I wrote this song when I was working as a musical in a mental institution in Queens 2000-2001 . The teenage patients where mostly the result of the crack epidemic . They where heavily sedated and also heavily into Fried Chicken and music that involved a drum machine. They where fed a cocktail of various drugs , which made them controllable and fat . I suspect that most of them have heart disease and diabetes already . I tried to teach them musical instruments but ended up getting them to sing and rap along with my drum machine . We made a little CD . Despite their problem's they where actually lovable , many of them charming .
I see the song as a metaphor for what happens when a population has no health insurance and no musical education . The end result if taken to the extreme would be something like this tune .
Over the years I have rewritten several different versions and eventually translated it into chinese :
" You Zha Ji .... Dian Nao Gu "
The "deep fried" version is the final one . The whole population becomes insane and has a brain meltdown .
At the request of Tassie "drummer du jour" Jordan Perlson, " fried Chicken" is now the bands chaser .
Listen to them here ( the live one is the "headmasters" playing in sydney at the basement in 2007
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haha, the live one is the best. I saw Zawinul at the Basement in Sydney. Just think, you played on the same stage as him. Pretty cool man.
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