Houston
Houston is the most populous city of Texas.
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References to Houston in Zappa's music
- Zappa cited Houston among his "favorite other stuff" in Data For Sensitive or Critical-sensitive Position (1968).
- VIRGIL [8-10 / 15º-(-30º)], one of the constellations in the "One Size Fits All" (1975) "universe", has a star named "Houston". This is part of the depicted New York subway system: "125th", "Lenox", "Houston", "Spring Garden St.", "Canal".
- Wonderful Tattoo!: "And the wonderful tattoo John Stuckey in Houston did for me. / We plan to continue the design on my balls the next time I'm in Houston."
People born in Houston
Frank Zappa about Houston
"You know how I feel about Houston? It’s one of the few places that’s left in the United States where the blues still matters. And that’s one of the things that I really like about it. It has become my favorite city in Texas, because in the last year or so, while I’ve been trying to raise money for the Thing-Fish musical, I spent a lot of time down there talking with a lot of people, and I got to like the place very much. If you didn’t just have such unpredictable weather … and a dangerous police force. Of course, that’s like Los Angeles, so … Even in the ritzy part of town, and I was talking to those people about investing in this thing. I found out that people with millions of dollars in their pockets still like the Blues. You don’t find that in Chicago. You don’t find that in New York. You don’t find it in Denver. That’s something that seems indigenous to Houston." - Frank Zappa in Zappa Dishes It Out, interview by Roger Dakotah, Public News, 12 December 1984. [1]
