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"Zappa continued a high rate of production through the first half of the 1970s, including the solo album Apostrophe (') (1974), which reached a career-high #10 on the Billboard pop album charts helped by the chart single "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow"."
I think we need to go through Zappa to get to something/someone else.
I agree with this. DJ JD said early on that a favorite of his would take us right to the answer, and I know he's a Zappa fan. And then "to get the answer- you must go to another artist" - again just sounds like we're getting to the answer VIA Zappa, not that Zappa (or rather, ZPZ) IS the answer.
...I can't imagine that the video of him playing the bicycle doesn't contain the clue to the answer/artist ("stay on EL BIKE"). The video is rich in possibility. Besides the Handlebars thing, there was the "sound of a motorbike reference"...Black Rebel Motorcycle Club? This doesn't fit well great, but it's another thought.
edit: In 2013 Johnny 5 founder of Flobots hopes to write a rap in 10 languages..."EL BIKE"
"All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act." -- Marcel Duchamp
Post by metrocknroll on Jan 27, 2010 16:54:09 GMT -5
Looking for connections to EL BIKE and Zappa, the only thing I found was that a guy named Theodore Bikel was the narrator on Zappa's film 200 Motels. Bikel was the co-founder of the Newport Folk Festival. Don't know if this helps at all though.
Louis Bellson (died 2/14/09) "World's Greatest Sinner" (movie) by Tim Carey, Frenzy productions Route 66 Man in the control booth "Mary had a little lamb..." 32 bars far-sightedness "How's Your Bird" - Baby Ray and the Ferns
Looking for connections to EL BIKE and Zappa, the only thing I found was that a guy named Theodore Bikel was the narrator on Zappa's film 200 Motels. Bikel was the co-founder of the Newport Folk Festival. Don't know if this helps at all though.
He was a co-founder of the Newport Folk Festival (together with Pete Seeger and George Wein) in 1959. In 1962, he heard Bob Dylan give his premiere performance of "Blowin' in the Wind". Bikel then went to his scheduled performance and became the first singer besides Dylan to perform the song in public. Bikel (with partner Herb Cohen) opened the first folk music coffeehouse in L.A., The Unicorn. Its popularity led to the two opening a second club, Cosmo Alley, which in addition to folk music presented poets such as Maya Angelou and comics including Lenny Bruce.
200 Motels is a 1971 British musical film featuring Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, produced at Pinewood Studios, England. Directed and written by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer, with special material written by Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, and Jeff Simmons. Actors included Ringo Starr, Theodore Bikel and Keith Moon.
Looking for connections to EL BIKE and Zappa, the only thing I found was that a guy named Theodore Bikel was the narrator on Zappa's film 200 Motels. Bikel was the co-founder of the Newport Folk Festival. Don't know if this helps at all though.
He was a co-founder of the Newport Folk Festival (together with Pete Seeger and George Wein) in 1959. In 1962, he heard Bob Dylan give his premiere performance of "Blowin' in the Wind". Bikel then went to his scheduled performance and became the first singer besides Dylan to perform the song in public. Bikel (with partner Herb Cohen) opened the first folk music coffeehouse in L.A., The Unicorn. Its popularity led to the two opening a second club, Cosmo Alley, which in addition to folk music presented poets such as Maya Angelou and comics including Lenny Bruce.
200 Motels is a 1971 British musical film featuring Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, produced at Pinewood Studios, England. Directed and written by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer, with special material written by Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, and Jeff Simmons. Actors included Ringo Starr, Theodore Bikel and Keith Moon.
You're missing it... DJJD says stuff in Spanish a lot of the time... It all relates back to this famous video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e3I0iagWXU
He was a co-founder of the Newport Folk Festival (together with Pete Seeger and George Wein) in 1959. In 1962, he heard Bob Dylan give his premiere performance of "Blowin' in the Wind". Bikel then went to his scheduled performance and became the first singer besides Dylan to perform the song in public. Bikel (with partner Herb Cohen) opened the first folk music coffeehouse in L.A., The Unicorn. Its popularity led to the two opening a second club, Cosmo Alley, which in addition to folk music presented poets such as Maya Angelou and comics including Lenny Bruce.
