Read Dave McGowan's excellent research into LAUREL CANYON MUSIC SCENE. Z was a ringleader in the military-music complex that parented ALL modern rock music. Read it, weep, learn, understand the truth behind these anti-human types.
@NotStonedEnoughToEat i can't remember what I was banging on about.I think it was a retort to him dissmissing the Sex Pistols.What I really mean is that if you have strong opinions and air them,you will offend some people.
@beradification Because you knew them personally right? Pretty judgemental. Good luck with that. What Lady Gaga is doing w/ her genre of music is no diff. than what Bowie, Zappa, Alice Cooper, did with their genre of music. Besides all the musicians I listed are all millionaires w/ big contracts. Pull your head out of your ass. Bowie's wife lied about his being gay just for publicity and do i really have to list the of actions Cooper, Zappa did to get publicity. You're pretty naive.
@cellardoor199991 Zappa skewered everyone, from the beatles(we're only in it for the money) to David Bowie and country music, disco etc etc.. so yes he would skewer modern pop, i don't have to know anyone personally to guess that. Moreover, being 'judgemental' is not a pejorative(negative) term. Its good to have good judgement. Lady gaga is now what britney spears and nsync were 12 years ago, she is a marketing industry success story. She is a young chick who dances on stage in a thong 4 teens.
@beradification Unfortunately you´re wrong.I love Zappa, I don´t like Gaga and her style/kind of music. But thats the business..she does what she like to do..doesn´t matter if it is for money, art, or just for herself. If someone or millions like it...so what? Much more people don´t like Frank as people like him...if it is in the opposit way....??? At least..maybe both will be placed in music history...bust most important is...that we knows Frank was a Genius...Gaga not!
@beradification i know what your saying,I can't say I'm a big fan of the machine as it has become,but try telling that to some 12y/o bieber fan,what?they should listen to Zappa?Thats unrealistic.Pop music was and is just that.You can't have great music without pop,there would be no point of reference.We can't turn back the clock on globalisation,don't tell me you never eat mc donalds?
this guys a dick. the sex pistols are the best band ever. their music, guitar, bass and lyrics are awesome and world changing. the crap new wave he thinks s good pales into insignificance next to the original guys
@viago2 If you really believe that you are seriously misguided. They were able make a big statement in music at the time, but none of them had any genuine musical talent. Any musician that worked with Frank could blow any of those chumps in the Sex Pistols out of the water without even trying. Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious pale in comparison to the genius that is Frank Zappa.
@pob1989 sid was only a poster boy he was not an original member and had no part in any of the recordings. the original bassist glen matlock is awesome. that huge guitar sound by steve jones is totally iconic and only oasis have ever got close to repeating it. and the vocal is the best ever recorded. zappa did nothing "disco feet" lol. he took the piss and missed! watch the pistols at the phoenix festival and 20 years on and never played once they are still the tightest rock and roll band ever
Interesting that Frank's comments regarding New Wave -- some interesting music, not just clothes -- would eventually point to Zappa alumni Terry Bozzio, his wife Dale (who performed vocal roles for Frank on 'Joe's Garage' and Warren Cuccurullo's band Missing Persons.
Watch any 10 minutes of these Zappa interviews and you see over and over how pathetically "protected" Americans have always been from ANYthing like adult conversation. Look at these mainstream dweebs run screaming from real ideas as if their daddy corporations are going to come down on their careers for saying "bad" things.....Cavett was always a tedious version of the same thing. Makes you sick. WE MISS YA FRANK!
Zappa would of been an amazing president,the world would be a better place.I like punk,and the new romantic wave bands but Zappa sounds like he wasnt stuck back in the 60's but flowed with the time.Brilliant musician and a man ahead of his time.RIPFrank Zappa.
@BlueCougar Yes, the best talk show hosts were Dick Cavett and Jack Paar. When Paar left the "Tonight Show" and Johnny Carson took it over, the level of discourse plummeted. Cavett was a writer for both and remains a national treasure to say the very least. His NY Times Online column is brilliant and seeing him appear somewhere in person is fantastic. The current television talk shows, of course, are merely infomercials.
Heavens to Murgatroid! THANKS for posting! Very early in his career, the late Mr Zappa (a cancer victim) provided the music for an early 60's low budget flick called "The World's Greatest Sinner" (wrote, produced & directed by it's star: the late great eccentric character actor Timothy Carey).
@slimabbas I had a Zappa for President shirt back in the 80's, he would have been a great president, but he never would have survived past the inauguration...the owners of America would have never allowed it
The Slits actually is led by the step daughter of the Sex Pistols lead singer MR J. LYDON (one of my heros). Zappa is a father figure to me, and Johnny Rotton( for those who do not know his real name) is my big brother. BOTH GENIUS IN THEIR OWN WAY. Thank you for the upload.
