None of us have the promise of tomorrow, God forbid this is my last day on this beautiful earth, it won’t be spent listening to some news person telling me how rotten we are, how rotten life is, heck no, I’m going out and seeing how beautiful life is. As humans, our time on this planet is very limited…
Turn off, tune out and turn on your life.
Peace.
Frank Zappa
Thank you to our “East Coast Correspondent” who found this on WRNR’s Facebook page …
He understood the big picture way better than most people, even starting his own indie label for his own music long before that became common.
Source: A Conversation with Zappa, Vol. 1 « American Songwriter
John and Yoko release their part-live, part-studio album on June 12, 1972. One of the live performances featured includes some back-up musicians of note: Eric Clapton, George Harrison and Nicky Hopkins. Frank Zappa was in support on one of the other live performances.
June 6, 1971 ~ John Lennon takes the stage for the first time since ’69 when he and Yoko join Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at The Fillmore East …
Frank Zappa and The Mothers were in Montreux, Switzerland on December 4, ’72, playing the Montreux Casino when “some stupid with a flare gun” burned the place down. Also there were Deep Purple, working on their masterpiece, recording it on a mobile studio owned by The Rolling Stones.
Machine Head is released on March 31, 1972.
The third album from the Mothers of Invention took a swing at just about everyone — the hippie culture, the Beatles’ Sgt. Peppers album, left-wingers, right-wingers — and, it’s #297 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
To celebrate what would have been Frank Zappa’s 79th birthday, dive into three videos from Zappa’s landmark 1974 concert special ‘A Token Of His Extreme.’
Source: Happy Birthday Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme
b. December 21, 1940
August 10, 1982 ~ Frank and Moon rock Late Night with Letterman. Frank at his best, a 14 year-old Moon sounding like a show biz veteran and Letterman being — well — Letterman.
Frank Zappa and The Mothers record the live album on August 7, 1971 in Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles. It includes “Billy the Mountain”, Zappa’s long, narrative parody of rock operas, which were gaining popularity at that time. Dig the cover art …
