Frank Zappa recounts his encounter with John Lennon.

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  • Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
  • Video Courtesy of MTV Basement Tapes

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  • @MrShotthat
    @MrShotthat Рік тому +790

    Luckily the tapes have since been found and the full shows were released on "The Mothers 1971" box set.

    • @PNWGlinda
      @PNWGlinda Рік тому +13

      Thank you!💜

    • @terrypussypower
      @terrypussypower Рік тому +2

      Any idea what was in the box when it was swapped around?

    • @upsidedahead
      @upsidedahead Рік тому +12

      The Lennon segment is schmeg too

    • @jaydrummer333
      @jaydrummer333 Рік тому

      scumbag!

    • @HakanTunaMuzik
      @HakanTunaMuzik 10 місяців тому +67

      They were not found, at the time Zappa gave Lennon a safety copy, and those were the ones used on the new release, they managed to get the copies from the Lennon estate for the new box set.

  • @simoneric8183
    @simoneric8183 11 місяців тому +205

    Cartoon voice of Zappa saying "ho my god !..." 🤣🤣🤣

    • @Blahblahblahbka
      @Blahblahblahbka Місяць тому

      Yeah, Zappa is a complete asshole, very very insecure and constantly projecting. Cool music, but total douchebag.

  • @-K3M0SABI-
    @-K3M0SABI- 11 місяців тому +139

    Zappa was 'one of a kind'.

    • @tonyrichardson1140
      @tonyrichardson1140 6 місяців тому +2

      Thankfully 😂

    • @FreejackVesa
      @FreejackVesa 2 місяці тому +1

      I love that Zappa didn't use drugs and alcohol, but believed in others right to use them (to their own detriment).

  • @JonathanNelsonOfficial
    @JonathanNelsonOfficial Рік тому +507

    Frank inspires me to not run from myself.

  • @Dan-440
    @Dan-440 4 місяці тому +24

    Man, I'd love to spend some time in that vault listening to all that gold.

    • @carlsaganlives5112
      @carlsaganlives5112 Місяць тому +1

      More like a Twilight Zone 'trapped ' horrorshow, 24/7...give ya 4 days until full on straightjacket. Most of it is take after take of forgettable 'songs' , and jams that fizzle out in cacophony that never made it onto a record, deemed unworthy by the man himself, as told by Dweezil. Some nuggets fer sure, fer sure, but you're really looking at a Sears poncho of sound.

    • @Dan-440
      @Dan-440 Місяць тому

      @@carlsaganlives5112 Hah. Lol. I'm not sure I agree, but what a great way to phrase it!

  • @victormarrotti2575
    @victormarrotti2575 10 місяців тому +167

    He was a very intelligent man

    • @timothydillow3160
      @timothydillow3160 9 місяців тому +19

      he was not a hippie he was a remarkable businessman who believed in the Constitution and capitalism he knew and counted every penny on tour he even knew how much the doorman was going to be tipped. FZ managed to own every single one of his master tapes which is absolutely miraculous

    • @theyrekrnations8990
      @theyrekrnations8990 8 місяців тому +7

      Zappa was the son of a military scientist, in LA. He never did any drugs
      and never let any of his band members do any. He had a house in Laurel
      Canyon that was a main hang out for most of the rock scene that was
      centered in and around LA, specifically Laurel Canyon.

    • @commentatron
      @commentatron 6 місяців тому +3

      His commercial image was completely different than the reality - he's downright dorky, isn't he?

    • @joedrew9418
      @joedrew9418 5 місяців тому +3

      I never found him dorky at all

    • @ugocristo84
      @ugocristo84 4 місяці тому +2

      @@commentatronabsolutely not. He was a workaholic for sure and extremely rigorous with himself and the band as well. Very unique dude, no drugs allowed regardless of whether you were the best guitar player he had ever seen. I ain’t saying that this is all peaceful and flower but they were clean. Frank Zappa was far more than just a guitarist he was a groundbreaking composer, bandleader, and the creative force behind the entire ensemble,using his vast musical knowledge to adapt every instrument within the group. His work spanned over 30 years, during which he composed music across a variety of genres, including rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral etc.. He was not only involved in the writing and arranging of the music but also produced almost all of the over 60 albums he released, either with his band, The Mothers of Invention. Before going solo ofc

