Pop Chronicles interview - Revision history

Jason.Kreitzer at 15:47, 14 December 2021

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Jason.Kreitzer at 17:55, 24 September 2021

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Jason.Kreitzer at 14:24, 9 September 2021

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Jason.Kreitzer at 17:55, 8 September 2021

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Jason.Kreitzer at 20:49, 3 September 2021

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PopFanDoug: /* 1967 interview */ fix 1 link, add 2 more, fix a few scanos

2021-01-04T19:01:01Z

1967 interview: fix 1 link, add 2 more, fix a few scanos

Spider of Destiny: /* Links */

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PopFanDoug: /* 1967 interview */ enable recently added (thanks!) wikilinks.

2020-09-17T19:32:33Z

1967 interview: enable recently added (thanks!) wikilinks.

Spider of Destiny at 03:20, 30 August 2020

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	[p. 9] (After Spector's comment on the "awful-good" record)		[p. 9] (After Spector's comment on the "awful-good" record)
−	"Well all I can say is that his taste and mine run pretty close together. I can name a couple more. I like '[[? and the Mysterians\|Ninety-Six Tears]].' (Loud reaction from group) I mean I thought . . . listen! 'Ninety-Six Tears'! Wow! That's an art statement. And . . . in the past I had said a bunch of bad things about [[Tommy James and the ~~Shondels~~]], you know. But, when I heard '[[Crimson And Clover]],' I said, 'Well . . . they really got something going for 'em.' That really turned out to be a winner. And '[[Wild Thing]]s' was so bad it was magnificent. That was a heavy item. We did a version of 'Ninety-Six Tears' in the Bronx, that we called '[[Tiny Sick Tears]].' We have it on tape. Might wheel a bit of it over to you. (Reaction and Zappa laughing). 'I'm gonna cry tiny sick tears.'"	+	"Well all I can say is that his taste and mine run pretty close together. I can name a couple more. I like '[[? and the Mysterians\|Ninety-Six Tears]].' (Loud reaction from group) I mean I thought . . . listen! 'Ninety-Six Tears'! Wow! That's an art statement. And . . . in the past I had said a bunch of bad things about [[Tommy James and the Shondells]], you know. But, when I heard 'Crimson And Clover,' I said, 'Well . . . they really got something going for 'em.' That really turned out to be a winner. And '[[Wild Thing]]s' was so bad it was magnificent. That was a heavy item. We did a version of 'Ninety-Six Tears' in the Bronx, that we called '[[Tiny Sick Tears]].' We have it on tape. Might wheel a bit of it over to you. (Reaction and Zappa laughing). 'I'm gonna cry tiny sick tears.'"

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 FRANK ZAPPA
-#	Reading from [[Life (magazine)|Life magazine]]…his impressions of “[[Rock Around the Clock]].”
+#	Reading from [[Life (magazine)|Life magazine]]…his impressions of “[[Bill Haley & His Comets|Rock Around the Clock]].”
 #	Reading bit on [[Elvis Presley]] (from initial but [http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/boogered boogered] interview.)
 #	Comparing late ‘60s music with pop music of the mid-fifties, reading from initial interview transcript.

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−	[[John Gilliland]], for the Pop Chronicles, interviewed Frank Zappa on December 8, 1967 and March 5, 1969. For the first time, transcripts of part these interviews are published here at Zappa Wiki Jawaka, courtesy of the [https://findingaids.library.unt.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=959&q=&rootcontentid=204947 John Gilliland Collection] at the [https://www.unt.edu/ University of North Texas]. Parts of this interview were included in the Pop Chronicles documentary, but Zappa spoke freely so parts were not and could not be broadcast on the radio.	+	John Gilliland, for the [[Pop Chronicles]], interviewed Frank Zappa on December 8, 1967 and March 5, 1969. For the first time, transcripts of part these interviews are published here at Zappa Wiki Jawaka, courtesy of the [https://findingaids.library.unt.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=959&q=&rootcontentid=204947 John Gilliland Collection] at the [https://www.unt.edu/ University of North Texas]. Parts of this interview were included in the Pop Chronicles documentary, but Zappa spoke freely so parts were not and could not be broadcast on the radio.

