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  • Zappa was way ahead of his time. No doubt about that now.

  • this movie is meant to be watched while trippin

  • Why did they even bother releasing a movie that was extremely unfinished?? They were never able to film the actual story, just a bunch of unconnected musical numbers. They just threw together a few days' worth of unfinished scenes into an incoherent mess.

  • Keith Moon is the nun, in case anyone wondered... :-)

  • Aha I Waatched Thiss Inn Class TooDaay L0l Thiss Maakes Mee Gett Stoopider Byy Thuu Seconnd Ndd Dewd Inn Summ Paarts Ihhts Lyyk Imm Hi Lyk Widdf Thuu Chikken Broth l0l

  • Wasnt the whole '200 motels' movie shot in one take ? The soundtrack anyway

  • @Boweavel All of it was "filmed", if that is the proper term, on PAL format (625 line analogue) 2 inch Quadruplex videotape, then converted to 35mm cine film. The musical performances were recorded, both audio and visual, in real time, instead of having the music re-recorded and then synchronized to the soundtrack as is the common process.

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  • Don't do it Jess. i'm not sure what's going on, but don't do it.

  • it needs a certain amount of inner strength to appreciate this, but i do.

  • thing that none of these people understand is media, this is the audiobook visualization of cliche to archetype by mershall mcmuhan covering the iron finn giant

  • АЦИДОФИЛЬНОЕ КИНО.... ВДОХНОВЛЯЮЩЕ.....

  • wut a trip.

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  • The genius!

  • I don't need drugs to enjoy this. Just to enhance it! *__*

  • I'm always saying..."which do you choooooooooossssse?"....I'd forgotten where it came from!

  • wtf is 4:45

  • The soundtrack album is, in my opinion, one of the greatest albums ever made. I enjoy it much more than the film.

  • Now just remember, that was ALL a dental hygene dilemma.

  • sorry frank but this is past me

  • keith moon is a nun, herb cohen is a vacuum cleaner, ringo starr is Frank Zappa, Donald Duck has teeth, Donovan is a technicolor intrapositive,Jeff rips off the towels. yup, it all makes sense. O Atlantis!

  • This is the first feature length movie shot on video, as a matter of historical fact. And much of it was performed in real time, with no overdubs. It's not a movie so much as a recording of a bit of performance art, including actors, singers, an orchestra, a rock band, and dancers....

  • pauldullson: why is buying the dvd an utter waste of time?

  • @dajohnthomas69 Can't link directly to the url but if you do a Google search for "200 Motels on DVD" and "SOTCAA" you'll find an article we prepared which covers it all.

  • @pauldullson I wouldn't say it's a "waste of time" if you are interested in seeing the film at all. I am grateful that I get to see it. I think Palmer is either an asshole or just misquoted, I can't tell. I am very disappointed about the final version but I just wanted to see the movie.

  • Disjointed narrative and themes of absurdity (especially on the road as a touring band) are completely relevant aspects of the movie and, of course, Zappa's music. They also happen to be major indicators of post-modern artistic composition. In light of just these qualities indicates that this was for artistic consumption. This, like most of Zappa's works, were not intended for mass consumption. Just because the meaning doesn't automatically jump at you doesn't mean it's not there.

  • @Nihilism4tw I prefer Ionesco but do see your point.

  • A thought just hit me (whilst sitting on the throne ,a veritable font of inspiration) 200 Motels might just be Frank's take on "The Producers".Either way this was a colossal waste of money , production crew .A close second to Hopper's "The Last Movie"

  • If Al Kapp had taken some Karlheinz Stockhausen blotter

  • Any one that expected anything else (seriously ) but Frank's having a laugh at those who would accept this as High Art.

  • I was at the concert premiere with Zubin Mehta and the L.A. Philharmonic. Flo and Eddie (Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, then of the Turtles) were sitting behind me and ran up to the stage afterwards, like groupies, and later became Mothers. May 1970. Later, after the film was finished, I won tickets to the movie premiere from KRLA. I remember Jimmy Carl Black coming into the theater with about 10 kids, and Frank came in actually looking nervous (weird, I know, but true). A modernist classic.