  • @switchingworlds8751
    @switchingworlds8751 7 місяців тому +23

    You can tell he’s seething because of how many different times he’s told this story

    • @user-py5ct1go2s
      @user-py5ct1go2s 6 місяців тому +6

      You are right. If he got paid for everytime he told a John Lennon story he would be as rich as the Beatles. The man is a whinger.😂

    • @mr.brenman2132
      @mr.brenman2132 5 місяців тому

      ​@@user-py5ct1go2sI think he told it a few times and it wasn't for good reasons.

  • @apogee1mars
    @apogee1mars 9 місяців тому +40

    RIP Mr. Frank Zappa, musician extraordinaire.

  • @ThunderboltWisdom
    @ThunderboltWisdom 11 місяців тому +31

    Lennon then used songs from their show on an album without Zappa's consent.

    • @Shug1145
      @Shug1145 11 місяців тому +8

      True I seen that interview with Frank

    • @mpirron1
      @mpirron1 6 місяців тому

      Absolutely, John Lennon was not legendary and heroic as people make him out to be. He wasn't all that intelligent He and Paul McCartney didn't write many of the songs attributed to them, and actually ever played only few of them. He wasn't much of a musician, actor, filmmaker, husband, or father. He didn't really care about the Beatles Or their legacy in any meaningful way, ever that I can tell . He didn't have an extraordinary amount of influence on musicians in his time. I seen here with Frank and you'll also hear about from Chuck Berry and how Yoko ruined there performance together. And of course the basic way he just was yoko's bitch from when they met until he was dead, And she's a pretty terrible person also. In fact I don't recall anything that I've ever seen of John Lennon that shows him to be anything other than an.ass.

    • @gmc1966
      @gmc1966 5 місяців тому +2

      And changed the name of them,they were 100 zappa compositions

    • @pauljenkins6807
      @pauljenkins6807 4 місяці тому +3

      He sure did

  • @oldrockerkickinass5569
    @oldrockerkickinass5569 Рік тому +46

    I love Frank Zappa! I saw him and his band in concert once, definitely one of the very best concerts I have ever seen , I'm very grateful forever

    • @RoberttAvro
      @RoberttAvro 6 місяців тому +3

      I saw them too, but don't remember the exact date....it must have been the late 70's or early 80's. With Larry the Mole Taylor playing bass and Jon Luc Ponty on violin. They were great.

  • @blackie75
    @blackie75 6 місяців тому +62

    Lenon said something insulting like that to pretty much everyone he met, particularly if he thought they were potentially intellectually or egotistically threatening to him.

    • @gromitpesley
      @gromitpesley 5 місяців тому +10

      Or its funny. Which it was.

    • @robbiemcc4355
      @robbiemcc4355 5 місяців тому +7

      It's called scouse sarcasm. I know I'm scouse.

    • @blackie75
      @blackie75 5 місяців тому

      ​@@robbiemcc4355 Maybe, but he was not a great person all reports and not liked by many people. I remember a nanny that worked for him saying that she heard Julian laughing outside the kitchen window when he was 7 or 8 years old and John Lennon chastising him, saying "stop laughing, I fucking hate the way you laugh" and Julian crying. Julian later backed this up and told of many more stories of mental abuse from Lennon over the years. The bloke sounds like a right cunt all round.

    • @blackie75
      @blackie75 5 місяців тому

      @KeefaCheggaz My comment was made based on multiple accounts of witness testimony from people who knew him....what about yours?
      EDIT: Also, listen to the stories of abuse told by his son, Julian and tell me if you think he's a good bloke after that. The guy was a cunt.

    • @annanikia7949
      @annanikia7949 5 місяців тому +1

      especially his fellow Beatles!

  • @Joeage
    @Joeage Рік тому +37

    Martha Quinn was my fav MTV VJ.

