Thank you for posting this. Frank Zappa was one of the most original and important artists of the 20th century. Self taught composer and musician. Only had a high school education but intellectually beyond most of us. A tremendous loss he died so young. I'm glad people are still discovering and listening to his music and interviews.
@@dago87able No problem: you can find it on YT, it's been around for years, but it's really washed up in some parts and cut to many pieces. I did my best to fix it and reupload it as a whole document.
Cynical, independent thinker, passionate musical genius, Soothsayer and misfit! What a legacy (there’s more recordings still to be released) Thanks for posting
Listening to FRANK ZAPPA talk and being interviewed is twice as intresting as his music.To bad he only lived to be 53.imagine what he would have thought of what is going on today.R.I.P Frank, unfortunately, the world is really messed up without you.
In this interview, FZ uses the term "candy-coated dictatorship" to describe what america was fast turning into. He was quite accurate. Now, in 2021, the candy coating has pretty much been worn off and we in the US are existing in what, for all practical purposes, amounts to an orwellian dystopia.
Something about politics , he’s a genius And his words make more sense today thanback then, maybe this is a bot response meant to elicit a response happy birthday Dwave from The Dr. demented show
@Avalon Hike "How Pathetic it must be to earn your livelihood spreading worthless, divisive prattle. I Guess someone fed you alot of Crap at a young age
Reading some comments here reminds me a poster I had of him from Guitar World magazine....saying "the stupidity of thinking it's cool to be stupid". Well...Thanks for this interview, he's a genuine mind and awesome musical influence. Seeing Dweezil touring playing his music is always a treat. I really like listening to his words and point of view.
I watched and listened to this amazed. His almost prodigious accuracy as to what is happening now politically is incredible. I always appreciated and enjoyed him as being only musically creative, and otherwise "avant garde". I now imagine him in whatever afterlife, looking down and shaking his head, with that wry smile.
This is a great interview. You can tell Zappa finds the questions interesting and was completely engaged with the chronological nature of questions and his reflection on historical events.
I can't believe how much I was influenced by this man's music as a kid. My mother would listen to his album's. There would be times when his name would come in conversations and it would alway be in hushed tones. Now I am in my forties I see the interviews and have rediscovered the music on my own I don't feel so alone or cynical. He was a really honest man in a world that frankly was not interested. We could really use this man more now then ever.
One extremely rare, honest, highly intelligent and highly creative man. A true human being and one I always loved and respected enormously. The light of his genius will never fade!.
Zappa was brilliant. Totally one of a kind, multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist, with a hawk's vision of calling it like he sees it. There is so many gems in this interview, thank you for posting
OMG.. I met him and befriended him and miss him more than anyone I can think of including dead family members. Bloody musical genius and a very deeply thinking person about life, the universe and everything as Douglas Addams would put it ;P RIP Frank. I deeply miss you still. From Frank 2 Frank, heh..
It is amazing. I was watching an interview with Randy Bachman of the Guess Who and BTO fame. He said the exact same thing in an interview, almost word for word that Frank said in this interview, regarding the kind of music they had to play in order to get a gig. The main goal was keeping them dancing, and drinking. If they were not drinking you lost the gig. He told a story of how they got fired from a gig, but the manager couldn't replace them quick enough for the next night so he asked them to do one more night but to change their song list. They did and the guy not only kept them, but it was out of that, that spawned the hit Taking Care of Business. When they went to record it, that's a whole new story, for a different time.
One of the best interviews that I've watched! I would, however, not give the camera guy... stuff... I'm listening, b/c the A/V is a killer. Great upload. I thank you for allowing me to listen to one of the most influential musicians of "our" time talk about what Zappa thought was important....
thanks for posting this in its entirety, this is one of my favorite top five or top ten interviews with my hero Frank Zappa. brilliant interview, I love how the questions are done, I've based approaches to interviews and conversations with people on this and loved Zappa on McCarthy and his suggestion for a new Mount Rushmore.
@@Yourismouter Weasels is very avant- guard, heads up. I couldn’t appreciate it until my 4th or 5th listen. But like his other works, it becomes timeless
Thanks Andrea for the video! Love Frank and all things about him. You put up an important interview. Especially when he talks about politics and democracy.
