Frank Zappa "Freeman Report" Part 1 of 5 October 26, 1981
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Uploaded by koolstrike on Dec 13, 2009
This is a long interview with Frank Zappa from October 26, 1981.
This interview only aired once as far as I know and ironically, Zappa was playing his last concerts at "The Palladium" in New York City.
Covered in this interview is Frank's negative experiences with the stage hands unions.
One of the reasons Frank never played the Palladium after November 1, 1981 was due to excessive stage hand union costs associated with doing concerts at that venue.
The first thing I noted while editing this video is how relaxed Frank is and how good Sandi Freeman was at asking Frank open ended questions and then allowing Frank to answer.
It is the only interview I have ever watched with Frank where he has a decent interviewer and he is relaxed enough to get out of his "Frank Zappa" persona. Too bad he did not do more interviews like this.
For such a long interview it has few commercial breaks.
This is a 5 part interview.
I am sorry for the poor video quality. But even "back in the day" when I was heavily into trading video NOBODY had a better quality copy of this interview.
NOBODY.
For a long time I thought this interview was lost in my tape vault, fortunately, I found it.
Enjoy this little piece of FZ interview history.
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@MrTheAbominations Freak out was released in 66' mate, but no disrespect intended! you were right in the facts that most of it was written and conceived in late 65' some tracks like "anyway the wind blows" were first recorded in 63' , You were right about the internet thing tho, information for interviewers now is too easy, back then they had to physically research info about their interviewee .
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Was this interview conducted in the corner of the studio canteen?
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This is an absolute gem! Thanks for saving and posting this!
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Frank got his common sense by almost getting his nuts blown off!
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SHE FUCKED FRANK...LOL
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I was a friend of Sandi Freeman's son when I was a kid. We used to burn models in the backyard while she drank vodka all day. Good times.
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@MrTheAbominations psst! It was '66 ;)
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Great Interview, ta for upload.
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she's clearly wet.
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one of the few FZ interviews which i've seen that the interviewer actually listens to FZ's answers, doesn't asks stupid questions about his kids names or so, and doesn't seem to be intimidated by him.
great interview. thanks for that!
Frank Zappa is the real thing!
shaharl2 2 years ago 23
more, please.
Frank was hitting nail right on the head!
fusionhar 2 years ago 9