  • Webern/Schoenberg/Boulez anyone? I love the classical guitar quartet with harp. The soprano an amazing vocalist. I believe it is Phyllis Bryn Julson, who went on to become one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary classical music.

    Stumpy grey teeth/dental floss gets me hot.

  • Do you think that Frank was having a poke at Jeff Simmons for leaving the group?

  • @Orlor Dude, that's what 1/3 of the movie is about- -especially THIS SCENE! Originally Jeff was going to be in the movie- then he left apparently weeks before filming. Story goes that Zappa said "The next person to walk through that door is going to play Jeff instead" and it ended up being Jeff's chauffeur. Shame this movie didn't turn out to be Zappa's full vision (watch the making of to see how shambled the production became) but there are some truly great ideas brought up in 200 Motels.

  • This is finally out on DVD!!!!!

  • @1zappa Don't buy it - it's an utter waste of time.

  • @pauldullson what does this film mean

  • @jangohump The Beatles certainly admired what Zappa was doing at the time. McCartney cited Freak Out as an influence on Sgt Pepper; Lennon and Harrison sent him a telegram congratulating him for Ruben and the Jets; Ringo Starr appears in this very film (and later that year, John and Yoko joined Zappa and the Mothers onstage). Lennon also descibed Zappa as an 'intellectual' in one interview.

    I like Donovan. He a pretty sly, sharp sense of humour - I can imagine him being tickled by the cartoon.

  • @jangohump you're dumb man. Go listen to Hot Rats and tell me there's any musician who can rival Zappa's genius.

  • @Romencer17 Beefhearts a lot better for one, but peter hammills the greatest a true genius with amazing lyrics unlike zappa

  • @Romencer17

    youre asolutely right !

  • @jangohump  Well, there's always some nice Hannah Montana or Justin Bieber to listen to if this is too difficult.

  • @jangohump If you really believe that Justin Bieber or Hannah Montana are better than Zappa you must like Vaseline on Ritz Crackers. You have NO TASTE and probably very little intellect.

    Comment further when you frontal lobe finally takes off it's training wheels.

  • @jangohump Boy you sure have your head up your ass, don't you??

  • @pauldullson Zappa was the top 3 musician/composer of all time. You're a waste of shit!

  • @pauldullson You need a music education to get thru the first 2 measures of this entire score,200 motels.(Do you even know what a measure is in music?) I have a suggestion.Why don't you buy a Brittany Spears DVD then you can jerk off watching her.It doesn't take much intelligence to do that! Have fun!!

  • @pauldullson all art is a waste of time when people that don't like it are looking and/or listening to it.

  • oh god what a night - with a special elixtre - shold repair my old chair

  • If I have to "work hard to appreciate" something it might not really be all that great. On the other hand somebody's gotta do something different and original every once in awhile, that is valuable and worthy of attention.

  • This is similar to some of the experimantal classical music of the early 20th century. It reminds me a lot of Stockhausen and also of modern opera. You have to work hard to appreciate this stuff, but is that such a bad thing?

  • I have this strange feeling that Frank doesn't really think lyrics are important. ;-)

  • Yo Bro Strike Team, I hear whatcha sayin... Frank was wanting want u to blur the boundaries man...peace and extaordanariness, foreva!!!!

  • Having Zappa's name on it doesn't make it good

  • Ok, check this out. This film only took SEVEN DAYS to film!!!! This just shows that Zappa was a master of his art.

  • Frank Zappa was fantastic. 200 Motels is not.

  • dark side of a genius

  • This is film AND music as an art form. It sucks that groundbreaking flims like this are virtually ignored, while shit like the jonas bros. are getting millions.

  • I had some weird visions racing thru my head sort of like that cartoon a few months back, after a night of booze and some food that lost its way somewhere in my digestive tract. Trying to get to sleep with the sheets soaked in sweat and all this crazy crap going through my mind wasn't a lot of fun. Seeing all sorts of unknown people...

    Anyway, 200 Motels doesn't do a whole lot for me these days. I can get lost and confused on my own....thank you very much.

  • This pretty much sums up the early '70's. The artist clearly represented this era. God bless you Mr. Zappa.

