SLC, 1980. Soundboard recording, posted by YourArf.
Category: Music
Agency Man
According to uploader barun432,t he song was recorded in '66 or '67, and was played on a radio show in '68.
Orange Claw Hammer
With Beefheart.
From Straight to Bizarre
The trailer for the documentary about Zappa's independent labels. You can get it on Amazon but I'm not convinced it's legit. Seeing as how it refers to itself as a DVD-ROM and is listed under Books. Not sure where you can find a legitimate copy; if anyone does, be sure to let me know and I'll update this post.
Forum Musiques
French TV, 1968. Audio cleaned up by uploader TooleMan87. Which may be why he's disabled embedding -- click on over to YouTube to give it a watch and listen. It's got a nice rendition of Teddy Bears' Picnic.
When The Lie's So Big
More Zappa vs. Robertson.
(Perhaps appropriately: there is a small lie in the timestamp of this post. I juuuust missed midnight and, rather than break my streak, I've artificially set this timestamp to 11:59.)
Live at the Fillmore East
John Lennon's birthday was the 9th; he would have been 72. Here he is with Frank, singing Scumbag. Poor quality, but...it's John Lennon and Frank Zappa.
Roelof Kiers Documentary, Part 5
El finito. It shouldn't need repeating at this point, but yeah, still NSFW.
He starts off talking about his instinct for visuals matching his music -- as I've noted before, it's always interested me that, as much as he hated MTV, he loved the principle of music videos.
Then there's another bit with Miss Lucy, a song called The Groupie Routine -- and finally a fantastic cover of Happy Together.
Which is actually the single clip that led to me digging up this entire documentary and posting it over the past 5 days.
Hope you enjoyed. Thank you and goodnight, everybody.
Roelof Kiers Documentary, Part 4
Probably the most NSFW clip yet; features a little song called Penis Dimension.
Some thoughts on politics; as usual Zappa's insights are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago. He discusses Nixon and the buying of elections, and the enthusiasm but questionable efficacy of political protests. And the transformative political power of rock music -- even if just in getting people to loosen up.
Most famously, he observes this: "Progress is not possible without deviation."
And lastly, a good bit with Wild Man Fischer.
I think there's just one clip yet. Tune in tomorrow night for the thrilling conclusion!
Roelof Kiers Documentary, Part 3
Still NSFW, for drug references, lady butt, and more open, not-altogether-pretty discussion of rock musicians' sex lives.
But I find the discussion of bloodless revolution far more interesting.