I just now realized that the end of this song probably influenced the middle part of the song Mrs. Butterworth by Nirvana. They sound similar, yet still very different. I like it.
So it's 68' and there's a party in the dorm and we're snarfing and drekking, just being very plastic, and I bring out this album and then...very gradually.... the place empties out except for this cute brown eyed girl, and I learn another valuable crowd behavior lesson, and for that, Mr Zappa, I am in your debt.
@probrojeffro That's the point. Zappa mentions in the liner notes that it has no commercial potential. His only top 40 hit was Valley Girl, and that song is a joke comparatively.
Let your hair get good in the back and put on a tie dyed T-shirt and ask around for Hayes Street and I'm sure someone will be more than happy to direct you.
I swear the bit from 0.39 onwards is a sly dig at The Velvet Underground.
I know they cut off the line from the next track where Gary Kellgren whispers "I get to work with The Velvet Underground, which is as shitty a group as Frank Zappa's group".
But that aside, the little passage between 0.39 and 0.53 is classic Lou Reed style. And the line "I'm really just a phoney but forgive me 'cause I'm stoned" kinda sounds like he's talking about The V U too.
im 15 and not enough people have heard of Frank Zappa. i grew up listening to him and my dad was in a band named after one of Zappas songs. Its depressing how few people have heard of FZ
@0live0wire0 the song was about people who posed as hippies just for the lifestyle without caring about the social reflections and political views of the concept.
It's a true shame the Bonzo Dog Band (formerly Da-Da, and Doo Dog) didn't meet with FZ and the Mothers. Vivian Stanshall, and Frank Zappa would've hit it off!!
I LIKE SERGENT PEPPER OF BEATLES BUT I PREFER THIS PARODIE OF AND THE GREAT ZAPPA AND HIS MOTHERS OF INVENTION; gREAT ALBUM TOO ONE OF THIS ALBUMS OF ROCK THAT I LIKE
you could pin this song explicitly to the late 60s/early 70s but i see similar shit going on today. sadly all i can do is play this song and laugh at the world.
I will get the crabs ,but i wont care--thats right--R,I,P FZ we LOVE you and there will never be anyone like your crazy ,silly self--and Gee my hair is getting good in the back too!!!
@tigerlaser oh-sorry. my mistake. aren't i a silly foreigner? now, if you were saying frank zappa's music were best, id have to agree with you. but as it is, i beg to differ
@Steve7508 Hoy crap!! i never understood what he was saying! i thought he said Howie's floor(some random name that popped into his head) Thats friggin funny!!!!! Good heads up bro!!!
@Steve7508 I am confused who is Owsley? It is not Wavy Gravy if that is what you mean.The Hog Farm and Wavy Gravy were from a commune in New Mexico.Gravy's name is Hugh Romney, i dont know if he is alive nor do i care.
@TheZayne34 the original Hog Farm is in Laytonville, CA in Mendocino County where Wavy Gravy still resides' Owsley was sound man for the Dead back in the day and was a supreme LSD chemist, producing White Lightening and Blue Cheer acid as well as Orange Wedge, a very potent form of STP. He died several years ago in Australia...FYI
@MarkCox73 umm i know a man ,his name is Joe Walsh,and he was very good friends with Frank.Frank in his own way told him , Joe, you are totally out of controll! sober up!!! and Joe does not in any way even want to speak of that day(look at the still photo's )of the crazieness/insanity, ans you will se a man kneeling down-turning his hea to the right -hair in the wind over a wounded girl.
As much as I like Frank I kinda think he was being a bit too stereotypical on hippies here. My history teacher was a serious hippie. But she didn't do drugs cause she believed that it was not gonna save the world. She did loads of charity work and was a really great person. No slacker or stoner but just a really supportive human being. Every time we walked into her room she was wearing tie dye and blasting out Hendrix or something. Held a lot of fun charity events for the school to.
@Django5198 So was Zappa. He tried to point out that doing drugs and listening to music whilst living with a big group of people wasn't the way to change things.
I've been a Zappa fan for a long time but never went back to his early stuff. I'm so glad for YouTube. Lots of gems. My general rating technique is to just "thumbs up" even before listening. I'm never disappointed. .
Came here to comment on such a great Mothers tune. Was going to comment on Bunk's playing, although short on this track. Will be checking out soon due to the keyboard beatdowns taking place on this page. Unless you guys are 12, which I doubt if you listen to this kind of music, then you have gown into a mans body with a mind that never fully developed. Okay, so one of you know more about something than the other. Get over it! Look, now I am bitching like one of you assholes. See, its contagious!
Pretty funny song and astounding social commentary. As much as Frank says he hated the hippies he sure spent a lot of time hanging around, living with, and promoting them. Perhaps he was just using them so he could finance his avant garde musical projects?
@psychedelictripper or maybe they were more fun to chill with then the right wing conservative idiots. i actually met zappa in 84. probably the most intelligent guy of his generation.
