Part 2 - Frank Zappa at PMRC Senate Hearing on Rock Lyrics

[@frannyzooey11]

Thank you Mr. Zappa, for keeping the First Amendment alive. You are a great American.

[@stevenelson379]

This was great back in the day. Al and Tipper Gore were so smug and arrogant and Denver, Snider and Zappa came in an bitch slapped them in order.

[@deathcheatersguild4266]

Dee voted 🗳 for Al Gore because Bush was such a moron. Ponder that 🤔?! BOOM 💥!!! Real New Yorkers rock! 👊🏻

[@deathcheatersguild4266]

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[@jackforbes826]

I was a young adult when all this happened and was outraged. Now watching this I long for the civility of these hearings to be present in today's politics and hearings.

[@jamesbargar4469]

Zappa owns. Period.

[@billkropp]

Amazing how this still is relevant today in 2012.

[@hoedenbesteller]

And 2022

[@Taraalcar]

I love the dude freely lighting up the pipe in the background. The 80s rocked. We still had Stevie Ray Vaughan, Led Zep (a little), AC/DC... better times. (If you ignore the constant threat of nuclear war)

[@alyahoodii]

Rip Stevie

[@greenbeagle13]

I don't like this dude's music, so I don't buy it, BUT..., I love his intelligence and his presentation. The fact that "Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver was "banned", says it all. Frank Zappa and Dee Snider were absolutely brilliant in their testimony....

[@SpinalAlloy]

The guy is just tearing them apart...DAMN!!!

[@floydfreak63]

1967's "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles was the first album to include all the lyrics for the songs in printed form.

[@someoneelse101]

And with a customised inner sleeve

[@robertgreen6581]

I'm sure Al's favorite Frank Z song must be "Broken hearts are for assholes"

[@Abominable_Intelligences]

Wow, hey Americans. That Al Gore thing almost became your President.

[@MorroTreece]

Thanks for uploading this. Important piece of history here.

[@halloranedward]

Danforth is the original RINO, (or as we like to call them in missouri, "Pink elephants").

[@doctorshell7118]

Oh how this backfired on the PMRC, lol. Good times.

[@billkropp]

Zappa opened up a whole can of whoop ass.

[@deathcheatersguild4266]

Did anyone notice United States Senator J. James Exon, D-Nebraska smoking 🚬 a pipe during a Senate Hearing 🏛 ⚖️? How times have changed.

[@gspendlove]

"Nobody's asking for legislation..." Well, of course not. That's not how it starts. But every journey begins with a single step.

[@myproxyisabigpickle]

@TEMPmichaelhansen Nah, Dee Snider says 'Ms Gore was looking for sadomasicism and bondage just like someone looking for surgical references would have found those'. Or something similar.

[@jeffhickman10]

John Denver even made the case before congress on these hearings. And he did a great job of conveying just how stupid the PMRC really was/is.

[@jaxgal618]

Wow.... really ? SMOKING in the Senate ???

[@someoneelse101]

It was legal then I'd imagine

[@dudefrombarrie]

frank just put a clinic on!

Or possibly that Serj Tankian was modelling his looks on Frank Zappa.

[@szqsk8]

Lovin' that dude puffing on a pipe while Frank Zappa was talking.

[@waltereg0]

Funny how difficult it was to make lyrics of an entire album available back before the internet when it had to be printed on paper. Today they could just make a rule that lyrics had to be provided to a website where parents could check them out, or embedded into the mp3 of the songs.

[@macky1660]

+waltereg0 some parents these days are not so bright when it comes to finding lyrics on an mp3 file.

[@JohnTLyon]

Go get 'em, Frank!!!

[@karend169]

Any album I used to buy, had the lyrics inside, including some other great material.

[@biggzcorey]

@MagicPatrick2 look on CSPAN archives the entire intervies of Zappa, Denver, and Dee Snider are on there

[@billkropp]

The guy is puffing a pipe. Back in the day when smoking was allowed.

[@itsacarolbthing5221]

'somebody's hobby project'!!! Ooh!! Burn!!

[@rumputuski]

Isn't it kind of ironic that one of the PRMC people is shown here smoking a pipe? WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!!!

[@simonpollo]

The guy on Gore's left is smoking a pipe. What a star.

[@DrPepper1885Phd]

Accordion fold made them laugh....

[@someoneelse101]

Turned out he wasn't wrong!!!

[@Riveratguitarman]

Zappa is completely straight forward and sticks by what he says. That's why people like him will never be any kind of power in congress, unfortunately.

[@fiddler1252]

Thanks to Frank Zappa, America continues to be promote creative freedoms. Al Gore a Zappa fan, yeah. ;)

[@EricDeveyMusic]

you could just smoke a pipe in the court room? cool

[@shilelea]

that guy smoking there is the best

[@Tiffarush]

These hearings were from 1985.

[@Pronobozo]

I have to watch a commercial before this.... siderussianlegsweep what the heck.

[@pug103]

hahah at 5:20 the guy behind Gore is lighting up

[@j4unumber1]

Al said to Frank @ 4:24 to 4:29: "I respect you as a true original and a tremendously talented musician." Of course Al Gore would say that. Frank Zappa made that obvious.

[@BethBELify]

Like a boss.

[@td7474]

Lyrics are dangerous.....but look at the senator at 5:13 lightin up and smokin a bowl next to gore! Nahhhh, thats not dangerous! Lol

[@RustyIronloins]

the two usually go hand-in-hand ;)

[@MajinCCBThePrince]

eating out his hand haha

[@billybsavage]

Wow! Amazing stuff!

[@JoseAnguloMusic]

if somevody had to go and face the senate in name of all composers, that person had to be Frank Zappa.

