FZ's Cadillac Extravaganza - Revision history

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-[[File:Rudi Dolezal, Frank Zappa, 1978.jpg|700px|thumb|right|Rudi Dolezal interviewing Frank Zappa, 30 March 1978.]]
+[[File:Rudi Dolezal, Frank Zappa, 1978.jpg|700px|thumb|right|[[Rudi Dolezal]] interviewing Frank Zappa, 30 March 1978.]]
-'''FZ's Cadillac Extravaganza''' is the title given to an infamous and hilarious incident that occured when Frank Zappa was interviewed during the TV show ''Ohne Maulkorb'' on the Austrian TV channel ORF TV (broadcast on 30 March 1978), directed by Rudolf Dolezal (A.K.A. Rudi Dolezal) and Klaus Hundsbichler.<ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/videography/1976-80.html</ref>
+'''FZ's Cadillac Extravaganza''' is the title given to an infamous and hilarious incident that occured when Frank Zappa was interviewed during the TV show ''Ohne Maulkorb'' on the Austrian TV channel ORF TV (broadcast on 30 March 1978), directed by Rudolf Dolezal (A.K.A. [[Rudi Dolezal]]) and Klaus Hundsbichler.<ref>https://www.donlope.net/fz/videography/1976-80.html</ref>
-During their interview, Dolezal asked Zappa whether the fact that he drives to his concerts in a Cadillac is "appropriate for an underground icon?" With his indignant counterquestions FZ pretty quickly disconcerts the rookie interviewer. Later that night ... under Zappa's direction Dolezal stars as Cadillac maniac who has to be spanked by [[John Smothers]] to have his demons exorcized.<br>The interview was done before and after the FZ shows in Vienna in Feb '78 and is obviously heavily edited and consists of several parts.<br> (Amusing sidenote: FZ's "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a classic example of a jerk for an interviewer" had rather euphemistic German subtitles, supposedly done by Dolezal's production firm DoRo: ''"Meine Damen und Herren, das ist eine sinnlose Frage." ("Ladies and Gentlemen this is a meaningless question")''. (Ed. Franz Fuchs))
+During their interview, Dolezal asked Zappa whether the fact that he drives to his concerts in a Cadillac is "appropriate for an underground icon?" With his indignant counterquestions FZ pretty quickly disconcerts the rookie interviewer. Later that night ... under Zappa's direction Dolezal stars as Cadillac maniac who has to be spanked by [[John Smothers]] to have his demons exorcized.<br>The interview was done before and after the FZ shows in [[Vienna]] in Feb '78 and is obviously heavily edited and consists of several parts.<br> (Amusing sidenote: FZ's "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a classic example of a jerk for an interviewer" had rather euphemistic German subtitles, supposedly done by Dolezal's production firm DoRo: ''"Meine Damen und Herren, das ist eine sinnlose Frage." ("Ladies and Gentlemen this is a meaningless question")''. (Ed. Franz Fuchs))
 ==The Interview==
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 '''RD:''' What do you think is the reason that Warner Brothers didn't pay you?<br>
 '''FZ:''' They're bunch of assholes, f'course.<br>
-'''RD:''' You like this [[wikipedia:Franz Schubert|Schubert]]?<br>
+'''RD:''' You like this [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]]?<br>
 '''FZ:''' Yeah. I'm a very romantic person. You kidding?<br>
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 ==Conceptual Continuity==
 * [[Cars]]
 [[Category:TV Interviews with Frank Zappa]]
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-March 30, 1978<br>
+[[File:Rudi Dolezal, Frank Zappa, 1978.jpg|700px|thumb|right|Rudi Dolezal interviewing Frank Zappa, 30 March 1978.]]
+During their interview, Dolezal asked Zappa whether the fact that he drives to his concerts in a Cadillac is "appropriate for an underground icon?" With his indignant counterquestions FZ pretty quickly disconcerts the rookie interviewer. Later that night ... under Zappa's direction Dolezal stars as Cadillac maniac who has to be spanked by [[John Smothers]] to have his demons exorcized.<br>The interview was done before and after the FZ shows in Vienna in Feb '78 and is obviously heavily edited and consists of several parts.<br> (Amusing sidenote: FZ's "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a classic example of a jerk for an interviewer" had rather euphemistic German subtitles, supposedly done by Dolezal's production firm DoRo: ''"Meine Damen und Herren, das ist eine sinnlose Frage." ("Ladies and Gentlemen this is a meaningless question")''. (Ed. Franz Fuchs))
 ==The Interview==
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 ==Background==
 ==Conceptual Continuity==
 [[Category:TV Interviews with Frank Zappa]]
 [[Category:1978]]

