BTW: The photo is a Baron Wolman photo. I have a copy of it hanging in my house. It was taken behind Frank's house in Laurel Canyon. The original is in black and white and then hand tinted/colored. You can get your own for a gazillion dollars at some fancy art joint now...I got mine "back then." Which means I'm an Old Fart At Play.
Zappa was a thoughtful intelligent man who simply wrote about the absurdity of daily life! As I once read in an interview, he was conducting a lifelong observation of the society that takes itself way to seriousley. I am paraphrasing but he was singing about the very hipocrytes who haven't the least idea what he was saying. lol
Zappa was a thoughtful intelligent man who simply wrote about the absurdity of daily life! As I once read in an interview, he was conducting a lifelong observation of the society that takes itself way to seriousley. I am paraphrasing but he was singing about the very hipocrytes who haven't the least idea what he was saying. lol
Zappa was a thoughtful intelligent man who simply wrote about the absurdity of daily life! As I once read in an interview, he was conducting a lifelong observation of the society that takes itself way to seriousley. I am paraphrasing but he was singing about the very hipocrytes who haven't the least idea what he was saying. lol
These may be the most important of all the Zappa boots. Everybody knew the tunes, but lots of people were willfully unaware of the social and political repercussions of the events depicted in the lyrics. We're seeing a return of this sort of political/religious intertwining once again.
Funny, but Someone should sue....!!! Zappa was proof positive that the devil showed up early for armagedon and had nothing else to do.... Frank you were unique, or was that unic, i can never decide....
I think he shows some respect here for the f.f. The music is pretty faithful and he left some lyrics in tact. Frank hated hypocritical politicians and church leaders.
Once again: listen to the music or not. You like? You don't like? Who cares! Enjoy or let it go. Hate is easy. Kick at anyone, as long as it is without consequences (oh and I love the Beatles by the way).
@quaxk ya real hateful... im sure thats why ringo was in his film 200 motels, and why his own carrer is littered with beatles refrances. man some times people joke, and are sarcastic
@quaxk Are you thick? It's called humour and he's always been known to lampoon other bands and none of them have ever had a problem with it because it raises their profile and keeps them relevant. Same as the press or talk show hosts talking about you. It's the biz.
@quaxk The beatles are boring, one demensional , and vanilla. So calm down Frank Zappa was joking around. The beatles aren't worth how aggravated you got over this.
@starlight9275 "The beatles are boring, one demensional , and vanilla". Spoken like a true avant garde elitist and a snotty shyte. How was Strawberry Fields vanilla? Or a Day in the Life? FFS, stuff like the Bay City Rollers etc, etc were vanilla and 1d. The Beatles were quite talented.
........but no, everything that isnt the most 'underground', unique, niche stuff that no one who isnt an arrogant buffoon has heard of is 'pop', 'pap' or some other trite pontificatory insult
@quaxk Zappa would tell all you mediocraties ,"I'm completely unrepentant,so go fuck yourself"! Or better yet,what Beethoven told to Shindler,"you're a bore and an ass"
@quaxk Are you even aware that Frank Zappa and John Lennon were friends? Or are you too young/dense/clueless/uneducated for that? At any rate, do y'er hatin' over at the Milli Vanilli site or something. No offense to you as a human or anything but: "Grow up or shut up." Or both.
@quaxk I think u take satire too seriously. Just becuase Zappa and the band did satirical parady of Beatles tunes does not make it true that he was hateful towards the Beatles work. Frank always enjoyed being outragious to make people think. If you want to see what I consider some really profound independent thinking watch all the YouTube vids of interviews with Frank. I think he was one of the most brilliant public figures of all time both in terms of intense music and phiosophy.
@quaxk You must be liking your own comment, because your talking bollox, Frank had the right to satirize whoever he wanted, i didnt realise how shallow the Beatles music was until i listened to Frank Zappa, and furthermore its just a bit off fun. Dont speak ill of the dead man, its not cool.
@quaxk No, it actually isn't. It's hateful toward the corrupt televangelists and politicians Zappa was making fun of. I think the fact that Frank chose to spend 10 minutes of his concert playing the Beatles music shows that he had great respect for their tunes. You clueless git.
Thanks A LOT... by the way the image is Frank at the back of his home in Laurel Canyon taken by my friend Baron Wolman, one interesting addition, the original is a black and white picture and the one you're showing was colored by hand by the very same Baron Wolman. He gave one original of the same picture when my last daughter was born back in 2000!
@boondawgle Yes, it's on Baron Wolman's book "Classic Rock and Other Rollers" and I think it's also in his new book "Every Picture Tells a Story, the Rolling Stone Years" 2011, but... have you heard the news... can't afford no shoes!!! Long live Zappa!
Louisiana Hooker With Herpes Picture yourself with a whore in New Orleans, with big purple welts, all over her bod. Somebody calls and you answer quite slowly. It's the board from Assembly O' God Ignorant crackers like you've never seen, groveling under your bed. Look for the girl with the spoo in her lap, and she's gone! Louisiana hooker with herpes. Louisiana hooker with herpes. Louisiana hooker with herpes. Owwww!
