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" And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything. "
Roger
Everything
Robots
" As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player. "
Drums
Said
Shift
" Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along. "
Tired
Stand
Drive
" But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him. "
Him
Play
Solid
" But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were. "
Again
Mean
Ever
" But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day. "
Remember
Day
One Day
" But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs. "
Songs
Mostly
Wrote
" But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles. "
Silly
Go
Used
" Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. "
Shoulder
Always
Come
" I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting. "
First
Gorilla
Goes
" I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1. "
Forty
Mean
Thirty
" In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think. "
Moon
Think
Fact
" In many ways, Viv and I were the only ones who were really songwriters. "
Were
Who
Many
" I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways. "
Ways
Straight
See
" I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue. "
Venue
Anything
Had
" I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other. "
Trying
Girl
Go
" I think most musicians do like to have a laugh. "
Musicians
Laugh
Like
" It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly? "
Group
Own
Us
" I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes. "
Sometimes
Chords
Help
" I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos. "
Track
Records
Were
" Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn. "
Music
Turn
Your
" Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes. "
He
Song
Think
" So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs. "
Look
Play
Learn
" Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do. "
Know
You
Just
" We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success. "
Things
Big
Like
" We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on. "
Grateful
Dead
Who
" We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious. "
Game
Were
Play
" When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds. "
Dancing
Top
Time
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