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 1975
December
No 123
Frank Zappa:
Outraged Customer
Interview by Scott Cohen, 3 pp
Cohen: There were good vibrations in the '67-'70 period,
and you were particularly cynical then.
Zappa: Look, let me put it to you this way: I wasn't
particularly cynical, I remained to be as cynical as I ever was. The fact of
the matter was everyone else was going around kissing everybody else's ass, and
if you didn't have two fingers up in the air, some beads around your neck, a
song tied on your head and a couple of flowers in your pocket, then you didn't
have any peer-group status. But that whole thing was an immense pile of shit.
Now I said so, so what did that make me, weird? That put me on the outside of
what was going on. I was like a villain to everybody because I dared to say
flower power sucked. I suppose you were into flower power? A lot of people were
really into it. They thought it was the end-all. They really thought they were
going to rule the world with a flower in their hand. It was nuts. They were
believing in all these Yippie leaders and whatever else these assholes were
telling them. They were just so full of dope that they were going blindly their
own way, not thinking for a moment that the origin of LSD was in the CIA and a
lot of them probably don't like to think about that now. By taking LSD they were
helping the CIA in one of their favorite experiments. After they got done taking
volunteers from the army, they actually made a profit selling it to people on
the street, and seeing what actually happened to a civilian population. They got
it in the ass so bad from the CIA that they don't even know. So to sit on the
outside of that and say it was stupid will not make you any friends in the
group of people who really believe in it, and since there were more of them than
of me, it sort of set me up in a negative light for all the years to come. (read
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