Frank Zappa Shaped Our Views Of Society -Kenny Vaughan

[@spaghetti.lee-69]

Zappa Completist here. Frank is one of my Hero's in LIFE & MUSIC.... All around GENIUS. Way ahead of his time & Still Underrated...

[@neilstegall2090]

Harry Andronis, his sound tech, was hired after a gig. Harry worked for the house and he told Zappa during sound check that his guitar was too loud and was distorting the overall sound dynamics. He asked that stranger to explain what he was talking about, was convinced Harry knew what he was talking about and hired him. Harry continued to work with the Zappas after Frank’s death, archiving his tapes. RIP Harry.

[@LazyIRanch]

This immediately made me think of Zappa's "Joe's Garage", describing his first garage band's awful sound and Joe's mama's opinion of their music: "Turn it down! Turn it down! I have children sleeping here Don't you boys know any nice songs?"😆

[@TBlanktim]

Kenny Vaughan can tell stories 'til the cows come home. And everyone of them a classic. Feels like one of us with a real insider's view of musicians and bands. He has incredible memory for dates as well. This guy is an American treasure. That may embarrass him but it's true. Thanks Otis!

[@chrisfriedrich6830]

He is a masterful storyteller, and he has a history of being around and witnessing an incredible array of extraordinarily talented people (many of then sadly departed).

[@TBlanktim]

A@@chrisfriedrich6830 Amen.

[@BenjaminHSmith]

And listen to him talk about his favorite parts of the phone book.

[@Jedizen07]

Great post. Years ago, I had several lessons with Dweezil. And, in some conversations with him during the lessons, I learned more about Frank than ever before. The guy was a VERY " future thinking " kind of person, even if some of those ideas seemed controversial ( at that time ). This was the guy who predicted so many things that we are going through now. And, some of those predictions came as early as 1966!

[@jamescarroll7359]

"Between Frank Zappa and Mad magazine, I was ruined." Sounds like a verse in a hit song.

[@barrel_brd_bskt]

I was born in 1990 and my Dad would play Frank Zappa for us kids all the time. I grew up listening to FZ and share a special bond with my Father because of it

[@mroche1088]

I love Frank Zappa and I love the first hand hidden history that your conversations bring to those lucky to be here. I talk about Otis with everyone who will listen. Thanks as always! Love All Around

[@sayeager5559]

Well put. I count myself lucky to hear this stuff.

[@stevehorvath5855]

Brown Shoes Don’t Make It! I had the 2nd and 3rd album memorized! And the 1st album had “Trouble Comin’ Every Day”. Great post Otis & Kenny!

[@wittry2]

Kenny saw everybody. He is the epitome of the fan who saw all the cool bands. Now he’s one of them. Thanks Otis and Kenny for the great conversation

[@frogmorepipester7490]

I could listen to you and Kenny all day. Excellent

[@J0EYbagaDONUTS]

I love these first hand back stories of rock n roll , especially stories of Frank . Thank you Otis and Kenny for sharing them with us .

[@benjaminmurphy3260]

Somehow finding out he was a Zappa fan at an early age was both sort of totally unexpected but makes complete sense at the same time and only makes me appreciate Kenny even more.

[@tomstiel7576]

I always wondered how todays slingers felt about,,,or even were hip to Frank,,,now I know,,,I would just love to sit with Kenney and drink a few beers....I probably wouldn't even be able to mumble any coherence

[@marauder600]

Saw Frank quite a few times from 79 through like 1986. He rotated his musicians a lot and they were all literally well rehearsed and well oiled machines. Capable of playing anything.

[@scottkidwellmusic9175]

I have a cousin who is about 7 years older than I am. He introduced me to Frank Zappa's music somewhere in the early 80s. It was the most amazing thing to my young ears. I think it was a cassette of Apostrophe and Overnite Sensation. About the same time, my dad introduced me to Mad Magazine. That may have happened a few years earlier. I was also checking out George Carlin and Richard Pryor records from the local library. It was a good time to grow up... Thanks, Otis and Kenny. Great interview and fantastic stories.

[@drybayoudan5429]

As always, love hearing Kenny’s accounts. Playing guitar, piano, & woodwinds, it was fantastic adlibing with Zappa’s compositions !!

