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• KTTV
  ...nd operated by News Corporation, and is the West Coast flagship station of the Fox Television Network. ...watched stations in the country, thanks to a translator network throughout the Southwest.
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• Sex in Today's World
  ...g comments on the personal and sociological significance of the changes of the time. ...Includes interviews with teenagers, homosexuals, and other with regard to the sexual standards of society. With [[wikipedia:Mary Calderone|Mary Calderone
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• One-Adam-Twelve
  ...hich followed two uniformed officers - Reed and Malloy - as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit ''"1-Adam 12".'' ...ican culture, and these same radio procedures are still in use at the LAPD today.
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• Frank Zappa Interview By Jane Pauley
  [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044298/reference The Today Show]: June 7, 1989<br> [[Image:Jane_Pauley.jpg|frame|Jane Pauley, The Today Show]]
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• The Story Of Ruben & The Jets
  ...IF THE PEOPLE WOULD JUST HEAR MY PLEA I WOULD GIVE EVERYTHING JUST TO SING THE SONGS THAT WAS TURNING ME ON IN HIGH SCHOOL." [[Category:Articles by Zappa|Story Of Ruben & The Jets]]
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• What's The Name Of Your Group? (The Suites)
  <br>ABOUT THE WORLD TODAY <br>BY THE WAY, WHAT DO YOU CALL YOUR GROUP
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• Mom & Dad
  <br>The cops have shot some girls & boys <br>The cops have shot some girls & boys
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• The Mars Volta
  [[The Mars Volta]] is an American progressive rock group founded by its only memb The group is known for their energetic live shows and incorporation of various
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• "Secret Greasing"
  ...cial commercial. And, um, this is a commercial for an album called Ruben & The Jets . . .<br> ...ercial has not been paid for—which, I might add, violates all the rules of the [[wikipedia:Federal Communications Commission|Federal Communications Commis
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• The Medallions
  [[File:The Medallions.jpg|500px|thumb|right|The Medallions.]] ...The Medallions are best remembered for their songs ''Buick '59'' (1954), ''The Letter'' (1954), ''Edna'' (1955), ''Speedin' '' (1955) and ''Volvo '59'' (1
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• Call Any Vegetable (1971 - Los Angeles)
  You gotta call one today<br> When you get off the train<br>
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• A Conference Of Composers
  ...sers from around the country and abroad. [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] will be the convention's keynote speaker. ...mbus. A similar event in Cincinnati two years ago attracted attention from the national press. and major music magazines.
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• "Dope Fiend Music"
  ...sang a BAD word, right there into the microphone, and that you left it in the record, bedause you figured that nobody would ever believe that they were s ...in there, I wanted to test the intelligence of the record company. Let me show how this works:<br>
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• Punky's Whips
  .... . . Some of these devices have been known to leave irreparable scars on the minds of foolish young consumers . . . One such case is seated before you . ...was seen with a beautiful shiny hairdo in a semi-profile which emphasized the pooched out succulence of his insolent pouting rictus . . . <br>
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• The Uncle Frankie Show
  ...of many books, musical director, singer, actor, producer, and waterboy for the Cucamonga Killers. There he is, uh . . . ah, oh! Frank Zappa! ...ing, kids, they're even gonna pay us to do it. And the name of this little show, which will be probably on sometime around Valentine's Day, is called [[I W
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• Ronald Reagan
  ...ry 6, 1911- May 5, 2004) served as the 40th [[The President|President]] of the [[United States of America|United States]] from 1981-1989. He had been a Ho ...pse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Reagan is often seen as the man who ended the [[Cold War]], even though this honor could also be attributed to Gorbachev.
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• Mother Of Two Runs Off With Uncle Meat
  ...sounds with symphonic music, satire, the primitive rock and roll songs of the 1950's, and social commentary, and you can even dance to it.<br> ...ng motivational research principles, Frank created a group unlike anything the world had ever seen. For one thing, they weren't seeking a "hit" record.<br
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• Fillmore Venues
  ...BillGrahamLastNight.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Bill Graham on the last night of the Fillmore East.]] ...ncial reasons and a desire to "find himself". Today numerous venues around the U.S. are branded as Fillmore clubs and theatres.
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• Variations On The Carlos Santana Secret Interview
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #42, January 1995<br> ...tar Magazine, and sent us a couple of Zappa related bits which didn't make the finished article.
