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'''Sunset Boulevard''' is a street that runs through [[Los Angeles]] for 22 miles. The section that runs through West Hollywood is known as [[wikipedia:Sunset Strip|Sunset Strip]]. | '''Sunset Boulevard''' is a street that runs through [[Los Angeles]] for 22 miles. The section that runs through West Hollywood is known as [[wikipedia:Sunset Strip|Sunset Strip]]. | ||
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| + | ==Sunset Boulevard in Frank Zappa's work== | ||
| + | * ''[[200 Motels Commercial Session Outtakes]]'': ''"I was hitchhiking on the, on Sunset..."'' | ||
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| + | ==Frank Zappa about Sunset Boulevard== | ||
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| + | '''Do you have any secret longings?''' | ||
| + | '''Frank Zappa''': ''"I long to turn Sunset Boulevard into a parking lot."'' | ||
| + | - Quoted from ''[[The Fanzine Questionnaire]]'' (1966) | ||
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| + | ''"Sunset Boulevard is one story mostly, all the way down the line. I mean ... The strip which lasts maybe about a mile. And it used to be really groovy with this one club called the Trip which is about the middle of the strip. and then there was a lot of police harassment and they changed the type of music that they played at the Trip and then the kids went to the Whisky. There are maybe three or four long hair, new music dance places in the whole of metropolitan hippieville there. | ||
| + | and they're spread out."'' - Frank Zappa in ''[[Don Paulsen interviews FZ]]'', 22 December 1966 | ||
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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. So they induced the police to make illegal roundups of all these people."'' - Frank Zappa in ''[[Mother In Lore]]'', Patrick and Barbara Salvo, Melody Maker, 5 January 1974. | ||
<blockquote>''"In 1966 and '67, the L.A.P.D. and the Sheriffs Department went to war with the freaks in Hollywood. Every weekend people were rounded up (with no warrants presented or charges stated) as they walked on Sunset Boulevard, forced into Sheriffs buses, driven downtown, held hostage for the evening, then let go -- all because they had LONG HAIR."'' </blockquote> | <blockquote>''"In 1966 and '67, the L.A.P.D. and the Sheriffs Department went to war with the freaks in Hollywood. Every weekend people were rounded up (with no warrants presented or charges stated) as they walked on Sunset Boulevard, forced into Sheriffs buses, driven downtown, held hostage for the evening, then let go -- all because they had LONG HAIR."'' </blockquote> | ||
| − | <div align="right">[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]</div> | + | <div align="right">Frank Zappa in ''[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]''</div> |
| − | == | + | ==See also== |
*[[Ben Frank's]] | *[[Ben Frank's]] | ||
| + | *[[Gazzarri]] | ||
| + | *[[Nikki's Too]] | ||
| + | *[[Original Sound]] | ||
*[[Sunset-Highland Studios]] | *[[Sunset-Highland Studios]] | ||
| + | *[[Sunset Sound Recorders]] | ||
*[[TTG Recording Studios]] | *[[TTG Recording Studios]] | ||
*[[Whisky a Go-Go]] | *[[Whisky a Go-Go]] | ||
Latest revision as of 07:24, 1 August 2026
Sunset Boulevard is a street that runs through Los Angeles for 22 miles. The section that runs through West Hollywood is known as Sunset Strip.
Contents
Sunset Boulevard in Frank Zappa's work
- 200 Motels Commercial Session Outtakes: "I was hitchhiking on the, on Sunset..."
Frank Zappa about Sunset Boulevard
Do you have any secret longings? Frank Zappa: "I long to turn Sunset Boulevard into a parking lot." - Quoted from The Fanzine Questionnaire (1966)
"Sunset Boulevard is one story mostly, all the way down the line. I mean ... The strip which lasts maybe about a mile. And it used to be really groovy with this one club called the Trip which is about the middle of the strip. and then there was a lot of police harassment and they changed the type of music that they played at the Trip and then the kids went to the Whisky. There are maybe three or four long hair, new music dance places in the whole of metropolitan hippieville there. and they're spread out." - Frank Zappa in Don Paulsen interviews FZ, 22 December 1966
"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. So they induced the police to make illegal roundups of all these people." - Frank Zappa in Mother In Lore, Patrick and Barbara Salvo, Melody Maker, 5 January 1974.
"In 1966 and '67, the L.A.P.D. and the Sheriffs Department went to war with the freaks in Hollywood. Every weekend people were rounded up (with no warrants presented or charges stated) as they walked on Sunset Boulevard, forced into Sheriffs buses, driven downtown, held hostage for the evening, then let go -- all because they had LONG HAIR."
See also
- Ben Frank's
- Gazzarri
- Nikki's Too
- Original Sound
- Sunset-Highland Studios
- Sunset Sound Recorders
- TTG Recording Studios
- Whisky a Go-Go
