{"id":331,"date":"2008-04-20T20:39:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T03:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/04\/a-guy-gets-into-a-three-way-with-two-girls-draped-in-the-american-flag\/"},"modified":"2008-04-20T20:43:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T03:43:36","slug":"a-guy-gets-into-a-three-way-with-two-girls-draped-in-the-american-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/20\/a-guy-gets-into-a-three-way-with-two-girls-draped-in-the-american-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"A guy gets into a three-way with two girls draped in the American flag…"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the NY Daily News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Odd forms follow funk with Was (Not Was)<\/h2>\n

Sunday, April 20th 2008, 4:00 AM<\/p>\n

\"Was<\/p>\n

It’s safe to say there’s only one living funk band who would record a lyric with the following plot:<\/p>\n

A guy gets into a three-way with two girls draped in the American flag, then meets an insane skinhead who hurls an anti-Semitic comment at him, causing him to kill and dismember the lout, after which our narrator sees a UFO land on the\u00a0Hollywood<\/a>\u00a0sign, out of which emerges\u00a0Tom Cruise<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Scientology<\/a>\u00a0leader\u00a0L. Ron Hubbard\u00a0<\/a>in postcoital bliss.<\/p>\n

Who but the twisted talents of Was (Not Was) would dare match such a heady scenario to the low-down fire of funk?<\/p>\n

\"Was<\/p>\n

Not that they’re entirely without antecedents.\u00a0George Clinton<\/a>\u00a0made surreality a central part of his shtick. And\u00a0Frank Zappa<\/a>\u00a0pioneered the whole universe of nut-case funk, even if he never got the sexual chemistry part quite right.<\/p>\n

Was (Not Was) has that part down. In fact, no band has so perfectly balanced the pull of funk with language worthy of the theater of the absurd.<\/p>\n

To broaden the band’s already sprawling music, they brought in a special guest orator –\u00a0Kris Kristofferson<\/a>\u00a0– who grumbles his way through the existential poem “Green Pills in the Dresser.” No less a talent than\u00a0Bob Dylan<\/a>\u00a0came along too, co-authoring the crazed tale “Mr. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.”<\/p>\n

But it wasn’t the great bard who came up with lines like this typical Was quatrain: “High in fiber\/low in fat\/come at your mama\/with a baseball bat.”<\/p>\n

Even on the odd chance that someone else could have written those lines, only the Was brothers could make them dance.<\/p>\n

<\/span>[ click to read full article at NY Daily News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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