So funny, so brilliant, so Frank. Some day perhaps the music business will catch up you maestro. We miss you so.

ZAPPA was one of the most creative and fantastic musicians of all time. Unforgettable!!!

Beautiful version! Sounds great with the keys.

That was EPIC!

I never had the oppurtunity to see him live.I saw his sons live in Holland in 93 at the Dynamo festival.This is still a big miss in my life.

Perfect AUDIENCE

Timeless...!

i´ve seen this on TV once in the 70´s..Zappa is God!!!

Fabulous musician I love it !

I like the 70s! Wished I was born then....Frank is soooo good.

poor old Frankie Z. ___-I just loved him...as tears go by!

Waaaaaaaaay ahead of his time

Fantastic... thanks

I now understand him. It took a long, time, but I know exacty what was in his head.

Great post! Thanks man a lot!

my father looked like him .. back when i was really young we had the sheik yerbouti album and i thought my dad sang broken hearts are for assholes.

This is Franks way of saying f. uck you to those who wanted to censor and put labels on albums if any of you truly understood Mr Frank Zappa he took on the fight when others didn't

Greetings from America!

F.Zappa - the most adored western musician in last Czechoslovakia. You wont be forgotten buddy - your cz fans

Thanx!!!!

Voll geil! Dieser Gaudi hätt ich mehr Publikum gewunschen .Nur toll!!

Great Frank. Miss him so much...

best version!

my HERO-GREAT

Frank still shinin even with shitty vid/audio quality 🎶✌🏽🔝💯

probably my favorite version of this tune.

This guy was awesome in so many ways!!

Exactly!!!

super

I love this performance, it's a lot more like the original Mothers style. He focuses a lot on the singing style that reacts to the lyrics he sings. A song that will never die!

Mr.NanaBlue, to fully appreciate Frank you should have rather been born in the 40s/50s. His '60s period was the most fantastic Music Revolution in the story of Rock

I miss my Doro....died 06-01-2011...... she love´s Bobby Brown

mistrzostwo :)

zu geil

Thank u Frank Zappa u sooo fantastic

You get it!!!!

I tend to agree with your first statement. And I'm a big Bernstein fan. (And of course FZ did a famous concert with Zubin Mehta.) One phenomenon I think is definitely true: when one encounters an artists for the first time, it is usually those first songs/records that remain the favorite. I started listening to FZ in '67 when he was in midst of several consecutive masterpieces, so those have always been my favorites.

this song deserves a video on mtv

classic zappa

Nice to finally 100% agree on something. Liking you more & more with each and everything you now say! Keep it up, and we may just find ourselves far more simpatico than either of us first believed! Glad I so challenged you on your FZ fan-dom or we would never have had this fun and lively exchange! Love to keep chatting, but so gotta go. You on FB. Maybe we can chat some more there (as this all is kinda KZfaq comment section abuse).

quel homme !

Could not have said it better myself. I'd give you infinite thumbs up, but KZfaq will not let me!

Super Raw~Like Tartar~Awesome

thanks! lol

Oh god, I am the american dream---- yes you are !

Zappa goes commercial,amazing!

this is gold, also It seems I am the most recent commenter :(

Right on Me Brother!

"Can't we all just get along." (Rodney King)

Tommy is great on this haha

My cat, now passed, was named Jimi. But next one, if black and white and like a drowning witch, will be Zappa, Dweezil, Ahmet or Moon Unit!

it seems saruman was a wild one back in the day

YUP!!!!!!!!!!!

There WAS a method to his madness!

And of course he has a cup of coffee to get down to!

Saw Miles twice (early 80's), Dizzy Once, Herbie Hancock once (as VSOP on same bill with MIles) and Brubeck too. Plus lots of good stuff in Greenwich Village (NYC/Small's) and uptown as well @ Birdland back in my oft trips to NYC days. Still waiting to see Jeff Beck live someday, BEFORE he dies 2! .You Is What You Am, I'm a 1/4 Jew that also eats Ham FYI: No big loss. Was pre-prep stuffing for dinner, that I just ate as a snack anyway. Have yet to even get back too it. Maybe tommorow.

Your dad was a very lucky man!!!!

@pepipopupapa Actully, this is 1978. The documentary got it wrong. The actual premiere of Bobby Brown was on october 17, 1977, in Hartford. :)

Yes we can. He have more in common than differences. I assure have been a major FZ fan from age 15 to 60. He influenced the way I think more than Dylan or Lennon. But I'm also a critic (wrote record reviews for the U of Penn feature magazine) even with my favorites.

it s gr8, in my time 2 get a video of mr zappa was almost impossible and i knew what he looks like only from the albums pic, then amazon.com came along with utub , anyway zappa is a giant , like led zep , hendrix etc but he s not known as he should because he didn t compromise with record company and because his music is wider and people often prefer 2 focus on 1 style like rock or jazz but feel disorientated when genre are mixed like in zappa, he s a musician, although i like his lyriccs best

And sorry for all the typos in that one!!!! Busy and got other crap to do! Life sucks that way!

Pure show! (I say)

@staingler yes, but we need to show the kids what's good.

At such moments life really sucks.

Yeahh I could not do it also you know. From the iron curt it was just impossible. I miss it a lot.

FU for having seen Mahavishnu O. (w/ or w/o Frank) and not having brung me!!!!! I'm a huge jazz/fusion fan!!! Love MO and Weather Report and all of Miles in that period (& all Miles)....list too long to type and I really gotta keep my eyes on the ball (and the stove). Burnt my Savory & Sweet Italian Sausage and Rainbow Chard Boneless Chicken Leg Stuffing while I was bantering with you earlier! Still edible, but not good enough for the trouble to stuff. Now I have to do a 2nd batch! {:'-(

At 1:36 did he expect the crowd to say "I wonder wonder wonder wonder" Or did he just humiliate himself there

LOL !!!!!!

