FRANK ZAPPA "TINSLETOWN REBELLION" (reaction)

Check out Sight After Dark reacting to “Tinseltown Rebellion” by Frank Zappa!
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[@SightAfterDark]

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[@shipahoy8832]

Dan and Sifa, Facts: Vince Colaiutas farewell album concert.18 month tenure, but only 12 months touring. Shortest drummer tenure ever for frank, aside from Logeman.. Why? Laundry list is available! This album was a flop in sales, according to Frank. Frank, desperate to compensate for bad sales, after the Bozzio top of the world successful era, mass produced the shut up and play your guitar series. Slapped it together, fast, on select solos from mid 75- early 79, and released it fast, to make up for poor Colaiuta era sales occurring at the time. Colaiuta bootlickers should notice the absence of his reverbed drum kit sound, as used and over killed in Joe's garage, fabricating the true sound of his kit, A simple jazz type kit. Casuals have no conception. This album exposes the true sound of Coaliutas crappy kit, only making it worse on most other songs, overkill drumming, using his pretentious over use of polyrhythms and odd phrases, to make a slop of the already too chaotic frank compositions.

[@Royale_with_Cheeze]

Frank always said that the music business was more about the business than the music. This song exemplifies that sentiment.

[@LS-fz7ud]

It's so cool you are bringing Zappa to the younger generation.

[@davidbonner4556]

Frank was talking about how Rock has declined into a Business controlled by "Suits" instead of Artists, and how the AM radio consumers didn't care that talent had been depreciated because music videos became the selling point ("Afficionados come to look but not to hear")

[@janerikrolstad4506]

I have this on vinyl. Great album

[@spencerwelchii573]

I love this song! Frank was such an iconoclast not fitting in to any genre but can do any genre.

[@tixximmi1]

Yeah but no Zydeco. I was always hoping.

[@sveinunglidsheim5828]

The filmed concert version on Does Humor Belong in Music?, has some fun details worth checking out ;)

[@Chicago_Podcast_Authority]

The face Dan made when Frank says “groups that act real queer” was priceless 😂

[@GoodCorporateRobot]

I forgot how good this song is. This whole album is gold. Frank at his straight shooting best. Frank would have loved your audience participation.

[@SightAfterDark]

☺️thanks Thomas!

[@chipcrooks557]

This is one of my favorite releases from Frank Zappa this entire album and has a great grouping of musicians listen to love of my life

[@jatichsicharta]

Yeah, great vocals of Bob Harris. Using a voice as an instrument.

[@adamnealis]

The singing style is what Zappa referred to as "meltdown".

[@AndyMmusic]

The record industry summed up in a song! Some of the looks you guys gave made it look like you understood this too!

[@michaosanna]

Many of the die hard zappa fans that I know here in europe stoped listening to him around 1980/81. They missed the prog/fusion style of his former albums and the long exalted guitar solos. I think that there are a lot of brilliant things to discover on this 1980 albums on and I belive there is some great art on some of this albums. Maybe it's a bit to much comedy focused sometimes and we non english native speakers didn't get what he want to tell us here at once, but there is no zappa album ever recorded in vain for sure. And: God save the QUEEN (and definitely not her fa... regime) R.I.P.!

[@erikmaronde2244]

Tinseltown Rebellion and "Broadway the Hard Way" are my all time favorite Zappa record.

[@zappafan012]

Frank lived in L.A. because that's where all of his resources were. Everything he needed to create his art was there. He said he would have much preferred living in New York but the real estate was too expensive.

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks for the details James!

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks for the details James!

[@jcf1963]

He had said if he could, he would live in Hawaii. Not practical.

