Frank Zappa - The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary

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Frank Zappa (guitar, vocals)
George Duke (keyboards, vocals)
Bruce Fowler (trombone)
Tom Fowler (bass)
Chester Thompson (drums)

The adventures of GREGGERY PECCARY!

Oh, here comes GREGGERY,
Little GRECGERY PECCARY
The nocturnal gregarious
Wild swine

A peccary
Is a little pig
With a white collar
That usually hangs around
Between Texas and Paraguay
Sometimes ranging as far
west as Catalina

Catalina, Catalina, Catalina!

This particular peccary
Is part of that bold (bold),
New (new) breed (breeding)
That extinguishes itself
By markings which resemble a
WIDE TIE
Directly below the
White collar

If it`s white enough
Everyone will know
That the tie I`m wearing
Is a symbol
Of how nimble mv mind will know
Ooh-ooh!

(Swine suave!)

Look out!
Here he comes again!

Oh here comes GREGGERY PECCARY.
Yes it`s cravv, cravy, veah...

Every morning, GREGGERY drives
His little red Volkswagen to the ugly
Part of town where they keep the Government Buildings.

Voodn, Voodn!
Boy it`s so hard to find a place to park around here!
GREGGERY PECCARY takes the elevator
Up to the eighty-third floor of a grim,
Gray, evil-looking building
With a sign on the front reading:
`BIG SWIFTY ASSOCIATES. TREND-MONGERS`.

And what, might you ask, is a TREND MONGER?
Well, a TREND MONGER is a person
who dreams up a TREND
(Like `The Twist` --- or `Flower Power`),
And spreads it throughout the land,
Using all the frightening little skills
That Science has made available!

And so it was, one fateful morning,
GREGGERY PECCARY made his way through the Steno Pool . . .

Hi Mildred!
Hello Gladys!
WANDA!

Yes, from the moment they laid
eyes on him,
All the girls in the BIG SWIFTY
Steno Pool
KNEW . . .
Here was a
Nocturnal,
Gregarious
Wild swine
ON HIS WAY UP!
A Peccary of Destiny,
Adventure
And
ROMANCE!

Is there any mail for me?

SWIFTY`S!
THIS IS BIG SWIFTY`S!
AT BIG SWIFTY`S WE ALL KNOW-OW-OW
YOU`LL GO
FOR ANY GIMMICK OR GIZMO!

WOULDN`T YOU RATHER BE INVOLVED
IN A SERIES OF COLORFUL
TIME-WASTINC TRENDS?

AIR HOCKEY . . . biff . . . dush-h-h!

LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA, YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP

IS YOUR WIFE SNORING BY THE SINK?

LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA, YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP

AIN`T YOUR LIFE BORING, DON`TCHA THINK?

YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP
LIFE IS SO MUCH BETTER
WHEN THERE`S SOME LITTLE SOMETHING
TO DO!

Does it matter that this waste of time
Is what makes a LIFE for you? Hmmmmm?

I must plummet boldly
forward
To my ULTRA-AVANT
Laminated,
Simulated
Replica-mahogany desk,
With the strategically-placed,
Imported, very hip water pipe,
And the latest edition of the
WHOLE EARTH CATALOG,
And rack my agile mind
For a spectacular
NEW TREND,
Thereby rejuvenating our limping
economy,
And providing
For bored & miserable people
everywhere
Some great new
`THING`
To identify with.!

WE HAVE GOT THE LITTLE ANSWERS
TO THE THINGS
THAT MIGHT` BE BOTHERING YOU!

WE HAVE GOT YOUR LITTLE TOYS!
(WE`RE BUSY MAKIN` `EM!)

BUSY MAKIN` `EM,
WE`RE BUSY MAKIN` `EM,
BUSY MAKIN` `EM
JUST FOR YOU!

Yoo-hoo-hoo!
Very efficient. Miss Snodgrass!

And with that.
GREGCERY turned
And strode nonchalantly
Into his dinky little office
With the desk and the catalog
And the very hip water pipe.
And proceeded,
With a vigor and determination
Known only to piglets
Of a similarly diminutive
proportion,
To single-handedly invent
THE CALENDAR!
With his eye rolled heaven-ward.
and his little shiny pig-hoofs on the
desk, GREGGERY ponders the
question of ETERNITY (and fractional
divisions thereof), as mysterious
ANGELIC VOICES sing to him from a
great distance, providing the
necessary clues for the construction of
this thrilling new TREND!

