{"id":5209,"date":"2013-12-28T15:39:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T22:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5209"},"modified":"2013-12-30T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T22:49:49","slug":"f%e2%80%a0ck-you-captain-tom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/28\/f%e2%80%a0ck-you-captain-tom\/","title":{"rendered":"F\u2020ck you, Captain Tom"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Adrian Belew’s ‘elephant blog’<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Anecdote #646 part 1<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>Uneasy Meetings with Gods\u00a0<\/em>part one.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>place: a Frank Zappa concert in\u00a0Cologne, Germany 2\/14\/1978 –\u00a0my first tour of europe ever and as a member the frank zappa band.\u00a0although I wasn’t aware, this night\u00a0brian eno is in the audience.\u00a0next day eno calls david bowie\u00a0knowing david\u00a0is looking for a new guitarist.<\/p>\n

Berlin, Germany 2\/15\/1978\u00a0the following night david comes\u00a0to the show ostensibly to see me play.\u00a0there is a break in the show where I\u00a0normally leave the stage while frank\u00a0plays an extended guitar solo.\u00a0as I’m leaving I glance over\u00a0to the monitor board. I’m shocked to see david bowie and iggy pop!\u00a0I walk over, shaking david’s hand I say, “I’ve always loved your music”.\u00a0“great”, he says, “how’d you like to join my band?!”\u00a0“well, I’m playing with\u00a0this guy\u00a0right now…” I stammer, pointing to frank.\u00a0“yes, I know, but your tour ends in two weeks and mine begins two weeks later.”\u00a0we agree to meet back at the hotel after the show.<\/p>\n

what followed was like something out of a spy film. david and his assistant coco tried to rendezvous with me without letting anyone in on our little “secret”. I suppose the idea was to avoid letting frank know I was being wooed away from his band. I was too dumb to notice. at one point, david, coco, and I stepped into the hotel elevator when no one was around. whispering, coco said, “we have a car out front. we’ll meet you there in ten minutes.”<\/p>\n

david wanted to take me to one of his favorite restaurants to discuss my future. he had lived in berlin for several years. so his driver set off with the three of us in the back madly chatting about songs we’d play and places we’d go. we pulled up to a nice looking restaurant and walked in.<\/p>\n

at the table right in front of us sat frank and some of the band!
\nthe jig was up as they say.
\ncan you imagine? how many restaurants are there in berlin?
\nso we invited ourselves to join them at their table.
\nfeeling slightly uncomfortable david tried to engage frank in friendly discourse.
\ndavid said, “really enjoyed the show”.
\nfrank shot back, “fuck you\u00a0captain\u00a0tom”.
\n“c’mon frank, we can be adults about this, can’t we?” david replied.
\n“fuck you\u00a0captain\u00a0tom.”<\/p>\n

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from Adrian Belew’s ‘elephant blog’ Anecdote #646 part 1 Uneasy Meetings with Gods\u00a0part one.\u00a0 place: a Frank Zappa concert in\u00a0Cologne, Germany 2\/14\/1978 –\u00a0my first tour of europe ever and as a member the frank zappa band.\u00a0although I wasn’t aware, this night\u00a0brian eno is in the audience.\u00a0next day eno calls david bowie\u00a0knowing david\u00a0is looking for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}