@@semperfi818 But he also failed in many areas but no one would know about that. He tried to get his own talk show many times and each time he failed. He tried to get a musical on Broadway and failed. When his classical music was played he had to pay for it himself. Some of his albums sold poorly. We only hear of the successes.
When I was in high school, back in 1981 or '82, the local college's 'Campus Attractions' group had a 4-movie film festival in the old gymnasium building -- bring your own pillows, etc. They showed -- and I can't remember the order -- ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, A BOY AND HIS DOG, PINK FLOYD THE WALL and ANIMAL HOUSE (I think). In between, the C.A. guys played Zappa songs while they got the reel-to-reel film projector set up for the next movie, and it was the first time I'd actually heard Zappa. Oh, I had heard OF him, but the local radio stations never played his stuff, so I didn't have a clue. It was around the time that SHEIK YERBOUTI came out, and they played "Bobby Brown Goes Down" & "Jewish Princess" & "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" . . . and I was like: "What in the fuck is THIS??? And where has it been all my life!" The next day I went to MOTHER'S RECORDS -- an aptly-named music store! -- and bought 4 or 5 Zappa albums, including SHEIK YERBOUTI and JOE'S GARAGE Act 1. I'm so damn glad I went to that all-nighter event -- from 5:00 PM to around 4 in the morning or so -- and discovered his music when I did. Zappa's an acquired taste, and I'm lucky my musical palette was able to develop a taste for his stuff.
for a man with so little formal education he sure was insightful.....i saw him twice....once in california and once in texas....both are highlights of my life.....
@@teresamartin4735 Thats a Frank Zappa Quote From the Song Dumb All Over Listen to it its a great Song. It intelligently criticizes Christianity and Islam at the same Time.
@@paulinebutcherbird If you think that means the educational system makes people critically aware of the society and it's problems and faults, than you have just proved that Zappa was right...
@@paulinebutcherbird so I take it you come from a backround of privilege. Also America does not have the best education system in the world when there are countries where its compulsory to learn 3+ languages 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 also which country in the world drops the most nukes and starts most wars nowdays 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Interesting about his saying 'stop giving people reason to escape from reality' when he himself hid himself in his basement making music (when he wasn't touring and he said that also sends you crazy). Someone should have challenged him.
@@pythongalactique4001 A valid point given he was talking about drugs and I applaud that but Frank Zappa was not an example of a person connected with reality - he never went to the cinema, never went to the theatre, never socialised except on rare occasions when abroad, only in later life did he watch TV, rarely read a newspaper or listened to the radio, never went anywhere as a family. .
@@paulinebutcherbird Ironic to blame Zappa for running away from reality and to blame him for never having been to the theater or the cinema where fiction reigns supreme. And what about the people of the Middle Ages? They weren't going to the movies, was there no reality? Complying with the social norm that makes cinema an obligation, is it being in reality or being a puppet if you don't want to go? And the one who doesn't have sex every week? And the one who doesn't like chocolate? And the one who doesn't have a driving license? Are these people out of reality? Just because Zappa wasn't doing what you are doing doesn't mean he wasn't in reality: he was also doing things that you might not be doing. For example, get involved in Czech politics. Or go and debate in the US Senate. Can we then say that he was out of reality? In addition, there is once again a difference between playing the guitar, not going to the movies, not going on family vacation ... and taking drugs! Otherwise I too am out of reality because I don't really like crowds in the street and I prefer to go and play the drums in my basement. And are all those who have a passion and who devote several hours a week to it outside of reality? Zappa, like me and others, was aware of what he was doing, how much time went by, paid his taxes, went to vote, etc. Someone who takes drugs is no longer in control of himself. As you speak of cinema, can we really say, by comparison, that the characters of "Requiem for a Dream" (a film on drugs) and those of "Yesterday" (a film about the Beatles) are in the same situation? ? When you say that some of these comments are biased, like those on education (I think the system is far from perfect but not debilitating), I agree with you. But blaming this man for being out of touch with reality, I don't agree because he knew her much better than some of the other guys. Sincerly yours.
