My dad tracked him down after a concert and knocked on his trailer. Star struck, he tried to give Zappa a hug. Zappa declined and said, “woah man I’m not Bowie!” Rofl
I respect Frank Zappa as a person more than most musical artists. He's a wonderful conversationalist and seems like a "real", good, sensible guy. From what I hear, he has raised a great, tight, supportive family.
3:50 exactly why I'm learning jazz. The harmonic possibilities and variety that are present in jazz is a great teacher. While chords in "standard position" do get used, in some settings (such as piano comping) it's not usually the case, the chords are spread out on both hands, leading to interesting voicings.
The piano in jazz tends to use standard voicings also. They’re just different from the standard voicings used in rock. When two hands are available (when the left isn’t comping for the right hand) the piano has more flexibility than the guitar, but it still has severe limitations. Art, however, is working with imagination within limitations. Without limitations there can be no art. Even the orchestra has limitations, especially the winds. It’s a bit of a trick to get a wind chord to balance. You can’t just voice it any old which way. It’ll never sound.
Zappa is wearing a Yle TV companys show ”Iltatähti” (night star) T-shirt. Iltatähti was a finnish pop/rock music TV show. YLE is doing the interview that is why they zoom to the shirt it must have been a great deal to the crew.
Love it! Thanks so much for posting this video. God why'd he have to leave us so soon? With the body of work he created in thirty years can you imagine what another thirty years could have produced? Heavy sigh...oh, and by the way, lol...Born in Pomona here. EEEK!
Frank's demeanor toward this interviewer is very tame, probably because the interviewer is european and asking legit questions vs contrived loaded bullshit.
Was that around the 4 minute mark? Where he's talking about making basic building blocks interesting? I felt that too. He explains my internal thoughts so effectively
See, I would have gone with Them or Us, One Size Fits All, or the infamous '71 Fillmore East album. Of course there's always Over-Nite Sensation and Apostrophe. Or Sheik Yerbouti which was great.
It's amazing, to listen to Frank talk about the actual 'music' as 'density, color' etc. of the pieces he wrote, that's where you can hear the difference between Zappa and most of the rest of the world...wowie...zowie!!!
thanks for this. this is now my favorite zappa interterview. as jemba said, it shows a lack of arrogance, in that he tended very strongly to respond to honesty... honestly, while still tending to "play" with his answers (which i understand entirely). check the mike douglas clip... he's completely decent, even though he's sitting with people a lot of his contemporaries would have mocked openly (even making a move toward jimmie walked when he alone gets the "old favorites joke).
seriously I never used to listen to zappa but now I could say his amazing and a tastefully musically sence of humor which makes his music pore interesting RIP frank zappa you said in one of your last interviews that you wouldn't like to be remember but guess what you will always be remember
Frank Zappa had a truly honest and inspiring personality which he easily transfered over to his music. Wether you agree with his thinking or even like his music you still must respect him.
Always knew who he was but never listened to his music much. However i am addicted to listening to interviews of him right now. What a focused and insightful guy.
OH MY GOD!! He managed to step outside of his time and have totally genuine clear opinions that will ring clear and true forever. I don't think the interviewer really appreciates what's being said, but can you blame him? There are so few people who have credibilty outside of the time they lived in. Zappa was one.
i miss him too. ppl say that you never forget where you were when you heard kennedy was dead. its the same for me with zappa. watching the news getting ready for college. that was a sad day.
Actually, he used the Wah pedal rather unconventionally, while most people at that time were using it by pulsing, he would leave it at a certain point to achieve his unique sound.
Love Frank - and man he always loved his cigarettes. He called tobacco his "green leafy vegetable" - and he really seemed to dispute that they were harmful to health - which is about the one and only thing where I always disagreed with him. I managed to quit back in the 80's after less than a decade of smoking - but even long before any surgeon general warnings on packs - people knew they were bad for you. When my dad served in the U.S. Navy during WW 2 - he did not really like them but would buy packs just to hand them out to be sociable - but even way back in 1942 people referred to them as "coffin nails".
Oh yes he will... He will probably be remembered as the greatest musician of the late 20'th century. And he was a very influential guitarrist. Some say that he brought the wah pedal into standard use, among other things.