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• Politics
  ...'[[We're Only In It For The Money]]'', ''[[Thing-Fish]]'' and ''[[Broadway The Hard Way]]''. ...doubtful they would support you at the convention if you didn't just spew the whole thing. And said; ''"Well, I'm not your bot. Thanks a lot. Goodbye."''
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• Zappa – The Great Satirist
  Zappa – The Great Satirist<br> '''Will the real [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] kindly stand up!
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• Jimi Hendrix
  ...e", "All Along the Watchtower", "Purple Haze", "Manic Depression"'' and ''"The Wind Cries Mary"''. ...appa hendrix.jpg|right|frame|Zappa & Hendrix from the We're Only In It For The Money cover]]
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• Frankfurt Press Conference 21.7.92
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #26, September 1992<br> ...to absence of vid player here at T'Mershi Acres. Transcribed and edited by the Freditor.
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• Eddie, Are You Kidding?
  <br>The people always ask me <br>I thought they were the pits
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• Mike Portnoy
  ...1967) is an American drummer and singer, best known as a former member of the progressive metal band [[Dream Theater]]. ...ember sleeping outside The Beacon Theater in New York to get tickets for a show. These days, you just have to click a link online, but back then it was tou
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• Zappa: 'I AM a human being'
  '''Yes, the computerised freak image is wearing a little thin on the Big Z., he tells Jane Elliot in Adelaide, as his acclaimed antipodean tour ...ef iconoclast, has, out of necessity, created his own light in the form of the Mothers of Invention.
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• Charles Mingus
  .../composer jazz has ever known, one who always kept his ears and fingers on the pulse, spirit, spontaneity, and ferocious expressive power of jazz. ...hropus Erectus'' (1956), ''Mingus Ah Um'' (1959) and ''The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady'' (1963),
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• Frank Zappa On... The '80s Guitar Clone
  ...composition, and has been one of the country's most outspoken opponents to the PMRC's drive to give ratings to rock lyrics. ...flects on what he wrote before, with comments about the state of guitar in the '80s. Also in this issue, an added bonus: a Soundpage recording of Frank's
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• Mothers’ Lament: "They Called Us Entertainment"
  ...tional Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences|NARAS]]) dinner in New York. The resultant rumors in New York music industry circles cried out for a little ...]; Entertainment by The Mothers of Invention.’ They figured it was part of the ‘entertainment.’ They booed us after we were finished."
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• Does This Mother Know Best?
  Frank Zappa, leader of The Mothers of Invention rock group, doubles as a business consultant – 1968 ...one," he said, as we entered the plant. His words were momentarily lost in the echoing spaces. "... over nine hundred million dollars ... these automatic
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• Flower Punk
  <br>I'm goin' to the love-in to sit & play my bongos in the dirt. <br>Yes, I'm goin' to the love-in to sit & play my bongos in the dirt.
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• Brown Shoes Don't Make It
  <br>TV dinner by the pool <br>The way you made it...
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• Frank Zappa, 84/11
  ...analyzed in universities. As befits his genius, he is a man constantly on the move, an outspoken musical dynamo forever dashing between projects, composi ...to get up to do this. It's just that I worked until about seven o'clock in the morning.
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• Mother People, 91-5
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #22, October 1991<br> ...ducted by Axel Wünsch and Aad Hoogesteger at the Moers Jazz Festival after the first night of Don and Jimmy playing with [[Eugene Chadbourne]]'s latest co
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• Father Of Invention
  ...Only In It For The Money]], and led eventually to dozens of albums bearing the mark of Frank Zappa. ...iticians to high-school drop-outs and hippies (many of whom formed part of the MOI audience), was fair game. In that sense, little has changed in Zappa's
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• Zappa's Inferno
  <blockquote>'''People today don't appreciate guitar solos, and that burns Frank Zappa up. "All they wan ...cians are available in the L.A. area, and the stuff can be serviced here." The fact is, all Frank really wants to do is work.