[@jaarmentano]

This interview just makes me love Kenny Vaughn even more!!

[@paavoviuhko7250]

Kenny is the best who I originally found on Lucinda's Austin city Limits from dec 98. Awesome. But in 1972 I left with some friends from Carleton U. in Ottawa to downtown Toronto and crashed at Ryerson college at a friends place and then going to Massey Hall to see Frank Zappa, heavy cigar shaped togies passing back and forth making all imperceptible but the second set was phenomenal. We were so close to stage that Frank was almost in my living space. Totally amazing.

[@peterthart531]

Frank was simply brilliant. No wonder he hated school

[@Jedizen07]

I think it's better to say that Frank didn't mind school. He seemed more concerned about " mind control " authority USING school to infiltrate kids into little advertising indexes. But, you are correct: He was brilliant and a bold " foreshadowing " type of person as well.

[@davidmontgomery5047]

Love Zappa !! Love Kenny !! It must have been Amazing to be at the Denver Pop ;Hendrix ,Zappa and Zephyr all in One Event !! Please have kenny Tell some Tommy Bolin stories .

[@LechDharma]

...and all the tear gas you could handle! ~also the last time The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed together; they broke-up shortly after The Denver Pop Festival.

[@ClarenceHW]

Mad mag & Zappa.... :-) great to hear Kenny lauding Zappa's guitar playing.

[@PaisleyPatchouli]

"The Idiot Bastard Son" from "Money" is one of the most politically prescient songs ever written. And I agree, 'We're Only In It For The Money" is my all time favorite Zappa record.

[@ericlong9085]

My brother's had a few of his albums when i was growing up, i just loved them, apostrophe and hot rat's, can only imagine what there were like live

[@daviswall3319]

This explains so much, KV! I could listen to Vaughn, all day long-

[@JohnLeePedimore]

"Alcohol won't solve your problems but then again neither will milk."-John Wayne

[@libertywilly7519]

That's a good one

[@robbie5984]

Great way to start the day. Kenny talking about Zappa. Yes please. When Kenny was talking about which Zappa albums he had at what age… 🤯🤯🤯 He doesn’t look his age at all…

[@sayeager5559]

How is Kenny right about absolutely everything. I discovered Zappa in the early 80's and never got a chance to see him but hes been my favorite for years.

[@cca73127]

Thanks Kenny and Otis for all the great insight and stories.

[@bradhardisty1652]

I love Zappa. He was Indie before Indie..could do anything song wise.

[@seanmurphy26]

Wow Otis! Kenny Vaughn talking Zappa, and its not even my Birthday..!!

[@DavidSmith-ss1cg]

Roy Estrada, Zappa's bass player, was the original bass player for Little Feat - who were all session players for Zappa(along with Lowell George) until Frank caught Lowell George using his equipment to record his own music and fired him - saying "Get your own band, jerk!" So Lowell George started Little Feat.

[@Seidiita]

I was at the another band from LA concert at UCLA around 1970. We convinced our cool English teacher Mrs. Nakamura to go to the concert with us in exchange for us going to various ballets and concerts that she had suggested.

[@p_e_t_e]

did she like the show? how was the ballet? lol!

[@chrisbrowning6102]

Of the many fascinating guests on Otis' videos, I think Kenny may be my favorite.

[@Colonel_Burner]

Hard to argue with that.

[@artemisXsidecross]

Thank you Otis and Kenny Vaughan ☮

[@LittleQween65]

Love Kenny!

[@tomcoy3565]

I Was Fortunate Enough To See Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention in 1974 in Delaware, Ohio at Ohio Wesleyan University Football Stadium for Their Spring Concert along with The J-Geils Band and Big Brother And The Holding Company, Minus Janis Joplin! I remember Frank Zappa Playing Slide Guitar on His Gibson SG Standard! Thank You Otis Gibbs and Kenny Vaughn for Reminiscing! Just Finished Playing In 90 Degrees Charity Golf Tournament Today and My Face Looks Like A Burnt Tomato!

