![]() In 1980, on one of Steve Vai's early tours, playing at Notre Dame University, Laurel Fishman showed up. He said "OOOhhhh my God!" and then dumped the jar with the shit in the trash can outside the elevator. ![]() Bassist Jim Pons, was fascinated with the article and opened it to smell it while waiting for the elevator at the hotel. We are told that Fishman showed up to meet Zappa with a perfectly spherical ball of her own shit in a mason jar, and presented it to Zappa, who had not known about the contest or the meeting in advance. Fishman won the contest by saying since hearing the song Call Any Vegetable she had gotten in touch with her friends in the vegetable kingdom and, as a result of this, her body functions had been more regular. ![]() Fishman won a competition to win back stage access at the show, put on by a local promoter and radio station, to tell in twenty-five words or less how the Mothers of Invention had saved your life. In The Real Frank Zappa Book Zappa relates a story of his introduction to Fishman in1971. ![]()
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