Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa
This song describes an incident involving the band Vanilla Fudge and members of Led Zeppelin and a fish at the Edgewater Inn in Seattle, Washington in 1969. At the time, the hotel was famous for lending fishing rods and bait to its guests so they could fish from outside the window of their hotel roo...
FZ: That's right, you heard right, the Secret Word for tonight is Mud Shark! And of course with the Mud Shark Secret Word is the Mud Shark Arpeggio . . . a marvellous little arpeggio, and now the mating call of the adult male Mud Shark
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: THE MUD SHARK DANCING LESSON!
Mud Sh-sh-shark
Mark: Wait a minute . . . we're gonna do a little dancing . . . a little dancing thing called the Mud Shark . . . Now, this dance started up in Seattle
Howard: Yes
Mark: The story
FZ: Lemme tell you the story 'bout the Mud Shark
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: Bring the band on down behind me, boys
Howard: Say! Good God! Ain't it funky! Say!
FZ: The origins of the Mud Shark are as follows
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: There's a motel in Seattle, Washington, called the Edgewater Inn . . . The Edgewater Inn is built out on a pier . . . so that means that when you look out your window you don't see any dirt, it's . . . got a bay or something out in your backyard
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: And to make it even more interesting, in the lobby of the aforementioned motel there's a bait and tackle shop where the residents can go down and, whenever they want to, rent a fishing pole and some preserved minnows and schlep back up to their rooms, open the window, stick their little pole outside and within a few minutes actually catch a fish of some sort that they can bring into their motel room and do whatever they want with it, you know what I mean?
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: Now in this bay there's quite a variety of . . . fish!
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: Not only do they have mud sharks up there, they got little octopusses that you can catch
Fish!
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: And all of these denizens of the deep can come in real handy
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: Let's say you were a travelling Rock and Roll band called The Vanilla Fudge . . . let's say one night you checked into the Edgewater Inn with an 8mm movie camera
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: Enough money to rent a pole, and just to make it more interesting
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: A succulent young lady!
Howard: Nooo!
FZ: With a taste for the bizarre
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: My mind drifts back . . . to a meeting, a chance meeting in the Chicago O'Hare Airport
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: Where the members of The Vanilla Fudge told Don Preston about a home movie they made at the Edgewater Inn . . . with a mud shark!
Mud Sh-sh-shark
FZ: And I'm gonna tell you, this dance, the Mud Shark, is sweeping the ocean!
Hey! Mud Sh-sh-shark
Mark: Ah, we're goin'! Go 'head! Ah, we're goin'! Now we're gonna go out, somehow! Come one!
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
(Now show 'em what they do with the Mud Shark!)
Out
You go out
(Now show 'em what they do with the Mud Shark!)
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Hey!
Out
You go out
(Catch the Mud Shark)
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Out
You go out
So far out
You do the Mud Shark, baby
Mud Shark was written by Frank Zappa.
Mud Shark was produced by Frank Zappa.
Frank Zappa released Mud Shark on Mon Aug 02 1971.