Frank Zappa: the lost Interview, 1990 (Sub-Ita)
• I've only wrote the Italian subs: every other language is automatically translated by YT •
Happy 80th birthday, Frank!
The whole interview by Niles Lesh from 1990, with improved audio and video [at the best of my capabilities :) ]
○ According to Mr. Lesh, it was recorded in 3 segments in LA in 1990, but never completed as a final project and therefore never released. That's why it's been called "the lost tapes" or "the lost interview", and it resurfaced back in 2008 thanks to the author.
This project meant to highlight Frank Zappa's 50th birthday and his 30 of the music industry most strident years!
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In this interview, FZ uses the term "candy-coated dictatorship" to describe what america was fast turning into. He was quite accurate. Now, in 2021, the candy coating has pretty much been worn off and we in the US are existing in what, for all practical purposes, amounts to an orwellian dystopia.
Thank you for posting this. Frank Zappa was one of the most original and important artists of the 20th century. Self taught composer and musician. Only had a high school education but intellectually beyond most of us. A tremendous loss he died so young. I'm glad people are still discovering and listening to his music and interviews.
Zappa is the Nikola Tesla of modern music.
One can only imagine what FZ would think about social media, internet, media, climate, Democracy, etc...today.
And to this day, being able to think for yourself and to think critically is labeled "eccentric" and "weird."
Wow Frank has a amazing mind.
I miss him so much
Im from Palmdale Lancaster ive been there my whole life. Zappa is honestly a legend to me.
He looks like he's getting his school picture taken lol
BEWARE! The picture that accompanies this interview has a few technical problems (in Engineering terms, there is a problem with unstable sync.). The sync signal tells the display WHERE to put things in the picture, and the sync here, being unstable, causes the picture to jump around. But since it’s Frank Zappa (as a former TV Director and as a Zappa fan for many decades) I am willing to let the problems slide. And I believe you should too, since Frank Zappa is the guy being interviewed! And besides, the problem clears up after a few minutes. Written by a lifetime member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Hollywood Section.
A fantastic, and at many times prophetic insight, into the minds of one of the greatest artists to ever walk the earth. We miss you, Frank.
Wow, when I think of Frank Zappa , is it music. No no I think of a very , very, very un- classical non classical dysfunctional musical diarrhea fit for the feeble-minded with the holier than thou groupthink, of only the really really trying to impress their friends smart people AKA high level with the low tone can understand this kind of groove. And you know what ,they're probably right... Joe McCarthy piece of s***Ronald Reagan greatest president in modern time. Defeated Soviet Union and never fired a shot. Trump 2024 don't be bored get ready for Reagan's latest and greatest hits comes alive. God bless America I hope it don't offend you. And if so then what the hell
Zappa : brilliantly talented misanthrope... I get it
Pretty stale shit.
I don’t know, when I listen to people like Frank Zappa I feel that I’m smarter.
Why Frank Zappa makes all interviewers look like JERKS, they don’t know what to ask and they come up with stupid questions!
I watched and listened to this amazed. His almost prodigious accuracy as to what is happening now politically is incredible. I always appreciated and enjoyed him as being only musically creative, and otherwise "avant garde". I now imagine him in whatever afterlife, looking down and shaking his head, with that wry smile.
Listening to this man makes you smarter. FACT.
Fantastic interview.
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