Zappa on Free Speech (13 anniversary of his passing)

"My job is extrapolating everything to it's most extreme"
Frank Zappa
He did just that,everything to the extreme. Way over the top & he wasn't viewed as a nice man.
I didn't even know the idiot had died.

Bump

Brown shoes don't make it
Brown Shoes don't make it
Quit school, why fake it
Brown shoes don't make it

"Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute. "

Source: Zappa's liner notes for Freak Out

YEah, but folks still insist that you can not legislate morality. Hmmm.

thanks, rox! God, that was painful to watch. And god do I miss that guy.

A personal note, my mom used to buy corned beef from his uncle who worked at the deli in the neighborhood in Baltimore where I grew up.

Zappa, Nancy Pelosi, John Waters, and "Roxxxanne" four Baltimoreans who made it big, well three anyway!

What about Barry Levinson?

OK 4 out of 5 then. Then, of course, HL Mencken but I was referring to contemporaries.

Of course, there is Glenn "Divine" Milstead and my beloved dear departed friend Edith (the egg lady) Massey who I taught "how to sing" and with whom I had a club act in the 70s.

frank was an amazing person.

one of the first drummers i worked with, lester krinski, gave me a beat up copy of Absolutely Free and things opened right up. one of the most bizarre records i'd come across, even goofier than the Fugs. but intellectually hands above.

when i first moved to hollywood years later, it seemed like the place was populated by ex-mothers. art tripp lived in the apartment next door (he was studying to become a chiropracter ?!?!?). he introduced me to don preston and few others later, but i can't remember who.. well, it was the mid '70s, whaddaya expect ? : )

but it was when a friend loaned me a copy of his autobiography, "the real frank zappa book" that i really became a fan of frank, the guy. that was about 1992 or 93.

in fact, i became such a fan that the same friend gave me a big framed poster from the sheikh yerbouty tour (MUNCHEN !!!) for christmas. and it still hangs majestically in our hall way.



if you haven't already, read this book. it is hysterical..

Well, perhaps it'll become 5 for 5 in time. Good luck to you.

DTOM, great reminiscences of FZ.

In the late sixties, a friend and I were travelling abroad and one afternoon in Soho we were in a poster shop and I picked up that classic poster of frank sitting on the toilet. A bit later, we popped into a porn theatre to see what the Brits were buying from the Swedish film industry. When we left, I somehow forgot to take the rolled-up poster of Frank. To this day, I imagine the threatre janitor, a fellow with surely one of the more uncomfortable jobs on the planet, unrolling the poster of Frank and wondering just what sort of pervert had been sitting in my seat.

BTW I might mention that Frank died of prostate cancer. A cancer that can be treated relatively easily if discovered in time with a simple test.

That was very difficult to watch... I'm half-way through and don't know if I want to continue, except Frank is magnificent at standing tall against those creeps.

Too bad he died so young. I loved my Hot Rats album....

Hi P....lovely to see you!

Thank you and very nice to see you, too. You're looking spiff' as usual and sounding as astute as ever. Good!


-- the story re. the poster left behind... Is that really true?? Funny!

It is true in all details.

Omigod, that is a great story and don't you think Frank would have enjoyed hearing it?

Today, you could just send a message to his MySpace page, if only he were still around. Dweezil is though and he might enjoy hearing it.



(Sorry about the URL. I've forgotten how to make a link.)

ZappaPlaysZappa is going to be in Seattle... in two weeks.

I've finished watching that film clip and thought, if there is a just god, then those creeps should be as dead as Frank.

Oh, I knew that the integrity-challenged Novak was still around <spit> but boy, was I surprised and disappointed to find that all three of those creeps are still alive and still spewing forth their twisted views of how freedom should reign. No freakin' wonder we've reached the near-fascist state we're at.

I'm glad I never watched CrossFire back then, even as naive as I was about politics, I must have been able to smell the stench. I found a quote from Timothy Leary that helped me overcome my rage and regain my inner peace:

*"... watching Crossfire was like watching "the left wing" of the CIA debating the right wing of the CIA."


By the way, that YouTube site has the original version of Peaches en Regalia, for anyone who needs to hear it.




*from "I'm Not a Leftist, But I Play One on TV" By Jeff Cohen
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