Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Mudshark Interview, artist - Frank Zappa.
Date of issue: 31.12.2011
Song language: English
The Mudshark Interview |
FZ: What’s your name? |
Mr Tickman: I’m Martin Tickman |
FZ: And what is your position here? |
Mr Tickman: Front office manager |
FZ: The name of this stablishment is. |
.. ? |
Mr Tickman: This is the Edgewater Inn |
FZ: In Seattle, Washington. |
Can you tell me, uh, how some rock’n’roll groups |
have taken advantage of this unique situation? |
Mr Tickman: 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 |
FZ: Do you supply them with fishing equipment? |
Mr Tickman: No, but we have a shop in the hotel that does rent the equipment as |
well as bait |
FZ: What sort of bait do they usually use? |
Mr Tickman: Uh, it’s a preserved minnow of some variety, I don’t know exactly |
what the fish is |
FZ: Well, what do they do after they fish from the window? |
Mr Tickman: 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 |
FZ: Mm-mmh. |
. |
Mr Tickman: But it’s not reserved to, uh, to any rock’n’roll bands, I mean, |
other guests do it too |
FZ: Mm-mmh, but how frequently do you find squids and sharks and octopuses in |
the bath tubs of the rooms here at the hotel? |
Mr Tickman: After almost any good weekend of pretty heavy occupancy, |
say like over half the house filled |
FZ: If you have over the. |
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Mr Tickman: Way, way. |
. |
FZ:. |
.. over half house filled you’d find one, say? |
Mr Tickman: Yeah, say, one or something like that |
FZ: So how often would you say that is each week? |
Twice a week you’d find a. |
. |
Mr Tickman: 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, you 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 |
FZ: 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? |
Mr Tickman: Sometimes the guest calls the houseman or housekeeper to haul it |
away because there’s nothing that they can do with it |
FZ: Yeah, well. |
Have you ever heard of any other things that were done with |
them before they were hauled away? |
Mr Tickman: 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 |
Mr Tickman: I’ll say that the, the, the «blood on the carpet» syndrome is |
rather, eh, rather rare, but it did occasionally happen |
FZ: Do you ever find fish blood on the sheets of your beds here? |
Mr Tickman: Not identifiable as such, no. |
. |
FZ: I see. |
Do you know of any stories about, uh, bizarre sexual activities |
performed with squid, octopus and mud sharks here in your rooms? |
Mr Tickman: No. .. I should think a mud shark would be a little uncomfortable, |
since their skin is so sandy but, uh, never heard of anyone having it with an |
octopus |