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Una delle ultime interviste a Frank Zappa. Era il 1993, quin di pochi mesi prima di scomparire dalla faccia della terra. L'intervistatrice gli pone domande sul cancro, poi gli chiede per che cosa vorrebbe essere ricordato. La risposta ascolatela da soli perché è lì che si riconosce tutto il genio e la sua grandezza.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDYzuwG-gOE&NR=1
24/08/2008 16.35.21Letto 419 volte
RE: ZappathR
un riassunto con stile per chi ha il 56k? :|
24/08/2008 19.05.58
RE: ZappaJoe Delirio
bellissima e tristissima al tempo stesso!
@ thR: Frank dice di fregartene se hai solo 56k e che non è importante che tu ti ricordi di lui, sono altri quelli che nel mondo sono costantemente impegnati nelle peggiori nefandezze pur di essere ricordati dai posteri.
25/08/2008 17.40.02
RE: ZappaApril
Today Show (NBC, May 14, 1993)
Jamie Gangel: You had an extraordinary reaction, I mean, 20 minutes standing ovation, of course the nights that you were there, and when not there.
FZ: Yeah.
Jamie Gangel: How do you feel about that?
FZ: Well, as I said to you a little earlier, there is no accounting for taste.
Jamie Gangel: Oh, come on. You must have been thrilled.
FZ: I was sick. So I started to be truly thrilled, but I was, I was happier that they did that rather than throw things onto stage.
Jamie Gangel: (...) so you've been doing everything like playing a bicycle, to using your (...) burping. What's behind all of the different use of sounds?
FZ: Well, basically sounds are for listening to, and composition is the act of organizing sounds. The challenge of collecting and organizing unusual sounds along with the ordinary musical sounds is something that I enjoy doing.
Jamie Gangel: This days Zappa's favorite instrument is the Synclavier, a computerized keyboard that stores thousands of sounds.
Jamie Gangel: (...) ask how much of this is for the sound and how much of it is for the humor.
FZ: Both. You know I think it, sort of go there as entertainment.
Jamie Gangel: You have made a career out of making fun of everybody, gays, Jewish (...) princesses, and you have taken a lot of heat for it. Does it bother you at all?
FZ: No. I'm totally unrepentant.
Jamie Gangel: Is there anything you (...) you were sorry for something you said?
FZ: No.
Jamie Gangel: A lot of performers do things that are shocking or might be considered obscenity or pornography, but you get singled out a lot, I think. You have any idea why?
FZ: 'Cause I'm ugly.
Jamie Gangel: Oh, stop.
FZ: Well, you know that in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he's capable of anything.
Jamie Gangel: For the two people who might not remember, it wasn't too long ago that on Capitol Hill, as we say in Washington, you had frank and (...) discussions on the issue of record labelling with one Tipper Gore. Did it make you feel better about her when it was revealed during the campaign that she was a drummer in an all-girl band, The Wildcats, (...)?
FZ: No, I didn't ever heard that one, but I can . . .
Jamie Gangel: You didn't know that?
FZ: No.
Jamie Gangel: She's got a new set of drums for Christmas this year.
FZ: Pfff . . . Oh, ho ho ho, ha ha ha . . . That one day I wasn't watching the news . . . ha ha ha . . .
Jamie Gangel: Then does that give you a new feeling for her?
FZ: Yeah, I've got a respect on 'em now.
Jamie Gangel: Have you heard from them since that?
FZ: Well, when it was revealed that I was sick, I got a nice letter from the Gores.
Jamie Gangel: You're a legendary workaholic for . . .
FZ: Not anymore.
Jamie Gangel: Not anymore. Tell me.
FZ: Well, basically on a good day I go 9:30 to 6:30.
Jamie Gangel: It really slowed you down.
FZ: Yeah.
Jamie Gangel: Has being sick affected your music, what kind of music you're writing?
FZ: No. Well, I don't do vocals.
Jamie Gangel: Can you tell me a little bit about how you've been doing?
FZ: Fair.
Jamie Gangel: Fair.
FZ: Yeah. Good days, bad days.
Jamie Gangel: More bad days than good days?
FZ: Yeah.
Jamie Gangel: I gather that your (...) was not cut early.
FZ: That's right.
Jamie Gangel: Is there anything that you want to say to people about prostate cancer?
