The Mudshark Interview-Frank Zappa

[ti:The Mudshark Interview] [ar:Frank Zappa] [al:Playground Psychotics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Mudshark Interview - Frank Zappa [00:01.28]What's your name [00:01.78]I'm Martin Tickman [00:02.63]And what is your position here [00:04.04]Front office manager [00:05.04]The name of this stablishment is [00:06.79]This is the Edgewater Inn [00:08.39]In Seattle Washington [00:09.09]Can you tell me [00:11.01]Uh how some rock'n'roll groups have taken advantage of this unique situation [00:14.76] [00:15.41]They've taken advantage in different ways [00:18.21]And we do encourage [00:19.01]Uh and advertise that you can fish from your room and we are glad to have our guests fish from 'em [00:25.82]Do you supply them with fishing equipment [00:28.53]No but we have a shop in the hotel that does rent the equipment as well as bait [00:32.63]What sort of bait do they usually use [00:35.59]Uh it's a preserved minnow of some variety [00:38.80] [00:40.25]I don't know exactly what the fish is [00:43.21]Well what do they do after they fish from the window [00:45.36]Well rock'n'roll bands and other guests as well often catch shark and squid and octopus and usually we [00:49.87]It lands up either in the bath tub or dribbled on the floor on the way to the bath tub [00:54.93] [00:55.87]Mm-mmh [00:56.32]But it's not reserved to uh to any rock'n'roll bands I mean other guests do it too [01:03.67] [01:05.22]Mm-mmh but how frequently do you find squids and sharks and octopuses in the bath tubs of the rooms here at the hotel [01:12.04]After almost any good weekend of pretty heavy occupancy [01:14.04]Say like over half the house filled [01:16.40]If you have over the [01:18.35]Way way [01:18.95]Over half house filled you'd find one say [01:21.05]Yeah say one or something like that [01:23.16]So how often would you say that is each week [01:25.26]Twice a week you'd find a [01:27.92]Well I would I don't know that I would say that it would average to anything like that [01:33.77]You may find on four or five rooms with fish from various places [01:36.83]Ou know around [01:38.33]But there's not much you can do with the shark after you've caught him [01:41.04]You know some of these things are pretty big [01:43.03]What would you imagine is done with these [01:44.59]Uh sharks after they've been caught before they are left [01:47.66] [01:48.16]Uh for you to be cleaned up [01:49.60]Sometimes the guest calls the houseman or housekeeper to haul [01:52.11]It away because there's nothing that they can do with it [01:56.01]Yeah well [01:56.47] [01:57.77]Have you ever heard of any other things that were done with them before they were hauled away [02:01.68]Yes a lot of [02:03.48] [02:03.98]Some people like to uh perform vivisection on 'em [02:06.54]Or something like that [02:07.44]Occasionally you find that little bit of mess [02:09.24]FZ: Yeah [02:09.84]I'll say that the the [02:11.30]The "blood on the carpet" syndrome is rather eh [02:14.55]Rather rare but it did occasionally happen [02:17.05]Do you ever find fish blood on the sheets of your beds here