REALLY??HE seems like AN ASSHOLE every interview I watch He just a standoffish prick, bitter angry and stupid He never thought cigarettes caused cancer. Cigarettes were His "favorite vegetable" what an IDIOT!!!!! NICOTINE IS A DRUG< and He never stopped using , so ya and knives are sharp not whips, YOU ARE ALSO AN IDIOT!!!
One of the things that made Frank so great is he made music for HIMSELF, not for a target audience or demographic or marketability. He makes what HE wants for himself and if other people want to hear it, cool, if not, who cares.
Good mental health is always an issue. My shrink told me that I would never see the acceptance of phychiatry in my lifetime. He was right, I was a teenager at the time & now I'm 64. I don't understand why most people think there is something wrong with you if you see a good shrink. We need good mental health.
Zappa I only gave a chance because Trey liked him. This guy was overrated and I read was a huge Dick to his family and fans. My theory, he probably needed some drugs in his life to take away from his stress, he died at 52 sober as judge.
sammy scotch, everything he speaks out about, is part of his doing. His place in Laurel Canyon, the Log Cabin, was where a lot of the influential counterculture bands such as _The Doors_ got their foot in the door (no pun intended) of the industry. Frank helped launch several groups into stardom and fame. Frank also encouraged people to (who weren't part of _his_ band) explore hedonism. The counterculture is a tool of social planners who are planning much more long-term goals than the average Joe Dope. No, I don't think _they_ have outright control over all things, but their influence is great and they’re masters of manipulation and marketing.
He was really giving the band love and praise from Zappa is pretty impressive. Really awesome of Frank to go out of his way to do that too since so often 'late night' bands are regarded as a novelty... filler... when they're typically top tier musicians.
@@Shaggyshadric Did you ever see the clips of him playing with John Lennon? The audio quality is bad and you can't hear FZ's guitar very well, but he smokes. It would have been great except Yoko fucked it up with her droning.
... Lennon, and Yokoloko changed the name of his song "King Kong" on their release of the album, and claimed ownership of the lyrics/ arrangement, etc... effin LAME! Screw the damned Beatles 🤔
"Love lyrics have helped create an atmosphere of bad mental health in America-its created false expectations" ~ANOTHER AWESOME TRUTH-BASED SHOW W FRANK ZAPPA. WE MISS YOU FRANK!
When Frank Zappa tells a story he sounds like he's singing one of his songs. All they need to do is start up his band while he's talking and you got another album.
People were doing it all through the 80's and 90's especially with AIDS epidemic and then the "choose life" movement and "pro choice". Watch old MTV clips.
This is the most fun I've seen Frank have in an interview. He really cut loose while still telling everyone how it is. And when he tells you have a good band. You have. A. Good. Band.
There is much more of him speaking in my memoir, Freak Out! My Life with Frank Zappa. I lived and worked in his log cabin in 1968 with ten others. It's not about Frank's music, nor other rock stars but follows my journey from that lucky day I met Frank in London. The only book that details Frank's home life from the inside.
I admire this guy, George Carlin, Christopher Hitchens, Henry Rollins, others as well. They motivate me to live a better life and develop more courage.
It blows me away when people say he would love Trump. Look how he talked about Reagan and Pat Robertson! He'd think Trump was a total sleazeball, and he wouldn't have anything nice to say about the mainstream dems either..
Well he never liked the Democratic Party and described himself as a Republican and conservative; at least least before Nixon, whom he loathed. Frank hated hippies and liberals, and all hypocrites, which pretty much meant everybody when it came to politics.
Now. Arsenio as a Black man should have extended the interview once Zappa was going into that Reagan policy. God I love Zappa. Everything about him. Eventhough he doesnt suffer many.
I got an amazing compliment from Frank when I interviewed him in 1988. At the end, he said, 'You are a very good interviewer. I've never been asked those kind of questions before.' You can see the interview on You Tube Pauline Butcher interviews Frank Zappa. First one is on family, three others on politics, evangelism, composing, Jazz Discharge Party Hats, and a question he asked me. Each one is less than five minutes.
For a musician in his bands it must've been beyond the Apex to wn idea of your implemented in an arrangement of a song (drummer Ralph Humphrey's idea to have silent moments in Don't You Ever Wash That Thing? or Arthur Barrow's suggestion to use a Carlos Santana style chord progression alternating between Gm and C, which FZ stuck into City Of Tiny Lights.)
This was the interview that got me to buy the book, that got me into Zappa in 9th grade. Looking back, I'm not sure why this drew me to him, but I'm glad it did
Democrats aren’t rich? Interesting. And I find it funny that he wants to call out Reagan, yet never got his drivers license because he didn’t want to stand in line. I mean, how fucking lazy can you be. At least he made good music.
And what he didn’t understand, is that the 60’s were over. It may have been a time of change, but it was also a time were people didn’t do shit, yet complained that the guy working 40 hours a week makes more then the guy who sleeps 80. Again, an impactful era, but also an extremely lazy one. Maybe that’s why the country is so hesitant on legalizing marijuana outright.
@@lanceuppercut1278 "how lazy can you be." First, there's supposed to be a question mark there. Second, Frank toured and recorded consistently for over 30 years. I don't think you have any idea on how taxing it is to tour. That is the exact opposite of lazy. I wouldn't stand in line at the fuckin' DMV either if I was him. He didn't need a license, he had enough money that there was always someone there to drive him around.
