Frank Zappa on Dick Cavett 2/3

One of my favourite interviews with Frank Zappa.

[@bransonlights]

I had the pleasure of seeing Frank Zappa in concert many years ago, enjoyed every minute of it. Back in the day concerts were much more fun and way different than today.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

I’ve listened to many Frank Zappa interviews throughout the decades, but there is one thing that makes this one unique. When Zappa tells the story of Cavett supposedly banging around on Asley Dunbar’s drum kit in 1971, something most unusual happens as he finishes: He laughs, and not in an affected manner. I don’t recall ever hearing Frank Zappa laugh in that sort of spontaneous, natural way.

[@auddyroses]

he's so eloquent!

[@irvingmazariegos3830]

OMG how much do I love this guy! Go frank! I love you !

[@trumpsucks3624]

FRANK I MISS YOU MORE EVERY DAY, YOU WERE TAKEN 25 YRS AGO , I LISTEN TO PEACHES EVERY DAY! IT ALWAYS BRINGS A SMILE TO MY FACE.

[@krisscanlon4051]

The IQ level of hosts + guests were dang high at this point...listen to what Frank was conveying to Dick...unreal still fighting the suits.

[@Nammm37]

LOL! I'm pretty sure that loud lady laughing at 3:47 was named Mary

[@brainsareus]

The wind cried......

[@markducharme9518]

"music is the only religion that delivers the goods" Classic Frank

[@gwengoad]

YOU ROCK!! thanks.....

[@theycallmefilip]

i lost it at "Who do you find weird, Frank?"

[@bigtonese15]

I love him

[@robruitenberg4064]

Who do you find weird that is a golden question fantastic. .

[@davidowens5898]

Can't say with any cetainty that 'ol Frank was a 'genius'...but creative? Definitely. Astonishingly creative musician. And extremely talented. And disciplined.

[@bigtonese15]

Thanks

[@bennettdrew]

FZ is a very smart man.

[@nottwozero]

Genius yes.

[@bigtonese15]

Never forget

[@EmptyGlass99]

Ah, the old days when interviewers actually asked pertinent questions and listened to the answers instead of just trying to crack jokes all the time. Zappa once said about his children's 'weird' names: "If they have any problems with their names in the future, it'll be because of 'Zappa'".

[@josephwritessongs]

Yeah, I saw her on The Mighty Boosh and I did find myself titillated

[@sm1135ster1]

one of the most brilliant and talented people in rock ever.

[@paulinebutcherbird]

sm1135ster1 Totally agree with you.

[@Nautilus1972]

I feel sorry for Dick, he was a huge fan of people that were really hard to interview like Frank and Marlon Brando, Hendrix ..... Watch his Brando interview if you haven't seen it ....

[@TURTLES_FOR_LIFEEE]

Hendrix and Zappa were friends. Frank told a story one time were Jimi was dancing at his house. He split his pants. Franks wife sewed up Jimi pants.

[@AlbanianThrash]

He wasn't a human. He was an alien who wanted to start a human band as a side project. He didn't really die. His planet just needed him to start playing again.

[@officergregorystevens5765]

No that was Sun Ra.

[@Matiasoter0]

I think that's Bowie

[@cellardoor199991]

4:00 Frank should have said, " Look who's talking, your name is Dick..."

[@charlesdexterbrewer6586]

Zappa was a Constitutional Fundamentalist with an absolutist view of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution. He never resorted to the fact that his wife and therefore his children were Jewish. He was a true statesman and an iconoclastic American patriot.

[@fenders4life]

@Bass5el Yeah I don't know much about Dick Cavett but he seems to have a pretty wide vocabulary, be pretty respectful and listen very well.

[@pretorious700]

Frank was way more evolved than most humans.

[@TheMIRCO112]

A very profound man.

[@sprucetree49]

If Zappa were alive today he'd be on trial at the Hague for that song.

[@paulinebutcherbird]

moses wapshot Nonsense. It is perhaps a little tasteless, but not anti-Semitic.

[@cellardoor199991]

4:08 That's a very good quest. to ask Zappa. I was thinking the same thing

[@bigtonese15]

Go mary go go go

[@Gregorypeckory]

I second that.

[@lamper2]

who was it who said "there is no rock & roll anymore,only the music of the young?

[@MisterDensity]

I'm a jewish dude and I can attest the lyrics of Jewish Princess are hilarious and true. Theres a reason why I choose not to date them.

[@nottwozero]

Funny: I don't find and have never found Frank Zappa to seem "weird".

[@officergregorystevens5765]

Weird is an over-used adjective, and I'm guilty of it myself... But yeah, he's not 'weird' or wasn't, rather. I wouldn't even really call the guy eccentric. Compare him in the music scene with say.. Throbbing Gristle or something in the Industrial realm? To me, the weirdness has more to do with being an occult-obsessed person like Jimmy Paige sleeping with 14 year old girls on tour as a full grown adult.. that's on the weird side.

