Frank Zappa interview 1986

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  @hertzer2000 · 8 years ago

  "Consider the beauty of the name Ralph."

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  @sofiyaschug9482 · 10 years ago

  Dweezil is a fuggin swell name

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  @FOWLMUSIC · 18 years ago

  She is better than any other tv interviewer in that at least she understands how intelligent Frank is, and doesn't try to play him off as a clown.  She got him talking about AIDS and Star Wars in an intelligent manner, I'd say she's light years ahead of anyone else who interviewed Frank for tv.

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  @TonyZamboni777 · 17 years ago

  Chuck Norris was shaking in his boots in the presence of Zappa

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  @fernandogarajalde4066 · 7 years ago

  One of the rare interviews where Frank is recognized as "a brilliant businessman".  Joan Rivers saw that in Frank where many others tended to miss that.

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  @croatianguy7073 · 7 years ago

  I fucking miss Frank Zappa

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  @richardfederico1672 · 12 years ago

  You have to remember that this was the Tonight Show, late night yes, but very mainstream popular, especially before all the cable and eventual internet culture that exists today. My point is that Joan Rivers takes a huge risk in asking Frank Zappa open ended questions. She was only guest hosting the show, and was not using this opportunity to do self promotion or to get her jokes in. The audience is not responding with laughter on much of this interview, and yet this does not sway Joan to try to lighten things up with silly banter.  She really showed respect for Frank and his views on the world whether she fully understood them or not, (but my guess is that she was more informed than most). She was a real person and probably should have inherited the host spot of the Tonight Show after Johnny. Joan obviously had a deeper side underneath all the quick witted humor and Hollywood gossipy fluff she eventually became associated with. I am glad to see that the media, Hollywood, and the public have shown much respect and admiration for her after her passing. She lived her life with no excuses and is a tried and true bonafide icon in my book.

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  @Dont_stay_long_k077 · 8 years ago

  Left us far too soon , I regret never going a gig. Love ya Frank

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  @rickytracy8582 · 7 years ago

  I met Frank in 1974], he was a good man

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  @jasondotson · 16 years ago

  ZAPPA was a TRUE PATRIOT and a profoundly deep thinker.  In his autobiography he elaborates on the concept of secret governmental involvement with diseases and illicit drugs.  Just listen to his concept album "thing-fish", which predominantly focuses on the african american's plight in america in the early eighties.

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  @JamesDeWeaver · 10 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUisSrkHT0k&amp;t=384">6:24</a> - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUisSrkHT0k&amp;t=420">7:00</a> Frank knows about biological warfare because his father worked @ Edgewood arsenal &amp; Frank grew up there until he was 7.

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  @CH3MIS7RY · 16 years ago

  nice &quot;brain police&quot; snippet @ 0:43

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