Frank Zappa - Lost Interview - Beatles, Stones & Censorship(4-7)

[BuildingPlastics]

He was a depressed man. His lack of faith makes him a completely uninteresting person to me.

[sihackers]

@BuildingPlastics . Who needs faith when you have such a grip on reality? And why are you even here or commenting if you find him uninteresting?

[TheFringefilms]

@BuildingPlastics

There is nothing more tiresome than "people of faith". No portion of humankind is as proud of there effusive ignorance as 'people of faith'. You've outlasted your welcome by about two-thousand years...time for you to go pound sand.

[beebfader]

@BuildingPlastics like the world gives a fuck what you think. Faith ? Faith in what ?

[Easleytee]

@BuildingPlastics

Faith is reserved for those prelates and pedophiles who enjoy buggering the cherubs.

[AllThatJaaazzz]

True talent and truly Intelligent person. Not his fan per se but who can deny his influence on a moderm music? Great respect to Zappa

[DajaWaja]

frank's voice here is so low i can barely hear it while the interviewer's so fucking loud :$

[TheAchillers]

Zappa is the best musician EVER...and he was a great guy too....

[jeffzekas]

the word i usually hear for Frank Zappa (besides "Who is Frank Zappa" from folks under 30) is "eccentric"

[oHelmslyoRisesAgain]

talking about the peace corps is kind of ironic...he once asked "What's there to live for? Who needs the peace corps?" remember...

[SuperJBrowne]

Frank looks like John Turturro

[page20000]

can't imagine FZ playing 'louie louie' & 'the midnight hour' must be classic!

[Atheeizm]

"out of necessity we became the Mothers of Invention"

Genius.

[afrobeatle10]

@tonysavedlatin hell yeah man ^_^



[theachtungtree]

STONES FOR LIFE...BITCHESSSS, Frank owns

[Resiakkk]

He didn't like the Beetles and he was a fan of Lenny Bruce. Fuck yea. 

[RFGTP]

Woo

[3star2nr]

Frank Zappa is the original dude He was just at peace with himself and so self confident.

[cellardoor199991]

Necessity is the mother of invention

-Plato

[badazzpresidents23]

Gotta love the Plato quote

[pranab69]

Not that he doesn't like the beatles - he just likes their then rivals because they play what he likes better... ignorant people don't really know that they like 

[raymartin10]

the problem was that the beatles didnt release their really hard rocking stuff like "leave my kitten alone" is a much better hard rocker than anything the stones did but was left off, perhaps to maintain the lighter than the stones image

[LuneyTune72]

Where did that mark come from on Frank's head? Did he get hit on stage or something?

[aerosmith9984]

For not liking The Beatles, he sure covered enough of their tunes.

[DulBeat]

@aerosmith9984 He said they were okay. He liked the Beatles, but he wasn't as big a fan as everyone else.

[ragingbull888]

he didn't say he didn't like the beatles, he said they were alright

[votejello]

The Beatles are my favorite band, but they are completely overrated. Completely. Is that the band's fault? No. But it gets very sickening after a while to see people drooling over them. I would have probably hated them if I lived in the 60s quite honestly. They were just people like me, in the right place at the right time, with the right energy. Love it or hate it, get over it, that's my motto.

[OropherThranduil]

@votejello

no, i really don't think it had anything to do with luck, i mean if brian epsteil wouldn't have attended clavern lcub on 9 November 1961 to see john lennon, paul mccartney and george harrison (well, also best) perform there and then worked his ass off to get them a contract music wouldn't have taken the way it did.

[votejello]

l@OropherThranduil You are totally right and know your trivia. The luck I'm talking about is the fact that these people existed at the time that they did. The planets aligned in the big picture, so to speak. I definitely know that everybody involved had to work their asses off to get their success, which they of course deserve, I just want to jump off a cliff when people start freaking out when somebody else doesn't like their favorite band.

[OropherThranduil]

@votejello

yeah, you're pretty much right.

and i hate that everybody always says stones are harder or that shit, the stones manager created their image from the behavior the beatles had before epstein changed their looks and attitude.

beatles played for years for whores, sailors, gangsters in hamburg clubs in one of the hardest red light distriks of europe, and the stones grew up and played in london, pretty sissy compared to the beatles carrer start and upbringing in liverpool.