[@T-roy33]

I knew a guy, in the barracks when I was in the military….he claimed nutmeg would give him hallucinations. He’d eat a couple of cans of it and listen to Zappa constantly :) I listened to alot of Zappa from down the hallway:)

[@hazegreen1896]

Johnny Guitar Watson was so awesome. Kenny Vaughn is also always dropping some incredible you tube links

[@musicman1976]

Kenny makes it ok to listen to anything from Pink Floyd to Ray Price in one sitting 🎸 🎶 ❤️

[@airtow6766]

The first album I ever bought was Freak Out when I was in Jr High School in 66. That, the Grateful Dead and Country Joe shaped my ideas about music until I was introduced to the Blues by a local drummer a few years later.

[@jammininthepast]

I have all his records Freak Out to Joe's Garage...love them all. I too saw Zappa in Denver at the Autorium Arena (Overnight Sensation) then again with Terry Ted Bozio (Zoot Allures) brilliant non linear, indescribable good. Love the fusion stuff Wakajawaka, Hot Rats, and Overnight Sensation, the Captain Beefheart album, Zoot Allures - all great. Thanks to you, Otis and to Kenny, way cool. PS: in Denver (winter early '70s) he came out and said "you're all wearing flannel shirts", classic.

[@finminer]

I was at that Zoot Allures show 😅n Denver! My only chance to see him!

[@jammininthepast]

@@finminer GREAT SHOW....do you remember them doing "you're an asshole" and pointing at the crowd? And we loved it! Classic Zappa...

[@ttott0013]

Kenny!! Otis!! Thanks so much

[@willcraig6421]

Gave the world the phrase”Freak Out”,which is an integral part of the modern lexicon.

[@PaisleyPatchouli]

Jimmy Carl Black was the Indian of the group... ;)

[@carolecksit2947]

Ray Collins was the secret weapon on those early Mothers albums

[@jonathanbaggs4275]

I miss frank zappa's interviews - his common sense no bullshit manner most of all. "Apostrophe" was a rite of passage for us in the 70s.

[@PongbyAtari]

When I bought my first CD player the first two disc's I bought were Zappa Apostrophe/Overnight Sensation & David Bowie Ziggy Stardust

[@larryt4958]

Really love this song. Mike Campbell guitarist of the TP and the Heartbreakers wrote the music and Don Henley wrote the lyrics.

[@joblo6394]

is this the video you intended to comment on?

[@Tom-ub7ti]

you trippin bro

[@joblo6394]

@@Tom-ub7ti when you have the correct answer for a totally different question 🤓

[@delbertlord9858]

Saw The Mothers of Invention with Flo & Eddie play in a church. Back in 1971 Fountain Street Church. Grand Rapids. Fountain was pretty progressive. King Crimson. Iron Butterfly. John Mayall.

[@Thurston86]

Kenny Vaughan! Hell Yeah! 🤘👀👽👽👽

[@yztrewq]

I have Kenny Vaughan beat by 2 years. I got Frank's first album when I was 10 and have been one of his biggest fans ever since.

[@otisgibbs]

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[@sayeager5559]

You are absolutely killing it lately Otis. Great stuff!

[@anthonymaccherone]

Saw them at the Laurel Pop Festival in 1969 when I was twelve. I was so blown away I mowed a few lawns to get the bread to buy We're Only in it for the Money.

[@craigbullock629]

Saw Zappa three times. Including the Fillmore East concert that was recorded in 71.

[@catheryndenton1766]

Johnny Guitar Watson.... " And that's your wife on the back of my horse...." Best lyric EVER....

[@bench7434]

Zappa and chomsky were my philosophy teachers for the last forty years.

[@Caperhere]

Chompsky, yes. I ‘m not familiar with Zappa’s singing, but just this month I saw him talking. He was ahead of his time, he read the writing on the wall, politically. He apparently didn’t like Led Zeppelin, re the fish storey.

[@smokinjoenew]

I was working construction with two guys who seemed to be guys who , on the surface, were as different as night and day . They were Zappa - heads who recited the lyrics to “Dynamo Hum “ , together , like it was Shakespeare - daily .

[@gypsydavy708]

I remember "Anyway The Wind Blows" on AM radio. It would be years before I figured out it was Zappa.

[@michaelseidita6533]

It greatly expanded her horizons.

