Lenny Bruce - Revision history

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Jason.Kreitzer at 05:46, 4 December 2021

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 In 1969, Zappa produced the album ''[[The Berkeley Concert]]'', a memorial recording about Lenny Bruce, released on his label Bizarre.
-Zappa and John F. Kennedy's name were included on the [[Freedom Wall]] in [[Chicago]].
+Zappa and Lenny Bruce's name were included on the [[Freedom Wall]] in [[Chicago]].
 Lenny Bruce was also mentioned and thanked in the liner notes of ''[[The MOFO Project/Object (Fazedooh)]]'' (2006) album. <ref>http://donlope.net/fz/notes/The_MOFO_Project_Object.html#Contributors</ref>

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 Lenny Bruce is mentioned in the list of influences inside the sleeve of ''"[[Freak Out!]]"'' (1966) under the heading: ''"These People Have Contributed Materially In Many Ways To Make Our Music What It Is. Please Do Not Hold It Against Them"''.
-In 1969 Zappa produced the album ''[[The Berkeley Concert]]'', a memorial recording about Lenny Bruce, released on his label Bizarre.
+In 1969, Zappa produced the album ''[[The Berkeley Concert]]'', a memorial recording about Lenny Bruce, released on his label Bizarre.
 Lenny Bruce was also mentioned and thanked in the liner notes of ''[[The MOFO Project/Object (Fazedooh)]]'' (2006) album. <ref>http://donlope.net/fz/notes/The_MOFO_Project_Object.html#Contributors</ref>

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 March 19, 1964: arrested on obscenity charges for performances given over the previous three weeks at The Talley Ho is Los Angeles. He is released on $500 bail and returns for another show at ''The Talley Ho.''
-March 31, 1964: License Department Inspector Herbert Ruhe attends performance at the [[Cafe Au Go Go]] in Greenwich Village and later submits a report on the show to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
+March 31, 1964: License Department Inspector Herbert Ruhe attends performance at the [[Cafe Au Go Go]] in [[Greenwich Village]] and later submits a report on the show to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
 April 1, 1964: Four vice squad officers attend and record Bruce's 10 P. M. show at the [[Cafe Au Go Go]] in New York City.

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	==Frank Zappa about Lenny Bruce==		==Frank Zappa about Lenny Bruce==
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		+	''"We have a plan underway to open a show here this summer, a musical that no one has ever seen, based on the [[Lenny Bruce]] trials. It's gonna be a musical science fiction horror story. If y'know anything about the life of [[Lenny Bruce]] who just happened to be a friend of mine and our manager's. (...) Yeah. Lenny, man. He was a SAINT! That guy really was. You know what he had been doing for maybe five years or so? (...) He lived up the hill from us in [[Hollywood]] with this guy that's helping us put together our PA system. Like John found him when he was zonked. He'd sit up in his room for 14 hours typing up briefs for cases and researching constitutional law trying to find out what y'know what the facts really were and what you were entitled to do within the law. And I think that for anybody to devote 14 hours a day to ANYthing man, he should get a medal just for that, y'know. He really loved the law, y'know and wanted to see it work. I mean what the big machine did to [[Lenny Bruce]] is pretty disgusting and uh I think it ranks with civil rights as one of the big pimples on the face of American uhh, culture. But nobody'll ever find anything out about it, I guess so 'FUCK him'. (...) I think someone will miss a good chance if they don't set the [[Lenny Bruce]] Trials to music."''
		+	- Frank Zappa in ''[[Don Paulsen interviews FZ]]'', 22 December 1966.

