Continuing thoughts on McCarthy, and then a right turn to Elvis. And from there to the origins of Elvis's music in R&B and "race music" and the pernicious effects of good old-fashioned 1950's-vintage racism. Then Duck and Cover and politics in general, and more later...
Category: Music
Lost Interview Part 1
A late interview -- 1990; a few years before Zappa died. In this bit the interviewer asks him about early influences; Frank tells the oft-repeated story about phoning up Edgard Varèse on his fifteenth birthday. Then he moves on up through World War II, Eisenhower, and "that naughty old Joe McCarthy." Uploaded by TheNilesLeshProject.
Frank Zappa und die kosmischen Truemmer
For shits and giggles, here's a Zappa article you won't be able to read -- even if you speak German, the scan is tiny. Still, some purty pictures.
Frank Zappa und die kosmischen Truemmer (Frank Zappa and the Cosmik Debris), Good News, September 1973. Via afka.net.
Zoot Allures
Man, have I really not done Zoot Allures yet?
Here it is. Osaka, 1976; uploaded by wazoo17.
Fembot in a Wet T-Shirt/Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?
That bit about slow erosions of the First Amendment put me in mind of the Central Scrutinizer monologue from the beginning of Joe's Garage. Searching for that, I found a bunch of music by a tribute band called Central Scrutinizer. Here they are doing a couple other tunes from Joe's Garage:
Uploaded by Drum Channel Brasil.
Dangerous Kitchen
For some reason posting about wandering around my kitchen half-coherent made me think of this song.
Fort Collins, 1980, audience recording uploaded by YourArf.
Manzarek
Taking a Zappa break for this, from the late, great Ray Manzarek. Yeah, you've probably already heard Light My Fire a couple of times today, but dammit, there's a reason it's what pops into everyone's head when they hear his name.
Uploaded by MrBluesoundz.
Paris, 1968
Uploader TooleMan87 has disabled embedding on this one -- can see why he'd be proprietary of it; he claims he cleaned it up and I gotta say it looks and sounds fantastic. You'd be remiss not to click over, embed or no.
Mr. Clean
A pre-Mothers recording with Zappa on guitar and backup vocals. Uploaded by haulofrecords.
Book Interview
The Today Show, 1989. Posted by tomtiddler1.