@@pythongalactique4001 I think you put the argument very well and I concede. Most of what I said doesn't hold up. I suppose my comment is based on Frank Zappa's lifestyle at home where he worked and more or less ignored the family and as he said himself had no friends. I agree this is quite different from taking drugs and losing touch with reality. You win.
@@paulinebutcherbird Oh. This is the first time in my life that I see someone on CZcams who admits they could have been wrong. You are, moreover, one of the rare people who has presented his arguments with respect. I will remember you. Have a good day (I don't know what time it is at home but here in France it's morning) :)
'If you have a boring, miserable live becouse you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or the Guy on the television who told you How to Do your shit, you deserve it.'
"Harry you're a beast" written by Frank Zappa before prince Harry was even a toss up between a boy and a girl. "What's the ugliest part of your body?" Was this about Michael Jackson? He was such a visionary.
Steve Vai audition quote (after having been given impossible passages in grotesque mutant stylings): "I understand Linda Ronstadt is looking for a Rhythm player." 🗯️DAMN
Franklin was a TOWERING intellect..and practical as hell. Einstein was a theorist. Zappa was more like Franklin IMHO.. Franklin was Grand Master of Masons in PA while Washington was Grand Master of Masons in Va. Smart boys. Zappa was grand master of the guitar.
@@tonygriffin6144 That's a good thing... It did take him out. He paid the ultimate price, but he didn't preach or promote it. I wish I could quit. ( Did for 10 years)
@@tonygriffin6144 btw he didn't say he despised drugs, he just didn't like his band showing up unable to play because of it. Nicotine doesn't do that. No hypocrisy.
separation anxiety from his mother for three weeks when he was very young...he had to be hooked up to numerous machines for what was wrong with him.....there is a lady psychiatrist that made her career studying him....forget her name but she is on youtube.....
The last one, the criticism of schools, I strongly disagree with. Maybe American schools are not the best, but somehow USA has produced nearly 400 Nobel Prize winners, more than any other country in the world, the nearest is UK with a proportion to population higher number, but let's not go into that because St Lucia has the highest number per capita!
The fact that you're trying to use this as an argument for why the education system in America isn't garbage illustrates his point perfectly. You also think there aren't any poor people in America because Jeff Bezos exists, I assume?
@@EmptyGlass99 Two of Frank's children would have benefited from a university education, in my humble opinion. I agree, Moon has revealed a wonderfully creative talent as a writer with her book, 'America the Beautiful' but I think she would be writing fantastic journalistic pieces for top newspapers and journals had she gone to university. Ahmet, too, I think, would have benefited, learning about economics and business. But Frank made sure that they did not go anywhere near a university because he had such a poor view of them. I think that was narrow minded of him.
I think he was referring to elementary and high schools. Those have set curriculums that churn out kids who are “dumb all over.” Once you’re in college and graduate school, you have more autonomy
frank.... I Luv ya, but nicotine & caffeine are drugs,too.. which, you were addicted to [ and, may have killed you]. so, spare me the self-sanctimony, in this regard. In ALL else, you kick ass...!!
He was incredibly wrong about religion: lack of a true belief in God was and is the big problem with most religious institutions and individuals, not the existence of religion itself. But he couldn't be right about everything.
Vade Retro spirituality = good. Religion = bad. A fact frank new only too well and wasn't afraid to spread at any cost , even if it ment less air time for his art.
Religion is an escape from reality. Selling 'faith' (the belief in something without any evidence whatsoever) as a virtue was the church's greatest success. Nobody with an ounce of critical thinking skill can take that seriously.
Oh Frank. Been gone 25 years and every day that passes proves you more and more right. Sadly missed.
Yes!!!
Why are you accepting what he says? He is encouraging us to think for ourselves.
@@paulinebutcherbird says the guy telling people how to listen
I would love to see Frank's comments on today's world.