@greenfruitface Actuaully they changed t-shirts before the interview. So Frank is wearing a t-shirt of the interviewer, and the interviewer is wearing Frank's shirt.
Do they do 'Yellow Snow' on Roxy & Elsewhere? I can't remember. That was on apostrophe (studio album) I recall for sure. My favorite track on the Roxy album is 'Village of the Sun' and the extended instrumental that follows. A tight tight band doing some really technically amazing passages. And funky too! Frank's presence on the music scene is sorely missed. Sorely missed.
He was in my dream last night, came to my house and told me that he wants me to join his band and that we leave to start touring that night. It was pretty intense!
great interview by an unquestionably great artist. yeah different with his jazz/rock fusion, ahead of the others, and then that attitude. he was what he was, even till the end.
Whn I first started learning, one of the first songs I was ever taught was "Florentine Pogen" and when people ask me to teach them a good song - thats usually the first one I show them. Its nice and easy
I'm pretty sure Ruth Brown played on the Roxy album. There are a lot of marimba parts in the compositions. And George Duke. George is a great great underrated/underappreciated musician - as was nearly everyone who played with Frank. There probably is a web site with FZ's discography containing all of the info about his albums.
He might have not cared about being *generally* accepted, he sure as hell was concerned about commercial aspects. All his bands, except early Mothers, were run like businesses, with musicians on contracts and sallaries. In the late 80's he was openly admitting he's into rock/touring only to be able to finance projects he was really interested in, mainly orchestral music. He also didn't care about lyrics and said he was writing it only because there's not enough audience for instrumental music.
I got to be a part of his concert I think around 1977-1980 just not sure on the year at the LSU stadium that they call The House that Pete Maravich Built. He stopped the concert to have a conversation with me cause I was caught in the middle of a drug bust as an innocent(not so innocent)bystander. Really cool at the time. Still is as a nice memory to reflect on.
@TheOffcialACCFans agreed the man was a genius I also live in Baltimore, his lyrics musical talent deep psychological nature humor and many other talents are indeed taken for granted, he didn't just play music he lived it.
It's not fair to Frank saying he answare in a arrogant style. He wasn't arrogant. Frank was a gentleman. He had lots of self confidence. Please reformular. Thanks for posting!
I don't think they switched, I think it was Franks idea when they prepared the shooting that they should both bring some T's to the interview and then decided what to wear. Just as they brought the Roxy LP to show it... Frank was always quite aware how interviews work and how they're set up well and appealingly. The finnish guys were cool enough to understand Frank and to cooperate with him. That's also why he is obviously really feeling well on this one.
"Do you want the real reason or do you want a television reason?"
We miss you, Frank.
lol dude perfect comment
@@DannySullivanMusic The only guy who thought he was an art modernist or postmodernist, while 80 percent of his words always went straight against it
Now is that a real poncho, or is that a Sears poncho?
interviewer: Frank you have long hair, does that make you a woman?
Frank: you have a wooden leg, does that make you a table?
legend
This is literally 9 years ago comment?!
That quote doesn’t come from this interview. It *may* have come from a Joe Pyne interview, but it may be apocryphal.
@· Bölverkr · bruh
Hey are you alive?
@· Bölverkr · yep
My dad tracked him down after a concert and knocked on his trailer. Star struck, he tried to give Zappa a hug. Zappa declined and said, “woah man I’m not Bowie!” Rofl
My Dad is also a huge Zappa fan haha, I like how we're now second generation fans watching his interviews. Legend
lolll nice
I’m sure your dad seemed like a crazy stalker to frank
@@TS-jd9qs Funny thing is my dad and I had no relationship growing up. I discovered all the good music 100% on my own. Maybe it's genetic ;)
@@ChromaticHarp Maybe, but he still shook hands with him and chatted for a bit. lol
I respect Frank Zappa as a person more than most musical artists. He's a wonderful conversationalist and seems like a "real", good, sensible guy. From what I hear, he has raised a great, tight, supportive family.
He's so thoughtful. He would have been a pleasure to talk with.
lmao fantastic comment
Thank you for posting this. Zappa music is extraordinary. A force very sadly missed.
I love frank he’s so well spoken. His music sounds just as he talks
"Sensational Exploitation" That would have been a good title for one of his albums.
Yeah!