It will be good to remember that quintuple and sextuple thirds are exclusively European. But (notwithstanding evidences from other parts of the world) quadruple thirds and lesser tertial chains are European as well as Bantu African. Once more: Europe and Africa, related in their preference given to thirds, both in melody and in chordal organisation, were torn apart by a South Asiatic and Mediterranean wedge of quartal melodies." Curt Sachs The Wellsprings of Music p. 152
I was fortunate enough to see 6 of his concerts; two with Flo & Eddy along with so many incredibly talented musicians. Can’t remember all the first bands to all the concerts… but here are a couple. Chuck Berry (the first concert seen) and a few years later The Birds of Fire Concert ;John McLaughlin with Ravi & his Orchestra. Love & peace Frank Zappa🙏🕊
Thank you for posting this. So many quotable moments. I was only 7 in 1990 but I did get to hear Zappa plays Zappa live a couple years ago. They played Frank’s music with the respect and precision required. Keep it Greazy
I've watched this interview in the past and Frank's opinions and observations strangely pivot today in oblique but still insightful observations that reflect the times then and today.
In 2022 Frank would start picking on the woke-tards and their delusional demands (because they beg to be mocked) and a bunch of PC Babies would have him canceled. Frank would be allowed no voice in this country today. The left-leaning corporations would silence him. Because Frank spoke the truth and that's taboo now.
Try my interviews with Frank on You Tube: Pauline Bird interviews Frank Zappa. They are in five parts: Parenting, Composing, Evangelism, Jazz Party Hats, Ask me a question
Frank predicts the future at 4:40-5:52. We've all seen the You Tube comments on music videos, where people claim that some video game, movie or show brought them there.
All hail Frank Zappa. He was spot on, on every Point that he was asked about. Open minded (Like a parachute, it only works when it's open), on every subject. Bravo Frank and May you Rest in peace!
@@davebryant8050 It’s a shame how the Dems have turned to the party of censorship. It used to be the religious right wing nut jobs that wanted censorship. Well maybe you could call BLM and LGBTQ religions now though. they basically are in their own right. Zappa would not like Trump, but he would also not like Biden. He was always an independent and in fact was going to run for president before he got sick
Amazing!!!!!!! I have always loved Frank and have followed him to his grave! This interview covered everything, & I appreciate at age 64 to be totally justified by him
I know, especially the beginning of the original tape was ruined and washed out... I couldn't do more than this, but I bet that a professional software could do way better.
Incredibly relevant. And whoever said, “he doesn’t owe anyone just like Trump”. Please, this is a rational, intelligent, well spoken person. He wouldn’t be leading us down the road to fascism like Trump and the Maga republicans are. In fact he’s warning against it. So Good luck to ya. We’re all gonna need it
Fascism is authoritarian government characterized by collusion with large private interests, and large social spending programs. Doesn't sound like Trump. He may be an asshat, but he's no fascist.
Zappa would have fucking hated trump. He called GOP theocratic fascists back then, so obviously he would just had a big "i told you so" moment if he lived to see 2020.
@@timothyblazer1749 He is a fascist, he just happens to EXTREMELY STUPID and also surrounded by other extremely stupid people. really dodged a bullet thanks to that.
I've been listening(no watching) to this on my way to work today, like a podcast. People might not agree with some of his statements, but i think he was hell of a partner in a fair carried conversation. Pozdro666
What a amazing person! In every thought, in every sentence he always went straight to the point. Beautiful interview, it is the history of the last century in the USA, with an invaluable witness.
I can't say that I've heard all of Franks Musical Works but what I have heard is a Music that's got everything any Artist who keeps away from the Popular trodden Path can appreciate and more . I found Frank Zappas Music and other Art interests through reading numerous Articles about Steve Vai , Steve said that Frank gave him some very important advice about making sure that you Own all the Rights to all Music you Compose/Write which has obviously served him well. Like all Great Artists whatever they turn there Mind Body Spirit & Soul to always Lives on , Sometimes it comes through the Mind Body & Soul of Other Great Artists , who were and still are Fans influenced and still get that creative inspiration . Thirty Five Years ago I got really interested in Guitar Based Music and started to learn Guitar and Bass Guitar and I still play Guitar and even after Thirty Odd Years I'm still Learning these instruments and Discovering New Music and Artists . I try to keep an open mind with Music and Art it can make my Guitar playing go to a different place . For me Music is the Heartbeat to life . Thank You Mr Zappa . x
Dearest Frank, I miss you more every day. I miss your genius, your intellectual and moral honesty, your irresistible sense of humor and sarcasm. I hope to see, in this terrifying cerebral and cultural flatness, one of your heirs be born.
