Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa: The Story of Frank Zappa

The final selection, made by the Zappa office from albums supplied by Rhino employee Tom Brown, comprised, As An Am (New York, 1981), Live At The Ark (Boston, 1968), Freaks & Motherfuckers (New York, 1971), Unmitigated Audacity (Indiana, 1974), Any Way The Wind Blows

The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned … Look, how many people died as a result of the Bible compared to the Kama Sutra? There’s no competition.”12

The last track on the album is also the longest; at 13 minutes, ‘The Ocean Is The Only Solution’ is a trio improvisation that scurries through a series of complex rhythmic patterns before settling into a fuzz guitar solo over a fast,

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A lot of what we do is designed to annoy people to the point where they might just for a second question enough of their environment to do something about it. As long as they don’t feel their environment, they don’t worry about it, they’re not going to do anything to change it. And something’s got to be done before America scarfs up the world and s

“Musicians left to their own devices are incredibly lazy. Outside of sea slugs, I don’t think there’s any species less oriented toward punctuality.”

Frank had once maintained that Americans hated music but loved entertainment. “The reason they hate music,” he explained, “is that they’ve never stopped to listen to what the musical content is because they’re so befuddled by the packaging and merchandising that surround the musical material they’ve been induced to buy. There’s so much peripheral s

“Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth.” (OK, so far.) “Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.”

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