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 '''JL:''' Whaddya think?<br>
-'''FZ:''' Some of the routines were fantastic. I thought one of the great things of television history was when [[Rita Coolidge]] was singing and they had a rhythm section with the guitar player Burned up. And the piano player was playing a solo. I watched him for about two minutes whapping away on the keys and there was zero coming out.
+'''FZ:''' Some of the routines were fantastic. I thought one of the great things of television history was when [[Wikipedia:Rita Coolidge|Rita Coolidge]] was singing and they had a rhythm section with the guitar player Burned up. And the piano player was playing a solo. I watched him for about two minutes whapping away on the keys and there was zero coming out.
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 '''JL:''' Some of the harder times.<br>
-'''FZ:''' No, I'm not talking about the harder times, but some of the underlying things that were really going on. For instance, LSD. Now let's face it [[LSD]] was manufactured by the [[CIA]]. We already know that; they were using it on people in the Army to test it and the connection that was dealing with people in San Francisco in those days was probably working for the Government and he was using the whole teenage population in order to test that drug.
+'''FZ:''' No, I'm not talking about the harder times, but some of the underlying things that were really going on. For instance, LSD. Now let's face it [[LSD]] was manufactured by the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]. We already know that; they were using it on people in the Army to test it and the connection that was dealing with people in San Francisco in those days was probably working for the Government and he was using the whole teenage population in order to test that drug.
 '''JL:''' Is that what you believe?<br>

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 <blockquote>''("[[Don't Eat The Yellow Snow|Yellow Snow]]", 1'13")''</blockquote>
-... For every artist who makes music there's somebody out there who wants to hear that music, even if it's the artist's mother, father, sister or brother – there's an audience for all of it someplace. So everyone has a right to access to what they enjoy. The only thing I'm concerned about is that people are aware that there are alternatives to Captain & Tennile or the Allman Bros. There might be people out there who like what I do if they only knew what it is that I do. Like people have heard my name, and maybe seen a [[The Toilet Poster|picture]] of me sitting on a toilet and they think that that's what I do. Well I do sit on the toilet – but so do you, but besides sitting on the toilet I also play guitar, I also write these funny songs that aren't funny sometimes, and write music for orchestra and do a bunch of other things.
+... For every artist who makes music there's somebody out there who wants to hear that music, even if it's the artist's mother, father, sister or brother – there's an audience for all of it someplace. So everyone has a right to access to what they enjoy. The only thing I'm concerned about is that people are aware that there are alternatives to Captain & Tennile or the [[The Allman Brothers Band|Allman Bros]]. There might be people out there who like what I do if they only knew what it is that I do. Like people have heard my name, and maybe seen a [[The Toilet Poster|picture]] of me sitting on a toilet and they think that that's what I do. Well I do sit on the toilet – but so do you, but besides sitting on the toilet I also play guitar, I also write these funny songs that aren't funny sometimes, and write music for orchestra and do a bunch of other things.
 FRANK ZAPPA has always had "a bunch of other things to do, ever since the first Mothers of Invention album in 1965. It was called [[Freak Out!]] and it was the first 2-disc concept album in the history of rock n roll. It became a cult classic and so did the Mothers – a shifting assortment of musicians and fellow travelers of the Zappa sound. Now, since that beginning Zappa has written and produced everything from jazz-rock to nonsense blues, from parody to ballet – his music has always had an almost visual quality, and so strong are his images that he's almost a cartoonist who draws with melody and lyrics. And it's no surprise that he's now gotten into TV. Well ... almost. We continue now with the story of his first TV special – that nobody wants.
-'''FZ:''' It's a television show that was shot at KCET about 3 years ago and it's been shown on the air in France and Switzerland. It's never been broadcast in the U.S. and the only audiences that have seen it in the States have been at private showings or at a Frank Zappa Film Festival that was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan but other than that nobody in the States has seen it.
+'''FZ:''' It's a television show that was shot at KCET about 3 years ago and it's been shown on the air in [[France]] and [[Switzerland]]. It's never been broadcast in the U.S. and the only audiences that have seen it in the States have been at private showings or at a Frank Zappa Film Festival that was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan but other than that nobody in the States has seen it.
