The Frank Zappa Interview Picture Disk, pt.1 - Revision history

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 '''And that particular solo found its place in a totally different song.<br>
-Absolutely. The whole "[[Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III|Joe's Garage]]" album is that way. All the guitar solos on "Joe's Garage" came from the European tour in 1980. They were recorded on a 2-track Nagra, just 2 microphones in front of my guitar amplifier and every time I played a solo the guy turned it on and recorded just the guitar. And when we did the "Joe's Garage" album I found the solos I liked and put them on top of the studio tracks and that's what's in there.
+Absolutely. The whole "[[Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III|Joe's Garage]]" album is that way. All the guitar solos on "Joe's Garage" came from the European tour in 1980. They were recorded on a 2-track [[wikipedia:Nagra|Nagra]], just 2 microphones in front of my guitar amplifier and every time I played a solo the guy turned it on and recorded just the guitar. And when we did the "Joe's Garage" album I found the solos I liked and put them on top of the studio tracks and that's what's in there.
 '''What you were playing yesterday, and I think you've done it many times before, but yesterday was very very obvious, you're playing very much what I could describe as Contrary Notes; not going according to the melody – guitar notes that you were playing, uh, is like a totally different song altogether. Do you ever shut the rest of the rhythm section from your ears and actually concentrate on actually ... <br>

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 * [[The Frank Zappa Interview Picture Disk, pt.2]]
-[[Category:Interviews with Zappa]]
+[[Category:Interviews with Zappa|Frank Zappa Interview Picture Disk, pt.1]]
-[[Category:1984]]
+[[Category:1984|Frank Zappa Interview Picture Disk, pt. 1]]