FZ: Well, I think that it's worthwhile being examined to find out whether or not you've got it, but then on the other hand, for over a period of years I had urinary problems and was examined and they didn't find it. And so, that's why it came as such a shock to me when they told me that I had it, because I had urinary problems for a number of years. And you can imagine how irate a person might be when you are informed that, "Yeah, you've got it, and we can't operate on it." So, yeah, go had a test. But, get another test. Get a few tests.
Jamie Gangel: Now, I know you're gonna say I'm one of this health police people, but . . .
FZ: Go ahead.
Jamie Gangel: I can't help but sit here and, you have cancer, and you're smoking cigarettes. I ask, didn't it discourage you at all?
FZ: No.
Jamie Gangel: Why not?
FZ: Because I don't believe that all the stories about the evil effects of tobacco are true. I would say, to me a cigarette is food. Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.
Jamie Gangel: And drugs are . . .
FZ: Usually I say that the taking of drugs is a license to be an asshole which is the same reason why people drink.
Jamie Gangel: Let me go through a list of words that whenever you read about Frank Zappa, you hear them. Tell me how they strike you. Rock legend.
FZ: That's pathetic.
Jamie Gangel: Test pilot pushing the edge.
FZ: That's . . .
Jamie Gangel: Don't you like that one a little bit?
FZ: No.
Jamie Gangel: No?
FZ: No. It's more of it too, it got that military aroma to it.
Jamie Gangel: Eccentric genius.
FZ: Eccentric, yes. Genius, maybe.
Jamie Gangel: Funny guy.
FZ: Only to a few.
Jamie Gangel: Here is a classic, and you know exactly what it is, and that is, how does Frank Zappa want to be remembered?
FZ:It's not important.
Jamie Gangel: Not important at all? [FZ says no with the head] Don't want to be remembered for the music?
FZ: It's not important even being remembered. I mean, the people worried about being remembered are guys like Reagan, Bush, these people want to be remembered, and they spend a lot of money and do a lot of work to make sure that rememberence is just terrific.
Jamie Gangel: And for Frank Zappa . . .
FZ: I don't care.
Jamie Gangel: Despite his health and the fact he says he has slow down, his classical concert Yellow Shark would be release this summer, and next year in Vienna, a Frank Zappa opera will have its world premiere.
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Alcuni commenti su questa intervista:
incurable11
He was a prophet and a martyr. Greens quote "It's tough.....when she asks him "How do you want to be remembered," it's like she's saying to him "You will be dead soon." I think it's borderline bad taste for her to ask that right after asking about the cancer."
I couldnt have put it better myself RIGHT
ed00d
WHAT A BITCH! I hope she has more than a few sleepless nights every odd week... How can one be so condescending to another person? :(
Frank was great though.
Axeman89
He is a true role model, extremely modest and a permanent asset to music itself, god bless you frank you were too good for this world..
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Vi consiglio di ascoltare questa intervista. Non solo il tono di voce di Frank Zappa è molto bello, ma anche le pause, le risatine, ecc... Una persona geniale che aveva capito tutto, di estrema sensibilità. Giudizio sull'intervistatrice e sulle sue domande: no comment, non ci spreco neanche mezzo secondo.
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Per chi ha qualche altro minuto di tempo libero, segnalo i seguenti link che ancora devo leggere:
http://www.nazioneindiana.com/2008/08/24/epitaffi/
http://www.liberazione.it/a_giornale_index.php?DataPubb=19/08/2008
poi selezionare la pag. 12
25/08/2008 22.45.30
RE: ZappaApril
Anche questo articolo è carino. Mi ha fatto molto divertire l'inizio: "Curo e coltivo i miei odi con l’accanimento e la devozione d’un giardiniere tenace ed appassionato. Ogni tanto, poi, me li ripasso scrupolosamente uno ad uno; li rimedito e li rivivo, scandendo al ralenti tutti i passaggi, indugiando su dettagli e frammenti. Tutti fondanti, tutti necessari."
In questi ultimi anni non penso di aver coltivato risentimenti, o almeno risentimenti veri. Speriamo di non iniziare/riniziare.
http://www.nazioneindiana.com/2008/06/27/elogio-del-risentimento/
25/08/2008 23.05.38
RE: ZappaMarco
April sei una manna caduta sulla terra.
Yeah!
26/08/2008 0.06.40
RE: ZappathR
grazie mille davvero, april. me lo copio e me lo leggerò quanto prima.
26/08/2008 21.48.00
