|
 Issue
34
1967 December 22-28
(1) Frank's Favourite Topic: Creeps Are The Backbone Of This
Country
Interview by John Bryan, 1 p
(2) A Word Sums Up Mothers Of Invention: Genius
By Frank Kofsky, 1 p
(1) Frank Zappa, a freaker who's always "on stage," an innovator both
in sound and styles who helped create the current L.A. hip
predilection for all-day costumes, full, bushy hair, strangely
barbered beards and mustaches, is coldly and deliberately aware of
the effects he produces in his people-environment. He knows exactly
where America is at ("Creeps are the backbone of the country"), has
carefully studied that backbone as well as any man living, and can
blow your mind with his descriptions of the gruesomely real but
hilarious lifestyles of freaky people with imagination.
"The appearance of our group borders on the grotesque," he said
in a recent interview. (read more)
|