200 Motels is a 1971 British musical film featuring Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, produced at Pinewood Studios, England. Directed and written by Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer, with special material written by Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, and Jeff Simmons. Actors included Ringo Starr, Theodore Bikel and Keith Moon.
You're missing it... DJJD says stuff in Spanish a lot of the time... It all relates back to this famous video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e3I0iagWXU
Yeah I totally agree with this. It was the first thing that came to mind when I read it.
Post by notdarkyet on Jan 27, 2010 17:18:41 GMT -5
Nice work kibamba. I think this all fits together nicely thought I don't know how we would have ever gotten Ringo Starr directly from the original clue and the zapatos angle is flimsy since there are a bunch of other parts to and words in the original sentence which right now at least seemingly have no correlation of RS.
Post by notdarkyet on Jan 27, 2010 17:28:24 GMT -5
I found a transcription of the film and it mentions shoes in two parts:
"And make you assume a series of marginally erotic poses involving . . . a plastic chair and . . . an old guitar strap while I . . . did a wee-wee in your hair and . . . beat you with a pair of tennis shoes . . . I got from Jeff Beck"
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WOWWWW! WHAT CAN I SAY ABOUT THIS ELIXIR!
Mark: Put it on your steaks, uh, send it overseas, [...] ground, and put it on you surfboard so you won't slip off. Try it on your [Jim Bean Boy], and on the, the red balloons, you can blow up all balloons with it. Put it on your . . . heh . . . on . . . on your pizzas. Put it on your shoes, tie your bike with it, and fill up your tires with it.
Ok, I just got back from the gym, wearing tennis shoes and listening to Zappa and "my mind drifts back" thinking and thinking...
Tennis shoes can be defeated (instead of de-feeted)...
The video of Zappa performing a bicycle on Steve Allen's show in '63 may as well be considered an homage to percussion and avant garde music that Zappa pioneered in the popular realm. On Apostrophe(') - which has "Stink Foot" - one of the players is Ruth Underwood, "best known for playing xylophone, marimba, vibraphone and other percussion instruments in Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention from 1967 to 1977." Although Ruth played lots of percussion instruments, she is most often recognized by her playing the vibraphone during her time with Zappa. Another current band that factors in a lot of vibraphone is Tortoise. In Aesop's fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare", the rabbit is very fast compared with the slow tortoise, however the tortoise is the one that wins the race. If you're running a race, you would need/want to have tennis shoes on to protect your feet. However, the Tortoise doesn't need tennis shoes because it moves so slow, and yet it defeats the animal that has tennis shoes.
Tortoise
Edit: Plus, they're touring this winter and haven't played Roo since '07.
Consider the way he played the bicycle. He used a bow and plucked the spokes, both of these methods were used to play the viola in Handlebars. He also blew into the handlebars to make the trumpet sound, which is a featured instrument in Handlebars.
I have no idea how this may tie into Tennis shoes can be defeated/de-feeted. I'm just putting it out there b/c of Zappa using the bow on the bike in the video and the urge to find the clue through a musician Zappa worked with.
Post by monkeymonkeyjoyjoy on Jan 28, 2010 11:16:00 GMT -5
The world is spinning too fast I'm buying lead Nike shoes To keep myself tethered To the days I try to lose My mama said to slow down You must make your shoes Stop dancing to the music Of Gorillaz in a happy mood ............I WANT!!!!
Consider the way he played the bicycle. He used a bow and plucked the spokes, both of these methods were used to play the viola in Handlebars. He also blew into the handlebars to make the trumpet sound, which is a featured instrument in Handlebars.
You've tied Flobots to the video. How does that tie into the clue?
Consider the way he played the bicycle. He used a bow and plucked the spokes, both of these methods were used to play the viola in Handlebars. He also blew into the handlebars to make the trumpet sound, which is a featured instrument in Handlebars.
You've tied Flobots to the video. How does that tie into the clue?
Good point, so I did some research (I knew it fit, but couldn't figure out exactly how). Here's what I found.