	==Audio==		==Audio==

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 #	Reading bit on [[Elvis Presley]] (from initial but [http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-definition-of/boogered boogered] interview.)
 #	Comparing late ‘60s music with pop music of the mid-fifties, reading from initial interview transcript.
-#	On [[Reuben and the Jets]] (sic) …and the “grand old ‘50s groups.”
+#	On [[Cruising With Ruben & The Jets|Reuben and the Jets]] (sic) …and the “grand old ‘50s groups.”
 #	Differences between Reuben & Jets & current Mothers’ stuff (brief).
 #	Theory of modal chanting related to r&b music.
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 but at the time we were playing at the trip, messages had been
 conveyed to him about some weird dupe t hat was working down
-there playing a song called [[Help I'm a Rock]] (? ) and at that
+there playing a song called [[Help, I'm A Rock|Help I'm a Rock]] (? ) and at that
 time the guy covered with the dimple, Elliott, was an extra
 in an Elvis Presley movie . When Elvis found out that he was

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 SUB : Well let ' s see I would prefer that you would play stuff
 from the 3rd album and from [[Lumpy Gravy]] but if you have to use
-any cuts from there I like [[Hungry Freaks Daddy]] (?) and [[It Can't
+any cuts from there I like [[Hungry Freaks, Daddy (1966 - Los Angeles)|Hungry Freaks Daddy]] (?) and [[It Can't
 Happen Here]] ________ (?)
 INT: It Can't Happen Here just scared the pea out of me .

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−	"Well all I can say is that his taste and mine run pretty close together. I can name a couple more. I like '[[Ninety-Six Tears]].' (Loud reaction from group) I mean I thought . . . listen! 'Ninety-Six Tears'! Wow! That's an art statement. And . . . in the past I had said a bunch of bad things about [[Tommy James and the Shondels]], you know. But, when I heard '[[Crimson And Clover]],' I said, 'Well . . . they really got something going for 'em.' That really turned out to be a winner. And '[[Wild Thing]]s' was so bad it was magnificent. That was a heavy item. We did a version of 'Ninety-Six Tears' in the Bronx, that we called '[[Tiny Sick Tears]].' We have it on tape. Might wheel a bit of it over to you. (Reaction and Zappa laughing). 'I'm gonna cry tiny sick tears.'"	+	"Well all I can say is that his taste and mine run pretty close together. I can name a couple more. I like '[[? and the Mysterians\|Ninety-Six Tears]].' (Loud reaction from group) I mean I thought . . . listen! 'Ninety-Six Tears'! Wow! That's an art statement. And . . . in the past I had said a bunch of bad things about [[Tommy James and the Shondels]], you know. But, when I heard '[[Crimson And Clover]],' I said, 'Well . . . they really got something going for 'em.' That really turned out to be a winner. And '[[Wild Thing]]s' was so bad it was magnificent. That was a heavy item. We did a version of 'Ninety-Six Tears' in the Bronx, that we called '[[Tiny Sick Tears]].' We have it on tape. Might wheel a bit of it over to you. (Reaction and Zappa laughing). 'I'm gonna cry tiny sick tears.'"

