FRANK ZAPPA lyrics : "If We'd All Been Living In California..."
hundred dollars a month!
JCB: Where does it come from? We worked one gig this month. And now, so, what do
we get, two hundred dollars for this gig up here, if we're lucky. If we're
lucky, we'll get two hundred. And it'll be two weeks before we get it. Probably.
I mean a- . . . after all, uh . . . what is all this %#@! in the, uh, in the
newspaper? We sh-, if we got such a big name, how come, uh . . . we're. . .
FZ: That %#@! in the news . . .
JCB: We're starving, man! This $#&@ing band is starving! And we've been starving
for three years. I realize it takes a long time, but God damn does it take
another five, ten years from now?
FZ: There's some months when you're not gonna work as much as other months.
There's some months when you're gonna make a lot of money, and if you average it
out, you do make more than two hundred dollars a month.
JCB: Expenses are sure high, too. If we'd all been living in California, it
would've been different.
FZ: If we'd all been living in California, we wouldn't work at all!
JCB: Ah that's - true . . . Well, we're not working n-now anyway! We worked one
gig this month, Frank! What's wrong with getting two months in a row of this
good money? Or three months in a row? Then we can afford to take three or four
months off and everybody can . . . After the first month I can get just enough
ahead, but if I had two more months, man, I'll get ahead. 'Cause I'm not living
very extravagantly, I'll tell you for sure . . .
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