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Zappa lecture 23 April 1975

BBP - 10-5-2006 at 15:20

Hi Gosslings,

On April 23, 1975, Frank Zappa, George Duke and Captain Beefheart gave a lecture in Syracuse.
You can find the complete audio of this event on http://www.beefheart.com/zigzag/articles/lecture.htm
Some 2 hours worth of insightful remarks and silly questions!

The lecture gives answers to some intriguing and up-to-date questions such as:
-What guitars, amp, strings and wah-wahs do you use?
-What gave Beefheart the idea for Trout Mask Replica?
-What are Drazy Hoops?
-Who inspired George Duke?
-Is there still animosity from FZ toward the David Walley book?
-How much did Apostrophe (') cost?
-What inspired Camarillo Brillo?
-Who's that girl clinging onto Frank on the Roxy cover?
-Is FZ the guitarist on George Duke's Feel album?
-What's the best way of getting your band famous?
and
-What about the Roxy movie?

For my web site, I made a complete transcript, it's 32 pages long. It will be on here asap.

aquagoat - 10-5-2006 at 18:51

:bouncing:Great !:bouncing:

[Edited on 10-5-2006 by aquabot]

BBP - 10-5-2006 at 19:23

Here's one bit that made me smile, it's somewhere on the 3rd file...

Q May I ask you another question?
FZ What's that?
Q Could you explain 200 Motels to me?
FZ Can I what?
Q Explain 200 Motels, yeah...
FZ What part of?
Q I saw it and I was pretty high, I expected to get a lot out of it, I was pretty much...
FZ Well that's the problem...
Q I was lost so at Yellow Submarine I ducked out
FZ Well you know, that was a Beatles movie
Q Oh, yeah... No really
FZ Well really that's about what it comes down to, but as far as coming in being high and trying to get a lot out of
200 Motels, go and see it without being high, and try and figure out what's going on, and I think that you'll have a better
experience with it.
Q You can not go in try and explain that then...
FZ Well Ask me something specific, a detail about it...
Q something specific... Well what was the point of putting out 200 Motels?
FZ Well you see I had the story and a concept of doing a surreal documentary on a group, a surrealistic documentary is something
that takes actual events, paraphrases those events, and codifies those events to shrink them down to a size and a shape that people are going to be able to comprehend. However, I failed miserably in your case, but the basic idea was to give a glimpse of what goes on inside of a band on the road in an abstract concept kind of term, so the events that are referred to in that film literally did happen, there's a lot of stuff in there that's so true that it would be too disgusting to even talk about it.

aquagoat - 10-5-2006 at 19:37

I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the lecture.:roll:

Pappawas1975 - 10-5-2006 at 20:00

Nice one BB...!!!

scallopino - 12-5-2006 at 05:59

Oh BBP! Thank you very much!
Quote:

-What about the Roxy movie?


Looking forward to seeing the response to this one!

BBP - 12-5-2006 at 21:26

I'll get it on...
Think I'll put it on my bonny.ploeg.ws site. One of my current classes is Musicology and ICT, for which we need to make a few web pages and upload them.

DED - 13-5-2006 at 09:45

Make it easy on yourself and use website complete de luxe.
It's linked on the desktop.
Don't waste time in finding out what others already have done. Use your imagination on the content. The software is paid for but you need to make a local copy and then upload it with ws-ftp. Otherwise you have to pay a one time fee.

BBP - 13-5-2006 at 16:18

Quote:
Originally posted by DED
Make it easy on yourself and use website complete de luxe.
It's linked on the desktop.
Don't waste time in finding out what others already have done. Use your imagination on the content. The software is paid for but you need to make a local copy and then upload it with ws-ftp. Otherwise you have to pay a one time fee.


It kinda shows if you use a template... Besides templates are drags.

DED - 13-5-2006 at 20:17

Not all off them
check http://www.wedoconsultancy.com

BBP - 13-5-2006 at 22:46

In case of homepages... I mean it'll show if I use templates. I do want a nice grade for that assignment, you know.

BBP - 24-5-2006 at 17:11

OK, so here's the first version of it! It needs some spreading over multiple pages, some pics, some JavaScript, but it's there!

http://bonny.ploeg.ws/lecture.html

aquagoat - 24-5-2006 at 19:07

Great, great work Bonny, thank you for that cool interview.

Fido3 - 25-5-2006 at 21:10

Yeah, thanks for that Bonny.

BBP - 26-5-2006 at 15:31

It's still in poor shape... I've needed 2 updates already...
If you discover anything that is incorrect, whether I misheard something or whether I spelled yuo instead of you (I did that a lot), plz let me know!