Iran
"Joe’s Garage is a stupid story about how the government is going to try to do away with music (a prime cause of unwanted mass behavior! It's sort of like a really cheap kind of high school play...the way it might have been done 20 years ago, with all the sets made out of cardboard boxes and poster paint. It's also like those lectures that local narks used to give (where they show you a display of all the different ways you can get wasted, with the pills leading to the weed leading to the needle, etc., etc.). If the plot of the story seems just a little bit preposterous, and if the idea of The Central Scrutinizer enforcing laws that haven't been passed yet makes you giggle, just be glad you don't live in one of the cheerful little countries where, at this very moment, music is either severely restricted...or, as it is in Iran, totally illegal.]"
(Liner notes to The Central Scrutinizer on Joe's Garage)
Articles referring to Iran or Iranian topics
- Khomeini
- Iran-contra affair
- Nader Mashayekhi
- Music On The Desert Road
- Ali Baba
- In the documentary Frank Zappa: Pioneer Of Future Music, parts 1 & 2 the Teheran Symphony Orchestra can be seen performing Zappa's music.
