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.
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@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.
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
FANTASTIC FRANK ZAPPA MASTER CLASS now free on Ustream! Theory and analysis of Peaches, Watermelon in Easter Hay, Envelopes, etc.. HUGELY fun, entertaining and educational. Type in "Dave Frank" Zappa on Ustream website anytime. You vill dig this:)
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....
@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.
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"
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.
@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.
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@pauldullson why attack the beatles and donovan far better people and musicians and wiser than Zappa, this is jargon, his attitude is sickening to me. his humor is irritating to me beyond anything. i don't like his guitar solos.and in the end the notes are just pretentious sounding to me. there is no soul to it. it's empty. it's also boring as hell
@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 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.
@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!!
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?
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.
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 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
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.
@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.
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.
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?
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".
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"
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.
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!!!!!!
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 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.
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
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Zappa was way ahead of his time. No doubt about that now.
337noname 1 month ago
this movie is meant to be watched while trippin
punkrokr1025 2 months ago
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.
NyeTunes 3 months ago
Keith Moon is the nun, in case anyone wondered... :-)
IronWhoaMan 3 months ago
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kirbyLUVsArii 8 months ago
Wasnt the whole '200 motels' movie shot in one take ? The soundtrack anyway
Boweavel 9 months ago
@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.
MrUnidyne 8 months ago
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Boweavel 9 months ago
Don't do it Jess. i'm not sure what's going on, but don't do it.
DimensionsofChange 11 months ago
it needs a certain amount of inner strength to appreciate this, but i do.
leezus83 11 months ago
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
WOMP2007 1 year ago
АЦИДОФИЛЬНОЕ КИНО.... ВДОХНОВЛЯЮЩЕ.....
barbar55barbar 1 year ago
wut a trip.
74jailbreaker 1 year ago
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AlessandroGulino 1 year ago
The genius!
AlessandroGulino 1 year ago
I don't need drugs to enjoy this. Just to enhance it! *__*
RockCleric420 1 year ago
I'm always saying..."which do you choooooooooossssse?"....I'd forgotten where it came from!
1967PONTIACGTO 1 year ago
wtf is 4:45
DIYTx 1 year ago
The soundtrack album is, in my opinion, one of the greatest albums ever made. I enjoy it much more than the film.
nigelchallenge 1 year ago
Now just remember, that was ALL a dental hygene dilemma.
evilsdream666 1 year ago
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Dfrankjazz 1 year ago
sorry frank but this is past me
boogster123321 1 year ago
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!
54markl 1 year ago
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....
andywells2 1 year ago
pauldullson: why is buying the dvd an utter waste of time?
dajohnthomas69 1 year ago
@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 1 year ago
@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.
LuneyTune72 4 months ago
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 1 year ago 2
@Nihilism4tw I prefer Ionesco but do see your point.
TumbrelJockey 1 year ago
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"
TumbrelJockey 1 year ago
If Al Kapp had taken some Karlheinz Stockhausen blotter
TumbrelJockey 1 year ago
Any one that expected anything else (seriously ) but Frank's having a laugh at those who would accept this as High Art.
TumbrelJockey 1 year ago
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.
colonelmarko 1 year ago
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.
curiousnomad 1 year ago
Do you think that Frank was having a poke at Jeff Simmons for leaving the group?
Orlor 1 year ago
@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.
tilopudrye 1 year ago
This is finally out on DVD!!!!!
1zappa 1 year ago
@1zappa Don't buy it - it's an utter waste of time.
pauldullson 1 year ago
@pauldullson what does this film mean
kayocampcrew 1 year ago
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@pauldullson why attack the beatles and donovan far better people and musicians and wiser than Zappa, this is jargon, his attitude is sickening to me. his humor is irritating to me beyond anything. i don't like his guitar solos.and in the end the notes are just pretentious sounding to me. there is no soul to it. it's empty. it's also boring as hell
jangohump 1 year ago
@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.
pauldullson 1 year ago 7
@jangohump you're dumb man. Go listen to Hot Rats and tell me there's any musician who can rival Zappa's genius.
Romencer17 1 year ago
@Romencer17 Beefhearts a lot better for one, but peter hammills the greatest a true genius with amazing lyrics unlike zappa
jangohump 1 year ago
@Romencer17
youre asolutely right !
waaltaar 10 months ago
@jangohump Well, there's always some nice Hannah Montana or Justin Bieber to listen to if this is too difficult.
MissBeckyBond 1 year ago
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@MissBeckyBond dont like beiber or montana but they're better than zappa, zappa is totally souless mumbo jumbo
jangohump 1 year ago
@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.
Harvey3rdman 10 months ago 2
@jangohump Boy you sure have your head up your ass, don't you??
dwrist66 11 months ago
@pauldullson Zappa was the top 3 musician/composer of all time. You're a waste of shit!
fadethetrade 9 months ago
@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!!
fadethetrade 9 months ago 2
@pauldullson all art is a waste of time when people that don't like it are looking and/or listening to it.