I can understand very clearly what impressed Frank about music and why he liked Lovich. His sound is similar to her bands music. Frank is still the hottest composer in rock ever.
"Hydrogen is the lightest and most abundant chemical element, constituting roughly 75% of the Universe's chemical elemental mass, on the other hand, stupidity is more abundant in the USA" - Frank Vincent Zappa
everyone says zappa is a weirdo. he seems like a cool guy to me. but then again, I've been known to be a little off the rocker myself..................but there you go. :P
Zappas song is about him wanting a particular type of woman. Hornuy, Jewish, etc etc. Why is that offensive to Jews? He is not saying Jews are all like this or that.
Man, how could anyone think Zappa has anything to do w/ punk? He's so right about how punk is just based on clothing trends. None of those bands are of any real musical or social value.
@TheFigueroa007 If you listen to to Zappa first albums, it sounds EXACTLY like punk. Also, Zappa's lyrics are very critical like punk rock. Actually early punk DID have social value back then. But today it's complete bullshit.
@cellardoor199991 Now that I think of it, the Mothers albums did kind of sound like punk but I would never put Frank in the same category as the Velvet Underground or the Stooges, or even the later bands like the Pistols and the Ramones. But yeah, his early mothers recordings were a little anti-musical and focused more on social commentary.
@TheFigueroa007 That's not true at all. Listen to Never Mind the Bollocks... Here's the Sex Pistols. Not only is it one of the most well produced albums I've ever heard -- the guitar sound is amazing -- but the lyrics are very politically sound. There are a lot of misconceptions about the band. Their songs were actually somewhat slow compared to the later punk. John Lydon is not a stupid man and I think he was a Zappa fan too.
@SgtTravisBickle True. Media fucked a lot of it up. Sex Pistols, incidentally, were huge fans of other bands like the Bee Gees, jethro Tull, and even Pink Floyd (well maybe not Johnny Rotten). They had respect for all kinds of music. I fucking hate Sid Vicious, though. If he was ugly, nobody would give a fuck about him. Fuck it.
Damn I just watched one of Zappa's last interviews. Too bad he thought of his cigs as good things. He didn't believe all the harm they caused. I never thought he could sound so stupid. Luckily he wasn't around his kids too much otherwise they would have been fucked up from secondhand smoke.
people laughed when he talked about the important function of a discoteque but he is absolutely right. they're still around today only they have a different name.
The Slits? Zappa bought an album by The Slits? They were a part of the British punk scene; a direct result of the Pistols. Read Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces.
And Frank -- as great a mind as his was -- didn't catch the visceral rawness of the Pistols moment? The Pistols' entire reason for being was a reaction to the stodgy bloat that by the mid-seventies rock had become with bands like Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Foreigner & REO Speedwagon (i.e. complete dreck) raking in bank.
@Misterioso that's true but keep in mind zappa's music has a lot to do with intelligence and breaking new ground. Not being deconstructive and simple. Pistols were awesome and so was Zappa, but zappa was never trendy and his approach was simply genius. Not childish kicking and whinning like punk. Both had strong statements though.
Was/is Dick Cavett the king of American TV talkshows ? In England we had the likes of Michael Parkinson, Terry Wogan who were huge but this guy seems even bigger. Very profound, very intelligent.
lol ONLY in America can you be enlightened by actual intelligent chat and read the comments and see a plug for a degenerate with a racial agenda... @XxBowieTipxX --- Do you think David Duke only uses TIDE detergent to truly keep his white sheets bright and colour free? lol
Anybody watching this should check out George Harrison on the DIck Cavett Show. It is just after Concert for Bangladesh was filmed, and it's quite an interesting interview. Dick Cavett is always wonderful.
Zappa was a genius. Completely on point in regards to the crappy commercialism behind "punk" music, and almost clairvoyant when he says, "as long as people want to get laid, there will always be something like a disco." I wonder what Zappa would've thought of the clubbing community.
@phadamblab well actually he was more than clairvoyant! especially when you look at the history of clubbing, from discos to what was called "house" music. Zappa had a real lucid eye on what was going on.
I liked frank zappa's musings on new wave. Funny, in high school I always thought the slits were a punk band. I was waiting for him to drop Devo's name.
I really hope Dick Cavett gets back into his vault and releases more of his shows to dvd.
These laid-back conversations are wonderful.You get the feeling they(the guests)were there merely for a great intellectual conversation.And the way he had such interesting pairings of guests.
Mr.Cavett,let's get some more dvd sets out,will you?
WOW, TV was actually intellectual back then and people engaged in actual conversation. Now you turn it on and it's two reality whores calling each other bitch and talking about which one is sleeping with which guy.