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 The interview was done before and after the FZ shows in Vienna in Feb '78 and is obviously heavily edited and consists of several parts.<br>
 Amusing sidenote: FZ's "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a classic example of a jerk for an interviewer" had rather euphemistic German subtitles, supposedly done by Dolezal's production firm DoRo: "Meine Damen und Herren, das ist eine sinnlose Frage." ("Ladies and Gentlemen this is a meaningless question"). (Ed. Franz Fuchs)
 ==The Interview==
 '''FZ:''' I don't wanna talk about anything, I sit here because somebody said you're gonna do a television interview, here I am, ask me the questions; but like I said: You ask me the questions, I tell you what I think, and the results – you never know what it's gonna be ... <br>
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 ... [obviously stupid question by RD] ... There's continuity going through everything that I do.<br>
 ... [obviously stupid question ...] ... I think a lot of what I do is based on reporting. I see something and I report on what I see based on my point of view. My point of view is not a normal point of view and I tell people about what I see about it. They can agree with it or they can say it's bullshit, whatever. I don't care. It's there for the ones who like it. For the ones who don't, there is millions of other groups.<br>
-[...] yeah, I take a very cynical point of view, I think that being cynical is a positive value, I think that nobody should trust anybody else, I think that all people are assholes until proving different and I think if you take that point of view you'll disappointed less in life. If you always expect the worst from people then the minute they do something nice it's a pleasure. If you think the people are good then you'll always be disappointed.<br>
+[...] yeah, I take a very cynical point of view, I think that being cynical is a positive value, I think that nobody should trust anybody else, I think that all people are [[asshole]]s until proving different and I think if you take that point of view you'll disappointed less in life. If you always expect the worst from people then the minute they do something nice it's a pleasure. If you think the people are good then you'll always be disappointed.<br>
 [...]<br>
 Because they're ''not''! They don't care. Don't expect friends, don't expect fun, don't expect a good life, don't expect anything and if you get something, it's a bonus.<br>
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 '''RD:''' And therefore that the singing is very quick? Is that the reason?<br>
 '''FZ:''' Yees, get it over with ... ya know ... Americans don't like to sit still for instrumental music, see, so you sing a little bit and they think they hear the song and then you play ... of course it's getting more like that over here too. <br>
-... Yeah, but there's all kinds of music around too, you just don't get to hear it, ya know, the government caters too much to the tourist trade, they keep selling you Mozart till you wanna die. They're sticking Mozart's face on everything: you got 'im on [[wikipedia:Mozartkugel|little candies]], they prob'ly got Mozart toilet paper here, don't they? Eh? (RD laughs) Take that sonofabitch and just make a buck off of that poor guy with a white wig ... his parents abused him ... trodded him all over Europe when he was a kid 'n' never gave him any time ever ... a bit of personal fun ... these prodigies ... wind up on a little candy like that's given to you on an airplane it's ... depressing when you hear about that. 'Hey! Mozart-land! He slept here!'<br>
+... Yeah, but there's all kinds of music around too, you just don't get to hear it, ya know, the government caters too much to the tourist trade, they keep selling you [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] till you wanna die. They're sticking Mozart's face on everything: you got 'im on [[wikipedia:Mozartkugel|little candies]], they prob'ly got Mozart toilet paper here, don't they? Eh? (RD laughs) Take that sonofabitch and just make a buck off of that poor guy with a white wig ... his parents abused him ... trodded him all over Europe when he was a kid 'n' never gave him any time ever ... a bit of personal fun ... these prodigies ... wind up on a little candy like that's given to you on an airplane it's ... depressing when you hear about that. 'Hey! Mozart-land! He slept here!'<br>
 You must have some people here who are still alive and writing music. What do you do about those people? (music: [[Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station]]) Nothing? They are working at a gas station? Well, see, you 're just like America. The have composers in America too, they're doin' ... but don't need it ...<br>
 'cept in da United States you can write a jingle for Pepsi Cola 'n' make a living.<br>
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 '''RD:''' And ... ah ... are there ... are there any difficults with the record companies, I mean you had some – some troubles ...<br>
 '''FZ:''' Still have.<br>
-'''RD:''' Warner-Warner Brothers ...<br>
+'''RD:''' Warner-[[Warner Brothers]] ...<br>
 '''FZ:''' Yeah. They don't pay me.<br>
 '''RD:''' What-what did not they pay you?<br>
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 '''RD:''' And you don't care what's ... what's it all about?<br>
 '''FZ:''' So long as I'm warm, so long as I'm comfortable, so long as the car is safe and the guy that's driving it knows where it's going, it's ok. And if I had to choose between riding in a car this big, with the draft coming in the window and riding in a Cadillac, I'm getting the Cadillac. Because I'm not crazy.<br>
-  Outside. We see FZ with a mikrophone in front of a car; Rudi is inside yelling and having fun.
+  Outside. We see FZ with a microphone in front of a car; Rudi is inside yelling and having fun.
 (beginning of [[Stink-Foot]]: "In the dark ...)<br>
 '''FZ:''' You get down there. Look at the girl the Cadillac show how long and beautiful this car is. Now you have to be just in there having ecstasy about how great this ... just rubbing the upholstery, ya know, 'n just aaaah, it's really, y'know? But ... y'know, rub everything in the car, y'might even rub the driver a little bit.<br>
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-[[Biography|Frank]] and the interviewer ([[Rudi Dolezal]], one of the later owners of the film company "[[wikipedia:DoRo Productions|DoRo]]") have a disagreement about the use of Cadillacs and the possible status involved, which results in a small movie under FZ's direction.<br>
+[[Biography|Frank]] and the interviewer ([[Wikipedia:Rudi Dolezal|Rudi Dolezal]], one of the later owners of the film company "[[wikipedia:DoRo Productions|DoRo]]") have a disagreement about the use of Cadillacs and the possible status involved, which results in a small movie under FZ's direction.<br>
 FZ is at his sneering, cynical "best". His comment "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a classic example of a jerk for an interviewer" is a classic.<br>
 In the docu Dolezal asks Zappa, if driving to concerts in a Cadillac is appropriate for an Underground icon. With his indignant counterquestions FZ pretty quickly disconcerts the rookie interviewer. Later that night ... under Zappa's direction Dolezal stars as Cadillac maniac who has to be spanked by [[John Smothers]] to have his demons exorcized.<br>

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