I hit the answer buzzer on almost all of them but blanked out often under the pressure of being in front of the the imaginary studio audience

Steve loves Mike.

4:52 will improve White House recording equipment😂

This is so freaking awesome.

This is my favorite video on KZbin

I THOUGHT PRINCE WAS A..GOOD GUITARIST AND THATS ABOUT IT FOR. ME.

Very good video thank you!!

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I saw (and recorded) 4 shows on FZ’s final tour in ‘88, 2 at the Wembley Arena, one at the Birmingham NEC and the final one at the Rotterdam Ahoy. Frank only played “Stolen Moments” at the Wembley Arena in 1988! yet every time I listen to them I always expect “Stolen Moments” to come up!

I love all Frank's albums, yes even the Francesco one, and I'm still, after all these years, struggling with this one. Which is not really an album BTW. But here's my point: Even as I never understood this piece to this day, it is still way better music than **anything** played today.

Wow more relevant nowadays

Where is some of that rehearsal/concert footage from? It's some of the cleanest from this tour that I've seen! I'd love to see more, if you can share the source!

I knew both of them and had some great hangs with them unfortunately no photos

Love this guy.

Oh man, throwing in the Francesco Zappa part is pretty sneaky.

hey would you upload the Confinement Loaf excerpt from the BTHW vinyl unedited? I'm editing together a "best of 1988" album and I wanna use it

We won’t see the likes of Frank again.. such a unique talent and personality.. we’ve lost a giant.

Prince sampled Zappa in a few songs Frank saw P at a party and decided to go say hi but Prince ran away 😂

Frank Vincent Zappa ...tutti gli altri sono umani.

I'll be seeing Mike next week at the Baked Potato club. I'm very fortunate to live in LA . I get to see him locally several times each year in his various progjects

Americans are spoiled & Gullible & feel they are Entitled. Policy is Okay, I guess. But we want our Politics to be Entertaining, too!! I just put gas in my truck @$3.49 a Gallon. Donald told me gas costs around $5.00 to $10.00 per Gallon. Who should I Believe?? Donald tells us about a group of "Peaceful Protesters" who gathered together at our Capitol on January 6. 2021. I saw a different Picture!! Who should I believe??

Democracy can ONLY work with a WELL Informed Public. Donald Trump is a well trained LIAR. He can recite false numbers & events, that have never happened, with conviction. His audience doesn't feel the need to look up the facts!! After all, It "Sounds" Right!! They are convinced that a gang of Drug Dealing Illegal Immigrants are hiding under their Child's bed!! And WHOEVER it is, occupying their Closet, you can BET, they're not an American Drug Dealing Gang!! Are we Afraid yet?? ( Shouldn't Mexico be empty by now?? )

Where is the whole interview of the clip at 1:46?

As brilliant a philosopher as a musician

Mrs. Al Gore and a bunch of other Democrat DC housewives go after Frank's lyrics and FZ blames religion! lol, Talk about a schmuck! Pack of Poodles kzbin.info/www/bejne/rn64aJ6giNCXlck

Where is this taken from please?

Ted Nugent sucks. Just wanted to share this knowledge: In response to Nugent's live record "Intensity in Ten Cities" the Australian band This Is Serious Mum released a live VHS entitled "Incontinent in Ten Continents". Ted Nugent sucks.

You can tell Frank has a deep admiration for Don

Frank obviously had no clue that 89 China was an (en e dee) funded color revolution that failed. Same as HK, Thailand etc.

Frank was a Profit.

Go, Mike!!! Mike is a kind, warm, generous human being. I highly recommend him!

RIGHT ON THANKS ✌️

Burocratic bulshit? No Way! Imagine one EUA where who anywone will be free to make anything stuff. Imigrant tottally free pass no matter If you commity any criminal activities. Well Mr Genius Zappa, i follow you, specially your synclavier and Orchestral Works. Study a lot scores and ALL him musical references. But... Some him ideas is completly absurd, don t make any sense.

An arsehile is always an arsehile (just replace the 'i' with an 'o') And FZ is the epitome of arsehiles. I mean, if a guy has neither brain cells NOR balls - then the video presenting him has got to be more fake than Brandon. HC-JAIPUR (17/03/2024) .

“Democracy” comes to murder the Republic.

Voting is an illusion!

Zappa was ahead of no time. They probably gave him aids to shut him up

Well since everyone can vote by mail now, Frank can rest easy.