The ADL is basically a mini Nazi organization. When it comes to free speech...Its ok with them AS LONG AS YOU AGREE WITH THEM.. If you have your own view....they are after you like Eichmann...
Everybody hates Jews because of the ADL, ACLU, AIPAC and general Jewish criminal, monopolistic and tyrannical behavior. It's going to be interesting to see them get a taste of their own medicine in the coming years.
criminal, monopolistic and tyranical behaviours are not limited to Jews. They are more of HUMAN behaviour, included in the acts of every race. This is a fact hard to dispute, and by your reasoning we should all hate the Human race because of it. In other words we should all hate ourselves...
Perhaps the problem isnt as much with the Jews as it is with people who choose to Hate.
as much as i usually dislike interviewers i muct sai i like dick cravett ..he atleast seems like someone you could actually talk with and not want to break there jaw.. he still seems like a bit of a wanker but.. hes not like alot of others .. not quite a cunt
ramones may have started it all but they may not have even been a speck on the music radar and would not have even gotten close to gettin' their props had malcolm mcclaren not packaged a commercially successfeul punk fashion trend thru the sex pistols in england that forced critics to search for the true original... anyway i think iggy and the stooges should place first in the line of punk gods who reatced to that polished love music from the sixities... maybe even early alice cooper...
I like Frank, but he's incorrect about Punk rock. Punk was basically a reaction to the stuffy over produced unplayable dreck coming out in the late 70's. And it wasn't the Sex Pistols, it was the Ramones that originated the form. It was SUPPOSED to be raw, simple, loud, agressive and hopefully a little scary. That was the whole point. Frank just doesnt understand it, like most people seeing a generation gap up close. Punk music was not for him, hit was a reaction to him and his peers.
You're right about the ramones being the first but frank is correct about everything else. I LUV the Pistols but it is true I read a lot about them. Music was the last thing that happened w/ da pistols, it was all about fashion and attitude and gimmick. The last priority was the music. Punk is about what you said but it doesn't mean all the bands were like that. Some of them were just money grubbers doing a trend. Malcom told them to dress and play like that, they didn't originally want to.
@myroncope Thats the difference between the scene and the artist/musician. When the music became dilluted, and the message watered down, the fashion and scene took over.
Through-out the last 30 years of punk, only a handfull have made sure the message was the most important. Dead Kennedys, Descendents, up through Propagandhi today, the members of some of the most original punk bands didnt crutch on an attire.
@myroncope The music does rock. It's great music cause it's so simple. Most punk musicians weren't that talented. I mean Johnny Ramone just played powerchord most of the time. It's great raw rockin' out music and it's actually pretty inspiring
@myroncope I still love punk music today, I was listening to the Subhumans yesterday in my car...but you are 100% correct, it wasn't an incredible musical talent, it was about fashion and feeling, and it was a time when people were angry and needed an outlet. People are still angry today, but that outlet has been sold off for advertizing and we need to find a new release.
@Dahgrostabphri i am sick of idiots like you saying that punk had no talent. stop regurgitating the media line at the time and wake up. the sex pistols, and the buzzcocks wore the same stuff everyone else wore in 76. they just ripped it up. the designer fashion arrived later as did dyed hair and mohican haircuts. they were for tossers like you.
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Whats that panface? The guy blows, i mean what did he ever do except idotic tunes? I can see why a complete moron like you would think he was great but seriously this guy wasn't just bad, he was horrible. There is no debate fool
probably he doesnt know how respected was & is zappa...even serious guys like clapton & bowie respected him....hop2171 is another dipshit guy who doesnt know shit so probably thats it...zappa did jazz..blues..pop..rock..prog..etc etc...yep he used humor too..."idiotic tunes"..were part of it..as a social critique...with humor as a matter of fact
On a side note his shoes are awesome. He was so good at putting together great muscians. Also, today fashion and music are a marriage made in heaven, he was right about that 20+ years ago.
Zappa referring to the formidable Anti-Defamation League @6:24-9:54 (part 1/3) and continued in (part 2/3) @0:00-3:14, whom targeted Frank for his song "Jewish Princess".
she's my zappa princess. Frank if your listening, can i totally take your daughter out to the movies??. I don't care if shes 14 yrs older than me. I really don't care
in what year was this interview?
aert88 1 week ago
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Read Dave McGowan's excellent research into LAUREL CANYON MUSIC SCENE. Z was a ringleader in the military-music complex that parented ALL modern rock music. Read it, weep, learn, understand the truth behind these anti-human types.
33rdPatriot 2 weeks ago
i love frank and his legacy but it just goes to show,if you have opinion you're likely to put your foot in ya mouth
DanielGrozier 1 month ago
@DanielGrozier What?
NotStonedEnoughToEat 2 weeks ago
@NotStonedEnoughToEat i can't remember what I was banging on about.I think it was a retort to him dissmissing the Sex Pistols.What I really mean is that if you have strong opinions and air them,you will offend some people.