    • @DaveRucci
      @DaveRucci 10 місяців тому +9

      She was a cutie 🥰

    • @jonowens460
      @jonowens460 8 місяців тому +4

      That's who I thought that was😂Miserable T.V. in it's infancy 😂

    • @BeatlesFan1975
      @BeatlesFan1975 5 місяців тому

      ​@@jonowens460tv was not in its infancy in the 80's. 😅

    • @user-oe6yn7vi3k
      @user-oe6yn7vi3k Місяць тому

      Yesss

  • @peterdwyer6118
    @peterdwyer6118 7 місяців тому +50

    Wish there was more Frank zappas around today.

    • @anniedarkhorse6791
      @anniedarkhorse6791 6 місяців тому +3

      Same. We need Zappa more than ever.

    • @chebrneck
      @chebrneck 5 місяців тому +1

      I wish he was still alive. RIP

    • @deller5924
      @deller5924 5 місяців тому +1

      He should have sold cans of his spunk all across the land.

    • @deller5924
      @deller5924 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@chebrneckOnly the good die young....and the evil seem to live forever.

    • @kurikokaleidoscope
      @kurikokaleidoscope 4 місяці тому +1

      There are some..

  • @clintstewart5545
    @clintstewart5545 Рік тому +77

    He looks happy here , which is a nice image of him !!!

    • @LanceEads
      @LanceEads 8 місяців тому +6

      If you watch the full interview, he and the interviewer, Martha Quinn, got along really well. She was a huge fan of his.

    • @gmc1966
      @gmc1966 5 місяців тому +5

      Yes because he got to talk shit about John Lennon.

    • @clintstewart5545
      @clintstewart5545 5 місяців тому

      @@gmc1966 well john lennon was a piece of shit wife beater , mistreated his son etc

  • @kylebroome642
    @kylebroome642 Рік тому +25

    Please release the unknown group living in the box.

    • @DROG.
      @DROG. Рік тому +5

      I want to hear it so bad lol

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti 11 місяців тому +10

      They were likely asphyxiated years ago, being trapped on the shelf. Probably nothing but stinky dust now.

    • @Shug1145
      @Shug1145 11 місяців тому +2

      It's grand Funk 😮

    • @ScottZucco
      @ScottZucco 2 місяці тому +1

      It's The Monkees

  • @piemontemagicoeinsolito3250
    @piemontemagicoeinsolito3250 11 місяців тому +46

    I fucking love his voice

  • @josecuervo311
    @josecuervo311 7 місяців тому +4

    Gosh frank you’re so cool for not caring about meeting John Lennon

    • @delavan9141
      @delavan9141 2 місяці тому +1

      Frank was a God who all the greats went to pay their respects because he refused to compromise for anyone.

    • @mikesimonian484
      @mikesimonian484 2 місяці тому

      ​@@delavan9141ok he bagged on Christopher Cross for being too fat to win a Grammy.

  • @adamproductions4529
    @adamproductions4529 6 місяців тому +16

    Franks Absolute and undying commitment to making quality music is so inspiring, and he didn’t do drugs either which is and other reason why he’s such a good example.

    • @NautilusGuitars
      @NautilusGuitars 6 місяців тому +3

      He's the reason I quit partying and thinking it was cool to be high or drunk all the time. I realized you can be just as wild and creative without it, and far more intelligent and wise too.
      I listened to his criticism of it all, looked around me, and realized how right he was. I was in a cesspool of braindead, trite, low-effort nonsense that led nowhere. I think some substances have a place in society. But the "high life" is probably the lowest life one can live. Substantiated by how many of my friends are on the other side of the grass today.

    • @evanwolf6618
      @evanwolf6618 6 місяців тому +2

      Nicotine is a helluva drug . . .

    • @adamproductions4529
      @adamproductions4529 6 місяців тому +1

      @@evanwolf6618 True. Frank smoked like a chimney, but generally speaking he was “drug free”.

    • @adamproductions4529
      @adamproductions4529 6 місяців тому +1

      @@NautilusGuitars Yeah it’s really hard to find band mates that don’t engage in drug culture, and have the same musical interests. I’m very into jam bands and as you can imagine pot is like breathing in the scene. I want to make truly exceptional music and I don’t think drugs and alcohol will have a good influence on that process.

    • @BeatlesFan1975
      @BeatlesFan1975 5 місяців тому +1

      "quality music" 😅

  • @smwokk
    @smwokk Рік тому +38

    ❤️❤️❤️I miss him.