[@evilemperordude]

I've heard that Tipper left Al because he had Zappa on his iPod. :P

[@LBJstevenash13]

thankfully artists such as Zappa, dee snider, dave mustaine and others are against the PMRC

[@funboy7979]

@TheDennisegg That's right. Rock musicians do not wish to clean up their act. Why should they? Read the Constitution.

[@chrisg79us]

@Siderussianlegsweep You can find the whole video on wikipedia. It's like 16 minutes long.

[@Siderussianlegsweep]

@chrisg79us thanks alot for this, i've received heaps of messages asking for this video. im gonna post it up here straight away.

[@sub7erox]

Ron Paul!

[@LovecraftianToenail]

The kind of stuff that makes me ashamed of my own political party. Really, Gore? Really?

[@Idolcruisefix]

gore is acting like he is writing notes for his counter argument like some one in an actual debate, but i think he just can't sit there and watch his projects falling apart with a strait face. h

[@dravreh]

Inconvenient truth mr. Gore?

[@MagicPatrick2]

Anyone have the actual Dee Snider interview? I see the links to the Metalhead documentary with Dee tooting his horn left and right. If you can post that, I'd love you forever! Oh, and +1 to Al Gore for at least being sympathetic on the issue!

[@Siderussianlegsweep]

@MagicPatrick2 dont have video but there are transcripts online. just google "dee snider pmrc hearing transcript"

[@MarcinDruzdzel]

Oh America...

[@MajinCCBThePrince]

@myproxyisabigpickle he did on the documentary Headbanger's Journey when he commented on the senate hearing

[@GreasyMcNasty]

6:28 ---- Tipper Gore mind controlling Al Gore.

[@ckyisyourfuture]

does anyone else find it ironic that there's people smoking on camera given the nature of the discussion they're having?

[@ShakehandShake33]

check out Tipper's look at 6:28 ....hilarious

[@JLewis44]

A lot of people look like them in the area of their ancestors.

[@billkropp]

Smells like legislation.

[@287750km]

@ 5:10 theres an Old Dude lighting up to Zappa

[@rporta]

what an L for Tipper Gore, that Albert Gore was a big Zappa fan lmao

[@BowetBurger]

Funny how this problem doesn't exist anymore thanks to the internet

[@billkropp]

Oh NO Al Gore. HAHAHHAHAHAHA

[@ClassicalByMetal]

Anyone else think Frank Zappa looks like Serj Tankian in this video?

[@SteveCarras]

Well, they said, when they were still (like for years) trying to be anti-drug, let's be anti-rock..

[@bobsaget7659]

Manbearpig is real i'm super serial

[@UguysUsedAllmyNames]

frank , dee snider, and john denver is just too smart for them. totally destroyed the entire congress that is hoping to actually "gang on them" one by one.

[@RyanJamesTheNomad]

6:16 Dude smokes hash

[@GreenDayRoxer1]

I don't understand, vinyls do include lyrics on some albums(I don't have a very extensive collection so I don't know if it was a standard practice in the 50s-70's) but most of the vinyls I own are more modern reprints. Does this mean lyrics were never printed until this hearing?

[@someoneelse101]

No, The Beatles Sgt Pepper had the lyrics printed on the back and the White Album had lyrics printed on a poster, The Doors Strange Days had the lyrics printed on the inner sleeve.

[@locker125]

When is this from? the guy next to Al Gore is moking a pipe at a Congressional hearing.

[@jfleminator]

John Denver at 8:32! someone please post his interview also

[@ironboley]

see... and people talk about the Obama Administration but look at what they did back in the day... this has been going.

[@Frankincensedjb123]

@erlingstoehr Yeah, he a big fan so he's nervous. Frank, can I have your autograph?

[@chrisg79us]

full dee snider video on wikipedia if you know how to find it

[@roofdoubleflip]

@InfernalDeth6 So true!

[@starlessskylark]

@bozzioisgod44 hahahahha. Like a million times.

[@TheRealDoctorBigfoot]

yeah its rather tame compared to todays standards

[@Jaspertine]

He's right. Just make the lyrics available.

[@manncr]

Fuck, parts 3 and 4 are blocked in Germany, that shit is annooooooyyying!!

[@sojen691]

Just to think he also is an advocate for global warming

[@markthemassacre]

This is why al gore invented the internet

[@sammygun]

check our serj's cover of yellow snow!!

[@jaxgal618]

Who's side is Al Gore on anyways ? WTF ? Why the hell is he coming off like a regressive ?

[@Luigimenta]

immoral familism exists in America like in Italy... Al Gore, champion of Democrats and of human rights, is here by the side of his wife totally and unconditionally.

[@raceyboy]

Al Gore is square af

[@cursedswordsman]

@dollhaus1 You accidentally a word.

[@brianlee5455]

THANK GOD Al Gore did not become President!!!

[@XA351GT]

@funboy7979 Amen Brother

[@Wilder941]

When was this filmed???

[@jampozbear]

And you're talking about a video on censorship, ironic uh?

[@lantermandrums]

Let me restate InfernalDeth6's comment for you, then. Personal Problem: Lyrical Interpretation.

[@Sebdes23]

Came here after Patreon banned Sargon of Akkad.

[@ADTRGUITAR]

That's borat

[@jbuck594]

@psichomiko amen

[@11twsister]

Even more embarrassing when you realize who actually became president....

[@Frankincensedjb123]

I REALLY can't believe that with all the problems in the world, all this time is taken up with song lyrics. What about taking all that time and effort and put it into creating jobs, cutting taxes, and getting us the hell out of debt. Oh, and BTW, maybe you can close down the FED while you're at it. Ridiculous.