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|    Theo Alers to All    |
|    Re: Answer to vloerbedekking    |
|    15 Nov 18 17:42:23    |
      From: alerstheo@gmail.com              Op zondag 4 september 1994 02:20:25 UTC+2 schreef John V. Scialli:       > >chaos89 (chaos89@aol.com) wrote:       > >        > > >It's a pun, This means "floor covering". In the US, many types of floor       > > >coverings are made of vinyl, just like the old albums of not long ago.       > So       > > >maybe he is wishing that people may not have to suffer with all of the       > > >inferior qualities of this old medium, when he says "May you never hear       > > >vloerbedekking again"       > >        > > Hmmm... Jimi Hendrix said in `third Stone from the Sun' (I think it was       > >that tune) "You'll never hear surf music again." I wonder if Zappa was       > >making a pun-reference to that lyric. He did a good bust on Hendrix on       > >YCDTOSA Vol. 6. It was in the tune `We're Turning Again', or something       > like       > >that. And, he also had Hendrix in mind with `Flower Punk' (remember `Hey       > >Joe?)       > >        > > Just a thought. Don't know what `Vloerbedekking' is though.       > >        >        > Frank always said he was quite fond of Jimi, that Jimi was a genuinely nice       > guy (who crashed for a while at The Cabin). Did he keep the Hendrix poster       > up in the basement until the end?       >        > j              Mothers sang Sofa in dutch once when in the Netherlands. It can be heard on       the boot Vitamin Deficiancy. Vloerbedekking is the German fussbodenbelag       translated to Dutch. When playing the Ahoy in Rotterdam 88, shouted this to       the audience reffering to        that performance of Sofa.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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