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A bunch of fool congressmen vs an intelectual person! Long live Frank Zappa!

Dijon.

Tom Fowler passed away last week, those brothers were great players. RIP Tom.

This legislation sold millions of albums, thanks.

7:14 live performances - was there a hearing for that gig where people got crushed when the artist egged them on to rush forward?

zappa can't be outsmarted by morons

Представляю, что пережил зал! Все раз и навсегда превратились в фанатов FZ, отвернулись от своих прежних кумиров, переосмыслили самих себя и свои вкусы. Мне это понятно: в 1977 я стал случайным обладателем запиленной и потрёпанной пластинки Overnight Sensation. И хотя Ponty с Duke тогда были мне хорошо знакомы и я был без ума от их творчества, для понимания шедевра мне потребовалось два года. Когда я раскусил этот орешек, меня пробило током, и я тут же вычеркнул из списка своих авторитетов John McLaughlin, открыв истину, что он никогда не был главным в Mahavishnu Orchestra. А Фрэнк Винсентович Заппа просто гений музыки, мыслитель, мозг. Он никогда и не стремился стать первым гитаристом. Он первый открыл Allan Holdsworth и рекомендовал публике обратить на него внимание. Привет из России/Советского Союза😅

Exxon of Nebraska also tried to censor the Internet in 1996. Thankfully the Supreme Court overturned his bill.

Frank Zappa was a good activist against Censorship!!🎉🎉

but it is ok for moms back then to watch her storys when the kids were out of school to put it blunt soft porn

Wow, this was and is FIRE. Zappa is spitting facts and exposing their hypocrisy. If this wasn’t about legislation or governmental action, then why were there governmental hearings in the first place?

I saw him twice they were amazeing. I was Jean Luc Ponti fan! They where amazeingly tight never a dull moment. There where so many amazeing bands at that time.The 70s and 80s was a wonderful time for music lovers. Oh and it didnt cost a lot so people could see them.

Who is that lead MF!!!

Ironic mind control rock and roll willy wonka and his loompity doo band of invention

Hey TIPPER,HOWS THINGS GOING THESE DAYS??DO YA NEED TO BE TIED UP AND PISSED ON??????SANCTIMONIOUS CUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ponty!

Zappa was always ahead of his time.

Good going! Frank tore them a new one on everything they threw at him! Love it! ❤️ 👍👍👍

Senator Gorton summed up Zappa to a T. Zappa was a degenerate who promoted degeneracy during his entire professional career. Frank Zappa played no small part in the degradation and putrefaction of American society. Oh yes ! Frank Zappa, who watched pornography with his children, is someone whose opinions on morality should be taken seriously ! LOL !!!!!

no comment , all said , for me the best period

He's talking to a bunch of evil zionists. You know this right?

I agree with Zappa, it should the parent's concern of the music that their kid's listen to not the government.

John Denver cuts his grass in the nude. Zappa - US Pres., N Young - Can PM, Roger Waters - Brit PM How could that be worse than 92% of history ?

i used to think Frank Zappa was a snob...now i realize he was just smarter than me.

I have to laugh.... Tipper Gore / Al Gore should of stuck with tree hugging. Zappa fell upon the real reason (taxation and silencing free speech) You need to remember which party Gore is a member of... This is about sanctioning and silencing free speech it isn't about obscene material... if it was then playboy. penthouse, and hustler wouldn't exist....

We need frank now more than ever before :(

that Sade Gorton guy was a real prick.

Frank was to intelligent and seen as dangerous by the Republicans

FZ was _way_ more intelligent than all those career politicians put together!

funny how the same debates are being had all these years later.

Rewatching in 2024. Funny how the always use" think about the children" angle

When Al fucking Gore is the person you're able to have the most civilized and constructive debate with on a committee you know you're probably the smartest person in the room by a long shot.

14:41 the guy lights a pipe. What's in it?

"what´s the difference between the movie industry ratings and music industry ratings?" Zappy explains it three times slowly and the dumb shits still keep asking.

Al Gore would later go on to make his fortune in climate change.

Most of these politicians had no idea they were dealing with a genious and most could not comprehend zappas choice of words.

And now we have vulgaraties permeating tv, movies, 'music', etc.

That's gone well with the rap stuff gangster music scene these days then with these fogies stamping Thier foot down same thing about visual arts nothing would move along you don't have to go along to see it because you are disgusted about looking,the kinks am a ape man oh yes iam lerics got band on the bbc radio mainly by the church brigade as it was said that mankind is made in the image of God

I wonder, did she ever go over to Frank’s house to see his children’s toys?

My favorite trials: This People vs. Larry Flynt Richard Jewell - more of a settle out of court I guess. Not sure. Case from Philadelphia Kramer vs Kramer The fictional Liar Liar Case Devil’s Advocate Cases - despite fictional

Seeing Frank Zappa and John Denver in the same frame (very briefly) at the end made me happy.

I was one of the children that this issue was raised to protect. No harm ever came to me from the lyrics of 1980s rock music. Harm came to me from the domestic and foreign policy decisions made by the politicians who were in government during the 1980’s, 1990’s and 2000’s. They made all those decisions while we were all distracted by “porn rock”.

The beginning of the censorship movement of free speech

Apparently politicians have nothing better too do

Do you make a profit? No he works for free!🤣🤣

37:45 this must be one of the absolute best violin solos ever!

The Birth of the Plaid:-) aka Masturbation on a Pentatonic, revisited.

as usual, frank moped the floor with these ridiculous ideas on censorship........

FZ was a champion of free artistic expression. If you don't like the words, don't listen! But don't try to legislate MY right to listen. Necessity is the mother of invention. That's The full quote. Frank and the Mothers are necessary. Then and now, government cannot legislate morality.

I’ll bet Al didn’t get no Tipper that night. No he’s not a relative. But in the 1990s my Dad ( who was 80 at the time ) Email him and he answered back. No shit.lol cheers from Montreal