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Zappa, Nanook Rubs It

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhHCcUnm4SI

Always makes me laugh. And it's actually a stunning piece of music as well.

Here Fido!

Didn't even watch the video ... yet ... but I know it by heart.

Oh man, we had some awesome times listening to this man.

A buddy and I used to play a game we called Fermunda Ball. I had carpet on my bedroom walls and we splattered it with fluorescent paint, and had a huge black light behind the sound machine that lit the whole room up. To this day I still see shades of purple when I close my eyes. Anyhoo ... Fermunda Ball was this old round orange Nerf ball that was falling apart that we painted with fluorescent paint and we used to whip it at each other in the dark with the black light on, listening to this, and feeling happy.

You've made me very happy with this Sharke. I completely forgot about this, haven't even thought of it in 20 years.

No way! We used to do the same with a fluorescent ping pong ball tied with string to the ceiling light. We'd move the chairs into a circle and bat it around the room to each other like a game of psychedelic Swingball. Another thing we used to do was poke thousands of random pinholes into a sheet of foil and put it over the TV and watch it with the lights off. The moving colors would stream out of those holes and it would be all trippy and stuff 

Ok, this is too freakin' weird! I had a strobe light from Radio Shack. I made this Wizard/Dunce Hat looking cone shaped thing out of a huge piece of construction paper. Painted it black, poked a bunch of pin holes in it, and put a glow in the dark skull on top, and stuck it on the strobe light with it pointing up toward the ceiling.

Oh man. Fun times.

I gotta go ... g'night. :)

Ha...improvisational psychedelia, I love it. Sure beats those old oil projectors they had in the 60's...

I'll just say that you can only imagine what it's like to do most of what you guys did AND have access to a bunch of fun lighting and effects gear...  Lasers, crystals, rope lights, strobe lights, colored lights, beamer light, mirrors, a fog machine (with strawberry flavored smoke), flourescent paint, black lights, a few experimental medical devices...  Add in synths with aftertouch too and a kick-butt sound system.  Yeah, those were the days!