Frank Zappa - Lost Interview - Hendrix, UFOs & Sex (5-7) 

fax. I remember seeing a comment on this very video where someone was pissed at frank for saying jimi was "busy doing other things" as in "jimi was too busy being a drug addict" and took it as a back handed whatever. I was like, the fuck R you talkin bout?

Fz did it on his version of Purple Haze of course

@@cheothegeo2742 yeah I've seen interviews where Frank has been much more upfront about his thoughts on certain drug users. I believe he said in one interview that he felt many people "use drugs as a license to be an asshole " He was pretty vague with his answer here when he said "doing other stuff." It's clear to us because we all know Jimi did a lot of drugs, but I feel like Zappa might have given a more cynical and/or frank (pardon the pun) answer if not for the great respect he had for Hendrix as a musician. Those two guys are both incredible, I feel like it would be hard for them to not respect one another artist to artist. Two of the greatest improvisational guitar soloists of all time.

​@Joe Myers Not to say abuse does not destroy performances. But this moral Bullshit is rubbish. All my favorite artists DID use drugs even the classical ones (Laudenum, Opium mixed with Red port wine, Mozart ,Bach, Beethoven). Frank is not so clever even though he is very clever. He abused the drug nicotine and it killed him. A product of an evil corporate culture. Franks sci fi hate of humans is one sided and shallow of human nature and explains his cynicism. He is a half empty man. No one has it all Joe. Not even me or you! You are right the Rock and Roll Lifestyle is often self glorifying shallow ('It's only Rock and Roll') BS but it is an old libertine partying thing going back to the Ancient Greeks. Balance and MODERATION is wisdom, Not abuse vs self denial. Jimi was generally not held back by his drug use which inspired him and the Beatles to evolve musically very fast as the acid era did many peak artists but sure sometimes Jimi would be ruined for a night because of abuse of booze or drugs. Real morals involve treating others well and with respect. Frank was not all there in certain ways. His comment dismissing all of the very good Woodstock performances as shite was very typically arrogant and shallow. It was not ALL great but some of it certainly was.

@@vladdrakul7851 great (I mean GREAT) musicians and performers throughout the times, who indulge in drug abuse, often have already learned their craft in their infant stages of the 'touring artist'.. wayyy before drug abuse was even an option (Want to emphasize on 'great'.. I mean innovative, game changing.. think Michael Jackson, vs say, luther vandross... They're similar in many ways, but you can see something other worldy greatness in the former ) Drug abuse is often the result of crashing after too much work.. too hard to organize anything that would get up on the world stage, when completely stoned. However, I'm sure that most artwork/music/ whatever, that was purely born out of drug abuse, is often not 'great',.. sometimes unique, and beautiful.. but not magnum opus, culture creating 'great'... If you disagree, mention an example. ..need to clarify, when I mention drug abuse, let's agree not to count few drinks of alcohol and chain-smoking.. drug abuse, in this context = anything that you would regard as DOPE, and lots of it!

and here I find this in 2022.. 🥴

+ChimpFromSpace I disagree. Cynical people are close-minded and envious. Dont relate intelligence to cynicism.

+Teresa Gomes Frank had a degree of cynicism and was *far* from closed minded. The two are not inherently related.

+ChimpFromSpace or a skeptic

DoomKid they are related. Its scientifically proven.

Teresa Gomes NOT related. One you die early in life as a result, the other you do not... it is proven

Well considered, very measured, insightful. *Not* the image the 'establishment' try to smear on Zappa.

And just think... he started out as a chemist prodigy when he was 10!

@today is not yesterday whats with you hating on frank for no reason?

Eli Makowski The industry have made us slaves to materialism and it’s addictive and hard to withdraw from that yes the industry accomplished what they wanted with out much Barbarism how ever materialism creates barbarism

we have been losing this in part is going on Trump will do that and most 0f in time he has caused a lot of pain what happens in Philly of the Jewish Synagogue and is much trying to divide our country by the likes who likes him

@@aman4peace idiot!!!!

He knew.

If you only knew about 2020

OMG! Steely Dan and BM!!!!

To me, I am 27, they (along probably with Robert Fripp) have to be the most unique guitarists I've had the opportunity to hear. I can't think of anybody else when I think of their respective sounds & styles. There are a lot of great guitar players in history, but those guys are 3 in a million.

BitterBosh With ya there bro!!

