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 '''Can you tell me about the great marine atrocities?<br>
-When the marines came up on, stage? Sure, a marine had been stabbed in Greenwich Village and there was a rumour going around that all the marines were going to come into the Village and stomp all the hippies in sight. And we were rehearsing one afternoon and three marines in uniform came in and sat down.
+When the marines came up on, stage? Sure, a marine had been stabbed in [[Greenwich Village]] and there was a rumour going around that all the marines were going to come into the Village and stomp all the hippies in sight. And we were rehearsing one afternoon and three marines in uniform came in and sat down.
 I said "hi" to them and told them that they. could stay and watch a rehearsal. So when it was over I went down and talked with them. And :the rest of the guys in the band were going "oh man, are they coming down here to get us?"

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 If "necessity be the mother of invention," Frank Zappa is then an obscene colloquialism.
-Francis Vincent Zappa Jr, 33, born of Sicilian/Greek parentage, is not a necessity; he is mandatory. The obligatory weirdo, freaked-out genius. The kid with horn-rimmed glasses who dabbled with test tubes and chemistry sets and grew up to be a human musical rocket ship with dada-wheel drive, four on the floor and an ear for the avant garde, [[Suzy Creamcheese|Suzy Cream Cheese]] ([[Wikipedia:Sic|sic]]) and the Fillmore East.
+Francis Vincent Zappa Jr, 33, born of Sicilian/Greek parentage, is not a necessity; he is mandatory. The obligatory weirdo, freaked-out genius. The kid with horn-rimmed glasses who dabbled with test tubes and chemistry sets and grew up to be a human musical rocket ship with [[dada]]-wheel drive, four on the floor and an ear for the avant garde, [[Suzy Creamcheese|Suzy Cream Cheese]] ([[Wikipedia:Sic|sic]]) and the Fillmore East.
 Groupies grope, musicologists shudder and stoned-out audiences stare in stupor. Look out old Frank is back.
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 Most of the people that were into the freak scene in Los Angeles were getting their costumes together, dancing a lot. The real freaks weren't using any drugs at all. Then there were the "weekenders" who used to come in and stick anything in their mouth that they could find. And you were hearing about people freaking out on acid all over the place. And it was quite colourful.
-The real estate speculators who had something to do with Sunset Boulevard, which is where all the freak-outs took place, started complaining that the accumulation of all these weird people on their street was bringing their property values down.
+The real estate speculators who had something to do with [[Sunset Boulevard]], which is where all the freak-outs took place, started complaining that the accumulation of all these weird people on their street was bringing their property values down.
 So they induced the police to make illegal roundups of all these people.

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 Well, you must remember that by the time flower power had happened in San Francisco and been reported in Time Magazine it didn't exist any more. Because you had people who had no experience with the movement in San Francisco suddenly popping up and deciding that they were going to be hippies.
-And then you had phoney people faking it in their own locations. It was roughly the same thing that happened when surfing became a craze. There were people in Kansas that had woody wagons and a surf board and there wasn't even a lake!
+And then you had phoney people faking it in their own locations. It was roughly the same thing that happened when surfing became a craze. There were people in [[Kansas]] that had woody wagons and a surf board and there wasn't even a lake!
 '''In November '66 you moved to New York and took up residency at the [[Garrick Theatre]], The New York Fugs were around the block at the Players Theatre. It must have been a hairy scene back then.<br>

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 '''You used the word "obnoxious." A lot of people think that sometimes you actually fit that category.<br>
-Well, a lot of people could say the same thing about [[Lawrence Welk]] or they could say the same thing about any other music that they didn't like.
+Well, a lot of people could say the same thing about [[Wikipedia:Lawrence Welk|Lawrence Welk]] or they could say the same thing about any other music that they didn't like.
 But we do enjoy it and the people that have various negative opinions about it can use any adjective they want to describe it.
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 Theoretically, I shouldn't have graduated, but I had spent the right amount of time in school.
-'''A few albums ago, you recorded "[[Cruising With Ruben & The Jets|Cruising With Ruben and the Jets]]." Wasn't that a parody of those white singers like [[Paul Anka]] and [[Neil Sedaka]]?<br>
+'''A few albums ago, you recorded "[[Cruising With Ruben & The Jets|Cruising With Ruben and the Jets]]." Wasn't that a parody of those white singers like [[Wikipedia:Paul Anka|Paul Anka]] and [[Neil Sedaka]]?<br>
 It wasn't really a parody. If you are familiar with the development of the music of [[Igor Stravinsky]]; at one point he started writing a whole series of compositions that were in a style grossly unpopular at the time.

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 It was a neo-classic album. It uses all the structural elements of those type of songs. And it adhered to that form, except it was a modern-day thing, a modern day production.
-'''In the classical vein some of your music has been reflective of the works of [[Edgar Varèse]]. How did you first get acquainted with him?<br>
+'''In the classical vein some of your music has been reflective of the works of [[Edgard Varèse|Edgar Varèse]]. How did you first get acquainted with him?<br>
 I got hold of one of his albums and I thought it was the greatest music I had ever heard, and I hadn't heard any one else who dared to write anything near it.

