John Interviews Frank Zappa (1986)

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2024

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  • @MedardKrzisnik
    @MedardKrzisnik 3 роки тому +34

    Great Frank Zappa! Zappa immortal, his music, concerts, commentaries. He teaches us to stay commited, faithful to our work, no matter the trends. If Zappa were still alive, he would make a hell of a use of internet for the presentation of his music. Oh, how I miss the people like him today.

  • @RSR423
    @RSR423 2 роки тому +12

    Frank....needed now in 2022 more than ever.

  • @modernmistyk4341
    @modernmistyk4341 2 роки тому +13

    What an all around stand up guy. The world misses you Frank Zappa! Become born again and give us your gift, we need you!

    • @magetaaaaaa
      @magetaaaaaa 5 місяців тому +1

      There are others out there like him, but they're not making the same kind of music he made. Steven Wilson is a very similar character though - rejects the mainstream, does his own thing, is a world class multi-instrumentalist, invites other world class musicians to play with him, is also a great engineer in the studio etc...

  • @JoeContiMusic
    @JoeContiMusic 2 роки тому +14

    Still loving and learning from Frank!
    And people will be learning for decades to come 🙏

    • @paulinebutcherbird
      @paulinebutcherbird Рік тому +1

      If you're interested in Frank Zappa, the man, as much as the composer, you might like my memoir Freak Out! My Life with Frank Zappa 1968-1971 which is my story but reveals Frank's home life not shown in other books, from getting up to going to bed, composing at the piano, rehearsing with the Mothers, visiting rock stars, freaks, family squabbles and more.

  • @alancumming6407
    @alancumming6407 3 роки тому +12

    Very good interview. I like that Frank thinks at that time he would not have gotten a record contract. Thankfully for all of us he got one a lot earlier!!

    • @magetaaaaaa
      @magetaaaaaa 5 місяців тому

      His insights into industry couldn't be more true today. I think even scientifically it has been shown that popular music is converging into a more narrow set of sounds. They just keep making the same things again and again because they know it's safe and it sells.

  • @namcat53
    @namcat53 2 роки тому +12

    Frank is brilliant, funny and a great musician. Thanks Frank.

  • @conversationflex3238
    @conversationflex3238 2 роки тому +8

    John Barbour, who is still kicking I believe, was all over TV in the 70's and 80's. Good television guy.

    • @toncuz8291
      @toncuz8291 Рік тому +5

      You can tell he admired Frank, and both gave a totally respectful interview. It's great to see an interviewer that does the proper background research and homework.

    • @Civilizashum
      @Civilizashum 23 дні тому

      right now I think this is the best FZ interview I've seen. the most entertaining because the host is smart and quite amusing, anyway

  • @spockboy
    @spockboy 2 роки тому +10

    I've never really been a fan of Frank's music but I love EVERY interview I have seen him in. Wonderful intellect.

    • @DoomKid
      @DoomKid 2 роки тому +3

      You should listen to a live performance of Watermelon on Easter Hay. Even non-Zappaheads tend to love that one!

    • @codaalive5076
      @codaalive5076 2 роки тому +2

      Oh yes, live version of the song, you will probably like it: Watermelon In Easter Hay (Live, 1978)
      Some people need to listen it several times to get it inside and appriciate. Anyone knowing rock or jazz heard at least parts of it in other songs when artists borrow from him, some "tricks" are also very common since this song came out because they sound so "natural, obvious". I also hear tiny bit of Hendrix and so on.
      Great song, one of the few where Zappa expressed himself in such romantic, very beautiful way. I just got excited while listening to it... :)

    • @HughMorristheJoker
      @HughMorristheJoker Рік тому +2

      Check the "Don't Eat Yellow Snow" suite

    • @spockboy
      @spockboy Рік тому +1

      @@HughMorristheJoker Will do. Thanks.

  • @Megamare1
    @Megamare1 3 роки тому +13

    RIP Frank...Return if Possible 🎶💯

  • @mikeflower4091
    @mikeflower4091 4 роки тому +10

    Great interview John !

  • @andrewwilliams9599
    @andrewwilliams9599 7 місяців тому +7

    "It hasn't been OK to be smart in the United States for centuries." BAM!

  • @glennmccudden8574
    @glennmccudden8574 2 роки тому +7

    He's talking about a song porn wars. Second side of zappa meets
    The mothers of prevention album.

  • @SalomeaAgodea
    @SalomeaAgodea Рік тому +4

    Frank Zappa!
    He was such a great quotioned genius! XD

  • @garse70
    @garse70 8 місяців тому +4

    “I don’t wear enough zippers”

  • @dokukarmagad12578
    @dokukarmagad12578 2 роки тому +10

    It's amazing that "pissed off quotient" would be bleeped, even in 1986. Pissed off is not vulgar now and was not vulgar then.

    • @MrLtia1234
      @MrLtia1234 2 роки тому +1

      Much more censorship back then.