Idolcruisefix 7 months ago in playlist good art
oh god what a night - with a special elixtre - shold repair my old chair
kordinia 1 year ago
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.
crayrail 1 year ago
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?
StavrosIII 1 year ago
I have this strange feeling that Frank doesn't really think lyrics are important. ;-)
VladtheEmailer 1 year ago
Yo Bro Strike Team, I hear whatcha sayin... Frank was wanting want u to blur the boundaries man...peace and extaordanariness, foreva!!!!
Phreekoid 1 year ago
Having Zappa's name on it doesn't make it good
yorkebjorkporkfor9k 1 year ago
Ok, check this out. This film only took SEVEN DAYS to film!!!! This just shows that Zappa was a master of his art.
DemonWarp65 1 year ago
Frank Zappa was fantastic. 200 Motels is not.
rosskolnikov 1 year ago
dark side of a genius
TheGaetano62 1 year ago
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.
DemonWarp65 1 year ago
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.
2000toddowen 1 year ago
This pretty much sums up the early '70's. The artist clearly represented this era. God bless you Mr. Zappa.
leafarotosed 1 year ago
Damn, I gotta get me sum Shmertz beer! Put sum gusto in my life.
vveq 1 year ago
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.
TiniNormi 2 years ago
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
brusheee 2 years ago
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.
kd5smf 2 years ago
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
brusheee 2 years ago
Edgar Varese on acid!
atomkraftteddy 2 years ago
he puts an acid up in his mouth at 2:41
ouneouneouneoune 2 years ago
That's supposed to be the body of Christ. Some may say it's the same...
theecricket 2 years ago
oh man i cant believe this man didint do drugs!
florsails 2 years ago
200 motels. The earliest known for of a Youtube Poop.
gixzo 2 years ago 2
Brilliantly stupid. The epitome of absurdity.
(Sounds a lot like Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire to me)
semprini20 2 years ago
Nocturnal Emission.
gixzo 2 years ago 2
Better believe tv-onlineguide^^
komakot 2 years ago
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
StrikeTeam7 2 years ago 9
OMG, I toatally understand. That happened to me once too. Only it happened while the horror movie "Suspiria" was showing.
DemonWarp65 2 years ago
@StrikeTeam7
HAHAHA that made my day.
kljjlikjldsf 7 months ago 2
wow, me and my friends watched the whole movie, while we were stoned.
it was fuckin' crazy!
mushroomjelly 2 years ago
fish heads fish heads roly ploy fish heads
jdownsouth 2 years ago 2
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MumfredMigglesworth 2 years ago
homelessness has occasional side effects of socilal and spiritual stimulation, i thnk it's the lack of boxes, glowing, as well as enclosing.
Idolcruisefix 2 years ago
belive it or not zappa didn´t received
"assistance" of lcd to make any part of
this movie
grim11reefer 2 years ago 5
I suppose you meant LSD.
youvebeenthunderstru 2 years ago
No he meant and LCD HD TV which traveled through time to the early 70s through a wormhole.
pizzaspy 2 years ago
Ah, OK. I just thought it was LSD in that context.
youvebeenthunderstru 2 years ago
this puts david lynch to shame!
uglyguido 2 years ago 3
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.
Idolcruisefix 2 years ago
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 2 years ago
@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.
jancivil 7 months ago
o my fukken god i'm trippin balls
OmnipotentO 2 years ago
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.
Idolcruisefix 2 years ago
Could you be a little more holier-than-thou, self-righteous and clueless? Probably not,..
SororThothma 2 years ago
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.
Idolcruisefix 2 years ago
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?
Idolcruisefix 2 years ago
Your dribble is too incoherent to decipher. Is English your native language?
SororThothma 2 years ago
it's drivel, dribble does not require words or sounds, written or otherwise, and yes english is my native tongue.
Idolcruisefix 2 years ago
Quick subtle stab at Ahmet Ertegun 7:35
LMAO!!!!!!!!
FlamingoReaper 2 years ago
@FlamingoReaper Zappa was a friend of Ahmet Ertegun, admired him and has a son named Ahmet.
jancivil 7 months ago
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".
9114102349 2 years ago
hey folks you dont need drugs to have a good sense of humor.
SirYellowShark 2 years ago 10
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?
Giantsonicmonster 3 years ago 3
I'm here
exiledanusi 2 years ago
Tits and cock.
Everybody wins!
burningtrainwreck 3 years ago
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"
RapSince99sux 3 years ago
Like someone said on another video... FZ was extremely anti-drug. Watching this video on drugs is like slapping him across the face.
StephanieLives 3 years ago
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If it wasn't for drugs, Zappa would have sold eight records.
instantdogma 2 years ago
not true moron
SirYellowShark 2 years ago 2
That's funny, because I've never done drugs, and I own 83 of them. Huh.
NyeTunes 2 years ago 3
And iIve done LOTS of drugs and I only own three. So much for THAT theory.
CrudeDude 2 years ago
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.
dabebop 2 years ago 2
It's perfectly ok for several subjective plots to co-exist :-)
mryellow123 3 years ago
is that Christopher Lee doing the main male part in this clip? It sure sounds like him!
