The Mudshark Interview - Frank Zappa

The Mudshark Interview - Frank Zappa/The Mothers of Invention
What's your name
I'm Martin Tickman
And what is your position here
Front office manager
The name of this stablishment is
This is the Edgewater Inn
In Seattle Washington
Can you tell me
Uh how some rock'n'roll groups have taken advantage of this unique situation
They've taken advantage in different ways
And we do encourage
Uh and advertise that you can fish from your room and we are glad to have our guests fish from 'em
Do you supply them with fishing equipment
No but we have a shop in the hotel that does rent the equipment as well as bait
What sort of bait do they usually use
Uh it's a preserved minnow of some variety
I don't know exactly what the fish is
Well what do they do after they fish from the window
Well rock'n'roll bands and other guests as well often catch shark and squid and octopus and usually we
It lands up either in the bath tub or dribbled on the floor on the way to the bath tub
Mm-mmh
But it's not reserved to uh to any rock'n'roll bands I mean other guests do it too
Mm-mmh but how frequently do you find squids and sharks and octopuses in the bath tubs of the rooms here at the hotel
After almost any good weekend of pretty heavy occupancy
Say like over half the house filled
If you have over the
Way way
Over half house filled you'd find one say
Yeah say one or something like that
So how often would you say that is each week
Twice a week you'd find a
Well I would I don't know that I would say that it would average to anything like that
You may find on four or five rooms with fish from various places
Ou know around
But there's not much you can do with the shark after you've caught him
You know some of these things are pretty big
What would you imagine is done with these
Uh sharks after they've been caught before they are left
Uh for you to be cleaned up
Sometimes the guest calls the houseman or housekeeper to haul
It away because there's nothing that they can do with it
Yeah well
Have you ever heard of any other things that were done with them before they were hauled away
Yes a lot of
Some people like to uh perform vivisection on 'em
Or something like that
Occasionally you find that little bit of mess
FZ: Yeah
I'll say that the the
The "blood on the carpet" syndrome is rather eh
Rather rare but it did occasionally happen
Do you ever find fish blood on the sheets of your beds here