Czechoslovakia - Revision history

Spider of Destiny: /* Zappa associates from Czechoslovakia */

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Zappa associates from Czechoslovakia

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Rock Artists

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Rock Artists

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Rock Artists

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Albums and tracks

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Articles about Czechoslovakian topics

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 ==Zappa associates from Czechoslovakia==
 * Czech President [[Václav Havel]], who named Zappa ''Cultural Ambassador'' of Czechoslovakia.
-* [[Prazský Výber]], with whom Zappa performed on stage, as recorded on their album ''[[Adieu CA]]'' and in the documentary ''[[Prager leben gut]]''.
+* [[Michael Kocáb]]
 ==Composers==

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 * [[The Plastic People Of The Universe]]
 * [[Prazský Výber]]
-* [[Yahozna Band]] of which [[Václav Cesák]] is a member, who also sculpted the [[Frank Zappa Monument, Bad Doberan]] in Bad Doberan, Germany.
+* [[Yahozna Band]], of which [[Václav Cesák]] is a member, who also sculpted the [[Frank Zappa Monument, Bad Doberan]] in Bad Doberan, Germany.
 ==See also==

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 ==Rock Artists==
-* [[The Plastic People Of the Universe]]
+* [[The Plastic People Of The Universe]]
 * [[Prazský Výber]]
 * [[Yahozna Band]] of which [[Václav Cesák]] is a member, who also sculpted the [[Frank Zappa Monument, Bad Doberan]] in Bad Doberan, Germany.

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 ==Rock Artists==
-* [[The Plastic People of the Universe]]
+* [[The Plastic People Of the Universe]]
 * [[Prazský Výber]]
 * [[Yahozna Band]] of which [[Václav Cesák]] is a member, who also sculpted the [[Frank Zappa Monument, Bad Doberan]] in Bad Doberan, Germany.

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 * [[Julius Fučík]]'s ''[[Entrance of the Gladiators]]'' is briefly quoted during ''[[America Drinks]]''.
 * In the list of influences printed in the sleeve of ''[[Freak Out!]]'', Zappa mentions composer [[Alois Hába]].
-* In the liner notes of ''[[We're Only In It For The Money]]'', Zappa instructs people to read [[Franz Kafka]]'s ''In The Penal Colony'', before listening to ''[[The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny]]''.
+* In the liner notes of ''[[We're Only In It For The Money]]'', Zappa instructs people to read [[Franz Kafka]]'s ''In The Penal Colony'', before listening to ''[[The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny]]''.
-* [[Julius Fučík]]'s ''[[Entrance of the Gladiators]]'' is briefly quoted during ''[[The Adventures of Greggery Peccary]]''.
+* [[Julius Fučík]]'s ''[[Entrance of the Gladiators]]'' is briefly quoted during ''[[The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary]]''.
 * [[Julius Fučík]]'s ''[[Entrance of the Gladiators]]'' is briefly quoted during ''[[Rhymin' Man]]''.

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 ==Articles about Czechoslovakian topics==
 * [[Adieu CA]]
-* [[Václav Cesák]]
+==Albums and tracks==
 * [[Julius Fučík]]
-* [[Alois Hába]]
-* [[Václav Havel]]
+==Rock Artists==
-* [[Franz Kafka]]
+* [[The Plastic People of the Universe]]
 * [[Prazský Výber]]
-* [[Vybral A Sestavil]]
+* [[Yahozna Band]] of which [[Václav Cesák]] is a member, who also sculpted the [[Frank Zappa Monument, Bad Doberan]] in Bad Doberan, Germany.
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	'''And you met with Czechoslovakian president [[Václav Havel]]. What did he say?<br>		'''And you met with Czechoslovakian president [[Václav Havel]]. What did he say?<br>
	''He said that he likes my records, especially the one that I did with [[Captain Beefheart]].''		''He said that he likes my records, especially the one that I did with [[Captain Beefheart]].''

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 ''No, they've always been illegal. Also, the people that purchased them, or acquired them, or even possessed transcripts of the lyrics were beaten by the secret police. On one of the occasions, when we were doing kind of a question-and-answer thing in a club in Prague, there were two guys who said that they had been grabbed by the secret police and before they were beaten, the guy said, "We are now going to beat the Zappa music out of you." And nobody in the audience seemed too surprised about it, because apparently it has happened to a lot of people.
-And then there was another statement that was made in Czech by one of the guys in the audience at that same time and I had it translated. And what it said was that when the secret police would arrest you, they would question you and the two biggest enemies of the state at that time – which apparently was the '70s – were [[Jimmy Carter]] and Frank Zappa. And I'm going, "What the fuck am I hearing here?"''
+''And then there was another statement that was made in Czech by one of the guys in the audience at that same time and I had it translated. And what it said was that when the secret police would arrest you, they would question you and the two biggest enemies of the state at that time – which apparently was the '70s – were [[Jimmy Carter]] and Frank Zappa. And I'm going, "What the fuck am I hearing here?"''''
 (Quoted from [[Frank Zappa's Crusade – 25 Years And Counting]])