I'm definitely not saying I dislike him. I wish he was still alive. As a kid watching him take on the PMRC was very interesting. He has said the only reason he lived in LA was because of business. The counter culture movement appears to have been contrived. Someone was pulling the strings. Real lives did unfold. I just wonder what role if any did Zappa play? He didn't like drugs. He hated a lot of the music. He only cared about his own music.
@psychedelictripper it was really stupid when they wouldnt let frank be trade minister of czechoslovakia because he testified against warning labels then sent that guy shultz there that was on tv after the day after he said if you dont throw zappa out you wont get any foreighn aid
lenasglad your an idiot, if you knew anything about Frank Zappa, it's that he HATES drugs and everything that has to do with them, so therefore many of his songs talk SHIT about "for example, hippies" in this song.
He did drugs all the time, we all do drugs. We just place good or bad emphasis or labels on certain ones and not on others. So Frank didn't do acid, snort coke, heroin, smoke weed but he smoked cigarettes and probably drank coffee. Cigarettes are definitely drugs and quite addictive. With his marathon studio sessions he surely drank coffee. Coffee is a drugs and quite an effective one.
Exactly. And with promoting nicotine he advertised for one of the most addictive and deadly ones. Certainly more addictive then heroïn. Way to go, Frank.
Don't know how cigarettes could become so addicting. I tried one once and couldn't believe how awful the heat going into my lungs felt. I could totally see why someone would choose coffee as their drug. It's uplifting, gets the brain thinking very quickly. I've been drunk on coffee. Interferes with urination though. Frank has urinary problems for a long time and prostate cancer.This is especially true of Dunkin Donut. They either put nicotine in the coffee or a stimulant.
@psychedelictripper if you think smokeing heats your lungs a man who had radiation treatments for lung cancer said he felt like his lungs were on fire he had to eat a gallon of ice cream he was cured but his cancer wasnt caused by smokeing it was chemicals on the job
Most "who smoke nicotine" are/become hardcore junkies. Nicotine is one of the meanest poisons around, f.e. more poisonous than arsenic. You might have noticed the antismoking campains. The tobacco a-holes forced us to passive smoking: deadly. I ain't affected by heroïn users, not even by addicts.
In fact, heroïn is even rather healthy; healthier than methadon, and CERTAINLY more so than tobacco.
And Zappa's opinion that drugs kill the imagination, don't stand up to historical reality. (Illegal) drugs were always around and played a significant role in culture (and medicine). Keith Richards was an addict when he made Exile, the best rock album. There are many other examples to give.
Frank's a regular dude, but in this respect I always found him malevolent.
@DrMerkwuerdichliebe heroin doesn't provide a single health benefit, you gotta be trollin me. tobacco may be worse for you but heroin is definitely not healthy. i take bong rips for creative purposes all the time, but frank never said drugs kill the imagination, he said they make people act like jackasses.
and keith richards doesn't compare to zappa at all as a musician, zappa has over 80 albums worth of music. the stones could never even pull off a single zappa song -_-
Frank said that indeed; contrary to what you seem to know, he said very many things about drugs, many of them silly a/o malevolent.
Hm. You don't like the RS. Same things could be told about Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Miles Davis (!)... did smack on the height of their creativity. In the 60s, the Mothers weren't all THAT wow, and the Grateful Dead were at the least at a par with them.
*sigh* I came across that plague: FANS gone worldwide.
So you're saying that these musicians (allegedly) were rotten musicians (you must be kidding) when compared to Zappa, because they did smack/coke, and he was a superior one 'cos he didn't ?
Really, superior? For one thing, he couldn't play guitar and sing at the same time. Moreover, he couldn't play slide.
And I don't think that any one rock musician is in the same building as Miles Davis. In fact, all jazz musicians are superior to 95% of the rockers. Simple as that. Everything of quality rock music woul've been nonexistent without John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Django Reinhardt, i.a.
@theripper4394 no man, Zappa admits also in his book that his brain just couldn't handle playing and singing at the same time. There is no footage of him doing it...if there is; place a link! Furthermore i'd like to add that I am a great fan of his music and am addicted to his interviews.
@DrMerkwuerdichliebe and just because he didn't use slide frequently doesn't mean he couldn't, try knowing something about a subject before you bash it.
@DrMerkwuerdichliebe i love the dead. they are so cool and arrogant and i love that. We need an hour of your time to tune up -poorly at that. and get around to self -indulgent "space" soon after. Try opening your mind .These albums in the beginningof Mothers were goof offs on tape.I would like to see the dead play 1 or 2 tunes off of ,Overnight Sensation,Apostrophe,Hot Rats,Zoots Allures,or any of Zappas chamber or orchestral arrangements.Greatfully they are Dead. Shame they only knew 4/4 time.
Unnecessary to demontrate FZ to me. Moreover, your comment's irrelevant. 95% of the producers and, especially, executives wanted the bands to play as simple as possible. Pop music was, and is, all about simplicity: doing exciting things with simple means, like 4/4 time. Btw, the Dead were about their impro's at gigs.
