYERS: | Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell, Weather Report, Melissa Manchester, Steve Miller ("how far back do you wanna go?") |
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BOB STONE
| AGE: | 38 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | Missouri |
| ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Aries (Sun, Moon and rising for those into that sort of thing) |
| SCHOOLS ATTENDED: | Newport Harbor Orange Coast College |
| HOW LONG IN CREW: | Since December, 1980 |
| INSTRUMENT(S) PLAYED: | Recording console, guitar |
| NUMBER OF YEARS PLAYED: | 12 years in professional audio |
| FORMER EMPLOYERS: | Numerous – from aerospace electronics to recording studios to record producers |
| OTHER INFORMATION: | Started as a P.A. mixer in 1969. This is his first tour mixing "live". "No other groups have had the musical and technical qualities to make it interesting before this." A Zappa fan since mid-60's. |
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SCOTT THUNES
| AGE: | 21 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | Beverly Hills, California |
| ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Capricorn or Aquarius, he's not sure |
| SCHOOLS ATTENDED: | College of Marin |
| HOW LONG IN BAND: | One month (since July 20) |
| INSTRUMENT(S) PLAYED: | Electric bass, acoustic bass, guitar |
| NUMBER OF YEARS PLAYED: | 15 (two-year break when he was 10) |
| FORMER EMPLOYERS: | Ready Mades (San Francisco dance band) |
| OTHER INFORMATION: | Avid listener of 20th century classical music (Stravinsky, Bartok, Carter, Mahler and Messiaen) and modern dance music (Stranglers, Talking Heads, Gang of Four). Mother was a classical pianist and singer; brother Derek is an excellent guitarist. |
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STEVE VAI
| AGE: | 21 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | New York |
| ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Gemini |
| SCHOOLS ATTENDED: | Carle Place High |
| HOW LONG IN BAND: | Two years |
| INSTRUMENT(S) PLAYED: | Strat abuse, guitar, accordian, aieee |
| NUMBER OF YEARS PLAYED: | 7 |
| FORMER EMPLOYERS: | Dolly Madison Ice Cream |
| OTHER INFORMATION: | "I used to practice 15 hours a day, but don't worry, I'm not the devil." |
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CHAD WACKERMAN
| AGE: | 21 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | Long Beach, California |
| ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Aries |
| SCHOOLS ATTENDED: | Long Beach State |
| HOW LONG IN BAND: | One month |
| INSTRUMENT(S) PLAYED: | Drums |
| NUMBER OF YEARS PLAYED: | 15 |
| FORMER EMPLOYERS: | Bill Watrous, Leslie Uggams |
| OTHER INFORMATION: | Influenced by father (he's a drummer and school band director). Teachers were Murray Spivack (Louie Bellson's teacher) and Chuck Flores. Had much help from Louie Bellson and Peter Erskine. Played in the Bill Watrous Refuge West Big Band and small groups, fusion bands around L.A. and has travelled with the Leslie Uggams show for two years, including a tour of Australia. |
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RAY S. WHITE
| AGE: | 36 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH: | Parksville, Michigan |
| ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Cancer |
| SCHOOLS ATTENDED: | West Aurora High |
| HOW LONG IN BAND: | Three years |
| INSTRUMENT(S) PLAYED: | Guitar, vocals |
| NUMBER OF YEARS PLAYED: | Guitar – 21 years; vocal – forever |
| FORMER EMPLOYERS: | Lee Oskar, Eloise Laws, Walter and Edwin Hawkins |
| OTHER INFORMATION: | "I always thought music was supposed to be fun and entertaining . . . well, it's true! I salute the graduating classes that have gone before . . ." |