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 and then the re are other things to me that hit me as very
 real and frightening .
-SUB: Well there is such a th! ng as an excellently frightening
+SUB: Well there is such a thing as an excellently frightening
 parody.
 INT: What nr e you really trying to do? Is that - is that an
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+I
 Frank Zappa (Mothers of Invention) - Page 2
-SUB : Shock - you find th~t shocking?
+SUB : Shock - you find that shocking?
 INT : No - but I was thinking again of that thing I read -
 you know - where they said you were trying to get them out
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 Some of the things that we did on stage really upset people ,
 or made them cry. It disturbed them so that they were so
-wasted when they left there that they didn ' t know what had
+wasted when they left there that they didn't know what had
 happened to them . Like the night that we had 3 full dressed
 United States Marines on stage .
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 volunteer to sing you will also have to take part in the show.
 When I give you the signal you lunge for the microphone and
-start screaming kilJ kill. So t hey did - you know - and the
+start screaming kill kill. So t hey did - you know - and the
 audience thought this is really weird . After it was a l l over
 and they clapped I motioned to them to thank the audience . One
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 And nobody knew what to do. These guys were i n full dress
 blues. They just burned the flag on our stage . So the second
-half of thf~ show we got this giant baby doll . We didn ' t show
+half of thf~ show we got this giant baby doll . We didn't show
-it to them. They were up there bopping around and hoving
+it to them. They were up there bopping around and having
 merry fun . They were a little drunk - you know - and doing
 the normal Marine Corp . fun time routine . I stopped the
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 wasted the head - you know - just completely ruined it. We
 made crashing , smashing , noises o n t he instruments - you know -
-~nd. t he audience was get.ti ng nauseous. We quieted the music
+~nd. t he audience was getting nauseous. We quieted the music
 down and made it real sad and I held the doll up by the hair
 and showed the injured parts of the doll to the audience for
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 back from Viet Nam that was beggin us to stop all the way
 through the whole thing . That is an atrocity and you can't
-record it - you know - because it doesn ' t come off on record .
+record it - you know - because it doesn't come off on record .
 Live in person it is a very effective a - means of making
 people chink a little bit about things that they tend to
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 research - uh - thing. Now t hey got ways to make you change
 your mind that you haven ' t even imagined yet, and they use them on you ,
-t oo. You' re completely vulnerable - there ' s no way . It ' s
+t oo. You' re completely vulnerable - there ' s no way . It's
 conunercial nerve gas.
 INT: Why won ' t radio stations play this stuff on the air, aside
 from a few lyrics that they might not be able to?
-SUB: Uh - I don ' t think there ' s even anything in the lyrics
+SUB: Uh - I don't think there ' s even anything in the lyrics
-that they couldn ' t go on the air. Most people tend to dismiss
+that they couldn't go on the air. Most people tend to dismiss
 us as being less appealing than Herman and the Hermits . And I
 seem to think that - uh - we don ' t - uh - try and sound funky -
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 incredible . What is a ll that - what are-------?
-SUB: _______ ? It is a technique developed by [[Arnold
+SUB: _______ ? It is a technique developed by Arnold
-Schoenberg]] but really not developed by Arnold Schoenberg
+Schoenberg but really not developed by [[Arnold Schoenberg]]
 and maybe developed by [[John Lee Hooker]], because there is very
 little difference between the technique of "[[Pierrot Lunaire]]" (?)
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 conveyed to him about some weird dupe t hat was working down
 there playing a song called [[Help I'm a Rock]] (? ) and at that
-time the g uy covered with the dimple, Elliott, was an extra
+time the guy covered with the dimple, Elliott, was an extra
 in an Elvis Presley movie . When Elvis found out that he was
 in t he group he came up and was rapping to him about our
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 SUB : In the middle of the show he could sort of just walk on
 and sing Hound Dog and then disappear .
-INT: Did he do anything that you really +iked?
+INT: Did he do anything that you really liked?
 SUB : "Let's Play House" .
 INT : "Let 's Play House"? How did you like "One Night"?
-SUB : I didn 't like it because I heard the original by Smiley
+SUB : I didn't like it because I heard the original by Smiley
 Lewis.
-INT: Do you think it would have been good i f you hadn ' t heard
+INT: Do you think it would have been good if you hadn't heard
 the original?
 SUB : No - no - because i n a way he is - he was doing then a
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 sound like
 bother .
------------? like Muddy Waters and just why
+-----------? like [[Muddy Waters]] and just why
 INT : You don ' t know of any , in your opinion any Rock group
 that has been ab l e to get close to it? Lou Rawls named a couple
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 SUB : Well that is because they are merchandized as blue-eyed
 soul and if it appeals to Lou Rawls I am sure he is entitled
-to dance to anything he wants to . I like what Eric Clapton (?)
+to dance to anything he wants to . I like what [[Eric Clapton]] (?)
-is dojng because a lot of things that he i s per forming live on
+is doing because a lot of things that he i s per forming live on
 stage , begins with blues and manages t o transcend it completely
 by the time he is don e . He is such a good p layer. Their whole

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 (The 1967 interview scanned better, and so the OCR text is included below.  INT is the interviewer, John Gilliland.  SUB is the subject, Frank Zappa.  Beware of scanos that remain.)
-<pre>
+<pre<includeonly></includeonly>>
 FRANK ZAPPA (Mothers of Invention) - Hollywood - 12-8-67