Sure the bands became pretentious after Sgt Pepper and Pet Sounds. Frank most of all. As to the chamber/orchestral thing: reality was, that no one out there wanted to do Frank's "classical" things. After long begging and entreating, Pierre Boulez, who is a nice chap, was willing to perform some.
Fans need to open their mind to realities. Or at least try.
@sourjaws oh man, you called me dumb. ow wow, i am going to cry now and then attemp suicide, but i might fuck it up, because i am too dumb.Oh the pain, the pain!!!!!
Actually you're the ignorant one. Coffee is a drug. He swilled it. He did marathon studio sessions on coffee the same way others use cocaine or crystal meth. to keep going. He just choose coffee. It doesn't mean it's not a drug because it's legal. Did we fall on our head skate boarding?
@psychedelictripper dude you hurt me in my soul when you say "pimple headed"... Well, at least i don't compare drinking coffee to taking LSD... Guess that means +1 on me, huh? Xcuse me i have to go cry a river on my justin *bieber pillow case now, which apparently i stated that i like to do :)...
I was oh so ready to reply but you removed it. Having second thoughts about coffee...Jim never has 2 cups of coffee at home....It's true Frank loved coffee. He mentioned it in a video. He also mentioned he had digestive disorders and of course prostate cancer. Maybe there is a link? I know it can do a number on your stomach. I like Frank and I like coffee but as soon as I get the energy I'm going to quit it again. Pot is much better for you.
No I like Frank and liked him before even really looking at his music. We'd differ on musical views. I know he used the hippies or even the rock format to get his work done. That is a little like playing with fire though. That's what I meant. Many of those people and the whole area was very dangerous at the time and probably still is....I hear justin timberlake lives there now lol
I don't honestly know what a Hippie is but I know that in the late sixties there were a lot of people working for changes. There were many protests of the Viet Nam war and I believe they succeeded in shortening that catastrophe. They fostered college educations and promolgated the idea that people should love their fellow man. And when they weren't busy listening to "underground" radio they were busy thinking how best to live their lives,
@slkaiser69 Oh no! An aging hippie commenter!!! Your generation was full of shit, and continues sucking to this day. Bunch of self righteous druggie slobs. So long as you FEEL like you're doing good, the reality of a situation matters not.
@sybo59 A little rough...the more recent generations aren't much different. if anything we do more drugs, are also self-righteous and just as much full of shit, if not more.
Im a Hippie but i still love this Album, i always thought Frank's problem is that they don't get involved ib the problems they talk about, and they get stoned out of there mind. I get involved and dont do drugs, but anyway FRANK IS AWESOME
The lyrics of "Who Needs the Peace Corps?" mock hippies and people who follow the hippie fashion (such as wearing beads, leather bands and long hair, or "smoking dope") without caring about the social reflections and political views of the concept. It includes a monologue of a stereotypical "phony hippie" who aspires to find a rock band and become their road manager in order to become part of the hippie movement.
I assume you are talking about the residents of SF and not Frank.. I guess I don't really follow you, but if it's the old hippies still hanging in SF, I'm with you.
I wish he were alive to rip on hipsters.
grevejp44 2 days ago
Zappa was a cynical post-hippy when he hippies were just starting.
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TheMillersTale2001 1 month ago
I will love everyone. I will love the police as they kick the shit out of me on the street? I once knew a guy like that.
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I just now realized that the end of this song probably influenced the middle part of the song Mrs. Butterworth by Nirvana. They sound similar, yet still very different. I like it.
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So it's 68' and there's a party in the dorm and we're snarfing and drekking, just being very plastic, and I bring out this album and then...very gradually.... the place empties out except for this cute brown eyed girl, and I learn another valuable crowd behavior lesson, and for that, Mr Zappa, I am in your debt.
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JackBootCharlie 3 months ago
No entiedno , es una burla a los beatles ??
Matildepiano 3 months ago
i think the line is...."Oh my hair is getting grit in the back"
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@moonshinerman it's "getting good in the back"
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Why this didn't sell like the Beatles and Beach Boys albums is beyond me. It's so straight. Frank!
probrojeffro 4 months ago in playlist frank zappa were only in it for the money 1968
@probrojeffro That's the point. Zappa mentions in the liner notes that it has no commercial potential. His only top 40 hit was Valley Girl, and that song is a joke comparatively.
philnoll 4 months ago
@philnoll Valley Girl, a true throw away song. So many classics that should have gone number one. No wonder he was so upset at the establishment.
probrojeffro 4 months ago
and ill get the crabs but i wont care. hahahahahah
nomadnametab 5 months ago
There were a bunch of bandwagon jumpers back then too. Kind of like today's kids dressing up EMO and thinking they're original!