    • @Itelkner
      @Itelkner 2 роки тому +2

      "Pissed Off Quotient??" Well I've never been so offended....lol

    • @moobrien1747
      @moobrien1747 2 роки тому +1

      Well, there were standards......
      What was Rated R is now "G"..

    • @opaljk4835
      @opaljk4835 8 місяців тому +1

      @@moobrien1747 I don’t think that is very true. Kids movies back then had cursing and inappropriate shit all over the place…ever see Monster Squad? Jesus lol. It’s insane. But anyway, most people are afraid things are too Sanitized today, but I think things aren’t all that different. Just some things are a little more permissible and some things are a little less

    • @schifoso5591
      @schifoso5591 6 місяців тому +1

      ​@@moobrien1747 other way round. There were movies from the 80s with nudity rated G.

  • @Civilizashum
    @Civilizashum 23 дні тому +1

    He had such sartorial style, and it was his. If you're going to wear a tie, that's as good as it's going to get.

  • @surfn123
    @surfn123 4 місяці тому +2

    Frank Zappa is alive somewhere. Frank Zappa, thank you for everything. Thank you for so much great music and philosophy. May God richly bless your soul.

  • @bwana-ma-coo-bah425
    @bwana-ma-coo-bah425 3 місяці тому +2

    Somebody out there in that audience knows what are doing, and they are getting off on it beyond his or her wildest comprehension.
    Still getting off on it Frank. Thanks.

  • @chebrneck
    @chebrneck 2 роки тому +8

    Is that Bob Newhart? lol. Fuck, Frank was the most honest person in town.

  • @MrLtia1234
    @MrLtia1234 2 роки тому +3

    5:21 - such an important point and not one the angry people today would like very much. He'd make a lot of people very cross indeed with that one. Because he's right.

  • @moobrien1747
    @moobrien1747 2 роки тому +2

    He grew up at Fort Derrick/Edgewood Arsenal and at China Lake.
    Programming Centers!
    Lol

  • @stefanturner1802
    @stefanturner1802 Місяць тому +2

    Genius with a GIGANTIC 'G'.
    Zappa would have put Trump in his place, philosophically and politically.

  • @Strat0058
    @Strat0058 Місяць тому +1

    Interesting watching this with here perspective 2024

  • @rockets4kids
    @rockets4kids 2 дні тому +1

    Quotient!

  • @johngore5127
    @johngore5127 2 роки тому +9

    Frank would have been canceled and mobbed if he was still around telling the unvarnished truth as he was here.

    • @siggylloyd3566
      @siggylloyd3566 2 роки тому

      You'd like to fantasize as much with your apparent persecution complex. Beware, children, the Cancel Boogeyman lies in wait around the corner! Lmfao

    • @ZdenekZeman433
      @ZdenekZeman433 5 місяців тому +1

      All gays with Monkeypox hate Zappa

  • @crispyrobot77
    @crispyrobot77 4 місяці тому

    Frank is 100% correct. Many album purchases in the 60s, 70s and 80s were based upon the Album Cover because in those days we didn't have "listening stations". As such, all we had to go on were the band name, the album title name, and the album cover art.

  • @bwana-ma-coo-bah425
    @bwana-ma-coo-bah425 3 роки тому +3

    Fearless!!!!!

  • @jkorshak
    @jkorshak 3 роки тому +9

    When I think of "heavy metal" FZ I think of the guitar and bass lick throughout Dumb All Over. It's simple and dumb (all over), a little ugly on the side, and really heavy live.

    • @glennmccudden8574
      @glennmccudden8574 2 роки тому +4

      It will be ugly for a thousand years.
      Yes dumb all over heavy song.

  • @MichaelValadez-v6s
    @MichaelValadez-v6s 20 днів тому +2

    No BS with Frank..he tells it like it is..as George Carlin
    .Lenny Bruce...!

  • @LoveEliasson
    @LoveEliasson 2 роки тому +2

    As a Swede, I have a question. What's "quotient" and why is it censored the first time but not censored while used later in the show?

    • @MrToddling
      @MrToddling 2 роки тому +1

      Love Eliasson
      Ok, I’ll bite.....
      He didn’t say “Quotient”-
      John was covering, knowing what he said would be censored, and ad libbed by saying Quotient

    • @LoveEliasson
      @LoveEliasson 2 роки тому +1

      @@MrToddling Thank you. Now I understand.

    • @ianscarlett6884
      @ianscarlett6884 2 роки тому +4

      he said "pissed odd quotient", like the amount of people who would get pissed off about something, so the joke was that they acted like the curse word was Quotient instead of Pissed Off

    • @jambadonmusic
      @jambadonmusic Рік тому +1

      Kvot

  • @ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1
    @ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1 3 роки тому +8

    imo
    Much of what FZ said back then is worse now.
    imo

  • @oriza2
    @oriza2 5 місяців тому +1

    I wish I knew what POQ ment...

    • @lonewolf1053
      @lonewolf1053 4 місяці тому +1

      pissed off quotient...I just looked it up...

  • @HughMorristheJoker
    @HughMorristheJoker Рік тому +3

    He was right. Music has become more and more a product and less and less musical. He saw it heading in that direction.