I feel Frank's commentary isn't so much as a genius introspection but more of an observance of commonalities that tend to repeat generation after generation. Which goes to show you, after 30 plus years, the issues if yesterday are still relevant today. They are never going to be solved because we choose not to solve them.
4:24 when Frank Zappa tells you you've got a good band and you should let them play a full song, you may listen to him, he's had awesome playrers in his bands, he knows what he's talking about.
i was thinking about voting for fz for president in 1992 but then he went away.....for a guy with very little higher education he seemed to have a grasp of the totality of any situation he spoke of.... freak out was the first album i bought after i left vietnam in 1971....i later went on to earn my degree in cosmik debris in honor of him.....never moved to montana soon but to this day have never eaten any yellow snow....
Wow! First, Arsenio showed respect and intelligence. Not what I expected. Second, Zappa made wonderful points and kept his curmudgeon-ness to a minimum.
@@charlesdonahue7683 Frank is one of the most accomplished musicians of all time I’m sure the band enjoyed the complement . You don’t have to be a douche
@@Wspsportsfan You're being the douche. If you knew anything about the other musicians in the band you'd understand. If someone made the comment "Frank must really know music to appreciate such a great band," you'd surely see how ridiculous that would sound. I love Frank's music but there are many great musicians past and present and they don't need to be validated by "someone like FRANK." So the issue is not Frank expressing his appreciation, the issue is your insinuation that they should feel honored to be graced by his holiness.
Unlikely. They don't need his pat on the back. They are better players. He is a composer. Plus...plus.. he says that to every band on shows. Watch harder....
I just discovered this man Frank in 2021. Better late than never. Wise. Unique perspective. He's the philosopher we didn't know we needed. Would love to hear him interview personalities today. 🙏
He did not get enough credit in those days, for fighting against censorship. It's a small blessing that he's not around these days to see all the things he railed against coming horribly to life.
THANK YOU. The audio from this interview was tacked onto the end of a bootleg tape I had back in the early 90s, I've been looking for the video ever since.
I believe this was around the time that Zappa was diagnosed with cancer. I like the fact that Hall led off asking him about not having a driver’s license. Very few interviewers ever bothered asking him that.
So does anyone know if the band actually had the chance to play a full song? They really were very talented. Frank was in rare form too. This is just a great video, thanks for posting.
All Mainstream Media is the same..Fox is no different from CNN... They are all Propaganda machines. Only a fool would listen to Jimmy Kimmel or the ladies at The View....
In fine show-biz fashion, they played as much as they needed to, for a short time, while the guest walked out - like Johnny Carson's Tonight Show band. I bet they played many complete songs in rehearsals, though. Arsinio's show never really showcased the band that I can remember.
Damn. Its like Frank went out of his way to warm up to you towards the end. Started establishing more eye contact when talk about the news, and you didn't let that Quail conspiracy remark breath long enough for applause.
@@paulinebutcherbird It is a society in which the likes of Trump (who didn't know what a nuclear triad is) become leaders. Where/when more people than ever can read and write while the society is less informed about the world they live in and what goes on around them, so for instance a climate-change denier can manipulate them into voting for fracking and excavation of coal as an economic stimulus! In other words, when a semi-literate portion of the society can impose a semi-literate leader on the rest of the population by creating distractions and diversions to protect the interests of the rich and powerful if necessary!
@@darrak4851 70 million people voted for Trump, 80 million voted for Biden. That leaves nearly 200 million unaffected by any of the things you are talking about. I do think it's elitist for a person, including Frank Zappa, to talk about the general population with such derision.
@@paulinebutcherbird The term "post-literate society" was not invented by Zappa. His use of the term, IMHO, was a sarcastic joke to refer to his book. However, the term was used before Zappa as far back as in 1960s by the likes of Marshal McLuhan and even before that, the concept has been used by authors like Ray Bradbury and George Orwell. As far as Trump goes, the main issue is not how many people did or did not vote for him, but his becoming (whether due to support of a minority or apathy by a majority) is an epitome of a post-literate presidency (where words are broken and morphed to fit social media format, reading is replaced by audio books and multimedia, a reality tv showman becomes president by having more media exposure than career politicians with more funds, by packing unchallenged false statements 24/7 in 140 character online messages, etc.)! Indeed, Trump is not alone here, there are charlatans and conmen who became leaders of post-literate societies all over the world (e.g. Bolsonaro in Brazil, Duterte in Philippines, Orban in Hungary...).
I'd give anything to hear Frank Zappa have a political conversation today with Donald Nazi Trump. Zappa's got 100 x Trump's I.Q. What a freak out it would be!
Frank would rather be chauffeured in a Cadillac...He missed the Uber phenomenon. He was also a practicing Neo-Stoic. His emphasis on expectations in love lyrics leads to utter disappointment because you have no control over other people and their thoughts and actions, only your own. Frank always said he like to think of most people as ass-holes so that when they turned out not to be it was a great surprise. That's Stoicism, distilled.
Zappa is really witty, in the moment, and spontaneous here, and Hall does a really good job prompting him-an excellent and thoroughly entertaining segment. From the snatches I heard, by the way, I agree about the band.
@@paulinebutcherbird It means that our government-run schools are miserably failing at tasks as basic as teaching kids how to read, and it's only going to continue to get worse.
@@pioneertech-w5o I hear lots of complaints about education in the U.S. but maybe there's too much emphasis on what's wrong and not enough attention to what's right. For example, how is it that the US has more Nobel Prize winners than any other country?
