WHO IS Frank Zappa" Here is what Fran Zappa has said about himself: "I was born in Baltimore, Maryland, Dec. 21 1940, and grew up in California. I am a self-taught musician, composer, blah blah blah. When I was 11 years old I was 5 ft. 7 with hairy legs, pimples and a mustache ... for some strange reason they never let me be captain of the softball team. (read more)

“AN ARTIST is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs,” the late Edgard Varèse once said. And I was reminded of that last weekend when I heard Frank Zappa conduct his orchestra (which he quaintly calls The Mothers of Invention) in concert in Berkeley. (read more)

STOP THE presses! Frank Zappa, that mother of a curmudgeon, has been spotted actually smiling! Get out the red ink – he even chuckled once or twice during an interview!

It took him a while to loosen up that much; and the subject was one of Zappa's favorites; the dismal state of the world. And on the way to those rare breaks in his sourpuss manner, he unleashed dry-icy attacks on symphony orchestras, today's pop music, MTV, the rock press, the '60s, drugs, the U.S. government, Hollywood and show business. (read more)

CLAY-ANIMATED businessman dreams he quits his boring job and goes deep into a dangerous jungle. A fully dressed woman takes a shower with a naked lunatic and rubs hamburger meat on his back. A musician trying to preserve his freedom of speech defiantly challenges an ominous government tribunal.

It's not a hallucination. It's not a sequence from a foreign film by Bunuel or Bergman. Welcome to the strange video world of Frank Zappa. (read more)

Source: slime.oofytv.set