Supertzar999 5 months ago
Lol .. category education.
fridun007 6 months ago 11
five people have crabs
sourjaws 6 months ago
crabs
stowvet 6 months ago
someone please post "The Rotten Cocksucker's Ball"
dogterd 6 months ago
but forgive me cause i'm stoned
sourjaws 7 months ago
Zappa's most pessimistic album.
Sydwayman 7 months ago
been lookin for some good vintage Zappa.
TheRoy1952 8 months ago
this album totally trashes the hippy movement... not all artists of that era fell for the peace and love crap.
axeofgod72 8 months ago
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Unkleanone 7 months ago
iM COMPLETELY STONED
definemaybe 9 months ago
Let your hair get good in the back and put on a tie dyed T-shirt and ask around for Hayes Street and I'm sure someone will be more than happy to direct you.
Punk.
GlenSpCO 9 months ago
This Is My Favorite Frank Zappa / Mothers Album
therehastobeme 9 months ago
Love it, thanks for posting all these!
WDockery 9 months ago
I swear the bit from 0.39 onwards is a sly dig at The Velvet Underground.
I know they cut off the line from the next track where Gary Kellgren whispers "I get to work with The Velvet Underground, which is as shitty a group as Frank Zappa's group".
But that aside, the little passage between 0.39 and 0.53 is classic Lou Reed style. And the line "I'm really just a phoney but forgive me 'cause I'm stoned" kinda sounds like he's talking about The V U too.
juntao1919 9 months ago
does anybody know this songs form? It would help alot for an assignment I'm working on?
javiesta 9 months ago
im 15 and not enough people have heard of Frank Zappa. i grew up listening to him and my dad was in a band named after one of Zappas songs. Its depressing how few people have heard of FZ
facebookboy100 10 months ago
@facebookboy100 no.
Imptheshrimp 8 months ago
Zappa says it all - most of the hippies were just a bunch of posers
0live0wire0 10 months ago 25
@0live0wire0 the song was about people who posed as hippies just for the lifestyle without caring about the social reflections and political views of the concept.
monkeybutler20 5 months ago
Where in San Francisco is Hayes Street?
FSMDudeFan 10 months ago
@FSMDudeFan Haight Street
micheljch 9 months ago
It's a true shame the Bonzo Dog Band (formerly Da-Da, and Doo Dog) didn't meet with FZ and the Mothers. Vivian Stanshall, and Frank Zappa would've hit it off!!
strangeones4 10 months ago
In a lot of ways, San Francisco sucks. LOL So pretentious. Ha ha ha.
Khultan 10 months ago
I LIKE SERGENT PEPPER OF BEATLES BUT I PREFER THIS PARODIE OF AND THE GREAT ZAPPA AND HIS MOTHERS OF INVENTION; gREAT ALBUM TOO ONE OF THIS ALBUMS OF ROCK THAT I LIKE
hermorobert 11 months ago
you could pin this song explicitly to the late 60s/early 70s but i see similar shit going on today. sadly all i can do is play this song and laugh at the world.
ESpeigel 11 months ago
He's cynical enough to parody himself
MusicJew158 11 months ago
@MusicJew158 you sir are a dumbass
theripper4394 11 months ago
R.I.P. Owsley
hippipimp13 11 months ago 2
Oh how I love ya how I love ya how I love ya Friscooooooooo...
The definitive satire of the hippie era and still as relevant today in most ways.
Ori0n1975 11 months ago
Frank was a original. He was a considerator. He didn`t stick to any stupid trend nur he was mainstream.
tutorlaurdag 1 year ago
Oh my hair's getting good in the back.
bluenickels 1 year ago 25
@bluenickels haha it makes me laugh every time
corwinofamber8 11 months ago
I will get the crabs ,but i wont care--thats right--R,I,P FZ we LOVE you and there will never be anyone like your crazy ,silly self--and Gee my hair is getting good in the back too!!!
janemacdonnell1 1 year ago
I take it Gail was pregnant with Dweezil at the time cause she has a swolen stomach on the album cover
Django5198 1 year ago
Proof that American Music is Best
tigerlaser 1 year ago
@tigerlaser How so?
gtr1359 1 year ago
@gtr1359 America does everything best
tigerlaser 1 year ago
@tigerlaser oh-sorry. my mistake. aren't i a silly foreigner? now, if you were saying frank zappa's music were best, id have to agree with you. but as it is, i beg to differ
gtr1359 1 year ago
Sleep on Owsley's floor - Wavy Gravy!
Steve7508 1 year ago
@Steve7508 Hoy crap!! i never understood what he was saying! i thought he said Howie's floor(some random name that popped into his head) Thats friggin funny!!!!! Good heads up bro!!!
janemacdonnell1 1 year ago
@Steve7508 I am confused who is Owsley? It is not Wavy Gravy if that is what you mean.The Hog Farm and Wavy Gravy were from a commune in New Mexico.Gravy's name is Hugh Romney, i dont know if he is alive nor do i care.
