disc 1
1. Heavy Duty Judy
Sources
Special thanks to Charles Ulrich
| 0:00-0:50 | Würzburg, Germany, April 22, 1988 |
| 0:50-1:43 | Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 3, 1988 |
| 1:43-6:04 | Würzburg, Germany, April 22, 1988 |
What's that say? "Thanks for coming, what's the secret word for tonight? Your buddies Dirk, Tom and Tommy." Okay . . . Alright, guys, you're looking for another secret word?
FZ, interviewed by Michael Heinze, July 30, 1990
There are these three guys from Germany, Dirk [Weitz], Tom [Nagla] and Tommy [Mikkat], I don't know their last names, but they came to almost every concert in Germany in '88, and they would hold up a big sign in the audience that would say: "Frank, what's the secret word for tonight?"
And so every time I would see the sign I would just come up with a word, and that word would be like a virus that would infect every song during the show. And once I knew that there were kids in the audience that wanted to see that happen, we just did it more and more and more. There will be some good examples of that in this album that's coming out called "The best band you never heard in your life". In fact, on one—it's a quadruple CD—a lot of the stuff is from the German concerts, especially from the one in Würzburg. And I see the sign in the audience, and I read it, and you'll hear me, and you'll hear the results.
This afternoon at the hotel I was introduced for the first time to Johnny Cash, and Johnny was going to come to the concert tonight, and he was going to sing with us. Unfortunately his wife got sick so he can't come tonight.
[Johnny Cash, FZ.]
3. Cosmik Debris
(Now exactly what kind of a RING OF FIRE are we talking about here tonight?)
Don't you know,
You could get better results with Anusol
Wikipedia, retrieved April 9, 2011
Anusol is a medication that can be used to treat hemorrhoids (also known as piles).
Brad Schmitt, Tennessean.com, January 2004
No joke—a Florida TV production company plans to pitch Preparation H and other hemorrhoid-relief products with a commercial that features the country classic Ring of Fire.
The idea is hilarious to the song's co-writer, Merle Kilgore, who penned the Johnny Cash hit with Cash's late wife, June Carter Cash.
You see, Kilgore, an ex-country artist and 20-year veteran of the road, used to use a hemorrhoid joke onstage whenever he'd introduce Ring of Fire.
"I'd say, 'Ladies and gentlemen, I want to give credit where credit is due. I dedicate this song to the makers of Preparation H,' " Kilgore said yesterday. "And they would just fall out. So when the song publisher called and told me about it, I said, 'I can't believe it!' "
Fox News, February 19, 2004
"There is no way we will ever let that happen," Rosanne Cash told the newspaper. "We would never allow the song to be demeaned like that."
The script for the commercial would have featured Kilgore's own rendition of the song, not Cash's, but the Cash children still hold veto power through June Carter Cash's songwriting credit.
"He [Kilgore] started talking about this moronic tie-in without talking to any of us," Rosanne Cash added. "The song is about the transformative power of love and that's what it has always meant to me and that's what it will always mean to the Cash children."
June Carter Cash died a few months before her husband last year.
"I certainly didn't want to upset the Cash family because I love them," said Kilgore, who now manages Hank Williams Jr. "I just thought it was kind of funny."
5. Who Needs The Peace Corps?
Mike Keneally, "All About Mike!," keneally.com, c. 1998
"Peace Corps" in particular—not to be too fucking pompous, but that song probably wouldn't have happened on that tour if I weren't there (same with the Beatle stuff)—topped off by Frank not remembering the monologue at the end, asking me to recite it, then assigning it to me afterwards.
Sources
Special thanks to Charles Ulrich
| 0:00-0:07 | Munich, Germany, May 9, 1988 |
| 0:07-2:40 | Würzburg, Germany, April 22, 1988 |
7. Zomby Woof
Mike Keneally, "Really, Keneally?,"keneally.com
Q: [...] Is that you playing the little solo guitar breaks on the tail end of "Zomby Woof" on TBBYNHIYL?
A: Yep.
Sources
Special thanks to Charles Ulrich.
| 0:00-0:29 | Munich, Germany, May 9, 1988 |
| 0:29-0:43 | Allentown, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1988 |
| 0:43-0:54 | Munich, Germany, May 9, 1988 |
| 0:54-5:41 | Allentown, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1988 |
8. Bolero
FZ, interviewed for KNON FM, Dallas, TX, August 18, 1989
Will your performance ever see the light of day?
Yeah, well—Yeah, that's gonna come out.
It will come out. 'Cause I know there was like talk of a 12-inch single or a three-inch CD . . .
Yeah, well, see, here's the problem with it, that in order to release it, because it's still under a copyright control that won't, that doesn't allow anybody to rearrange it, except in England. It's, the copyright has expired in England and it's now public domain so whichever way it comes out it's going to have to be released through the company that has our deal in England.