Talk:Camarillo Brillo

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AMG Copy[edit]

This article was just copied from AMG.--AmitTheSomthing 03:47, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Live version[edit]

A live version of "CB" appears on the bootleg album "Unmitigated Audacity", recorded I think in 1975. The sound quality is atrocious but its an interesting set for the inclusion of many of the Mothers' "hits" from the '60s. A farewell to the Mothers?

Bad lyrics[edit]

It's "unconscious", not "un-concho". geez. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.12.233.21 (talk) 06:50, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uhh.. no! Its "un-concho", unless you happen to believe that Zappa was humourless. linas (talk) 17:40, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Burning Incense Stencher[edit]

Curiously, this word 'stencher' appears in no English dictionary, including the magisterial Oxford English Dictionary. It's not in Merriam-Webster, old Webster, or Johnson's classic.

Yet the word is findable on the internet, though rare, and altogether without reference to Zappa's song. Contextually, it describes what we would normally call a 'censer'.

Archaically, 'stench' had the neutral meaning 'odor', bad or good, so perhaps 'incense stencher' is something that, now extremely obscure, he knew about or read somewhere.

Or else he meant a play on the words 'stench' and 'censer'? JohndanR (talk) 04:51, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Brillo[edit]

Love this song, it made the Duke of Prunes widely known around the world not only to the fans but also to common people.

The world "brillo" in Italian doesn't exactly mean drunk (the term for this word is "ubriaco") but just tipsy.

Greetings from Italy to all Zappa's estimators. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sticks&stones (talk • contribs) 12:05, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And, in English, Brillo is a brand name for a type of scouring pad, and the lady with the Camarillo Brillo/Mendocino Bean-o probably had a wild head of curly hair (dyed red from cochineal), to which Zappa was referring. Guy Harris (talk) 21:30, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]