    • @TTM9691
      @TTM9691 9 місяців тому +2

      Miss him AND Lennon. Two guys it would have fantastic to have around this whole stupid 21st century so far.

  • @blacksheeple2187
    @blacksheeple2187 9 місяців тому +14

    Legend has it- it was Nickbacks first record in the box 😂

  • @mmiilleennkkoo
    @mmiilleennkkoo Рік тому +22

    Zappa the best

  • @maplelafe7671
    @maplelafe7671 Рік тому +40

    Yoko did it !!!

  • @bodhisattva71
    @bodhisattva71 Рік тому +79

    Someone stole the original? Monstrous.

    • @ChimRichalds750
      @ChimRichalds750 Рік тому +23

      It was you wasn’t it.

    • @SaladDongs
      @SaladDongs Рік тому +12

      Why did you do it?

    • @raidrfrk
      @raidrfrk Рік тому +12

      Lennon did it

    • @kevinr.3542
      @kevinr.3542 11 місяців тому +22

      Lennons people not only stole it, but Lennon renamed the songs (which were zappa compositions) and released them on his own album, claiming the songwriting credit

    • @kevinr.3542
      @kevinr.3542 11 місяців тому +14

      @Spaceoctopus1776 because he claimed songwriting credits to songs he didnt write, i.e. he stole them. you dont see why that might be an issue? He didnt ask Frank for permission, didnt credit him, and he actually claimed authorship. Frank talked about it and he himself said it was shady. His songs were his livelihood and he didnt have Beatles money. would you be so generous with your earnings? if so send me some.

  • @joshuak4372
    @joshuak4372 7 місяців тому +7

    I bought him a pizza. Of course I introduced him to Warren 😂

    • @Fuhrious
      @Fuhrious Місяць тому

      I hope Warren enjoyed that

  • @alexbostelle287
    @alexbostelle287 11 місяців тому +20

    Zappa's a hero...but he had a massive chip on his shoulder that reveals this feeling of being disrespected.....even though he got overwhelming critical acclaim

    • @eddellinger1780
      @eddellinger1780 8 місяців тому +4

      Yeah, seeing all these Zappa shorts lately, I thought, guy seems to have quite a chip...

    • @aaronhumphrey2009
      @aaronhumphrey2009 8 місяців тому +10

      He's sarcastic here, because Lennon lied to his face ,and ripped off thier musical collaboration to repackage it AS LENNONS music only..cutting him out..he sued and won his music back eventually..

    • @kraftyhandz
      @kraftyhandz 8 місяців тому +5

      Zappa has been burned countless times from getting thrown in jail for a kangaroo court reason, to censorship of his music since the 60s, and always being viewed in a different light than he is today. I would have a massive chip too if i was always getting bullied because of my music that I have a right to make.

    • @aaronhumphrey2009
      @aaronhumphrey2009 8 місяців тому +5

      @@kraftyhandz Zappa didn't like the music industry itself, with it's exploitative contracts and control freak Executives..
      Part of his appeal is his desire both for Mastery of skills, technique, music theory..and put all that into the spontaneous acts of creation in a free- form solo/ jam ..not rehearsed, polished and overdubbed perfection..Which was boring to him..a generic, soulless product for the Masses, by Executives assuming what people want to hear..

  • @argonaut31
    @argonaut31 Рік тому +35

    I love how Frank was like...uh ok cool when he met John Lennon.

    • @hoonaignachowaneha
      @hoonaignachowaneha Рік тому

      NO YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO SHIT YOUR PANTS WHEN YOU MEET THE OVERATED JUNKIE!!!

    • @killerjoe7596
      @killerjoe7596 Рік тому +5

      Well I love Lennon's even more candid greeting. That's a helluva thing to say to a person.

    • @meursault7030
      @meursault7030 Рік тому +12

      @@killerjoe7596 There's candid and then there's rude.

    • @killerjoe7596
      @killerjoe7596 Рік тому +9

      Maybe that was Lennon's way of chastising Zappa for not falling to his knees in his presence. This is why he was so much cooler than McCartney.