Picture yourself on your own TV station, with brain-dead supporters with tears in their eyes. Suddenly someone is there at commercial, the girl with the pee-hole surprise. Louisiana hooker with herpes. [c'mon now!] Louisiana hooker with herpes. Louisiana hooker with herpes. Owwww! Ow! Louisiana hooker with herpes. Louisiana hooker with herpes. Louisiana hooker with herpes. Owwww! Ow
@Rabid47 well both bands where complex in different ways, Frank Zappa was very musically complex and Inventive, whilst The Beatles where very complex in their writing.
but comparing the beatles to frank zappa is like comparing apples to wardrobes, they're just way to different to compare, but both are great just in very different ways.
FZ was a SERIOUS composer + musician, who also knew how to have fun + had a great sense of humour. He worked in almost every musical genre. He began as a composer, with influences such as Varèse, Stravinsky and jazz.
As for "being too busy feeling superior", in his 52 years he released over 60 LPs, toured everywhere, worked with Pierre Boulez + incredible musicians. THAT'S BEING BUSY WITH MUSIC.
John Lennon was often satirical, but too busy with drugs + bitterness to record for 5 years.
I'm not going to share this on my Woodstock Nation Page if you don't let me put the vid there. I want to be able to do segues. Let me know if you change your mind. I don't get it, anyway. It's not any less secure on fb than it is here.
@AntiFaithNY dude your'e an idiot. haha the beatles wrote simple songs with catchy melodies. Frank Zappa wipes the floor with the beatles lyrically and musically. He's much more intelectual than the beatles, but i will always be a Beatles fan. I mean come on Frank Zappa basically took everything and made it into music, and figured i might as well get a message out even if its suppose to be a joke
Can you tell the difference between "I'm too smart to listen to fm radio its complete drivel" and "frank zappa couldn't write lyrics as well as the beatles"? probably not lol.
@AntiFaithNY where did i dismiss anything? I made a statement about their relative lyrical ability. A statement which I don't really think is all that controversial but which i admit is totally my opinion. The guy that i was arguing with saying things to the effect of "no educated musician listens to am radio" i assume he meant fm, but he is saying pop music has no value at all. Yeah maybe i minimized franks ability, but i didn't say his work is completely without value(dismissing).
@Rabid47 frank zappa was a genius. he went to berklee colege of music with steve vai where they sucked each other off and fucked each other. frank played freeform "air sculptures" while steve would try to transcribe the beautiful art sculpture by ear for a tabs book. george harrison probably couldn't even play that tabs booklet if he tried for like a million years. what afucking idiot.
So what age did Frank Zappa and Steve Vai attend Berklee (sic) college of Music?
Seeing as the average enrolment age was 18 - 24, Steve Vai would have been approximately
4 years old when Frank was 24. Frank Zappa did'nt resort to fellating minors. You might know about computers but you seem to know very little about either Frank Zappa or Steve Vai.
@hammer44head - you know, you're really not a very good troll. I was actually tempted to THINK of a response. You can't even get the total lack of civility right. you're just a wimp who's wrong. Wow...
good Lord...what was there for him to like....Zappa is a well established contemporary composer who could converse with people like shostakovich...the beatles needed george martin to clean up their saloon act. they couldnt even read a page of zappas music if their life depended on it. educated musicians dont listen to am radio...sorry. dont want to insult anyone but its like wondering if picasso liked stan lee comics.
@zebb1111 I can't imagine FZ liked the Beatles because if it was popular, Zappa criticised it. He was a social critic more than anything else. "Dancin' Fool", "Valley Girl" and most of his other stuff were critical of anything popular.
@BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS its not elitism, its just a passion that drives one to study their field of interest as opposed to learning 3 chords to pick up some high school chicks. whats wrong with excellence anyway. you need to ask your self some of those questions before you waste your life on drivel.
@zebb1111 it is elitist. pop music is art regardless of whether or not you choose to acknowledge it as such. complex doesn't always mean better and dismissing entire genres of music because they aren't sophisticated enough for your discerning palette is the height of arrogance. frank may have blown the beatles out of the water in terms of composing ability, but lennon/mccartney where lightyears ahead of frank in their ability to write the words that go with the songs.
@BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS no one was talking about lyrical content here...until now. pop music was a creation of the elite to keep the masses stupid. it takes focus to listen to a piece that is more than 4 minutes long. its all part of the dumbing down of society. the cult of celebrity is pushed on us from all sides so that instead of talking about the real issues, pêople talk about michael jacksons "genius" for months after his death. big deal, he could walk backwards fancy. think about it.
@zebb1111 - Okay, I've thought about it.....and come to conclusion that not only do I think you've had a nip of the polka-dot acid, but Zappa would probably feel the same way. Pop music has so much history behind it that there's no imaginable way that it WOULDN'T have organically come into being, conspiracies be damned. I'm sure it's tempting to sit there listening to Plastic People and hear it as an attack on the subliminal messages of conformity within "Louie, Louie".....
@narozzz ....a song which -suprise, suprise- Zappa loved. If anything, it's an expression of astonished disdain at the ability of other people who can relate with the very same song that appeals so deeply to HIS sensibility of non-confromity to remain doggedly conformist. A depressing statement on the superficiality of consumers moreso than the content they consume. Nirvana made this statement very directly with "In Bloom" - You can sing along without knowing what it means. Or caring.
@narozzz - And sometimes, as in Zappa's case, the futility of this can motivate an artist to be extremely blunt in making a point. He's not just singing about Someone Else...