 '''JL:''' What's the chances of getting this TV thing on in America? What problems have you run into?<br>
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 '''JL:''' How long before do you think before the media says "Enough of the game shows – let's get into something good"?<br>
-'''FZ:''' I don't think it'll happen incur lifetime. As long as they can make a buck from a show that cost $2 and gives unemployed Hollywood actors a chance to go on and do guessing routines, or gives housewives a chance to put on a costume and jump up and down next to the announcer with the Man Tan skin and pretend to be excited about a refrigerator – so long as they can do that, why should they do anything else?
+'''FZ:''' I don't think it'll happen in our lifetime. As long as they can make a buck from a show that cost $2 and gives unemployed Hollywood actors a chance to go on and do guessing routines, or gives housewives a chance to put on a costume and jump up and down next to the announcer with the Man Tan skin and pretend to be excited about a refrigerator – so long as they can do that, why should they do anything else?
 '''JL:''' Have you seen "Saturday Night"?<br>
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 '''JL:''' Whaddya think?<br>
-'''FZ:''' Some of the routines were fantastic. I thought one of the great things of television history was when Rita Coolidge was singing and they had a rhythm section with the guitar player Burned up. And the piano player was playing a solo. I watched him for about two minutes whapping away on the keys and there was zero coming out.
+'''FZ:''' Some of the routines were fantastic. I thought one of the great things of television history was when [[Rita Coolidge]] was singing and they had a rhythm section with the guitar player Burned up. And the piano player was playing a solo. I watched him for about two minutes whapping away on the keys and there was zero coming out.
 <blockquote>(Commercial Break)</blockquote>
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 '''JL:''' Some of the harder times.<br>
-'''FZ:''' No, I'm not talking about the harder times, but some of the underlying things that were really going on. For instance, LSD. Now let's face it LSD was manufactured by the CIA. We already know that; they were using it on people in the Army to test it and the connection that was dealing with people in San Francisco in those days was probably working for the Government and he was using the whole teenage population in order to test that drug.
+'''FZ:''' No, I'm not talking about the harder times, but some of the underlying things that were really going on. For instance, LSD. Now let's face it [[LSD]] was manufactured by the [[CIA]]. We already know that; they were using it on people in the Army to test it and the connection that was dealing with people in San Francisco in those days was probably working for the Government and he was using the whole teenage population in order to test that drug.
 '''JL:''' Is that what you believe?<br>
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 '''JL:''' That's incredible. If there's anything that seems to have worked against the government that's it.<br>
-'''FZ:''' Bah, humbug! What about all those riots you saw on television only to find out a few years later that they were under the auspices of various government agencies that were working for Nixon or somebody, that were working to stage riots, to make things look a certain way, to have proper television coverage of that event and to have young people portrayed in a certain light so that the vast majority of the people in the United States who had voting power or who had something to do with the money transfer business would see things in a certain way.
+'''FZ:''' Bah, humbug! What about all those riots you saw on television only to find out a few years later that they were under the auspices of various government agencies that were working for [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] or somebody, that were working to stage riots, to make things look a certain way, to have proper television coverage of that event and to have young people portrayed in a certain light so that the vast majority of the people in the United States who had voting power or who had something to do with the money transfer business would see things in a certain way.
 Look, in the 1950's a teenager was an unwanted commodity. Nobody knew yet that that was the new big consumer market. They were just troublemakers, you know, so teenagers were just sort of swept under the rug. They were the wild teenage thrill seekers and juvenile delinquents, and nobody had any use for them until they found out that those little spare-time jobs that they were getting and the money they were getting for allowances when added up turned out to be billions of dollars a year for certain products. At the point that that was discovered one of the great truths of business lit up over the heads of all those people in the places where they work on those kind of things....
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 TAKE THE FLOWERS OUT OF YOUR HAIR AND EAT THEM – LIVE ON THE RADIO!
-'''FZ:''' You know the thing that amazes me is that the general consensus of opinion, which is probably brought about by the government, is that it's impossible to do anything creative unless you use chemicals. You see, most kids think that way, and I think that it's an erroneous assumption and as long as they're led to believe that there's going to be a market for these drugs, and the drugs are part of the way the government keeps everybody under control. Notice, conveniently, how certain drugs go on and off the charts.
