Norman Gunston interviews Frank Zappa

[7Beyonder]

George Duke said..considering Zappa's wizardry with modern classical music, polyrhthmic innovations...he was a blues player at heart.

Not surprising he kept good time on this...

[SantasEvilHelper]

I have never seen Frank play acoustic. It's AWESOME.

[fardaypu]

wow, frank got Norman gunston. i was too young to see these show, so big thanks for uploading.

[glassster]

I saw Frank play 3 concerts at the Horden Pavilion in Sydney over a couple of tours in the early seventies. Norman did jam live with Frank, Norm was a Mother - not many could handle that. Frank set the bar pretty high. Norm walked on stage as we were all leaving at the end of the night with a broom and swept up the stage. Good on ya Gary

[McFucer]

LOL @ static on his lips & used 2 pik up lint

[meringandan]

Hard to believe Gary MacDonald suffered from depression

[millsbucks]

WoW,Go Normy that was so good!!!!!!!!!!!!

[laylazoestavroff]

love this!!

[CrocodileBurgers]

Crap! Norman can actually play that thing, was expecting it to be a total piss take cat wail. LMAO

Great stuff :-D

[ryumusashio8]

can someone PLEASE find and post here norman's video of "I MIGHT BE A PUNK BUT I LOVE YA BABY" one of his best , cant find it ANYWHERE . THANX .

[bandito71]

two genius' right there

[anitasseo]

bizarro!

[TheLukeMaxwell]

hahahaha you can see zappa thinking "holy shit, this guy can actually play"

[SonyVor]

Trev Gunston is the best, full stop.

[WESTMAN71]

wish i,ve would have to play harp with him pretty cool stuff'Frank was such a genius.

[mrpuniverse2]

greatest tv interviewer. Borat is a beginner compare to gunston

[adamg709]

Classic stuff - he was genuinely talented enough to have the great FZ's admiration.

[gunzothesurfsailgod]

gunston is the greatest

[Frugellhound]

Normans actually a great Chromatic player too!....loll

[TooFarBeyondTheSun]

His hair is amazing here! xD

[gleegirloz]

To perform such erudite comedy and make it look easy,like Macdonald does,one has to be sensitive.A double edged sword,hope he is feeling better now from his woes.

[6925thcobras]

Loved Norman when I lived in Oz a long time ago...can you update me as to what is "woes" are...

[gleegirloz]

Oh he had a complete nervous breakdown,got very involved in Siddha Yoga,seemed to no tbe good for him.He had a long period of recuperation,but is performing again now and trying to help others who have experienced the same!

[BELTED007]

lol

[Clobberbob55]

WONDERFUL!

I LOVE Zappa.

[oinkysqueak]

Best comedian in Australia once..wish he came back! :)

[aussiefirestorm]

gary macdonald ..... legend.

[itchyweasel62]

heeeeeeeeeey

[masterminoop]

I think I heard that little "tip-tap" on a Boston street corner once, and in Denver, and in St. Louis et al.

[tommymacca11]

dude gunston can play awsom

[mjdoyza]

genius

[lottavernix]

he got frank to giggle that was funny as all hell

[BenMisfit84]

very impressive playing by norman gunston, zappa looks really impressed by it. Normans interview with kiss from 1980 is another classic where they insult him all in good fun.

[troddsy]

flips him off and plays a good harmo

aussie all the way eh?

[photopicker]

a nice treat here - a little humor is a kick!

[Howardshero]

Somewhere on utube is a 4 minute version of this

[razorback0z]

Dude that was superb!! Thanks!!

[Brakawolf]

NB don't have film clip of Kiss Army, but still have the single. The B-side, 'Normdrum' (piss-take on Ian Meldrum) is side-splitting.

I am marching in the Kiss Army

breathing Fiery Breath-o

I burned my tonsils and my tummy

when I swallowed the metho

[Brakawolf]

Shame it's not the whole interview. I loved it when he appeared in Countdown to 'mime...er sing my latest single' - Peter Allen's 'I Go to Rio', while Allen was co-hosting the show. He was very obviously unimpressed at Norman rolling around on the piano shaking maracas.

[nicufluf]

awesome to see Frank interact with someone he seems to like.....haha.....awesome clip!....

[robby1969]

I'm looking for Norman doing his KISS-single....anyone???

[adamg709]

Someone may correct me, but I can't think of any other video clip where Frank plays an acoustic.

[simonjayrocker]

He throws in the ABC News Theme at the end: clever guy

[bonerossi]

chiiiiilllleeeen

[mentalsum]

In the full interview Gunston referred to Zappa as Mother Superior(lol) and Norman did join Zappa's Band for encores at Sydney show ...i was there!

[Jocktheterrible]

lucky to have seen that for sure!

[mentalsum]

very lucky yes ! Can still remember the crowd going crazy when Gunston walked on stage in same blue suit and traded solo's with zappa at immense volume !!!!woooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooooooooo.

[demonsbutterfly]

Would have Been a Great Moment. Don't forget Norman was on the Parliament steps when Gough told Sir John KLerr where to go!! Gunston was the Best.

[jolive91]

Dude that's so sick! Frank was so cool like that, he'd always let all sorts of people get into the musical action in the mothers days.

[felixq78]

@mentalsum Yeah he sure did. McDonald is a great harp player.

[PsycadelicShack]

LOL. He plays the theme to the ABC News!!!

[PsycadelicShack]

LOL. Well Norman can play harmonica better than I can...

[stuccohomes]

What a first-rate musician. And that bloke with the hair isn't bad, either.