Zappa – The Great Satirist

Zappa – The Great Satirist
Interview by Bob Dawbarn

Will THE real Frank Zappa kindly stand up!

Most of us would probably get quite a shock if he did for we each seem to have invented our own personal Zappa.

There are revolutionaries who hail this former advertising executive as their own. There are record company 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 rate him a superb musician.

Me? I think he is one of the greatest satirists of our time.

We are probably all wrong, or, at least, only partly right. Each of our do-it-yourself Frank Zappa kits only reveals more of what we want to believe' than it does of Zappa himself.

He is the distorting mirror in which we look at our twisted selves and the cock-eyed, unfair society we have constructed.