+'''FZ:''' You know the thing that amazes me is that the general consensus of opinion, which is probably brought about by the government, is that it's impossible to do anything creative unless you use chemicals. You see, most kids think that way, and I think that it's an erroneous assumption and as long as they're led to believe that there's going to be a market for these [[drugs]], and the drugs are part of the way the government keeps everybody under control. Notice, conveniently, how certain drugs go on and off the charts.
 '''JL:''' The drug charts!<br>
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 All this stuff not only gives you a physical sensation, it gives you a social sensation; it gives you the impression that you have social worth in a certain circle of friends, because you have all the mannerisms of a certain lifestyle and because that is different from certain other lifestyles you must therefore be better. It just tends to reinforce feelings of self-worth in instances of people who might not have too much self-worth and need some.
-So if you can't get it from religion, and you can't get it from television, or from your Mom and Dad you're going to get it from the guy down the street who's going to provide it to you for a price, and everybody's charging you for this. If it's not the guy who's selling you dope, it's the guy who's going to give you a word that'll set you free, or it's some other schmuck who's going to tell you to roll around the floor and that's going lo set you free, and everybody wants to get set free onetime.
+So if you can't get it from [[religion]], and you can't get it from [[television]], or from your Mom and Dad you're going to get it from the guy down the street who's going to provide it to you for a price, and everybody's charging you for this. If it's not the guy who's selling you dope, it's the guy who's going to give you a word that'll set you free, or it's some other schmuck who's going to tell you to roll around the floor and that's going lo set you free, and everybody wants to get set free onetime.
 OK, well you want to get set free onetime, all you have to do is get your pants off, admit that you have your pants off, find somebody of the opposite sex, or, if you wanna be a little bit weird, you can do something else, but do it sexually, that's the only way you're going to set yourself free.

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	An exclusive transcript of an American radio programme in which Francis Vincent Zappa discourses about the CIA, youth, drugs and his idea of a woman...		An exclusive transcript of an American radio programme in which Francis Vincent Zappa discourses about the CIA, youth, drugs and his idea of a woman...

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 '''FZ:''' Well, first of all I wouldn't bother because if she's that well packaged she definitely into it and it's none of my business. I don't think it's my business to go around inflicting my lifestyle on other people.
-<blockquote>''("[[Dinah-Moe Hum]]", 2'22")''</blockquote>
+<blockquote>''("[[Dinah-Moe Humm]]", 2'22")''</blockquote>
-DESPITE THE YEARS of [[Suzy Creamcheese]] and [[Dinah-Moe Hum]], Frank Zappa's still hanging in there.
+DESPITE THE YEARS of [[Suzy Creamcheese]] and [[Dinah-Moe Humm]], Frank Zappa's still hanging in there.
 '''JL:''' You seem to be surviving, you look healthy, you don't seem to be a casualty.<br>

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 '''FZ:''' It's not funny, it's true, it's the way it is. People who are in the business of selling drugs to people let a certain drug happen for a while so everybody says "Yeah that's really in", and you have acceptance in your peer group so long as you are expert in the use of a certain type of drug. The social niceties of how you're going to snort Brand X – if you know all the right hip little moves of how you're supposed to chop it up etc. In Hollywood I saw some guy express his ultimate coolness by dumping his cocaine on the corner of a Hammond organ and refusing to snort it except through a rolled-up $100 bill. That's how hip he was.
-<blockquote>''("Pygmy Twilight", 1'34")''</blockquote>
+<blockquote>''("[[Pygmy Twylyte]]", 1'34")''</blockquote>
 All this stuff not only gives you a physical sensation, it gives you a social sensation; it gives you the impression that you have social worth in a certain circle of friends, because you have all the mannerisms of a certain lifestyle and because that is different from certain other lifestyles you must therefore be better. It just tends to reinforce feelings of self-worth in instances of people who might not have too much self-worth and need some.
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 '''FZ:''' It's a tool, so to speak. You're already given that method for amusement. You know, it's not just for making babies, it's definitely the finest form of amusement.
-<blockquote>''("Dirty Love", 2'34")''</blockquote>
+<blockquote>''("[[Dirty Love]]", 2'34")''</blockquote>
 Since the United States was founded by people who didn't know about that kind of amusement or didn't like to talk about it too much, you those Puritans, anyone who goes around wearing black with big buckles all over their clothes has got to be nuts. You know, the thing is, you should get used to thinking about these things in natural terms, think about them as they really are, and next time somebody announces that there's a smut clean-up in your town then you know right away that it's a gimmick; it's got nothing to do with sex being dirty, it's nut like that at all, that's the most blatant example of governmental mind control at its simplest home-town level.