@zebb1111 Shostakovich was a serious composer whose pieces were rife with harmonic complexities the likes of which Zappa wouldn't have been fit to grovel at, let alone comprehend on a page of sheet music. And btw, any moron can learn to read and write music just like they learned their abc's; it's sheer nomenclature and has absolutely nothing to do with the intrinsic value of that which goes on the sheet, though oblivious fucks like yourself will continue to be impressed by it.
@vampyros1 Frank Zappa was a serious composer. He studied Stravinsky, Varèse, worked with Pierre Boulez, several ensembles. Frank worked within several genres of music, not just rock, and proved he could play and compose in any style or tradition. Look at the people he had working for him: Steve Vai, Adrian Belew, Jon-Luc Ponty, George Duke, Ruth Underwood, to name just a few.
Examine his jazz works. Try "The Eric Dolphy memorial barbecue".
@zebb1111 - Picasso owes more to cartoons than the world of "fine" art. By a long shot. George Herriman of Krazy Kat fame was his favorite artist. History is a lot weirder than you probably realize...
Pretty funny stuff. Frank was a great artist and something of an iconoclast, and I wouldn't completely accept it at face value that he only liked three Beatle songs.
@whitford70 - He must have liked Tomorrow Never Knows, he lifted an editing method from it, refined it*, gave it a name of his own invention and used it dozens of times! Hint: It starts with an 'X'.....
@narozzz *That, in case you missed it, is the part where I make it clear that I am NOT trying to start a flame war here. Ignore it at this thread's peril....
@narozzz *And also bear in mind that this is a guy who, in the sleeve of his first album, credits literally DOZENS of people with inspiring him. If you ever suggested to him that he invented everything he ever tried to do, he would probably just laugh.
Heartbark - when asked what all time compositions he wished he'd written, Zappa said I Am The Walrus. Don't be so sure of yourself - you confirm your card-carrying idiocy.
Zappa isn't making fun of the Beatles. He is using the Beatles songs as a motif to mock Jimmy Swaggart, the famous TV Evangelist who was caught with a Loiusianna Hoooker. I think he chose that motif because it was popular, and he knew that the Beatles wouldn't sue him, my guess is that John Lennon thought is was really funny.
He didn't have to like all their music to appreciate them. He did meet John and Yoko and agreed to record some tracks with them. They then messed it all up which pissed him off big time. That was probably the straw that broke the camels back so to speak.
yep dont try to break it down to understand it. Enjoy what it is as a whole. I hate fucking critics. like those who say monets reds and brown paintings are from a Mad period, they are from FALL SCENES , DUH
I can't believe people misinterpret this medley as a tribute to the Beatles...What makes you think Frank would need to pay respect to a band that ripped him off? They even admitted to doing it. I like some Beatles songs (most are boring) but I know that this medley probably took an afternoon to learn. The reason they play it so well is because Frank made his band very tight, he could rely on them to perform a song live while learning it. Don't believe me? Check out his rendition of Satumaa.
I've heard something to the effect that occasionally Lennon liked to substitute lewd lyrics because the crowds were too loud anyway, and he thought it was a good laugh. The actual example was, "I want to hold your gland."
@Yesornoization Having been in far less successful bands, I can relate. we'd sing filthy stuff just to see if anyone caught it. looking back at my drummer, we shared some of the best laughs ever!
If Zappa's in Hell, That is fine for me I would join him any time, you can have your phony heaven!
lexgunner 1 day ago
john would love it
presidentkennedy 4 days ago
Sometimes you gotta laugh at life. Miss ya Frank!
GuyRNiles 5 days ago
Thank you Zappa.
boiledrootbeer 6 days ago
BTW: The photo is a Baron Wolman photo. I have a copy of it hanging in my house. It was taken behind Frank's house in Laurel Canyon. The original is in black and white and then hand tinted/colored. You can get your own for a gazillion dollars at some fancy art joint now...I got mine "back then." Which means I'm an Old Fart At Play.
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Zappa was a thoughtful intelligent man who simply wrote about the absurdity of daily life! As I once read in an interview, he was conducting a lifelong observation of the society that takes itself way to seriousley. I am paraphrasing but he was singing about the very hipocrytes who haven't the least idea what he was saying. lol
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Zappa was a thoughtful intelligent man who simply wrote about the absurdity of daily life! As I once read in an interview, he was conducting a lifelong observation of the society that takes itself way to seriousley. I am paraphrasing but he was singing about the very hipocrytes who haven't the least idea what he was saying. lol
RAELIMPERIALKID 1 week ago
Zappa was a thoughtful intelligent man who simply wrote about the absurdity of daily life! As I once read in an interview, he was conducting a lifelong observation of the society that takes itself way to seriousley. I am paraphrasing but he was singing about the very hipocrytes who haven't the least idea what he was saying. lol
RAELIMPERIALKID 1 week ago
These may be the most important of all the Zappa boots. Everybody knew the tunes, but lots of people were willfully unaware of the social and political repercussions of the events depicted in the lyrics. We're seeing a return of this sort of political/religious intertwining once again.
Zappa was more prophetic than he could know.