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• Dr. Demento
  ...Dr. Demento Show"'' on [[Wikipedia:KMET (defunct)|KMET]] , specializing in the promotion of ''"demented novelty and comedy songs."'' For decades he has gi ...two bucks a pop. The store's name was Arcade Records, and, as it happens, the first record I bought there was a Frank Zappa bootleg"''.</blockquote> [htt
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• What You Can Do Onstage With New Records, CDs, Videos
  ...the banner, "Broadway The Hard Way." An [[Broadway The Hard Way|LP]] from the tour appeared in October. ...eleased the [[You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 2|second volume]] of the series, a complete concert from 1974.
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• Zappa: Now And Then...
  ...om L.A.]] album. Intricately composed and performed melodies combined with the epitome of humorous cynicism – this is what I'd been searching for. ...s never a dull moment, or a disappointment, with the possible exception of the song [[We're Turning Again]]. But then again, who else would dare blaspheme
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• King Kong
  ...pa]] composed the instrumental track titled '''''"King Kong"''''' in 1967. The composition quickly became a concert and fan favorite, and appeared in nume ...troys everything until it climbs on top of the Empire State Building where the animal is killed off by planes.
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• Frank Zappa's Revenge
  ...gion. To be more specific, television evangelists, and Zappa's reaction to the just-breaking [[Jim Bakker]]/PTL sex scandal story. "I've got [[Wikipedia:CNN|CNN]] on now with the sound down and I've seen the story go by three times now. What happened?" he asked with a renewed intere
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• The Frank Zappa Interview Picture Disk, pt.2
  ...Zappa Interview Picture Disk]]". According to closest estimation based on the interview's context, it must have been conducted sometime in early to mid 1 '''The Bio says that you've got a book as well ... "[[Them Or Us]]" – I haven't
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• Let's Talk Clothes
  ...He wore no makeup, had not combed his hair or buttoned one more button on the shirt. I decided to interview him on his ideas about fashions.<br> ''"Fashions?" shouted Frank when I asked him after the show. "Man, you've got to be kidding!"<br>
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• Blood On The Canvas
  Previous album = [[You're A Hook. The 15 Year Anniversary Of Dial-A-Poem (1968-1983)|Previous]]| Name = Blood On The Canvas|
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• Rolling Stone Interview, 1986
  [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] speaks out on CDs, the [[Parents Music Resource Center|PMRC]], his son [[Dweezil Zappa|Dweezil]] a ...e, has also found time to oversee the burgeoning careers of his offspring (the latest to achieve success is his son Dweezil, who has a part-time job as a
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• Star Special
  ...ia:BBC Radio 1|BBC Radio 1]], a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), featuring guest musicians who would <center>'''"And now on Radio One - the best radio show you've ever heard, in your life!"'''</center>
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• Feel
  #The Once Over (4:39) #Theme From The Opera "Tzina" (2:01)
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• Frank Zappa vs. The Tooth Fairy
  '''Or, They're Only In It For The Pizza'''<br> ...urban Long Island. I sit in the corner, loading my tape recorder, awaiting the subject of this interview. Ozzie Nelson? Glen Campbell? Gerry Ford?
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• Texan Grandmother In Interview Shock Horror
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #29, February 1993<br> ...nk last time, but as it was a face to face effort, it extrapolates itself. The interview was conducted by fellow Grandmother Roland St. Germain. Roll 'em
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• Frank Zappa speaks up
  ...lked to Stars and Stripes entertainment editor Dan Warfield. Excerpts from the interview follow:'''''<br><br> ...your performance last year. It was one of the most exciting rock shows of the season. Suddenly, after years of actively disliking most of your music, I f
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• Maverick
  ...rs of Invention]]. But he's also an astute businessman who refuses to walk the party line. ...of those titles are available on compact disc from ''[[Rykodisc|Ryko]]'', the Salem, Mass.-based audiophile label.
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• Groupies As People
  ...legedly coined the term "groupies"), are a striking and accurate stab from the past. ...unded by these remarkable girls – who lived to worship music, and suck out the very gene pools of those who played it – so impressed us that we decided
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• Rolling Stone Interview, 1988
  ...e feckless music industry itself on the importance of the First Amendment. The objects of his ire rarely find much to laugh about in such broadsides, but '''What was it that first attracted you to music in the early Fifties?<br>
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• An Evening With Pierre Boulez And Frank Zappa
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #9, October 1989<br> ...With Pierre Boulez and Frank Zappa', in conversation at Schoenberg Hall at the university.
