Frank Zappa "Freeman Report" Part 4 of 5

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. 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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[flyingV1043]

This whole interview is fantastic.

[EMTTHHN]

He should have been our president

[leetomboulian]

He put his musicians up in cheap hotels while he stayed in luxury hotels, and never paid per diem. That's not necessarily treating your employees well.

[DimensionsofChange]

@krisjanneman yeah I'm not troll, I'm sorry

[krisjanneman]

@DimensionsofChange he's talking about reagan

[DimensionsofChange]

@krisjanneman then why is Zappa calling him that?

[krisjanneman]

@DimensionsofChange well, he is not a "cowboy actor"

[gofindyourmusic]

Too Smart for his own ggod

[DimensionsofChange]

Or is he?

[DimensionsofChange]

Obama isn't an actor

[StoneMagnet]

@nickwade1 I think what he's referring to are mind-altering drugs. While they're not healthy for you in the long-term, coffee and cigarettes aren't going to make a person react to things any differently than he/she normally would.

[Meurglys33]

@silentthriller "except taxing churches."

Why? If they're a part of the community, and clearly they are, why should they benefit from a special rule?

"Taxes are the Devil and should be abolished across the board."

In order for a sentence like that to be anything other than lunacy, you should propose your alternative way of paying the bill.