Q: "Are there any rock lyrics, Mr Zappa, that you have heard in the past couple of years that you wouldn't want you children listening to?" Zappa: "We are the world" 😆
Imagine this guys being teleported to 2020, turning on the radio and getting themselves familiarized with the delicate poetry of the song WAP, probably they would drop dead on the spot.
If anyone is interested in Frank Zappa's home life, not shown in other books, from getting up to going to bed, composing at the piano, rehearsing with the Mothers, visiting rock stars, freaks, family squabbles, and more, then read 'Freak Out! My Life with Frank Zappa 1968-1971 Laurel Canyon'. It is my story from meeting Frank in London when publicising the Mother's first European tour in 1967 and ended up living and working in his house with Gail, Moon Unit, and seven others, thus the book's unique access.
I don't know about the updated version of this book, but I read your original version and wasn't impressed. Not much about Frank at all, and what is has about him has mostly been documented in other books. Your book is about YOUR life in the Zappa household and your experience of living in America. Throughout most of the story, Frank is either off working in his office (not to be disturbed) or away on tour, so he's only involved in about 20% of the book. The rest of the story is about adjusting to life in a new country, the people you meet and deal with along the way, and your romantic interests while living in Frank's house. To its credit, the book is well-written and gives good insight into the environment of living in the Zappa household in the late 60s: it was care-free, at times crazy, and not without its share of infighting. If a reader is interested in that aspect, it's a decent read, as long as they're not looking for details about Frank himself, because he's absent most of the time. A more accurate title would have been "My life in the Zappa House."
@@scandata Valid points, I think, which have been attended to in the new edition which focuses more clearly on Frank, Gail and me. And thank you for reading the original but the new one is a better book.
Absolutely! The best musician and the best philosopher. And he had morals and a conscience. Always loved him for it. Play his music every day. Saw FZ live in Rotterdam in 1981. Awsome! 😊
I watched several other Franck Zappa's interviews that talked about lyrics censorship. Today we can see what was already in preparation at the time, this big wave of twisted puritanism that apply to everything today: - you must agree and be proselyte in promoting and supporting gender inclusion otherwise you're intolerant - you must care about the environment and realise your current way of life is destructive otherwise you're selfish - you must agree with equality for all about everything because that's the path to a better world otherwise you're heartless - ... No one needs these freaking rules, we need more common sense, less corrupt leaders and power structures, and better education for our kids. When such empty morality is so visible, it outlines the fact we're heading into dark ages because it sets people to lose their freedom of will. But history teaches us that hope still remains. Let's hope for the best!
Looking back on this interview, I have to give credits to the host on this subject. He points out both sides of the opinions from the two and opens a good discussion from that
I don't think the Dead Kennedys were ever on MTV, aside from maybe some documentary way after the fact. They were a hardcore punk with kind of a wiseass lefty dancing hissy-fit aesthetic and a notably edgy band name. The most extreme metal lyrics they cite here are more than anything else cartoonishly stupid. Any teenager "influenced" by them more so than day to day parental inputs to their behavior and character, are poorly raised young people. If they seek to imitate the extremities in those lyrics there's probably something familiar to them going on right in the home in addition to a lack of guidance. It just reinforces abuses they see, hear and experience. It just sets them to rhyme and melody.
Always loved FZ as a musician, satirist and independent mind who certainly brooks no nonsense among the Crossfire crowd here. Kinda makes sense that William S. Burroughs called on Frank to pinch hit for Keith Richards at the Nova Convention.
Did anyone catch this? First, the pro-PMRC argument is all about "informing the parents." Then Frank agrees, and NOW it becomes, "So you're putting the burden on the parents?" Some people just love how it feels to be butthurt.
6:17 - "Frank wants to continually put the burden of responsibility over onto the parents"...uh, parents HAVE a responsibility in how their children evolve, grow, thrive, etc., unil they're of legal age, thtat is.