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• Verve Records
  ...]], the various Universal-owned jazz labels were put under the umbrella of The Verve Group. ==The official Verve story==
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• Thing-Fish Rap.
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #54, October 1996<br> ...n March 24, 1996, interspersed cunningly with one from April 18 1996. Spot the joins ...
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• My Brother Is an Italian Mother
  ...voice again, especially since it was only costing me thirty-five cents for the first three minutes, plus tax. He told me about some of his latest business ...itch hunts, and the Mothers need money to live on. So it came to pass that the Mothers split for New York's [[Greenwich Village]].
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• Frank Zappa on Edgar Varèse
  ...ves, a break from traditional tonalities and structures, and eventually to the use of magnetic tape constructions – "musique concrete" – in compositio ...s, such as "Atom Heart Mother" and the studio album of "Ummagumma", employ the use of tape constructions interpolated with real time playing a la Varèse'
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• Dweezil Zappa
  ...5, 1969) is Frank and [[Gail Zappa]]'s second child and oldest son. He is the brother of [[Moon Zappa]], [[Ahmet Zappa]] and [[Diva Zappa]]. Dweezil was ...guitar from an early age. [[Eddie Van Halen]] was a personal friend since the 1980s. In 2005 Dweezil married Lauren Knudsen.
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• Phi Zappa Crappa Interview:
  '''Peeking Into The Bizarre Mind Of Rock & Roll's Original Madman.'''<br> ...New Wave Playwright / Rock Columnist Dave Street, whose new play, Alive At The Factory, opens this December in New York City.
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• Mars Needs Evil Princes.
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #61, October 1997<br> Another one of those Evil Prince interviews, this time a chat with the exuberant Mr. Thomas Mars, recorded at his place on April 20, 1996. Should
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• Zappa, Hot Wacks 20/21
  ...d say, 'this is this, that's that and here you are and respond to it'. And the response to it was, '''I'm hip but, of course, I'm offended".''</blockquote ...butors. Chris John, who went down to London to see Frank's "[[Baby Snakes (The Film)|Baby Snakes]]" film and talk to him, gave him tea and sympathy.
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• Lynching With Bonzai: Frank Zappa
  ...e-wall yet down-to-earth. Only hoping that one bozo inquiry wouldn't shoot the whole interview down, I persisted as good-naturedly as possible. ...with my desire to really play ball with Frank, at least I could relax with the fact that we both knew he could live without another interview.
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• Zappa, 82/4
  ...Allman Brothers]], because Zappa and his virtuoso seven-piece band played the Southern boogie anthem straightfaced, sincere, even inspired. ...terviewer, was that Frank did only a few selected interviews as opposed to the five-a-day schedule he once kept.
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• Zappa And The Mothers – The Flo And Eddie Years
  ...vie that laid the foundations for the reputation that would pursue him for the remainder of his life. ...lf as a virtuoso cross between the conscience that 70s rock never had, and the consciousness that it never wanted, able to slip from disgusting groupie pa
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• FZ's Cadillac Extravaganza
  Part of the rock docu "Ohne Maulkorb"<br> ...Ro Productions|DoRo]]") have a disagreement about the use of Cadillacs and the possible status involved, which results in a small movie under FZ's directi
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• Zappa Plays On
  ...l working. With his new release, [[The Yellow Shark]], he dons the mask of The Serious composer. ...els Ripped My Flesh]], [[Sheik Yerbouti]] and [[You Are What You Is]], and the less well known, more inaccessible compositions that have attracted disting
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• Zappa Keeps Eye Now On Bottom Line
  '''Entrepreneurship: From his hilltop home in [[Laurel Canyon]], the musician and his wife run several businesses.''' ...ipped My Flesh]]" and "[[Sheik Yerbouti]]." But the former leader of the [[The Mothers|Mothers of Invention]] is also a shrewd businessman. "I don't have
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• The Art Of Being Frank
  ...twisting Laurel Canyon road are probably just home from work, relaxing on the veranda with a cocktail or two. ...ry, where canisters are piled high and a film-editing machine sits against the far wall.
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• The Rolling Stone Interviews Vol. 1
  ...ting a vast complex of musical style and technique (based on everyone from the Penguins to [[Edgard Varèse|Edgar Varèse]]), Zappa has a firm idea about ...part of a week, between the group's out-of-town gigs and over the sound of the rehearsing Laurel Canyon Ballet Company, a band of uninhibited dancers Zapp
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• Zappa!