[@gazriley624]

he was very talented and intelligent but not weird

[@jimmycampbell78]

It was not just Jimmy Page, lots of rock stars in that era slept with groupies who might have been underage.

[@chumauyamadu2053]

try strange

[@oliverecords8524]

"They have their job to do and I have mine, then just let it slide".

[@kevinmichaelcallihansr5053]

Why is 3 of 3 not in your mix?

[@wardka]

@thewhiteafrican I would start with One Size Fits All. Very proggish album with impossible time signatures, etc..

[@Chridder515]

Interview year: 1980

[@cellardoor199991]

I wish they actually got to talkabout what Zappa's normal day is like

[@davidowens5898]

Fo the most part...he slept all day...and worked all nite. He was a savage workaholic.

[@bigtonese15]

Thge real god

[@rongravy]

i love the meeting story, playin' another dood's drums is like strokin' a man's woman. you just don't DO it. even if it IS your show.

[@stephaniebarron52]

The ADL would accuse you of antisemitism if you accidentally rearended a kosher bakery bread truck.

[@dockaiser]

@thewhiteafrican 'Over Night Sensation' and 'Apostrophe'

[@bigtonese15]

Live zi raw

[@bigtonese15]

War is evil

[@bigtonese15]

Baby jesus

[@pigknickers]

I saw them and they are spreading

[@oldgeezer68]

Saddle shoes. Thats my man!!! Cause we all know "Brown Shoes Don't Make it!"

[@damphear2]

he wants to talk about don. but they were fighting so he didnt want to

[@bigtonese15]

Your the original

[@jacobc2642]

uhhhh, take a look at 2:52 into the video. That looks like more of a signal than an itchy nose...

[@officergregorystevens5765]

My thoughts exactly. It could not be, because we've been trained to be I think over-suspicious of these twitches.. being on TV can be kind of nerve-wracking.. maybe he was on coke? Twitch from prior coke use, but the look in his eyes as he's making these apparent gestures have this kind of 'do you underrstand what I'm saying?' look... But what if Dick did use gestures and told Zappa what they were and they related mostly to how much time was left in each segment on tape?

[@randycasey99]

looking at old interviews...artists of all kind were very smart back in the days...now I see interviews and they suck...whatever happens to intelligence!

[@myownme7772010]

The only one who comes close to Cavett today is Charlie Rose, I guess.

[@stevenstewart6349]

Who do you find weird, Frank?

[@elvisdelarge]

when mr. cavett was asking him about his daughter's name I wonder if it occured to frank to point out that his name was "dick".

[@lamper2]

he gives his poor children goofy names then gets angry about what follows

[@Gregorypeckory]

Why; did Cavett also suck up to people in power such as Henry Kissinger, or badger guests that challenge the powerful, like Amy Goodman?

[@dockaiser]

@thewhiteafrican Apostrophe , Over Night Sensation , Roxy and Elsewhere

[@cjpmugsr999]

in my life, I miss three people... Dr Hunter S Thompson, Gene Roddenberry and Frank Zappa... not particularly in any order.

[@theoriginaljeffro]

@Bass5el Yeah, he's smart cuz he lets FZ do most of the talking ;-)

[@Gregorypeckory]

Really? I wasn't too impressed when he said he wonders how serious a musician Frank is.

[@geniusmchaggis]

'77

Fats is still going strong at 86!

[@BrownSoldier96]

6:33

[@bigtonese15]

Bar

[@bigtonese15]

He son

[@bigtonese15]

And my mom and ny .kids

[@tommyhaynes521]

This is enjoyable but there are times when Zappa acts willfully ignorant like he doesn't understand the point of the question .

[@Foolian1332]

that probably came from the fact that he felt pressured to respond in certain ways on television for all the people, and perhaps chose instead to respond on his own terms even if it made him seem aloof or stubborn.

[@Patrick96322]

Do you have an example?

[@ChristieAphrodite]

time to deport the ADL!!!

[@tarantism]

@randycasey99 they aren't interviewed anymore. Can't let the public hear anything intelligent, you may inspire a few teenagers!

[@humanity6fl9]

so dick cavett made 2 million that year, on another note ,is there spiders crawling on dick cavett?

[@bigtonese15]

Wanna her another joke moore

[@bigtonese15]

14

[@bigtonese15]

Muck

[@bigtonese15]

I doo

[@bigtonese15]

Kids avit

[@bigtonese15]

We crituzed you

[@bigtonese15]

I believe in jesus

[@bigtonese15]

Aisha

[@bigtonese15]

Muhammad

[@bigtonese15]

Bronze bomber

[@bigtonese15]

Bad