Everything he said while he's alive still applies.
Me too
@@simonpepper9721 in spades.
Same
It’s the same world just further down the path
“Schools train you to be ignorant in style.”
I need to put that on a tshirt...or course curriculum.
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."
My favorite FZ quote!
That is one of his better ones.
That's a great one, sure -- but my favorite Frank Zappa quote has to be this one: "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
@@semperfi818 My favourite of all, and in on my wall: To fail is the norm, to succeed is rare.
@@paulinebutcherbird And succeed Frank did, in so many ways, as an artist and a philosopher.
@@semperfi818 But he also failed in many areas but no one would know about that. He tried to get his own talk show many times and each time he failed. He tried to get a musical on Broadway and failed. When his classical music was played he had to pay for it himself. Some of his albums sold poorly. We only hear of the successes.
When I was in high school, back in 1981 or '82, the local college's 'Campus Attractions' group had a 4-movie film festival in the old gymnasium building -- bring your own pillows, etc. They showed -- and I can't remember the order -- ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, A BOY AND HIS DOG, PINK FLOYD THE WALL and ANIMAL HOUSE (I think). In between, the C.A. guys played Zappa songs while they got the reel-to-reel film projector set up for the next movie, and it was the first time I'd actually heard Zappa. Oh, I had heard OF him, but the local radio stations never played his stuff, so I didn't have a clue. It was around the time that SHEIK YERBOUTI came out, and they played "Bobby Brown Goes Down" & "Jewish Princess" & "Broken Hearts Are For Assholes" . . . and I was like: "What in the fuck is THIS??? And where has it been all my life!" The next day I went to MOTHER'S RECORDS -- an aptly-named music store! -- and bought 4 or 5 Zappa albums, including SHEIK YERBOUTI and JOE'S GARAGE Act 1. I'm so damn glad I went to that all-nighter event -- from 5:00 PM to around 4 in the morning or so -- and discovered his music when I did. Zappa's an acquired taste, and I'm lucky my musical palette was able to develop a taste for his stuff.
He was as rare as a mind can be.
Not really. He was good at expressing himself, but often wrong.
for a man with so little formal education he sure was insightful.....i saw him twice....once in california and once in texas....both are highlights of my life.....
He was truly ahead of his time, world needs somebody like him right now
"If we are made in God's image, does that mean God is dumb and ugly?"
What an awful thing to say. Shame on you! 🤬
Maybe a little ugly on the side 😉
@@teresamartin4735
Thats a Frank Zappa Quote From the Song Dumb All Over Listen to it its a great Song. It intelligently criticizes Christianity and Islam at the same Time.
Those who are dumb and ugly choose this path, God wants everyone to be happy and love one another, he has given you free will.
@@markdrinkard4150 Then why present the path?
He exactly knows what is still going on!
Love you, Frank!
Frank was one of the great independent thinkers that is a guiding light for a better "Human" race.
He was a genius, and apparently not just when it comes to music.
25 YRS, FRANK I MISS YOU EVERY DAY. HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON
This is a magnificent collection. Thank you so much, Mariano, for assembling it. We need this kind of guts and commitment.
Agreed, excellently put together though I disagree with several of Frank's views.
@@paulinebutcherbird Which statement?, that school purposely doesn't make you a critical thinker? Good luck proving that statement wrong.
Frank was a GENI and MASTER ❤️🤘🤘🤘
Watermelon in Easter Hay...Masterpiece! Such a guitar lead!
Truly a genius, not even just musically
Thanks for uploading and subtitle this. How lucky I was to find Zappa when I was 18.
I was about 12. He really made me rethink a lot of things I had barely thought about...
No words have ever been more true. Thank you President Zappa !
Zappa is another form to scape from reality but this way is more interesting that the "reality"
Frank Zappa.tan concreto en sus declaraciones y su música. .Un verdadero maestro.gracias por siempre.
Admirable la inteligencia de Frank!!! El mundo actual necesitaria la contribucion de este gran genio!. Por siempre Eterno!!!