  ...oing business with the Soviets, social change, running for president I and the vastness of human stupidity. ...over in Eastern Europe? We have a picture of you lighting a cigarette for the President of Czechoslovakia on our refrigerator.<br>
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• Just When you thought it was Safe
  ...as safe … along comes [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] with a brand new album, "[[The Yellow Shark]]", to turn music upside down all over again. Phil Wilding is ...e [[Ensemble Intercontemporain]]. The latter also commissioning Zappa's "[[The Perfect Stranger]]".<br>
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• Frank Zappa, 82/03
  The interview by John Swenson<br> ...riation on one of the instrumentals from the [[Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (The Series)|Shut Up 'N' Play Yer Guitar]] mail-order set.
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• The Oracle Has It All Psyched Out
  Similar to article [[The New Rock]]<br> ...for [[The Mothers|the Mothers of Invention]] and an oracle-philosopher of the rock scene. An iconoclast and a satirist, Zappa specializes in deliberately
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• Frank Zappa Interview by Steve Turner
  ...Eddie|Mark Volman]] and after a quick word with Frank he invited me up to the second floor. ...e where he condemned music writers as being people who were only in it for the albums.
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• Zappa On Air
  ...n American radio programme in which Francis Vincent Zappa discourses about the CIA, youth, drugs and his idea of a woman... ...that one of the Mothers of freak-rock. Join me for an Innerview of one of the most creative mothers of rock n roll, Frank Zappa.
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• Uncle Meat Film Excerpt
  ...e for [[Uncle Meat (The Film)|Uncle Meat]] right now, which is the name of the Mothers of Invention movie that we've been working on for about three years ...ast hit single . . . it was really a bummer, they wouldn't even play it on the radio . . . Oh, well, gotta come up with something better than that . . .
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• Flo and Eddie and Marc, Frank and More
  ...90 minute DVD history to a 51 track anthology and on, though one frowns at the unsuitability of it all, to lobster dinners. ...them play a major part in a catalog of songs that is just as impressive as the Turtles' own sequence of nuggets.
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• Education
  .... This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute.''" - Frank Zappa in the liner notes of ''[[Hungry Freaks, Daddy (1966 - Los Angeles)|Hungry Freaks ...ation he was always very critical of the education system, particularly in the United States.
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• It's all in self-defence
  ...drink inside – it's hardly the ideal place for an interview. Especially if the interview is with iconoclast supreme – Frank Zappa. ...to his friend [[Captain Beefheart]], is remarkably earth bound for one who the Captain has described as a Martian.
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• Garni Du Jour, Lizard King Poetry And Slime
  ...between various musical genres have all but dissolved. And somewhere along the line, people began realizing that serious music doesn't have to be dealt wi ...ny number of styles. And the question of the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the sources doesn't seem to apply in Zappa's case. Everything fits into his uni
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• Frank Zappa: Portrait of the Artist as a Businessman
  .... . only you're being screwed for more.' A rather simplified assessment of the economics of being a rock star, but, unfortunately, an assessment which too ...ow Theatre encounter scanning balance sheets. He may not be in it only for the money, but he likes to ensure that what money belongs to him, he gets.
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• Pop Chronicles interview
  ...ry, but Zappa spoke freely so parts were not and could not be broadcast on the radio. ...ns/findingaid&id=959&q=&rootcontentid=204947 John Gilliland Collection] at the [https://www.unt.edu/ University of North Texas].
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• Stern Words In Knightsbridge
  ...ncle Frank knocks punk, record companies, and U.S. presidents, and reveals the CIA plot to spike San Francisco ...'''<br> ...we won't hear any new recordings from Francis Vincent Zappa until at least the turn of this decade.
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• Frank Zappa: Guitar Player
  ...himself too irascible and cynical to be interviewed, yet he remains one of the most outrageously outspoken, eminently quotable figures in popular music. ...disco dancers, and the [[wikipedia:Moral Majority|Moral Majority]] topping the list).
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• Frank Zappa 89-12
  ...ess to say, FZ was not amused. He is influenced as much by what happens in the world around him as he is by his powerful musical vision. Frank spoke with ...of the fact that we have this contract with our government. We should make the government stand and deliver on it.