2standard 1 week ago
Funny, but Someone should sue....!!! Zappa was proof positive that the devil showed up early for armagedon and had nothing else to do.... Frank you were unique, or was that unic, i can never decide....
195Razorc 2 weeks ago
may this take never be errased, it is most fantastic,even the sound is perfect, as perfect as thees years was possible of makingeng
20hund06 2 weeks ago
Is this commercially available?
MichaelSJLH 2 weeks ago
lucy had a hooker with herpes! arf arf arf arf
facepull123123 3 weeks ago
@facepull123123 Lousiana hooker with herpes. : )
MrMelon049 3 weeks ago
I'm a huge beatles fan, but this is fucking halarious. Plus I'm also a huge frank zappa fan.
Frobe1357 3 weeks ago
..Warning: only suited for people who are worldly intelligent and cool like our mate frank.. RIP,
seaeagles64 3 weeks ago
This is about Jimmy Swaggert's funny Escopades after Tammy and Brown Shoe got BUSTED. LIVE ON TOUR 88. We Took Them DOWN!!!
stuzapusa 4 weeks ago
This was about the Jim Bakker scandal and the Jimmy Swaggart scandal. And it's funny as shit!
theunbubba 1 month ago
Is it possible to like a song 1 million times. This is funny as shit.
takidigits13 1 month ago
I think he shows some respect here for the f.f. The music is pretty faithful and he left some lyrics in tact. Frank hated hypocritical politicians and church leaders.
solarwave 1 month ago
Always great to wake up, have some coffee, and find some Zappa gem on You Tube I've never heard before to put a smile on my face.
Aanensen2010 1 month ago
I remember Louisiana Hooker with Herpes from the Brighton concert 88. Excellent!
sarahacres 1 month ago
RIP ~FZ~ we could sure use your witicism and intelligence about now
ianzbradmire 1 month ago
ok. I love the Beatles and Frank Zappa and so what? He changed the lyrics and he had fun with it. He stays true to the melodies.
Ihitthings3 2 months ago
Once again: listen to the music or not. You like? You don't like? Who cares! Enjoy or let it go. Hate is easy. Kick at anyone, as long as it is without consequences (oh and I love the Beatles by the way).
rkslgbm 2 months ago
wow, that's quite hateful towards the beatles work, oh well, he got his comeuppance, he's rotting in the ground now
quaxk 2 months ago 3
@quaxk ya real hateful... im sure thats why ringo was in his film 200 motels, and why his own carrer is littered with beatles refrances. man some times people joke, and are sarcastic
GanjaGabe 1 month ago
@quaxk what a nasty piece of work you are!
Carizmojones 1 month ago
@quaxk Are you thick? It's called humour and he's always been known to lampoon other bands and none of them have ever had a problem with it because it raises their profile and keeps them relevant. Same as the press or talk show hosts talking about you. It's the biz.
Jay435 1 month ago
@quaxk The beatles are boring, one demensional , and vanilla. So calm down Frank Zappa was joking around. The beatles aren't worth how aggravated you got over this.
starlight9275 1 month ago
@starlight9275 Possibly. But I'll bet all four Beatles could spell "dimensional."
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@starlight9275 "The beatles are boring, one demensional , and vanilla". Spoken like a true avant garde elitist and a snotty shyte. How was Strawberry Fields vanilla? Or a Day in the Life? FFS, stuff like the Bay City Rollers etc, etc were vanilla and 1d. The Beatles were quite talented.
........but no, everything that isnt the most 'underground', unique, niche stuff that no one who isnt an arrogant buffoon has heard of is 'pop', 'pap' or some other trite pontificatory insult
DoctorBohr 2 weeks ago
@quaxk Zappa would tell all you mediocraties ,"I'm completely unrepentant,so go fuck yourself"! Or better yet,what Beethoven told to Shindler,"you're a bore and an ass"
fadethetrade 1 month ago
@quaxk you have no sense of humor. what a miserable person you are.
pletonicsolids 1 month ago
@quaxk I guess your comeuppance is that you're stuck being a humourless dork
MsKillah13 2 weeks ago
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@quaxk Expect a visit from Kaptain Karma, you clueless humorless douchebag.
recalcitrist1 2 weeks ago 2
@quaxk Are you even aware that Frank Zappa and John Lennon were friends? Or are you too young/dense/clueless/uneducated for that? At any rate, do y'er hatin' over at the Milli Vanilli site or something. No offense to you as a human or anything but: "Grow up or shut up." Or both.
DocEleven 1 week ago 2
@quaxk you lose
StickitOut123 6 days ago
@quaxk I think u take satire too seriously. Just becuase Zappa and the band did satirical parady of Beatles tunes does not make it true that he was hateful towards the Beatles work. Frank always enjoyed being outragious to make people think. If you want to see what I consider some really profound independent thinking watch all the YouTube vids of interviews with Frank. I think he was one of the most brilliant public figures of all time both in terms of intense music and phiosophy.
HenryJIII 6 days ago 2
@quaxk Not really if you listen it's about those televangelist pricks.
luvstospooge99 4 days ago 2
@quaxk WRONG. I suppose you hate WEIRD AL for "Perform This Way", too, huh?
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@quaxk You must be liking your own comment, because your talking bollox, Frank had the right to satirize whoever he wanted, i didnt realise how shallow the Beatles music was until i listened to Frank Zappa, and furthermore its just a bit off fun. Dont speak ill of the dead man, its not cool.