The coolest part about this man is the abberance and the great courage to say whatever is on his mind that is against all conformity! It profoundly shows in his music that has no conventional structure!
@@chickadeeacres3864 these types of people are my favorite.You either love them or hate them.I am this type also.I have people that love me authentically and people that hate me from their heart!
So do I. I have 30 of his 60 albums that he released while alive. Other's here may make disparaging remarks about Zappa but how many millions of albums have they sold. Answer. None.
It’s very interesting to me how people project onto Frank, how they think, “he’d be on my side of he was around today!”, because he says some vaguely libertarian (in the American sense) things that frankly are things a lot of people believe.. Yeah, he espoused these things, but without buying into the more socially conservative things that seem to increasingly be ideas that self proclaimed libertarians are more comfortable with. I don’t think Frank would want anything to do with them, nor would he respect them, let alone the actual conservatives who think he’d be one of them now. I just don’t see how you can listen to the man’s hatred of the modern conservative’s hero, Ronald Reagan, and the whole conservative backlash to the freedom of the culture he loved, or the other things he’s so critical of, and think that he’d be okay with the politics of modern conservatism, at all. I don’t think he cared if people are conservative, he just didn’t like the insistence that conservative values be pushed in society, especially through politics. That’s certainly not to say he’d love what’s typically seen as the modern left, or the “progressive movement” in America.. at least not the way younger progressive people (my generation, millennials, and the Gen Z kids) deal with bigotry, and/or other impositions of social conservatism on the country. l don’t think he’d respect the people who are referred to as “social justice warriors”, in spite of the fact that I think it’s clear that he cared about social justice, he was for personal freedom in every sense (outside of intentionally harming others), and against bigoted views. I don’t think he could stand the “canceling” behaviors, from the left or right… He was against morality police and thought police, which unfortunately is just a part of the mainstream now, and infects the left today, as it’s always infected the right. I just don’t think that’d mean he’d reject a progressive cultural perspective, bc intelligent people don’t let a few idiots change their worldview, or what they value. Ultimately, I think Frank would be now, what he was then: someone progressive in their thinking, not only regarding culture/society, but absolutely, clearly also artistically. Someone who thinks critically, maybe stubborn, certainly cynical, but not without reason, and just too intelligent to go with the flow of any given group, or movement to the T. He absolutely cared for the individual, to the point I think it’s fair to say he was an individualist, but not in a reactionary sense. Not quite libertarian leftist, but also just more progressive than your average libertarian, and there’s just really very little space for someone like that in this country, or world, specifically politically speaking. So he’d mostly be a loner today, as he was then. But he’s been gone almost 30 years… People can project onto him what they want, and fantasize about what he’d be like today, maybe how he’d validate them. I think this is VERY clear, given the hundred of comments I’ve read under videos of his, especially stuff like this where he’s talking a lot of culture and politics.. People are entitled to do this, of course, I don’t care. I’m just giving my two cents on it… RIP Frank ♾
It's a gross understatement to say that liberalism today is compromised by only "a few idiots". There are more idiots and educated fools on the left. As for Zappa's hatred of Reagan, it's myopic.
It is true. He was real D.I.Y man in everything. He watched all news so he was very aware politics and society. I don't know how much he knew macroeconomics? Music industry he knew everything and MTV music ha ha.
This guy was a genius not just as a composers and musician but as a human. His insight of the human race and politics is incredible. Music is the best!
This is not a 'lost interview.' This was done for an A&E miniseries that aired in early 1991, 'The Class of the 20th Century.' The show was supposed to go into a time capsule for the year 3000, hence has never been repeated.
Thank you for posting this. Frank Zappa was one of the most original and important artists of the 20th century. Self taught composer and musician. Only had a high school education but intellectually beyond most of us. A tremendous loss he died so young. I'm glad people are still discovering and listening to his music and interviews.