DanielGrozier 2 weeks ago
i wish zappa were alive, so we could hear him skewer lady gaga and modern pop music
beradification 2 months ago 3
@beradification He'd probably praise her for being weird. He never criticized Madonna or MJ.
cellardoor199991 2 months ago
@cellardoor199991 No chance, those people are in it for the money and publicity and dont give a damn about the quality of their art.
beradification 1 month ago
@beradification Because you knew them personally right? Pretty judgemental. Good luck with that. What Lady Gaga is doing w/ her genre of music is no diff. than what Bowie, Zappa, Alice Cooper, did with their genre of music. Besides all the musicians I listed are all millionaires w/ big contracts. Pull your head out of your ass. Bowie's wife lied about his being gay just for publicity and do i really have to list the of actions Cooper, Zappa did to get publicity. You're pretty naive.
cellardoor199991 1 month ago
@cellardoor199991 Zappa skewered everyone, from the beatles(we're only in it for the money) to David Bowie and country music, disco etc etc.. so yes he would skewer modern pop, i don't have to know anyone personally to guess that. Moreover, being 'judgemental' is not a pejorative(negative) term. Its good to have good judgement. Lady gaga is now what britney spears and nsync were 12 years ago, she is a marketing industry success story. She is a young chick who dances on stage in a thong 4 teens.
beradification 1 month ago
@beradification Unfortunately you´re wrong.I love Zappa, I don´t like Gaga and her style/kind of music. But thats the business..she does what she like to do..doesn´t matter if it is for money, art, or just for herself. If someone or millions like it...so what? Much more people don´t like Frank as people like him...if it is in the opposit way....??? At least..maybe both will be placed in music history...bust most important is...that we knows Frank was a Genius...Gaga not!
wowikowski 1 month ago
@beradification i know what your saying,I can't say I'm a big fan of the machine as it has become,but try telling that to some 12y/o bieber fan,what?they should listen to Zappa?Thats unrealistic.Pop music was and is just that.You can't have great music without pop,there would be no point of reference.We can't turn back the clock on globalisation,don't tell me you never eat mc donalds?
DanielGrozier 2 weeks ago
this guys a dick. the sex pistols are the best band ever. their music, guitar, bass and lyrics are awesome and world changing. the crap new wave he thinks s good pales into insignificance next to the original guys
." it was the clothes that made them" tosser
viago2 2 months ago
@viago2 If you really believe that you are seriously misguided. They were able make a big statement in music at the time, but none of them had any genuine musical talent. Any musician that worked with Frank could blow any of those chumps in the Sex Pistols out of the water without even trying. Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious pale in comparison to the genius that is Frank Zappa.
pob1989 1 month ago
@pob1989 sid was only a poster boy he was not an original member and had no part in any of the recordings. the original bassist glen matlock is awesome. that huge guitar sound by steve jones is totally iconic and only oasis have ever got close to repeating it. and the vocal is the best ever recorded. zappa did nothing "disco feet" lol. he took the piss and missed! watch the pistols at the phoenix festival and 20 years on and never played once they are still the tightest rock and roll band ever
viago2 1 month ago
Interesting that Frank's comments regarding New Wave -- some interesting music, not just clothes -- would eventually point to Zappa alumni Terry Bozzio, his wife Dale (who performed vocal roles for Frank on 'Joe's Garage' and Warren Cuccurullo's band Missing Persons.
Glenn1441 2 months ago
Watch any 10 minutes of these Zappa interviews and you see over and over how pathetically "protected" Americans have always been from ANYthing like adult conversation. Look at these mainstream dweebs run screaming from real ideas as if their daddy corporations are going to come down on their careers for saying "bad" things.....Cavett was always a tedious version of the same thing. Makes you sick. WE MISS YA FRANK!
Dionysos37 2 months ago
@Dionysos37 watch 15 minutes and your asleep
viago2 2 months ago
Its the guy from Engalnd!!!!
hoplite46 4 months ago
I think its safe to say that if Zapper was alive today well aha he wouldn't care much for people...not that he did
happygofucky 4 months ago
Zappa would of been an amazing president,the world would be a better place.I like punk,and the new romantic wave bands but Zappa sounds like he wasnt stuck back in the 60's but flowed with the time.Brilliant musician and a man ahead of his time.RIPFrank Zappa.
steeplepossum39 4 months ago 2
Wow, they had sentences with more than six words on TV back then!
BlueCougar 5 months ago 19
@BlueCougar Yes, the best talk show hosts were Dick Cavett and Jack Paar. When Paar left the "Tonight Show" and Johnny Carson took it over, the level of discourse plummeted. Cavett was a writer for both and remains a national treasure to say the very least. His NY Times Online column is brilliant and seeing him appear somewhere in person is fantastic. The current television talk shows, of course, are merely infomercials.