SUNDAY

Sunday?
WOW!
SUNDAY,
`MONDAY

SUNDAY,

SATURDAY. . .TUESDAY THROUGH
- MONDAY`!

SATURDAY. . .

And thus THE CALENDAR,
In all of its colorful disguises
Was presented to
The bored & miserable people
Everywhere!

GREGCERY issued a memo on it.
Whereupon the entire contents
of the Steno Pool
Identified with it STRENUOUSLY,
And WORSHIPPED IT as a WAY OF LIFE,
And took their little Pills by it.
And went back `n forth from
work by it.
And paid their rent by it,
And before long they were even
having

Film and TV Credits

• Baby Snakes (1979)

Release History

2004

Ensemble Modern Plays Frank Zappa: Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions (feat. conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer)

1. Moggio (2:29)
2. What Will Rumi Do? (1:36)
3. Night School (4:47)
4. Revised Music for Low Budget Orchestra (7:37)
5. The Beltway Bandits (3:37)
6. A Pig With Wings (4:25)
7. Put A Motor In Yourself (5:21)
8. Peaches En Regalia (3:20)
9. Naval Aviation In Art (2:42)
10. The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary (20:34)

1996

Läther

1. Re-Gyptian Strut (4:36)
2. Naval Aviation In Art (2:42)
3. A Little Green Rosetta (8:16)
4. Duck Duck Goose (2:54)
5. Down In De Dew (2:58)
6. For The Young Sophisticate (2:36)
7. Tryin' To Grow A Chin (3:57)
8. Broken Hearts Are For Assholes (5:54)
9. The Legend Of The Illinois Enema Bandit (12:43)
10. Lemme Take You To The Beach (2:45)
11. Revised Music For Guitar And Low Budget Orchestra (7:37)
12. Rdnzl (4:12)
13. Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me? (4:26)
14. The Black Page #1 (1:58)
15. Big Leg Emma (2:31)
16. Punky's Whips (10:53)
17. Flambé (2:05)
18. The Purple Lagoon (4:03)
19. Pedro's Dowry (7:41)
20. Läther (3:50)
21. Spider Of Destiny (3:02)
22. Duke Of Orchestral Prunes (4:21)
23. Filthy Habits (6:18)
24. Titties 'n' Beer (5:51)
25. The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution (8:31)
26. The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary (20:34)
27. Regyptian Strut (1993) (4:43)
28. Leather Goods (6:01)
29. Revenge Of The Knick Knack People (2:25)
30. Time Is Money (2:42)

24 September 1996

Läther

1. Filthy Habits (6:18)
2. Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me? (4:26)
3. Regyptian Strut (4:13)
4. Naval Aviation In Art (2:42)
5. The Black Page #1 (1:58)
6. Titties 'n' Beer (5:51)
7. A Little Green Rosetta (8:16)
8. Big Leg Emma (2:31)
9. The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution (8:31)
10. Duck Duck Goose (2:54)
11. Punky's Whips (10:53)
12. The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary (20:34)
13. Down In De Dew (2:58)
14. Flambé (2:05)
15. Regyptian Strut (1993) (4:43)
16. For The Young Sophisticate (2:36)
17. Leather Goods (6:01)
18. The Purple Lagoon (4:03)
19. Pedro's Dowry (7:41)
20. Revenge Of The Knick Knack People (2:25)
21. Tryin' To Grow A Chin (3:57)
22. Broken Hearts Are For Assholes (5:54)
23. Läther (3:50)
24. Time Is Money (2:42)
25. Spider Of Destiny (3:02)
26. The Legend Of The Illinois Enema Bandit (12:43)
27. Duke Of Orchestral Prunes (4:21)
28. Lemme Take You To The Beach (2:45)
29. Revised Music For Guitar And Low Budget Orchestra (7:37)
30. Rdnzl (4:12)

28 August 2012

Studio Tan

1. The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary (20:34)
2. Lemme Take You To The Beach (2:45)
3. Revised Music For Guitar And Low Budget Orchestra (7:37)
4. Rdnzl (4:12)

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15 September 1978

Studio Tan

1. The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary (20:34)
2. Revised Music for Guitar and Low‐Budget Orchestra (7:37)
3. Lemme Take You To The Beach (2:45)
4. Rdnzl (4:12)