Thank you for your comment. I've been working on this for weeks, only to share it with people who appreciate Frank like you do.
@@Andrea_Manconi Thanks very much from this guy here also. Can you share how did you get hold of this material, if you don’t mind? Cheers.
@@dago87able No problem: you can find it on YT, it's been around for years, but it's really washed up in some parts and cut to many pieces. I did my best to fix it and reupload it as a whole document.
@@Andrea_Manconi kudos for the job then! I was indeed aware of the separate clips on yt.
Brilliant
Cynical, independent thinker, passionate musical genius, Soothsayer and misfit!
What a legacy (there’s more recordings still to be released)
Thanks for posting
Don’t forget on the spectrum spontaneous asshole with no ability or desire to treat people right. And i love the guy.
Listening to FRANK ZAPPA talk and being interviewed is twice as intresting as his music.To bad he only lived to be 53.imagine what he would have thought of what is going on today.R.I.P Frank, unfortunately, the world is really messed up without you.
In this interview, FZ uses the term "candy-coated dictatorship" to describe what america was fast turning into. He was quite accurate. Now, in 2021, the candy coating has pretty much been worn off and we in the US are existing in what, for all practical purposes, amounts to an orwellian dystopia.
Something about politics , he’s a genius And his words make more sense today thanback then, maybe this is a bot response meant to elicit a response happy birthday Dwave from The Dr. demented show
This is The Central Scrutinzer
Same in Melbourne Australia
@Avalon Hike "How Pathetic it must be to earn your livelihood spreading worthless, divisive prattle. I Guess someone fed you alot of Crap at a young age
@@willbarrow8271 lmfaooo it’s not as though he’s wrong.
The humor of this man... just incredible! Thank you. 😂
Reading some comments here reminds me a poster I had of him from Guitar World magazine....saying "the stupidity of thinking it's cool to be stupid".
Well...Thanks for this interview, he's a genuine mind and awesome musical influence. Seeing Dweezil touring playing his music is always a treat.
I really like listening to his words and point of view.
So many folks have no idea what an absolutely brilliant guy Frank was.. not just a musical and compositional genius, but just simply brilliant.
I watched and listened to this amazed. His almost prodigious accuracy as to what is happening now politically is incredible. I always appreciated and enjoyed him as being only musically creative, and otherwise "avant garde". I now imagine him in whatever afterlife, looking down and shaking his head, with that wry smile.
This is a great interview. You can tell Zappa finds the questions interesting and was completely engaged with the chronological nature of questions and his reflection on historical events.
I can't believe how much I was influenced by this man's music as a kid. My mother would listen to his album's. There would be times when his name would come in conversations and it would alway be in hushed tones. Now I am in my forties I see the interviews and have rediscovered the music on my own I don't feel so alone or cynical. He was a really honest man in a world that frankly was not interested. We could really use this man more now then ever.
A fantastic, and at many times prophetic insight into the mind of one of the greatest artists to ever walk the earth. We miss you, Frank.
Im from Palmdale Lancaster ive been there my whole life. Zappa is honestly a legend to me.
Frank was such a brave person! I wished I would be,too, if I would be in the situation that Zappa was...Frank, I will never forget...
And to this day, being able to think for yourself and to think critically is labeled "eccentric" and "weird."
Thanks Frank and rest in peace.
What a guy. Intellectual, charismatic and super, super cool. Very interesting interview.
If you look up cool in the dictionary, you will see Jimi Hendrix. If you look real close, you can see he’s holding up a picture of Frank Zappa
Frank zappa was a boring clown and an ignorant, he can not hold a candle to jimi hendrix
Such an intriguing presence and relaxing voice. Gone too soon, Rip.
One extremely rare, honest, highly intelligent and highly creative man. A true human being and one I always loved and respected enormously. The light of his genius will never fade!.
Damn right. 👏
Thanks Andrea, Frank Zappa is such a great educator in many ways
Absolute GOLD. Thank you SO much for putting this out! PRICELESS.
could not agree more! really sheds a lot of light on Franks history, and musical career. What an absolute GEM!
