Gail On Air
Gail Zappa in an interview with Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist, radio host and filmmaker (who really needs to clear his throat every so often).
Gail Zappa in an interview with Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist, radio host and filmmaker (who really needs to clear his throat every so often).
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November 15th, 2007 at 3:48 pm »
Same old, same old. Gail’s usual pat answers (she must have them recorded and plays them back at will). And Alex Jones hasn’t even read The Real Frank Zappa Book (how much of a fan, and how informed an interviewer can he really be?). But, hey, they do love the sound of their own voices, don’t they?
November 15th, 2007 at 5:08 pm »
This is exactly why I would say:
The best way of honouring a much better contribution to FZ world is to recommend the KUR site to many others.
Students, scholars, TV or radio stars, musicians, bloggers,etc.
As is the case with FZ they might all from their different perspectives learn something from it.
November 15th, 2007 at 5:35 pm »
Well I wasn’t going to say it but my initial title for this post was “Gail On Hot Air”. :)
November 15th, 2007 at 5:55 pm »
OK, Barry, finally- ie for the next years to come – you’ll loose. Because of family & business ties.
In the long term?
November 15th, 2007 at 11:00 pm »
C’mon, what’s everyone worried about?
All this overblown concern about the “loss of freedom” blah, blah, blah. Anybody who thinks that way is a CONSPIRACY NUT or wears a “TIN FOIL HAT” or they are a “MOONBAT”.
You notice that they don’t talk about anything substantial?
Heck, I didn’t hear ONE SINGLE FACT. Alex Jones and Gail
Zappa should get married to each other. THERE’S some FACTS for ya!!!
Hyulk, hyulk!
November 16th, 2007 at 7:25 am »
Alex Jones and Gail Zappa married? I can just imagine the names of their first two offspring — Dweebil and Vroom Quibits.
Now, where did I hide my Zircon Encrusted Tweezers? It’s the only instrument, along with a fresh supply of dental floss, that might be able to extract all of that insubstantial bullshit from my ears…
November 17th, 2007 at 6:07 am »
it’s the substantial bullshit you really have to watch out for.
November 19th, 2007 at 2:36 pm »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISqsmMPAREY
This is much more fun… a doc from ’71 in 6 parts on youtube. Even if the Flo and Eddie era isn’t your cup of tea, worth a watch for the Zappa interview snippets, including the one where he admits to accidentally giving his wife the clap after going on tour!
Vacuum cleaners, Wild Man Fischer, GTO, Happy Together… worth an hour of anyones time.
Apologies if this has already been linked to, and I’ve missed it, but this is one seriously enjoyable…
S
November 19th, 2007 at 4:55 pm »
Another part of interesting F knowledge – his fans seem to be glad tooverlook it , possibly because it doesn’t seem to please them – is that while touring and from 19XX onwards he always stayed in a different hotel than his band.
OK, he was the boss of a small / medium sized enterprise. My guess is that there was much more behind it.
November 19th, 2007 at 5:35 pm »
Another one.
A historical counterfactual ( genre : if Cleopatra’s nouse would have been …, if Napoleon would have won in Waterloo).
FZ was an American. Typically, within cultural / musical US world : tremendous opportunities for those who can financially afford it. He couldn’t. He had to explore it in a strictly commercial world. The worst possible condition for a good composer. Compare it -that way -with J S Bach. The Leipzig Thomas Kirche payed JSB a salary, he had to everything they wanted him to do. FZ: commerce endeavored to impose things. OK, Bach will keep proving that he was simply the best.
– Compare it with one of his European heroes, Anton Webern http://www.antonwebern.com/. See World War II in ” biography”. However he was finally enabled to reduce ( to the max) his musical output to genuine excellence. Just three and a half hours of listening.
– Or with Arnold Schoenberg. For instance http://www.schoenberg.at/ After having fled nazist Austria he became a refugee, finally he was nominated as a prof at the LA Univ. He kept composing & teaching.
– Compare it with other rock musicians. Endless story. Gail Z might be right.
It’s partly about opportunities at high school level.
November 20th, 2007 at 6:36 am »
Oh, Barry, I think I’m getting a cluster headache…
November 20th, 2007 at 7:15 pm »
Don’t upset Gail, or she might not give us what we want from .. The Vault!!