TrueBlueEG8 2 days ago
@quaxk No, it actually isn't. It's hateful toward the corrupt televangelists and politicians Zappa was making fun of. I think the fact that Frank chose to spend 10 minutes of his concert playing the Beatles music shows that he had great respect for their tunes. You clueless git.
NicePete 2 days ago 5
@quaxk Actually it's not hateful towards the Beatles... he was a big fan of the Beatles and John went on stage and performed with him a few times.
FloydyTube 1 day ago
Thanks A LOT... by the way the image is Frank at the back of his home in Laurel Canyon taken by my friend Baron Wolman, one interesting addition, the original is a black and white picture and the one you're showing was colored by hand by the very same Baron Wolman. He gave one original of the same picture when my last daughter was born back in 2000!
gliedo 2 months ago
@gliedo its a great picture - very unique shot of zappa. I've seen it before, I thought maybe in a book. Could be wrong.
boondawgle 2 months ago
@boondawgle Yes, it's on Baron Wolman's book "Classic Rock and Other Rollers" and I think it's also in his new book "Every Picture Tells a Story, the Rolling Stone Years" 2011, but... have you heard the news... can't afford no shoes!!! Long live Zappa!
gliedo 2 months ago
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gerardoliedo 2 months ago
Zappa Universy..join now...
catfishbates1 2 months ago
Hahahahaha...Oh Frank we miss you!!
greggorypeccary1 2 months ago
'Wasn't a prayer...' - genius.
TonyNewman 2 months ago
It's Ok Thank you for the upload . Love the pic. I saw Frank same year in Ma. One of the best shows I ever saw.
MrShoeman21 3 months ago
Damn! I accidentally thumbed down. Sorry Frank. I love the Beatles, but I love this too. Frank cracks me up. Dissing the Beatle gods. Priceless.
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Norwegian Jim
Jim... once had a girl, or should we say, she once had he.
She... showed him her room, isn't it swell, Texas Motel.
She asked him to stay and she told him to sit anywhere.
So Jim looked around and he noticed there wasn't a prayer.
SavageHenrry 3 months ago
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Jim... took off his rug, biding his time, pounding his pud.
He... prayed until two, and then she said, "How 'bout some head?"
She said she was booked in the morning with Falwell and Pat.
Jim told her he wasn't, and dribbled some spoo in her lap.
And... when he awoke, he was alone, she'd honed his cone.
So... he let her fly, isn't it swell, Texas Motel
But then, suddenly...
SavageHenrry 3 months ago
SavageHenrry 3 months ago 2
We saw her go down to a room by the airport,
where Jimmy gets off watching pornography.
Everyone smiles as we tread through his horseshit,
that grows so incredibly high.
Newspaper writers appear at his door, waiting to take Jim away.
He climbs in the back with his head up his ass, and he's gone!
Louisiana hooker with herpes.
[everybody!] Louisiana hooker with herpes.
Louisiana hooker with herpes.
Owwww
SavageHenrry 3 months ago
SavageHenrry 3 months ago
Texas Motel
Let me take you down, 'cause we're going to... the Texas Motel.
Don't mind the smell.
It's nothing to get hung about.
Please leave your cash on the table.
SavageHenrry 3 months ago
Weeping looks better with eyes closed...
While I'm confessing all my sins.
[Oh, please forgive me. Oh, I've sinned!]
It's getting hard to plook someone, but it all works out.
It's all pornography to Jim.
SavageHenrry 3 months ago
Let me take you down, 'cause we're going to... the Texas Motel.
We might go to hell.
But we'll have lots of company.
Falwell and Pat and that weasel.
SavageHenrry 3 months ago
No one knows who's in my dream...
[Bud McFarlane, ladies & gentlemen]
I mean it must be high or low. (I think)
[freshly indicted] I mean, I can't you know, tune in, but it's all right.
[He can plea bargain this one]
That is, I think it's not too bad.
SavageHenrry 3 months ago
Let me take you down, 'cause we're going to... the Texas Motel.
Don't mind the smell.
It's just some jizz from Jimmy-boy.
How 'bout some hay for the donkey?
SavageHenrry 3 months ago
No one knows, sometimes think it's me...
[Ed Meese, ladies & gentlemen] But you know, I know when it's a dream.
[I think]
I think I know, I mean, I guess, but it's all wrong.
[Wait a minute, that's right]
That is, I think I disagree. [Uhh...]
SavageHenrry 3 months ago
Let me take you down, 'cause we're going to... the Texas Motel.
Don't mind the smell.
It's just some old pornography.
Just keep on strokin' that sausage.
Just keep on strokin' that sausage.
[Jimmy-boy!] Just keep on strokin' that sausage.
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SavageHenrry 3 months ago
Lyrics, please..!!!
SinParadigmas 3 months ago
@SinParadigmas : Lyrics!
SavageHenrry 3 months ago
How would the world look today if Frank Zappa was elected for US president in the 80s ....
Synapsenkitzler 3 months ago
LYRICS PLEASE!
biel13biel 3 months ago 14
@biel13biel
Norwegian Jim (Norwegian Wood)
Louisiana Hooker with Herpes (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)
The Texas Motel (Strawberry Fields)
The link to the lyrics is:
health.groups.yahoo.com/group/psychedelicsixties/message/1242
Sena25 1 month ago
He wasn't indifferent - it's just that he had no sacred cows....