This Interview Is From 1990...The Same Year That Zappa Was Diagnosed With Terminal Prostate Cancer.
Zappa Was Not Feeling Well In 1990...And It Shows.
Agreed...sounds a bit weak in his voice and looks tired...those cigarettes weren't good ole Frank
Thank you for posting this-I could listen to Mr Zappa all night RIP.
One can only imagine what FZ would think about social media, internet, media, climate, Democracy, etc...today.
I wish we still had him screaming his feelings about it from the roof tops
Fz made pretty accurate predictions for most of those. We actually know. Still would love to hear him verbally undress the current situation.
Zappa was brilliant. Totally one of a kind, multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist, with a hawk's vision of calling it like he sees it. There is so many gems in this interview, thank you for posting
OMG.. I met him and befriended him and miss him more than anyone I can think of including dead family members. Bloody musical genius and a very deeply thinking person about life, the universe and everything as Douglas Addams would put it ;P RIP Frank. I deeply miss you still. From Frank 2 Frank, heh..
Oh, and thx a ton for this little pearl of a live interview !!!!
And between all his so fucking smart remarks we see him sucking hard on that cigarette that ultimatly killed him. Soo sad.
@@Drifterella Thank you for such a great appreciation and the amazing story you just shared!
It is amazing. I was watching an interview with Randy Bachman of the Guess Who and BTO fame. He said the exact same thing in an interview, almost word for word that Frank said in this interview, regarding the kind of music they had to play in order to get a gig. The main goal was keeping them dancing, and drinking. If they were not drinking you lost the gig. He told a story of how they got fired from a gig, but the manager couldn't replace them quick enough for the next night so he asked them to do one more night but to change their song list. They did and the guy not only kept them, but it was out of that, that spawned the hit Taking Care of Business. When they went to record it, that's a whole new story, for a different time.
I've noticed that the tales from the Swing era are just about the same!
Love how he clearly and expressively resents some of the questions, then proceeds to give a fantastic answer.
One of the best interviews that I've watched!
I would, however, not give the camera guy... stuff...
I'm listening, b/c the A/V is a killer.
Great upload. I thank you for allowing me to listen to one of the most influential musicians of "our" time talk about what Zappa thought was important....
thanks for posting this in its entirety, this is one of my favorite top five or top ten interviews with my hero Frank Zappa. brilliant interview, I love how the questions are done, I've based approaches to interviews and conversations with people on this and loved Zappa on McCarthy and his suggestion for a new Mount Rushmore.
Thank you, I feel the same
@@Andrea_Manconi your welcome! curious what are your top 5 or top ten Zappa albums?
@@Yourismouter Weasels, Burnt Weeny, Bongo Fury, Jazz from Hell, Ship Arriving.
@@seanbrennan5192 love Burnt Weeney, Jazz from Hell, and i will seek out weasel and ship arriving and bongo fury, thanks for the recommendations
@@Yourismouter Weasels is very avant- guard, heads up. I couldn’t appreciate it until my 4th or 5th listen. But like his other works, it becomes timeless
What a brilliant interview. Thanks so much for posting this.
The quality of this footage is perfectly synced with his tone and diction. At times ominous and bright. Que Viva Zappa!
so refreshing to listen to a so down down down to earth person in touch with reality speaking the truth.
At the beginning when hes talking about music videos for classical pieces i wonder if he had ever seen Fantasia
I’ve always loved listening to Zappa talk.
Thank you so much for sharing this.💜
Thanks Andrea for the video! Love Frank and all things about him. You put up an important interview. Especially when he talks about politics and democracy.
Well, I appreciate your words so much! It took me quite some time to put this video together. We share the same interests on Frank's public figure!
Arabic scales are an essential part of his guitar solos and compositions.
It will be good to remember that quintuple and sextuple thirds are exclusively European. But (notwithstanding evidences from other parts of the world) quadruple thirds and lesser tertial chains are European as well as Bantu African. Once more: Europe and Africa, related in their preference given to thirds, both in melody and in chordal organisation, were torn apart by a South Asiatic and Mediterranean wedge of quartal melodies." Curt Sachs The Wellsprings of Music p. 152
Hey Ben, didnt you write the ,poodle play’ -book about Frank’s music and his final last days? If so, thanks a lot. Ben van Pel Netherlands
He has Mixed a few styles of music together and is called a genius? Hahahaha thanks for the laugh he was a shit boring clown and his music too
I was blessed to see Frank in 78 at a small venue in R.I.. He played long that night and said he enjoyed the crowd.