  • @crispyrobot77
    @crispyrobot77 4 місяці тому +1

    Eff Zee. One of the SMARTEST people EVER. He thinks it's OK to be smart. How could one NOT agree with that. Fuck the PMRC.

  • @mrveritas700
    @mrveritas700 3 роки тому +3

    two class acts talking...

  • @Da_Xman
    @Da_Xman 6 місяців тому +1

    Genius...

  • @-ull3972
    @-ull3972 Рік тому +7

    Frank would be running from the left now

    • @michaelhudson2912
      @michaelhudson2912 9 місяців тому +2

      and he’d be running as far away as he could from the right

    • @-ull3972
      @-ull3972 9 місяців тому

      Well, that makes no sense, but ok. Still a free country. Think as you wish.

    • @michaelhudson2912
      @michaelhudson2912 9 місяців тому

      what, you think he'd approve of modern Republicans? lol@@-ull3972

    • @peipy44
      @peipy44 8 місяців тому +1

      Totally agreed

    • @joelbarish
      @joelbarish 5 місяців тому +2

      Everyone would be wise to run from both the left and the right now

  • @jayburdification
    @jayburdification 2 роки тому +4

    What’s the POQ?

    • @siggylloyd3566
      @siggylloyd3566 2 роки тому +2

      The "pissed-off quotient," with the comedy here being that the host John Barbour suggests "quotient" is the dirty part of the phrase--"pissed off" was censored from utterance on television in those days.

    • @jayburdification
      @jayburdification 2 роки тому +2

      @@siggylloyd3566 wow that would never get censored these days. A testament to Frank.

    • @siggylloyd3566
      @siggylloyd3566 2 роки тому +3

      @@jayburdification indeed, a testament to Frank's wit, and also to local television at the time and J. Barbour being willing to host Frank in an informal, interesting interview setting.

  • @SuperMarry23
    @SuperMarry23 2 роки тому +6

    It is still not ok to be smart in the us.

  • @op-xv3ui
    @op-xv3ui 2 роки тому +3

    Bit disingenuous of him to mock the part that image plays in getting a record contract (‘I don’t wear enough zippers’). There was no one more conscious of his early image than Zappa. No one who more carefully constructed a freak/hippy look in order to attract his music to certain sections of society and by association get a contract.

    • @daevideodaevideo6918
      @daevideodaevideo6918 2 роки тому +7

      FZ was not disingenuous. He may have cultivated an image but that was only because whatever he had it was arrived at naturally so the emphasis you speak of was not 'forced' but just the desire of a Mother to make his art to reflect what he was creating at the time with social commentary.

    • @op-xv3ui
      @op-xv3ui 2 роки тому +2

      @@daevideodaevideo6918 I don’t believe he arrived at that image naturally…it was coldly calculated to attract attention to himself and his music. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that. But he created an image in order to sell his music. Therefore it’s either disingenuous or hypocritical of him to mock the role of image in selling music. If he’d remained as straight looking as he did in that film of him playing a bicycle from around 1963, you can bet no one would have heard of him now.

    • @DoomKid
      @DoomKid 2 роки тому +2

      @@op-xv3ui This just strikes me as black and white thinking. I think Zappa natrually had "Freak-like" or even a handful of hippie-like inclinations, and decided to lean heavily into those for his image. It's not the same as someone who has zero interest in leather and zippers, wearing leather and zippers. It's an exaggeration rather than a full-on forgery.

    • @op-xv3ui
      @op-xv3ui 2 роки тому +1

      @@DoomKid you may have a point up to a point.

  • @vampyros1
    @vampyros1 Рік тому +2

    That haircut is the worst… Frank, here, visually exemplifying the antithesis of everything he railed against in the halcyon years of his infamous, iconoclastic ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ youth.

  • @tw364
    @tw364 2 роки тому +2

    That political era of Zappa was a joke. He seemed to be clinging on the relevancy. The best Zappa band was the original Mothers of Invention, and later the Flo & Eddie version. After that it was garbage.

    • @namcat53
      @namcat53 2 роки тому +4

      BS

    • @DoomKid
      @DoomKid 2 роки тому +3

      What a load of shit. Someone got offended by Broadway the Hard Way's hard truths or something else along those lines, it seems.

    • @ChromaticHarp
      @ChromaticHarp 2 роки тому +3

      Really? And what makes you an authority on which era of Frank’s music constitutes garbage?

    • @joaopaulowdeandrade7905
      @joaopaulowdeandrade7905 8 місяців тому

      Shit talk, but i agree, Frank Zappa is controversial until for himself sometimes.
      Some of political ideas are absolutelly useless. Him sense of be conservative is quite bizarre.
      Shure is: Frank Zappa would be votaded in Biden, or... Make scarrycrow falacies about Trumph

    • @danhermon4922
      @danhermon4922 3 місяці тому

      What he said.

  • @crispyrobot77
    @crispyrobot77 4 місяці тому

    Education vs Indoctrination. Brilliant. Thank You Frank.