IVE JUST BEEN ZAPPED BY ZAPPA AN I MUST SAY I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER NOW Thanks BRO !!!
I guess that's the reason I'm listening to Zappa.
Mariano Nobile this is a great video! All combined with his music...just great!
I miss that man!!
Those were some of the most interesting comments I've heard. Actually most I hadn't heard before, so thanks for your creation.
Outliers have a unique perspective. I like it! Jim . Morrison was one. My heroes. Be you, not a sheep.
thank you!!! my favorite person in the world!!! great video!!!
Very great video, thank you, well done!
One of my favorite videos.
Great job on putting this together. The last quote of the video about the modern educational system is especially poignant.
What about the nearly 400 Nobel Prize winners in America, the highest in the world?
@@paulinebutcherbird If you think that means the educational system makes people critically aware of the society and it's problems and faults, than you have just proved that Zappa was right...
@@kiekiek Frank's view is the education system makes people dullards, unable to think for themselves. I disagree.
@@paulinebutcherbird so I take it you come from a backround of privilege. Also America does not have the best education system in the world when there are countries where its compulsory to learn 3+ languages 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 also which country in the world drops the most nukes and starts most wars nowdays 🙄🙄🙄🙄
@@paulinebutcherbird 'history is written by its victors'
Such a clear and subtle mind
Beautiful! 👌
You could have added, «How do you get to play with those people [LSO]?» «You pay them.»
great video man
Darth Vader yeh man! Frank was a class "A" guy so to speak! We couldn't have enough folks like him!
Excellent clip great artist
thank you.
Cavemen had the desire to Express themselves 40.000 years ago with Cave paintings
We need you today Frank.
@Ronnie Vendetti Yes, Ronnie. It's true.
The great Zapula🌎
he should be president. no fooling.
Amen.
Too bad he passed away.
~ He considered running in '92, but his health changed all that.
NO HIS TALENTS WOULD BE WASTED!!!!
LOL
@matthew Campbell Frank said he had no desire ro be remembered at all...but we remember him and still love him
Watch out …you’ll see me soon! It’s time
IL N'ÉTAIT PAS QU'UN GÉNIE DE LA MUSIQUE ORCHESTRALE, ZAPPA AVAIT AUSSI UNE VISION "PHILOSOPHIQUE DU MONDE ENVIRONENT "
Interesting about his saying 'stop giving people reason to escape from reality' when he himself hid himself in his basement making music (when he wasn't touring and he said that also sends you crazy). Someone should have challenged him.
There is a difference between playing the guitar and using drugs. Particularly the fact that playing the guitar is part of reality.
@@pythongalactique4001 A valid point given he was talking about drugs and I applaud that but Frank Zappa was not an example of a person connected with reality - he never went to the cinema, never went to the theatre, never socialised except on rare occasions when abroad, only in later life did he watch TV, rarely read a newspaper or listened to the radio, never went anywhere as a family. .
@@paulinebutcherbird Ironic to blame Zappa for running away from reality and to blame him for never having been to the theater or the cinema where fiction reigns supreme. And what about the people of the Middle Ages? They weren't going to the movies, was there no reality? Complying with the social norm that makes cinema an obligation, is it being in reality or being a puppet if you don't want to go? And the one who doesn't have sex every week? And the one who doesn't like chocolate? And the one who doesn't have a driving license? Are these people out of reality?
Just because Zappa wasn't doing what you are doing doesn't mean he wasn't in reality: he was also doing things that you might not be doing. For example, get involved in Czech politics. Or go and debate in the US Senate. Can we then say that he was out of reality?
In addition, there is once again a difference between playing the guitar, not going to the movies, not going on family vacation ... and taking drugs! Otherwise I too am out of reality because I don't really like crowds in the street and I prefer to go and play the drums in my basement. And are all those who have a passion and who devote several hours a week to it outside of reality? Zappa, like me and others, was aware of what he was doing, how much time went by, paid his taxes, went to vote, etc. Someone who takes drugs is no longer in control of himself.