Onlymusical 4 weeks ago
It has a rubber girl.
Huckxxx 5 months ago
Heavens to Murgatroid! THANKS for posting! Very early in his career, the late Mr Zappa (a cancer victim) provided the music for an early 60's low budget flick called "The World's Greatest Sinner" (wrote, produced & directed by it's star: the late great eccentric character actor Timothy Carey).
JubalCalif 5 months ago
Franck Zappa should have been a great president...The guy have a brain and he used it...Bless him
slimabbas 6 months ago
@slimabbas I had a Zappa for President shirt back in the 80's, he would have been a great president, but he never would have survived past the inauguration...the owners of America would have never allowed it
Dahgrostabphri 5 months ago 4
The Slits actually is led by the step daughter of the Sex Pistols lead singer MR J. LYDON (one of my heros). Zappa is a father figure to me, and Johnny Rotton( for those who do not know his real name) is my big brother. BOTH GENIUS IN THEIR OWN WAY. Thank you for the upload.
dotothenn 7 months ago
Id love to know what Zappa would make of music today. He seems here to have a pretty comprehensive taxonomy of modern music
haribo687 7 months ago
Dude -- THE SLITS rocked... I love you more, Zappa.
tripnixon 7 months ago
I can understand very clearly what impressed Frank about music and why he liked Lovich. His sound is similar to her bands music. Frank is still the hottest composer in rock ever.
alrozz 9 months ago
@alrozz Uncle Remus is my theme tune.
Nautilus1972 6 months ago
They have Bleeker Bob's on a Seinfeld episode
cellardoor199991 9 months ago
Frank is noticeably unimpressed at the beginning.
misledyouth50 9 months ago
"Hydrogen is the lightest and most abundant chemical element, constituting roughly 75% of the Universe's chemical elemental mass, on the other hand, stupidity is more abundant in the USA" - Frank Vincent Zappa
MickeyLove01 9 months ago 2
his mustache looks like a mouth. lol
papatia 9 months ago
zappa is a legend, dont now much about dancing thats why i got this song 1 of my legs r shorter than the other and both my feet r to small
macs19772002 10 months ago
this man is a genius
D4ni31 10 months ago
"As long as people want to get laid, there will be disco."
This was in 1980, right ? Smart man. :P Visionary.
Selothi 10 months ago
everyone says zappa is a weirdo. he seems like a cool guy to me. but then again, I've been known to be a little off the rocker myself..................but there you go. :P
kermicheo 10 months ago
Zappas song is about him wanting a particular type of woman. Hornuy, Jewish, etc etc. Why is that offensive to Jews? He is not saying Jews are all like this or that.
ihatespam2 10 months ago
5:23 the mouth of dick cavett opening cause zappa says he goes to discos all the time HAHAHAHAAHAHHA
DajaWaja 11 months ago
Man, how could anyone think Zappa has anything to do w/ punk? He's so right about how punk is just based on clothing trends. None of those bands are of any real musical or social value.
TheFigueroa007 1 year ago
@TheFigueroa007 If you listen to to Zappa first albums, it sounds EXACTLY like punk. Also, Zappa's lyrics are very critical like punk rock. Actually early punk DID have social value back then. But today it's complete bullshit.
cellardoor199991 1 year ago
@cellardoor199991 Now that I think of it, the Mothers albums did kind of sound like punk but I would never put Frank in the same category as the Velvet Underground or the Stooges, or even the later bands like the Pistols and the Ramones. But yeah, his early mothers recordings were a little anti-musical and focused more on social commentary.
TheFigueroa007 1 year ago
@TheFigueroa007 That's not true at all. Listen to Never Mind the Bollocks... Here's the Sex Pistols. Not only is it one of the most well produced albums I've ever heard -- the guitar sound is amazing -- but the lyrics are very politically sound. There are a lot of misconceptions about the band. Their songs were actually somewhat slow compared to the later punk. John Lydon is not a stupid man and I think he was a Zappa fan too.
