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  • ...for the first three minutes, plus tax. He told me about some of his latest business ventures, how glad he was to be back in [[California]], and how bizarre his In the meantime, back in California, things were getting better all the time. Business concerns in Los Angeles were remarketing and reorienting their sales pitch
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  • ...w, the publishing business for school text books is a multi-Billion Dollar business. And the way the text books are provided to each … erm … state, is …
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  • '''Stern:''' Yeah, Frank was a wealthy man, and, you and him ran a business together, right? '''Mrs. Zappa:''' Yes, we did. And the business is thriving, of course. And it has for several years ...
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  • ...al encounter between the band and some groupies (who will only get down to business with them if the band sings them their latest hit single - "With a bullet!"
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  • ...record mogul [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] considers the relationships between business, technology, and the evil forces of repression. Bill Formann interrogates. ...ut that kind of stuff. I don't enjoy doing it. It's not much fun to do the business side of it. But if you don't keep an eye on it; then you just have to live
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  • ''We're incredibly happy! Even though I'm gay for business purposes, my relationship with ARTIFICIAL RHONDA has blossomed into somethi
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  • *[[Too Ugly For Show Business]] (guitar solo, on ''[[Frank Zappa: Guitar]]'')
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  • ...lly did for their paycheck in Congress each day. Votes on House and Senate business will be treated like sports scores.
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  • ...ffort, in collaboration with monologist Eric Bogosian, is a satire on show business entitled '''Blood On The Canvas'''. It can be described as a musical comedy
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  • ...nce was the hippest, meanest audience that I think was of all time in show business. And Herbie also at that time had the hippest waitresses. They were mean as
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  • ...then guest-hosted FNN's "Focus" program, and his views on Soviet-American business opportunity led the broadcaster to send him as a liaison with budding Sovie '''Does your interest in Eastern Europe have anything to do with musical or business projects?<br>
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  • ...tes in almost strategic sympathy with the needs of his brisk little family business. In the weeks prior to organizing and releasing 14 hours and 53 minutes of ...f I had to play exactly what I did on any record, I'd have been out of the business a long time ago.
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  • ...chedule for interviews and all the rest of the bullshit that goes with the business and then suddenly she had the same thing, too. I don't drive, she didn't dr
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  • ...view of what's really going on. But unfortunately, that's not the way show business works. ...is band were all generated from real-life events. The best example is that business about the girl who can't come unless the guy sings his hit single. That hap
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  • ...record label these days, catering to his hard-core audience. He also does business commentaries for the Financial News Network and has audiences with the pres ...is judging a surf contest. And totally produced – sound effects, the whole business, okay? The unfortunate part of the record was the punchline: the winner of
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  • :<blockquote> '''Jerry Hopkins''': '''Are there any groups in the business you feel have any legitimacy?''
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  • ...them I'm in the record business because if you say something with a word "business" they can understand it. ...ts a week, two shows a night between Easter vacation and Labor Day and our business ranged anywhere from lines doubled around the block to three people in the
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  • ...to a special prison where they keep all the other criminals from the music business; you know, the ones who get caught. It's a horrible place, painted all gree
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  • ...ss]]" - [[Jeff Simmons]] ([https://music.apple.com/album/im-in-the-music-business/281152344?i=281152420 A] [https://open.spotify.com/track/2YV9NxuVGnzgkdjCXQ That was Jeff Simmons with "I'm In The Music Business" and this is Frank Zappa being a fraudulent disc jockey on BBC 1. And the n
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  • Gaining a degree in 1999 Volman teaches Music Business & Industry courses in the Communications and Fine Arts department at Loyola
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  • ...enage nonsense with oversimplified lyrics, ooh-wah, falsetto, and mumbling business."
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  • ...artner over here. So every time there's some article about that part of my business, I get faxes and letters from all over the place. ...et along fine. There's no household stress here and my wife helps with the business. And beside that, nobody around here uses any drugs; nobody's an alcoholic.