Great point that it happens generation after generation. The childish fears of the parents that there's a set of Boogeyman words that will hurt their children distracts them from any legitimate education and connection. Of course there are malicious words out there that have no positive use. But I think we're in the first Generations that agree with the parents, that there are these evil words that can hurt you so we must stop the people that say these words. We must shrink the vocabulary of others rather than grow our own inner strengths. It's just a new set of rules by a different group of people. The same way that Christians were ashamed for saying or even hearing Words in lyrics.. people are told that they are required to be offended by certain things and to demonize anyone who ever says such a thing, exactly how the Christians did before them. Childish fears instead of mature adult strength. Let's change them and censor them, whoever's on the opposite side. Let's do that instead of changing ourselves. Let's pretend we can change the world.. when there are things that will never go away.. but what can go away is the power we give to them
It's saddening how many people still believe in big brother. The siren song that the state can force about a better world is one of the most dangerous impulses on earth. Thankfully Frank understood this implicitly.
so fun - it's the rock lyrics... don't talk about the guns.... don't talk about bad parenting... it's them lyrics! This was almost 40 years ago and still - the lyrics, the music, but we keep the guns. Sad USA, really sad.
It isn't the guns that have the power to influence and mold. They're an inanimate object. Are we to blame other inanimate objects for the ways that they're abused by some? Do spoons make us fat? Even in the early 1980's the U.S. had rifle teams in high schools...... something that our current Western society can not fathom. So what changed in less than half a decade? Our culture did, and not for the better. You're correct about bad parenting, and that's where it all starts.
@@Evom777 An unarmed idiot is just a drooling fool. An idiot with a weapon is a clear and present danger. A weapon is an inanimate object designed especially for maximizing harm to the target - so yeah, there should be some regulation to ensure these harm-oriented inanimate objects don't get into the hands of unsuitable people.
Wow they got all the good stuff. I remember there was a 1989 crossfire with frank defending the art institution and a nice debate it was. I last saw it on CZcams back in 2013. I remember even on the comments section someone had said this will be the last time they post the video up before it is removed permanently. They suggested someone to record or download it before it got pulled down forever. Please tell me someone has this interview!!!!
I think you are looking for this. CROSSFIRE-THE ART OF CENSORSHIP-CNN 11/16/89 I do have it, but it is probably at least a 3rd gen copy. Not the greatest quality.
@@Lagzatzappateers I'm sure it's that one. Is there a reason it hasn't been uploaded after all these years? Why won't CZcams allow it? It kept getting pulled down. Is there a way you can upload it? 🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@Lagzatzappateers wow thx a bunch. I really appreciate your hard work for all these gems of videos . If it wasn't for your private collection we the fans wouldn't know so many other facets of frank.
God forbid that parents take responsibility for raising their children and to blame music or schools or governments for mistakes THEY made for not raising their children correctly is just ridiculous just push the problems on someone else if you can’t raise children correctly DO NOT HAVE THEM!!!!! But I’ll be danmed if someone is going to tell me what I can watch or listen to because someone can’t take responsibility for things that children shouldn’t be exposed too the nerve 🤬🤬🤬🤬🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻Why should I be punished for someone else’s mistakes or actions because censorship punishes everyone and I’m not gonna take it anymore
This didn’t age well. Haha. These people, Jeff Lynn, would have a heart attack if they spent 5 minutes on CZcams. Where is this guy today? I’d love to ask him how this turned out.
Imagine if these hosts knew about today’s censorship problem. They would never believe that a person stating “there are only 2 genders” could be subject to retaliation/cancellation.
even better is Frank's appearance in front of congress opposing Cow Tipper Gore on this same subject. Whose more about censorship now, the political right or left? Or either depending on which sees self interest served
To say theres nothing wrong nothing is pure ignorance and know it all ism .. to assume and conclude that mass debating has zero side effects on society and zero use as a distraction for us bickering wage slaves wile big business and mafia distracts you from how its extracts all your lifes wages upward in a funnel of corruption and lies and war and constant divide and debate .. this is why you’re a sheep wage slave like all of you and your family and friends are just so distracted .. by debate and argument you’ve lost sight of connection and communication and blunt quick decisions that benefit not just the self . You seem to be a bit of a moron if you think theres not pro’s and cons to literally everything in life a negative and a positive and a middle ground and beyond . ♾
You’re still a little boy in your vocabulary and believe me so am i .. admittedly im a little boy in my vocabulary but whats that say about you and your narrow minded quick to assume perspectives ?