  • Damn, I gotta get me sum Shmertz beer! Put sum gusto in my life.

  • dude bro this movies rad when you have some dank bud and get hella blazed. this is liek the ultimate stoner flick bro. epic win

    Seriously, though, I'm in love with Frank Zappa.

  • I watched this when I did acid and it was very intense,I didn't wig out but it's definitly somthin to watch when u trip

  • been there & done that, I can't remember anything about the movie. It was presented as a Midnight movie by our local Rock station. Triped out! Glad they posted this.

  • I watched this on acid and it was very intense, but I didn't wig out it's definitly somthin to watch when u trip

  • Edgar Varese on acid!

  • he puts an acid up in his mouth at 2:41

  • That's supposed to be the body of Christ. Some may say it's the same...

  • oh man i cant believe this man didint do drugs!

  • 200 motels. The earliest known for of a Youtube Poop.

  • Brilliantly stupid. The epitome of absurdity.

    (Sounds a lot like Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire to me)

  • Nocturnal Emission.

  • Better believe tv-onlineguide^^

  • I was fucking have asleep at 4 am today and I don't do drugs this was on tv and scared the living shit out of me, this is the worst thing to see when your half asleep, at first I thought it was a weird dream but tvguide online showed it was real

  • OMG, I toatally understand. That happened to me once too. Only it happened while the horror movie "Suspiria" was showing.

  • @StrikeTeam7

    HAHAHA that made my day.

  • wow, me and my friends watched the whole movie, while we were stoned.

    it was fuckin' crazy!

  • fish heads fish heads roly ploy fish heads

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  • homelessness has occasional side effects of socilal and spiritual stimulation, i thnk it's the lack of boxes, glowing, as well as enclosing.

  • belive it or not zappa didn´t received

    "assistance" of lcd to make any part of

    this movie

  • I suppose you meant LSD.

  • No he meant and LCD HD TV which traveled through time to the early 70s through a wormhole.

  • Ah, OK. I just thought it was LSD in that context.

  • this puts david lynch to shame!

  • the type of excesive perfection layed over crazyness that only frank can give, i'd still vote for him if he ran for president, he's a sane genius just enough to put this country back on track and start keeping the trains on rhyme.

  • jeff simmons might have zappa because of either he did not want to really admit that the film was trash or maybe he just want to try different things

    anyway there were ocassions were he came back

  • @motherbrain86 Simmons quit because he didn't like performing in the picture things he'd actually said and done. Also his girlfriend was telling him he should get a normal commercial group together at the time. Simmons and Zappa go back a ways, Simmons rejoined in 73 for a time.

  • o my fukken god i'm trippin balls

  • tripping balls? i hope you get outside once in a while. hallucinagens and frank zappa are not what frank intended and using them indoors is not what god intended when he made them. save your receational drugs like booze and crack for the confines of a concrete jungle like environment. maybe you are out side when writing this. frank wrote masterpieces indoors alot and sometimes i do too, but nature is always good medicine for the tabula rasa.

  • Could you be a little more holier-than-thou, self-righteous and clueless? Probably not,..

  • SorortHOTHMA WRITES .."Could you be a little more holier-than-thou, self-righteous and clueless? Probably not,.." I SAY hey, so where do you do your drugs lay know it all of local under mind alteration. figure that sentance out you negative nothing to add poster. and then answer it. if your so savvy on the subject.

  • i'm sure my spelling is next on the piety of such twits. why do you say holier then thou? because of well documented studies on substances made to be hidden away by the law, rather then studied in free safe invironments? is that why, maybe. or are you making 8 dollars an hr?

  • Your dribble is too incoherent to decipher. Is English your native language?

  • it's drivel, dribble does not require words or sounds, written or otherwise, and yes english is my native tongue.

  • Quick subtle stab at Ahmet Ertegun 7:35

    LMAO!!!!!!!!

  • @FlamingoReaper Zappa was a friend of Ahmet Ertegun, admired him and has a son named Ahmet.

  • The sound we're hearing is not the movie soundtrack. It's the CD that's been synched-up. There are sound effects missing during "Dental Hygiene Dilemma".

  • hey folks you dont need drugs to have a good sense of humor.