[PicnicHikeMusic]

For me, comparing Beatles to Zappa is Great Apples vs. Great Oranges. 90% of Zappa is unlistenable (sometimes on purpose), but 10% of if is close to genius ("Hot Rats" etc....). But that 10% is ALOT of stuff.

I just feel lucky to be on a planet that produced both Beatles and Zappa.

In a 1985 Larry King interview, Zappa mentions the ONLY 3 Beatles songs he likes:

1. Paperback Writer (that surprised me)

2. Strawberry Fields Forever

3. I Am The Walrus

[JZJYRWO]

@PicnicHikeMusic I think 90% of Beatles is unlistenable, unless bubble gum is your idea of music...

[buzonperiodista]

@JZJYRWO prove it

[JZJYRWO]

@buzonperiodista Again? Why??

[buzonperiodista]

@JZJYRWO so you think you indeed proved it?

[JZJYRWO]

@buzonperiodista There is no other alternative theory that explains all of the evidence.

[buzonperiodista]

@JZJYRWO "Evidence"...... ok, carry on........

[RS1Comedy1Vids]

@JZJYRWO 90% of Bealtes is unlistenable? Number 1, get a decent taste in music and number 2, how did they manage to sell 1 billion records?

[andygray]

Thanks for posting. Excellent! Zappa was a great musician and a very interesting man. RIP FZ.

[TheHawkdaddy]

Even though he prefers the stones, he is a huge Beatles fan, he covered tons of their songs.

[pipeandslippersman]

still not terrilbly happy to talk about the original mothers...

[sinviernoche]

Rick & Chroma, you should both be flogged with golf clubs for even mentioning such useless, talentless swine as Justin, Christina and Britney on the same page as the last KING of Rock and Roll!!! FZ played MUSIC, those other three didn't even push the buttons on the instant-hit workstations they squawked over.

[WhispersToToast]

The beatles are better

[Fl0Vid]

I also prefer the Stones over the Beatles !

[bigdunk9]

All this shit I heard about Zappa being ignorant etc. it's a load of bollocks. Yes, he doesn't like The Beatles but he expresses it in a very dignified way. I for one am a big fan of Frank Zappa. RIP.

[pretorious700]

@bigdunk9 Who ever said FZ was ignorant? He's one of the most evolved human beings ever.

[Synthhtnys]

@bigdunk9

Really? I've never heard Frank described as ignorant... I usually hear the word "genius"

[FlyingFooBalls]

@DemiLovatoFootLover music as an "art" (expression of one's self) has existed since before man recorded history

[tw1sta]

Art is suffering i suppose.

[tw1sta]

No i go to good old american public schooling.

And the definition is a special natural ability. Having a funny voice, is not a talent.

"and i have heard very few completely generated computer/electronic music that is entertaining. "

As gramatically incorrect as that is, there are still computer made songs that are good. any songs using MIDI would be accountable, so a lot of computerized songs are "good".

Some find rap and techno are good, but mainstream rap and all techno really isnt talent

[tw1sta]

What launched her fame? her music. Loads of people have lame lives, hers was launched with her music career.

I know plenty of people who have spears songs at my school, and there are Jonas brothers fans at my office.

Unique voice isnt talent, its a gift, so yeah. Way to go.

And a computer can generate "music[that] still sounds good", but that doesnt mean its talented.

[rickthaluddite]

@tw1sta Wrong. The Mickey Mouse Club lanched Britney Spears career along with J. Timberlake and C. Aguilaria

[tw1sta]

Even this was a month ago and your obviously a troll looking to feed,

How does that make me wrong. What does the Micky Mousle club have to do with my main argument? Gtfo troll.

[tw1sta]

Britney spears. You cant say she hastalent.

Jonas Brothers, Miley Cirus, Demi levato , all these people have an insane level of fame. But you cant say theyre talented,that they only care about their art and strive to be the best.

Thats my backing up.

And Mozart composed peices like no other, so yeah, he kinda did change music. You cant use elvis because he stole about all of his songs from poor black people. And lmao, ur saying dylan didnt do acid? not like the beatles but he still did.

