Frank Zappa THING FISH 3 Record set + Libretto N Mint

	£		34
	$		45

FRANK ZAPPA - THING FISH 3 RECORD SET & LIBRETTO ( PLAYED ONCE )

ORIGINAL BARKING PUMPKIN LABEL 1984 FIRST US PRESSING THREE LP'S IN NEAR MINT PLAYED ONCE CONDITION WITH ORIGINAL LIBRETTO.

SKCO - 74201

Released in April 1984, this is the superb triple concept album which tells how the US government is experimenting on the inmates of "San Quentin" prison, turning them into hideous, unknown creatures known as "Mammy-Nuns". For anybody who may not have heard this, The story is narrated by The Thing-Fish ( Ike Willis ), who speaks in an exaggerated Negro patois, hence his name is meant as a pun on the US TV's Amos and Andy show's "Kingfish." He is some sort of leader amongst the Mammy Nuns. This was done using a substance known as "Galoot Cologne" which was invented by an Evil Prince (and part-time theatre critic) living underneath the state of Virginia, to get rid of selected "highly-rhythmic individj'lls" (blacks) "an' sissy-boys" (gays). Before long, members of both groups "be droppin' off like flies". Being unable to return to their original jobs (because "they nackins growin out they bodies"), the Mutant Mammy-Nuns are forced to perform in a Broadway musical about their plight. During a stage show of the Mammy-Nuns, Harry and Rhonda (your average white, middle-class couple) are invited on stage and put in chains by Mammy-Nuns and are forced to witness and perform many twisted things. At one point, the racist evil prince performs a riveting operatic number with a group of "broadway zombies" explaining that the Mammy Nuns ending up on Broadway is a terrible thing because "all the best music on Broadway is native". Since he is a part time theatre critic, he explains his plan to write a terrible review of the work, to ensure that only traditional broadway entertainment remains on Broadway. In "flashback" segments, we learn that as a boy, Harry briefly became homosexual after he lost all desire for intercourse with females because of the women's liberation movement, before falling in love with a rubber doll called "Artificial Rhonda." Harry also suffered from an addiction to sniffing glue, and was a fan of the Grateful Dead. Rhonda is impregnated by Quentin, a service station employee, the son of Quentin Robert DeNameland, a video preacher, working out of Las Vegas. After this occurs, she gives birth to The Crab Grass Baby, who is an apparently robotic infant with a broad vocabulary and large genitalia. As rebuke for Rhonda's cheating, Harry works a brief stint as a truck-driver, running string beans to Utah. During this time, Rhonda becomes engrossed in her career, and participates in the widespread female conspiracy known as the women's liberation movement. She becomes infatuated with her job, and seems to have a severe personality disorder which leaves her split between being a stereotype of a little girl, interested in cute flowers and potpourri, and a deranged, sex-crazed brief-case fetishist. During "Briefcase Boogie" Rhonda embarks on a sequence during which she has sex with her briefcase, and verbally abuses her husband. The bizarre conclusion occurs when The Thing-Fish meets the evil prince, who has taken some of the Galoot Cologne, in an attempt to see if he is immune to it. He is turned into what sounds like a partial Mammy Nun, for the reason that he begins speaking "de vernacuhluh". Thing-Fish and Evil Prince chat about "tater husbandry" at their old Alma Mater, and the work ends with a public service announcement against using Galoot Cologne, and a backwards rendition of the track No Not Now

Complete list of tracks on this album are PROLOGUE - THE MAMMY NUNS - HARRY & RHONDA - GALOOT UP DATE - THE TORCHUM NEVER STOPS - THAT EVIL PRINCE - YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS - MUDD CLUB - THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT NOTHING - CLOWNS ON VELVET - HARRY AS A BOY - HE'S SO GAY - THE MASSIVE IMPROVELENCE - ARTIFICIAL RHONDA - THE CRAB GRASS BABY - THE WHITE BOY TROUBLES - NO NOT NOW - BRIEFCASE BOOGIE - BROWN MOSES - WISTFUL WIT A FIST FULL - DROP DEAD - WOT TON ON.

The Cast on this triple album

THING FISH - Ike Willis. HARRY - Terry Bozzio. RHONDA - Dale Bozzio. EVIL PRINCE - Napoleon Murphy Brock. HARRY AS A BOY - Bob Harris. BROWN MOSES - Johnny Guitar Watson. OWL GONKWIN JANE COWHOON - Ray White.

Musicians

FRANK ZAPPA

STEVE VAI

RAY WHITE

TOMMY MARS

CHUCK WILD

ARTHUR BARROW

SCOTT THUNES

JAY ANDERSON

ED MANN

CHAD WACKERMAN

STEVE DE FURIA

DAVID OCKER

The VINYL, The Vinyl visually and audibly is in near mint played once condition. This album I have just played for these listing purposes and it plays through perfectly. absolutely no pops sticks or skips, a great player.  

The BOX, The box is quite worn but is still intact and is quite respectable. Needless to say it's free from unwanted stickers or nasty writing etc.  

The LABELS, The maroon labels are spotlessly clean, absolutely no spindle wear and needless to say there is no unwanted writing or sticker marks etc.

The INNERS, The black warning inners are clean.

I try to be accurate in my grading as I know what its like to buy miss graded items but won't insult you by writing song lyrics etc 

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