Zappa - Funny Moments and Words of Wisdom

[@Novae78]

The world needs more Zappa...

[@MarekPudzian-x6f]

ideal watermelon citizen

[@BrianRoberson-k7g]

We had it and lost it.

[@DM-kv9kj]

@@BrianRoberson-k7g We didn't lose it...we sold it. We ALL helped to sell it down the river too, and everyone pretends they had nothing to do with society and it's all someone else's fault.

[@Rain-rk9iq]

god i love this man so much

[@evancodsworth2]

It takes a special man to make such unique music that is like nothing else and be planted firmly into the ground and sober as he was.

[@devilsoffspring5519]

Keep in mind that he also croaked relatively young and that helps make him a legend. A lot of people think Kurt Cobain was a genius, I find almost all of Nirvana's songs to be low-effort mundane "procedure" at best. Much to Frank Zappa's credit he was supposed to actually be creative :)

[@TheTrippersMindTrip]

This man was an absolute genius. If only more people were awake like this...

[@lee2780]

Such a shame he passed in 1993,still saddens me today,he was a true visionary, way ahead of his time,I first listened to his music when I was 11,im now 53 and love him even more,poop to all the other poseurs in the rock bizniz, frank was one of the real guys!!

[@TommyWashow]

its just so amazing how wrong they were about the content of his music especially in regards to suicide. he did the opposite of glorifying suicide he made you feel stupid for wanting to do it

[@chrisbarnette7137]

💯

[@theodery2712]

Now in late 2024, Franks words are more accurate and prescient the ever. About the media, dictatorship, the religious right, he had nailed it decades ago. A huge fan of both his music and wisdom.

[@BrianRoberson-k7g]

He knew what was coming.

[@theodery2712]

@@BrianRoberson-k7g just saw a documentary on Frank called " what's wrong with Frank Zappa" ( facetious title) showing his youthful upbringing in Baltimore onwards, and towards the end they said his IQ.....172 !!!!

[@chipsawdust5816]

He was right at the time, and many things still are correct. But much has changed since those interviews, and he was bright enough he would've seen it.

[@DoomKid]

@@chipsawdust5816 He did see it. America is winding it's way towards a fascist theocracy, just like Frank said.

[@ratsalad346]

@@DoomKid Yes, I hate being forced to pray 5x daily.

[@yaali8227]

Amazing… to listen to such blatant truth ….

[@jeffdawson2786]

Frank said things that still ring true today. The music will inspire forever.

[@colinwilliams553]

What an intelligent,intellectual,talented man we miss you Frank,R.I.P❤😢.

[@sheldo8083]

I still listen to Frank almost every day. Amazing talent.

[@seveneight9026]

Zappa is so much better than ANYTHING or ANYBODY that ever was. His mind is one of a kind his "right" to teach anyone what is real and good.

[@MisterMoccasin]

They'd ask him so many strange questions like the alien one lol

[@MarekPudzian-x6f]

yeah media tried to make some free thinker sound like he has lost his mind but intelligent people will get his point of view. I mean he makes them look like complete idiots instead

[@sbef]

As an arrogant person, this guy is genuinely my inspiration. And I mean it with utmost respect, because I probably will never be as accomplished or smart as him, but I truly enjoy him telling it like it is, without embellishments or fake smiles.

[@devilsoffspring5519]

I don't know, he's awfully bitter and condescending. I'm no spring chicken and I've always noticed that arrogant people are usually just very bitter.

[@josepaolo6507]

I so miss him...

[@-Finlander-]

We all do!

[@davin6175]

At the time, I have to be honest, Zappa seemed overreationary and paranoid. But now in retrospect you can clearly see all he was worried and warning us about is happening and it all started in the '70's and '80's. By the late '80's Zappa had clearly had enough. I wish more of us had taken him seriously and worked harder to change and correct the crooked path US politics has taken over the last 50 years.

[@limpusshrimpus9810]

Yeah when you put it that way, it really is your generations fault huh? You people were so docile and had destain for any semblance of original thought.