    • @hansmueller3029
      @hansmueller3029 11 місяців тому +10

      Lennon was always too big for his britches.

  • @jongonegone1262
    @jongonegone1262 Місяць тому +1

    gotta show some clips of frank zappa guest starring on tv series MIAMI VICE, that was epic, he played the part well.

  • @TheVerzona
    @TheVerzona 6 місяців тому +2

    I hope they will release this rare material!!

  • @KipTheDipWithChips
    @KipTheDipWithChips 11 місяців тому +12

    And then John tried to steal the song King Kong from Zappa, who had to file suit.

    • @jeffclement2468
      @jeffclement2468 8 місяців тому +1

      ? I don't know that he actually sued. But he could have. And won.

    • @ChromaticHarp
      @ChromaticHarp 8 місяців тому

      Yeah that was really fucked up of Lennon, really lowered my opinion of him. And have you heard the mixes? Absolutely horrible!

    • @chikkipop
      @chikkipop 6 місяців тому +1

      Do you have information about this? I find it hard to believe Lennon, already a hugely successful songwriter, would need to steal from others. Is there perhaps a better explanation for what happened?

    • @bwana-ma-coo-bah425
      @bwana-ma-coo-bah425 3 місяці тому

      @@chikkipop Lennon wrote love songs. Could not read nor write music. Do you know the song King Kong by Zappa and Jam Rag by Lennon?

  • @TTM9691
    @TTM9691 9 місяців тому +3

    Ha. Martha Quinn was a huge Beatles fan and this was during a period where everyone was still mourning Lennon's death (ie: pretty much the whole 80s, lol), it's pretty funny watching her just stare at him blankly as he recycles that line he always would use when describing this encounter. So unnecessarily snide, as much as I love Frank. At least he doesn't tell the whole rest of his (legitimate) beef he had about Lennon and those tapes.

  • @chrisfabozzi7165
    @chrisfabozzi7165 4 місяці тому +1

    I was there- in a recording truck from Electric Ladyland with Flo and Eddie

  • @donaldwatson554
    @donaldwatson554 9 місяців тому +4

    Zappa wasn’t taking no shit even from John Lennon.

    • @chikkipop
      @chikkipop 6 місяців тому +1

      But what did Lennon do? Are there any actual details anywhere, or is this just Zappa *claiming* something?

    • @NautilusGuitars
      @NautilusGuitars 6 місяців тому

      @@chikkipop Lennon, while one of my favorite songwriters of all time, was an outlandish prick of a person, and this is well documented. His "peace and love" image was just a brand. What Lennon did in particular to Zappa, was take a recording of them playing over a tune Frank wrote, then secretly released it without any permission from Frank, changed the name of it, and took credit for it. No credit to Frank. It ended in a lawsuit. There was more to it, but you can just look it up.

  • @bjohnston3659
    @bjohnston3659 11 місяців тому +7

    Wonder if Frank's sure it wasn't Yoko "singing"?

    • @theyrekrnations8990
      @theyrekrnations8990 8 місяців тому +2

      Good one, but nah I'm pretty sure he could recognize banshee screaming right off.

  • @jeffmalm9708
    @jeffmalm9708 4 місяці тому +1

    Yeah cuz i need to hear Yucko yodeling.

  • @therealdavelloyd
    @therealdavelloyd 2 місяці тому

    My mother recently passed and she was an ultimate Zappa fan... I'd like to think she is sitting at a table with him now realizing a dream.

  • @b3astlyify
    @b3astlyify 9 місяців тому +2

    To be truly funny you have to be truly intelligent. That's why I find Zappa so damn hilarious

  • @JamesSmith-xs7sr
    @JamesSmith-xs7sr 7 місяців тому +3

    That Martha "Quim" next to Frank?

  • @beachcomber4141
    @beachcomber4141 6 місяців тому +2

    That would have been interesting to hear. Maybe one day, that tape will show up. Let's hope.

    • @stovepipe9232
      @stovepipe9232 5 місяців тому +1

      They were found and released.

  • @e-money5851
    @e-money5851 10 місяців тому +3

    The man had some real pipes in his voice!

