He describes how he thinks his campaign would work -- and basically describes Nader's from 1996. Sometimes I can't decide if Frank is a bitter cynic or a naïve Pollyanna.
Then again, Frank gives a much more entertaining interview than Ralph.
And then we're on into Kennedy (I wonder what Frank would have thought of Clinton?), Nixon (I can guess what he would have thought of Bush), Johnson, and just a little bit of Carter, the Beatles, the Stones, and Lenny Bruce.
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...
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.
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.
Man, have I really not done Zoot Allures yet?
Here it is. Osaka, 1976; uploaded by wazoo17.
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.
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.
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.
A pre-Mothers recording with Zappa on guitar and backup vocals. Uploaded by haulofrecords.
The Today Show, 1989. Posted by tomtiddler1.