1:35 Sensational Exploitation Type Situation.. Definitely a Zappa lyric, he just happened to not sing this one, lmao
Ross Cicero It sounds like either a live album from the mid 80's or an unreleased concept album about rock and popular music in the late 70's
It’s the new album from the vault
He's music keeps getting rediscovered over and over again. It is still as fresh and vivid as ever. What a brilliant mind he was. RIP.
Zappa was as brilliant as they come. Always right on point, and entirely genuine.
A very interesting interview. I think he was one of the best composers of all time. Thanks for your music, Frank!
Frank just needed a good interviewer and he always delivered
Most influential Rocker! When Zappa speaks people will learn how the music business works! 🇺🇲🇮🇹🇬🇷🎸
Frank started playing a guitar at a later age, like 18. Even so, he did fine.
He did have at least some background playing drums before that, though.
3:50 exactly why I'm learning jazz. The harmonic possibilities and variety that are present in jazz is a great teacher. While chords in "standard position" do get used, in some settings (such as piano comping) it's not usually the case, the chords are spread out on both hands, leading to interesting voicings.
The piano in jazz tends to use standard voicings also. They’re just different from the standard voicings used in rock. When two hands are available (when the left isn’t comping for the right hand) the piano has more flexibility than the guitar, but it still has severe limitations. Art, however, is working with imagination within limitations. Without limitations there can be no art. Even the orchestra has limitations, especially the winds. It’s a bit of a trick to get a wind chord to balance. You can’t just voice it any old which way. It’ll never sound.
hahaha "Yes. I am very avant-garde right now"
Frank Zappa is the only person I've ever seen who would not look completely ridiculous standing on the deck of a pirate ship.
early 70s George Harrison too
@@muchanadziko6378 According to Monty Python, anyway.
Have you seen Keith Richards (assuming we’re restricting ourselves to rock stare here)?
I could listen to his voice for hours
Zappa was insane! He gave really interesting interviews.
Are u still alive?
@@恐竜一 maybe not
Humor....sorely missed in today's music industry
+EDWARD WRIGHT I disagree -- the whole thing's one big joke. ; )
+vampyros1 dam...
pink guy
@@cocorosh7295 bullshit
@@cocorosh7295 You're still right though, nowadays there's more satirical artists, albums and performers, all thanks to the internet
Zoom into his shirt again.
Zappa is wearing a Yle TV companys show ”Iltatähti” (night star) T-shirt. Iltatähti was a finnish pop/rock music TV show. YLE is doing the interview that is why they zoom to the shirt it must have been a great deal to the crew.
Love it! Thanks so much for posting this video. God why'd he have to leave us so soon? With the body of work he created in thirty years can you imagine what another thirty years could have produced? Heavy sigh...oh, and by the way, lol...Born in Pomona here. EEEK!
Frank's demeanor toward this interviewer is very tame, probably because the interviewer is european and asking legit questions vs contrived loaded bullshit.
hehehe fantastic comment
I’ve never seen his demeanor in an interview vary.
Best personality and mindset a person could ever have! Rip frank zappa
Gawd, he's giving full on answers. I wish I had known about him but I think it's significant that I discover him now and his legacy.
hearing him talk is awesome thanks for posting these things here :)
i just started to learn about zappa and i have to say i am absolutely fascinated!
Frank's explanation of harmonic language puts so simply what I've been trying to grasp for years. What a guy.
Was that around the 4 minute mark? Where he's talking about making basic building blocks interesting? I felt that too. He explains my internal thoughts so effectively
The 1970s was by far the best decade for Zappa. Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Studio Tan, Joe's Garage and Sleep Dirt were all phenomenal albums.
See, I would have gone with Them or Us, One Size Fits All, or the infamous '71 Fillmore East album. Of course there's always Over-Nite Sensation and Apostrophe. Or Sheik Yerbouti which was great.
Great interview...what he said@3:38 was great! I had to share this on my channel...he tells it how it is no sugar...
It's amazing, to listen to Frank talk about the actual 'music' as 'density, color' etc. of the pieces he wrote, that's where you can hear the difference between Zappa and most of the rest of the world...wowie...zowie!!!
