| Conceived
as a "really cheap kind of high school
play", Joe's Garage
"loosely" tells the story of one
hapless individual's journey from a "garage
band" in Canoga Park to the eventual
"illigalization" of music. Along the
way, he is confronted with Mrs.
Borg (who calls the
cops on the boys for playing too loud), Mary
(who has a penchant for acts of
"hooverism" as performed on rock
stars), sexually
transmitted disease
(gon-o-ka-ka-khackus!), L.
Ron Hoover (spiritual advisor
of the First Church Of Appliantology), Sy
Borg (model XQJ-37
Nuclear-Powered Pan-Sexual Roto-Plooker), prison (
for plooking Sy Borg to death and having no money
to pay for the damage),Bald-Headed
John (He used to be a
promo man for a major record company. Now, in
prison, He's "King Of The Plookers"), Father
Riley B. Jones
(who offers Joe pre-blessed unguents), himself
(he becomes sullen and withdrawn, eventually,
dwindling off into the twilight realm of his own
secret thoughts to dream up guitar notes that
would irritate an executive kind of guy). Heavy
stuff!
This
album was my first exposure to Frank's brand of
alternative entertainment. Needless to say, I've
never been the same.
*
Originally titled Wet
T-Shirt Contest
** originally
titled Toad-O Line
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