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-''This text is transcribed from an imported CD called "[[Limited Edition Interview Picture Disc|The Frank Zappa Interview Picture Disk]]". According to closest estimation based on the interview's context, it must have been conducted sometime in the summer of 1984. It was recorded after [[Frank Zappa]] had performed a set of concerts at the [[Odeon Hammersmith]] in London and some of the content of this interview refers to that set of concerts.''
+''This text is transcribed from an imported CD called "[[Limited Edition Interview Picture Disc|The Frank Zappa Interview Picture Disk]]". According to closest estimation based on the interview's context, it must have been conducted sometime in the summer of 1984. It was recorded after [[Frank Zappa]] had performed a set of concerts at the [[Hammersmith Odeon|Odeon Hammersmith]] in London and some of the content of this interview refers to that set of concerts.''
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 '''You didn't?<br>
-No, because we were requested to, uh, keep it, uh ... See, ordinarily when we do a show we change the words to the songs based on what happened that day. My favorite show of the bunch here was the second show on the first night, where we changed everything. And that's when I enjoy the show. If I can laugh when I'm onstage because something creative is happening in that regard, that's when I really enjoy the show.
+No, because we were requested to, uh, keep it, uh … See, ordinarily when we do a show we change the words to the songs based on what happened that day. My favorite show of the bunch here was the second show on the first night, where we changed everything. And that's when I enjoy the show. If I can laugh when I'm onstage because something creative is happening in that regard, that's when I really enjoy the show.
 Yet last night's show was competent and it was tight and it was done because we are making a CD – Live At The Odeon Hammersmith. So, people from the company said, well, "You know, you can't just go around and change all these lyrics, the people wanna hear the real lyrics," and so I said "Ok, play it straight." So we went out there and played it straight and also it was being videotaped by French television, and you can't be too far out when you're doing that because how are they gonna subtitle it?
-'''I thought that playing "[[In France]]" for them was a ... treat.<br>
+'''I thought that playing "[[In France]]" for them was a … treat.<br>
 They wanted that. That's the reason they came to do it because "In France" is being released as a single on the continent.
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 Uh-Huh
-'''Are you surprised actually by it? Because it's a direct insult to the French if uh, you ... <br>
+'''Are you surprised actually by it? Because it's a direct insult to the French if uh, you … <br>
 No, it's not. It was fair commentary on what Frenchness means to a person who is not French and has to be subjected to Frenchness. It is not a put-down of the French. It is the facts.
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 But all the stuff in that song is true including The Mystery BlowJob that happened to one of the guys in the band. You know, it started with this Green Fudge coming out of his wheeny, and he didn't realize that you could get this disease from sticking it in somebody's mouth. That was 'cause he was a chump. But it did happen in France so it belongs in the song.
-'''Yes. From "[[The Man From Utopia]]" there is quite a lot of laughter and humor which, you have said before, when you laugh at something spontaneous you enjoy the show. For instance, "[[The Radio Is Broken]]" ... <br>
+'''Yes. From "[[The Man From Utopia]]" there is quite a lot of laughter and humor which, you have said before, when you laugh at something spontaneous you enjoy the show. For instance, "[[The Radio Is Broken]]" … <br>
 I love that song. Most people hate that song but I love it.
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 Yeah?
-'''Yes, he loves the parts, uh..<br>
+'''Yes, he loves the parts, uh…<br>
-If he could only understand the lyrics though because it's talking about things from Science Fiction Movies that really exist and if he hasn't seen those things ... if he had, the idea of what the Bottchino is is Very Special Stuff you know. It's very, very ... inside.
+If he could only understand the lyrics though because it's talking about things from Science Fiction Movies that really exist and if he hasn't seen those things ... if he had, the idea of what the Bottchino is is Very Special Stuff you know. It's very, very … inside.
-'''You've been making references to, uh ... . What do you call them? Fiction movies..<br>
+'''You've been making references to, uh… What do you call them? Fiction movies …<br>
 Science Fiction
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 '''So when you come here do you actually have to prepare a special show?<br>
-Usually what I do is, in places where they don't speak English well or at all, we stick to songs that have already been released on an album because the albums have lyrics in them and so somebody has a chance to hear something familiar. You can't, for example, in France do a show that has a lot of new material in it, it's just totally senseless. Or Spain too. Or Italy. In Germany you can because the English comprehension is a little bit better there, but in France ... no.
+Usually what I do is, in places where they don't speak English well or at all, we stick to songs that have already been released on an album because the albums have lyrics in them and so somebody has a chance to hear something familiar. You can't, for example, in France do a show that has a lot of new material in it, it's just totally senseless. Or Spain too. Or Italy. In Germany you can because the English comprehension is a little bit better there, but in France … no.
 '''Is it a headache for you to choose from the repertoire of songs that you've got? It must be.<br>
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 Well, the question is Who Cares? Why should I be anywhere? The fact is that I'm still making music of all different kinds and why should I be anywhere you want me to be? It's like, I shouldn't live in a box.
-'''What they're perhaps referring to is mostly the material that you choose to use. For instance, the last album, the Utopia album was very uncommercial, not that your music IS commercial ... <br>
+'''What they're perhaps referring to is mostly the material that you choose to use. For instance, the last album, the Utopia album was very uncommercial, not that your music IS commercial … <br>
 That one was VERY uncommercial.
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 If the audience buys a ticket I say "Ok band, you have to do this – and these people want it good so give it to them good." And if they don't do it well they either have to improve themselves or they go. The word in the band is "Will that be an aisle or a window?", which means that your ticket back to Los Angeles is right over here, and everybody knows that. I've sent two guys home already from this tour.
-'''I think that really what you're saying is very fair, obviously. 'Cause what you're requesting out of the musicians is, uh..<br>
+'''I think that really what you're saying is very fair, obviously. 'Cause what you're requesting out of the musicians is, uh…<br>
 That they do their job.
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 But you know, but they all like to say they've been in the band. Like that gives them a seal of approval. You'd be surprised how many people have, in the ads for their album "Formerly with Frank Zappa", or something like that, it's like they've been to school. But if you listen to what they do you'd know they didn't really go to school. Some people come into the band as a stepping stone for something else in their career and they don't usually last very long. I don't mind them having their own career, but if you're in my band you're playing my music for the audience that wants to hear my music – that's why they came here. They didn't come here to hear your next album being rehearsed. They came here to hear reproductions of songs that I wrote because that's what they want. And that's what the job is. So anybody who is not satisfied doing that is welcome to leave and usually encouraged to leave. But the guys that are in the band right now have a dedication to putting on a good show. It's really a good bunch of guys.
-'''There must be a sort of looseness as well between ... they don't see you as a teacher – this teacher-like figure.<br>
+'''There must be a sort of looseness as well between … they don't see you as a teacher – this teacher-like figure.<br>
 No. For example, [[Chad Wackerman|Chad]], the drummer, has been in the band since 81 and he's grown immensely since he's been in the band. This is the first tour that he's done with electric drums and prior to that he was totally sold on acoustic drums and everything. But he made the change, I requested that he change over to electric drums and now he's totally into it, and you see from his solo last night that he's using it in a musical way; which is something that he probably wouldn't have done left to his own devices. When [[George Duke]] was in the band I wanted him to play a synthesizer – he didn't want to do it. He didn't think that was ...
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 Well, I got a pretty good idea of what my Sicilian roots are like after seeing the town of Partinico – it was pretty bleak.
-'''After that you were very.. pissed off really about coming back to Europe..<br>
+'''After that you were very … pissed off really about coming back to Europe..<br>
 Oh yes.
-'''And you swore that you wouldn't come back but ... <br>
+'''And you swore that you wouldn't come back but … <br>
 I changed my mind.

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 The Interviewer is not credited on the disc, but just so you'll know, from his accent he appears to have been an Anonymous British Person.<br>
 This text was transcribed by Robert Moore on Friday, Dec.10 at 4:33 AM EDT – just 6 short days since FZ died at the much-too-early age of 52. My universe is significantly diminished by his passing.
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 '''Yes.<br>
-You got the [[Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger|Boulez]] album, which is out. You got "[[Them Or Us]]", which is just about to come out, which is going to be followed very closely by "[[Thing-Fish]]" which is three-record box with a book in it, and you got [[Francesco|Francesco Zappa]] which comes out right after that. Also, the concerts here at the Odeon Hammersmith were recorded for a CD which was going to be just a CD, now a vinyl album, and that'll be coming out sometime next year.
+You got the [[Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger|Boulez]] album, which is out. You got "[[Them Or Us]]", which is just about to come out, which is going to be followed very closely by "[[Thing-Fish]]" which is three-record box with a book in it, and you got [[Francesco Zappa|Francesco]] which comes out right after that. Also, the concerts here at the Odeon Hammersmith were recorded for a CD which was going to be just a CD, now a vinyl album, and that'll be coming out sometime next year.
 '''Are you going to have a breather between each product?<br>

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