As you speak of cinema, can we really say, by comparison, that the characters of "Requiem for a Dream" (a film on drugs) and those of "Yesterday" (a film about the Beatles) are in the same situation? ?
When you say that some of these comments are biased, like those on education (I think the system is far from perfect but not debilitating), I agree with you. But blaming this man for being out of touch with reality, I don't agree because he knew her much better than some of the other guys.
Sincerly yours.
@@pythongalactique4001 I think you put the argument very well and I concede. Most of what I said doesn't hold up. I suppose my comment is based on Frank Zappa's lifestyle at home where he worked and more or less ignored the family and as he said himself had no friends. I agree this is quite different from taking drugs and losing touch with reality. You win.
@@paulinebutcherbird Oh. This is the first time in my life that I see someone on CZcams who admits they could have been wrong. You are, moreover, one of the rare people who has presented his arguments with respect. I will remember you.
Have a good day (I don't know what time it is at home but here in France it's morning) :)
Fear is the mind killer
Legend Zappa
Watermelon in Easter hay.
Could you tell me what performance you were using in the background.
Hi, it was zappa at Barcelona 1988. The song is watermelon in water hay .
@@randomvideos5864 Thanks
I like to drink beer and watch sports on TV.
Titties & beer my friend
i like to watch beer and drink...oh...wait...
Frank Ruben well then Do it! If that's what makes you happy, just do it😀 Especially when you both share the same first name. He was awesome.
'If you have a boring, miserable live becouse you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or the Guy on the television who told you How to Do your shit, you deserve it.'
Light that burned so very bright
The background song is Watermelon in Easter Hay, my go-to Zappa classic, “but who really gives a fk anyway”….
I do. More power to you. It takes courage.
"Harry you're a beast" written by Frank Zappa before prince Harry was even a toss up between a boy and a girl. "What's the ugliest part of your body?" Was this about Michael Jackson? He was such a visionary.
Frank hizo todo lo que tenía que hacer en su tiempo, me agrada que ya no esté y evitar ver en qué se ha convertido la industria artistica y musical
What song is Zappa playing behind the video?
The song is Watermelon in Ester Hay from joes garage. Amaizing guitar solo
What is the name of the Zappa track used in this ace video?
Hey, the name of the song is watermelon in Ester hay
That was quick. Thanks very much!
Steve Vai audition quote (after having been given impossible passages in grotesque mutant stylings): "I understand Linda Ronstadt is looking for a Rhythm player." 🗯️DAMN
Based
SOULJAH ROCKER
Fuck, this shit motivated me more than a kilo of cocaine
What is the song he's playing called?
Hey there! its called "Watermelon in Easter hay"
@@randomvideos5864 Just checked out the full version on Amazon, really great song. Thanks man!
What's the name of the background song?
Daniele Menni it's called watermelon in easter hay from the album Joe's garage
Hits ya right in the chest. I get misty every time I listen to it.
Daniele Menni watermelon in easter hay
It's also called "The Imaginary Guitar Solo."
Wow the first Time i heard Someone say that Religion is an Escape from Reality.
Sure, the most active escape from reality ! Nothing is real, give priests all yer money, and dont even think before your dead. 🏴☠️🚀
Ben Franklin Albert Einstein
Franklin was a TOWERING intellect..and practical as hell. Einstein was a theorist. Zappa was more like Franklin IMHO.. Franklin was Grand Master of Masons in PA while Washington was Grand Master of Masons in Va. Smart boys. Zappa was grand master of the guitar.
Frank Z and Charles M they are born intellent. Sorry if emglish is correct I am not English man
damals wie heute die Wahrheit
What about "too much Frank Zappa" ? ;-)
nice to hear his music, but it clashes with the dialogue.
How
Ya shut up. This is perfect
I don't know. I think there's something to be said about being a braggadocio frank.
