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Само да поправя, че всъщност Слонимски свири със Запа на 11.12.1981 - Santa Monica - /Early Show/ - парчето е Pound for a brown подробности тук: http://www.arf.ru/Notes/Ship/tpros.html

Продължаваме темата отново със Запа, докато не се направи нова само за него The concept of the rock-guitar solo in the eightees has pretty much been reduced to: Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then, you get a big ovation while the the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around!" Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them in the ass. Washington, D.C.: a city infested with statues -- and Congressional Blow-Boys who WISH they were statues. The real question is: Is it possible to laugh while fucking?" Interviewer: "So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?" Frank Zappa: "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?" Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. Politics is the showbiz of industry. Never stop until your good becomes better, and your better becomes the best. Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. Повечето рок журналисти са хора не могат да пишат, интервюират хора, които не могат да говорят, за хора, които не могат да четат.

Интервю със Франк Запа - 1984г. B.B King? I don't like B.B. I saw him on television before I went on this tour and he was still blue. Keith Richard? I don't know anything about Keith Richard. Jimi Hendrix? I knew Jimi and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who shouldn't use drugs. John McLaughlin? I met John. I think he's a great guitar player and I think that he's probably done a lot to educate American audiences to some aspects of Eastern music that they wouldn't have come into contact with before. We did a tour with McLaughlin and old Mahavishnu, we did 11 concerts with them. Lowell George? There's another guy who shouldn't use drugs. Eric Clapton? I know Eric, I haven't seen him in years and years. There's another guy who shouldn't use drugs. Jeff Beck? One of my favorite guitar players on the planet. From a melodic standpoint and just in terms of the conception of what he plays, he's fabulous. I like Jeff. Rory Gallagher? We worked 2 jobs with Rory Gallagher on this tour and, uh, ... [long pause] ... he's still playing the blues. Jimmy Page? I don't know anything about Jimmy Page. Peter Green? I don't know him either. Jerry Garcia? We did one concert with Garcia on this tour but we were the opening act and I didn't see any of his set. Pete Townshend? I've met Pete but I don't know what I can say about his guitar playing. Robert Fripp? I've never heard of Robert Fripp. Ritchie Blackmore? I have met Ritchie too, and ... I'm not really familiar with the work of these people because you have to understand I'm not a pop consumer and I don't listen to a lot of these. [What do you listen to?] Well, what I do is I take cassettes with me on the road because sometimes you're sitting in the hotel room and you just want to listen to something, but what I take is not rock and roll. I like Chopin, I have Purcell, I have Webern, I have Varèse, I have Bulgarian music. I don't listen to Rock and roll. Yes, um, Carlos Santana? We worked with Carlos Santana on Cologne in 1980 or 81 and it was a similar situation. We did two shows at the sport palace in Cologne. They opened the first show, we closed it. Then we opened the second show and they closed it so I never heard him play. As you said you don't listen to popular music so I don't expect you know Eddie Van Halen. I do know Eddie. He comes over to the house because he hangs out with my son. I see. But do you know him as a guitar player? Oh yeah. He and my son play together and he's fabulous, but there's another guy who shouldn't use drugs. I presume you don't know The Edge – from U2? The Edge? Yeah. No.