I remember seeing that when it was originally in the theaters. I was 18-19 years old at the time & didn't know what to make of the movie at the time.

++++1 ETCETERA!!!


/digs for his 200 Motels vid and dusts off the vid player!

//lonesome cowboy burt

/// a little NSFW lyrics
This stuff was rock videos before there were rock videos.

Mr. Lahey: Bathia_Mapes: I remember seeing that when it was originally in the theaters. I was 18-19 years old at the time & didn't know what to make of the movie at the time.

We those the same times?

Oops, too much time on my hands. :-D

My older brother had the soundtrack album and played it to death. "Penis Dimension" is as familiar to my ears as the Brady Bunch theme.

Netflix has the film on streaming, btw

mrmyxolodian: Flo and Eddie rule.

That "movie" unfortunately does not.

Not quite as coherent as, say, "A Hard Day's Night." But hey, they both had Ringo...

mrmyxolodian: Flo and Eddie rule.

That "movie" unfortunately does not.

IMHO, the Flo/Eddie 'Vaudeville' period was Zappa's least interesting. Funny, sure, but not as challenging as the bands before and after. Best thing to happen to him musically was getting pushed off that stage in London.

WHAR WAITRESS? WHAR?

Wyckyd Sceptre: mrmyxolodian: Flo and Eddie rule.

That "movie" unfortunately does not.

IMHO, the Flo/Eddie 'Vaudeville' period was Zappa's least interesting. Funny, sure, but not as challenging as the bands before and after. Best thing to happen to him musically was getting pushed off that stage in London.

The logical question being, which artist ought to be pushed off the stage next?

Frank Zappa. The Kevin Costner of music. Many admire him, many say WTF?

Also on youtube: the whole damn movie: Link (new window)

In cheesy vhs quality with French subtitles -- because Frank would have wanted it that way...

John Buck 41: Frank Zappa. The Kevin Costner of music. Many admire him, many say WTF?

Maybe you need a seat in Joe's garage?

/The Kevin Costner of music? Scrub your tongue.

Candygram4Mongo: Also on youtube: the whole damn movie: Link (new window)

In cheesy vhs quality with French subtitles -- because Frank would have wanted it that way...

Meh, I'll watch it at Netflix instead.

Well I'll be damned, it's on Netflix streaming. Imma watch it.

WTF?! This *has* to be the very definition of a bad acid trip.

thesharkman: I'm a Zappa fan but this movie didn't work for me.

Absolutely, I'll take Baby Snakes over this any day. FZ's musical/compositional skills improved ten-fold by then.

Liverboy: I miss FZ. He sure would have a lot to say about our current times.

I think he might have HST'd himself during the Bush Jr admin, or his head would've exploded on its own.

Introducing Keith Moon?

thesharkman: I'm a Zappa fan but this movie didn't work for me. There were some funny parts and I know there was budget issues but it just seems like the idea was bigger than the movie and there's only so much you can jam into this.

Did like some Flo and Eddie stuff, kind of where my name comes from. Love the Fillmore and Just Another Band From L.A...

True story once a girl I brought over a girl I was dating to my parents house. She fell asleep and I played Billy the Mountain while sorting through some records. Her comment when she awoke was to never play that record again.

The entire collection is amazing, but Bwana Dik is classic.


My dick is a Harley
You kick it to start


When Bwana Dik speaks
The heavens will part

/Flo and Eddy

I remember Ringo playing Larry the Dwarf, who was playing Frank Zappa within the film, and how he wanted to stick a magic lamp up a nun. That nun was Keith Moon. Frank himself never spoke, and ran around with a camera. The now-extinct Drive-In TV Channel in Canada did a double feature one Friday of Head, The Monkees' Movie, and 200 Motels. Frank was in both.

Courtesy of IMDB:
Rance Muhammitz: [as a TV show host, holding a microphone] Hi Larry, its good to have you back on our panel!
Larry The Dwarf: [holding a magic lamp] Hi Dave, its really great to be back on your panel!
Rance Muhammitz: I'm sure the people at home would be interested to know why such a large force as you is all dressed up like Frank Zappa. Tell us Larry, whats the deal?
Larry The Dwarf: He made me do it, Dave. He's such a creep. He's making me hold this aladdin.
Rance Muhammitz: And why is he making you do that, Larry?
Larry The Dwarf: He wants me to fark the girl with the harp.
[Keith Moon as the nun peers out from behind the harp grinning]
Rance Muhammitz: He wants you to fark the girl... with the harp?
Larry The Dwarf: NO, no! With the magic lamp! He wants me to stuff it up her and rub it.
[chuckles maniacally, host stares at him]
Rance Muhammitz: Let us ask our studio audience: if you had just been lowered down here on TV with a wire connected to a brown leather harness, forced by crazy person to insert a mysterious imported lamp in the rep-rep-rep
[has trouble pronouncing word with thick German accent]
Rance Muhammitz: into the, into the RE-productive orifice of a lady harpist, and you were a dwarf... would you do it?
Larry The Dwarf: YES!

/find me some Communist bastard, and I stomp on his face 'til he don't move no more
//he stomps on his face 'til he don't move no more.

I've never seen the movie, but the soundtrack is awful.

tarkus1980: I've never seen the movie, but the soundtrack is awful.

"You can take this needle here, and hang it from yer ass!" -- Lonsome Cowboy Burt

That quote was on the soundtrack LP album cover. I never understood the context till I watched the film...