The sound quality's not great, and what talking there is isn't in English, but there's some lovely instrumental playing in there anyhow. Uploaded by titokzatoscsatater.
Tag: Frank Zappa
Memories of El Monte
With the Penguins, 1963. Uploaded by MrDooWopAbilly.
Letterman, '82
Dave asks the same old questions -- "Why did you choose those names for your kids?", "What's it like at your house?" -- but they seem to be having a great deal of fun anyway.
The Talking Asshole
Zappa reads from Naked Lunch, 1978.
Ahoy
My Dutch is rusty, but this appears to be a TV piece on Zappa in Rotterdam. Bits of Dancin' Fool, Ms. Pinky, and Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? Uploaded by BeeldenGeluid.
Bassoons are not Oboes
The Mothers Are Dead, But Zappa's Still Very Much Alive, by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 1969.
Frustrating, to be quite honest. The Mothers never did get the respect they deserved -- though Frank's then-upcoming symphony at least marked a start to Serious Musicians taking him Seriously.
Sure would have loved to see the TV show with Jagger, Beefheart, and Captain Kangaroo, too.
Monday Conference Part 5
Rounding it out: more on groupies, more on misquotes, and different types of music under the "rock" umbrella from Donny Osmond to Alice Cooper.
Monday Conference Part 4
And now we get to groupies.
Monday Conference Part 3
Zappa talks about being misquoted and quoted out of context. Speaking of protest movements, he notes that US culture is fad-oriented; later in the interview, he speaks of how it is artificially fragmented into subcultures.
I certainly think both those problems have come into play in the protest movements of the past few years, Tea Party and Occupy alike.