Never saw Les Paul in all my times in the City. Always wanted too. Too late now! Sucks! (for him, me and us all)

You have a real talent for putting words in the mouths of others. Please show me where I said I hated his later works. The Yellow Shark was fantastic and he should have done more like that as opposed to "The Dangerous Kitchen," Also loved "Inca Roads," most of the album he did with Beefheart, even "Valley Girl." Just think the quality level was higher in his Sixties work.

Saw Mahavishnu twice and they were absolutely mind boggling. Weather Report once and amazing in a very different way. Sorry about your lunch, because you are what you eat. Or is it You Are What You Is?

Where was this filmed?

@Grelin1999 So do I with almost everybody, but Zappa. You are lucky.

and the message is: lass dich nie manupulieren, dann geht's dir nie wie Bobby Brown! :-]

What's up with the Swedish subtitles in the beginning?

il y as zappa et les autres;;;;;

And so I will love you for you being less than a fan of the later FZ stuff, if you can love me for being a very huge fan of it (as it was some of the first FZ I ever heard and, like all first born's, you love and defend them to the death, no matter how flawed they may be!). Work for you???

No you didn't lose. You know what they say about opinions. Guess we FZ fans should stick together - the man's music must endure and we need to make sure that it does. By the way I only saw Frank twice: one on the Grand Wazoo tour and one on a fantastic bill with Mahavishnu Orchestra. Both were in Philadelphia and both splendid.

@pepipopupapa Sure ? I thought Tommy Mars joined the Zappa band in 1977...

@HaceeSwe no offense intended, but if it's in Vienna, it's Austria not Switzerland... ;)

You got a thumbs down from me because: Clearly you are NOT a big FZ fan, or you would love and adore this as well. Sheik Yer Bouti was my first Zappa Album and my 1st ever album I bought along with Dark Side of the Moon. This tune is my absolute favorite on that dbl album. I love (and quite nearly have) ALL ZAPPA, from MOI stuff right on through the very last thing he did right before he died & even much of the posthumous stuff since! If you are not like me, then you are NOT a Big FZ Fan!

The only thing post 60's that Zappa did that I hated? He did not get a regular colonoscopy and then died from that error!

I love fz in fact we named our dog Zappa he is black and a white got

sally walker iggy

Just don't hate on some of MY FAVORITE FZ stuff (even if, as you say, all very flawed) AND I am sure WE CAN GET ALONG. LOL }:-) Awesome that you got to do formal reviews, that got pubished, in an Ivy League Mag and all! Lucky (or very smart/literate) you!!! I'm just a half-literate engineer.* So I guess you win!!! And I lose!!! LOL * Sadly, still 1000 x more literate than far too many of my engineering, science, management, corporate, & entrepeneurial brethren. What a shame that is!!

Not really. You have to listen to the whole Sheik Yer Bouti Album. This little tune of uber well produced pop just kinda pops up in the middle of all kinds of random and very non-commercial stuff. Plus, do you really think that any commercial radio station anywhere ever would ever play this on the radio? (esp. as it 100% satires and parodies everything else they do play, all the fowl language notwithstanding!)

@RollingPeople97 of course not. problem is chart shit is conservative where is should and very liberal when it shouldn't

Okay! Okay! Sorry! Sounded like you were 100% hating on anything post 60's. Sorry, my bad, but some of what you said kinda came across that way and I was always taught that where the real truth lies, is not n not in what is actually said/written, but what in said/written in between the lines. But sorry again, MY BAD! I apologize the the ends of my soul. Can't we just get along?????!!!!????

NO, but you just humiliated yourself here...

Fuck ever sense some pop song put Bobby Brown in there lyric it's off KZfaq

And my tastes go there too. So lets bury the hatchet and be friends (and you stop hating on Frank's later works which include his first symphony et. al.). Or would you prefer I now tell you which parts of your work as a pianist I absolutely have zero respect for???? Never said NO WRONG! I love a person/artist not just for all they get right, but all they get wrong as well. The flaws are what make a person truly human and loving their flaws as much as their perfections if to be truly humane!

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You obviously haven't heard much of Frank's music, or know anything about what he stands for, maybe before commenting you should at least try to know a little of what you're talking about?

Someone help me understand this song. From what I can gather, Zappa got interviewed by three Brits who pissed him off, and the worst thing he could think to call them were "faggots," and he wrote a song with offensive, homophobic lyrics to further humiliate them? Is that what I'm seeing here?

I also think most rock fans are utter total idiots. I am not. IQ: 145 Education: Mech E with Honors from RPI. My HS Best Friend and Musical Mentor as a child; Leonard Bernstein's Brother Burton's Son, Michael. (Who is the one of 2 that got me into FZ in 1979 and who I listened to all the 80's stuff with as it came out before I went back and started from the beginning and now have it all) MY first concert ever: Frank Zappa, You Are What You Is Tour in Hartford, CT 1981-ish.

@ghosterdude And you reckon MTV would put any decent music on it's programming schedule. It's not even a music channel anymore!! If the kids all want to listen to conservative chart shit that's up to them but mark my words; i'm not paying for their therapy in 20 years time!!

Bet you love "Man From Utopia," the worst album he ever made.

This is such crap compared to what he was doing ten years earlier. And I'm a big FZ fan.

I don't love you, Worst FZ Fan & person I ever texted with...

Co on zaglupoty wyspiewuje wstydu nie ma piosenka ladna ale tekst wulgarny co mu po tej glowie chodzilo