  • I love zappa, I honestly believe that it will be many lifetimes before we see anyone with his combination of creative spirit and prolific output.

    I still can't understand this (i've listened to Playground Psychotics hundreds of times), but I hope to achieve enlightenment before I die.

    What can I say about this elixer?

  • I'm here

  • Tits and cock.

    Everybody wins!

  • holy shit....the first time i watched this...i was tripping shrooms....jesus man....this is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!MAD TRIPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I LIKE HOW RINGO IS PLAYING ZAPPA...."CENTERVILLE...A REAL NICE PLACE TO RAISE YOUR KIDS UP"

  • Like someone said on another video... FZ was extremely anti-drug. Watching this video on drugs is like slapping him across the face.

  • not true moron

  • That's funny, because I've never done drugs, and I own 83 of them. Huh.

  • And iIve done LOTS of drugs and I only own three. So much for THAT theory.

  • He would not have minded what you did in your on home, your personal space. He probably however, would not really want to talk with you when you where high.

  • It's perfectly ok for several subjective plots to co-exist :-)

  • is that Christopher Lee doing the main male part in this clip? It sure sounds like him!

  • OMG I haven't seen this in 30+ years-Why is it that FZ who, as i understand it, didn't do drugs, was the only one (that i had seen) that could capture an acid trip so well??????

    he lives in mojave in a winneabago?!?! Ethel was a tree growing out of his shoulder OMG i haven't done acid in 25 years, i, i, oooohhhh i think i'm having a flashback!!!! OR OR IS IT JUST THE GERITOL?!?!?! just don't do more than two of the purple double-dome!!!!!! AND IF THE SAY IT'S DATURA...RUN LIKE HELL!!!!!!

  • Billy was a mountain.

    A nun suit painted on some old boxes.

    Funny as hell

  • What a fuckin' trip that 10:44 minutes was man!

  • Try it on a bloody acid tab, man... wheeeeeeeeeeee...! Lol!

  • freaky world of the psychedelic era.... can anyone tell me when the hippies started to die out in san francisco?

  • I watched this last night, and it gave me a headache.

    It's brilliant, though. :D

  • Man the beginning is like one of my migraines. Haha I like the incense part because I remember being like 6 with my moms incense and i thought i was tripping out lol...actually I don't think thats true. Frank Zappa is so fucking weird-I love him! :)

  • I love this video.

  • I need mushrooms

  • Is that Bart Simpson's voice in that cartoon, 20 years before he was even born??!! LOL

  • Is it now painfully obvious where The Residents got their influence! They blatantly copied all of Frank's moves.

  • CENTERVILLE ahhhhhhhhhhhhh a real nice place to raise your kidsup

  • I was neighbors with Murakami in 1978 back there in Centerville "a real nice place to raise your kids."So...Murak ran off with my wife, my successful children are on crack,herion and strung out mentally.The unlucky ones died of overdose and another of forced rape with a rampaging HIV ...This film production as I saw it in the 75? was Zappa Crappa then and now there is just no excuse for this man re-incarnation of P.T.Barnum "A fool is born every minute".

  • god i remember the trip lines on that scene. hated zappa cos i thought he was deliberately trying to put all of us trippers in an asylum. whole movie played with my head. lucky i didn't have a bad one that night, but it was close.wow.

  • Is that mamma cass at 1:15?

  • PHYLLIS BRYN-JULSON

    Soprano

  • I'm not even worthy to lick the dirt off Zappa's shoes, even now that he's gone.

  • NEWTS!!!!

  • Zappa's intent was for this movie to NOT be a success, NOT be understandable, and to confuse people.

    But I still love it! It's the most random and funny thing I've ever seen!

  • A TECHNICOLOR INTERPOSITIVE!

  • Ahmet is that really you????

  • OMG that one cartoon's voice is Bart Simpson, twenty years before he was invented! Spooky

  • I'm stealing the room!!

  • WOOOOOOOOOOW!!! What can I say about this elixir?!?!?

    I love it.

  • A lot of people think you need to be on drugs to understand this movie. I disagree. My mind is completely screwed up as it is without the use of drugs or weird chemicals, and this movie makes just perfect sense. YOU try going on tour constantly and come out with a sane piece of cinema. XD

  • Fantastic, we all have met him!

