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What's The Name Of Your Group?

Performances | Comments | Conceptual Continuity

FZ album(s) in which parts of the suite have appeared:

• 200 Motels (1971) as Dance Of The Rock & Roll Interviewers, recorded at Pinewood Studios, London, January-February 1971
  • same version on 200 Motels (The Movie) (1971)

• Ahead Of Their Time (1993) as Epilogue, performed in London, October 25, 1968
  • same recording, different edit on The Old Masters Box Two Mystery Disc (1986) as part of Agency Man
    • same version on Uncle Meat (The Movie) (1988)
• 200 Motels (The Movie) (1971) as "The Interview" part

Comments:

From: Charles Ulrich (affz, October 21, 1997)

Here's an excerpt from an interview with FZ, conducted by Miles on 11/14/70, and reprinted in T'Mershi Duween #37:

FZ: I finished two new books of scores just before the tour. One is called 'What's the Name of Your Group?' and the other is called 'Shove It Right In'. 'What's the Name of Your Group?' is really funny because it is the melody line of the finale from the Festival Hall show which is going to be inter-cut with the bridge and the ostinato of 'A Pound for a Brown', all with lyrics. You know the bass line? Well, the bass singers are going to be singing 'Far out, far fuckin' out, far fuckin' out and groovy' because it is a scene with this chick who is doing her first rock and roll interview. I'm sitting on stage, handcuffed to a chair, and I don't answer any of her questions and she's really obnoxious. She has a Polaroid camera with flashbulbs; all the dancers and the chorus have cameras with flashbulbs and they all shoot them on cue in their score. So that from time to time, there's these constellation barrages of bulbs going off, and all of a sudden they'll all go 'Yyyeeenntzzzt', and pull the tab on the camera, and it's all scored. So one of her lines is 'I bet your goup name is real weird because you look weird yourself' and 'I've got this lens here for my camera that'll make you look like some sort of depraved troll or something, because the kids who read our rock n roll magazine like to see famous musicians who look real far out and groovy'. Then the chorus sings 'Far out, far fuckin' out' and she's got a few 'far fuckin' out's in there. Then there's the bridge to 'Pound for a Brown' when it gets to the bit where it's like the Lone Ranger music; the chorus is singing 'How do they like your music over there?' because she just said 'How long have you been growing your hair and have you been to England and how do they like your music over there?' The chorus sing 'Over there, over there, how do they like your music over there...' It builds up and then they shoot flash bulbs, then the soprano stops and says 'I just want to verify a rumour. Is it true that you did this show at the Festival Hall?' Then it cuts to the rehearsal at the Festival Hall which is pixilated footage that was out at this pub on Seven Sisters Road when we were rehear[s]ing. It was great. We had fifteen members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Mothers in the back room of this pub - it was the only place we could find to rehearse. We wheeled in a baby grand piano. Really great.

Structure:

Conceptual Continuity:

• 200 Motels

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