TheZayne34 6 months ago
@TheZayne34 I got it wrong. It's Owsley Stanley, not Wavy Gravy. He was very much part of the San Francisco scene in the 60s, cooking up LSD etc...
Steve7508 6 months ago
@TheZayne34 the original Hog Farm is in Laytonville, CA in Mendocino County where Wavy Gravy still resides' Owsley was sound man for the Dead back in the day and was a supreme LSD chemist, producing White Lightening and Blue Cheer acid as well as Orange Wedge, a very potent form of STP. He died several years ago in Australia...FYI
SuperScorpio47 4 months ago
reminds of Kent Ohio were I grew up. a bunch of rich college kids celebrating the tragedy of may 4th 1970 by being phony hippies
MarkCox73 1 year ago
@MarkCox73 umm i know a man ,his name is Joe Walsh,and he was very good friends with Frank.Frank in his own way told him , Joe, you are totally out of controll! sober up!!! and Joe does not in any way even want to speak of that day(look at the still photo's )of the crazieness/insanity, ans you will se a man kneeling down-turning his hea to the right -hair in the wind over a wounded girl.
janemacdonnell1 1 year ago
As much as I like Frank I kinda think he was being a bit too stereotypical on hippies here. My history teacher was a serious hippie. But she didn't do drugs cause she believed that it was not gonna save the world. She did loads of charity work and was a really great person. No slacker or stoner but just a really supportive human being. Every time we walked into her room she was wearing tie dye and blasting out Hendrix or something. Held a lot of fun charity events for the school to.
Django5198 1 year ago
@Django5198 So was Zappa. He tried to point out that doing drugs and listening to music whilst living with a big group of people wasn't the way to change things.
Leogun94 1 year ago
@Leogun94 Right. Thanks for that. So this is obviously having a go at the fake hippies
Django5198 1 year ago
I will love everyone. I will love the police as they kick the shit out of me on the street....LOL
averypack13 1 year ago
I'll become their road manager. I'll stay with them and get the crabs, but I don't care.
probrojeffro 1 year ago 2
I've been a Zappa fan for a long time but never went back to his early stuff. I'm so glad for YouTube. Lots of gems. My general rating technique is to just "thumbs up" even before listening. I'm never disappointed. .
probrojeffro 1 year ago
1968 PROGRESSIVE ROCK
bswad3 1 year ago
@bswad3 FYI this is more psychedelic rock than progressive.
chrids1 1 year ago
Came here to comment on such a great Mothers tune. Was going to comment on Bunk's playing, although short on this track. Will be checking out soon due to the keyboard beatdowns taking place on this page. Unless you guys are 12, which I doubt if you listen to this kind of music, then you have gown into a mans body with a mind that never fully developed. Okay, so one of you know more about something than the other. Get over it! Look, now I am bitching like one of you assholes. See, its contagious!
jimmyjam666420 1 year ago
the version i have has a sax solo in the last minute of the song. this is the revised edition?
runitecastle 1 year ago
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conwilli 1 year ago
Pretty funny song and astounding social commentary. As much as Frank says he hated the hippies he sure spent a lot of time hanging around, living with, and promoting them. Perhaps he was just using them so he could finance his avant garde musical projects?
psychedelictripper 1 year ago
@psychedelictripper or maybe they were more fun to chill with then the right wing conservative idiots. i actually met zappa in 84. probably the most intelligent guy of his generation.
satyratron 1 year ago
@satyratron
I'm definitely not saying I dislike him. I wish he was still alive. As a kid watching him take on the PMRC was very interesting. He has said the only reason he lived in LA was because of business. The counter culture movement appears to have been contrived. Someone was pulling the strings. Real lives did unfold. I just wonder what role if any did Zappa play? He didn't like drugs. He hated a lot of the music. He only cared about his own music.
psychedelictripper 1 year ago
@psychedelictripper it was really stupid when they wouldnt let frank be trade minister of czechoslovakia because he testified against warning labels then sent that guy shultz there that was on tv after the day after he said if you dont throw zappa out you wont get any foreighn aid
spacepatrolman 1 year ago
great song!
MiizzaJimMustaine666 1 year ago
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footinmouth69 1 year ago
Zappa never topped this album. It is a work of genius and one of the very
best rock/pop LPs ever.
finylvinyl66 1 year ago
Zappa was amazing.
musmann 1 year ago
God I miss this man.
Keaton2008 1 year ago
whats there to live for
francoboy100 1 year ago
I love drugs, hahahha
madmexart 1 year ago
and be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.
beauhalo 1 year ago
lenasglad your an idiot, if you knew anything about Frank Zappa, it's that he HATES drugs and everything that has to do with them, so therefore many of his songs talk SHIT about "for example, hippies" in this song.
ubrokemuthafucka 1 year ago
@ubrokemuthafucka
You don't have the foggiest idea what this song is about.
lenasglad 1 year ago
@lenasglad He's making fun of hippies. He was never a hippie and he didn't do drugs. I suggest you read his book.
bill14231393 1 year ago
@bill14231393
He did drugs all the time, we all do drugs. We just place good or bad emphasis or labels on certain ones and not on others. So Frank didn't do acid, snort coke, heroin, smoke weed but he smoked cigarettes and probably drank coffee. Cigarettes are definitely drugs and quite addictive. With his marathon studio sessions he surely drank coffee. Coffee is a drugs and quite an effective one.
psychedelictripper 1 year ago 2
@psychedelictripper
Exactly. And with promoting nicotine he advertised for one of the most addictive and deadly ones. Certainly more addictive then heroïn. Way to go, Frank.