Zorsha 3 years ago
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!!!!!!
gl1200phil 3 years ago 3
Billy was a mountain.
A nun suit painted on some old boxes.
Funny as hell
TheBoneRanger1968 3 years ago
What a fuckin' trip that 10:44 minutes was man!
salmonico 3 years ago
Try it on a bloody acid tab, man... wheeeeeeeeeeee...! Lol!
catblanket14uk 3 years ago
freaky world of the psychedelic era.... can anyone tell me when the hippies started to die out in san francisco?
catblanket14uk 3 years ago
I watched this last night, and it gave me a headache.
It's brilliant, though. :D
beatlebijou 3 years ago
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! :)
iwantwatermellon 3 years ago
I love this video.
cobrafarmer 3 years ago
I need mushrooms
fucksatanism 3 years ago
Is that Bart Simpson's voice in that cartoon, 20 years before he was even born??!! LOL
mredtheanalyst 3 years ago
Is it now painfully obvious where The Residents got their influence! They blatantly copied all of Frank's moves.
willyrein 3 years ago
CENTERVILLE ahhhhhhhhhhhhh a real nice place to raise your kidsup
zappadead13 3 years ago
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".
MosheNL 3 years ago
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.
catblanket14uk 3 years ago
Is that mamma cass at 1:15?
axiom516 3 years ago
PHYLLIS BRYN-JULSON
Soprano
RAINRIEN 3 years ago
I'm not even worthy to lick the dirt off Zappa's shoes, even now that he's gone.
TiniNormi 3 years ago
NEWTS!!!!
SykesMacab 3 years ago
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!
Chickenpainter111 3 years ago
A TECHNICOLOR INTERPOSITIVE!
kkkisgay75 3 years ago 2
Ahmet is that really you????
svenolley 3 years ago
OMG that one cartoon's voice is Bart Simpson, twenty years before he was invented! Spooky
mredtheanalyst 3 years ago
I'm stealing the room!!
luppaman 3 years ago
WOOOOOOOOOOW!!! What can I say about this elixir?!?!?
I love it.
zigzagchild 3 years ago
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
PhantomAL 4 years ago
Fantastic, we all have met him!
PorziaatBelmont 4 years ago
excellent :)
sanchezdot 4 years ago
I herd that Turner Classic Movies will let you vote on putting 200 motels on DVD
johnroders 4 years ago
just fantastic!
tonindazombie17 4 years ago
not my kind of trip
LionsInTheNight 4 years ago
That's something weird to argue about
Numelsaince 4 years ago
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
johnroders 4 years ago
why do you say that?
johnroders 4 years ago
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
johnroders 4 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
i can't see it :(
peruanboy 4 years ago
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.
caitlynwillow 4 years ago
What can I say about this MAGICAL ELIXIR!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
AntiSwol 4 years ago
Zappa was a huge fan of Salvador Dali
ovneb 4 years ago
Always cut your acid intake by half before watching the entire film!!!
xeolite 4 years ago
8:10 is where i really start tripping out. especially on the
PEEEAAACE! LOOOOOVE! part
ngomez0077 4 years ago
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...
rohanroll 4 years ago
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?
jon15g 4 years ago
2 words... WHAT THE...?
richintalent 4 years ago
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.
MrBertstown 4 years ago
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP
this is very brken
ScareMeSexy71 4 years ago
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!!!
zappawazoo 4 years ago
I feel like Im on Acid after watching that.
puptentaclezappa 4 years ago
Goshz guz he wanna be a mah speshul mix...
kirkenbunken 4 years ago
I still find it hard to beieve Zappa ddn't do drugs.
charlessavarese 4 years ago
Zappa is a drug. Why would a drug need to do drugs?
satyr9us 4 years ago 2
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.
rohanroll 4 years ago
likewise. its as if this freak was from another world.
ngomez0077 4 years ago
nice editing!
take a look at my demoreel (puppetanimation)
bertportfolio 4 years ago
Tinsel-cock!?! LOL! :)
RobertCohn97 4 years ago
Bikel = Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof.
ozzyscruggs1 4 years ago
zappa ruled...way ahead of us on his enlightened views on dental hygiene
muthafudgical 4 years ago
pure movie genius
GOINGSOUTH12345 4 years ago
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.
narozzz 4 years ago
newts are lovely dancers, until someone steps on one.
theledzeppguy 4 years ago
Never mind Pink Floyd The Wall, THIS is the ultimate movie to watch while on acid.
bangkokianbanger 4 years ago
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.
narozzz 4 years ago
when on the road for a month touring this has to be top five songs cvny47
zappadead13 4 years ago
Some of the live action segments are boring as heck, but the animated segment is the best part of this whole movie.
Azusa109 4 years ago
I met Jimmy Murakami who did the animation sequence in Cologne in 1992. Seing this you won't believe he is totally normal!
Pectopan 4 years ago
Confusion reigns as to who actually did the animation - Cal Schenkel, Murakami & Wolf or Charles Swenson .... ??????!?!??
obnostic 3 years ago
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.
Pectopan 3 years ago