Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa: The Story of Frank Zappa

Night School, his concept for a weekday late-night programme. The aim was to show raw, uncut news footage, point out what had been deleted or ignored and speculate on the reasons for each omission. A live band would be in the studio, the musicians doubling as actors in ‘pre-enactments’ of the ‘possible social consequences’ of specific news items.

The last track on the album is also the longest; at 13 minutes, ‘The Ocean Is The Only Solution’ is a trio improvisation that scurries through a series of complex rhythmic patterns before settling into a fuzz guitar solo over a fast,

Anyone of a nervous disposition would have become a Child of God or moved to Oregon and bought the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh a couple of Rolls Royces. Instead, Frank embodied Hunter S. Thompson’s dictum: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

Frank had once maintained that Americans hated music but loved entertainment. “The reason they hate music,” he explained, “is that they’ve never stopped to listen to what the musical content is because they’re so befuddled by the packaging and merchandising that surround the musical material they’ve been induced to buy. There’s so much peripheral s

I told Frank that I had never before seen anyone on stage with such apparent indifference for his audience. “Well, I don’t think you can really ask for much more than that,” he replied. “Unless you’re one of these ass-licking pop performers that must always do a song that people must enjoy in the traditional sense of enjoyment. If that’s your job,

“The people who want to censor do not care about saving your children,” he told David Sheff. “They care about one thing – getting re-elected. Let’s face it, folks: Politicians in the United States are the scum of the earth. We have to go after them individually because they’re varmints. The legislation they are passing, piece by piece, converts Ame

Thesaurus Of Scales And Patterns [published when Frank was six years old]

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“Look, in the 1950s a teenager was an unwanted commodity. Nobody knew yet that that was the new big consumer market. They were just troublemakers, you know, so teenagers were just sort of swept under the rug. They were the wild teenage thrill seekers and