SgtTravisBickle 7 months ago
@SgtTravisBickle True. Media fucked a lot of it up. Sex Pistols, incidentally, were huge fans of other bands like the Bee Gees, jethro Tull, and even Pink Floyd (well maybe not Johnny Rotten). They had respect for all kinds of music. I fucking hate Sid Vicious, though. If he was ugly, nobody would give a fuck about him. Fuck it.
cellardoor199991 7 months ago
TWEEZING AROUND IN THOSE PLACES
devolve42 1 year ago
"the jewish (princess) problem"
lol
zappagasm 1 year ago
The issue of the "The Anti Defamation League" has a PR group who maintains a stance on how Jewish people are perceived is a little maniacal.
laurasIs2c 1 year ago
Damn I just watched one of Zappa's last interviews. Too bad he thought of his cigs as good things. He didn't believe all the harm they caused. I never thought he could sound so stupid. Luckily he wasn't around his kids too much otherwise they would have been fucked up from secondhand smoke.
cellardoor199991 1 year ago
@cellardoor199991
My dad's second -hand smoke never bothered me at all,actually.
iggypopbowie77 10 months ago
people laughed when he talked about the important function of a discoteque but he is absolutely right. they're still around today only they have a different name.
mightyafrowhitey 1 year ago
I always thought Dick Cavett was a really good interviewer. much better than that clown Larry King. how he's been on for so long I don't know.
mightyafrowhitey 1 year ago
The Slits? Zappa bought an album by The Slits? They were a part of the British punk scene; a direct result of the Pistols. Read Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces.
And Frank -- as great a mind as his was -- didn't catch the visceral rawness of the Pistols moment? The Pistols' entire reason for being was a reaction to the stodgy bloat that by the mid-seventies rock had become with bands like Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Foreigner & REO Speedwagon (i.e. complete dreck) raking in bank.
bapyou 1 year ago
Rofl, Dick Cavett
gibbsies 1 year ago
Frank knows all about the marketing strategy behind The Sex Pistols because he did the same thing when prefabricating his image in the late 60's.
Misterioso 1 year ago
@Misterioso that's true but keep in mind zappa's music has a lot to do with intelligence and breaking new ground. Not being deconstructive and simple. Pistols were awesome and so was Zappa, but zappa was never trendy and his approach was simply genius. Not childish kicking and whinning like punk. Both had strong statements though.
cellardoor199991 1 year ago
lol-Dick Cavett commenting on the "rock scene"
pretorious700 1 year ago
Was/is Dick Cavett the king of American TV talkshows ? In England we had the likes of Michael Parkinson, Terry Wogan who were huge but this guy seems even bigger. Very profound, very intelligent.
johnnycheck99 1 year ago
if anyone hasnt seen the zappa interview on 'crossfire' check it out. he just sweeps the floor with them!
savagecabage 1 year ago
thanks for putting this up.
cosmicrider287 1 year ago
lol ONLY in America can you be enlightened by actual intelligent chat and read the comments and see a plug for a degenerate with a racial agenda... @XxBowieTipxX --- Do you think David Duke only uses TIDE detergent to truly keep his white sheets bright and colour free? lol
SsHar0ld 1 year ago
Anybody watching this should check out George Harrison on the DIck Cavett Show. It is just after Concert for Bangladesh was filmed, and it's quite an interesting interview. Dick Cavett is always wonderful.
MonsieurMadeleine 1 year ago
David Duke is opposed to the Jewish control of the mainstream media. Vote Duke in 2012.
XxBowieTipxX 1 year ago
@XxBowieTipxX hahahaha is that loser even still around?
Myuzishin 1 year ago
@XxBowieTipxX lol, that's not all he's opposed to. What he is a proponent of is the problem.
pretorious700 1 year ago
Cavett was a great host. A real gem
cellardoor199991 1 year ago
I apologize Frank you rock, see you in heaven.
doomsdaypreacher 1 year ago
Zappa is a genius and very succinct. I could learn a lot from him. He has good social skills. Hard to do.
cellardoor199991 1 year ago
Zappa was a genius. Completely on point in regards to the crappy commercialism behind "punk" music, and almost clairvoyant when he says, "as long as people want to get laid, there will always be something like a disco." I wonder what Zappa would've thought of the clubbing community.
phadamblab 1 year ago
@phadamblab well actually he was more than clairvoyant! especially when you look at the history of clubbing, from discos to what was called "house" music. Zappa had a real lucid eye on what was going on.
oliverecords 1 year ago
I liked frank zappa's musings on new wave. Funny, in high school I always thought the slits were a punk band. I was waiting for him to drop Devo's name.
VictoryCough 1 year ago
This man is quite interesting, but he doesn't say enough about fashion or sex for me. I will stick to Lady Gaga I think.
undertherainbow100 1 year ago
@undertherainbow100
i lol'd
nigra500 1 year ago
@undertherainbow100 fasion is the most overated aspect of rock but if it dicates what what music is good for you than so be it.
llamasarus1 1 year ago
lustforlife, ur my hero!!! u r absolutely correct.
TheArbiter74 1 year ago
I really hope Dick Cavett gets back into his vault and releases more of his shows to dvd.
These laid-back conversations are wonderful.You get the feeling they(the guests)were there merely for a great intellectual conversation.And the way he had such interesting pairings of guests.