Way to go, Frank. You're still with us! Tell them! Why didn't Einstein come up with these things....? Because he worked for the US government. They blackmailed Einstein and Oppenheimer too. But Oppenheimer had balls. Einstein not so much..
I love Frank's guitar work, and I respect what he's trying to do, but most people aren't as intelligent as he is. They don't get reality. Just look at all the people that are addicted to outrage on Fox. I don't like rating in theory but in practice I don't see that it hurts. The problem is it encourages the do-gooders. Falwell was nothing compared to what we got today. What would Frank say now?
Who's to be the sole arbiter of "what's good and what's bad" ? To put government in the middle of this issue accomplishes nothing, except for censorship and relieving parents of THEIR RESPONSIBILITY of policing what their kids are listening to. Part of the problem they're not mentioning, is the early sensationalism of rock music, which descended from R&B, followed by the evolution of more bizarre behavior with each succeeding generation - everybody's gotta one-up the guy before them. Elvis might've shook his pelvis, but he didn't "drop trou" and show it to everybody, yet that very stage behavior caused an uproar at the time. Then, we had bands like KISS that exploded onto the scene, and we all should remember how crazy that was in the 70's. Kids are drawn to that which is verboten, just like Adam and Eve were drawn to that certain tree and the figurative apples thereon. In another piece, Frank talked about how he felt that there should be no censorship, even over the air !!!!! If one doesn't want to see/hear what might be smutty to them, change the channel/station, or shut the device off. The "problem" these guys are talking about, to agree with Frank, wouldn't be if parents had done their jobs, and kept their kids in line in the first place. I'm sure we all remember "train up a child in the way he (notice how they NEVER include 'she') shall go....." A better idea, perhaps, is to encourage local parents' community groups to meet and discuss the latest records, movies, etc., and come to a consensus on how they want to handle things for their families. This could even be done within the church, so long as the church allows families to think and do for themselves. Oh well.....wish in one hand.........
unfortunately, Frank lost my respect for his argument when he suggested no ratings on videos... most people can't afford to spend every minute of every day monitoring videos their kids watch by watching it first and then deciding if it's OK for their child to watch... a rating system is a tool to generalise the age group - the suits are right on this. and if Frank thinks movies do not influence kids, he simply is a bad parent.. which now many years later we know he was indeed neglectant to moon and dweezil
The responsibility is on the parents. if the parents don't want there children to listen to this type of music? then that decision should be made in the home and not in the market place. if there's a genre of music that should be censored? it should be rap music. the fact is most young today don't even listen to Rock and and Roll anymore.
Notice how at the end they suck him off for his fame and giving them better viewership in that time he kept doing interviews with them .. notice how they criticize him the entire way but the moment it ends they wanna remind him that he’s welcome anytime and smile and good a nice goodbye .. the do you see the manipulation? Or am i crazy or deluded to think that they exploited him for views to grow in popularity and if he ignored them he would have maybe not needed to live a life of constant debate this is propaganda this is distraction this is filler this is just to keep your mind dull and focused on topics like this when the questions you should be demanding aren’t met with any honesty in yourself or others . Freedom of speech . Call me worthless i love you scum bags
Lol scumbags. People were different back then. I dont think any of them disliked frank even though they disagreed completely. People were stronger then and had more poise and tact. Just common courtesy that is nearly lost amongst youth today.
Round 1 goes to Zappa: "It's not my problem." "No." "Yes." "No."
The dude in the glasses was the only one besides Zappa making actual sense
That shit was cold when Zappa refuted all the allegations without even attempting to make his case, such _brio_ !
Hearing someone refer to Dead Kennedys as a heavy metal group makes my head explode
Q: "Are there any rock lyrics, Mr Zappa, that you have heard in the past couple of years that you wouldn't want you children listening to?"
Zappa: "We are the world" 😆
I love how Frank is so done in this show. Apathy truly can get the point across.
Appreciate the comments!
Thanks for watching!