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  • The PMRC started contacting companies in the music business and wrote to the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) who were res
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  • ...precious babies’ were almost stolen. This led you to contact Frank Zappa's business manager, [[Herb Cohen]], and he suggested you keep the casts in a vault he
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  • ...I was in a club in England called the Speakeasy, which used to be a music business hangout in the 60s. I'm sitting there and this guy from [[Wikipedia:The Flo
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  • ...able to squeeze in two days of rehearsal), and described the whole Vienna business in glowing terrns. I told him that it would be nice to have the music perfo
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  • ...oo ef dey can git it. So les' get y'all in positium heah, 'n get dis silly business over wit! Y'all's takin' too goddam long to grow up in Ermerica!<br>
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  • ...at all levels of society. In a way, the real business of government is the business of controlling the labor force. ...ds are heaped on people who conform to that stereotype. Take the pop music business, for example. Look at the stereotypes held up by the media as examples of g
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  • ...nto t-shirt, so stay tuned. Frank, you've got another one here by a former business associate of yours, I believe. ...electronic genius named [[Paul Buff]], and those of you in the electronic business know Mr. Buff. He's made some very interesting devices, but nothing quite a
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  • ...f this hype, it's time now to just settle down and think about your honest business at hand and to forget all of the bullshit we've been laying on you for thes
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  • ...every so often he sends me lyrics. This was his idea about the porno movie business. He sent me a couple of verses based on that and I took it from there. I've '''What has been your concept of survival in the music business outside [[Biography|Zappa]]? Have you made a living out of your own project
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  • ...THE WHOLE BIT, WATCH MUTT EAT AND LEON FEED THE GEESE, ONE THOUSAND GREEN BUSINESS CARDS WITH YOUR NAME AND THE WRONG ADDRESS PLUS ROYALTY STATEMENTS, INSPECT
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  • Business production: [[Herb Cohen]]
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  • ...need to spend a lot of time at home with a typewriter and also doing some business type things in order to make that happen. And as it's been, all the work I' ...lshit and when they get into office they don't do anything. It's still the business men and the military and all the rest of these assholes that run the countr
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  • [[Biography|Frank Zappa]]'s entrance into the music business was not accompanied by the same celestial beacon of inspiration as when [[S ...e's gone," Zappa remembers. "I think they could use a guy like that in the business now because he was a real risk-taker. And he put his ass on the line in ord
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  • ...people. Zappa doesn't drink or do drugs. He proves that you can be in show business and have it all together.''
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  • ...re a result of their own hidden sexual frustrations. Dirty old men have no business running your country."</blockquote><div align="right">— Frank Zappa.</div
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  • ...and be just another redundant guitar player plying his trade in the music business, I thought I'd better come up with something new. ...ist among songwriters, although they have to face the reality of the music business.<br>
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  • ...al American thing to do. If you have a small business, you reinvest in the business.
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  • ...tering along behind as we two women pushed our trolleys and minded our own business. He was fetchingly clad in a violent turquoise coloured cat-suit which was
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  • The "Hardest Working Man In Show Business"? Ask [[James Brown]] or [[Bruce Springsteen]] what they've done in the pas No, I get pissed off at a lot of aspects of the business, but the idea of stopping writing or playing music has never occurred to me
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  • '''Could you explain this business of moving to "[[Montana]]" that you sing about in '[[Over-Nite Sensation|Ov
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  • DZ: She's like the main business person of the house. She's the one who takes care of everything. Frank gets ...further outside of basic pop music. I think it does become a problem with business aspects; people are very unwilling to give me an opportunity to do anything
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  • ==Politics, Religion and Business==
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  • ...ent place. Today, if you want to travel around and be in the rock 'n' roll business, travelling with large amounts of equipment, playing large halls and using
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  • ...around to see who owns them. You see a lot of those companies went out of business and others are just very obscure. There's one called 'The Drunkard' by [[Th ...tting in this coffee shop discussing what we were going to do to the music business, and it's the line about 'Monza' because we were discussing the problems of
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  • ...us, for me. He was the one who said, "Here's a band that everybody in the business is laughing at - I like 'em." He was the perfect voice of cynicism, making
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  • ...I'm going around to Frank's 'cause he wants to see me and ask me about the business." Johnny had mentioned that Frank wanted to take him on tour." [[wikipedi
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  • ...ny executives who regard him as one of the most cunning capitalists in the business. There are musicians who consider him a fine composer – composers who rat
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  • ...t mediums, and the people who work in them have the right to conduct their business without trade-restraining legislation, whipped up like an instant pudding b ...sband of a PMRC nonmember/founder/person sits on any committee considering business pertaining to the Blank Tape Tax or his wife's lobbying organization? Can a
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  • ...next eating little pieces of cheese and then going back and writing snide business on his typewriter. A nation of people who's tastes have been manufactured b ...what I play. He is really astute and he can subdivide a bar like nobody's business and still come out on the beat. He's really good. This is Vince Colaiuta. A
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  • ...re a result of their own hidden sexual frustrations. Dirty old men have no business running your country.<br>
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  • ...ther things I can do to make more money than this. This is a high overhead business. I happen to like what I'm doing so, to me success is if you get close to 1 ...ght. So they figured you know, this stuff will never sell, he'll be out of business in 15 minutes – let him do it. But my arrangement is unique, not only in
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  • ...ago, New York, wherever," says Pinske. "Well, Agfa started bidding for the business, and we started using Agfa 468. We switched in the middle of the tour, and ...ed on the radio - that he couldn't get that kind of volume - he set up his business accordingly. The bulk of his money still came from live performances - he g
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  • ...bums and doing all the mechanical stuff to stay in that part of the record business, I still manage 30 hours a week on the Synclavier."