Can’t hear Zappa when he drowns himself out like that.
Man, that's a great solo. What song is that? And what date of the performance?
The song iS watermelon in easter hay and i think this perfornance is in Barcelona...
@@juanalejofernandez43 Thank you kindly!
Thats right. The conocerte was in 88 in Barcelona
It’s on the Joe’s Garage Acts 2 and 3 album, I’m playing it right now.
That was how they tried to waste my time.
He did one of the worst drugs, nicotine.
Cuz he wanted to. He didn't tell you to.
@@ace-of-space I don't do nicotine. I was referring to the hypocrisy.
@@tonygriffin6144 That's a good thing... It did take him out. He paid the ultimate price, but he didn't preach or promote it. I wish I could quit. ( Did for 10 years)
@@tonygriffin6144 btw he didn't say he despised drugs, he just didn't like his band showing up unable to play because of it. Nicotine doesn't do that. No hypocrisy.
the christ
what made the uni bomber? despair.
Not being able to get pussy. I'm not being flip, it's true.
separation anxiety from his mother for three weeks when he was very young...he had to be hooked up to numerous machines for what was wrong with him.....there is a lady psychiatrist that made her career studying him....forget her name but she is on youtube.....
The last one, the criticism of schools, I strongly disagree with. Maybe American schools are not the best, but somehow USA has produced nearly 400 Nobel Prize winners, more than any other country in the world, the nearest is UK with a proportion to population higher number, but let's not go into that because St Lucia has the highest number per capita!
The fact that you're trying to use this as an argument for why the education system in America isn't garbage illustrates his point perfectly. You also think there aren't any poor people in America because Jeff Bezos exists, I assume?
@@EmptyGlass99 Two of Frank's children would have benefited from a university education, in my humble opinion. I agree, Moon has revealed a wonderfully creative talent as a writer with her book, 'America the Beautiful' but I think she would be writing fantastic journalistic pieces for top newspapers and journals had she gone to university. Ahmet, too, I think, would have benefited, learning about economics and business. But Frank made sure that they did not go anywhere near a university because he had such a poor view of them. I think that was narrow minded of him.
I think he was referring to elementary and high schools. Those have set curriculums that churn out kids who are “dumb all over.” Once you’re in college and graduate school, you have more autonomy
@@Marx-Lennon "Go to a college if you want to get laid. Go to library if you want education"
- Frank Zappa !
t.v. was garbage then and it's garbage now.
Neil Hudspeth i think then was garbage and now is poison.
Commercials are so lame
Commercials can actually be fun. I've never possesed a tv. But in a foreign country, the commercials are like a stupidity index. 🚀🏴☠️
frank....
I Luv ya, but nicotine & caffeine are drugs,too.. which, you were addicted to [ and, may have killed you]. so, spare me the self-sanctimony, in this regard. In ALL else, you kick ass...!!
You cant get wasted on nicotine and caffeine.
@@khoroshoorange in b/cause Fugazi
He died of prostate cancer not lung cancer
Never heard of cigs and coffee causing prostate cancer.
You suck
Great musician but terrible singer
He was incredibly wrong about religion: lack of a true belief in God was and is the big problem with most religious institutions and individuals, not the existence of religion itself. But he couldn't be right about everything.
Vade Retro spirituality = good.
Religion = bad. A fact frank new only too well and wasn't afraid to spread at any cost , even if it ment less air time for his art.
Religion is an escape from reality. Selling 'faith' (the belief in something without any evidence whatsoever) as a virtue was the church's greatest success. Nobody with an ounce of critical thinking skill can take that seriously.
Do you want GOD, or get laid by your priest ?
Jesus was strict against religion. Guess who nailed him !
Sorry but I hate this track, zappa's a genius but this one is so boring
Overrated.he did absolutely nothing relevant
You sir are the definition of an ass hat.
If we exclude all of the relevant things he did
Says someone who aint heard more than the 3 (late) songs played on radio .... 🚀🏴☠️