When I was about a very young, good looking boy somewhere in the seventies I saw a program on VPRO television about Frank Zappa. It was around that time that for the first time in Dutch TV history Phil Bloom showed her boobies on another VPRO program. The world was changing very quickly after that Back to Zappa. He did a trick with a dust collector hose on the boobies of a girl. I remembered that scene since and when my daughter turned out to be a Zappa fan, I told her. Somehow, don't ask me how, she managed to get an copy of that program. Funny enough not exactly matching my memories but ther it was again. I think if you ask BB to fetch you the bucket of gold at the end of the rainbow, she somehows manage to do so.

[Edited on 21-3-2006 by DED]

Is there any possibility of seeing that footage ?

That's upto bbp, I can offer you a photo taken from the screen.

That seems interesting.

http://portal.omroep.nl/mplayer?nav=uphuuEsHEnCoVtHjIugdB

I think I already wrote this on the Zappa.com board, but my dad also remembered seeing this documentary back in 1971. That vacuum cleaner scene must have made quite an impression back then, because that was also the part he remembered best.

Yeah, but the vacuum thread went down with the Forum crash, along with Trendmongers story on his vacuum-hose singing technique, leaving my Trendy-at-the-Ritz drawing a little context-less.

http://bonny.ploeg.ws/trendmo.JPG

Oh wait, sorry: misread your message.

My mother also vividly recalled that scene, though she was too embarrassed to tell us what it was about exactly.

[Edited on 21-3-06 by BBP]

Thank you very much BB, I'll watch that as soon as I've got a bit of time.

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Originally posted by BBP Yeah, but the vacuum thread went down with the Forum crash, along with Trendmongers story on his vacuum-hose singing technique, leaving my Trendy-at-the-Ritz drawing a little context-less. http://bonny.ploeg.ws/trendmo.JPG Oh wait, sorry: misread your message. My mother also vividly recalled that scene, though she was too embarrassed to tell us what it was about exactly. [Edited on 21-3-06 by BBP]

We had only one (or just 2) station(s) that time, so everybody with a TV set has seen it.
In the early seventies the sexual revolution in Holland started.
It was heavy announced that Phil Bloom Should appear naked in "Hoepla". A girl reading a paper on a "pea" chair laid the paper down and for a few seconds you saw two black dots on a grey body. And then it was over. But in the Frank Zappa Documentary it was not announced and a little more "dynamic". There were even questions in the parliament.
So new, so extreme. And that you won't forget. A milestone in Dutch history. I have a Jig Saw puzzle with Phil Bloom In Amsterdam at the "lieverdje" statue. It's a pity that one piece is missing. ..........But not that part, only a bit of the pavement. :biggrin:

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So new, so extreme. And that you won't forget. A milestone in Dutch history.

And then the Dutch never looked back! Lonely males everywhere are eternally grateful!

Sousa around a Dust Collector
HENK VAN GELDER
The laconic commencing voice of Roelof Kiers refers in one little sentence to the enormous commotion which that year(1971) had arisen. In the program ,shooted on the set of Zappa-film 200 the motels, a suction hose appears which seems it lives its own life - and then he (Roelof Kiers) says in a voice-over: "The Dust collector of frank Zappa, an apparatus with unsuspected possibilities, plays a striking role 200 motels". Now the VPRO repeats it from 1971 dating programme in "seeing meeting again" , this sentence has lost its cargoby long. But what was the matter?

A half year earlier, in February 1971, the VPRO shown an also "Kiers" made tv-portrait of Zappa. It contents approximately all aspects of Zappa's life and work, but it attracted especially the attention by one short scene in which Zappa placed playfully a suction hose on a bared woman udder. That was enough to put the country on stalks. The feeling became, as usually "shouting" interpreted in "the Telegraph": When one by means of a mass medium such as television, in a manner such as the VPRO did, the way of life of Mr Zappa shows, then one cooperates in an irresponsable manner in the luxation of standards, without which, however these can change also, the society cannot maintain himself.
It rained complaints at Amsterdam justice and the (former) ministry of Culture, Recreation and Social work. Both promised a research. Afterwards it became quiet.


Translated with worldlingo and afterwards hopefully corrected the right way.



[Edited on 22-3-06 by BBP]

It just occurred to me, that when I went to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (nice modern-art museum near the Central Station of Amsterdam, much worth a visit), there were screen shots of said event. It has earned its place in a museum!

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Originally posted by DED . I think if you ask BB to fetch you the bucket of gold at the end of the rainbow, she somehows manage to do so. [Edited on 21-3-2006 by DED]

Until disfar no succes :crying:

here Ded, I think this is it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeh32gVc-6Y
my connection is real slow today so I can't watch the whole thing again, but I had watched earlier this year and I believe has the bit of film at the zappa home with miss lucy and the vacuum cleaner;
but that's not all, there's a lot of good discussion and music in there too!

Is that Lucy? Ahhh... I tend to mix up my Zappa ladies (apart from Gail, that is).

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Originally posted by punknaynowned here Ded, I think this is it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeh32gVc-6Y my connection is real slow today so I can't watch the whole thing again, but I had watched earlier this year and I believe has the bit of film at the zappa home with miss lucy and the vacuum cleaner; but that's not all, there's a lot of good discussion and music in there too!

tnx
we have the doc. but I was referring to the couldron with gold

ahhhh,
"you're innocent when you dream"
-- Tom Waits

Doesn't that depend on what you dream about?