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  • ...et 20 years later, Zappa is now doing just that with a thriving mail order business for his own (self-financed) [[Barking Pumpkin Records]]. "The business of touring has degenerated to the point where the audience expects you to g
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  • ...al with the Capitol Record Club. It all settled down to a regular American business deal: Buy it from Capitol and put it out on MGM. By now I was really pissed ...me to substitute. I thought it was a spiffy little group and I proposed a business deal whereby we'd form a group and make some money, maybe even a little mus
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  • ...he same time constitutes a political and social critique. He saw the music business as concerned with the manipulation of music and its consumers and dedicated
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  • ...all the shows so I can play them in Los Angeles when I get back. Radio's a business, like everything else. It does stupid things that it has to do in order to ...ay, submerge yourself to become part of some larger stupidity, that's your business. But I think you'd probably have more fun if you stay true to yourself."
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  • ...from the U.S. national interest point of view it's probably easier for our business guys to deal with one corrupt monarch or another then to deal with some unr
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  • ...t mediums, and the people who work in them have the right to conduct their business without trade-restraining legislation, whipped up like an instant pudding b ...sband of a PMRC nonmember/founder/person sits on any committee considering business pertaining to the Blank Tape Tax or his wife's lobbying organization? Can a
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  • ...ttle song in Deutsch, because that is the way he talks whenever it's heavy business, take it away, God . . .
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  • ...as taken off featuring in the charts for four months. After decades in the business Otis finds himself an overnight success. Despite the song crossing over fro
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  • ...managements, doing business with ... ah ... ahm ... foundations, and doing business with ... ah ... the unions and other abstractions on the periphery of the s '''FZ:''' Well, then there's always the Jingle business ...<br>
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  • <BR>Famous people from the rock & roll business
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  • ...p in Serendipity. Amusing that FZ had always maintained that he was in the business of connecting the dots and here they were...</p>
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  • Zappa started his career in the advertising business as a designer of greeting cards. Later, as a composer, he kept criticizing
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  • #[[Too Ugly For Show Business]] (4:20) - bonus track, out-take from [[King Kong]]
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  • ...they always do, and, after receiving a series of congratulations, awards, business cards, and fund donations, hold a board meeting off to the side, wherein it
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  • ...eople for a long time. I was in advertising before I got into...ha... show business. I'd done a little motivational research. One of the laws of economics is t
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  • ...ict playlist and real conservative taste. But it's probably just a fact of business life right now that what I have to offer will not get out to the widest spe No, because business wasn't like that. It wasn't saturated, there was still room to breathe and
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  • ...The unfortunate part about it is that sometimes you do need direction, but business-wise, it's really hard to do. I think it's impossible to make it big for in
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  • ...mebody in the record business tries to venture into any other area of show business, it's not always easy.
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  • ...n 1988. Tiring of life on the road and his bands' squabbling, he turned to business and politics. He set up his own company to trade with Eastern Europe, and a ...t. He says you can either do business with the United States or you can do business with Zappa, what'll it be? And that was my brief but unhappy relationship w
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  • ...a day. He may be disdainful of the music business and pragmatic about the business of making music, but he's passionate about his work, which these days inclu
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  • '''FZ:''' I think part of the reason why you guys are still in business is, maybe they think that nobody listens to the radio and most of the propa ...ruthers, who is a … he used to be a political consultant and is now in the business of making political commercials. He … I think he ran [[wikipedia:Gary Har
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  • ...o get more expressiveness from a synth but it's up to me to delve into the business again. See, I really only wanted to play piano and organ for so long becaus ...ing just like his is, right now,' I felt like I was on the vanguard of the business. It was my distinctive sound. Now you hear it all over the place. I was the
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  • ...of the new 'jelly', as Nando – and, I presume, those in the Marine Biology business – call a jellyfish.