The music video for the song begins (after 10 seconds) with a close-up of a casually-dressed character's tennis shoes as he begins to ride a bicycle. The other character, his friend, wears a business suit with indiscrete shoes, but obviously not tennis shoes. At the conclusion of the video, an army lead by the character on the business track kills his friend in the tennis shoes and defeats the oppostion he lead. The tennis shoes are very prominent throughout.
Also, and less convincingly, there is the album Onomatopoeia by Jonny 5 (FLOBOTS) and Yak. Per Wiki, "although released under the moniker Jonny 5 + Yak, the album itself displays the URL www.flobots.com, so this could arguably be classed as the first Flobots album." The song "Free-Written" includes the lyics "Wrap the set up, Match! You're beat. Like tennis."
Earlier this morning I Tweeted this to djjdfarmhound: "Good morning Deej. How are you doing? Almost as importantly, how are WE doing (with the clue solving, of course)?"
djjdfarmhound later responded (not directly to me nor this clue) with this: "I am mucho impressed with clue solving going on out there. I mean, really."
I'm sure this is NOT in reference to me nor this particular clue, but want to say thanks for the kind words Deej.
You've tied Flobots to the video. How does that tie into the clue?
Good point, so I did some research (I knew it fit, but couldn't figure out exactly how). Here's what I found.
The music video for the song begins (after 10 seconds) with a close-up of a casually-dressed character's tennis shoes as he begins to ride a bicycle. The other character, his friend, wears a business suit with indiscrete shoes, but obviously not tennis shoes. At the conclusion of the video, an army lead by the character on the business track kills his friend in the tennis shoes and defeats the oppostion he lead. The tennis shoes are very prominent throughout.
Also, and less convincingly, there is the album Onomatopoeia by Jonny 5 (FLOBOTS) and Yak. Per Wiki, "although released under the moniker Jonny 5 + Yak, the album itself displays the URL www.flobots.com, so this could arguably be classed as the first Flobots album." The song "Free-Written" includes the lyics "Wrap the set up, Match! You're beat. Like tennis."
Good research! I hope I'll get to ride my bike with no handlebars at Roo!
Napoleon Murphy Brock? Has played sax and done exquisite vocals for both father and son Zappa. Napoleon of course suffered a legendary defeat. Justin Brock's are a model of Nike skateboarding shoe.
Last Edit: Jan 28, 2010 21:27:48 GMT -5 by RBRR - Back to Top
200 Motels was filmed in England right? Does Wales come into play it at all? Looks like the DC rapper Wale is playing Bonnaroo according to his tour schedule. eventful.com/performers/wale-/P0-001-000111777-7
Number 9- is part of all that you can leave behind.
A part of the U2 album from the same name? A track maybe is the clue
The album is actually called all that you CAN'T leave behind. But the track The Ground Beneath Her Feet was a bonus track for the UK album. So maybe it was left behind. The lyrics are from Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name. Wish I could look into this more, but I'm working right now
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis composed the music for the film "The Road." As the main force behind Grinderman, the band released a single, "(I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free."
Edit: Oh crap, I mixed up some clues....
Last Edit: Jan 30, 2010 14:07:05 GMT -5 by RBRR - Back to Top
A part of the U2 album from the same name? A track maybe is the clue
The album is actually called all that you CAN'T leave behind. But the track The Ground Beneath Her Feet was a bonus track for the UK album. So maybe it was left behind. The lyrics are from Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name. Wish I could look into this more, but I'm working right now
Ok so this is my first try at these clues, so if this just sounds retarded sorry. Salman Rushdie sounds like and is often misspelled Salmon. Something you can leave behind could be leftovers. So maybe Leftover Salmon. Just a thought.
Post by viciouscircle on Jan 30, 2010 17:49:15 GMT -5
I think the tweet "Number 9- is part of all that you can leave behind" just means there's been a correct guess for this clue. Flobots works for me - nice work tnjedi!
I think the tweet "Number 9- is part of all that you can leave behind" just means there's been a correct guess for this clue. Flobots works for me - nice work tnjedi!
Thanks. I'm glad, cause I really didn't want to start over.