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• Winter In Amerika
  ...nd apparently incensed musician held forth as the most reasonable voice of the afternoon. ...s with kids in school and time on their hands, the committee was examining the possibility of a causal link between rock music and drug abuse, teenage pre
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• 1968 WFMT Radio Chicago with Studs Terkel
  Transcription of the MP3 residing at [http://tasutpen.net/zappaterkel868.mp3 Tasutpen.net]<br> ...Freak Out!]], ah, some of the lines come to mind, ah, the instrumentation, the strange kind comes to mind … your thoughts … as we hear it now.<br>
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• What Did You Do In The Revolution, Dada?
  '''Karl Dallas asks the pertinent questions ...'''<br> ...o surrender even one of his fondest principles tells us a great deal about the limits of dissent in a modern consumer society.
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• A Mars A Day
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #20-21, July-September 1991<br> ...s allowed to do so at eight and promptly hated it. I couldn't take it from the teacher. I wanted to play piano but I hated taking lessons.
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• The Ed Palermo Big Band
  ...ther since 1980, [[The Ed Palermo Big Band]] has been playing and honoring the music of [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] since 1994. ...rafty interpretations, all arranged by Ed Palermo, stand as a testament to the longevity and originality of Zappa and his music. This music drives on its
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• A Talk With Frank Zappa
  ...ll. There is also a nationwide voter registration campaign going on at all the concerts, which prompted Ohio Secretary of State Sherrod Brown to name Zapp '''The tour?<br>
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• Orchestral Maneuvers
  ...[Biography|Frank Zappa]] was nearly ready to call it quits. Disgusted with the whole exhaustive prospect of touring and playing before legions of rowdy, p ...ed by 31-year-old [[Kent Nagano]], of the Berkeley and Oakland symphonies. The recording session was produced and engineered by Zappa for his own Barking
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• Frank Zappa, 82/06
  ...talk at his home he made known his feelings about the current situation in the music industry as well as touching on highlights of a long and changing car ...eleven months and you couldn't get in there and somebody else would be at the [[Record Plant]] and you couldn't get time at a first class studio unless y
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• He's Only 38 and He Knows How to Nasty
  ...than you can say, "[[Suzy Creamcheese]]." Zappa holds journalists in about the same regard as most people do washroom attendants. ...ression. But his latest album, [[Sheik Yerbouti]] ([[Zappa Records]]), and the single, "[[Dancin' Fool]]," are extremely popular, and he has another album
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• Poetic Justice
  ...mortality. The very best of human nature. All this and more lies just past the studio booth whose welcoming sticker reads Corporate Rock Still Sucks, past ...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 newly un
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• Dynamo Frank
  ...is death. In a special 10th anniversary tribute, ''Guitar World'' presents the one and only Grand Wazoo in his own words. ...taneously savoring the increasingly rare sound of a public figure speaking the truth.
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• Don Paulsen interviews FZ
  ''This is the transcription of a recorded interview with [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] conduc '''I've never really seen anywhere this any kinda how the whole group as a whole got together. How did all that come about?
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• Interview From Hell
  ...rank Zappa]] considers the relationships between business, technology, and the evil forces of repression. Bill Formann interrogates. Exhibit "A" photos by ...fantasies" that have accompanied articles on him in the past, he's offered the opportunity, at this interview's end, to describe, in his own words, his en
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• Bingo! There Goes Your Tenure!
  Keynote speech delivered at the 1984 convention<br> of the ''[https://wp.societyofcomposers.org/ American Society of University Compos
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• What Can You Do That's Fantastic?
  ...ed to throw into the mix. Here, musicians who worked with him look back at the Zappa legacy. ...dio), and more never-before-heard Zappa collections should be available in the near future.
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• Porn Wars Deluxe
  ...airing the issue itself, for ventilating the issue, for bringing it out in the public domain. Senator Hollings. ...is some constitutional provisions to tax, or approach that can be used on the Congress to limit this outrageous filth.
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• Frank's Wild Years, '93
  ...reflects with Joe Jackson on an eventful career which has rarely embraced the mainstream. ...ruth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music. Music is the best.'
