1c2a From: John.Schulien%UIC.EDU@uicvm.uic.edu Subject: Ken Nordine Transcript Message-ID: <1993Mar15.043325.28617@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> Reply-To: John.Schulien%UIC.EDU@uicvm.uic.edu Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 04:33:25 GMT Here's my best recollections and a transcript of Ken Nordine at the closing Horizon show: After drums ... Mickey and Bill came down to the front of the stage, Mickey with a tar, Bill with a talking drum. Jerry joined them onstage and someone brought out a tall stool. Ken came onstage, sat down on the stool, and was joined by the rest of the band. Jerry started a noodling background jazz space and the rest of the band joined in. Ken started his performance, but his mic was turned down. When Healy brought it up he finished the sentence he was on and started his performance over. Some of the lines in the first poem I couldn't swear I got right: I sometimes think that ever flows So red the rose, where some buried Ceasar bled And every hyacinth the garden wears Dropped in it's lap from some once lovely head So many times I think of myself as nothing's boy Who climbs the spirals of his light His heretic tick-tock muscle measuring In its closed circle his blood's unfree flowing Up shall bring him down to the clouds of zero There was a stranger who came into our town He was tall and dark, and had eyes That could look right down into the bottom of you And he got us all together in the huge auditorium We were in the dark, he was on the stage And he began to chant First with a whisper we could hardly hear ``The Flibberty Jib and the Bipperty Bop The Flibberty Jib and the Bipperty Bop'' We didn't know what it meant ``The Flibberty Jib and the Bipperty Bop'' He had trapped us without our knowing it And by little and little He took us into the world of magic And we began to chant with him ``The Flibberty Jib and the Bipperty Bop The Flibberty Jib and the Bipperty Bop'' And the magic was in us And he was on the stage saying, ``Yes! Yes! Yes!'' But there were those among us Who were jealous of his powers And didn't want him up there They made foolishness of what he was doing, these critics And little by little they said ``What he's saying doesn't mean anything'' And he lost faith in himself He became smaller and smaller And he left our town saying, ``No, No, No'' We lived through the time that followed We lived on histories and hopes Until the miracle that we thought would never happen Happened again Another stranger came into our town And he too was tall and dark And had eyes that could look right down into the bottom of you And he got us together in the big auditorium Him on the high stage And we were in the dark He began to chant ``The Flibberty Jib and the Bipperty Bop And we joined in and the magic again was in us But you know what happened, little by little, later on The critics made nonsense of what we were doing And he left our town saying, ``No, No'' By the way, how are things in your town? It's amazing, just being here with Jerry, Phil, The greatest band anywhere in the universe I got me this island, that I'm calling Me Every time that I go there, you know who I see You can see and me, more often then not, And that's pretty often, it's my favorite spot Oh there's plenty of spots called Other Then Me But they're someone else's, one look and you'll see You can try like a fool to be what you're not The island you get is the island you got. Then Ken shook hands with each band member, gave Phil a hug and walked offstage. Someone took the stool off and Mickey and Billy left the stage as Jerry started into space. Ken was very well received by the audience, to say the least. :-) From ddeegan@wam.umd.edu Mon Aug 29 20:22:44 PDT 1994 From: ddeegan@wam.umd.edu (Dirk Star Deegan) Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead Subject: Re: Ken Nordine's Magical World? Date: 30 Aug 1994 01:31:25 GMT Organization: University of Maryland College Park Lines: 61 Message-ID: <33u25d$d28@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: rac6.wam.umd.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] chender@umich.edu wrote: : Can anyone on the net paraphrase or at least retell the story that Ken : Nordine : told with the acompanyment of the boyz at Rosemont Horizon during the : spring : tour in 93? something like "There was a stranger who came into our town. And he was tall and dark and had eyes that could look right down nto the bottom of you. And he gathered us together in the Huuuge auditorium. And we were in the dark and he was on the stage. And he began to chant. First ina whisper we could hardly hear. 'The Flipperty jib on the bipperty bop, the flipperty jib on the Bipperty bop.' We didn't know what it meant. The flipperty jib on the bipperty bop? The fjotbb? He trapped us without our knowing it. And little by little he took usinto the world of magic. And we began to chant with him, 'The fjotbb!!The fjotbb!! And themagic was in us. And he was on the stage. And we were saying 'Yes!! YEs!!! YES!!!!.' But there were those among us who were jelous of his power. They made foolishness what he was doing these critics, And little by little they said what he's saying doesn't nean anything! And he lost faith in himself and he left our town saying NO!! No! no. We lived through the time that followed we lived on histories and hopes andn the miracle that we thought would never happen happened again. Another stranger came into our town. And he too was tall and had eyes that couldlook right into the bottom of you. ANd he got us together in the big auditoriom and he began to chant "The fjotbb! and the magic was again in us. But you know what happened little by little a little later on the critics made foolishness of what we were doing. ANd he too left our town saying No! No! no. By the way how are things in your town!? (Crowd noise) To me this is amazing just being here with jerry and youand the gratest band anywhere in the universe!!!!!!(Jerry licks) (crowd roars) I got me this island that I'm calling me. And everytime I go there I know who i'll see. I can see me and me more often than not And that's pretty often, It'sm my favorite spot. Now, there are plenty of islands called other than me. But they are someone else's, one look and you'll see. You can try like a fool to be what you're not. The island you get is the island ya got. God Love You!! Phil: Ken Nordine, Ken Nordine. -- Dirk Star Deegan "The grass ain't greener, the wine ain't sweeter, either side of the hill!!" -Robert Hunter ddeegan@wam.umd.edu . 0