what does klactoveesedsteen mean?

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I've been wondering for almost twenty years about this word now. What does it mean?

― moley (moley), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

well, google doesn't bloody know it seems

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

if you find out though, can you also get me the piano notes to my heart can go on and tell me what fremme neppa venette means?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)

Klactoveesedsteen
What does it mean?

― moley (moley), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it means "fremme neppa venette."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

It's your fremme neppa venette, but it's my klactoveesedsteen?

― moley (moley), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)

Coffee perverts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what's more tragic, that I keep refreshing this thread for replied, or that I actually checked the full Oxford for it.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

What does envorsh mean?
Slimkak? Biluterate?

― Masked Gazza, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

I spelled it wrong. It's actually spelled 'Klactoveesedstene'. Watch google go ballistic! But still NO DAMN DEFINITION.

― moley (moley), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

This, maybe?
http://www.geocities.com/ladenso1/Bird/BirdKLON6.html

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

tricky

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

so he's the original liz fraser then?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

I love that ya'll solved this.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

We did?

― moley (moley), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

It don't mean nuttin!
http://www.busstop-records.co.uk/detail.php?cno=SB217

― BlueRondoAlaTurk! (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 07:21 (twenty years ago)

Klacto! Vee! Sedstene!

― moley, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

Mmm hmmm argh mm mm mm Mmm hmmm argh...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

I like the idea of a scat-jazz Liz Fraser.

Erm, which is kind of what she is anyway. Argh.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

Isn't it what you're supposed to say to Gort to stop him blowing up the world?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

that's klaatu aranu niktu or something

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

er "Klaatu Barada Nikto" apparently!

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

BA WEEP GRA NA WEEP NINNYBOM

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

"In _Bird Lives!_, Russell relates: "The 'Klactoveesedstene' title was his [Bird's] own. He wrote it out one nigh at the [Three] Deuces on the back of a [notice of] minimum charge card, offering no explanation of its meaning. When I asked, he gave me a stony stare and walked off." Russell goes on to recount his attempts to ascertain the meaning, finally asking Dean Benedetti, who as we've already seen and will see again, taped some of Bird's club performances. "Why, man, it's just a sound."
However, more than 20 years after _Bird Lives!_ was published, Poston interviewed Russell and he has a subsequent theory: "Bird was going through a mock German period. Klactus-auf-wiedersehn. Using a German-English dictionar Russell says this means "good-bye to applause" or "good-bye to gossip." Klaus ? Klaus?

More useful to me was to leaf through Koch's book of musical analysis of Bird' s recordings and have pointed out the similarity of "Klacto..." to "Perdido," though it is not the identical chord structure throughout."

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

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