[@DroolRockworm]

Imagine how brave he had to be back then when it was even farther away in time, given how hard it would be now, only 3 weeks after a wannabe fascist was elected to the presidency of the United States

[@DoomKid]

@@limpusshrimpus9810 As a millennial, don't act like we're not the definition of complacent, by and large. Same with the X'ers and Z'ers, for that matter. Blaming the masses for being victims of decades of targeted misinformation in media and politics might feel like righteous indignation, but it should make you angry at the wealthy, the ones controlling the networks and the ones in governance - not the average dupe who is simply being lied to 24/7.

[@banalpedant41]

10:45 Frank's eyes were always wide open. He nailed it right there.

[@LonnieLawless]

and now they are all liberal.

[@DoomKid]

@@LonnieLawless No they aren't. They're very pro war. They don't support expanding woker's rights. They dismiss high taxes on the wealthy as "unrealistic". They are far from liberal, even the ones that pretend to be.

[@SimonMcGrath-o8jk]

Come over the house and I'll show em to ya. What a brilliant answer

[@killerfoodnation8347]

Zappa doesn't give a fuck and I love it!

[@mustardsquatchdog]

You can see him battling illness in some clips. I miss my so-cal homie!

[@larrymclarnon-pd8xf]

Frank was a brave and honest human being.

[@ellengran6814]

Americans still believe it makes a difference when voting for democrats or republicans 😂.

[@razzle1964]

Zappa nails it at 6:20.

[@devilsoffspring5519]

Not really. America has always been a musical powerhouse. As a Canadian I envy my neighbors to the south because music is more appreciated down there and in Canada music is considered a disposable consumer product like a cheap cell phone.

[@razzle1964]

@ Aah, that’d explain foisting Bryan Adams & Celine Dion on us.😉 It matters not. You still gave us 2 Ryan’s, Rush & a Shatner, for which I salute you.✌️

[@robertbrause3060]

Bruh honestly the media was so much better than it is now

[@collinmosley9769]

just boiled down version of then.

[@SuperSoFlow]

"Our own ignorance is the thing that makes America great"...well there you have it

[@DoomKid]

It's so perfect!

[@movieman8199]

zappa is so cool

[@devilsoffspring5519]

Keith Richards is cool. Dexter Holland has his own unique kind of cool. Frank Zappa is bitter as hell and no matter who loved his music, he always came across as cranky as all fuck!

[@redunzel555]

Not only a genius in his music...

[@ArtFlunky]

20 seconds in and Frank looks like one of those portraits brought to life by AI.

[@dobietheterence]

Legend

[@chris7brook]

Zappa was heavy on the first amendment!

[@kotsaltan1578]

Вечная память Фрэнку!Я до сих пор слушаю твою музыку, мне 62 года. Санкт Петербург❤❤❤❤

[@Chryslerdude]

Lovely wise stuff from one of the most intelligent musicians ever, but volume needs to be "normalized" SO badly.. ;-)

[@nik4244]

You gotta get out more 😂😂

[@ScottIrwin-h1d]

Luuuuhhhhv this man!

[@David-h4z2s]

What a character he was 🎉

[@latexsolarbeef4990]

.....he could have said everything yesterday as it would make more sense than ever today...

[@clintstewart5545]

THANK YOU FOR SHARING

[@AReservoirDog]

1:41 Never related harder to a single sentence

[@jimmyblood3416]

I guess you don’t have anything better to do tonight HUH?

[@nickwalter1463]

What an insulting line to have someone on your show lead with, Christ Almighty. He obviously took it as such, and as always, made fun of it perfectly.

[@20smallcigars-fs7hl]

Quite fun listening to this one the eve of the 2024 US election.

[@LiberMedia_Podcast]

The one and only...

[@GordonCaledonia]

A one-man show by Frank would have been electrifying. Just FZ speaking his mind on stage, shown on TV. Fuck me, man, can you imagine what Frank would have made of this century so far? Having said, to paraphrase Hunter Thompson, it hasn't yet gotten weird enough for me...

[@wollaminfaetter]

Miss Frank. Thanks.

[@ERICNOTES12]

absolute genius

[@yewtube3503]

The candy coating has worn very thin.

[@limpusshrimpus9810]

14:58 thats all that really needs to be said

[@thomasbrown6527]

What's the song he composed about Michael Jackson?

