Discography of Joe Fonda 1987

Vernon Frazer
«Sex Queen of the Berlin Turnpike»

Vernon Frazer: Sex Queen of the Berlin Turnpike Lineup
  • Vernon Frazer - poetry, recitation, bass (on # 3,7,9,12,16,19)
  • Thomas Chapin - alto saxophone, flute, bass flute, balloonphone
  • Mario Pavone - bass
  • Joe Fonda - acoustic & electric basses
  • Brian Johnson - drums, log drums, tabla, bells, vibraharp
Titles
  1. The Sex Queen of the Berlin Turnpike (Frazer) 5:17
  2. A Conversion (of Sorts) (Frazer) 2:40
  3. Interlude I (free improvisation) 1:21
  4. Club Music (Frazer) 3:13
  5. Inspiration (Frazer) 2:58
  6. Under the Lamp at Cobalt Beach (Frazer) 1:45
  7. Interlude II (free improvisation) 1:16
  8. Ballad (Frazer) 2:09
  9. Interlude III (free improvisation) 0:42
  10. An Old-Fashined Break Dance (Frazer) 0:49
  11. A hipster's hipster (Frazer) 4:28
  12. Sales Pitch of an Honest Real Estate Agent (Frazer) 3:19
  13. Interlude IV (free improvisation) 0:47
  14. A Slick Set of Wheels (Frazer) 1:58
  15. A Lunchtime Reunion (Frazer) 2:22
  16. Interlude V (free improvisation) 1:10
  17. Haight Street, 1985 (Frazer) 2:44
  18. July 4, 1986 (Frazer) 3:26
  19. Interlude VI (free improvisation) 0:55
  20. The End (Frazer) 0:12

Recorded August 5 & 6 and September 24, 1987 at Real Art Ways Studio, Hartford, CT, USA
Released 1988 by Woodcrest Records [1001]

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The Sex Queen Of The Berlin Turnpike

"coulda been
Little Miss Rich Bitch layin' on my yacht"

but claimed her father left
his inheritance behind
when the Mob's hitmen climbed

his trail. So,
she's the doe-eyed darling of the clipjoints

on the Strip. She flashes
her tits for tips from bikers
& lonely old men

in glasses
steamed with dreams of what never was.


Her nectarine nipples
tease me, her buns swing the breeze
that sucks up my buck

on her wake
of chestnut hair. She feeds my fantasies

the way I feed her lost
wealth — what I can afford to give.
But she still lives bitter,
broke, strung out
on coke in neon turnpike motels

& runs out on the rent.
While I listen to her story
to escape from my own

she pays back
the memories of her father.
—

Quoted from Vernon Frazer's article Extending the Age of Spontaneity to a New Era: Post-Beat Poets in America
Source: http://www.bigbridge.org/issue10/fictvfrazer.htm

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