BitterBosh What are three essential Zappa guitar song's for a non-fan like myself. I find most of the stuff I heard didn't move me an inch. I'm a Jimi freak, myself. Thank's

guitarprism Hey dude... I am a Jimi (Hendrix) lover, since I was 13 years old, when my very first 'vinyl' collection of 400-500 albums (before I foolishly, or should say naively sold them all because I thought CD's where the 'way to go'...Fuck!... I couldn't be more wrong! ...I had Jimi's 12 box set + 'bootlegs of Jimi playin' with Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin and also Brian Jones, colour 'vinyl' ... 17 albums of Jimi's... although I know he only commercially released 6... I think inc. the double 'Electric Ladyland' (named after his own recording studio) BUT! Frank I also loved... he was much different with the way he used the electric sound of the guitar for one, Frank was a musical composer, writer, multi-instrumentalist, a brilliant guitarist!! (I am not sayin' Jimi wasn't!... Jimi could play many instruments also e.g. Bass, guitar, drums, sax, vocals etc. (and also a brilliant guitarist!) The sad thing was Jimi was more interested in drugs, girls and having a good time to have been doing as much as Frank was musically (and that's ok too) I guess I am saying, to me Jimi and Frank were genius's in their own right.... there are only a handful of guitarists that I really admire and have been heavily influenced by musically, especially guitar! Here are my top ten, not necessarily in order, except Jimi and Frank are both number one to me.... Steve Vai, Robert Johnson, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jeff Buckley, John Frusciante and not lets forget frank's son Dweezil Zappa!! ... all very different! I can't think of many others right at this point in life (I am 56 years old now) that I listen to (guitarists)... I have played with many good musicians, and love playin' other instruments, or rather, try too, lol! I love all music. my partner has her degree in classical music and is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, writer, singer and 'Playwright' (plays guitar, (not lead) Cello, Viola, Piano, Flute, etc. plus reads music and plays it fluently! I met her playing with a band 5 years ago... she has taught me so much musically, especially about the ego! lol FZ's album's I would suggest to people to listen to are .... 'Apostrophe'... 'One Size Fits All'.... 'Zoot Allures'...and Joes Garage I, II and III, (IMO) these albums have everything from 'Lucille' (has messed my mind up) a reggae number from Joes garage... 'Watermelon in Easter hay', a favourite of mine (well one of) very 'bluesy' and so 'Soulful'... to Jazz etc. these are a 'must' for Zappa aficionados... listen to the humor in Frank's music! 'Stink foot' , 'Po-jama people' ... and another favorite of mine ...'Inca Roads'... I hope this helps those who aren't quite into Frank yet. if you are quite young relative to me, I suggest listening to Dweezil Zappa (Zappa plays Zappa) Dweezil is a brilliant guitarist!! Dweezil plays his fathers music so that the couple of generations Frank 'Skipped',...because he passed away at a very early age of 51 years old (from un-diagnosed prostate cancer! FUCK!!) in 1991... both Jimi and Frank are sadly missed by so many people. R.I.P Jimi R.I.P Frank

Thank's for the run down. Your musical taste's and mine are pretty much sypatico. What I was asking are some Zappa tunes where I will say to myself " wow, that is just mind-blowing guitar playing, now I understand what all the fuss is about." I'm looking for that eureka moment of Zappa genius. Peace, Prop's & Prosperity

What do you think podcasts are?

@@BigSmoke-bu6ib your mom?

@@berryseinfeld6772 aw dayum I dunno how to sleep after that zinger.

@@BigSmoke-bu6ib thanks. I’m pretty undefeated w that comeback.

@@berryseinfeld6772 means a lot coming from someone who needs to take a video of a typical contrail and have someone in the comments explain what that is. Nothing really carries weight or intelligence like that.

I don't know how RIGHT he is or was but he bothered to think deeply about these things. I think he was more right than wrong.

Marko Barrows whats in his heart is the issue.

Like all others was given a dose of ccancer as Hicks and many more have died with it.

Going to moon was expensive waste of £. Gil Scott Heron said that best. Comp with communism was all it was. Also radiation belt proves noone went to moon. One astronaut was strangely killed after moon landings or before as was man of morals and wouldnt film fake moon landing?

@@mabul513 IF no one went to the Moon, how would it rack up the phenomenal costs you claim it did Sherlock?

I can't help but wonder tho, what he'd make of all the videos on a phony moon landing that are on YT today.

Tony M - Don't forget that Zappa's dad was a military officer. The phony moon landing 49 years ago and the Charles Manson boogeyman fairy tale (just a few weeks before Woodstock), that was implemented to discredit peace loving hippies that were against the Vietnam war, were all done during the Nixon administration. To this day, most people believe those utter fantasies to be true. Zappa was a great tool for the government. He made all hippies look like morons, with his poo poo jokes and potty mouth lyrics. Real good musician though. I enjoy his guitar playing. By the way, the lead singer for The Doors, Jim Morrison, - his dad was in charge of the fleet at the Gulf of Tonkin. Even the government admits the Gulf of Tonkin attack, that started the dreaded Vietnam war, was a lie. All of the people involved in the Charles Manson boogeyman fairy tale were involved in the military in some way. Hollywood and the government work together to make fake news for all. Zappa was right there with them.

you're killin' me, man.but what did I expect?