Thanks for posting.
thanks for this. this is now my favorite zappa interterview. as jemba said, it shows a lack of arrogance, in that he tended very strongly to respond to honesty... honestly, while still tending to "play" with his answers (which i understand entirely). check the mike douglas clip... he's completely decent, even though he's sitting with people a lot of his contemporaries would have mocked openly (even making a move toward jimmie walked when he alone gets the "old favorites joke).
seriously I never used to listen to zappa but now I could say his amazing and a tastefully musically sence of humor which makes his music pore interesting RIP frank zappa you said in one of your last interviews that you wouldn't like to be remember but guess what you will always be remember
What a great man and musician.
Much better! Thank you!
Hurriganes "Stranded in the jungle"/"Hanger" is one of my favorite album ever. Why are material from the album so rare?
That man was ahead of his time 30 yrs seems like things that where done back in the 70`s are now the norm,I miss him,what a great mind..
Frank Zappa had a truly honest and inspiring personality which he easily transfered over to his music.
Wether you agree with his thinking or even like his music you still must respect him.
NOT THAT MOST PEOPLE CARE! but thank the Lord for this guy's music!!!!!! No doom and gloom when listening to frank!!! Love you frank RIP
Hard not to love Frank
so knowledgable he was ahead of his time....hes gently speaking words of wisdom if you listen closely. brilliant
Always knew who he was but never listened to his music much. However i am addicted to listening to interviews of him right now. What a focused and insightful guy.
"im as avant garde as ive ever been"
ONE SIZE FITS ALL
One of the best interviews concerning the early days of the Mothers. Great!!
Proud to be born where his father was born, deep down in Sicily. Zappa numero uno!
This is frank at his best talking about the music that he loved.
1:10 That expression on Zappa is so much fun to see. I wonder what he was thinking at that point.
A curious camera man spotting Zappa like a alien. ahahah
Cameraman loved his shirt.
Mother is the necessity of invention
THE MOTHERS
you heard it here first
Always was and always will be brilliant AND entertaining. R.I.P. F.Z.
Been coming back to this interview since like 2008
OH MY GOD!! He managed to step outside of his time and have totally genuine clear opinions that will ring clear and true forever. I don't think the interviewer really appreciates what's being said, but can you blame him? There are so few people who have credibilty outside of the time they lived in. Zappa was one.
i miss him too. ppl say that you never forget where you were when you heard kennedy was dead. its the same for me with zappa. watching the news getting ready for college. that was a sad day.
Actually, he used the Wah pedal rather unconventionally, while most people at that time were using it by pulsing, he would leave it at a certain point to achieve his unique sound.
Saw him live whenever he came through town. Shows were always entertaining and his bands were always tight. FZ always delivered.
The album on the table - "Roxy & Elsewhere" - is one of my favs. Absolutley brilliant. The band, the performances, are HOT!
Love how this begins as if Zappa has had enough of sitting in silence and has to start the interview himself
Man, Frank had an intimidating stare.
The picture quality is unusually good for a 1974 interview. Great color.
SpineFine 10 year !!
Love Frank - and man he always loved his cigarettes. He called tobacco his "green leafy vegetable" - and he really seemed to dispute that they were harmful to health - which is about the one and only thing where I always disagreed with him. I managed to quit back in the 80's after less than a decade of smoking - but even long before any surgeon general warnings on packs - people knew they were bad for you. When my dad served in the U.S. Navy during WW 2 - he did not really like them but would buy packs just to hand them out to be sociable - but even way back in 1942 people referred to them as "coffin nails".
grimble 5g will be the death of us all
Frank was in a class of his own… funky/crazy/avant garde. I think his guitar playing was underrated. He was off the hook!
Oh yes he will... He will probably be remembered as the greatest musician of the late 20'th century.
And he was a very influential guitarrist. Some say that he brought the wah pedal into standard use, among other things.
@jimirymodestoca Indeed. Rare man. I can't help but think that we need him now more than ever.
Long nose to look down, too...
You are missed Frank.
1974 is right around the sweet spot of zappa out put
Frank was the last true musical genius of our time. There wont be anyone like him for a very long time.
This comment pisses me the fuck off. Fuck you and your ignorant bullshit. Look around pig, there is genius everywhere
@greenfruitface Actuaully they changed t-shirts before the interview. So Frank is wearing a t-shirt of the interviewer, and the interviewer is wearing Frank's shirt.