Mr.Cavett,let's get some more dvd sets out,will you?
spiritualED 2 years ago
WOW, TV was actually intellectual back then and people engaged in actual conversation. Now you turn it on and it's two reality whores calling each other bitch and talking about which one is sleeping with which guy.
lustfordeath 2 years ago 101
@lustfordeath This comment has probably made my day, thank you
vajennamk 1 year ago
@lustfordeath TV was never intellectual. Frank was an intellectual. Cavett was an intellectual.
Nautilus1972 6 months ago
@lustfordeath Jersey Shore can suck my dick, and Frank Zappa is the man
superkulmedkniv25 4 months ago 10
Zappa released Essra Mohawk's 1st record SANDY'S ALBUM IS HERE AT LAST on his Verve/Bizarre label.
fecinny 2 years ago
do you know the year of this?.. 79 or sth like that?¿
anitasseo 2 years ago
FUCK THE ADL
stupid fucks
GaryNull 2 years ago
FendRhodes: "Everything today sucks"
Everything today doesn't suck, just most of it.
MostlyInhuman 2 years ago 3
Too true. The skill is now finding the stuff that DOESN'T suck.
eezysqueezy 2 years ago
The ADL is basically a mini Nazi organization. When it comes to free speech...Its ok with them AS LONG AS YOU AGREE WITH THEM.. If you have your own view....they are after you like Eichmann...
jprizoli 2 years ago 2
Everybody hates Jews because of the ADL, ACLU, AIPAC and general Jewish criminal, monopolistic and tyrannical behavior. It's going to be interesting to see them get a taste of their own medicine in the coming years.
tbone76a 2 years ago
AMEN.....
jprizoli 2 years ago
not everybody. only intolerant hateful people...
criminal, monopolistic and tyranical behaviours are not limited to Jews. They are more of HUMAN behaviour, included in the acts of every race. This is a fact hard to dispute, and by your reasoning we should all hate the Human race because of it. In other words we should all hate ourselves...
Perhaps the problem isnt as much with the Jews as it is with people who choose to Hate.
montysurfs 2 years ago 3
I don't hate the jews....
eezysqueezy 2 years ago
@eezysqueezy you should, they hate you
TheAwesomeClub 2 years ago
I liked Cavetts interviews. He always tried to get to the true person and let the audience know them as they really are.
march1959 2 years ago 6
agree, one of the few good interviewers ever.
anitasseo 2 years ago
him and stern
FlyingFooBalls 2 years ago
as much as i usually dislike interviewers i muct sai i like dick cravett ..he atleast seems like someone you could actually talk with and not want to break there jaw.. he still seems like a bit of a wanker but.. hes not like alot of others .. not quite a cunt
bigbabyjesusaddf 2 years ago 4
He was fucking right, disco is still here
snakeweirdo 2 years ago 2
Well, Disco isn't really here, but dance music (i.e. house, trance) is, which is like another form, as Zappa mentions.
amart7 2 years ago
interviews today suck
RocknRollAllNiteLong 2 years ago 5
Everything today sucks
FendRhodes 2 years ago
ramones may have started it all but they may not have even been a speck on the music radar and would not have even gotten close to gettin' their props had malcolm mcclaren not packaged a commercially successfeul punk fashion trend thru the sex pistols in england that forced critics to search for the true original... anyway i think iggy and the stooges should place first in the line of punk gods who reatced to that polished love music from the sixities... maybe even early alice cooper...
toolchest69 2 years ago
I like Frank, but he's incorrect about Punk rock. Punk was basically a reaction to the stuffy over produced unplayable dreck coming out in the late 70's. And it wasn't the Sex Pistols, it was the Ramones that originated the form. It was SUPPOSED to be raw, simple, loud, agressive and hopefully a little scary. That was the whole point. Frank just doesnt understand it, like most people seeing a generation gap up close. Punk music was not for him, hit was a reaction to him and his peers.
koripley 2 years ago 2
You're right about the ramones being the first but frank is correct about everything else. I LUV the Pistols but it is true I read a lot about them. Music was the last thing that happened w/ da pistols, it was all about fashion and attitude and gimmick. The last priority was the music. Punk is about what you said but it doesn't mean all the bands were like that. Some of them were just money grubbers doing a trend. Malcom told them to dress and play like that, they didn't originally want to.
cellardoor199991 2 years ago
sid viscious couldn't even play. I love punk rock and played in a punk band but most of it is about fashion and attitude and not the music.
myroncope 2 years ago 30
exactly. Also all hardcore fans pretend it's about music but it really isn't. Hardcore punk fans are real hypocritical and real stupid.
cellardoor199991 2 years ago
@myroncope Thats the difference between the scene and the artist/musician. When the music became dilluted, and the message watered down, the fashion and scene took over.