[@jatichsicharta]

@@jcf1963 if I could I would live in Hawai for sure😃

[@wowwhywow]

Frank HATED L.A. BUT... he said that it was the only place where he could get his studio fixed in two seconds if there was a problem. If it wasn't for that, he would have lived in New York. About Jim Morrison.. I'm writing an 8 part mini-series screenplay about Pauline Butcher. (Frank Zappa's seceretary) And there is a scene where Pauline and one of the other girls from Zappa's entourage (I forget who, but I THINK it was Pamela Des Barres) help Jim Morrison out of the Whiskey a go-go after he's had WAYYYY too much to drink...or... whatever. If my screenplay ever gets picked up... it will be an iconic scene (one scene, in the third episode) ... that will give new appreciation to this line from this song.

[@SightAfterDark]

Nice! Thanks for sharing Chris!

[@chazblitz]

Nice Lip Snortin you two! A very animated episode! Fantastic!

[@SightAfterDark]

☺️thanks so much Uncle Chazblitz!

[@KutayCoskun]

If you like this song you might enjoy the live version with video from "Does Humor Belong in Music?".

[@zappafan012]

That is a better version.

[@jimhardiman3836]

This is live

[@KutayCoskun]

@@jimhardiman3836 Didn't mean to say this isn't live, I meant the version in Does Humor...? is live too.

[@sea6bear]

It’s a very high quality video and audio as well….

[@ganazby]

Re the being a star in New York quip. When Bowie was shooting the video for Ashes to Ashes (he was in a jester’s outfit, you may recall), a local guy inadvertently walked onto the set. And when one of the assistants asked him: “Do you know who that is?” The guy replied: “Yeah, some c#*t in a clown suit.” Bowie was duly informed, and apparently pissed himself laughing. Not literally, of course.

[@SightAfterDark]

😂great story!

[@DUBEE43]

This album is in my top 5 Zappa's!!👍😎

[@HakanTunaMuzik]

very underated, love it

[@stevedotwood]

At the end you get a clear statement by Frank. The diissonant chord on the "wood" part of Hollywood, and after that the beautiful rendition of a Hollywood pastiche (or even parody) which he was always good at: "Semi-fraudulent Direct From Hollywood overture" from 200 Motels or Bogus Pomp.

[@jimhardiman3836]

That's the I Love Lucy them song at the end. It's so Hollywood...

[@SightAfterDark]

Nice ☺️ we love Lucy too!

[@Stephenconder]

Fantastic reaction to a brilliant song ❤️❤️ .. I’m sure I heard George on Marimbas 😜😜

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@MrRemcoLamberts]

that would be Ed Mann there, Frank's main percussionist after Ruth

[@TommiBrem]

About Jim Morrison... Tiny Sick Tears.

[@davetothebeard]

In an interview once Frank said the rest of the country could never understand what they have in California.

[@bryanhale5254]

Hey did you notice that part they said yeah it works really good for all those record company Pricks who come to skim the and then they do a little Melody and then it says cream well actually it was Sunshine of Your Love that they threw in there from the same band you know Eric Clapton Jack Bruce Ginger Baker yeah I think you go up Woodrow Wilson Boulevard and up there in Laurel Canyon you run into his house I was actually going up there to see blue jay way cuz that's where George Harrison got Marooned and he wrote his song that was on Magical Mystery Tour obviously he must have had partaken of somehow a very powerful substance at the time well yeah you know the Zappa was in New York back in the sixties they hung out at that one theater what was it called Garrick theater? All right Brooklyn Heights

[@SightAfterDark]

We did notice☺️. Thanks for the details Bryan!

[@juanpabloarena2724]

If Zappa wrote this at the time... IT WOULD EXPLODE IN CRITICISM TODAY!

[@AndyMmusic]

And if you come and play in LA I will come and see you!

[@SightAfterDark]

Yay!

[@patricktilton5377]

Speaking of Jim Morrison and the Doors, there's a KZbin video of Jimmy Fallon impersonating Jim Morrison . . . singing the theme song for READING RAINBOW, but in the style of the Doors. It's frigging brilliant -- you ought to do a reaction video to it.

