Lenny Bruce's birthday party, and it was every
major band in the world and Alice Cooper at the end.
We came on, remember, this is 1967, now.
Everybody was on acid in L.A.
And everybody was groovin'.
And then, here comes Alice Cooper, right?
And we had hair down to here.
We were all wearing chrome.
We cleared the building in three minutes.
There were four people left, Frank Zappa,
Miss Christine from the GTOs, my manager,
and Frank said, anybody that can clear
a building that fast I've got to sign.
Our first record was with Frank Zappa.
Then we finally went on and actually
got with guys that could do songwriting.
I mean, Frank was, he liked us
because we were so out there.
One of the best compliments I ever got was,
Frank listened to our first album and he went,
I don't get it.
(Laughter)
I said, that's good, right?
He goes, yeah, I don't get it.
He says, you've got six three-minute songs
with 28 changes in it.  I don't get it.
And I said, well, is that good?
And he said, oh, yeah,
I'm going to sign you because I don't get it.
So, that was the beginning of our career.
After that, Bob Ezrin came along
and it was all about the songwriting.
We didn't care if it was records.
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