"Secret Greasing" - Frank Zappa

FZ: It’s a secret greasing

Les Carter: It’s a secret greasing?

FZ: Yeah

Les Carter: And this commercial has not been paid for—which, I might add,

violates all the rules of the Federal Communications Commission

FZ: That’s it, stick it to 'em.

Tell 'em how avant-garde you are!.

..

the music can start?

Les Carter: It’s on already

FZ: Oh, I can’t hear it.

Can I hear it while I’m doing this?

Les Carter: No way for you to hear it, Frank, you just have to.

.

FZ: Oh, start it again, I wanna make it perfect

Les Carter: Okay

FZ: Well.

At least get close to it

Les Carter: Okay, we’re gonna start that again

FZ: Here we go.

This is our greasing

Les Carter: Okay, I think it’s about ready to start, Frank, if you’re ready

FZ:

RUBEN SANO was 19 when he quit the group to work on his car.

He had just saved

up enough money to buy a 53 Nash and four gallons of gray primer.

His girl friend said she would leave him forever if he didn’t quit playing in

the band and fix up his car so they could go to the drive-in and make out.

There was already 11 other guys in the band so when he quit nobody missed him

except for his car when they had to go to rehearsal or play for a battle of the

bands at the American Legion Post in Chino.

They are all still good friends

even today.

The other main guys in the band: NATCHO, LOUIE, PANA & CHUY still

come over to RUBEN’S house on Tuesday or Wednesday to listen to his collection

of Richie Valens records & also «Eddie My Love».

Generally speaking, they save «Cherry Pie» & «Work With Me Annie» till the late part of the evening so they

can have something to hum on the way home or to Burger Lane.

Some of them

continue to hum & pop their fingers even the next day, working in the car wash.

Now that they have gotten their big break in show business each one of the

main guys in the group voted at the band meeting to keep the name RUBEN on the

JETS not only because it sounds real fine & gives it class, but also because it

makes it real sharp.

RUBEN even likes it too & thinks it is real sharp.

All the guys in the band hope that you are sick & tired like they are of all

this crazy far out music some of the bands of today are playing.

They hope you are so sick & tired of it that you are ready for their real

sharp style of music.

They are good socially acceptable young men who only want

to sing about their girl friends.

They want everybody to start dancing close

back together again like 1955 because they know that people need to love & also

want to hold on to each other.

Even holding hands is okay to them.

They want you to hold hands and dance the bop & fall in love to their music.

One of the main guys in the band was telling me a couple of weeks ago when we

were talking about how about only half the guys in the band ever show up at

rehearsals most of the time.

.. «IF PEOPLE WOULD JUST HEAR MY PLEA I WOULD

GIVE EVERYTHING JUST TO SING THE SONGS THAT WAS TURNING ME ON IN HIGH SCHOOL.»

RUBEN HAS 3 DOGS

BENNY, BABY & MARTHA