[@SightAfterDark]

We checked it out and absolutely love it!

[@jfffjl]

The line between live and studio was often blurry with Frank. He would take live tapes and seamlessly add things to them in the studio.

[@larryharrell5092]

It's more about Hollywood and Burbank (and El Monte), than LA

[@sonicart1808]

Dan the opposite of a 'Shout Out" would be a "Whisper In" so it would be a 'Whisper In' to the city of Los Angeles..... great reaction guys thanks, also are you guys getting loaded before filming these days? You seem more zany than normal....

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks Sonic Art! Definitely not getting loaded, ☺️ just passing the music time being silly.

[@sonicart1808]

@@SightAfterDark My Bad.....you make a great team anyway.

[@WilliamWiest1959]

The actual words Frank used while speaking of Jim Morrison were "From the cesspool's of excitement where Jim Morrison once stood" Not sure if that's good or bad !

[@SightAfterDark]

😆not sure either!

[@SalamaSond]

I dimly recall an interview of Frank wherein he was asked about The Doors. Frank said something exuding disinterest and then anecdotally "..Gail grew up with Jim Morrison... I think she hit him on the head with a hammer once". Frank said he would've preferred to live in Hawaii, but that LA was necessary for the music business.

[@SightAfterDark]

Thanks for the info SalamaSond!

[@canadianstudmuffin]

Zappa was the best.

[@stevedotwood]

Whisper in

[@Frankincensedjb123]

I moved from the east coast and live in LA because for six years, I was thoroughly enmeshed in the "biz." Hollywood and all it's associated with is a very dark, nasty, seedy place. It infects many and few survive. Frank knew this and often took shots at the underside of the entertainment biz. I met Frank and have even been to his 8,000 sq foot compound in Laural Canyon. He was very personable and real, unlike many of the plastics in Tinsel Town.

[@SightAfterDark]

Nice, thanks for sharing Frankincensed!

[@markofrontz1343]

There is a better(?) version on the Does Humor Belong In Music? show. With a great performance by Bobby Martin.

[@chrisoleary9876]

Oh my God....Frank said "queer!!!!?"

[@laikapupkino1767]

Back in the late 70's I used to love putting on some ugly clothes + going to punk shows at all the Hollywood clubs this song mentions; and I LOVED this whole album. There's nothing more punk than calling out the punks for their pretensions. This album was WE'RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY for a new generation. The full-blown Hollywood fanfare ending lifted straight from the I LOVE LUCY show theme song was especially brilliant, suggesting that the era's hip new sound was just as lame + cheesy as any middlebrow mainstream American teevee show.

[@Royale_with_Cheeze]

Frank's best album. Vinnie is on it!

[@blankreg3858]

Slightly different than my original vinyl version.

[@tomkitchen9457]

Have you heard cheepnis?

[@SightAfterDark]

😊 m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJyklKuaiL-XkNE

[@MrWaterpumpkin]

Not of my best liked songs and albums, but still terrific performance. I don't like much the things he sais but I respect him that he dares saying them, giving no sh*t for those who don't like them... like me ;)

[@shipahoy8832]

Lady gaga bought his house. It was custom built inside a hill! Vault deep down,etc.Why move?

[@timfeeley714-25]

I saw a video on the Tube where she said she would preserve the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen.

[@shipahoy8832]

@@timfeeley714-25 Correct.

[@shipahoy8832]

@Zolar Czakl Major renovations were made during Franks ownership.

[@richardlonnberg4980]

High vocals by Bob Harris..

[@bwana-ma-coo-bah425]

too much Zappa, not enough time.

[@SightAfterDark]

For sure!

[@christianugolini8493]

with some Doo-wop...

[@MrBill-MustDie]

Dan's expression at 3:01 after he snorted his invisible line was priceless, you can tell he's at least been around someone that's slammed a good rail, or maybe he saw it on TV. 🤣

[@SightAfterDark]

☺️☺️