at the
Fillmore East during the album's recording on June 5, 1971
Fillmore East – June 1971 is a live thematic album. It portrays a comedic fantasy life of a rock band on the road as narrated by
Frank Zappa, and contains elements that, because of time and budget constraints, couldn't be included in the movie
200 Motels. "The Mud Shark" section is a story about a hotel,
Seattle's
Edgewater Inn, where guests could fish from their rooms. In the tale, a
mud shark is caught by a member of the pop group
Vanilla Fudge or its crew and, when combined with a groupie and a movie camera, depravity ensues. The story is related to an infamous 1969 incident involving members of
Led Zeppelin and Vanilla Fudge. The band then portray stereotypically egotistical members of a rock band "negotiating" for sex with a groupie and her girlfriends. The girls are insulted that the band thinks they are groupies and that they would sleep with the band just because they are musicians. They have standards; they will only have sex with a guy in a group with a "big, hit single in the charts – with a bullet!" and a "dick that's a monster." In "Bwana Dik", singer
Howard Kaylan assures the girls that he is endowed beyond their "wildest
Clearasil-spattered fantasies." And, not to be put off by the standards of these groupies, the band sings
the Turtles' hit "
Happy Together" - Kaylan,
Mark Volman, and
Jim Pons having been members of the Turtles - to the girls to give them their "bullet". The album ends with an encore excerpt including both Zappa's familiar "
Peaches en Regalia" and a
pastiche of early-
rock and roll, "Tears Began to Fall" (also issued as a single). When this album was first reissued on compact disc by
Rykodisc, "Willie the Pimp, Pt. 2" was omitted from the track line-up. It was included on the 2012 reissue of the album. Also, in the CD edition, the last minute of "Latex Solar Beef" was placed at the beginning of "Willie the Pimp Part One", making it longer. It is unclear if this was intentional or not. ==John & Yoko and the Mothers==