Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Frank Zappa: “The emperor isn’t wearing any clothes and Common sense is contagious”


Interview with Trooper Charles Ash (November 3, 1981)
 

5 comments:

The Dude said...

What a remarkable interview - thanks for posting that.

I bought a copy of Freak Out when it was first released. Saw Zappa and the MoI at Johns Hopkins in the fall of 1967.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane - Frank seems far more lucid than I imagined he would be.

The Dude said...

Ah, it's coming back to me - I remember listening to Frank's work to hear his quotations of classical work - we had been studying Petrushka in school and bam - there it was on his album Absolutely Free.

He was a smart guy, he seems somewhat level headed, but he made music that was, for me, mostly stuff I couldn't stand to listen to. I gave up after Uncle Meat.

Yeah, there it is - after my best man played a selection from that album at my wedding, a tune that included Suzie Creamcheese speaking and using a bad word, well, it was just never the same after that.

john said...

So did he get arrested after the questioning was done?

AllenS said...

"Thank you for the interview, Frank, now place your hands behind your back."

The Dude said...

Frank was well known for his anti-drug stance. That made him very unpopular among his peers.