The London Cab Tape - Frank Zappa, The Mothers Of Invention

[London

Probably November 29, 1970]

Howard: This fucking guy is flipped out, man!

I’ll be locked up!

?: Who, me.

.. ?

Yeah, you too!

?: It was anti-semitic of me to bring it up

?: Why, you don’t like Jews, man?

?: Let me make it perfectly clear, I don’t mind that you are Jew, stay out.

..

Take your Bar Mitzvah man, and shove it

?: I never had a Bar Mitzvah

?: You ever had a Yamulka, man?

?: No, I wore one once, though.

.

?: I knew it

?: What’s wrong?

You don’t like 'em, man?

That was my cowboy hat.

.

?: Just keep it out of my way, man, I don’t wanna see that Yamulka on stage

ever.

.

?: Uh.

.. well, I don’t know, man, that’d be sorta neat, not in this group of

course, but tomorrow

?: Alright, alright.

.

?: Howard Kaylan World!

?: The Yamulka

FZ: Ha ha ha!

: Dear Frank, thanks for paying a hundred twenty three dollars for my meal in

Amsterdam, which I hated!

?: I mean it, man

?: I really enjoy playing in your little own ensemble

?: For a day or so

?: Thanks for bringing a little slice of sunshine into my life

?: Thanks for showing me how sh.

.. shitty the music business could really be,

I thought I knew

?: Thanks for make worst bass player in the world

?: After six months with the Mothers I figured I’ve lost everything I’ve ever

had