	<blockquote>''"I had seen Lenny Bruce a number of times at ''Canter's Deli,'' where he used to sit in a front booth with [[Phil Spector]] and eat knockwurst. I didn't really talk with him until we opened for him at the [[Fillmore Venues\|Fillmore West]]<ref>Actually the Fillmore Auditorium</ref> in 1966. I met him in the lobby between sets and asked him to sign my draft card. He said no – he didn't want to touch it. At that time, Lenny lived with a guy named [[John Judnich]]. ... Compared to Jerry and Bill, Lenny Bruce was quite normal. At that time, according to Judnich, Lenny used to stay up all night dressed in a doctor's outfit, listening to Sousa marches and working on his legal briefs."''</blockquote>		<blockquote>''"I had seen Lenny Bruce a number of times at ''Canter's Deli,'' where he used to sit in a front booth with [[Phil Spector]] and eat knockwurst. I didn't really talk with him until we opened for him at the [[Fillmore Venues\|Fillmore West]]<ref>Actually the Fillmore Auditorium</ref> in 1966. I met him in the lobby between sets and asked him to sign my draft card. He said no – he didn't want to touch it. At that time, Lenny lived with a guy named [[John Judnich]]. ... Compared to Jerry and Bill, Lenny Bruce was quite normal. At that time, according to Judnich, Lenny used to stay up all night dressed in a doctor's outfit, listening to Sousa marches and working on his legal briefs."''</blockquote>

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 [[Category:Favorite Artists|Bruce]]
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-[[Category:The MOFO Project/Object (The List)|Bruce]
+[[Category:The MOFO Project/Object (The List)|Bruce]]

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 [[Image:Lennybruce.jpg|thumb|Lenny Bruce]]'''Lenny Bruce''' (October 13, 1925, Mineola, New York - August 3, 1966, Hollywood) was an American comedian, famous for his controversial stand-up routines and fights against censorship.
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-[[Category:Supporting Cast|Bruce, Lenny]]
+[[Category:Supporting Cast|Bruce]]
-[[Category:Activists|Bruce, Lenny]]
+[[Category:Activists|Bruce]]
-[[Category:Comedians|Bruce, Lenny]]
+[[Category:Comedians|Bruce]]
-[[Category:Side Projects|Bruce, Lenny]]
+[[Category:Side Projects|Bruce]]

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 ==Frank Zappa about Lenny Bruce==
-<blockquote>''"I had seen Lenny Bruce a number of times at ''Canter's Deli,'' where he used to sit in a front booth with [[Phil Spector]] and eat knockwurst. I didn't really talk with him until we opened for him at the [[Fillmore West]] in 1966. I met him in the lobby between sets and asked him to sign my draft card. He said no – he didn't want to touch it. At that time, Lenny lived with a guy named [[John Judnich]]. ... Compared to Jerry and Bill, Lenny Bruce was quite normal. At that time, according to Judnich, Lenny used to stay up all night dressed in a doctor's outfit, listening to Sousa marches and working on his legal briefs."''</blockquote>
+<blockquote>''"I had seen Lenny Bruce a number of times at ''Canter's Deli,'' where he used to sit in a front booth with [[Phil Spector]] and eat knockwurst. I didn't really talk with him until we opened for him at the [[Fillmore Venues|Fillmore West]]<ref>Actually the Fillmore Auditorium</ref> in 1966. I met him in the lobby between sets and asked him to sign my draft card. He said no – he didn't want to touch it. At that time, Lenny lived with a guy named [[John Judnich]]. ... Compared to Jerry and Bill, Lenny Bruce was quite normal. At that time, according to Judnich, Lenny used to stay up all night dressed in a doctor's outfit, listening to Sousa marches and working on his legal briefs."''</blockquote>
 <div align=right>From [[The Real Frank Zappa Book]] (1989) – "'''Just Plain Folks'''"</div align=right>

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 December 28, 1962: [[The Troubadour]] obscenity trial opens in Beverly Hills, California.
-February 12, 1963: arrested on obscenity charges following a performance at [[The Unicorn]] in Los Angeles.
+February 12, 1963: arrested on obscenity charges following a performance at[The Unicorn in Los Angeles.
-February 13, 1963: [[The Troubadour]] and [[The Unicorn|Unicorn]] obscenity trials are consolidated.
+February 13, 1963: The [[The Troubadour|Troubador]] and Unicorn obscenity trials are consolidated.
-February 15, 1963: After listening to tapes of [[The Troubadour]] and [[The Unicorn|Unicorn]] performances, the jury in his obscenity trial deadlocks 7 to 5 (the majority favoring acquittal). A mistrial is declared.
+February 15, 1963: After listening to tapes of the [[The Troubadour|Troubador]] and the Unicorn performances, the jury in his obscenity trial deadlocks 7 to 5 (the majority favoring acquittal). A mistrial is declared.
 February 18, 1963: The Gate of Horn obscenity trial opens in Chicago. Bruce acts as his own counsel.