Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The Letter Z


Hold on to your seat/I'm warning you in advance/It's the zany zesty zippy ziggy zig zag dance

Also this Z picture:

That's Stephen Colbert as Z.

Zoe

Zoe is girl Elmo. Read about Elmo then color him orange and put jewelery on him. That's Zoe. Prairie Dawn isn't on as much because of Zoe.

This is all I will say about Zoe.

Zoot

Completing the Electric Mayhem (and this month) is Zoot, the band's saxophonist. Zoot is, more or less, a washed-up old musician. A 50 year-old burnout playing with Dr. Teeth's band for cash. In addition to his job in the house band, he plays in the pit as a member of The Muppet Orchestra.

Originally Zoot had plenty of lines, but Dave Goelz always had trouble finding a voice for the character. He liked Zoot, but he couldn't get the voice down. Goelz ended up giving away the character lines and developed Zoot as the one around today: The man of few words, who would rather express himself through his music than through words.

Also Zoot serves as a point of confusion to me. The Electric Mayhem is supposed to be a conventional rock band(or psychadelic or something), right? I mean, all the other members play instruments that are common to rock: the guitar, bass, drums, keyboard. So what purpose does a saxophonist have as a member of this band? And it's not just Zoot. They've also had a trumpet player and two different banjo players.

Maybe I think too much about Muppets. But then again that's why I did these posts month, right?

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