"tinfoil hat brigade"

[Erik Hoover]

Wikipedia's entry for tin-foil hat lures us closer to madness with this
titbit:

[quote]
In his autobiography, Frank Zappa refers to Echo Park residents "Crazy
Jerry," an electricity addict and speed user who had been
institutionalized a number of times, and his roommate known only as
"Wild Bill the Mannequin Fucker," a chemist and methamphetamine cook
who modified department store mannequines for sexual uses. Both are
reputed to have employed metallic hats (vegetable steamers, aluminium
pots, tin-foil etc.,) to "keep people from reading their minds." Zappa
once recorded Crazy Jerry's life story, excerpts of which can be heard
on some of his early recordings.
[end quote]

Could someone find an actual quotation from The Real Frank Zappa Book
(Crazy Jerry is discussed on pp 70-72 according to one web index) ?

More on Crazy Jerry here:
http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/index.php/Crazy_Jerry


Erik

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