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THE BEAT GOES ON

TORONTO—The train screamed to a slow stop inside the Main Street station. Stepping out onto the subway platform, I cast a nervous glance at my digital: 11:58. Almost midnight I instinctively thought as I walked down the narrow ledge towards the end wall.

May 1, 1980
I.C. Lemon

THE BEAT GOES ON

CALE SPEAKS, ZAPPA PONDERS GOING TO BATHROOM!!

Thanks to a nearby hidden microphone CREEM presents an exclusive taped conversation between famed intellectuals Frank Zappa and John Cale I Wow! :

CALE: Hey Frank, you were at least funny 'til Uncle Meat. What happened?

FRANK: Hmmm?

CALE: I said at least you knew what you were doing 10 years ago? What's goin' on?

FRANK: What?

CALE: I SAID EVERY ALBUM YOU'VE PUT OUT SINCE OVERNIGHT SENSATION HAS BIT THE BIG WEENIE, YOU OUT-OF-TOUCH HIPPIE DORK!! WISE UP, DOPE!!

-FRANK: Oh, uhh...you talking to me?

CALE: Nnqghhh...

FRANK: Hmmm?

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TORONTO—The train screamed to a slow stop inside the Main Street station. Stepping out onto the subway platform, I cast a nervous glance at my digital: 11:58. Almost midnight I instinctively thought as I walked down the narrow ledge towards the end wall.

There right next to the blue emergency light was the door, flaked with grey paint from another era. 1 tried the doorknob and it gave slightly. Of course it did: he was waiting for me. Somewhere down—there.

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