I was fortunate enough to see 6 of his concerts; two with Flo & Eddy along with so many incredibly talented musicians. Can’t remember all the first bands to all the concerts… but here are a couple. Chuck Berry (the first concert seen) and a few years later The Birds of Fire Concert ;John McLaughlin with Ravi & his Orchestra. Love & peace Frank Zappa🙏🕊
This guy was a genius..far ahead of his time.
Thank you for posting this. So many quotable moments. I was only 7 in 1990 but I did get to hear Zappa plays Zappa live a couple years ago.
They played Frank’s music with the respect and precision required.
Keep it Greazy
As a musician I recognize his composing genius and prophetic lyrics. Thank you Frank
So very intelligent, and well spoken and without the profanity. What a treat..
Wish he was still with us… we need his music, his perspective, & his honesty today
We need George Carlin too
@@riceflatpicking4954 Carlin checked out before it really hit the fan. He laid out everything in his last specials.
I've watched this interview in the past and Frank's opinions and observations strangely pivot today in oblique but still insightful observations that reflect the times then and today.
If Frank were still alive he'd have a plethora of songs reacting to what's going in this country.
if frank were alive, he would be very depressed
In 2022 Frank would start picking on the woke-tards and their delusional demands (because they beg to be mocked) and a bunch of PC Babies would have him canceled. Frank would be allowed no voice in this country today. The left-leaning corporations would silence him. Because Frank spoke the truth and that's taboo now.
The absurdity on BOTH sides of the culture would provide a never ending well of material
Great, thanks for posting. What a great person he was.
This is my favourite Frank Zappa interview. Prophetic in some parts, interesting in all
Try my interviews with Frank on You Tube: Pauline Bird interviews Frank Zappa. They are in five parts: Parenting, Composing, Evangelism, Jazz Party Hats, Ask me a question
I always love some FZ commentary, but gotta credit the interviewer too, he does a great job.
Frank predicts the future at 4:40-5:52. We've all seen the You Tube comments on music videos, where people claim that some video game, movie or show brought them there.
No doubt Why this interview was ‘Lost’!
Thank You for Found it and post it !
Still super current for today!
Frank never let me down. Ever! I feel so blessed to have his music in my life for over 50 years. Great interview. Xxx🎶🐵❤️
Thanks for sharing this! Great upload.
All hail Frank Zappa. He was spot on, on every Point that he was asked about. Open minded (Like a parachute, it only works when it's open), on every subject. Bravo Frank and May you Rest in peace!
Ah! Finally someone spliced together the separate parts (or found the whole interview). Nice!
Great guitarist, great composer, great thinker. And funny too.
Nuff’ said!
🕺🏽💃🏽🍻🍻
a great satirist above all.
Wow !! I could listen to him for hours/days/weeks/and months ..........
Loser 😂
You just got a new sub, this is the type of content that needs to be shared.
Thank you! I really appreciate that!
Wow Frank has a amazing mind.
Frank Zappa is a Perfect example of that saying " You don't know what you've got till it's gone." I wish He would've run for President.👍
@@davebryant8050 It’s a shame how the Dems have turned to the party of censorship. It used to be the religious right wing nut jobs that wanted censorship. Well maybe you could call BLM and LGBTQ religions now though. they basically are in their own right. Zappa would not like Trump, but he would also not like Biden. He was always an independent and in fact was going to run for president before he got sick
Zappa was a boring clown and his music too
@@marlon-jl4ge 😄👍
@@marlon-jl4ge Stupidity is the most abundant element on earth. -FZ
I prefer to listen to street musicians , hahahaha
Instead of that shit clown zappa, hahahaha
Fantastic interview.
Amazing!!!!!!! I have always loved Frank and have followed him to his grave! This interview covered everything, & I appreciate at age 64 to be totally justified by him
The world's a worse off place without him.
' As a young girl, I went to lots of Frank Zappa concerts . Listened his music much. Thanks !!!! ' ! ❤ ! " Responsibility Matters for ALL Lives " !
