A Zappadan Morning for America…

… and the sentiment that first drew many of us to Zappa:

Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance   and   What’s the Ugliest Part of Your Body?

In 1968 I did my first real directing piece at a one-act program at Northwestern: a staged piece based on Zappa’s “Lumpy Gravy.” Of course, LG was released at the same time (and from the same recording sessions) as We’re Only In It For The Money”, and the end of that record, just played above, was the conclusion of the theatre piece which, unbelievably to the faculty folks who sat on my grade in the project, got the audience out of their seats to dance with the cast. We later took this production to Chicago’s Kinetic Playground (which Aaron Russo had opened, starting his dramatic rise in the late sixties and throughout the seventies), where it was positioned on the bill between performances by B.B. King and Albert King (were we a triumph among Kings?),  two guys it was a thrill to meet.

Anyways… thanks for the memories.