Just need 5-6 billion others to have that same thought process. PEACE!!!

Agreed. Whenever I think of Jimi it fills me with some kind of second-hand regret about the choices he made in the last year or so of his life. To me his death is the most tragic and wasteful in the history of music, maybe even in the history of all creative fields

Hendrix and Miles Davis were hanging out a lot around the time of his death. They played together and may have recorded a few bits. They were planning on recording something pretty big, and they wanted Paul McCartney to be a part of it. They got as far as sending a telegram around to Paul's representatives, but I believe Jimmy died shortly thereafter. What could have been...

I get the feeling they both would’ve been Libertarian.

ThatKidWhoLiesAboutHisAge OnTheInternet which is to say that Zappa still believed in participatory democracy while Carlin didn’t.

Great observation. Both saw themselves as non-conformists and outsiders. Of course, so did many others of (at least) Frank’s generation. The difference with Zappa, Carlin, and Robert Crumb (who also belongs in this category) is that each understood the logic of conformity more thoroughly than the average Boomer. They saw more fads where others saw revolution and counterculture. FZ was as willing to make fun of hippies as he was squares. It was all the same foolishness to him. But this is how the logical mind works: it ascertains and scrutinizes formula without preference for variable. On the other hand, I could see these three not getting along. Crumb became an ex-pat, something I couldn’t see Zappa or Carlin (with their ambivalence toward the government and interest in American culture) doing. Zappa decried illegal drug and alcohol use, which Crumb and Carlin not only relished but (particularly with drugs) elevated to life changing experiences. And Carlin - for all of his independent mindedness - had always courted a Hollywood career, something Crumb and Zappa dismissed as phony.

I thought was the only one.I thought I was the only one who though that,

@El FenomenoYou are partly right but you can't define either one with those approximate labels. Neither of them was that easy to pin down politically but both of them were outspoken, articulate, and very intelligent.

Bold statement

@@justinjeffery3720 not insinuating shared DNA, just intensity of vision.

Jesus Christ almighty... I never noticed that! You're right!!!

...and his intuition.

I knew AOC had Manson eyes, but never noticed Zappa/Tesla

*Really?*

How did he die?

cancer

Pancreatic Cancer, not from smoking...... Frank would be sure that everyone know that fact, he considered Tobacco his favorite vegetable

Zappa's appreciation for Hendrix is apparent. What an arrogant ass. on stage Hendrix would have wiped his ass with Zappa. I will never buy into Franks horse shit comedy wana be funk, rock, jazz, I'm so much better than you attitude. Dancing Fool, Cosmik Debris - yada bs. Sucked! It really did. Note Salad !!! LAck of Tone - he was though a budding politician. Very articulate.- missed his calling -- maybe?

34th RLight AMEN ! ZAPPA WAS LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF HIS TIME. HE WAS A GENIUS. HE SAW MUSIC IN HIS HEAD

No drug use would contribute to his abilities to articulate....

Well, Um... I think, Ummm, Uh I am purdy smart, uhhh, too....

34th RLight I thank, ur postulation, iz - UH - !!!tihsllub Blieve, azz thou whilst, tho. SMH

Whenever I would hear my father doing patient dictation growing up, a good 10% of the time he'd say "um". Definitely not a sign of being unintelligent as his IQ is probably close to 130.

Frank would not work with a junkie.

Miles with Prince. that happened. not quite the same....but close.

Nautilus1972 Hendrix was not a junkie. Study the facts.Hendrix would never work with zappa.Hendrix was about to do a album with ELP before he died. Hendrix was a rocker. Zappa was a neo-beatnick- dweeb.

I like that. Would love to hear it. A great idea.

Jimi wasn't a junkie...Though he did take drugs..

I am the slime says it all you are a genius, love you Frank watched you live 5 times Milwaukee Atlanta vegas had all your stuff. Your interviews are right on what else can l say ✌NECHY

@alterdestiny if they inspire you to be a better & more productive version of yourself, it's healthy

@@MrJadePinwheel youre responding to a wall man

@@TarantuLandoCalcuLingus you too man, what are you doing?

@@carlomure dude above deleted his comment

@@TarantuLandoCalcuLingus :(

Yeh... We see them as drug abusive musicians... But they're smart people...