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 They very seldom play any complicated lines.
-'''Your next album "[[Absolutely Free]]" included the masterpiece "[[America Drinks]]," and its sequel "[[America Drinks And Goes Home|America Drinks & Goes Home]]," complete with clinking cocktail glasses. What were you presenting there?<br>
+'''Your next album "[[Absolutely Free]]" included the masterpiece "[[America Drinks]]," and its sequel "[[America Drinks & Goes Home]]," complete with clinking cocktail glasses. What were you presenting there?<br>
 We used to work in cocktail lounges. I didn't think that anyone had really presented the horror of the cocktail lounge sufficiently and so we tried to relive a little of it.

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 You never heard it? It's from a commercial for Aloma Linda Gravy Quick, that's where the name came from.
-I was offered a chance to write for a 40 piece orchestra by a producer, Nik Venet, who was with Capitol Records at the time. It was the first chance I had to get a professional recording of my stuff with an orchestra and we did it.
+I was offered a chance to write for a 40 piece orchestra by a producer, [[Nick Venet]], who was with Capitol Records at the time. It was the first chance I had to get a professional recording of my stuff with an orchestra and we did it.
 Then there was a thirteenmonth litigation that held up the release.

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 '''What was the social significance of your earlier tunes like "[[Help, I'm A Rock]]" and "[[Brown Shoes Don't Make It]]."<br>
-"Help I'm A Rock " wasn't written. It was just a thing that spewed out at that session. What was happening was what was in the air that night. "Brown Shoes" was a song that relates specifically to people who are emotionally disturbed, who wind up going into politics and making laws to regulate the conduct of other people , "Brown Shoes" is probably more applicable today than ever before.
+"Help I'm A Rock " wasn't written. It was just a thing that spewed out at that session. What was happening was what was in the air that night. "Brown Shoes" was a song that relates specifically to people who are emotionally disturbed, who wind up going into [[politics]] and making laws to regulate the conduct of other people , "Brown Shoes" is probably more applicable today than ever before.
 '''Didn't you have the Los Angeles Philharmonic sit in on "[[Freak Out!|Freak Out]]?"<br>
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 '''Is Frank Zappa music still a freak out?<br>
 No, its changed to something else. After all, it's been nine years since "[[Freak Out!]]"
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 But they turned out to be real nice guys and asked for autographs and so forth, and I asked if they would like to sit in with us that night. So they said "sure." I said, "Can you sing?" and they said "Yes 'House Of The Rising Sun' and 'Everybody Must Get Stoned '."
-I told them to go across the street to the Tin Angel, get a drunk and then come back and sit in with us and they did, got up on stage in full dress uniform. So the United States Marines starred, singing "Everybody Must Get Stoned " and "House Of The Rising Sun" and everybody loved it.
+I told them to go across the street to the Tin Angel, get a drunk and then come back and sit in with us and they did, got up on stage in full dress uniform. So the United States [[Marines]] starred, singing "[[Everybody Must Get Stoned]] " and "[[House Of The Rising Sun]]" and everybody loved it.
 So I asked them if they would be interested in demonstrating some of their combat techniques on stage. They thought that would be fun. I sent around the corner to my apartment to procure a large doll that is about four a a half feet tall. And when they came back on stage for the second show I handed them the doll and told them to pretend that it was a gook baby and do whatever you do to it to these people in Vietnam.
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 That's the reason the first group broke up, there was just no way.
-'''Considering that the artwork was a parody of the Beatles' "[[Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]," was there any flak from the Beatles camp?<br>
+'''Considering that the artwork was a parody of [[The Beatles]]' "[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]," was there any flak from the Beatles camp?<br>
 No, they held up release of the album by withholding permission to do the parody cover about 11 months. I was supposed to go over to Paul McCartney's house for a lunch or something and I had to call and say I was going to Copenhagen that day and at that time I asked him on the phone if he could give M.G.M. permission to go ahead and print the parody cover.
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 '''Who exactly were the GTO's "Together Outrageously."<br>
-The GTO's were a group of girls who used to hang out at my house that were very interesting, had an interesting life style, and they used to write poetry, do little skits, and live sort of a fantasy life.
+The [[GTO's]] were a group of girls who used to hang out at my house that were very interesting, had an interesting life style, and they used to write poetry, do little skits, and live sort of a fantasy life.
 I thought it would be sort of interesting to share their experiences with people who had never come in contact with anything like that. So I encouraged them to set music to their songs, or get somebody to help them put their poems to music and I told them I would record them.
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 '''Is Frank Zappa music still a freak out?<br>
-No, its changed to something else. After all, it's been nine years since "Freak Out."
+No, its changed to something else. After all, it's been nine years since "[[Freak Out!]]"
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