Boy do I have news for you. This country was never a democracy, that’s a lie you’ve been told. We’re a republic, and the difference is bigger than one is less to believe when told we’re a democratic republic. Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Mob rule, majority rules. A republic protects the rights of the minority, the individual, FROM the majority. Just because we use democratic processes to vote on our laws which cannot supersede our rights does NOT make us a democracy, despite every politicians vehemently implying we are one (similarly, they’ll call themselves leaders and not representatives) Fascism is also lied about. The Nazi party wasn’t originally titled that. “Nazi” is a slang contraction for the words “National Socialist” as it was the National Socialist Workers Party of Germany (translated and officially abbreviated to NSDAP) was the party that Hitler took command of. Fascism itself wasn’t invented by Hitler, nor by its first elected dictator Mussolini. But rather by a socialist student of Lenin, Giovani Gentile, who believed he could improve Lenin’s system by organizing a socialist society by class. Of course, the Hitler being a villainous anti-Semite, he placed Jews at the bottom of his classist fascism. In German politics the political spectrum is measured differently than in the U.S. the U.S. spectrum is based on less government vs more government determining right and left respectively. On the U.S. spectrum any form of totalitarianism is on the left. (that is NOT to suggest that too far right doesn’t exist, it does, and it’s result is anarchism due to lack of government on the U.S. spectrum.) A true fascism is a form of socialism. In Germany it was one of 4 major parties at the time. The Social Democrats, the NSDAP, the Communist party, and another that I cannot recall at this time. In the U.S. the primary parallel drawn between the GOP and nazis is their often fanatic patriotism, even going so far as to call it jingoism at certain points. However, smaller government polices cannot result in bigger government control in a holocaust style fascist state. This is why Reagan concluded “if fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism” as the American left pushes the government to grab the power necessary for such a state to exist. That is NOT to accuse the left of being nazis today, truly they parties are both far from it in most aspects. But this is why we should know history, or either side may be doomed to repeat it (right now both parties tend to grow government size. That’s not inherently fascist but it sets up the tools necessary for a fascist to use should she/he take power. Bonus, in today’s world AI has brought about realistic translations of dictator’s speeches including Hitler. I’d recommend listening to some of his speeches and knowing exactly what he stood for, what we should stand against. Hitler was human, and so were we. We should watch out for our own selves, or risk becoming him. Let’s not recklessly accuse people of nazism who aren’t truly guilty of it. Anyway, not supposed to be an attack because of a post, just my two cents on studying I’ve done. You’ve been lied to, and you’re noticing it, but you’re reading the signs in the wrong direction my friend.

This guy resembles John McAfee in appearance and mindset

Using AI generated content for a Zappa piece? Sits ill with me

So a man who was against formal education, who dropped out of college after a year, who didn't want his children going to college and pulled them out of high school, is talking about how the country wasn't educated enough? Sounds like the ramblings of a pseudo-intellectual who only has the confidence to say this because he was an admired musician and then assumed he must be smart.

Any democracy is only as sound does the educational system of said democracy. Without an educated populace you have mob rule and the mob is susceptible to the charms of a charlatan.

There is no benefit to absorbing the ramblings of a fanatic.

Because it was never there. Ot was and is a lie. The best you could do at the best of times was a kind of piratical democracy, and population did not give a shit. Because of a combination of ignorance, manipulation, lies and a decent standard of living. Well, now you are done.

Nixon's Watergate. Agnew's Bribe taking. Reagan's treason selling missiles to Iran. (The most corrupt administration of the 20th Century). bush and Cheney's war for profit in Iraq. (4489 dead American soldiers). Trump's insurrectionist treason! (and Book burners) Are we surprised??

Of course, Frank Zappa was completely correct. Our republic is not a complete democracy, but one through representatives to express the common will that also safeguards against democracy, in that certain fundamental rights will be held against a tyranny of any fleeting majority. However, this conservative citizen, when examining the context, can appreciate Zappa's stance. By the numbers across many studies (i.e., meta analysis,), there is no correlation between voting (or opinion,,) and the outcome of legislation, which is oft written by the interests involved themselves. I could go on. "Democracy" was a dirty word even amongst our Founders. In pure form, it never worked. We had a mixed form, which has grown to divorsevitself from being represented [almost as if by Ra's press(impressment) sentarives], so it does not operate for we the people. Lincoln said "lest it perish from the earth," and America being "the last best hope" for mankind. If this is based upon what we claimed to be, can we claim that anymore? Avant-garde as he was, Zappa also held quite some substance. Perhaps he and William F. Buckley would have found common ground regarding government. Buckley, who was considered my many as the intellectual father of modern conservatism, once said it would be better to pick names at random out of the phone book for representatives than to proceed down the track we're on. Whethwr by that he was seeking a stronger executive is anyone's guess.

I believe it vitally important to distinguish between a democracy, a state ruled by it's citizens, and a 'democratic state', where the citizens are allowed to elect those who actually rule that state. With this understanding we can then go on to separate true majority rule, the apparent will of the citizenry, from the oligarchic forms of government posing as democracies, the Few pretending to be the Many. 🤨 #AMoreDirectDemocracy 👍👎👍 Power to the People (for real this time) ✌🙂

Love the channel name. "Come on, Frenchie!"

You have no idea how big of a favor you've done for me. I'm from little country that seems to be heading the way of USA and we do have couple of talking heads and it just so happened that one of them loooooves Zappa. Sam guy keeps giving excuses for most idiotic usa policies and preach for usa as great economic power. I'll try to send this to him. And huge thank you to Google for reading my minds and breaching my privicy, since I havent even typed or spoke about anything even remotely close to any of what I've said anywhere on the internet. Thanks Google.