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  • ...itar synthesizers, versus me, is the way I play. There's so much left hand business going on, and the synthesizer is more interested in what's happening with t ...tem to your advantage. To what do you attribute you longevity in the music business?<br>
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  • ...from the U.S. national interest point of view it's probably easier for our business guys to deal with one corrupt monarch or another then to deal with some unr '''You've gotten involved in doing business in [[Czechoslovakia]]. What has failed in Eastern Europe?<br>
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  • "I've been in the record business since 1962, which is when I first bought a recording studio," says Zappa. " ...ll use today," he says. "Making multi-layer overdub recordings is a tricky business. There are a lot of things you can do which will sound ugly. There's only o
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  • ...ple would never hear. "The decoration of fragments of time," he called his business. Business having been conducted, he put his feet up on the desk and started asking us
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  • #How The Negro & Jew Got Into Show Business
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  • ...was anybody who has ever written music and been involved in the composing business that got close to writing some saintly stuff - it was Anton Webern because
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  • ...edroom wall. Girls forgot [[Elvis Presley]]. He was too greasy, too "heavy business": sullen and pouting and all that stuff. The Beatles were huggable & cute &
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  • ...[Gee Gee's|GEE GEE'S]] was a scene until it was mysteriously forced out of business. It is, at this moment, for rent... 8100 Sunset Blvd., next to [[Schwab]]'s
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  • ...wn production company, which helped him remain autonomous within the music business. Forever pouring his earnings back into creating music, Zappa was frequentl The years of independent business practice had also paid off: Zappa's later groups enjoyed superior equipment
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  • ...ght was only two. The first being censorship which I'm, being in the music business myself, of course, unalterably opposed to, but also what I started off, in ...he entire record industry, Warner's has their own. You're talking very big business here. They're a very well connected company, and they don't want to do anyt
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  • ...e from all over the world and of all different nationalities and races and business backgrounds. The kids aren't shoveled into a room.''
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  • ...res, Zappa took over Pal, renamed it [[Studio Z]] and entered the world of business as a studio owner. "Meanwhile, my marriage fell apart," Zappa wrote in his COPYRIGHT 2003 PRIMEDIA Business Magazines & Media Inc. All rights reserved. COPYRIGHT 2003 Gale Group.
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  • ...tware. Had [[wikipedia:New England Digital|New England Digital]] stayed in business and kept developing their product I suspect they could have stayed at the c ...produced by many different companies who are more interested in staying in business and in maintaining their market share more than finding ways for everything
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  • ...anny prescience. Many of his comments about American society and the music business sound like they could have come out of this week's Billboard or [[The New Y ...to work in those studios, under those budgets; don't have to deal with the business people I was dealing with in that period of the time. The general experienc
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  • ...n elected official and rushed to a Senate hearing while important national business waits in the wings? Is it fair that people not fortunate enough to be marri
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  • ...As soon as they're settled in their seats the kids get down to the serious business of getting as wrecked as it's possible to get without passing into a coma.
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  • ...was the reverse side of his faith in people to improve government. In his business dealings he was increasingly individualist, eventually setting up his own r ...ome and do a record on the West Coast. That's really how we broke into the business. We had our stuff together, but hadn't recorded anything till he asked. Fra
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  • ...he answers to what your mother and father won't tell you. It is also a big business. This is a brief history of rock and its relationship to our society. ...the bedroom wall. Girls forgot Elvis Presley. He was too greasy, too heavy business: sullen pouting and all that stuff The Beatles were huggable & cute & mop &
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  • ...want to play them right off the bat and improvise them. The way the music business is constructed now, there's not very much interest in finding people who im
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  • ...Records]], recording and mixing albums, and otherwise making sure that his business is running smoothly, requires constant vigilance. Lawsuits brought by Zappa ...ment. The fact that it comes out is just something that has to do with the business world, rather than the artistic world. Even if I wasn't releasing records I
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  • ...in a club in San Francisco as a doorman ... And that he's out of the music business.<br>
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  • ...room and awaits the first question. No small talk, no niceties – strictly business, apparently of the kind that he feels is a bothersome obligation. Things st Before moving back to California in 1969 ("because it's expedient to the business"), the Mothers played a now-famous stint at New York's [[Garrick Theatre|Ga
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