+jdogsful I was listening to him since the 60s and wasn't surprised that he was smart, but never did I imagine him to be brilliant. He debated Congressmen and many people of note and astonished many including Al Gore.

+Jonathan Erickson Zappa was actually anti-drugs, and wasn't known to use any other than tobacco.

I forgot that about Zappa I remember that. A lot of the other stuff like the sex etc was there tho

+Seth Silver Some time in the 70s Frank Zappa appeared in a series of anti-drug public service ads featuring popular rock musicians. His was the *BEST* anti-drug argument I've ever heard in my life. Something to the effect of: "If you use drugs, it'll rot your heart, rot your liver, rot your kidneys, rot your brain. In general, it'll make you JUST LIKE YOUR PARENTS!" If that isn't enough to scare kids straight, I don't know what is! :)

I'm not gonna say you're wrong, but "the first?" Miles Davis? Stravinsky? Jesus? Come on lol, for as long as human history these types of people have been around (not saying they're aliens but...), And as long as they've been around people have been misinterpreting them, to the point where I don't trust most things anyone says about any of them

Also ZAPPA? Lol

i actually thought frank looked as though he knew Gail had a wee look and try at jimi's trouser snake when sowing the jeans!

and how can YOU be sure? the question's rhetorical cos only Frank knew

Doubtful, a one off incident getting a mold of your junk doesn't keep a man too busy, drugs, though, they can swallow up a fair bit of time.

he was referring to jimi's killing himself with drugs, no doubt.

I thought he meant substances. Since jimi was using copius amounts. And died that way

Fuck yeah!!

on the kazoo!

Zappa could only mock other musicians. He was incapable of true tribute.

PriestessofMars i

Atomic Lobotomy he did a lot of great covers,tributes,not just funny ones.you obviously don't know that so don't be rude about the man you don't like.

Funny how the brainwashed use the term "libtard". A dead giveaway.

+Acidic Marisa He nailed it!

Smokey Rockwell Fuck yeah he did man!

I prefer the term plutocratic fascism

Where and when was that?

Frank Zappa Interview Collection So you trust the media and government?

It was on TV. It happened

Jesse James I saw a man get shot and buried on TV. But then l saw him on another show alive and well. Now I believe everything l see on TV. Miracles do happen!

Frank Zappa Interview Collection it was fake! The technology didn’t exist in the late 60’s and why haven’t we gone back? With today’s technology we should have colonized alewady

Frank Zappa Interview Collection. Got love it. Opinions are like assholes everybody's got one.

+Leo Reyes too late...

+Teresa Gomes Frank would do a better job dead than anybody who we have to choose from the living.

You really can't compare these two. I don't think Jimi would ever be able to play Zappa stuff.

***** Wait a minute - you are talking about brilliant apples vs. brilliant oranges. You can't compare them. Jimi was a far-out funky cat who played form the gut. Zappa was a brilliant academic musician - almost a mathematician. Both genius.

George Orr I completely agree with you but that's just the way I see it. I think Zappa was cappable of doing Jimi's stuff with ease, Hendrix on the other hand was amazing too but I doubt he would have been able to play Zappa's music. I fucking love both, this is just my trying to write an unbiased comment.

HEY !! King Robert....SMARTEN UP !! genius n'genius thats it...

George Orr Great comparison, and what's more I agree. Both outstanding musician's, and IF you listen to the lost interview with Hendrix....Then what Frank says makes sense, a lot of sense. Both are favorites of mine.

Sage Mantis They (Hendrix, Miles) were messed up (heroin). Dude nodded out on the couch. I believe this was being implied. Frank was quick and slick with words and analogy.

Sublime Music Channel maybe he meant it’s more important to be a decent human being than an out of control drug addict / genius guitar player.

I was going to come in and say something witty about how creating our own destruction, but Capslock Chungus derailed my train of thought as it pulled into the station. Great job, Chungus!

This is an unused, unedited interview. That's why.

Very interesting what he said about democracy back then

Frank Zappa was a registered Democrat. He was a practical conservative who hated paying taxes, and did not trust anyone who used religion in their campaign speech. All we really know is he hated Reagan, Bush , and Republican's. He also stated at the end of his life that he was no longer a democrat, either. Nor a Libertarian for that matter. He will alway's have a special place in my heart, and so will Dweezil whom I have met before and is an awesome guy.

He would hate all politicians today!

Dave Mitchell and love trump????? Noo

ALL politicians are self-serving cocksuckers. Democracy is an illusion.

feel the exact same way. cool fella tho.

his music sucked ass Frank was kool and interesting guitarist

It takes a refined mind to understand and appreciate Frank's music. Zappa is an unparalleled genius that comes around maybe every 100 years.

Zappa is under appreciated only in the USA.