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• Frank Zappa, Unholy Mother
  ...therhood and provides more clues to [[Conceptual Continuity]]. This'' is ''the Central Scrutinizer!''<br> ..., was premiered last year as part of the Frankfurt Music Fair. It features the [[Ensemble Modern]] playing Zappa's music, some of it already familiar to u
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• Mother In Lore
  If "necessity be the mother of invention," Frank Zappa is then an obscene colloquialism. ...garde, [[Suzy Creamcheese|Suzy Cream Cheese]] ([[Wikipedia:Sic|sic]]) and the Fillmore East.
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• BBC Television Tribute
  ...ate Show'' on BBC 2 dedicated to Frank Zappa, broadcast on March 11, 1993. The special is a documentary, featuring archive footage and interviews with [[B The program was repeated on July 23, 1993 and on Friday, December 17, 1993 as a
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• They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 3
  [[Society Pages (The Magazine)|Society Pages (US)]], September 1990<br> [[They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1|Part 1]],
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• The Perspective of Frank Zappa
  ...atic man and talented musician. With all my fallacious thinking discarded, the "interview" proceeded harmoniously with Frank in complete control. ...he practical side of music with all its perils and knows how to survive in the real world of music.
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• Zappa, 79/8
  ...istener into our camp." While other groups were advocating peace and love, the Mothers would insult their audiences onstage. And they were anything but be ...conceived of Zappa sustaining one of the longest, most prolific careers in the field of rock.
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• Interview with the Composer
  '''Interview with the Composer'''<br> ...ntist, the skeleton at the cultural feast, the vulture poised to pounce on the slightest pretension. He wields sarcasm like a straight razor in a gang fig
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• You Call That Music? (The Article)
  The story so far: ...(UMRK). And to ensure the highest-quality live recordings, Zappa purchased the Beach Boys' remote truck.
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• Saint Zappa, Halloween Idyll
  From ''[[Wikipedia:The Aquarian Weekly|The Aquarian]]'' Issue no.795, Oct.25 - Nov. 1. 1995<br> ...V. in an attempt to the de-mystify the holiday, placed All Saints Day into the church's calendar to honor numerous martyrs and eventually saints on a comm
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• Frank Zappa and the Scarlet Letter
  See also: [[Z-Pack - Letter to the President]] ...have to keep their mouths shut while The [[Washington]] Wives diddle with the legislative machinery? ...
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• Pulse Interview
  ...spired independence movements in Eastern Europe and lampooned stupidity in the west. Now he faces his most serious challenge. ...or the worst. With wailing harmonica and turmoiled bass in the background, the lyrics ominously and prophetically tumble out,
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• Shut Up And Play Your Guitar
  ...ew [[Sheik Yerbouti]] album (reviewed in this issue), and next month, with the second part of this interview, we will feature his solo [[Rat Tomago]]. ...players was holding a chord over for half a beat too long, or that one of the synthesizer oscillators was out of tune – which it was, slightly.
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• WRIF Radio Interview
  ...ding pending legislation that would require the printing of song lyrics on the covers of record albums. ...t covers under the counters, and rating live concerts and then reassessing the record contracts of those artists ... <br>
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• Zubin And The Mothers
  '''Zubin And The Mothers'''<br> ...F.P. Tullius being a chronicle of the curious musical carryings-on between the Los Angeles Philharmonic and [[Biography|Frank Zappa]]'s freaky band of min
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• The Be-Bop Bass Notes.
  [[The Fowler Brothers|Tom Fowler]] Interview<br> [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #64, March 2000<br>
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• Mudsharks, Motels and Mothers
  ...Watts reports from the States after a week on the road with [[The Mothers|the Mothers of Invention]] – including a preview of [[200 Motels]]. ...his head. He's dead, it seamed. Like the Moody Blues said it might f..k up the world's balance. Black Queen Midnight – that's me. Please help." 326-6604
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• Frank Zappa: a Mother Only a Face Could Love
  ...union stage man reacted disfavorably, "Put the plant back on!" And Unity, the ever-pleasant Mothers roady, shrugged: "What a life!" ...ombone, and whatever else was on stage. Fowler's abuse was so intense that the plastic snatch inverted into a quaffs-cock in an onstage transsexual act [[
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• Ode To Gravity - Frank Zappa: World Affairs Commentator
  ...lero]]", performed by the 12-piece 1988 Zappa Band and found on the CD, '[[The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life]]'".</blockquote> ...ing Pumpkin]] called "[[The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life|Zappa – The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life]]".<br>
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• Billy's Private Parts
  [[T'mershi Duween (The Magazine)|T'Mershi Duween]], #31, June 1993<br> ...which went well beyond the realms of this mag. However, here are chunks of the FZ relevant sections.