[@jeffclyburn8000]

I am the slime..... Prophetic.... Kenny is amazing👍

[@weehudyy]

I bought ' We're Only it for the Money ' which was the first widely available ( ish ? ) Mothers' album in New Zealand in 1968 . I found Uncle Meat and Lumpy Gravy in bargain bins shortly thereafter , unearthed an import copy of Absolutely Free in a second hand record shop , and played my copy of Hot Rats into onion rings the year after ( I still do ) Most of my friends shuffled for the door trying not to make eye contact ... The same people would buy copies of the Fillmore East album shortly thereafter

[@shannon5373]

Apostrophe was and still is a musical masterpiece from beginning to end!!!

[@Barry101er]

-Kenny Vaughan, wise, young sage.

[@weehudyy]

" Donnie whips it out ... " Don Preston plays Louie Louie on the Royal Albert Hall pipe organ ...

[@buzzbabyjesus]

Ruben and The Jets is probably my favorite.

[@gustavoherrera7864]

Zappa and Mad Magazine two of my favorites of all time.

[@MarkFromHawaii]

My friends and I listened to a lot of the early Mothers of Invention albums up to Zappa's Zoot Allures and Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar. I never learned any of his tunes but I called our band Kosmic Debris back in '76. There's an article in Guitar Player by the late, great Tommy Tedesco where he was called on a date for Frank. I guess thinking Frank was just this hippie kook, he dressed up in an Indian costume with a golf cap. When Tommy sat down he was surprised to find the complex score written out, and was quite embarrassed. Frank walks in and says, cool threads or something like that. Apparently they were on good terms after - there are some pics online of them hanging out, enjoying a meal.

[@donny_doyle]

In the 70s I was a paper boy from ages 12- 17 ish. All my paper route money went to Jimi and Zappa records, Mad Magazine and weed. That's all I needed...

[@admarhermans1]

Zappa was dead serious... 🖖

[@krum41]

I saw The Mothers at the Garrick theater when Absolutely Free just came out I was fifteen It blew my mind

[@vincentrockel1149]

Also a 50 year plus fan of zappa. Wonder what he would think about how things have gone down here on planet earth since he left?

[@vincentrockel1149]

Perhaps we've become even dumber and much more ugly since.

[@spaghetti.lee-69]

He predicted much of it...

[@mccarthyd6603]

I could listen to Kenny read a phonebook and be entertained.....

[@raywood4223]

Catholic Girls Where do they go after the show ? All the way ❤❤❤. Joe's Garage was pivotal to us the central scrutinizer lol a couple of quarts of beer and get high to Joe's Garage.

[@gregb8565]

Dr hook before they got into this aOR stuff was one of the most fantastic bands ever Cover of the rolling stone . I got stoned and I missed it, queen of the silver dollar , shel Silversteins muse

[@klangwerks]

Kenny covers the waterfront . 😎

[@zendixie]

Let’s make the water turn black! I had most of the Zappa catalog before a house fire years ago. My favorite these days is Bongo Fury because Beefheart is on there. I once talked a band I was in into learning Lucille has Messed my Mind Up. I wish somebody like Billy Strings or Tim O’Brian would cover lonesome cowboy Bert.

[@LazyIRanch]

I'm sorry for your tragic loss of your Zappa collection (and house). I love "Bongo Fury" for the same reason, I love "Sam with the Showing Scalp Flat Top". "Opaque melodies that would bug most people" and "obscene knob knees and what-nots" are phrases in my vocabulary I like to use in casual conversations just to see the expressions on people's faces. During the 80s, my boyfriend and later, fiancee was named Bert. He loved Zappa and Beefheart, so he didn't mind when he entered a room and we sang, in unison, "My name is Burtram I am a redneck All my friends, They call me 'Burt' (Hi, Burt!) All my family, From down in Texas Make their livin' Diggin' dirt"

[@zendixie]

@@LazyIRanch the music was thudlike. I’m always glad to find someone that shares my questionable taste. Zappa shaped my view of life for good or whatever. I also rattle off Frank phrases as part of my language . Once in a blue moon someone will get it but not often.

[@LazyIRanch]

@@zendixie I like both kinds of music; rough-neck AND thug! I know what you mean, few people recognize Frank phrases but it's fun when they do! When my son first heard Zappa he was about twelve and he loved it so much he got a little angry that he didn't hear it sooner, "You knew about him and you're just now telling me??" Now he's 31 and we have conversations peppered with Zappa-isms and Tom Waits lyrics. Recently while grocery shopping I got a cart with a funky noisy wheel and we both said "Roll, skreek!" at the same time.

