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| John9 |
Posted - 21/09/2011 : 18:40:45
This is well worth listening to. It is about three minutes long and was broadcast on BBC's flagship news programme this morning. Apparently, Pauline Butcher was Frank's secretary from 1967. There are some wonderful musical snippets as well...kicking off with Hungry Freaks, Daddy....."Mr America, walk on by" 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9596000/9596226.stm |
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| John9 |
Posted - 21/09/2011 : 20:34:34
Thanks LK - yes the early albums are all classics. It's amazing to think that despite the counter-culture image he presented to the world, in some respects he was quite conservative....and he said as much in a book on politics that he wrote when he was involved in the Velvet Revolution in Eastern Europe from 1989 onwards.
It is well known of course that if you were in The Mothers, and you did drugs...then you were out of the band. He seemed to have a long and happy marriage and I remember seeing a photograph of the Zappas as a well dressed repectable couple at The Oval cricket ground in 1969. The previous year he took on some of the radical students at famous London School Of Economics sit-in. He tried to get them to question their own motives and strategy.
Finally on every single album sleeve from the early 70s, he implored every young person to register to vote...and not simply to opt out through apathy or cynicism. |
| Dukie |
Posted - 21/09/2011 : 20:29:59
I heard this as well and it was very interesting. |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 21/09/2011 : 19:23:39
Thank you so much, john.
Zappa is the man....and touchingly HU-man.
Hungry Freaks Daddy...stil my favorite Zappa album. I worked a university summer lawn crew in 1967, and as we road down the streets in the back of the truck, 5 or 6 of us could be heard singing at the top of our lungs..."Mr America walk on by.....Hungry Freaks, daddy!!!"
Here's to you Frank....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THGjCgi6sbA
And an absolute favorite!
Trouble Coming Everyday!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=TiVFfOOm_GI
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