EDDIE (PALERMO) ARE YOU KIDDING?

Eddie are you kidding?
I heard ya on the CD
Eddie are you kidding?
The people always ask me

Ya played those Zappa hits
I thought it was the shit
Ya nailed them on the head
And then you sent me home

What?

Eddie are you kidding?
No!
No!
Eddie are you kidding?
No!
No!

Eddie are you teasing
About your slick arrangements?
Eddie are you teasing
About your twenty woodwinds?

I really got a jones
To hear those saxophones
Ya promised that you'd play me your version of Dupree

Eddie are you kidding?
No!
No!
Eddie are you kidding?
No!
No!

NL : You know, my friends asked me Eddie - Eddie are you kidding? (This is the dog talking ya see?) I wanna tell you something my friends : I am not kidding! Here at the Bottom Line we have twenty woodwinds in the front line. We have the East coasts best sections of trumpets, saxophones, trombones, keyboards and rhythm. Now my friends say to me : Eddie, what do you think of this Frank Zappa comedy material? And I tell 'em well when I first the Just Another Sandwich from LA album, I was not impressed. But as you can see here this song is Xenochronic. It stitches in all the right places. Our mallet player Igor will demonstrate. Just listen to this little Mudshark arpeggio.

"Take it away, Iggy!" (pause)… Ah, Iggy?

(Arpeggio plays here)


NL : Ah, see me after the show now, will ya Ig?

Thing 1 : Where can I go in Pomona?

Thing 2 : And where can I go In Bombay?

NL : And where can I go In Zurich?

Crew : To hear FZ today?

I need the hits.
The Zappa hits
I need the hits.
They are the shit.
I need the hits.

NL : With a bullet!

The Zappa hits

I've really got a jones
To hear all those trombones
He promised me he'd play me his version of Black Page

What?

Eddie are you kidding?
No!
No!
Eddie are you kidding?
No!
No!
Eddie are you kidding?
No!
No!
Eddie are you kidding? Eddie are you kidding? Eddie are you kidding?

NL: : No my friends I am not kidding. Right here on the stage tonight we have the Easts coasts largest selection of :

Trumpets
Saxophones
Trombone
Piccolo
And maybe even a contra-sarrusophone

NL : That's right. My brother Jake and little Emilio and…

Thing 1-5 : Twenty Woodwinds!