Zappadan 2012 - Day 8 - Mom and Dad from We're Only in it for the Money

Frank wrote this song a full two years before the Kent State incident, so the video is a bit misleading. I suppose there were a number of events in '67 and '68 to inspire him, although I wouldn't discount prophesy as being among his many talents.

See The Iranian Redneck if you like watermelon.

Zappadan 2012 - Day 7 - Black Napkins

Also see Darkblack for all the Zappa you can stand.

For an incredible series of posts about former Mothers' members go to Adventures into the Well Known.

Zappadan 2012 Day 5 - Carolina Hardcore Ecstacy

Other followers include Micordot and Urantian Sojourn

Zappadan 2011 - Already Day 3

via Dave in Portland

December 4 marks the anniversary of Frank Zappa‘s death, and the beginning of the Festival of Zappadan. Zappadan ends on Frank Zappa’s birthday, December 21st.

Expect miracles.

Visit The Aristocrats and Fried Green al-Qaedas, both of which traditionally do some Zappa-blogging throughout the festival. And follow @Zappadan on Twitter. iVoryTowerz is sadly, now defunct, but in the archives you’ll find an excellent history of the festival: Zappadan 2008.

The title track is an instrumental jam featuring Cream bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Jim Gordon. Jack Bruce is credited on the album cover with bass guitar and co-writing the title song. However, in his interview for Polish rock magazine "Tylko Rock" he jokingly insisted to journalist Weiss Wiesław that he had not played any bass guitar parts on Apostrophe ('), only the cello parts. Bruce learned cello as a child and plays it on some of his other recordings. However, his cello comments regarding Apostrophe (') can't be taken seriously because there is in fact no cello on the title song or on the album. His bass playing on Apostrophe (') does in fact sound at times very much like the bass lines that he played with Cream.

Zappadan 2010 - Day 10

Zappadan Festival 2009 - Day 21 - Last day

Happy birthday Frank Zappa.

Thanks to Fried Green Al-Qaedas for the wonderful roundup. Just go there for so many videos, photos, stories and everything Zappa.

Zappadan Festival 2009 - Day 16

As Laci suggested, I offer Hungry Freaks Daddy, afterwhich we have a lengthy and interesting introduction to Son of Mr. Green Genes.

Mr. america, walk on by your schools that do not teach
Mr. america, walk on by the minds that won't be reached
Mr. america try to hide the emptiness that's you inside
But once you find that the way you lied
And all the corny tricks you tried
Will not forestall the rising tide of
hungry freaks daddy!

Zappadan Festival 2009 - Day 14

Via NIMBIN TELEVISION

Zappadan Festival 2009 - Day 12

Here's the explanation.

Zappadan Festival 2009 - Day 11

Zappadan Festival 2009 - Day 10

"Common sense is contagious."

Zappadan Festival 2009 - Day 8

Wikipedia says, ""I Have Been in You" pokes fun at Peter Frampton's 1977 hit "I'm in You" while maintaining a sexually driven structure."

Zappadan Festival 2009 - Day 7

Via Yourarf.

Zappadan Festival 2009 - Day 5

Reciprocal link to FGAQ for their roundup.

Zappadan Festival 2009 - Day 1

Festival of Zappadan 2008 Closes

With the birthday of Frank Zappa, December 21st, the yearly International Festival of Zappadan came to a close. In keeping with many of the discussions we've enjoyed here, I'm posting the Larry King interview in which Frank talked about his ideas on the 1st Amendment and censorship.






This interview took place about a month before Frank testified before the Senate of the United States, in which he made clear he was representing no one but himself. On that occasion he mentioned several Washington Wives, Tipper Gore in particular, who were behind the movement to label records. Frank pulled no punches in describing his opposition to this practice.

With Larry King, he seemed to point more to the conservative religious right as being those responsible for this movement. Maybe the Senators' wives he mentioned and the religious conservatives were one in the same.

What's your opinion? Is record labeling a problem in terms of the 1st Amendment? What about the movie rating system? As a parent I find that useful, but as Frank pointed out, with music censorship we're talking about words, with films it's a bit more than that.

The other thing I find useful, personally, is to spend time with my children. As they grow into adolescence, I hope to have the kind of rapport with them that will address these situations in as good a way as possible. It's certainly a far different world from the one I grew up in. I recall in about 1964, giggling in the back row of my grade school classroom over an unabridged dictionary which contained words like "shit" and "piss."