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Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, recording engineer, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical composers such as Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern along with 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands… more »

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Frank zappa (lead guitar, vocals)
Ike willis (rhythm guitar, vocals)
Ray white (rhythm guitar, vocals)
Steve vai (rhythm guitar, vocals)
Warren cucurullo (rhythm guitar, vocals)
Denny walley (slide guitar, vocals)
Tommy mars (keyboards, vocals)
Peter wolf (keyboards)
Bob harris (keyboards, trumpet, vocals)
Ed mann (percussion)
Arthur barrow (bass, vocals)
Vinnie colaiuta (drums)

Fz:
"one of, one of the things that I like best about playing in new york is this particular place, because it has - it has a stage that is conducive to, how you say in the trade, audience part
Tion. now if there's one thing that I really like, it's, uh, audience participation. now listen... I gotta figure out something that I can, uh - do you think we should have another dance contest
Ght? oh, hey - the injured person dance contest. ah, well, let's see...awright, I'll tell you what we're going to do. here's a, here's a guy who really wants to be in the dance contest aw-reety,
Ighty, hey. okay..."

Butch:
"you are great, man - you are great. you are the best, baby. do 'dinah-moe humm.'"

Fz:
"all right, now wait a minute - what's your name? hey, hey - what's your name? "

Butch:
"butch."

Fz:
"awright, the dynamic butch. here's, here's a girl that wants to dance with butch. what's your name? "

Lena:
"lena."

Fz:
"what? "

Lena:
"lena."

Fz:
"lena, meet butch. okay, lena and butch, couple number one. heh heh. okay, let's see - that guy there, with his...that - that one there with the teeshirt on - no, no, the other one - this o
No, no - no no no, wait a minute, wait... well, you're - actually, you're very nice, though. would you like to come up here? ...okay, but d'you think you can behave yourself? you, you're sure yo
Behave yourself? ...okay, what's your name? "

Guy:
"tom, man. (mumble, mumble) you, baby, I (mumble, mumble)(gurgle) you (mumble, mmf, etc.)."

Guy:
"arrgh, mmmf, glurg, etc."

Fz:
"awright, now wait a minute. awright, awright, now wait..."

Guy:
"(mumble, mmf.) ugliness! ugliness!"

Other guy:
"frank, you're my buddy! arrgh, mmf."

Fz:
"awright, wait a minute, wait a minute. I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. if you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful, I just
To tell you somethin' - there's more of us ugly mother-fuckers than you are, hey-why, so watch out. now..."

Guy (butch? ):
"will you bring my girlfriend on stage, maybe? "

Fz:
"sure. all right, now you - he wants to get his girlfriend - go get your girlfriend."

Girl:
"hey zap!"

Fz:
"good to see you again."

Girl:
"squeak!"

Fz:
"I know."

Guy:
"I ain't no fucking queer."

Fz:
"all right, now look, here's what we're going to do. awright. now. this - they'll be mashed, I'll save them, I'll save them for later."

Guy:
"I'm not a fucking queer."

Fz:
"this man is trying desperately to let everybody know that he's not a queer. he's not queer, he's not queer. awright, and now... you are going to dance, like you've never danced before...&q

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