  • @Tom_Van_Zandt
    @Tom_Van_Zandt 7 місяців тому +3

    I've never been a fan of his music, but I've enjoyed listening to him talk ever since youtube started putting these shorts in my recommendeds.

    • @doublek321
      @doublek321 5 місяців тому

      @@MoreTubContentOnMyChannel Have you guys listened to the instrumentals? Like the album "Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar" for example?

    • @deller5924
      @deller5924 5 місяців тому

      Same here.

  • @kevinchisolm1847
    @kevinchisolm1847 11 місяців тому +4

    Prince Albert. He used to live in a can!

    • @eddellinger1780
      @eddellinger1780 8 місяців тому +2

      😂 (not sure the "kids" today will get that one tho')

  • @zorbanongreco
    @zorbanongreco 2 місяці тому

    Funny story about cheeky John. Frank was so cool.

  • @vs4571
    @vs4571 9 місяців тому +1

    Wow. That really sucks. Hope it was eventually recovered and released.

  • @bassplayer10
    @bassplayer10 11 місяців тому +1

    Ahmet should release that along with all the other outtakes he’s releasing

  • @davidcawrowl3865
    @davidcawrowl3865 7 місяців тому +1

    Lol@ "You're not as ugly as I thought you were."

  • @Leon_von_Sehnsucht
    @Leon_von_Sehnsucht 6 місяців тому +2

    They showed me this UA-cam clip like I was gonna go: "OMG!"

  • @yungbusta
    @yungbusta Рік тому +20

    Lennon then released a song from that tape with yoko. Original taping was King Kong, Lennon released it as Jamrag. Probably stolen on behalf of john n yoko to avoid zappa trying to claim rights to the song.

    • @HakanTunaMuzik
      @HakanTunaMuzik Рік тому +5

      Zappa gave them a copy, in fact for the mixing of the new Mothers 71 box the Lennon Estate gave them the master tapes to they could remix the show.

    • @elaztec.aztecca
      @elaztec.aztecca Рік тому +4

      It seems like someone from Paul and John’s camp executed that retrieval of the tapes. No way would Paul want those tapes being produced and sold to undercut the Apple records licensing.

    • @makewaves9
      @makewaves9 Рік тому +3

      Horrible, for someone to steal that tape. Sounds like it might have been an inside job, though. Someone who knew Frank or John and thus realized the value of the tapes.

    • @maluse227
      @maluse227 11 місяців тому +4

      Zappa also hated the recording and didnt particularly care for Lennon or Yoko as musicians, when they released their version they had changed the recording in ways Zappa absolutely hated because of how it treated the other musicians that were present.

    • @ChromaticHarp
      @ChromaticHarp 8 місяців тому

      @@maluse227John and tiki did horrible, bastardized mixes with Phil Spector and claimed them selves as writers and publishers!

  • @Radvapordeath
    @Radvapordeath Місяць тому

    I imagine it’s some clown show band type shit in that box 🤣

  • @kwd-kwd
    @kwd-kwd 9 місяців тому +3

    where is the rest of this interview?

  • @horowizard
    @horowizard Рік тому +2

    Well, apparently he did get the tape back because he did release it.

  • @MultiBmorgan
    @MultiBmorgan 4 місяці тому

    Someone to look up to from within your soul. Truly.

  • @ReductioAdAbsurdum
    @ReductioAdAbsurdum 3 місяці тому +1

    Martha was such a cutie.

  • @davidjoplin1291
    @davidjoplin1291 5 місяців тому +1

    Zappa is a god 🙏 and i have every single and album picture disc, the full collection and watched him in Brixton academy in the late eighties ❤

  • @kathleensalazar5222
    @kathleensalazar5222 4 місяці тому

    Awesome!! Met Frank super cool 😎 dude

  • @PNWGlinda
    @PNWGlinda Рік тому +1

    So, now we have to find the real tape and I want to know what's in the box! Zappa-gate stories!💜

  • @dgaz3057
    @dgaz3057 Місяць тому

    Looks like a cool Frankenstein

  • @hannahe7556
    @hannahe7556 5 місяців тому

    ‘What’s in the box?!’

  • @Jbsutt
    @Jbsutt 6 місяців тому

    Always liked Zappa for his excessive use of apostrophes.

