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		+	[[File:BBC Television Tribute.jpg\|500px\|thumb\|right\|Frank Zappa, interviewed in ''[[BBC Television Tribute]]'', 1993.]]
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	BBC TELEVISION TRIBUTE – 1993<br> was a special episode of ''The Late Show'' on BBC 2 dedicated to Frank Zappa, broadcast on March 11, 1993. The special, produced by [[Nigel Leigh]], is a documentary, featuring archive footage and interviews with [[Biography\|Frank Zappa]], [[Matt Groening]], [[Ruth Underwood]], [[Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood]], [[Steve Vai]], [[Dweezil Zappa]] and [[Ahmet Zappa]].		BBC TELEVISION TRIBUTE – 1993<br> was a special episode of ''The Late Show'' on BBC 2 dedicated to Frank Zappa, broadcast on March 11, 1993. The special, produced by [[Nigel Leigh]], is a documentary, featuring archive footage and interviews with [[Biography\|Frank Zappa]], [[Matt Groening]], [[Ruth Underwood]], [[Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood]], [[Steve Vai]], [[Dweezil Zappa]] and [[Ahmet Zappa]].

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 '''FZ:''' I know I was weird. You know the standard uniform that the rap musicians wear - the hooded parka with the hood up and sunglasses on - that's what I used to wear to school every day. I had a little goatee and a little moustache, and I used to take my guitar with me to school - it was not electric - and spent my time between classes plunking around on that.
-'''[[Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood|Motorhead Sherwood]]''' (Saxophonist, Mothers of Invention 1964-69): When I knew Frank in school, he was two years ahead of me in high school. Lancaster was just a barren town, it seems like all the misfits from Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties were sent up there to get out of everybody else's face. There wasn't really anything to do there. You spent most of your time just wandering around through the desert, trying to occupy yourself with anything. That's probably why most people got into music or drinking all the time. On weekends that's about all there was to do. One boring town, believe me.
+'''[[Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood|Motorhead Sherwood]]''' (Saxophonist, Mothers of Invention 1964-69): When I knew Frank in school, he was two years ahead of me in high school. [[Lancaster]] was just a barren town, it seems like all the misfits from [[Los Angeles]] and [[San Bernardino]] counties were sent up there to get out of everybody else's face. There wasn't really anything to do there. You spent most of your time just wandering around through the desert, trying to occupy yourself with anything. That's probably why most people got into music or drinking all the time. On weekends that's about all there was to do. One boring town, believe me.
 '''FZ:''' I hadn't been raised in an environment where there was a lot of music in the house. This couple that owned the chili place, [[Opal]] and Chester, agreed to ask the man who serviced the jukebox to put in some of the song titles that I liked, because I promised that I would dutifully keep pumping quarters into this thing so I could listen to them. So I had the ability to eat good chili and listen to "[[Three Hours Past Midnight]]" by [[Johnny "Guitar" Watson]], for most of my junior and senior years.

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 '''[[Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood|Motorhead Sherwood]]''' (Saxophonist, Mothers of Invention 1964-69): When I knew Frank in school, he was two years ahead of me in high school. Lancaster was just a barren town, it seems like all the misfits from Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties were sent up there to get out of everybody else's face. There wasn't really anything to do there. You spent most of your time just wandering around through the desert, trying to occupy yourself with anything. That's probably why most people got into music or drinking all the time. On weekends that's about all there was to do. One boring town, believe me.
-'''FZ:''' I hadn't been raised in an environment where there was a lot of music in the house. This couple that owned the chili place, Opal and Chester, agreed to ask the man who serviced the jukebox to put in some of the song titles that I liked, because I promised that I would dutifully keep pumping quarters into this thing so I could listen to them. So I had the ability to eat good chili and listen to "[[Three Hours Past Midnight]]" by [[Johnny "Guitar" Watson]], for most of my junior and senior years.
+'''FZ:''' I hadn't been raised in an environment where there was a lot of music in the house. This couple that owned the chili place, [[Opal]] and Chester, agreed to ask the man who serviced the jukebox to put in some of the song titles that I liked, because I promised that I would dutifully keep pumping quarters into this thing so I could listen to them. So I had the ability to eat good chili and listen to "[[Three Hours Past Midnight]]" by [[Johnny "Guitar" Watson]], for most of my junior and senior years.
 [Film of records owned by FZ. [[Three Hours Past Midnight]] by [[Johnny "Guitar" Watson]], Motor Head Baby by Young John Watson, Rat Now by Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Woman Trouble by [[Guitar Slim]] & his Band, What Have I Done Wrong [by ?], Walking With Frankie by [[Frankie Lee Simms]]. Soundtrack: Three Hours Past Midnight]

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 The same material was used for the [[A&E Biography]]
-[[Category:Interviews with Zappa]]
+[[Category:TV Interviews with Frank Zappa]]
-[[Category:Videography]]
+[[Category:Documentaries]]
 [[Category:1993]]

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−	BBC TELEVISION TRIBUTE – 1993<br> was a special episode of ''The Late Show'' on BBC 2 dedicated to Frank Zappa, broadcast on March 11, 1993. The special is a documentary, featuring archive footage and interviews with [[Biography\|Frank Zappa]], [[Matt Groening]], [[Ruth Underwood]], [[Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood]], [[Steve Vai]], [[Dweezil Zappa]] and [[Ahmet Zappa]].	+	BBC TELEVISION TRIBUTE – 1993<br> was a special episode of ''The Late Show'' on BBC 2 dedicated to Frank Zappa, broadcast on March 11, 1993. The special, produced by [[Nigel Leigh]], is a documentary, featuring archive footage and interviews with [[Biography\|Frank Zappa]], [[Matt Groening]], [[Ruth Underwood]], [[Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood]], [[Steve Vai]], [[Dweezil Zappa]] and [[Ahmet Zappa]].

