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  • Transcription of the MP3 residing at [http://tasutpen.net/zappaterkel868.mp3 Tasutpen.net]<b ...y first album, at [[Verve Records|Verve]] put-out [[Freak Out!]], ah, some of the lines come to mind, ah, the instrumentation, the strange kind comes to
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  • ...e road with [[The Mothers|the Mothers of Invention]] – including a preview of [[200 Motels]]. [[Image:framewidth.jpg|frame|'''"Frank, my balance went of to were it seamed I should mayby be dead except Greg Lake said to SAVE ever
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  • ...geles. "I could be just as happy if all this" – gesturing toward the array of equipment that surrounds him in this devil's advocate's workshop – "were ...ially the guitarists he has introduced to the world through his succession of bands: [[Lowell George]], [[Adrian Belew]], [[Warren Cuccurullo]] and [[Ste
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  • For almost 30 years, [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] has been at the cutting edge of what can loosely be defined as avant garde rock. Now aged 53 and in ailing Technically, what follows is not an interview at all, rather the result of an unplanned and hastily improvised conversation that took place in the Hol
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  • <br>"I never had any intention of writing rock music," [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] told me during an interview ...pop music stupor, Zappa used poignant satire, goofy humor and hefty doses of snarling rock to provoke his audiences to think.
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  • ...] spoofed the cover of [[the Beatles]]' 1967 [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]. [[The Mothers]]:
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  • ...ollection] at the [https://www.unt.edu/ University of North Texas]. Parts of this interview were included in the Pop Chronicles documentary, but Zappa s ...=204947 John Gilliland Collection] at the [https://www.unt.edu/ University of North Texas].
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  • Editors of Rolling Stone<br> ...others.) Utilizing what he calls "visual aids" and creating a vast complex of musical style and technique (based on everyone from the Penguins to [[Edgar
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  • ...Francis Vincent Zappa discourses about the CIA, youth, drugs and his idea of a woman... ...f freak-rock. Join me for an Innerview of one of the most creative mothers of rock n roll, Frank Zappa.
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  • ..."[[The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing]]." For a quarter of a century, creator of the weirdest, most satirical, most provocative music you couldn't find on t .... It's not strictly financial. As far as Frank's concerned, he's a citizen of the world. "
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  • [[Image:68_MOI_Germany.jpg|right|none|thumb|300px|'''The Mothers of Invention in Germany, 1968.'''<br>Copyright: Getty Images.]] May 1968: early morning in the sprawling, 18-room log cabin on the corner of [[Laurel Canyon|Laurel Canyon Boulevard]] and ''Lookout Mountain Drive'' wh
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  • ...Mothers|The Mothers Of Invention]] – is at 36 probably the elder statesman of progressive rock and roll. Though most people first credit Zappa for his ad ...most articulate and controversial satirists on "pop music weirdness." Some of the Baltimore-born artist's side projects have included producing an album
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  • ...century. But note Zappa's [[ A Proposal For A System To Replace Phonograph Record Merchandising]], which anticipated digital downloading and streaming servic ...d put it together again in a different order it still would make one piece of music you can listen to.... I could do this twenty ways. The material is de
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  • Record Review, June 1982<br> ...current situation in the music industry as well as touching on highlights of a long and changing career.''
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  • from "The Age of Rock", Sounds of the American Cultural Revolution, edited by Jonathan Eisen<br> A Vintage Book, a division of RANDOM HOUSE, New York.<br>
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  • ...n '65, while the [[wikipedia:Watts Riots|Watts riots]] were escalating out of control, the song is eerily appropriate nearly 30 years later, when the cit 'Cause the color of your skin<br>
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  • ...m.' Right sign: 'Anybody who can get a Frank Zappa L.P. even to the bottom of the top ten is o.k. in my booklet –F.Z.']] ...ng poorly; a nagging flu had begun to affect his appetite and the prospect of regaining his health with three straight concerts to go before a day off, s
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  • ...ties of scheduling lockouts in commercial studios, had constructed a state-of-the-art personal studio, the [[Utility Muffin Research Kitchen]] (UMRK). An ...going to get the kind of equalization that you have in a Neve console out of a little portable Midas board."
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  • ...New York's St. Regis Hotel, supervised by his gigantic bodyguard, for most of the interview). He has worked with [[Zubin Mehta]], [[Ringo Starr]], and th ...of his own making – and not a bad place to be. He has a very clear picture of what the sixties were really all about, and as far as his own image is conc
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  • ...ner into our camp." While other groups were advocating peace and love, the Mothers would insult their audiences onstage. And they were anything but beautiful. ...of Zappa sustaining one of the longest, most prolific careers in the field of rock.
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