Dang, while watching this I wanted to leave a comment like if it was a live stream, but its not, unfortunately. Zappa kept it so real, really calming.
This must have been around the time when his illness was first diagnosed so he was quite courageous to give an interview in these circumstances.
Thanks for posting this interesting interview. Unfortunate that it has so many video glitches going on. Tough on the eyeballs.
I know, especially the beginning of the original tape was ruined and washed out... I couldn't do more than this, but I bet that a professional software could do way better.
I wish Frank was still around. I miss him.
Had me going for a second with that Rushmore thing
"You are born and your world is war." The look he gave there was also rather telling. It was quite meta.
Grazie per aver pubblicato questa intervista! Frank Zappa è un genio puro! ❤
Vero!
Incredibly relevant. And whoever said, “he doesn’t owe anyone just like Trump”. Please, this is a rational, intelligent, well spoken person. He wouldn’t be leading us down the road to fascism like Trump and the Maga republicans are. In fact he’s warning against it. So Good luck to ya. We’re all gonna need it
Lol. You just clarified you haven't the foggiest idea what fascism is?
@@henrylicious I don’t see any problem with what he said, maybe you’re a little confused about what it actually is
Fascism is authoritarian government characterized by collusion with large private interests, and large social spending programs.
Doesn't sound like Trump. He may be an asshat, but he's no fascist.
Zappa would have fucking hated trump. He called GOP theocratic fascists back then, so obviously he would just had a big "i told you so" moment if he lived to see 2020.
@@timothyblazer1749 He is a fascist, he just happens to EXTREMELY STUPID and also surrounded by other extremely stupid people.
really dodged a bullet thanks to that.
Thanks Andrea.
You're welcome Brian!
Saw Frank live in 1977 and was one the best concerts I ever saw...A real professional.
I've been listening(no watching) to this on my way to work today, like a podcast. People might not agree with some of his statements, but i think he was hell of a partner in a fair carried conversation. Pozdro666
What a amazing person! In every thought, in every sentence he always went straight to the point. Beautiful interview, it is the history of the last century in the USA, with an invaluable witness.
What an interesting and intelligent man. I can see that he was cynical, but he knew what he was talking about!
I can't say that I've heard all of Franks Musical Works but what I have heard is a Music that's got everything any Artist who keeps away from the Popular trodden Path can appreciate and more . I found Frank Zappas Music and other Art interests through reading numerous Articles about Steve Vai , Steve said that Frank gave him some very important advice about making sure that you Own all the Rights to all Music you Compose/Write which has obviously served him well. Like all Great Artists whatever they turn there Mind Body Spirit &
Soul to always Lives on , Sometimes it comes through the Mind Body & Soul of Other Great Artists , who were and still are Fans influenced and still get that creative inspiration . Thirty Five Years ago I got really interested in Guitar Based Music and started to learn Guitar and Bass Guitar and I still play Guitar and even after Thirty Odd Years I'm still Learning these instruments and Discovering New Music and Artists .
I try to keep an open mind with Music and Art it can make my Guitar playing go to a different place .
For me Music is the Heartbeat to life .
Thank You Mr Zappa . x
The legendary Frank Zappa was so far ahead of his time on so many levels it aint even funny.
I’ve always loved listening to Zappa.
He looks like he's getting his school picture taken lol
Always expect the unexpected when interviewing Frank Zappa.
Dearest Frank, I miss you more every day. I miss your genius, your intellectual and moral honesty, your irresistible sense of humor and sarcasm. I hope to see, in this terrifying cerebral and cultural flatness, one of your heirs be born.
Totally agree he was a genius
Zappa knew is own mind, very intelligent with a healthy distrust of authority he is sorely missed today.
He was prophetic as to what our government was and Is now
Zappa is the Nikola Tesla of modern music.
I ABSOLUTELY AGREE. 👏💯
What an absolute genius this man was. RIP
No doubt, a great thinker!
The coolest part about this man is the abberance and the great courage to say whatever is on his mind that is against all conformity!
It profoundly shows in his music that has no conventional structure!
He's always been his authentic self.