  • @rollofilms24
    @rollofilms24 Рік тому +1

    😂😂😂 please, release that tape!

    • @MrTheBaron
      @MrTheBaron Рік тому +4

      It's already been out. When the ZFT were compiling The Mothers 1971, the Lennon Estate gave the Zappa Trust a safety copy of the reel Frank made for them all those years ago.

  • @naruttaanime9471
    @naruttaanime9471 2 місяці тому

    Zappa always top billing even over his fan, John Lennon.

  • @studebakerhoch
    @studebakerhoch 8 місяців тому

    I met him in 1989 at the Providence Civic Center...it was the Broadway the Hard Way tour when he had a Michael Jackson lookalike run across the stage with his hair on fire in the middle of a song.......he was very cool to us and he's funny too.....my friend Henry said to him while he was signing our stuff... "I used to listen to the Mother's of Invention when I was five years old because of my parents!!!!!"... And Frank said "what did they MAKE you listen?" .... and Henry was like no no no and Frank said I know what you mean......I have a copy of Fillmore East 71 that I already had signed by Flo and Eddy and Don Preston and he signed that for me..... it's hanging on the wall in my studio

  • @mattstickle2725
    @mattstickle2725 6 місяців тому

    Textbook example of a guy that is so angry he never got good looking. And his works are only appreciated by a very very very few.

  • @brianjansen3103
    @brianjansen3103 8 місяців тому

    I have an album the beatles did with pink floyd called applejuice but nobody's ever heard of it when I bring it up

  • @rman52
    @rman52 6 місяців тому

    Lennon and yoko also eventually screwed frank on royalties from the concert.

  • @paulmcgrath3248
    @paulmcgrath3248 Рік тому +2

    Figure it WAS I LITTLE WHITE BOX

    • @gmc1966
      @gmc1966 11 місяців тому +1

      That he could store uptown

  • @user-kq1hg3eo6l
    @user-kq1hg3eo6l 6 місяців тому

    Come on, if someone met John Lennon I think they would be amazed meeting a Beatles. Even if they didn't care for his music, he was a Beatle! Frank didn't have to say that like he could care less. I think he was bit jealous.

  • @evanhammond3783
    @evanhammond3783 6 місяців тому

    Luckily we have the Playground Psychotics and the 1971 box set to peek back at the show. It’s neat for sure, but the Lennon and Yoko bit was only a glorified jam. The real gasp moment on the 1971 box is the end of the Rainbow show, knowing what happened to poor Frank.

  • @wilsontheconqueror8101
    @wilsontheconqueror8101 4 місяці тому

    Wow! Sticky fingers! Glad they were located. Wonder what Frank would think about the internet,social media,and file sharing or "music swapping?" Cool that back then you could have actual hard copies.

  • @keithp8521
    @keithp8521 11 місяців тому +3

    Music is the best

  • @user-pi7ru9rd7g
    @user-pi7ru9rd7g Місяць тому

    I wish that Frank and John were still alive.

  • @dankmazzi2376
    @dankmazzi2376 Місяць тому

    FZ played excellent guitar 🎸 ❤

  • @jerryhunt4595
    @jerryhunt4595 10 місяців тому +1

    He was being sarcastic.

  • @ghostexits
    @ghostexits 11 місяців тому +1

    That sounds in character for Lennon to start with a snide joke, and in character for Zappa to take offense to it.

  • @anniedarkhorse6791
    @anniedarkhorse6791 6 місяців тому +1

    Lennon was a bit of an asshole. He was not much better looking than Zappa. Must have felt intimidated by Zappa's genius.

  • @mdkell4261
    @mdkell4261 8 місяців тому

    I don't quite appreciate Franks music style, BUT I LIKE FRANK. Now I LOVE Van Halen's music but Eddie VH didn't have half the character Frank had in his little finger.

  • @jellybaby9630
    @jellybaby9630 6 місяців тому

    Lennon song was called..
    You're Not As Ugly As I Thought

  • @russkiygeniy5053
    @russkiygeniy5053 7 місяців тому

    whenever i hear him tell a story (any story) i imagine background music and think it could easily be a song by zappa😂

  • @karaamundson3964
    @karaamundson3964 Місяць тому

    Love 'm both, why would anyone steal that tape & not release it?