DrMerkwuerdichliebe 1 year ago
@DrMerkwuerdichliebe
Don't know how cigarettes could become so addicting. I tried one once and couldn't believe how awful the heat going into my lungs felt. I could totally see why someone would choose coffee as their drug. It's uplifting, gets the brain thinking very quickly. I've been drunk on coffee. Interferes with urination though. Frank has urinary problems for a long time and prostate cancer.This is especially true of Dunkin Donut. They either put nicotine in the coffee or a stimulant.
psychedelictripper 1 year ago
@psychedelictripper if you think smokeing heats your lungs a man who had radiation treatments for lung cancer said he felt like his lungs were on fire he had to eat a gallon of ice cream he was cured but his cancer wasnt caused by smokeing it was chemicals on the job
spacepatrolman 1 year ago
@DrMerkwuerdichliebe how are you going to compare a heroin addict to someone who smokes nicotine?
theripper4394 11 months ago
@theripper4394
Most "who smoke nicotine" are/become hardcore junkies. Nicotine is one of the meanest poisons around, f.e. more poisonous than arsenic. You might have noticed the antismoking campains. The tobacco a-holes forced us to passive smoking: deadly. I ain't affected by heroïn users, not even by addicts.
DrMerkwuerdichliebe 11 months ago
@DrMerkwuerdichliebe k tell that to the thousands of smokers who aren't, and havn't been, and likely won't be junkies.
theripper4394 11 months ago
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@theripper4394
They can read it here.
DrMerkwuerdichliebe 11 months ago
@DrMerkwuerdichliebe
Oh just come out of the closet,you love Frank Zappa.
ossiorn 2 months ago
@ossiorn
Oh, but I always were out of it.
DrMerkwuerdichliebe 2 months ago
@DrMerkwuerdichliebe
There are closets within closets.
ossiorn 2 months ago
@ossiorn
Obviously, I meant the "Zappa closet"...Dig?
DrMerkwuerdichliebe 2 months ago
@theripper4394
In fact, heroïn is even rather healthy; healthier than methadon, and CERTAINLY more so than tobacco.
And Zappa's opinion that drugs kill the imagination, don't stand up to historical reality. (Illegal) drugs were always around and played a significant role in culture (and medicine). Keith Richards was an addict when he made Exile, the best rock album. There are many other examples to give.
Frank's a regular dude, but in this respect I always found him malevolent.
DrMerkwuerdichliebe 11 months ago
@DrMerkwuerdichliebe heroin doesn't provide a single health benefit, you gotta be trollin me. tobacco may be worse for you but heroin is definitely not healthy. i take bong rips for creative purposes all the time, but frank never said drugs kill the imagination, he said they make people act like jackasses.
and keith richards doesn't compare to zappa at all as a musician, zappa has over 80 albums worth of music. the stones could never even pull off a single zappa song -_-
theripper4394 11 months ago
@theripper4394
Nope, never troll. Are YOU kicking up a fuss?
Frank said that indeed; contrary to what you seem to know, he said very many things about drugs, many of them silly a/o malevolent.
Hm. You don't like the RS. Same things could be told about Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Miles Davis (!)... did smack on the height of their creativity. In the 60s, the Mothers weren't all THAT wow, and the Grateful Dead were at the least at a par with them.
DrMerkwuerdichliebe 11 months ago
@DrMerkwuerdichliebe yeah if you call creativity power chords, bar chords, and pentatonic scales.
the mothers weren't incredible, but none of the musicians you named could pull off something like the grand wazoo, let alone write it.
lets see the grateful dead play inca roads.
theripper4394 11 months ago
@theripper4394
*sigh* I came across that plague: FANS gone worldwide.
So you're saying that these musicians (allegedly) were rotten musicians (you must be kidding) when compared to Zappa, because they did smack/coke, and he was a superior one 'cos he didn't ?
DrMerkwuerdichliebe 11 months ago
@DrMerkwuerdichliebe nah man he was just superior as a musician.
habits have nothing to do with it.
theripper4394 10 months ago
@theripper4394
Really, superior? For one thing, he couldn't play guitar and sing at the same time. Moreover, he couldn't play slide.
And I don't think that any one rock musician is in the same building as Miles Davis. In fact, all jazz musicians are superior to 95% of the rockers. Simple as that. Everything of quality rock music woul've been nonexistent without John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Django Reinhardt, i.a.