Love the way that Frank simply said "No" when asked if teen pregnancies were caused by rock music. The charge was baseless and absurd.
Well said.
Imagine this guys being teleported to 2020, turning on the radio and getting themselves familiarized with the delicate poetry of the song WAP, probably they would drop dead on the spot.
Frank's a genius.
These men can't handle Frank's intelligence. 😂😂😂
Miss Mr. Zappa, one of the most interesting people I have had the pleasure of listening to.
Oh Frank, if you could see us now.
I was thinking the same thing, can you imagine?
@@spritedust64
I Can Only Imagine. The wrong people die young.
It was obvious the host mediator was a fan of Frank. Always smirking at the dorks.
lol those talking heads had no idea what they were talking about. one guy thought the dead kennedys was a heavy metal group. for the love of christ.
Music is the best.
Frank was the best.
If anyone is interested in Frank Zappa's home life, not shown in other books, from getting up to going to bed, composing at the piano, rehearsing with the Mothers, visiting rock stars, freaks, family squabbles, and more, then read 'Freak Out! My Life with Frank Zappa 1968-1971 Laurel Canyon'. It is my story from meeting Frank in London when publicising the Mother's first European tour in 1967 and ended up living and working in his house with Gail, Moon Unit, and seven others, thus the book's unique access.
I don't know about the updated version of this book, but I read your original version and wasn't impressed. Not much about Frank at all, and what is has about him has mostly been documented in other books. Your book is about YOUR life in the Zappa household and your experience of living in America. Throughout most of the story, Frank is either off working in his office (not to be disturbed) or away on tour, so he's only involved in about 20% of the book. The rest of the story is about adjusting to life in a new country, the people you meet and deal with along the way, and your romantic interests while living in Frank's house.
To its credit, the book is well-written and gives good insight into the environment of living in the Zappa household in the late 60s: it was care-free, at times crazy, and not without its share of infighting. If a reader is interested in that aspect, it's a decent read, as long as they're not looking for details about Frank himself, because he's absent most of the time. A more accurate title would have been "My life in the Zappa House."
@@scandata Valid points, I think, which have been attended to in the new edition which focuses more clearly on Frank, Gail and me. And thank you for reading the original but the new one is a better book.
We Are The World 😂😂 Frank was the Best!!
😆Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.
Absolutely! The best musician and the best philosopher.
And he had morals and a conscience. Always loved him for it. Play his music
every day. Saw FZ live in Rotterdam in 1981.
Awsome! 😊
And he is also right about it being the parents responsibility
Yes, PLEASE bring up the song Louie Louie when debating Frank Zappa! Thank you!
the conceptual continuity rages on
We need Frank Zappa back, we'll trade for Diddy
😂😂
@@ericescanes amiright?? Lol!
Nice to see this in color, thanks a lot for posting!
You're welcome.
Thanks for watching and your comments!
I love how Zappa is just so done with everything
Zappa is my hero
I watched several other Franck Zappa's interviews that talked about lyrics censorship. Today we can see what was already in preparation at the time, this big wave of twisted puritanism that apply to everything today:
- you must agree and be proselyte in promoting and supporting gender inclusion otherwise you're intolerant
- you must care about the environment and realise your current way of life is destructive otherwise you're selfish
- you must agree with equality for all about everything because that's the path to a better world otherwise you're heartless
- ...
No one needs these freaking rules, we need more common sense, less corrupt leaders and power structures, and better education for our kids.
When such empty morality is so visible, it outlines the fact we're heading into dark ages because it sets people to lose their freedom of will.
But history teaches us that hope still remains.
Let's hope for the best!
Frank Zappa is the Man! Nothing more needs to be said
I’ve never heard such an incendiary “yes” and “no” answer to questions! 😂
The moderator is awesome
An equal opportunity shit stirrer.
Frank's Right, the government shouldn't never be in the home
So what you're saying is that government should be in the home sometimes?
Recording holds up well after 35 years! Intro voiceover is David French
Thanks sharing that intro tidbit and watching.
Hearing Dead Kennedys next to MTV is funny
THANK you.
AMERICAN HERO!!!!!!!!!!!