  • @ikigai47
    @ikigai47 5 місяців тому

    Exactly why you don't write "JOHN LENNON" on a high value item box. I'd have just put JL or something

  • @robm8335
    @robm8335 2 місяці тому

    Zappa , musical genius

  • @prayingmantis6777
    @prayingmantis6777 5 місяців тому

    Is this the guy who named his children Moon and Dweezle...

  • @catwomandorene
    @catwomandorene 11 місяців тому +1

    Brilliant musician I seen him years ago in Philadelphia and he gets on stage before he starts. His bravo music n says how the fuck are you hahahaha pajama people

  • @slimsantilli4476
    @slimsantilli4476 5 місяців тому

    John said to Yoko "you're as ugly as i thought you were"

  • @DillaDawgForever
    @DillaDawgForever 5 місяців тому +1

    Haha Zappa was the realist. Screw the Beatles. Bunch of hacks

  • @Jay-nq2jl
    @Jay-nq2jl 11 місяців тому +3

    Men, Frank died from prostate cancer…this is no joke get a simple blood test…

    • @fernandomaiasilvadias8199
      @fernandomaiasilvadias8199 9 місяців тому +1

      He took good care of his health and was up-to-date with his health exams and checked up a few months before being diagnosed with cancer.

    • @Jay-nq2jl
      @Jay-nq2jl 9 місяців тому

      @@fernandomaiasilvadias8199 that’s how easy it happens

    • @ChromaticHarp
      @ChromaticHarp 8 місяців тому

      Frank had plenty of check ups, the IDIOT doctors missed the cancer for so long it became inoperable! Makes me so mad! I hate doctors!!!!

  • @gregwright7183
    @gregwright7183 Місяць тому

    I thought it was going to be about the ruined tapes due to a flood.

  • @morpher44
    @morpher44 8 місяців тому

    Someone skilled in using A.I. could probably recreate the John Lennon and Yoko with Frank Zappa. I think its on one of the John Lennon albums. They could feed that in with whatever is in the box Zappa is holding.

  • @corybarnes2341
    @corybarnes2341 Рік тому +1

    Good thing he didn't store the rest of the tapes with Universal Music.

  • @mrspinks3033
    @mrspinks3033 5 місяців тому

    That's actually my band on the tape.... 🐒

  • @jamesfrancis8792
    @jamesfrancis8792 8 місяців тому

    Like I was gonna go Oh my God!🤣👍🏽

  • @trevorcarlisle5447
    @trevorcarlisle5447 9 місяців тому

    I could listen to endlessly

  • @robskyful
    @robskyful 5 місяців тому

    He was a heavy smoker..

  • @FrankieLovesElvis
    @FrankieLovesElvis 8 місяців тому

    That’s happened so many times in the Elvis world that it’s pathetic. People stealing those tapes and keeping that stuff away from the public/fans is a big disservice. 😊

  • @someyoungguyjohnson7239
    @someyoungguyjohnson7239 9 місяців тому +3

    John Lennon was acting like an uppity prick? No, you don't say?

  • @GuyEndore
    @GuyEndore 8 місяців тому

    When it comes to master tapes. TNO (trust no one). Just look up the Universal archive fires. Nothing more tragic than that. Unfortunately most artists have no rights to their master tapes.

  • @BigBadBosco
    @BigBadBosco 6 місяців тому

    Zappa was not nearly as significant as his fans believe.

  • @LANDSEAAIRCANADA
    @LANDSEAAIRCANADA 8 місяців тому

    WOW That is a genuine mystery, where is that material ?

  • @ST-xg3gy
    @ST-xg3gy 6 місяців тому

    Crazy story. Lennon's "ugly" comment was just not cool. That bothers me.

  • @RobertTate-jv3qv
    @RobertTate-jv3qv Місяць тому

    Then they recorded a song called BANG BANG

  • @MatijaKrunic
    @MatijaKrunic Рік тому

    Does anyone have more of this interview or other related material regarding the fheft of this tape. It sounds ominous.