DrMerkwuerdichliebe 10 months ago
@DrMerkwuerdichliebe thing is if you've seen any of his live playing he sings & plays at the same time rather often.
davis didn't use odd times in the slightest and he was hardly a composer, he's your typical junkie black jazz musician
zappa wrote music on an orchestral scale, it's obvious that you've never been through his catalog.
theripper4394 10 months ago
@theripper4394 no man, Zappa admits also in his book that his brain just couldn't handle playing and singing at the same time. There is no footage of him doing it...if there is; place a link! Furthermore i'd like to add that I am a great fan of his music and am addicted to his interviews.
krisjanneman 4 months ago
@DrMerkwuerdichliebe and just because he didn't use slide frequently doesn't mean he couldn't, try knowing something about a subject before you bash it.
theripper4394 10 months ago
@theripper4394
"nah man he just couldn't. habits have nothing to do with it."
DrMerkwuerdichliebe 10 months ago
@DrMerkwuerdichliebe i.e a jackass who knows 0 about zappa
theripper4394 10 months ago
@DrMerkwuerdichliebe i love the dead. they are so cool and arrogant and i love that. We need an hour of your time to tune up -poorly at that. and get around to self -indulgent "space" soon after. Try opening your mind .These albums in the beginningof Mothers were goof offs on tape.I would like to see the dead play 1 or 2 tunes off of ,Overnight Sensation,Apostrophe,Hot Rats,Zoots Allures,or any of Zappas chamber or orchestral arrangements.Greatfully they are Dead. Shame they only knew 4/4 time.
TheZayne34 6 months ago
@TheZayne34
Unnecessary to demontrate FZ to me. Moreover, your comment's irrelevant. 95% of the producers and, especially, executives wanted the bands to play as simple as possible. Pop music was, and is, all about simplicity: doing exciting things with simple means, like 4/4 time. Btw, the Dead were about their impro's at gigs.
DrMerkwuerdichliebe 6 months ago
@TheZayne34
Sure the bands became pretentious after Sgt Pepper and Pet Sounds. Frank most of all. As to the chamber/orchestral thing: reality was, that no one out there wanted to do Frank's "classical" things. After long begging and entreating, Pierre Boulez, who is a nice chap, was willing to perform some.
Fans need to open their mind to realities. Or at least try.
DrMerkwuerdichliebe 6 months ago
@TheZayne34 you are dumber and more ignorant than the Hippies Frank looked down upon in his time.
sourjaws 6 months ago
@sourjaws oh man, you called me dumb. ow wow, i am going to cry now and then attemp suicide, but i might fuck it up, because i am too dumb.Oh the pain, the pain!!!!!
TheZayne34 6 months ago
@TheZayne34 You know you can't just make sarcastic comments in every argument you will have in life
It's obnoxious and childish
sourjaws 6 months ago
@psychedelictripper YOU ARE A DUMB SHIT. LOOK UP SOME SHIT ABOUT IT HE DID NOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT DO DRUGS
ubrokemuthafucka 1 year ago
@ubrokemuthafucka
Actually you're the ignorant one. Coffee is a drug. He swilled it. He did marathon studio sessions on coffee the same way others use cocaine or crystal meth. to keep going. He just choose coffee. It doesn't mean it's not a drug because it's legal. Did we fall on our head skate boarding?
psychedelictripper 1 year ago
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dudesweethej 1 year ago
@dudesweethej
This coming from a pimple headed kid? Go cry yourself a river on your justin beiber pillow case.
psychedelictripper 1 year ago
@psychedelictripper dude you hurt me in my soul when you say "pimple headed"... Well, at least i don't compare drinking coffee to taking LSD... Guess that means +1 on me, huh? Xcuse me i have to go cry a river on my justin *bieber pillow case now, which apparently i stated that i like to do :)...
dudesweethej 1 year ago
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@psychedelictripper This may be one of the lamest points made in any film on youtube...
dudesweethej 1 year ago
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theripper4394 11 months ago
@theripper4394
I was oh so ready to reply but you removed it. Having second thoughts about coffee...Jim never has 2 cups of coffee at home....It's true Frank loved coffee. He mentioned it in a video. He also mentioned he had digestive disorders and of course prostate cancer. Maybe there is a link? I know it can do a number on your stomach. I like Frank and I like coffee but as soon as I get the energy I'm going to quit it again. Pot is much better for you.
psychedelictripper 11 months ago
@psychedelictripper ha it seemed like you were attacking frank at first, but i read on and realized you weren't xD.
theripper4394 11 months ago
@theripper4394
No I like Frank and liked him before even really looking at his music. We'd differ on musical views. I know he used the hippies or even the rock format to get his work done. That is a little like playing with fire though. That's what I meant. Many of those people and the whole area was very dangerous at the time and probably still is....I hear justin timberlake lives there now lol
psychedelictripper 11 months ago
Zappa wasn't making fun of anyone in this song---he was gloating.
lenasglad 1 year ago
@lenasglad Wrong.
bill14231393 1 year ago
@bill14231393 see you know
ubrokemuthafucka 1 year ago
Frank was pointing out how being a hippie was just another stupid trend.
