Me and a friend of mine were digging through his mother's collection and found the, uh, Mothers and the
"Absolutely Free" album. I taped it onto cassette just because it looked so horrible and sounded so weird I thought I might get a laugh out of it at some point. I taped a bunch of shit that day. I don't remember what any of it is now except Absolutely Free.
Anyway, a few weeks later I got high and played the tape, and all of a sudden I was noticing that
"Duke of Prunes" is actually a very cool song with a great guitar sound and the band is great. And it's also sung beautifully, but they didn't quite want to do that, so they just fucked up the song structure with odd stuff and nonsensical lyrics.
OK, so stuff started kind of becoming clear to me a little bit, so I kept getting high. This was in 1987 or something and you could smoke that shit all day and I did.
And then all of a sudden I heard
this motherfucker, and I was just following the guitar lines interweaving with fuck, I still aren't sure, a clarinet? Some kind of woodwind. It opens up with Holst's Jupiter but I didn't know that then. But I still find it thrilling to listen to, I've heard it a million times and I never get tired of it.
I was pretty sold.
Back in those days, everyone knew that if you were talking about Destiny's Child, you were talking about Beyonce, LaTavia, LeToya, and Larry.