DaveTheHatAppleton 3 months ago 3
fz belongs to the future
inognol 3 months ago 22
Lucy had a hooker with herpes, i think she may have been on LSD at the time.
ItsTiedToAStick 3 months ago
what the Frank????
catfishbates1 3 months ago
@CerebralEntrophy
It'll be a good day when you get off your high horse, you fuckin dickless ponce.
Go find some kids to scare, wanker.
Rabid47 3 months ago
zappa is a king#
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kthjnkn 4 months ago
@CerebralEntrophy :
If the Beatles wrote music as complex as FZs, I'd probably like them as much as I like FZ.
But they did'nt,
And I'd rather be a stupid fanboy than fuckin know-nothing prick. Get over yourself.
Rabid47 4 months ago
@Rabid47 well both bands where complex in different ways, Frank Zappa was very musically complex and Inventive, whilst The Beatles where very complex in their writing.
but comparing the beatles to frank zappa is like comparing apples to wardrobes, they're just way to different to compare, but both are great just in very different ways.
Frobe1357 3 months ago
@Frobe1357
What's so great about apples and wardrobes?
Comparing pigs to ponies is another matter entirely.
Rabid47 3 months ago
@Rabid47 what is that even supposed to mean?
Frobe1357 3 months ago
@Frobe1357
Shhhhhh........he's making me say this stuff.
Rabid47 3 months ago
FAUL
rammrodd999 4 months ago
JOHN AND GEORGE WERE THE BEATLES,PAUL DIED IN 66
rammrodd999 4 months ago
IN THIS YEAR JOHN COULDNT SUE ANYONE JUST HIS LEFTOVER FUKKING HAG ! FUKK U YOKO
rammrodd999 4 months ago
COCAINE IS A HELL OV A DRUG
rammrodd999 4 months ago
ZAPPA DID IT ALL BEFORE ANYONE EVEN LOOKED UP FROM THE PLATE
rammrodd999 4 months ago
Freak Out was a direct influence on Sergeant Peppers. Just saying.
Shukes2 4 months ago
It was most probably because of Frank Zappa that Steve Vai became the god he is.
salasvalor01 4 months ago
@CerebralEntrophy If that's what you call art, I'm not sure your opinon means anything here. Why don't you go find Paul McCartney and suck his balls.
jfleminator 4 months ago
@CerebralEntrophy You can't even spell entropy right ya fuckin' moron.
jfleminator 4 months ago
FZ the best american composer of all time...he was the new Spike Jones...do your homework
catfishbates1 4 months ago
FZ was a SERIOUS composer + musician, who also knew how to have fun + had a great sense of humour. He worked in almost every musical genre. He began as a composer, with influences such as Varèse, Stravinsky and jazz.
As for "being too busy feeling superior", in his 52 years he released over 60 LPs, toured everywhere, worked with Pierre Boulez + incredible musicians. THAT'S BEING BUSY WITH MUSIC.
John Lennon was often satirical, but too busy with drugs + bitterness to record for 5 years.
MangoDTango 4 months ago 2
@MangoDTango - And his wife and kids. that'll keep you busy...
narozzz 2 months ago
MAKE MY FOOKIN' DAY
JUGAopet1 4 months ago
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I'm not going to share this on my Woodstock Nation Page if you don't let me put the vid there. I want to be able to do segues. Let me know if you change your mind. I don't get it, anyway. It's not any less secure on fb than it is here.
robin56 4 months ago in playlist 10-22-11
i hate beatles!
holicat098 4 months ago
@holicat098
So don't eat them.
Rabid47 3 months ago
Haha geniuss. I hope Jim heard this.
savedbychrist666 4 months ago
maybe this is where weird al got the idea to make parody's of songs.
or maybe he got it the idea from staying in a (Texas Motel) B)
ghostfacedude93 4 months ago
@AntiFaithNY dude your'e an idiot. haha the beatles wrote simple songs with catchy melodies. Frank Zappa wipes the floor with the beatles lyrically and musically. He's much more intelectual than the beatles, but i will always be a Beatles fan. I mean come on Frank Zappa basically took everything and made it into music, and figured i might as well get a message out even if its suppose to be a joke
CommBreakDown 4 months ago
Can you tell the difference between "I'm too smart to listen to fm radio its complete drivel" and "frank zappa couldn't write lyrics as well as the beatles"? probably not lol.
BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS 4 months ago
@AntiFaithNY where did i dismiss anything? I made a statement about their relative lyrical ability. A statement which I don't really think is all that controversial but which i admit is totally my opinion. The guy that i was arguing with saying things to the effect of "no educated musician listens to am radio" i assume he meant fm, but he is saying pop music has no value at all. Yeah maybe i minimized franks ability, but i didn't say his work is completely without value(dismissing).
BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS 4 months ago
@BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS
Why do you 'assume' he meant FM ?
Rabid47 3 months ago
@Rabid47 frank zappa was a genius. he went to berklee colege of music with steve vai where they sucked each other off and fucked each other. frank played freeform "air sculptures" while steve would try to transcribe the beautiful art sculpture by ear for a tabs book. george harrison probably couldn't even play that tabs booklet if he tried for like a million years. what afucking idiot.
BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS 3 months ago
@BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS
So what age did Frank Zappa and Steve Vai attend Berklee (sic) college of Music?
Seeing as the average enrolment age was 18 - 24, Steve Vai would have been approximately
4 years old when Frank was 24. Frank Zappa did'nt resort to fellating minors. You might know about computers but you seem to know very little about either Frank Zappa or Steve Vai.
Rabid47 3 months ago
@Rabid47 dude that was totally sic....totally sic.
BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS 3 months ago
@Rabid47 you can't troll me baby man your trolls literally make me sick. how could a person be so retarded
BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS 3 months ago
@BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS almost too stupid to comment on
smwrbd 2 weeks ago
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BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS 4 months ago
Typical Zappa noise,head music and dead from the neck down.Should have took some singing lessons.
hammer44head 5 months ago
@hammer44head - you know, you're really not a very good troll. I was actually tempted to THINK of a response. You can't even get the total lack of civility right. you're just a wimp who's wrong. Wow...
narozzz 2 months ago
@narozzz - You did think of a response,a lame one but still a response.
hammer44head 2 months ago
Zappa was not thrilled by the Beatles. Hardly. He said he liked a few songs but was non-plused by the majority of it. Therefore . . . . parody.
probrojeffro 5 months ago
good Lord...what was there for him to like....Zappa is a well established contemporary composer who could converse with people like shostakovich...the beatles needed george martin to clean up their saloon act. they couldnt even read a page of zappas music if their life depended on it. educated musicians dont listen to am radio...sorry. dont want to insult anyone but its like wondering if picasso liked stan lee comics.
zebb1111 5 months ago
@zebb1111 I can't imagine FZ liked the Beatles because if it was popular, Zappa criticised it. He was a social critic more than anything else. "Dancin' Fool", "Valley Girl" and most of his other stuff were critical of anything popular.
mrsgstd 5 months ago
@zebb1111 elitist baby
BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS 5 months ago
@BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS its not elitism, its just a passion that drives one to study their field of interest as opposed to learning 3 chords to pick up some high school chicks. whats wrong with excellence anyway. you need to ask your self some of those questions before you waste your life on drivel.
zebb1111 5 months ago
@zebb1111 it is elitist. pop music is art regardless of whether or not you choose to acknowledge it as such. complex doesn't always mean better and dismissing entire genres of music because they aren't sophisticated enough for your discerning palette is the height of arrogance. frank may have blown the beatles out of the water in terms of composing ability, but lennon/mccartney where lightyears ahead of frank in their ability to write the words that go with the songs.
BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS 5 months ago
@BOKNOWSCOMPUTERS no one was talking about lyrical content here...until now. pop music was a creation of the elite to keep the masses stupid. it takes focus to listen to a piece that is more than 4 minutes long. its all part of the dumbing down of society. the cult of celebrity is pushed on us from all sides so that instead of talking about the real issues, pêople talk about michael jacksons "genius" for months after his death. big deal, he could walk backwards fancy. think about it.
zebb1111 5 months ago
@zebb1111
Woah like man like you like really like showed like them like man! Like I wish like we could like all be as like enlightened as like you, man!
Verbeke7 4 months ago
@zebb1111 - Okay, I've thought about it.....and come to conclusion that not only do I think you've had a nip of the polka-dot acid, but Zappa would probably feel the same way. Pop music has so much history behind it that there's no imaginable way that it WOULDN'T have organically come into being, conspiracies be damned. I'm sure it's tempting to sit there listening to Plastic People and hear it as an attack on the subliminal messages of conformity within "Louie, Louie".....
narozzz 2 months ago
@narozzz ....a song which -suprise, suprise- Zappa loved. If anything, it's an expression of astonished disdain at the ability of other people who can relate with the very same song that appeals so deeply to HIS sensibility of non-confromity to remain doggedly conformist. A depressing statement on the superficiality of consumers moreso than the content they consume. Nirvana made this statement very directly with "In Bloom" - You can sing along without knowing what it means. Or caring.
narozzz 2 months ago
@narozzz - And sometimes, as in Zappa's case, the futility of this can motivate an artist to be extremely blunt in making a point. He's not just singing about Someone Else...
narozzz 2 months ago
@zebb1111 Shostakovich was a serious composer whose pieces were rife with harmonic complexities the likes of which Zappa wouldn't have been fit to grovel at, let alone comprehend on a page of sheet music. And btw, any moron can learn to read and write music just like they learned their abc's; it's sheer nomenclature and has absolutely nothing to do with the intrinsic value of that which goes on the sheet, though oblivious fucks like yourself will continue to be impressed by it.
vampyros1 4 months ago
@vampyros1 Frank Zappa was a serious composer. He studied Stravinsky, Varèse, worked with Pierre Boulez, several ensembles. Frank worked within several genres of music, not just rock, and proved he could play and compose in any style or tradition. Look at the people he had working for him: Steve Vai, Adrian Belew, Jon-Luc Ponty, George Duke, Ruth Underwood, to name just a few.
Examine his jazz works. Try "The Eric Dolphy memorial barbecue".
FZ started as a composer and did rock later.