[@zendixie]

@@LazyIRanch that is awesome!❤️ When she was small, I used to “dance” my oldest daughter around the room to Pajama People and actually thought about doing that at her wedding but sort of got voted down. Next, I’ll infect my granddaughter .

[@spaghetti.lee-69]

FZ' s Guitar Hero's - Johnny Guitar Watson, Clarence Gatemouth Brown.

[@nunestunes]

I'm thankful my father raised me on Zappa

[@loumelillo1790]

When we went camping we would listen to Zappa and read Mad and National Lampoon magazines

[@male3083]

Frank Zappa - a ship without a rudder.

[@owenwilberforce6138]

Frank definitely had to react to a world that was uptight, angry, and convinced that the “kids” were all too “ruined” to want to sign up for the Vietnam War, continue despoiling the Earth and keep maintaining the toxic status quo of that era. He faced all the crap with humor, and if we were to turn back the clock to that era all the bubblegum music of those days, Frank was the first and foremost “alternative” artist. Frank was on a level that was beyond being cool, hip or happening. His social satire mixed with a love of all music made him the ultimate iconoclast of the 60’s.

[@jamesyates9952]

For better or worse, Frank Zappa shaped my worldview, too.

[@julesotis13]

kenny and otis yall are the medicine julesy needs today thanks

[@michaelmalm3649]

Zappa was the greatest musician of the twentieth century

[@BryanClark-gk6ie]

He was a genius' way ahead of his time and surprised how many have never heard or have no idea who he was.

[@mikefannon6994]

Not a speck of cereal!

[@gamoonbat]

I'll bet that Kenny and his buddies had a game out in the back!!!

[@klangwerks]

The Real Mothers … 😎

[@chrisnaples2838]

Saw Zappa 78 philly spectrum ,nobody I hung with wanted to lol ! Their loss, Frank was doing a lot conducting that tour but when he picked up his Rake he tore it up. Joe's garage and shiek yer booty finally got my Buddy's turned on ,live in New York , nothing like getting drunk and singing titties and beer at keg parties 😂 Otis you are the man ! Love Kenny stories

[@uncleremus64]

Roy was dressed as a pope for the RAH show. It's hilarious and beautiful. Absolutely Free beats Money IMO>

[@julesotis13]

ha thanks kenny zappa otis yall just wrote m yepitaph.....Well, he kne what he was doing...he got into it....eat the tick, take the ride. - SJOCR

[@monoped8437]

Frank Zappa, Mad magazine and National Lampoon

[@pedasijeff]

Overnight Sensation!

[@SrServ]

The original band was great. After his accident, he was never the same or as good

[@Blues.Fusion]

I'm not sure what pushed frank off the rails with his Joe's Garage period. All that central scrutinizer stuff put frank pretty deep into the weirdness drawer.

[@sambolino44]

What is the deal with people throwing stuff at Frank Zappa? When I saw him at the University of Arkansas ( must have been 1975 or 1976) someone threw what I think was a cup and hit his guitar right on the strings. I thought they were actually trying to hit the people standing in the front of the crowd because they wanted them to sit down. Anyway, he didn't change guitars, but it did make him angry, and he went into a ripping solo afterwards.

[@CreativeWarrior-]

"The smell of coal mixed with baloney...."

[@robertdicarlo4490]

'...why didn't you try to call me. I have to hear 'Rudy Wants To Buy You A Drink' every once in a while. A musicians song !!! Too many others to list.

[@Stratsafact]

A mind is like a parachute……….

[@getAttr]

One day maybe if I play my cards right I’ll wind up with St Peter at the Pearly Gates. He’ll ask me what I’d like my reward to be and I’ll say “I’d like to be Kenny Vaughan for a couple of days”…

[@tomstiel7576]

I wanna play in Franks band

[@Buck82Fla]

A saw a short on youtube that said Zappas father gave him liquid Mercury for him to play with and alot of it. They say the mercury caused his cancer. I wonder if there is any truth to that?

[@bench7434]

All the shut up and play your guitar stuffs was great I bought the entire 4 records set , Zappa was guitar freak.