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* [[San Ber'dino]]:  ''“She’s in love with a boy from the rodeo/who pulls the rope on the chute/when they let those suckers go.”''
 
* [[San Ber'dino]]:  ''“She’s in love with a boy from the rodeo/who pulls the rope on the chute/when they let those suckers go.”''
 
* [[Truck Driver Divorce]]: In the interview ''[[Frank Zappa, 82/03]]'' Zappa said about this song: ''"[[Truck Driver Divorce]]" (…) will probably be the end of country and western music. It's like country music on PCP.”''
 
* [[Truck Driver Divorce]]: In the interview ''[[Frank Zappa, 82/03]]'' Zappa said about this song: ''"[[Truck Driver Divorce]]" (…) will probably be the end of country and western music. It's like country music on PCP.”''
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==References to western actors and country singers==
 
==References to western actors and country singers==
* Zappa wrote his first soundtrack for the low-budget western ''[[Run Home Slow]]''.
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* Zappa wrote his first soundtrack for the low-budget western ''[[Run Home Slow (The Film)|Run Home Slow]]''.
 
* Zappa once met [[John Wayne]] while the actor was drunk.
 
* Zappa once met [[John Wayne]] while the actor was drunk.
 
* [[John Wayne]] is listed as an influence in the [[Freak Out!]] list
 
* [[John Wayne]] is listed as an influence in the [[Freak Out!]] list

Latest revision as of 07:55, 23 December 2021

Zappa references cowboys and westerns frequently in his music, but yet he disliked country music and conservative Southern rednecks.

"As for Bob Dylan, 'Highway 61 Revisited' was really good. Then we got 'Blonde on Blonde' and it started to sound like cowboy music, and you know what I think of cowboy music." - Frank Zappa, Playboy-interview (1993)

“I'm not really fond of commercial cowboy music or contemporary country – the "Slick Willie" type of shit.” (FZ in The Mother of All Interviews (Part 1)

“He had an instinctive hatred of almost everything American, especially cowboys.” (Nigey Lennon about FZ in: Zappa, City paper, 94-1)

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References to western actors and country singers