Franky2balls 1 year ago 46
@Franky2balls And he was right.
GoblinGirl 1 year ago
@Franky2balls so true, he's cynical enough to parody any view
RollingRecords 11 months ago
@Franky2balls a trend that he was part of....
ETTEROJAM 11 months ago
@ETTEROJAM mmmmm, not so much. have you heard the album?
ESpeigel 11 months ago
I don't honestly know what a Hippie is but I know that in the late sixties there were a lot of people working for changes. There were many protests of the Viet Nam war and I believe they succeeded in shortening that catastrophe. They fostered college educations and promolgated the idea that people should love their fellow man. And when they weren't busy listening to "underground" radio they were busy thinking how best to live their lives,
slkaiser69 1 year ago
@slkaiser69 Oh no! An aging hippie commenter!!! Your generation was full of shit, and continues sucking to this day. Bunch of self righteous druggie slobs. So long as you FEEL like you're doing good, the reality of a situation matters not.
sybo59 1 year ago
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corwinofamber8 1 year ago
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@sybo59 A little rough...the more recent generations aren't much different. if anything we do more drugs, are also self-righteous and just as much full of shit, if not more.
corwinofamber8 1 year ago
@corwinofamber8 You're out of your mind if you think kids do more drugs today than the 60s.
sybo59 1 year ago
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corwinofamber8 1 year ago
I'll sleep on Owsley's floor, I think. Gawd give me reds. It's hard to sleep around here.
Nguli34689 1 year ago
Now that there is a Green Day musical on B'dway I thinks it's time for a "The Music of Frank Zappa" musical on the Great White Way.
Conceptual Continuity from Freak Out through Civilization III. Anybody have $20 Million to get it going???
curiousnomad 1 year ago
Im a Hippie but i still love this Album, i always thought Frank's problem is that they don't get involved ib the problems they talk about, and they get stoned out of there mind. I get involved and dont do drugs, but anyway FRANK IS AWESOME
branfransisco9 1 year ago
@branfransisco9 Frank didn't do drugs. Hes just making fun of hippies.
sloanmidwestXTC 1 year ago
@sloanmidwestXTC not frank i said THE HIPPIES get stoned out of there mind
branfransisco9 1 year ago
@branfransisco9 frank hated drugs
dangerouskitchen21 1 year ago 2
@dangerouskitchen21 Yeah, he attended Lenny Bruce's funeral and Lenny was his friend.
Nguli34689 1 year ago
this song gives every reason why stereotypical hippies are scumbags
thefabulousdude 1 year ago
Zappa helped me understand that I wasn't a hippie although I thought I might be...I looked like one!
dangerousdaveT 1 year ago
zappa saved me from becoming a hippie THANK YOU
oldschoolpunkchris1 1 year ago 4
Frank Zappa is fucking hilarious.
degree7 1 year ago 3
The lyrics of "Who Needs the Peace Corps?" mock hippies and people who follow the hippie fashion (such as wearing beads, leather bands and long hair, or "smoking dope") without caring about the social reflections and political views of the concept. It includes a monologue of a stereotypical "phony hippie" who aspires to find a rock band and become their road manager in order to become part of the hippie movement.
TEMPmichaelhansen 2 years ago 4
ok.. this is original.. Boomy bass. Tubby drums.. Classic.
phlizmo 2 years ago 3
I'll stay a week and get the crabs and take a bus back home LOL !!
westpalmscott 2 years ago 10
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glangorous 2 years ago
I assume you are talking about the residents of SF and not Frank.. I guess I don't really follow you, but if it's the old hippies still hanging in SF, I'm with you.
pdmac58 2 years ago
@glangorous
eh?
Instrumentals4Sale 1 year ago
true so true get off your ass and do something smash the state dont just sit there smoking dope thinking things will change by just sitting there
oldschoolpunkchris1 1 year ago
"I will love the police as they kick the shit out of me..." lol
shoro12 2 years ago 72
@shoro12
how does typing a couple of lyrics from the song and ending it with lol get you 40 thumbs up
vanjangovich 1 year ago 12
@vanjangovich This is Youtube, anything flies
DimensionsofChange 11 months ago
@vanjangovich how does complaining about someone getting 40 thumbs up get you 10 thumbs up,...u just want attention
SenorDonkeyBallSweat 10 months ago
@vanjangovich thumbs ups on youtube are obviously very serious business.
Kodama28 6 months ago
@shoro12 "Unoriginal comment designed to get support in the form of thumbs up..."
lol
sybo59 1 year ago
I just hate it when people quote something from the movie/song on that movie's/song's youtube page followed by "lol".
Because we, as viewers/listeners are blind/deaf and need to see quotes from whatever we just watched.
tetrisclock 1 year ago