[Chromatype]

Britney needs and uses pitch correction software when she performs and records...or so I hear.

[tw1sta]

Everyone remembers new kids on the block,and theyve been gone about 10 years . Fame has nothing to do with talent whatsoever. If youre going to bluntly say it does, then theres no point in replying, because youre plain ignorant.

You remember Mozart because he changed music, but he had talent, because his compositions werent acid trips.

Blues/jazz =/= Acid. Duh.

[tw1sta]

It does matter, loads of non famous 60's bands had amazing songs, fame isnt equivalent to talent/good. Look at the Jonas Brothers if you disagree.

Frank Zappa used his own thoughts rather than the thoughts of acid to write, which is why he is far more talented than any band that did acid. Not saying hes the best and everyone sucks, no, but as far as creativity and talent goes, he did it uninfluenced.

[tw1sta]

Did i say that? no. But without the lsd beatles wouldent have had the great songs that they do.

Its easy to write songs on LSD,seeing as how almost every great song written was influence by drugs, but not with Zappa. Therefore, Zappa>Beatles.

[tw1sta]

The beatles couldent have written what they did without drugs. Simple as that.

[hoz49]

Zappa was a composer. The Beatles were tunesmiths. George Martin contributed as much to their music as John and Paul did.

[tw1sta]

In other words, Frank Zappa wrote songs, The Beatles drugs wrote songs too.

[tw1sta]

Ur a tard. Frank Zappa>Beatles.

Yellow submarine? yeh.

The beatles did a lot for music, and influenced it more than zappa, but zappas compositions were far more brillant, than any song regarding strawberry fields.

[captainkundalini1]

He had a mind corrupted only by intelligence. RIP Frank.

[corporatefascism]

Never took drugs...very weird

[PurplePlayer99]

mmm looks like we got a music fan that doesn't give a crap about theory

[52appaZ]

man youre so off with that comment. Why would a musical genius be jealous of 4 drug addicted nincumpoops

[P33N0]

Lol, c'mon, like if the beatles wrote something amazing (mediocre at best is what they did) overhyped (i'm sorry for tthe use of this word), if it weren't for the so called Beatlemania they wouldn't be as praised and known as they are. Frank Zappa is musically superior in comopsition, arrangement, lyrics and guitar than The Beatles.

[ScotRanger1960]

You are musically brain dead. Frank Zappa was a genius, yes. But so were The Beatles. Are you trying to say songs like 'She's Leaving Home', 'Eleanor Rigby', 'A Day In The Life', 'Yesterday', 'Hey Jude', 'Things We Said Today' and so many more were not good songs ? Don't be so fuckin' stupid. Watch documentary 'Howard Goodall's 20th Century Greats - The Beatles' for a music lesson. You need it. No really, try to find this documentary.

[GitFiddlesErCool]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and just because something is more easily accessible to the public doesn't make it better. You have your opinions, and that's fine. I actually like the Beatles quite a bit myself.  I don't think you should down the work of a genius like Zappa though just because he didn't share your love for the Beatles.

[ScotRanger1960]

I believe Zappa knows only too well how good The Beatles actually were but just can't quite bring himself to say it.

[Farksisten]

He's not allowed to have a personal opinion?

[worriedaboutlife]

well I wasn't about to say that personally I think a lot of Frank's music is the best from the fusion of styles and influences that the post war generation created. But he kinda got sidetracked with all the hero worship bullshit and sportified dumb girl fucking that went on.. anyway he was a real creative dude. But in music jealousy goes with the territory. Should have kept hold on his humanity too...

[worriedaboutlife]

frank zappa liked the rolling stones more than the beatles because the stones never wrote any music good enough to make him jealous

[zenhenswain]

why are you bringing jealousy into it?

[4949oz]

If the national media really cared about american citizens, stuff like this would get prime time

[dannystrat]

Frank was/is always fascinating and engaging. Thanks!

[semtex2you]

who are the brain police?

[worriedaboutlife]

who are the frank zappa police.. listening gail?

[aodscarecrow]

great interview and one Id never seen. Thank you very much.

[AstroLogicalBeats]

Thankyou for this interview!