{"id":3228,"date":"2006-10-20T11:30:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T09:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/10\/20\/conceptual-continuity-in-the-comic-book-consortium"},"modified":"2006-10-20T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T09:35:07","slug":"conceptual-continuity-comic-book-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/10\/20\/conceptual-continuity-comic-book-edition","title":{"rendered":"Conceptual Continuity, Comic Book Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may wonder: what’s the source for “Metal Man Has Won His Wings<\/a>“, off Mystery Disc<\/a>? Biffy has the lowdown<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Frank Zappa’s notes on the song, prepared in 1984, tell us that:
\n“In our spare time we made what we thought were ‘rock & roll’ records. In this example, Vliet was ‘singing’ in the hallway outside the studio (our vocal booth) while the band played in the other room. The lyrics were derived from a comic book pinned to the bulletin board near the door.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That comic book was called “Metal Men”, inside it was an ad for a comic called “Hawkman” and as it turns out Frank Zappa later became friends<\/a> with its author, Jack Kirby<\/a>. Electro-flyer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may wonder: what’s the source for “Metal Man Has Won His Wings“, off Mystery Disc? Biffy has the lowdown: Frank Zappa’s notes on the song, prepared in 1984, tell us that: “In our spare time we made what we … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-frank-zappa","category-zappa-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}