	The program was repeated on July 23, 1993 and on Friday, December 17, 1993 as an "in memoriam" to Zappa's recent death on December 4, 1993.		The program was repeated on July 23, 1993 and on Friday, December 17, 1993 as an "in memoriam" to Zappa's recent death on December 4, 1993.

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 The album's acerbic style took even the Mothers' record company by surprise.
-'''FZ:''' They didn't find out until the day we went in to start recording, in fact they didn't find out until the second song. I think the first track we laid down was [[Anyway The Wind Blows]], and the second track was [[Who Are The Brain Police?]], and I could see Wilson on the phone through the control room window, calling the head office in New York saying 'Well, er you're not going to believe this ...'
+'''FZ:''' They didn't find out until the day we went in to start recording, in fact they didn't find out until the second song. I think the first track we laid down was [[Any Way The Wind Blows (The Track)|Any Way The Wind Blows]], and the second track was [[Who Are The Brain Police?]], and I could see Wilson on the phone through the control room window, calling the head office in New York saying 'Well, er you're not going to believe this ...'
 '''Matt Groening:''' The amazing thing about [[Freak Out!]] was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. [[The Beatles]] were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.

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 medium. The 16-track machine that we recorded that album on was practically a prototype. It was as large as that fireplace, this monstro machine.
-'''Narrator:''' [[Hot Rats]] was completely free of the dada disruptiveness that had characterised the Mothers' albums. The one vocal track, [[Willie The Pimp]], was sung by an old high school chum, [[Captain Beefheart]]. Then, just when a solo career looked likely, Zappa re-formed the Mothers, but with a different line-up, including two singers brought in from the Sixties teen group, [[The Turtles]]. For the new group he invented a new theatrical style. The old surrealism was played down in favour of increasingly bawdy slapstick humour.
+'''Narrator:''' [[Hot Rats]] was completely free of the dada disruptiveness that had characterised the Mothers' albums. The one vocal track, [[Willie The Pimp]], was sung by an old high school chum, [[Captain Beefheart]]. Then, just when a solo career looked likely, Zappa re-formed the Mothers, but with a different line-up, including two singers brought in from the Sixties teen group, [[Flo & Eddie|The Turtles]]. For the new group he invented a new theatrical style. The old surrealism was played down in favour of increasingly bawdy slapstick humour.
 [Film: [[Penis Dimension]] performance]

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 It's pretty easy to hate me for whatever you choose to hate me for, because I'm virtually unrepentant, and I just don't care. My insensitivity is pretty evenly spread around.
-[Film: [[You Are What You Is]] video]
+[Film: [[You Are What You Is (The Music Video)|You Are What You Is]] video]
 '''Narrator:''' In 1978, after winning a lawsuit against [[Warner Brothers]], Zappa was free to put out records on his own label. He then went into overdrive. In the 80s he was releasing albums every few months, including one of live guitar solos - 80 minutes' worth. Zappa now entered rock's pantheon of guitar heroes.

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−	BBC TELEVISION TRIBUTE – 1993<br> was a special episode of [[The Late Show]] on BBC 2 dedicated to Frank Zappa, broadcast on March 11, 1993. The special is a documentary, featuring archive footage and interviews with [[Biography\|Frank Zappa]], [[Matt Groening]], [[Ruth Underwood]], [[Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood]], [[Steve Vai]], [[Dweezil Zappa]] and [[Ahmet Zappa]].	+	BBC TELEVISION TRIBUTE – 1993<br> was a special episode of ''The Late Show'' on BBC 2 dedicated to Frank Zappa, broadcast on March 11, 1993. The special is a documentary, featuring archive footage and interviews with [[Biography\|Frank Zappa]], [[Matt Groening]], [[Ruth Underwood]], [[Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood]], [[Steve Vai]], [[Dweezil Zappa]] and [[Ahmet Zappa]].

	The program was repeated on July 23, 1993 and on Friday, December 17, 1993 as an "in memoriam" to Zappa's recent death on December 4, 1993.		The program was repeated on July 23, 1993 and on Friday, December 17, 1993 as an "in memoriam" to Zappa's recent death on December 4, 1993.

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 '''FZ:''' We were never that popular in [[Los Angeles]], because even compared to [[New York]], Los Angeles was a very conforming community. It just seemed to me that at that time [[San Francisco]] was more conformist, Los Angeles a little bit less, when we moved to New York there was virtually no scene at all, there was no long-haired anything there. People looked at us like we were from Venus. By the time a scene did finally erupt in New York City it was much more interesting because it had ethnic diversity, it had cultural diversity because of all the different parts of the city where there concrete artistic things going on. There were things happening that were experimental, not necessarily wonderful, but at least experimental, people trying to do something that was different.
-[Film: Garrick Theatre. Soundtrack: [[Call Any Vegetable]]]
+[Film: Garrick Theatre. Soundtrack: [[Call Any Vegetable (1966 - Los Angeles)|Call Any Vegetable]]]
 We could do anything we wanted out there. It didn't make any difference. That's what the audience was buying a ticket to experience. Two main demands of the audience: they wanted to hear some material that they could recognise, and they wanted to have some sort of live performance experience that nobody else would give them. A surprise, in other words, whether it was going to be musical, or theatrical, or something, they would like to have a surprise, and I would like to give them a surprise.