-<blockquote>''("Dirty Love", 56")''</blockquote>
+<blockquote>''("[[Dirty Love]]", 56")''</blockquote>
 YOU KNOW women figure in a lot of Zappa tunes, and in the way he sets himself free, Well, Frank Zappa has his own ideas on how to set a woman free ...
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 '''FZ:''' You improvise.
-<blockquote>''("Motherly Love", 1' 54")''</blockquote>
+<blockquote>''("[[Motherly Love]]", 1' 54")''</blockquote>
 '''JL:''' Let's say that you met this incredibly beautiful young fox who was a lady from Iowa – white gloves, tight skirt, real hose (no panty hose) spiked shoes, garters and the works ...<br>
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 '''FZ:''' Well, first of all I wouldn't bother because if she's that well packaged she definitely into it and it's none of my business. I don't think it's my business to go around inflicting my lifestyle on other people.
-<blockquote>''("Dinah – Moe Hum", 2'22")''</blockquote>
+<blockquote>''("[[Dinah-Moe Hum]]", 2'22")''</blockquote>
 DESPITE THE YEARS of [[Suzy Creamcheese]] and [[Dinah-Moe Hum]], Frank Zappa's still hanging in there.
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 '''FZ:''' No, they're orange.
-<blockquote>''("Brown Shoes Don't Make It", 1'54")''</blockquote>
+<blockquote>''("[[Brown Shoes Don't Make It]]", 1'54")''</blockquote>
 <blockquote>(Commercial Break)</blockquote>
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 '''FZ:''' Er, it's about torture not stopping.
-<blockquote>''("The Torture Never Stops", 45")''</blockquote>
+<blockquote>''("[[The Torture Never Stops]]", 45")''</blockquote>
 And after that there's "[[Disco Boy]]". That song came about because we were in Denmark and we went to a place there called the The Disc Club, and it was really poot. It was so make-believe sophisticated that it was embarrassing. The place was decorated like a playboy-type living room would sorta be like – lowboy chairs and snackettes on the table, and everybody drinks and dances to these robot beat records, which I happen to like you know. I'm very fond of monotony, I think it's an integral part of contemporary civilization and once you adapt to it you're better in phase with reality.
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 '''FZ:''' No, I think that it's probably one of the funnier commentaries on the disco syndrome.
-<blockquote>''("Disco Boy", 2'22")''</blockquote>
+<blockquote>''("[[Disco Boy]]", 2'22")''</blockquote>
 A MAN AND HIS MUSIC. Few people have ever attempted to cover the territory that Frank Zappa fearlessly and honestly explores. His musical cartoons spare nobody, and in the final analysis he teaches us a very valuable lesson – to laugh at ourselves. I want to thank this very special musician composer and cartoonist – Frank Zappa.

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 '''FZ:''' No. I don't think that's necessarily a criterion by which to judge what I do. Unfortunately that's the American way because Americans always seem to judge how good a thing is by how many people have come in contact with it. Alright. So in order that an awful lot of people can come in contact with it, it has to be put on the media so that it goes out to a lot of people. You see, before a record is sold in large quantities it has to be heard in large quantities and I think that's absolutely excellent, but so what!
-<blockquote>''("[[Yellow Snow]]", 1'13")''</blockquote>
+<blockquote>''("[[Don't Eat The Yellow Snow|Yellow Snow]]", 1'13")''</blockquote>
 ... For every artist who makes music there's somebody out there who wants to hear that music, even if it's the artist's mother, father, sister or brother – there's an audience for all of it someplace. So everyone has a right to access to what they enjoy. The only thing I'm concerned about is that people are aware that there are alternatives to Captain & Tennile or the Allman Bros. There might be people out there who like what I do if they only knew what it is that I do. Like people have heard my name, and maybe seen a picture of me sitting on a toilet and they think that that's what I do. Well I do sit on the toilet – but so do you, but besides sitting on the toilet I also play guitar, I also write these funny songs that aren't funny sometimes, and write music for orchestra and do a bunch of other things.