  • excellent :)

  • I herd that Turner Classic Movies will let you vote on putting 200 motels on DVD

  • just fantastic!

  • not my kind of trip

  • That's something weird to argue about

  • wow... now I'm confused, and I think I would like to carry out a conversation with you. sorry did I offend you or does this have a point? because now I'm lost

  • why do you say that?

  • I my self don't do drugs but I like Frank Zappa and his funny music thats really why I like this film its's weird just like me

  • the animation is i think CAL SHENKEL,who did a lot of FZ's visuals and cover art work,the thing about acid, i ingested two purple microdots over 25 years ago and placed the first side of 200 motels on the turntable...i never got past the overture,it was as if hell itself had infiltrated my teen-age bedroom...it scared the shit out of me...nowadays as an older fucker i enjoy my FZ with a well-rolled number and maybe a few cognacs...FZ IS SORELY MISSED.

  • What can I say about this MAGICAL ELIXIR!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

  • Zappa was a huge fan of Salvador Dali

  • Always cut your acid intake by half before watching the entire film!!!

  • 8:10 is where i really start tripping out. especially on the

    PEEEAAACE! LOOOOOVE! part

  • And the coolest humorous people I´ve ever heard, read or seen... There´s a complete lack of humour in the world (and in rock, too, tho´Dread Zeppeling do what they can...) Zappa should be studied at schools, not just as the personality he is, but as a subject, like Geography, or Maths...

  • this stuff is pretty amazing. does the movie go in the same order as the album? or is it just the way the excerpt was edited?

  • 2 words... WHAT THE...?

  • The bird looks like Donald Duck. Is this the only part of the film that's animated? And who did it? Because it looks like a combination of Fritz the Cat and Terry Gillam's cartoons.

  • HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP

    this is very brken

  • Visitad el FORO DE LA MÚSICA DE FRANK ZAPPA.

    Buscad "Frank Zappa Indice" en vuestro buscador.

    Para todo aquellos que conoceis al maestro, como para todos aquellos que serán privilegiados de conocerlo!!!!

    Un Saludo!!!

  • I feel like Im on Acid after watching that.

  • Goshz guz he wanna be a mah speshul mix...

  • I still find it hard to beieve Zappa ddn't do drugs.

  • Zappa is a drug. Why would a drug need to do drugs?

  • He didn´t, he used to say burnt weenie sandwiches, tobacco and coffee were the only drugs he allowed to himself. But he couldn´t live without them... Zappa was one of the three or four real revolutionary composers in the 20th century, ahead of his time... ahead of any time.

  • likewise. its as if this freak was from another world.

  • nice editing!

    take a look at my demoreel (puppetanimation)

  • Tinsel-cock!?! LOL! :)

  • Bikel = Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof.

  • zappa ruled...way ahead of us on his enlightened views on dental hygiene

  • pure movie genius

  • Both shot at Pinewood, an epicentre of cinematic extravagance tha makes the MGM lot look like a termite-infested bordello. Two things I'd put serious money on: 1) Terry Gilliam's hand is in there somewhere 2) whoever created those "Red Bull gives you wiiiiiinnnggsss!!!!" ads was watching this.

  • newts are lovely dancers, until someone steps on one.

  • Never mind Pink Floyd The Wall, THIS is the ultimate movie to watch while on acid.

  • Yeah, 'cause "The Wall" is a cinematographer/producer/anima­tion specialist's wet dream, whereas this almost literally looks like shit flying around, specially the "even worse than most 60's stuff and PROUD, dammit" animation.

  • when on the road for a month touring this has to be top five songs cvny47

  • Some of the live action segments are boring as heck, but the animated segment is the best part of this whole movie.

  • I met Jimmy Murakami who did the animation sequence in Cologne in 1992. Seing this you won't believe he is totally normal!

  • Confusion reigns as to who actually did the animation - Cal Schenkel, Murakami & Wolf or Charles Swenson .... ??????!?!??

  • I talked to Jimmy Murakami once in an animation studio and I was told then that he made the animation. He didn't object, so I believe that he did.