From the "Fillmore East June 1971" album, it's Zappa w/ Flo & Eddie: "Happy Together"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_GNqKrZkYs

:toast:

[nolabear]

1. Niiiiiice.

Loved them as The Turtles, and Zappa only made them more able to be their naturally bad selves.

Original name, Fluorescent Leech and Eddie.

[Grantuspeace]

2. I met Flo & Eddie.

I said, "Eddieeeeeee are you kidding?" And he said " he hadn't heard that one in quite sometime". And I don't think he was being facetious. Anyway, keep it warm. :)

[saras]

3. The entire album side ending with that song remains burned into my mind ...

...as the most disgusting thing I've ever heard, and that includes anything pornlike I'd seen before age 18. It's still pretty far up the list, because it's so realistic.


"I get off getting juiced with an octopus, and spewed upon with cream corn"

"acetylene nirvana hemorrhoid, talkin' 'bout your hemorrhoid, baby, steamroller. Talkin' 'bout your hemorrhoid, baby.

"with a bullet"

and of course, the mud shark story.

In my mind, "Happy Together" is by the Turtles, and this half-hour theatrical piece is by Zappa with Flo & Eddie, and never the twain shall meet.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. It was payback time for Zappa...

...early in the Mothers' career, Reb Foster, an L.A. disk jockey (and Turtles' manager) had told Zappa, "I'd like to clean you guys up a bit and mold you. I believe I could make you as big as The Turtles."

http://www.theturtles.com/floeddie.html

I have fond "car radio" memories of "Happy Together"...as a kid I also had a vinyl double album from the local radio station (WRKO Boston) called "30 Now Goldens Volume 2," and "Happy Together" was on it.

I also saw Zappa with Flo & Eddie at the Boston Music Hall, and took a blind date (my brother's next door neighbor), because neither my brother nor I knew in advance that the show would be much filthier than the "Fillmore" album. At the end of the night, when he drove us both back, she got out of the car without saying a word and walked straight up to her front door without looking back. I was supposed to be going to the show with my brother. I got in the car and there she was. My brother and her dad hung out at the Boston Playboy Club until the show was over. Whatta mess of a night.

So the worlds of Zappa / Turtles / Flo & Eddie do converge, but primarily by virtue of the fact that the guys Zappa was supposed to be "as big as" had become working members of...The Mothers of Invention.

:toast:

[Grantuspeace]

4. Eddie are You Kidding? link

http://www.youtube.com/user/Vooty13?blend=7&ob=5#p/u/0/OYOlQSYdeO8

[hifiguy]

6. I first heard that, and "Just Another Band From L.A."

when I was about 16. The only other Zappa I'd heard was "Hot Rats," which was almost entirely instrumental. First I was shocked and freaked out that anyone could put that stuff out on a record back in 1972. Ten minutes later I was busting a gut with laughter and blown away by the (as per usual) sheer virtuosity of Zappa's band. Been an FZ fan ever since.

"Billy the Mountain'
Billy the Mountain...
A regular picturey postcardy mountain
and his lovely wife Ethel
a treeeeeeee, ahhhhh treeeeeee."