Just HERO would have sufficed.
It took them almost 40 years and they succeeded in burning books not only banning words.
Here we go
8:14 "Frank, how about Megadeth?" HILARIOUS
I thought Frank was having a marvelous hair day, anyways I need to go eat some potato salad.
I have always felt that if parents can't do their job, then don't have kids.
Correct!
And yet they continue to do so.
merci beaucoup lagz!
De rien
Go Frank...thanks for keeping it real!!
the moderator is a cool guy
Looking back on this interview, I have to give credits to the host on this subject. He points out both sides of the opinions from the two and opens a good discussion from that
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Appreciate the comments.
I cried at 6:54😂
It's an accurate answer
They all bloody talk over each other 😂😂😂😂 Frank Zappa looks perplexed
I don't think the Dead Kennedys were ever on MTV, aside from maybe some documentary way after the fact. They were a hardcore punk with kind of a wiseass lefty dancing hissy-fit aesthetic and a notably edgy band name.
The most extreme metal lyrics they cite here are more than anything else cartoonishly stupid.
Any teenager "influenced" by them more so than day to day parental inputs to their behavior and character, are poorly raised young people. If they seek to imitate the extremities in those lyrics there's probably something familiar to them going on right in the home in addition to a lack of guidance. It just reinforces abuses they see, hear and experience. It just sets them to rhyme and melody.
Always loved FZ as a musician, satirist and independent mind who certainly brooks no nonsense among the Crossfire crowd here. Kinda makes sense that William S. Burroughs called on Frank to pinch hit for Keith Richards at the Nova Convention.
Did anyone catch this?
First, the pro-PMRC argument is all about "informing the parents."
Then Frank agrees, and NOW it becomes, "So you're putting the burden on the parents?"
Some people just love how it feels to be butthurt.
He mops the floor with John Lofton in the 1986 episode
I never agreed with Frank's politics, but he always spoke intelligently....
Remember kids...Now we have Poundtown.
6:17 - "Frank wants to continually put the burden of responsibility over onto the parents"...uh, parents HAVE a responsibility in how their children evolve, grow, thrive, etc., unil they're of legal age, thtat is.
1987. Quaint compared to the arguments today.
Great point that it happens generation after generation. The childish fears of the parents that there's a set of Boogeyman words that will hurt their children distracts them from any legitimate education and connection.
Of course there are malicious words out there that have no positive use. But I think we're in the first Generations that agree with the parents, that there are these evil words that can hurt you so we must stop the people that say these words. We must shrink the vocabulary of others rather than grow our own inner strengths.
It's just a new set of rules by a different group of people. The same way that Christians were ashamed for saying or even hearing Words in lyrics.. people are told that they are required to be offended by certain things and to demonize anyone who ever says such a thing, exactly how the Christians did before them.
Childish fears instead of mature adult strength.
Let's change them and censor them, whoever's on the opposite side. Let's do that instead of changing ourselves. Let's pretend we can change the world.. when there are things that will never go away.. but what can go away is the power we give to them
It's saddening how many people still believe in big brother. The siren song that the state can force about a better world is one of the most dangerous impulses on earth. Thankfully Frank understood this implicitly.
so fun - it's the rock lyrics... don't talk about the guns.... don't talk about bad parenting... it's them lyrics! This was almost 40 years ago and still - the lyrics, the music, but we keep the guns.
Sad USA, really sad.
It isn't the guns that have the power to influence and mold. They're an inanimate object. Are we to blame other inanimate objects for the ways that they're abused by some? Do spoons make us fat?
Even in the early 1980's the U.S. had rifle teams in high schools...... something that our current Western society can not fathom. So what changed in less than half a decade? Our culture did, and not for the better. You're correct about bad parenting, and that's where it all starts.
@@Evom777 An unarmed idiot is just a drooling fool. An idiot with a weapon is a clear and present danger. A weapon is an inanimate object designed especially for maximizing harm to the target - so yeah, there should be some regulation to ensure these harm-oriented inanimate objects don't get into the hands of unsuitable people.
i wish this was the problem we had today…..
