Hi Mark I found this excerpt on a Zappa page about this As a result, Zappa9s official catalogue is filled with credited and uncredited guest appearances by, among others, Ike Turner, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, John Lennon and Sting. Other performances still haven't been released, such as Van Morrison's original vocal on "Dead Girls of London" or a show in which Joni Mitchell allegedly joined the Mothers on stage and improvised the lyric, "Penelope wants to fuck the sea." Even Bob Dylan came calling one winter night (wearing no coat, with his shirt wide open) with demo tapes (for what became Infidels), looking for Zappa to produce. Zappa didn9t recognize Dylan by sight or voice and sent a bodyguard to confirm that it wasn9t Charles Manson.
It would be cool to ring Dweezil up and get him to find this for us. Paz on 6/5/02 6:16 PM, Mark or Travis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I believe she improvised a song/poem including >> the words "Penelope wants to f**k the sea"...with Zappa conducting the >> Mothers of Invention behind her. >> >> > Welcome, Todd. > > I've never heard about this performance but I do know there is a book of > poetry that Joni created and I believe hand printed a very few copies of for > friends called 'Morning Glory on the Vine'. It has a poem in it entitled > 'Penelope Wants to F**k the Sea' (the asterisks are for those who may get > their Joni mail at work and/or have filters that auto-delete mail with > certain words in them). I had the privilege of actually seeing one of these > rara avis when Leslie Mixon visited Seattle several years ago and was kind > enough to bring one with her and let me peruse it. (Natasha, if you're out > there, I miss you.) I believe there's someone else on the list who has a > copy of this book. > > Mark E in Seattle