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• Sample This!
  ...the resources of his new instrument, the lost art of live performance, and the album sticker controversy.</blockquote> ...e, he's finally got what he wants: an instrument on which he can nail down the complex sound blends, polyrhythms, and lines that could formerly come toget
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• Mutationsblues
  Translation into English after the German text (feel free to improve it)<br> ==The German translation==
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• Frank Kofsky interviews FZ
  from "The Age of Rock", Sounds of the American Cultural Revolution, edited by Jonathan Eisen<br> ...pera|Threepenny Opera]]" – like half of it one time – couldn't sit through the rest.
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• Modern Music Is a Sick Puppy
  ...Zappa talks about how a creative personality approaches the studio. Along the way, he reveals how he makes use of his digital equipment – his extended ...a musical instrument," he declares. "And all these other things sitting on the wall here are tools that you use to make musical sounds."
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• KPFM-FM Radio Interview, 84/5
  ...his digital re-mastering of his album "Lumpy Gravy" and other early works. The musical selections played during this program are not included in this reco This audio is part of the collection: [http://www.archive.org/details/other_minds Other Minds Archive
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• Das Capitalist
  ...the weirdest, most satirical, most provocative music you couldn't find on the radio. ...t's not strictly financial. As far as Frank's concerned, he's a citizen of the world. "
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• 20 Questions: Frank And Moon Unit Zappa
  ''Rock's knight-errant and his valley-girl daughter assess the state of dating, drugs and – gag us with a spoon! – american culture'' ...Moon Zappa|Moon Unit]] has catapulted herself into the rock limelight with the father/ daughter collaboration "[[Valley Girl]]."
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• They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1
  [[Society Pages (The Magazine)|Society Pages (US)]], April 1990<br> [[They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 2|Part 2]],
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• The Mother Of All Interviews (Part 2)
  '''The Mother Of All Interviews (Part 2)<br> ...cartoonist [[Matt Groening]] ''([[wikipedia:Life in Hell|Life in Hell]], [[The Simpsons]])'' joined in.<br>
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• Frank Zappa. Interview in Playboy
  ...ic about world affairs, jewish princesses, fighting cancer and life beyond the fringe. ...pa]]. "Who else?" wondered Groening. "I listened to the music, I dissected the lyrics and it transformed me."
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• The Mother of All Interviews (Part 1)
  '''The Mother of All Interviews (Part 1)<br> ...of that ''Zappa!'' issue was this wide-ranging, in-depth conversation with The Man himself. – Editor<br>
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• The Fabulous Furry Freak Brother!
  The Fabulous Furry Freak Brother! ...his band like a dictator, an outspoken counter to the counter-culture, in the years 1966—1970 [[Biography|Frank Zappa]] was promiscuous, controversial,
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• David Walley's Exclusive Interview
  The Controversial Author [[David Walley]]'s Exclusive Interview About [[Biograp ''The interviewer is Paul Remington, David Walley wrote a controversial book abou
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• Interview by Bob Marshall
  ...rshall in conducting the interview. We thank Loren Gagnon for transcribing the original audio tapes. ...nowledge, Knowledge is not wisdom, ... etc.", at the end you say "Music is THE BEST". What is Music?<br>
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• Congress Shall Make No Law (The Track)
  [[Congress Shall Make No Law (The Track)|"Congress Shall Make No Law . . ."]] Chairman: Could you- if you could speak very directly and clearly into the microphone, I'd appreciate it.
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• Relix Magazine's April/May '06 special on Frank Zappa
  *'''The Many Minds of [[Biography|Frank Zappa]]'''<br> ...r, prankster, musical genius and more – we celebrate the life and times of the one and only Frank Zappa.<br>
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• They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 2
  [[Society Pages (The Magazine)|Society Pages (US)]], June 1990<br> [[They're Doing the Interview of the Century, Part 1|Part 1]],
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• Hunchentoot
  ...a tried to find a director to film it. He approached [[Terry Gilliam]] and the crew of [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]], but eventually nothing came of it ==The Characters==
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