Lyrics Winterland '72 Opening and Band Introductions (Live At Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco - 12/15/1972) - Frank Zappa

Can you, can you please sit down and get comfortable?
Alright, I think we're ready to begin all I gotta do
Is make a couple of little adjustments here
Barry, there's no vocal in the monitor system at all
Can you put some in? Hello, hello, hello, hello
Hello, hello, nothing, nothing
Claremont, California hello, hello, hello
That just about woke me up, OK I've like to
There's still nothing happening in the monitor Barry
Except that noise, we're gonna go ahead
I'd like to introduce the members of the group to you now
Over here on the end with the oboe in his mouth is Earle Dumler
Malcolm McNab on trumpet, Gary Barone on trumpet
Tom Malone on pygmy trumpet
Bruce Fowler on trombone
Do you have a level on him Barry?
He's not coming through the monitor system
OK, this is Glenn Ferris on trombone, Tony Duran on slide guitar
Dave Parlato on bass, Jim Gordon on drums
And the name of this song we're going to off start with
What? (Hey, Bruce and Glenn are backwards)
Well can you switch 'em there? Alright (No)
(OK, we'll check those out, getting any vocal?)
No, very little Barry (OK)
The trombones have been reversed, Barry (Can Bruce tap it?)
He's tapping it Barry, OK, organized
OK, we'd like to get some audience participation on this if we could
Here's what happens, there's four bars of music goes by
And then the trombones make a noise that goes like this
OK, they do that three times in the first part of the song
Woud you sing along with that? All you have to do
Is pick any note of your choosing, put your finger on your throat
And go, "Waaah" like that
Let's try it once with the trombones, ready?
Excellent, great tasty group, OK
Remember, this happens three times
(Has the monitor for the vocal improved a little?)
No (Oh)
Here we go
One, two, three, four