@@chickadeeacres3864 these types of people are my favorite.You either love them or hate them.I am this type also.I have people that love me authentically and people that hate me from their heart!
He was a musical genious truely one of a kind
God bless Him for all what he left to human kind
Miss him terribly 🎈
So do I. I have 30 of his 60 albums that he released while alive. Other's here may make disparaging remarks about Zappa but how many millions of albums have they sold. Answer. None.
Unique, misunderstood, talented, abrasive, funny, complex.
Everything you said + brilliant + visionary.
Thank you for posting this
It’s very interesting to me how people project onto Frank, how they think, “he’d be on my side of he was around today!”, because he says some vaguely libertarian (in the American sense) things that frankly are things a lot of people believe.. Yeah, he espoused these things, but without buying into the more socially conservative things that seem to increasingly be ideas that self proclaimed libertarians are more comfortable with. I don’t think Frank would want anything to do with them, nor would he respect them, let alone the actual conservatives who think he’d be one of them now. I just don’t see how you can listen to the man’s hatred of the modern conservative’s hero, Ronald Reagan, and the whole conservative backlash to the freedom of the culture he loved, or the other things he’s so critical of, and think that he’d be okay with the politics of modern conservatism, at all. I don’t think he cared if people are conservative, he just didn’t like the insistence that conservative values be pushed in society, especially through politics.
That’s certainly not to say he’d love what’s typically seen as the modern left, or the “progressive movement” in America.. at least not the way younger progressive people (my generation, millennials, and the Gen Z kids) deal with bigotry, and/or other impositions of social conservatism on the country.
l don’t think he’d respect the people who are referred to as “social justice warriors”, in spite of the fact that I think it’s clear that he cared about social justice, he was for personal freedom in every sense (outside of intentionally harming others), and against bigoted views. I don’t think he could stand the “canceling” behaviors, from the left or right… He was against morality police and thought police, which unfortunately is just a part of the mainstream now, and infects the left today, as it’s always infected the right. I just don’t think that’d mean he’d reject a progressive cultural perspective, bc intelligent people don’t let a few idiots change their worldview, or what they value.
Ultimately, I think Frank would be now, what he was then: someone progressive in their thinking, not only regarding culture/society, but absolutely, clearly also artistically. Someone who thinks critically, maybe stubborn, certainly cynical, but not without reason, and just too intelligent to go with the flow of any given group, or movement to the T. He absolutely cared for the individual, to the point I think it’s fair to say he was an individualist, but not in a reactionary sense. Not quite libertarian leftist, but also just more progressive than your average libertarian, and there’s just really very little space for someone like that in this country, or world, specifically politically speaking. So he’d mostly be a loner today, as he was then.
But he’s been gone almost 30 years… People can project onto him what they want, and fantasize about what he’d be like today, maybe how he’d validate them. I think this is VERY clear, given the hundred of comments I’ve read under videos of his, especially stuff like this where he’s talking a lot of culture and politics.. People are entitled to do this, of course, I don’t care. I’m just giving my two cents on it… RIP Frank ♾
It's a gross understatement to say that liberalism today is compromised by only "a few idiots". There are more idiots and educated fools on the left. As for Zappa's hatred of Reagan, it's myopic.
This man had a brilliant mind, independent and rational. I'm impressed.
It is true. He was real D.I.Y man in everything. He watched all news so he was very aware politics and society.
I don't know how much he knew macroeconomics?
Music industry he knew everything and MTV music ha ha.
He was a boring clown and his music too, hahahaha
A man with nearly total focus ❤ Love it or leave it…
Frank nailed the future...incredible.
This guy was a genius not just as a composers and musician but as a human. His insight of the human race and politics is incredible. Music is the best!
and thanks for speaking the truth about Elvis, Frank!
This is not a 'lost interview.' This was done for an A&E miniseries that aired in early 1991, 'The Class of the 20th Century.' The show was supposed to go into a time capsule for the year 3000, hence has never been repeated.
The original author posted the interview on YT, calling it himself like that.
@@Andrea_Manconi so you just take material from TH-cam and don't cite your sources?
if like most people you hear this man’s music before you hear his philosophy it’s kinda the perfect fit 🙂👍.
Che bella questa intervista... Storia ragazzi storia!
Excellent interview. Thank you.