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You Beat Up My Mother

from (disco pimp) ep by the street cleaners

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This song was written after Bill, Jane and myself were kicked out of a restaurant in Monterey California. We were attempting to eat our sunday morning breakfast when a family of four came in and asked the owner to move us because we were sitting in their favorite place. Bill lost it when the owner said they were moving us to another table. Yes the shit was going sky high right then and there. Bill jumped up on the table top and started preaching the gospil of Buddy Bear at the owner and the the lady who demanded they move us so they could sit at our table, for which she kept referring to as their table.
You ask what does that have to do with beating up mothers. Okay, Jane told Bill that she wanted to choke the bitch and I said oh but she's a mother. Bill then chimed in with Oh My Mother and it just started to flow. from there.
When we got to LA we began recording You Beat Up My Mother. A few days later Bill and I are on the top floor of the Capitol Records building getting our chance to pitch the song to Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show. They turned us down flat. Capitol said maybe we could go to a label who specialized in Country and Western. They referred us to Mel Tillis's management people. Mel loved it, his daughter hated it. She was in charge so we were scrubbed.
One of my favorite comments came when I played the cassette in one of the Licorice Pizza Records and Tapes store. Warren Zevon turned to me and asked "what the fuck are you playing?" I said "you beat up my mother", he said oh, and that it sucked. I knew then it was a hit. Warren was an ass hole anyway. The band members of Angel liked it. Captain Beefheart loved it. Dave Brock of Hawkwind laughed and smiled.
Mark Stark wanted to add the drums, so here it tis, You Beat Up My Mother, so wicked and cruel and fuck you Warren Zevon.

Jim Curnutte - acoustic guitar, bass and vocals
Bill Bartlett - vocals
Jane Chafin - fender Rhodes Piano
Mark Stark - drums

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from (disco pimp) ep, released April 1, 2019

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