Frank Zappa at Saturday Night Live 1978-10-21(slideshow)

Includes:
•Dancin' Fool
•The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
•St. Alfonzo / Rollo

Musicians:
Frank Zappa--vocals
Denny Walley--guitar, vocals
Tommy Mars--keyboards, vocals
Peter Wolf--keyboards
Ed Mann--percussion
Patrick O'Hearn--bass
Arthur Barrow--bass
Vinnie Colaiuta--drums
Alan Rubin--trumpet
Tom Malone--trombone
Lew Del Gatto--alto sax
Lou Marini--tenor & soprano sax
Howard Johnson--baritone sax
John Belushi--Samurai Futaba on "Rollo"

Thanx!

Category:

Music

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• Saturday
• Night
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• 1978
• 10
• 21

[SpiritOfRadio2112]

apparently the cast of snl didn't like frank because he was anti-drug.

[5jerry1]

LOVE THIS!!! I remember watching this when it first aired, what, about a hundred years ago, back when TV was worth watching. I liked the slide show, though the actual clips would have been nice to see. Not complaining, the stills really took me back; it was another lifetime, a better one.

This is my favorite version of "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing." Perfection. "Rollo" is way better as an instrumental, glad it's on here, as well as Belushi's "Samurai Musician." Genius! :-) Thanks for this!

[SalamaSond]

@coldtoke If Dancing Fool, or one of the few other Zappa tunes that made it onto the retarded American airwaves, is your total exposure to the man's music, I can kinda understand where you might get that impression. Go deeper. Tell me what kind of music you like and I'll make some suggestions for some Zappa tunes you might find accessible and interesting. Zappa was "the pioneer of the next millenia of music" according to 20th century musicologist Nicholas Slonymsky. He was no fool.

[ArtistsPoetsDancers]

@SpiritOfRadio2112 There's no accounting for lack of taste or lost brain cells. Lol :)

[Idolcruisefix]

@coldtoke yes, one of the most reveared (in my opinion) of all the major arcana. i'd say he was the magician, but i see your point.

[eqsmooth]

where is the actual video? This is a friggin' slide show

[jimiscnc]

I read an SNL book once and they also didn't like him because he mugged to the camera during a few skits, and they considered that a cardinal sin. Lorraine Newman was the biggest Zappa fan of the group, if my memory serves?

-jim

[TomServo420]

Franks good at quikening the tempo for the capitalist pigs.

[lordoid]

@absolute0absence And it survided...just like that old-fashioned genre called rock'nroll ;) Now they are happily married.

[potfarmer420]

@coldtoke - How dare you???