Through-out the last 30 years of punk, only a handfull have made sure the message was the most important. Dead Kennedys, Descendents, up through Propagandhi today, the members of some of the most original punk bands didnt crutch on an attire.
mitefiend 1 year ago
@myroncope The music does rock. It's great music cause it's so simple. Most punk musicians weren't that talented. I mean Johnny Ramone just played powerchord most of the time. It's great raw rockin' out music and it's actually pretty inspiring
Django5198 8 months ago
@myroncope You're fucking retarded. Punk is a wide-spreading culture that includes film,written work and great, meaningful music. Fuckhead.
D0oD0oBrain 7 months ago
@D0oD0oBrain Is it fuck. Absolute bollocks. Punk is anti-culture.
Nautilus1972 6 months ago
@myroncope I still love punk music today, I was listening to the Subhumans yesterday in my car...but you are 100% correct, it wasn't an incredible musical talent, it was about fashion and feeling, and it was a time when people were angry and needed an outlet. People are still angry today, but that outlet has been sold off for advertizing and we need to find a new release.
Dahgrostabphri 5 months ago
@Dahgrostabphri i am sick of idiots like you saying that punk had no talent. stop regurgitating the media line at the time and wake up. the sex pistols, and the buzzcocks wore the same stuff everyone else wore in 76. they just ripped it up. the designer fashion arrived later as did dyed hair and mohican haircuts. they were for tossers like you.
viago2 2 months ago
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zappa sucks, never understood why this guy got any attention at all.
hop2171 2 years ago
Well, you never could count past four, or understand music, so who the fuck are you, Hop2171?
panhead1219 2 years ago
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Whats that panface? The guy blows, i mean what did he ever do except idotic tunes? I can see why a complete moron like you would think he was great but seriously this guy wasn't just bad, he was horrible. There is no debate fool
hop2171 2 years ago
probably he doesnt know how respected was & is zappa...even serious guys like clapton & bowie respected him....hop2171 is another dipshit guy who doesnt know shit so probably thats it...zappa did jazz..blues..pop..rock..prog..etc etc...yep he used humor too..."idiotic tunes"..were part of it..as a social critique...with humor as a matter of fact
theachtungtree 2 years ago
wow, dude. that's a pretty uneducated comment.
jazzypaul75 2 years ago
well said about the ADL frank, they are worse than the nazis;
bastardtubeuser 2 years ago 2
Actually Franks favorite singer was Marta Kubisova!! See why!
zappatx 2 years ago
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ADL sucks. Take down the jewish criminal network.
erichufschmid(dot)net
tbone76a 2 years ago
The band names mentioned at 4:35 are The Slits, Lene Lovich, and Gerry And The Holograms.
MCredshift 2 years ago
Muchas Gracias!!
videosincracia 2 years ago
De Nada.
MCredshift 2 years ago
Can a native english speaker please write down the names of the new wave bands that zappa recomends at 4:35? I just don´t get them all. THANKS A LOT!
videosincracia 2 years ago
On a side note his shoes are awesome. He was so good at putting together great muscians. Also, today fashion and music are a marriage made in heaven, he was right about that 20+ years ago.
inventiontension 3 years ago
Agreed, the shoes, er uh, rock ...
CusterFlux 3 years ago 3
With the monologue and all. Nice! ;---)
tombration 3 years ago
"I was their meat for one season." (part 1/3)
"You're pickin' on the wrong guy!" (part 2/3)
Zappa referring to the formidable Anti-Defamation League @6:24-9:54 (part 1/3) and continued in (part 2/3) @0:00-3:14, whom targeted Frank for his song "Jewish Princess".
blackmountainboar 3 years ago
Frank Zappa is my god!!!
MattDJ2 3 years ago 3
zappa is sharp as a tack always. and dick is, well... dick.
rongravy 3 years ago 5
i like them both. i hear moon garage unit is single. I am going to ask her out.
sunoftheutube 2 years ago 3
back off, she's mine!!!
take ahmet...
rongravy 2 years ago 2
she's my zappa princess. Frank if your listening, can i totally take your daughter out to the movies??. I don't care if shes 14 yrs older than me. I really don't care
sunoftheutube 2 years ago
frank is a GOD. thanks for the video.
Jawshh2 3 years ago 2
what year is this interview?
dubzy81 3 years ago
I think it's from 1980.
buruglen 3 years ago
Yes, that's correct. I personally know the month was June as well!
music4now 2 years ago
Or maybe 1978, that's when Sheik Yerbouti came out & that album contains Jewish Princess, & Babysnakes on it.
Alpesinger 3 years ago
Great to see Zappa get some time to talk, and not just "here's the wierdo - goodbye"
saxofonsyndromet 3 years ago 20
I agree.
buruglen 3 years ago 3
@saxofonsyndromet dick cavett was a great talk show host for that reason
kieran514 1 year ago