Has anyone ever unravelled the mystery of what Haysi Fantayzee were thinking when they came up with 'John Wayne is Big Leggy' as a song title?

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We'll probably never get inside the heads of Paul Caplan, Jeremiah Healey and Kate Garner who wrote it. But here are some quotes from an interview with them. 1) We thought we'd write songs,' Paul explains 'and then find musicians to play them. All sorts of things: hillbilly, African high-life, rock and roll%85it depended what the last record we'd heard was.' Some tentative interest from EMI, to whom Paul was signed at the time through Animal Magnet, led them to spending a feverish three days and nights locked in a rehearsal studio trying to put these songs 'in concrete form'. It worked, and 'John Wayne' was one of the products from that mammoth session. 2) Jeremiah explains how, contrary to popular belief, 'Big Leggy' is an anti-John Wayne song. They don't like the man. Meanwhile, further consideration leads Paul to decide what their music is about: 'Sex. Different types of music say different things about sex. A heavy metal musician obviously feels differently about it from a funk musician. If we play calypso or high-life then that's because we like what those types of music say about sex.' He shrugs. Their intentions are simple enough. 'Well, we enjoy it. Why else do you do anything?' http://www.geocities.com/ronwolf.geo/haysi.html Jan 08 03, 8:26 PM

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