From: dsteinbe@nmsu.edu
Subject: Forbin (5/17/92 Union College)
Reply-To: dsteinbe@nmsu.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 23:59:49 GMT

The best Forbin?  5/17/92 Union College.  Why?  I just transcribed the
rap from that version.  It's long, but I think it's worth posting...

FORBIN RAP     5/17/92 Achillies Ice Rink, Union College
<standard Forbin rap music>
I look out here in front of all you people, I see that you're all
standing on this rink.  And when you walked in here, this rink had
cement underneath the floor, but as we played the first three songs,
unbenouced (sp!) to all you standing out there the ice has slowly
crept up, and right now you're standing on a huge sheet of ice.  And
not only are you standing on this huge sheet of ice, but the walls on
the outside are slowly starting to dissapear, this sheet of ice goes
off into infinity in every direction.  And up above you, there's nothing
but black sky drifting off into space.  And down below you, through
the clear ice, there's nothing but black sky drifting.  And this sheet
of ice is just going through infinity.  And you're all standing on a
little clump on the ice as it stretches off as far as the eye can see
in every direction.  And as we stand here, slowly from the back, the
ice starts to lift and tilt.
<scary lift and tilt music> 
And we feel the ice tilting.  And the plane is moving beneath your feet.
And you see a grid coming across the ice and the whole plane starts to
tilt.  And you're trying to hang on but slowly your feet start to
slip.  And the plane is tilting higher and higher, the angle is
getting higher.  And you can't hang on, and you start to slide.  And
you slide off the edge of the ice.  And you're going down.  And your
head's (??? can't understand next three words), and all of a sudden,
you shoot off the edge into the void.
<pause and then standard Forbin rap music>
And you're just floating through the void now.  And you see the ice
disapearing off into the distance.  And now it's just black streching;
you're surrendering to the void, Cloyde (?).  And you float through
the, float through the blackness you start to see a tiny speck,
<standard Forbin rap music with occasional "speck" noises>
materilizing in the distance.  And you realize that this tiny speck,
even though it's a tiny little speck, it's still got some
gravitational pull.  And since that's the only thing in space around
you, you sloooowly start to drift towards it.  And as you drift toward
it, it starts to get a little bit bigger.  And it turns into what
looks like a tiny stone in the distance.  And the closer you get to
it, you realize it's got more gravitational pull than you thought.
And you get closer and it starts to grow and you realize it's actually
a planet off in the distance, but there's nothing around to reference
it against so it just looks like a tiny speck.  But by this point you
realize you really, it's starting to get bigger fast.          
<falling into planet music>
You're going towards it.  You're flying down.  Suddenly you're
breaking into the atmosphere.  You're burning through the (?).  You
start to get hotter as the atmosphere is burning your body.  You're
blazing down.  You're blazing down.  And suddenly the chute opens...
<pause and then odd floating music>
And now you're floating down with a parachute.  And you're floating
down, you don't know where you are, but you look down on the ground
and you see a huge forest, drifting out into the distance.  And you
see a huge green field from the edge of the forest going off into the
other direction.  And the center of it all, the hugest mountain you've
ever seen in your life.  And you realize that... you're... in
GAMEHENDGE.
<Gamehendge crashes and other noises>
<Metallic jam>
And you float down, and slowly the mountain gets bigger and bigger as
you get down next to it.  You look up at the mountain next to you. It's a
huge mountain and going up into the sky.  Bigger than anything you've
ever seen before.  And on the corner of the mountain, you look closely
and you see a tiny speck.  
<different speck music>
And the closer you look you realize, that that's no ordinary speck.  
<pause>
It's COLONEL FORBIN
<metallic jam>
Colonel Forbin is climbing up the mountain.  No one's ever climbed up
the mountain before because it's so high.  You need tanks of oxygen.
And Colonel Forbin's arms are grabbing roots, they're grabbing roots,
they're grabbing the ROOT DOC.  
<jam gets odder>
And they're pulling up, and it's getting higher and higher and you
know in your heart, that Colonel Forbin, the only reason he would
brave
<pause>
climbing the huge mountain would be to find the great and knowlegable
ICCULUS
<earthquake music>
And as he climbs up, you see the mountain start to quake and vibrate,
boulders tumbling down around Colonel Forbin's head, but he knows he's
got to make it, so he hangs on to roots, he's hanging on to roots,
he's hanging on to the Root Doc.  And the Root Doc pulls him up.  And
he's stands up on a little ledge.  And slowly, the mountain starts to
take the shape of the face of the great and knowledgeable Icculus.
And Colonel Forbin looks up at Icculus and he says, "Icculus.  I've
climbed the mountain to find you because I need you.  I need you to
help me get the HELPING FRIENDLY BOOK.  Because the Helping Friendly
Book will bring peace and harmony
<peace and harmony music>
to all the Lizards people of Gamehendge who are now enslaved by the
evil KING WILSON who lives in that castle over there.  And he's taken
the Helping Friendly Book from them and hidden it in his castle.  So
can you please help me?"
<standard Forbin rap music>
And Icculus looks down on him and he says, "Colonel Forbin, I can help
you. I'm going to send for my friend, THE FAMOUS MOCKINGBIRD."  And
the Famous Mockingbird comes flying out of the sky, and lands on
Icculus's shoulder.  And Icculus says, "Famous Mockingbird.  Fly off
into the distance to the castle of the evil King Wilson. Steal the
Helping Friendly Book back.  Bring it to the people of Gamehendge so
they can live in peace and harmony with nature." So here he comes now,
The Famous Mockingbird
-David "ZZYZX" Steinberg
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