They got rid of him right quick fast acting cancer
Wow they got all the good stuff. I remember there was a 1989 crossfire with frank defending the art institution and a nice debate it was. I last saw it on CZcams back in 2013. I remember even on the comments section someone had said this will be the last time they post the video up before it is removed permanently. They suggested someone to record or download it before it got pulled down forever. Please tell me someone has this interview!!!!
I think you are looking for this.
CROSSFIRE-THE ART OF CENSORSHIP-CNN 11/16/89
I do have it, but it is probably at least a 3rd gen copy. Not the greatest quality.
@@Lagzatzappateers I'm sure it's that one. Is there a reason it hasn't been uploaded after all these years? Why won't CZcams allow it? It kept getting pulled down. Is there a way you can upload it? 🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@lizardking598 Give me a few hours and i'll try and post it.
@@Lagzatzappateers wow thx a bunch. I really appreciate your hard work for all these gems of videos . If it wasn't for your private collection we the fans wouldn't know so many other facets of frank.
@@lizardking598 You're welcome.
Man said early that 3,000 kids a day get pregnant.
Later on, same guy says 16,000 kids a day get pregnant.
Very bad liar.
God forbid that parents take responsibility for raising their children and to blame music or schools or governments for mistakes THEY made for not raising their children correctly is just ridiculous just push the problems on someone else if you can’t raise children correctly DO NOT HAVE THEM!!!!! But I’ll be danmed if someone is going to tell me what I can watch or listen to because someone can’t take responsibility for things that children shouldn’t be exposed too the nerve 🤬🤬🤬🤬🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻Why should I be punished for someone else’s mistakes or actions because censorship punishes everyone and I’m not gonna take it anymore
I am a great fan of the music of Frank Zappa but I'd like to ask him what's his stance about OF
The left host is great!
Create a strawman, gin up fear to legitamize your reason for existance, then sit back and rake in the power you've gainedover a 'Non-issue'.
Mr linn should put his focus on pediffelya in the church's parents should be concerned about that
as usual, frank moped the floor with these ridiculous ideas on censorship........
This is great. I love Frank Zappa and mostly agree with him, but this was a great conversation from both ends.
I plugged in my wok, man.
This didn’t age well. Haha. These people, Jeff Lynn, would have a heart attack if they spent 5 minutes on CZcams. Where is this guy today? I’d love to ask him how this turned out.
Actually, this aged very well. This shows the people who favor censhorship are boobs.
R rated labels increase sales. 🤷🏻♂️
"Are there any lyrics you wouldn't want your children listening to. We are the world' hahaha
He knew back then.
Imagine if these hosts knew about today’s censorship problem. They would never believe that a person stating “there are only 2 genders” could be subject to retaliation/cancellation.
I've heard some older country music that is way worse than some they're talking about.
Frank has had an ass full of this discussion it seems.
Which of these guys do you think is getting no sex or not enjoying it?
even better is Frank's appearance in front of congress opposing Cow Tipper Gore on this same subject. Whose more about censorship now, the political right or left? Or either depending on which sees self interest served
I will see about getting my recording of the Senate appearance posted sometime in the future. I have 4 hours of hearings.
Thanks for watching!
There's nothing wrong with mass debating, as these here fellows aptly demonstrate. Immensely enjoyable especially Frank's interjections.
To say theres nothing wrong nothing is pure ignorance and know it all ism .. to assume and conclude that mass debating has zero side effects on society and zero use as a distraction for us bickering wage slaves wile big business and mafia distracts you from how its extracts all your lifes wages upward in a funnel of corruption and lies and war and constant divide and debate .. this is why you’re a sheep wage slave like all of you and your family and friends are just so distracted .. by debate and argument you’ve lost sight of connection and communication and blunt quick decisions that benefit not just the self . You seem to be a bit of a moron if you think theres not pro’s and cons to literally everything in life a negative and a positive and a middle ground and beyond . ♾
Ignorance is your best friend you should check up on him sometimes and not neglect your truths
Learn to speak with less cluelessness and pandering and bickering you sheep puppet wage slave
Chastity for a brain
You’re still a little boy in your vocabulary and believe me so am i .. admittedly im a little boy in my vocabulary but whats that say about you and your narrow minded quick to assume perspectives ?
