Careful with 'THOSE AXES' Eugene!!!

Thanks for that info.


I was going to ask what as up with the original title to CWTAE, but I stopped being lazy and looked it up for myself and found this:

"Well, there used to be an interesting story that explained both the identity of the protagonist and how Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead lost his right-hand ring finger. However, it turns out that the story isn't exactly true (Garcia is missing the finger, but his brother's name is not Eugene, it's Tiff.)

Here are two more possibilities:

"Careful With That Axe, Eugene" was the flip side of "Point Me at the Sky." Some people believe that PMatS starts off with the line "Hey, Eugene/This is Henry McClean/And I've finished my beautiful flying machine." [which, BTW, is another debate, for another time]. Anyway, Chris Coffman mentioned this:

I really don't want to add more fuel to this thread, but I just played "Point Me at the Sky" (my roomate's first ever exposure to this song). My roomate seems to remember a book from his childhood called "Eugene and His Flying Machine," or something like that. He thinks it may have had another kid in it named Henry. I don't want anyone thinking I'm setting this forth as fact, but does anyone know of such a book?
Well, this rings a bell for me, and so I've been trying to track it down, if it indeed exists. The closest I've come so far is a book called "Wizzard McBean [ryhmes with McClean] and his Flying Machine," which is out of print.

Also, R. Brigham Lampert came up with the following:

In the early 1960's there was a small serial killing spree in the area of London near the river Thames. After three or four murders, a suspect was caught. That suspect's name was Eugene Craft. He was tried and found guilty. Hence, "Careful" might be referring to that incident. "


To me it all seems crap, these guys just seem to post theories. Does anyone really know why the references to Eugene and the axe?
Thanks!

See ya, who has born in a house full of pain!