Director Alex Winter, who played Bill in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, has realized his dream of preserving the very precious memory of the late, greatly missed Frank Zappa. The result of all Winter’s hard work is a definitive documentary about Zappa’s life appropriately entitled Zappa. The film focuses on…
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A 1967 Animated Luden’s Cough Drops Television Ad Featuring a Unique Soundtrack Created by Frank Zappa
Artist Ed Seeman posted the award-winning 1967 television ad for Luden’s Cough Drops, which featured his own brilliant animation and a unique soundtrack created by a young Frank Zappa. Seeman had hired Zappa to do the work and the two became friends. In 1967 I hired frank zappa for $2,000…
A Pensive Frank Zappa Jams Onstage With Pink Floyd at a Belgian Music Festival in 1969
During the 1969 Festival Actuel in Mont-de-l’Enclus, Belgium, a very pensive, straight-faced Frank Zappa joined Pink Floyd onstage to perform a loose, somewhat directionless version of “Interstellar Overdrive”. Years later, Zappa told a reporter that he didn’t know what he was getting into with this gig at the time. “That…
Frank Zappa Warns How Censorship Will Lead to an Encroaching Fascist Theocracy on ‘Crossfire’ in 1986
On an incredibly prescient 1986 episode of Crossfire, the late, great Frank Zappa sat down with hosts Robert Novack (on the left) and Tom Braden (on the right) to talk about censorship and his testimonial before the United States Senate Commerce, Technology, and Transportation committee in regard to actions taken…
Alex Winter Launches a Kickstarter Campaign to Preserve the Memory of Musician Frank Zappa
Director Alex Winter (who played Bill in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure) is currently raising funds through Kickstarter in order to preserve the very precious memory of the incredible Frank Zappa. If enough money is raised, Winter plans to make a definitive documentary about Zappa’s life, share the unreleased materials…
The Late Great Frank Zappa Talks About Why He Left New York for Los Angeles in a Lost 1971 Interview
In the latest episode of the wonderfully animated lost interview series “Blank on Blank“, the late, great musical genius Frank Zappa spoke the American inanity of fads, why women were never in his band and why he left New York City for Los Angeles in a 1971 interview with Howard…
How Perceived Heavy Metal Music Excesses Led to the Implementation of Parental Advisory Stickers
In a really informative episode of the Vox series Earworm, video producer and host Estelle Caswell explains the history behind the “Parental Advisory Explicit Content” stickers found on albums, cassette tapes and CDs. These warning labels were implemented in 1985 by the rather innocuous sounding Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC)…
Japanese Klezmer Band Plays a Rousing Rendition of the Frank Zappa Jazz Instrumental ‘Peaches En Regalia’
In June of this year, the Japanese Klezmer band Jinta-la-Mvta performed an incredibly rousing version of the Frank Zappa jazz instrumental “Peaches En Regalia” for KulturfestNYC, a a week-long festival of Jewish performing arts produced by The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. On June 15, 2015 Japanese Klezmer band Jinta-la-Mvta played…