MangoDTango 4 months ago
@zebb1111 - Picasso owes more to cartoons than the world of "fine" art. By a long shot. George Herriman of Krazy Kat fame was his favorite artist. History is a lot weirder than you probably realize...
narozzz 2 months ago
IKE !
You fuckin KILL ME!
I've never enjoyed a singer raping a song so much!
The Bollocks!
Frank. You died and were buried in such a humble way.
I will NEVER forget YOUR vision.
Amen.
WackaJawacka 5 months ago
Can someone post the whole lyrics of the medley?
mr4y 5 months ago in playlist Vídeos de mr4y adicionados aos favoritos
Is this Zappa singing?
Eliasoz 5 months ago
Pretty funny stuff. Frank was a great artist and something of an iconoclast, and I wouldn't completely accept it at face value that he only liked three Beatle songs.
whitford70 5 months ago 3
@whitford70 - He must have liked Tomorrow Never Knows, he lifted an editing method from it, refined it*, gave it a name of his own invention and used it dozens of times! Hint: It starts with an 'X'.....
narozzz 2 months ago
@narozzz *That, in case you missed it, is the part where I make it clear that I am NOT trying to start a flame war here. Ignore it at this thread's peril....
narozzz 2 months ago
@narozzz *And also bear in mind that this is a guy who, in the sleeve of his first album, credits literally DOZENS of people with inspiring him. If you ever suggested to him that he invented everything he ever tried to do, he would probably just laugh.
narozzz 2 months ago
Best Beattle tunes ever!
legbider 5 months ago
Heartbark - when asked what all time compositions he wished he'd written, Zappa said I Am The Walrus. Don't be so sure of yourself - you confirm your card-carrying idiocy.
caesarcerf 5 months ago
I am a huge FZ fan, I am so glad this was uploaded, I have never heard it. Total awesome. Thank You!
gjacobson76 5 months ago
Zappa isn't making fun of the Beatles. He is using the Beatles songs as a motif to mock Jimmy Swaggart, the famous TV Evangelist who was caught with a Loiusianna Hoooker. I think he chose that motif because it was popular, and he knew that the Beatles wouldn't sue him, my guess is that John Lennon thought is was really funny.
AccidentalLyrics 5 months ago 11
@AccidentalLyrics john was dead
kimjenkins123 5 months ago 3
@AccidentalLyrics
right, because in 88 the thing most likely not to happen was being sued by a man being DEAD FOR 8 FUCKING YEARS!!!
OropherThranduil 5 months ago
He didn't have to like all their music to appreciate them. He did meet John and Yoko and agreed to record some tracks with them. They then messed it all up which pissed him off big time. That was probably the straw that broke the camels back so to speak.
mdfeldm 6 months ago 9
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i cant believe zappa would waste time playing such substandard material written by hacks
eminemdisstopia 6 months ago
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eminemdisstopia 6 months ago
Music is choice!! Zappa-genius.Lennon-legend.
mailonosnets 6 months ago
Ringo Starkey is alive... So?
pipolatti 6 months ago
yep dont try to break it down to understand it. Enjoy what it is as a whole. I hate fucking critics. like those who say monets reds and brown paintings are from a Mad period, they are from FALL SCENES , DUH
blou4now 6 months ago
he could do anything he wanted, he was a master , Gone way before his time.
blou4now 6 months ago 4
I can't believe people misinterpret this medley as a tribute to the Beatles...What makes you think Frank would need to pay respect to a band that ripped him off? They even admitted to doing it. I like some Beatles songs (most are boring) but I know that this medley probably took an afternoon to learn. The reason they play it so well is because Frank made his band very tight, he could rely on them to perform a song live while learning it. Don't believe me? Check out his rendition of Satumaa.
LuneyTune72 6 months ago
Thats Right... heard Frank say that nearly every show... kool rendition in Helsinki
ralberty 6 months ago
One of the best things about music is that it isn't a competitive sport, but a mutual admiration society. It isn't the UFC, its art and heart.
emmaaum22 6 months ago
"Lucy in a hotel with herpes" lol
ticail 6 months ago
@ticail Louisiana hooker with herpes.
stfwho 6 months ago
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ticail 6 months ago
I've heard something to the effect that occasionally Lennon liked to substitute lewd lyrics because the crowds were too loud anyway, and he thought it was a good laugh. The actual example was, "I want to hold your gland."
Yesornoization 6 months ago
@Yesornoization Having been in far less successful bands, I can relate. we'd sing filthy stuff just to see if anyone caught it. looking back at my drummer, we shared some of the best laughs ever!
emmaaum22 6 months ago
There are dream-filled minds that sang along to the Beatles. Then there was Ray White and the gang.
TheBatchainpuller 6 months ago
waitress where's my prostitute ya know the louisiana hooker with herpes
oneeye4263 6 months ago
His loathing of Jimmy Swaggart was epic. And well-deserved.
nevikmoore 6 months ago 5
JL would have loved it!!!
Atheeizm 6 months ago 2
Very clever,entertaining-would have loved to have seen the accompanying video!Zappa rules.Was ,is ,always will be ahead of his time!!!
chunga1959 6 months ago
fantastic
Zappa and the mothers were amazing.
I saw them in Poughkeepsie around 1987.
They did "I am the walrus" mixed with "Stairway to Heaven"
TheIkkap 6 months ago