New zappa release

The proverbial " Fembot in a wet t-shirt" hahaha^^^


I recently heard an interview with Franks original drummer, the late Jimi Carl Black. ( The "Indian" of the group...)
Here's a few quotes...


"Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period."

"The only one in the band that could make mistakes was Frank. And he made mistakes all right. But if you made a mistake, sometimes he would give you a look you would not believe..."


"I was really proud to be in what I considered to be the best band in the world. And that is what it was ...the best band in the world!"

"I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother."

Here's a quote from an Ike Willis interview...

Willis: Well the thing is on top of his music, no matter what you've heard about him, the rumors about his reputation that he was an asshole and he's such a hard case to work with, he was a human being! A beautiful guy. He was a great guy, he really was! And I told him that one time and he said, "Shhh! Quiet!" (Laughs) I said if people really knew what kind of a teddy bear kind of a terminal slob kind of guy you really are, you'd be out of business in five minutes!" and he goes "Quiet! Don't tell anybody that, I'll never live it down!" He really was that kind of guy, man. He was one of the nicest people I ever met, even though on the outside, the public persona would belie that, you know what I mean? But that's another one of those complexities, one of those dichotomies that Frank was know for.

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have any of you guys read Frank's autobiography? It was seriously sanitized for somebody's protection. you might even say it was tweezed a bit..