Zappa, anyone?

[Martha Washington]

here's a super-neato Zappa Interview from 1981.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1x3tc9BnDg&NR=1
it's for a public access show and well done by a very nice policeman.
this links to the first of four parts.

you SURE get a good sense of the guy's personality in these segments.

I think the governments keep the drugs in the marketplace because it keeps people good and stupid.

 

[Sox]

A couple of pearlers from Frank ...

 

[Julie]

I've got Joe's Garage, and I like it, after giving it a few listens, but I think it's pretty unconventional to start with.


Act I
"The Central Scrutinizer" – 3:28
"Joe's Garage" – 6:10
"Catholic Girls" – 4:26
"Crew Slut" – 6:31
"Fembot in a Wet T-Shirt" – 4:45
"On the Bus" – 4:19
"Why Does It Hurt When I ***?" – 2:36
"Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up" – 5:43
"Scrutinizer Postlude" – 1:35


Act II
"A Token of My Extreme" – 5:30
"Stick It Out" – 4:34
"Sy Borg" – 8:56
"Dong Work for Yuda" – 5:03
"Keep It Greasey" – 8:22
"Outside Now" – 5:50

Act III
"He Used to Cut the Grass" – 8:35
"Packard Goose" – 11:34
"Watermelon in Easter Hay" – 9:09
"A Little Green Rosetta" – 8:15

It's some kinda opera or something..

 

[Slip'nn2Darkness]

Very glad to see this Zappa thread revived.. I always hear he's a "aquired taste"
That seems so true every time I read through threads and opinions about him.. You either love him or hate him.
In a world of strictly commercial Rock and Roll, Here comes Zappa with his reinvention of the wheel music..
Original and one of a kind and can't be duplicated..
As a fan of him for a long time I really wonder who won the battle between him and Warner Brothers who to this day has a tight lid on any of his music being played without "censorship".
To even try and do a video on you tube can get your account deleted..
Some sneak by..
Muffin Man.

 

[Slip'nn2Darkness]

I was browsing through some Zappa footage and came across Dweezil and Ahmet on the O'brien show.. Ahmet can really boogie..

 

[Sox]

^^^ Ahmet is knocking some amazing shapes out there Thumper.

 

[Slip'nn2Darkness]

Sox.. The guy is made out of rubber..

Here's a great live video of Frank Zappa and his amazing ability to shred with hardly any effort..

 

[Julie]

Here's some of Zappa's political satires about....

....Richard Nixon


....GOP


....Jesse Jackson


...Jim and Tammy Bakker and Pat Robertson

 

[Mr. Shadow]

I like his early stuff, but don't care for the political and vulgar songs that followed. It think it was a waste of musical talent from a man (and band) that was so creative.

 

[Julie]

I actually like it, it's still instrumentally very good, and it's entertaining. He's trying to be a musician-comedian, or something..
And I guess he was just passionate about politics, and I like that too. And it's not that his lyrics are nonsense, I believe they are right on..

But I agree on the vulgar things, those are just..