Way to go, Frank. You're still with us! Tell them!
Why didn't Einstein come up with these things....?
Because he worked for the US government. They blackmailed Einstein and Oppenheimer too.
But Oppenheimer had balls. Einstein not so much..
I love Frank's guitar work, and I respect what he's trying to do, but most people aren't as intelligent as he is. They don't get reality. Just look at all the people that are addicted to outrage on Fox. I don't like rating in theory but in practice I don't see that it hurts. The problem is it encourages the do-gooders. Falwell was nothing compared to what we got today. What would Frank say now?
I'm not for censorship by the gov't but to deny that song lyrics facilitate no message at all to our impressionable youth is ridiculous.
Big Brother has arrived and we still have a choice….
FYI George Michael is gay lol😅 I think it was supposed to be funny.
Who's to be the sole arbiter of "what's good and what's bad" ? To put government in the middle of this issue accomplishes nothing, except for censorship and relieving parents of THEIR RESPONSIBILITY of policing what their kids are listening to. Part of the problem they're not mentioning, is the early sensationalism of rock music, which descended from R&B, followed by the evolution of more bizarre behavior with each succeeding generation - everybody's gotta one-up the guy before them. Elvis might've shook his pelvis, but he didn't "drop trou" and show it to everybody, yet that very stage behavior caused an uproar at the time. Then, we had bands like KISS that exploded onto the scene, and we all should remember how crazy that was in the 70's. Kids are drawn to that which is verboten, just like Adam and Eve were drawn to that certain tree and the figurative apples thereon.
In another piece, Frank talked about how he felt that there should be no censorship, even over the air !!!!! If one doesn't want to see/hear what might be smutty to them, change the channel/station, or shut the device off. The "problem" these guys are talking about, to agree with Frank, wouldn't be if parents had done their jobs, and kept their kids in line in the first place. I'm sure we all remember "train up a child in the way he (notice how they NEVER include 'she') shall go....."
A better idea, perhaps, is to encourage local parents' community groups to meet and discuss the latest records, movies, etc., and come to a consensus on how they want to handle things for their families. This could even be done within the church, so long as the church allows families to think and do for themselves. Oh well.....wish in one hand.........
Thanks for your comments.
unfortunately, Frank lost my respect for his argument when he suggested no ratings on videos... most people can't afford to spend every minute of every day monitoring videos their kids watch by watching it first and then deciding if it's OK for their child to watch...
a rating system is a tool to generalise the age group - the suits are right on this.
and if Frank thinks movies do not influence kids, he simply is a bad parent..
which now many years later we know he was indeed neglectant to moon and dweezil
Frank was gutted to read this.
Frank didn't need your respect.
This guys eye brows scared me so much omg ..... the first guy speaking is nuts
The responsibility is on the parents. if the parents don't want there children to listen to this type of music? then that decision should be made in the home and not in the market place.
if there's a genre of music that should be censored? it should be rap music.
the fact is most young today don't even listen to Rock and and Roll anymore.
Notice how at the end they suck him off for his fame and giving them better viewership in that time he kept doing interviews with them .. notice how they criticize him the entire way but the moment it ends they wanna remind him that he’s welcome anytime and smile and good a nice goodbye .. the do you see the manipulation? Or am i crazy or deluded to think that they exploited him for views to grow in popularity and if he ignored them he would have maybe not needed to live a life of constant debate this is propaganda this is distraction this is filler this is just to keep your mind dull and focused on topics like this when the questions you should be demanding aren’t met with any honesty in yourself or others . Freedom of speech . Call me worthless i love you scum bags
Lol scumbags. People were different back then. I dont think any of them disliked frank even though they disagreed completely. People were stronger then and had more poise and tact. Just common courtesy that is nearly lost amongst youth today.
The host seems Japanese but he's actually white. It's uncanny.
It’s as if humans kind of resemble one another…………
@@opaljk4835 Thanks reddit-bot.
@@ChrisLeRose hey don’t get cunty. I was just making an observation