[@deandalton8482]

"Why don't you like me" probably

[@-Finlander-]

Yes! From "Broadway The Hardway"

[@GordonCaledonia]

The song is called, "The Cracker Transformation of Indiana Gary".

[@LonnieLawless]

11:20 ... Oh Frank how the tides have turned.

[@DM-kv9kj]

Nope. This whole "woke" takeover of every industry has been a scam. it's not genuine liberalism, it's still the same blatantly rightwing billionaires who own all these corporations... snap out of it. "Woke" is a media branding developed by the right and big business to undermine liberalism. They've blocked real artists and craftspeople from being able to get work anymore and just manufacture junk with software and make blatantly ridiculous "content" and opinion movements via social media. Money see, monkey do, to some extent, but mainly it's the media creating and spinning out this entire circus. This is not liberalism, it's all been co-opted and undermined, and now the far right are making power grabs around the world with billionaires owning literally everything, including our personal information and lives down to the smallest details. Please get wise to what's going on, stop just mindlessly being strung along by this media operation like everyone else.

[@imaseeker100]

What is playing at 10:00??

[@deandalton8482]

Zappa covering Bolero by Ravel I believe

[@imaseeker100]

@@deandalton8482 That's it! Thanks.

[@urbanbader4113]

People out there he Frank Zappa was so much better ahead of most US citizen

[@ImHeadshotSniper]

2:49

[@tomrice8061]

Its funny how the political parties have reversed since then...

[@DM-kv9kj]

They haven't though, political parties are all one and the same circus. It's still right wing billionaires owning the media (many are still literally the same old men too like Murdoch...) and modern software and internet tech has now allowed them and corporations to completely dominate every single industry. They no longer need to bother seeking out, hiring and paying actual artists or craftspeople to make anything worthwhile anymore, they can just crank out anything they like (superficially of course) using software and dogsbody graduates on laptops. They've co-opted the music, movie and every other industry, created this whole "woke" braded media circus to undermine liberalism and spread endless confusion, misinformation and weird aggressive opinioneering via social media for the last 2 decades. It's ALL the same elites in charge of all of this, and political parties are just two sides of the same coin and have been since at least the late 70s. What's more concerning now than ever though is the sheer number of people, like yourself, utterly fooled by this whole play. You even still think the "Republican" party and the "Democrat" party are actually two separate entities with opposing views. They aren't. They're just a pretense of choice, both owned by the same multi-trillionaire families who literally OWN global financial institutions and all the giant corporations that equally run economies, now globally too. Please, for the love of god, snap out of it and read between the lines.

[@zappafrankie]

This man could have been a diplomat easily

[@snickpickle]

Umm, being he’s not a bakery and doesn’t sugarcoat stuff, I’m not sure how that would turn out…

[@DM-kv9kj]

Dude, diplomats are government agents who are trained and told what to do for the sake of government's agendas...their entire job is largely to lie and butter up foreign dignitaries and politicians. You don't know anything about anything.

[@ilikezappa3268]

4.10 Frank goes to work in his dressing gown, sparks up a cigarette. Jealous. I have to wear a tie and pretend to like people. I may have to apply for a job as a musical genius.......

[@Chudley716]

People can’t deal with someone intelligent who rejects all their conventional premises.

[@Dudebrush4pwood]

Fox News managed to expand that right wing radio maneuver to a truly grand scale. "Nice trick," indeed

[@oculartremors]

🤘

[@OnurYemisen]

1:58 Zappa: "I haven't heard any songs about incest" also Zappa :"Motherly Love"', Brown Shoes Don't Make It"

[@Samotbackwards]

Magdalena...

[@n.oneimportant5]

He indicated he never heard a song *advocating* incest.

[@jayarava]

Motherly love is about the Mothers of Invention fucking groupies. Take that off the list.

[@DM-kv9kj]

@@n.oneimportant5Sigh. Exactly. This is just more of the endless proof that the vast majority of people simply do.not.listen... people are thick, even Zappa fans. People just half listen to everything at best, especially these days, then twist and distort whatever they heard in their own minds before spewing it out to others in complete distortion. This is just some Zappa quote on a video a person literally just watched, so imagine this problem globally with voters and the operation of entire societies...well, we don't have to image do we, the results are there to see.

