There were clips of Frank on David Brenner's show in my FB zappa fan groups. Probably discussing rating rock records, Frank said; "So what? Sex is good for yah!"
Frank loved and enjoyed sex, which embarrassed poor daughter Moon cuz of Dad's appreciation and consumption of groupies.
And Frank and Europe always had a mutual appreciation. He's always been a bigger rock star over there than here. Which is ironic, because at his core frank was very patriotic towards the ideals America was founded on. One of which was freedom and he was actually a historical cog in the gears that led to the Velvet Revolution in Eastern Europe in the late 80's. To the "underground" trying to shed oppression, Franks music was a beacon of the American spirit of freedom, which Frank pretty much completely owns.
-90% Jimmy
cut n paste from http://www.afka.net/articles/1990-05_Billboard_1.htm
Billboard: And you met with Czechoslovakian president Vaclav Havel. What did he say?
Zappa: He said that he likes my records, especially the one that I did with Capt. Beefheart.
Billboard: Your records were never distributed in these countries.
Zappa: No, they've always been illegal. Also, the people that purchased them, or acquired them, or even possessed transcripts of the lyrics were beaten by the secret police. On one of the occasions, when we were doing kind of a question-and-answer thing in a club in Prague, there were two guys who said that they had been grabbed by the secret police and before they were beaten, the guy said, "We are now going to beat the Zappa music out of you." And nobody in the audience seemed too surprised about it, because apparently it has happened to a lot of people.
And then there was another statement that was made in Czech by one of the guys in the audience at that same time and I had it translated. And what it said was that when the secret police would arrest you, they would question you and the two biggest enemies of the state at that time – which apparently was the '70s – were Jimmy Carter and Frank Zappa. And I'm going, "What the fuck am I hearing here?"
And then NPR ran a little thing in the middle of the week – an interview with an East German guy who talked about how if you owned one of my records in East Germany your phone got tapped and they followed you around. So, let's ask ourselves this question: If I'm such a menace to those kinds of systems, then why in the fuck aren't they playing my records on the air in the Land Of The Free and The Home Of The Brave? Could it be that there's not much difference between one authoritarian regime and another?
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