LOL
R u alive
I love his response to the "Avant-Garde" question that the interviewer totally doesn't get...
He was An extremely smart man
Do they do 'Yellow Snow' on Roxy & Elsewhere? I can't remember. That was on apostrophe (studio album) I recall for sure. My favorite track on the Roxy album is 'Village of the Sun' and the extended instrumental that follows. A tight tight band doing some really technically amazing passages. And funky too! Frank's presence on the music scene is sorely missed. Sorely missed.
I think Frank felt a little weird when asked if his music was avantgarde...He chuckled while admitting it
He was in my dream last night, came to my house and told me that he wants me to join his band and that we leave to start touring that night. It was pretty intense!
That has the same energy as a dream where you get a test in school you haven’t studied for. Sounds frightening, hahahaha!
i'm Finnish and heard instantly that the interviewer was as well. that damn accent!😂
great interview by an unquestionably great artist. yeah different with his jazz/rock fusion, ahead of the others, and then that attitude. he was what he was, even till the end.
great interview
Musical genius!
واااال فيديو قديم للغايه ❤️
Whn I first started learning, one of the first songs I was ever taught was "Florentine Pogen" and when people ask me to teach them a good song - thats usually the first one I show them. Its nice and easy
what he says about writing with chords and notes is very true. its a pity that mass audiences cant stand any demanding music.
I'm feeling pretty avant-garde today.
Now THATS what I call an interview!!!!
GeorgeSandle 10year !!
I'm pretty sure Ruth Brown played on the Roxy album. There are a lot of marimba parts in the compositions. And George Duke. George is a great great underrated/underappreciated musician - as was nearly everyone who played with Frank. There probably is a web site with FZ's discography containing all of the info about his albums.
He might have not cared about being *generally* accepted, he sure as hell was concerned about commercial aspects. All his bands, except early Mothers, were run like businesses, with musicians on contracts and sallaries. In the late 80's he was openly admitting he's into rock/touring only to be able to finance projects he was really interested in, mainly orchestral music. He also didn't care about lyrics and said he was writing it only because there's not enough audience for instrumental music.
laforowicz FZ was the greatest lyricist of his age
I mean you have to make money somehow
The cameraman is really diggin' Franks t-shirt.
I see that he got a t-shirt from Finland also :D. "Iltatähti", means evening star in english.
5:15 the Indian of the group ?
I've got my vinyl copy of 'We're only in it for the Money' signed by Jimmy carl Black 'The Indian of the Group' it's my prized possession.
Zappa was the best i miss him.
All i have learned from this interwiev is beeing so proud waving the somkin cigar like so wont get you far .
I got to be a part of his concert I think around 1977-1980 just not sure on the year at the LSU stadium that they call The House that Pete Maravich Built. He stopped the concert to have a conversation with me cause I was caught in the middle of a drug bust as an innocent(not so innocent)bystander. Really cool at the time. Still is as a nice memory to reflect on.
@TheOffcialACCFans
agreed the man was a genius
I also live in Baltimore, his lyrics musical talent deep psychological nature humor and many other talents are indeed taken for granted, he didn't just play music he lived it.
Well-spoken and intelligent fellow.
Miss you FRANK ZAPPA !!!
What a pure Genius~!
This cameraman really likes his t-shirt.
he would be the best music teacher ever
@Classicfan67 That appearance comes from his italian, arabic and french ancestry. The first two are stressed more than the last.
it's so cool that this interview happened in finland
lots of good musical shit happened in finland for some reason...especially in the 60s.
It's not fair to Frank saying he answare in a arrogant style. He wasn't arrogant. Frank was a gentleman. He had lots of self confidence. Please reformular. Thanks for posting!
the t-shirt with the nixon quote is glorious.
Concerning Frank Zappa's t-shirt: "Iltatähti was Finland's most popular light music TV program during its ten-year career (1973-1983)."
I don't think they switched, I think it was Franks idea when they prepared the shooting that they should both bring some T's to the interview and then decided what to wear. Just as they brought the Roxy LP to show it...
Frank was always quite aware how interviews work and how they're set up well and appealingly. The finnish guys were cool enough to understand Frank and to cooperate with him. That's also why he is obviously really feeling well on this one.