[@henksaenen1662]

imagine the panic on the face of the orange one if FZ was still around!

[@samizdat7258]

Why are we watching this? Nothing better to do ah?

[@HelenRundell]

As brilliant as he was, labeling the media as conservative belies his argument who the bad guys are. He is a rock star drunk on his own ego and doesn' t mind. He has made a nice bubble for himself but has an insulated view of what the American people know to be what is right and just. This from a huge fan of his prolific library...he and Carlin.

[@DoomKid]

Imagine thinking "conservative" (AKA right wing to the point of craziness) American governance isn't terrible, from both democrats and republicans, when in fact they're very much to blame for America being below about 15-20 other countries in happiness, livability, etc...

[@HelenRundell]

​@@DoomKidWere he around today, he might agree the intentionally induced right/left narrative a distraction from more substantive issues we as a culture have no control over.

[@ratsalad346]

Things were very different back then. His claims were correct *at the time*.

[@matiastoro1667]

Never realized Frank was so malthusian, makes sense being so cynical. Used to agree with that point of view, feels so hollow now.

[@clescell6587]

Not malthusian. Maybe more of a nihilist.. no... just a cynic.

[@rabnori4836]

❤

[@Jukau]

ahhh thats why make america great again makes sense

[@DM-kv9kj]

Not really. Trump is a billionaire...he's part of the elite. He's been infamously doing shadow business with Russian mafia since the 80s. He's part of this exact same smokescreen scam from the top, just a new reset of it. Zappa was literally talking about this exact same problem way back then. The media has been completely co-opted over the last 20 years, movie and music industries also infiltrated and dismantled from within. This "woke" branding is a media branding stirred up deliberately to make it seem like liberalism is taking over everything and is crazy. Now, the extreme right are making their power grabs throughout the world having used this as their excuse and to drum up support.

[@waltgzerod5565]

I wish Frank would have lived longer. Or suffered less, anyway. But I would like to hear his wisdom regarding our Political Plight today!! I'm sure he'd have some choice werds for a certain Felonious Traitor & Billionaire!! And Biden, too.

[@gmc1966]

Dude get help for your TDS

[@alistairdunnington]

7:45

[@richinoable]

11:00... Fox and maga, decades later got it down

[@gmc1966]

Turns out McCarthy was right though Much as I love FZ,he was wrong about a few things, everything has flipped and inverted anyway

[@DoomKid]

The only way to think McCarthy is right is to have not been paying attention, while getting your news from very slanted sources.

[@RisitasKEKW]

Nothin better to do Augh?

[@DoomKid]

I'm dumb, I somehow missed the very START of this video.

[@CVGuitar]

I love all the nutjobs in the comments trashing Frank -- maybe you all should go watch some Jimmy Swaggart or Jim Bakker or Billy Graham or Pat Robertson videos instead

[@DoomKid]

Exactly!

[@erikiskandermeon9999]

pwned @03:47

[@augustusbetucius2931]

Ironic how he spoke about how people had become comfortable with lying, when he was constantly having affairs with other women. I suppose I have to consider that he didn't lie about it, he was open about it. I love Zappa, I have forty plus of his CDs, and a huge amount of vinyl, but I recognize he was a very flawed person. I understand his cynicism, but his view was very one sided.

[@DanChad-er9lh]

Sorry to say I don’t think Frank was a big fan of the United States as an arbiter of right and wrong .

[@donaldquirk7801]

I always wondered if he was really that political or if he thought that's what sells? One minute he sounds like a libertarian and the next he is talking about nationalism outside of the US, weird.

[@bshhhhhhh]

he criticized the left and right. but opposed a lot of right wing politics due to censorship. he was heavy on the first ammendmant

[@stevemineer2857]

@@bshhhhhhhYet it was Tipper Gore and her liberal friends that lead the way with the PMRC. He tagged Christians as the ones trying to censor everything because he hated Christianity.

[@Perasaclip]

Zappatist

[@benstolz6503]

You oughta get out more.

