Frank Vincent Zappa ( ZAP -ə ; December 21, 1940 – December 4... recreational drug use, but supported decriminalization and regulation. Zappa was a highly productive and prolific artist...
LOS ANGELES · In her final years, Gail Zappa showed signs of becoming a hoarder, clinging to every scrap and memento of an outsize life. Her four adult children assessed the chaos overtaking the family home in the Hollywood Hills and decided they had to confront her about the problem. So they made a zine. A decade later, Moon Unit Zappa takes the handmade volume from a folder at the restaurant table where three of the four of them have agreed to meet and share a late afternoon snack together, ...
Frank Zappa. Composer: Baby Snakes. Of all the qualities that typified Frank Zappa, perhaps the most striking is that he was a paradox. A workaholic perfectionist rock star who eschewed the...
What would Frank Zappa think? · It’s a question I often ask when it comes to matters of free speech, culture war spats and the overall arc of American politics. Zappa, the late, great Southern California composer and social critic, lived in a world much different from today – having lived from 1940 to 1993 — but his approach and ideas are instructive even today. I will say at the outset that jumping down the Zappa rabbithole for the uninitiated can be disorienting. Zappa the man and Zapp...
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In October 1978, in what remains one of the worst episodes in the program’s history, Frank Zappa appeared on Saturday Night Live. The rock musician and controversialist worked through a trio of musical numbers, delivered a flat monologue, and hammed his way through a Coneheads sketch. The episode’s centerpiece was a bit called “Night on Freak Mountain,” which saw Zappa, playing himself, ducking ruthless record execs in a mountaintop retreat where a group of hippies (Dan Aykroyd, John Bel...
Frank Zappa is probably the most misunderstood man in the history of popular music. A brilliant composer, arranger, satirist and critic, Zappa is nevertheless better known as an eccentric crank who writes funny songs. his battles with critics and record companies are legendary, but are seen by some as a sour-grapes reaction on his part instead of a sincere attempt to be accurate and efficient in the pursuit of his musical goals. Over the past two decades, Zappa's string of bands has included som...
Active : 1950s - 1990s, Born : December 21, 1940 in Baltimore, MD, Died : December 4, 1993 in Los Angeles, CA, Genre : Pop/Rock, Jazz, Avant-Garde, Classical, Comedy/Spoken, Styles : Art Rock, Experimental Rock, Jazz-Rock, Prog-Rock, Album Rock, Avant-Prog, Comedy Rock, Progressive Jazz, Hard Rock, Modern Composition, Avant-Garde Music, Comedy, Computer Music, Experimental, Novelty, Fusion, Proto-Punk, Orchestral, Also Known As : Frank Vincent Zappa, Member Of : The Mothers of Invention, The Mas...
for drug possession leaving the band to play without these two musicians. The support act having been Tim Buckley, Zappa asked his drummer Maury Baker to sit in with the band, which for...