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Warren Duffy: That’s for real?

FZ: Yep

Warren Duffy: Can’t believe it

FZ: Well. .. You know how they are

Warren Duffy: (Laughs.)

FZ: Well, I don’t think that my intent is to be 100% radical all the time—We

made Ruben & The Jets because I really love rhythm & blues. I like that kind of

music. And I always wanted to make an album of it, you know. Ever since I was

in high school. So, there it is!

FZ: In fact, an interesting anecdote might be inserted here about the time the

album was sent to the program director at radio station KRLA in Los Angeles.

Uh, he received a copy of the album which of course mentions the name «Mothers Of Invention» on it in small print, so he didn’t— Uh, he wasn’t fooled

the way the other radio stations were fooled into playing our record.

So, he knew that it was The Mothers Of Invention and therefore just put the

album aside completely, you know, didn’t even bother to listen to it.

Until one night he was at home and he got drunk. And he decided, «What the heck, I’ll play this thing and get these guys off my back.

«So he put it on the record player and heard that it was 1950s LOVE MUSIC.

Woke his wife up and they danced all night to it, and he called the office the

next day raving. You know, it affects the—he was about 29 years old—affects

that age group very strongly, because they can remember that era,

and have a lot of, uh, glandular-tinged nostalgia for that sort of music

Warren Duffy: You say «they.» Is that part of your era too?

FZ: Oh, of course! I happen to like the Ruben & The Jets album very much.

I, uh— And I like that type of music and we’re cutting another Ruben & The

Jets album next week at Criteria Studios in Miami. We’ll be sitting around

there for a few days before we work a job in Miami, so we booked the studio and

we’re going in and record the songs in the same manner that they were recorded

in the 50s. The Ruben & The Jets album was recorded in a very contemporary way,

sort of track by track and very carefully stereo’d out and— uh,

everything very organized. In the olden days they used to dump you into a room

and stick a microphone somewhere in there and after a few hours of moving

people around the room to get the proper balance, they would come up with a

nice old-time rhythm & blues record. We’re going to use more than one

microphone at this next recording session but we do hope to record the band

just all sitting around in the room and we’re probably gonna make up some of

the songs in the studio. Because after all boy-girl situations are timeless

FZ: Well, I didn’t make conscious imitations of vocal group styles but there

are certain cliché elements that were directly lifted like, uh— There’s part of

the fade out from «Earth Angel» superimposed on part of The Rite Of Spring in

one of those things. (Laughs.) And, uh— I think that the best harmonizing group

from the old days was The Moonglows. They really had it down. But that wouldn’t

be one of my favourite groups because they were so sharp, you know,

so precise that it was almost like they were unreal. You know? (Laughs.

) I went for groups that really sang out of tune and really cried, like «Valarie» by Jackie & The Starlites is a real good one. (Laughs.)

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