[@alvogeljr]

10:49 right wing was in charge of media up until what year? Obama era? It’s all left wing now

[@deandalton8482]

no it ain't. What Frank says is still true. Both parties are right wing

[@DoomKid]

Imagine thinking the incredibly pro military democrats, who largely threw minorities under the bus in their latest run, aren't center-right. LOL..

[@johnnyb8250]

The continuing truth in Zappa's observations always triggers defensive outbursts and parroted taking points from right-wingers with zero sense of comprehension or irony, as expected.

[@augustusbetucius2931]

And yet some right wingers have tried to claim him for their own in recent years. Anyone familiar with his work or thinking knows this isn't true. Now, with Moon's book, she has confirmed it. She mentions how Frank and Gail were almost violently opposed to anyone in the family voting Republican.

[@DoomKid]

@@augustusbetucius2931 Even then, you'll get people being like "b- but 80's republicans were bad, now Trump good!! Frank would like him!!" And actual FZ fans roll their eyes, of course...

[@David-h4z2s]

He's being a bit disrespectful to the American public,

[@DoomKid]

Rightly so, why respect a group who are themselves very ignorant and disrespectful..

[@jericoenergy]

He speaks as if there is an absolute morality. He is right, while rejecting it. He declares sin (violation of the perfect law) while promoting it. He thinks he is god. Too bad for him.

[@slasamsara]

too bad for you, didn't get anything..

[@DoomKid]

He quite literally does not speak as though there is an absolute morality. You just made that up only to tear it down. One can have strong opinions while still not believing them to be "absolute" in any sense. Your comment is skits.

[@susanbishop5349]

He is never “funny”. He is sarcastic, he hates people, he thinks and perhaps he was of superior intelligence to most people. I feel sorry for his children. I don’t think he was capable of love. He did make some incredibly amazing music

[@susanbishop5349]

And Gail was no more capable of loving her children than he was. I’m surprised any of them survived.

[@DoomKid]

Frank was absolutely hilarious in song form numerous times.

[@flykaster13]

Frank would have voted for Trump

[@deandalton8482]

Not a chance

[@pieropasset2246]

No

[@ratsalad346]

I doubt it. Frank would have gone 3rd party after the last twenty years.

[@russelmurray9268]

And he cheated on his wife

[@DoomKid]

A famous rock guy cheated on his wife (although they still loved eachother and stayed together)?? Holy crap, that's a world shaking revelation

[@DM-kv9kj]

Women cheat on their partners all the time too. People are human...my gf cheated on me after a year apart in different countries. I understood, forgave her because she was obviously very sorry about it and it in fact strengthened our relationship. Welcome to life, no human being is some paragon of virtue perfection, accept it and you'll understand life, yourself and others a lot better and be a far more understanding and caring person.

[@bonnie43uk]

@@DM-kv9kj exactly, i hope Frank enjoyed his sex life with as many women as he wanted, he was a musical genius. Sex is one of lifes many pleasures.

[@KeepingOurBalance]

Yeah sorry guys let me un cheat real quick.

[@Stuhr-w8j]

A serious candidate for most annoying person ever lived

[@DM-kv9kj]

Yeah, it's so annoying when anyone tries to talk about reality and actual issues. It makes me feel scared and confused, so instead of facing reality, learning, growing up properly and making some kind of effort to do my bit for the betterment of society...I just convert all that confusion and fear into hate and annoyance at the person talking about it.

[@ratsalad346]

Maybe "Tiny is as tiny do" hit a nerve?

[@lloydwright8977]

Like to hear his thoughts on todays carnage

[@stevemineer2857]

Why? He was wrong about so much. Listen to his nonsense around 12:00 about the media. He was too dumb to know the CIA has been controlling the media for decades while blaming so called right wingers.

[@jayarava]

It wouldn't help. He was saying it all back then and America still ended up voting for Trump. Trump will be President again and the USA will cease to be a functioning democracy. Probably best that FZ didn't witness that.

[@theodery2712]

Now in late 2024, Franks words are more accurate and prescient the ever. About the media, dictatorship, the religious right, he had nailed it decades ago. A huge fan of both his music and wisdom.