I miss Frank Zappa so much & the music industry is'nt the same since he passed away. Frank was a true musicial genius & a great guitarist too. The world needs Frank now more than ever.
WE who were old enough to appreciate Frank when Freak Out was released and saw him on many occasions afterward are very lucky. He's a true touchstone of ours. He created some of the most amazing music ever played and recorded. Thanks Frank!
@@CpLKaNeZA Yes. One memorable one is at Stanford on Homecoming Day 1980 something. We are all inside the auditorium, most of us on psychedelics and the infamous Stanford Marching Band could be heard playing outside the auditorium marching around the building. Soon, they came inside still playing..something..and stopped in front of the stage facing the audience. Slowly, some of Frank's band came onstage and started to play along with the Stanford Band..eventually the whole band came out...the place is going nuts. Then the Stanford band slowly left..still playing...and Frank's band continued to play an amazing evening of music. I'd love to hear a tape of that.
I got to see Frank 3 or 4 times but one was at a supper club, believe it or not, in Denver in the early 80s. A place called Turn Of The Century. I was about 18, I think. Sat at a table in this very small venue and ate and got my ass handed to me by FZ and his band at the time. After the show it wasn't hard to find the backstage area, so l went there and there was like, one guy and his girlfriend...and everybody in Frank's band. So l am there and these guys are so fucking cool, especially Ray White and Ike Willis. I had to do Thing-Fish patois with Ike...obviously. I had to. And FZ comes out the stage door not too far away, and l asked him to come over so l could say hello. While brusquely walking away he said "You're already in capable hands", or something to that effect. A great, great night. Doing Thing-Fish-speak with Ike Willis is one happy moment.
You wanna talk about prescient? Dan Rowan on Laugh-In in the News if the Future segment predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall would happen in 1989. Google it if you think I'm kidding.
@@francisjo3 the wall fell the next year and he was almost correct.. Caterpillar and Komatsu construction equipment tore it down...and the art community turned wall remains into art and sold it at a premium. The Scorpions made millions off a song about it. Capitalism used the falling of the Berlin wall to make profit
Frank Zappa was a true national treasure. And, he was right about the Berlin Wall coming down, and the political pageantry surrounding it. The wall came down on November 9, 1989, one year and four months after this interview. How else would he have known, if he was not involved?
I don’t care about the haters, as a Howard stern die hard, I still think Jay is still pretty cool and chats with Frank pretty well. Jays easy to mock. That’s all it is. He’s still pretty good at what he does
In 10 years you'll look back and think of this moment and say those were the good old days . This moment now is the only good one there is, the old days are gone forever and the new days are never promised
@@lucasoheyze4597yeah, there’s zero conspiracy here, lol. Nobody who smoked as much as Frank is gonna get away without cancer at some point in their life (and I say that as a huge huge fan.)
@@TundieRice Yes he was saying it's just like a vegetable But the tobacco industry kept their lying secret far too long American cigarettes are the worst with all chemicals they put in just like their food too
I wish I could hear what the audience member said at the end of the show when Jay is announcing upcoming guests, right before he says Connie chung. He plays it off but I wonder...
James Douglas Muir Leno (New Rochelle, 28 de abril de 1950), conocido como Jay Leno, es un presentador de televisión y humorista satírico estadounidense. Fue el presentador del histórico programa The Tonight Show de la cadena NBC, entre 1992 y 2014, sucediendo en el puesto a Johnny Carson y entregándole el puesto a Jimmy Fallon. Tiene en su haber un Premio Emmy.
Frank had a good time with Jay. He seemed in good spirits despite "The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life" was on the verge of disintegrating. Still sad they didn't make it to the west coast.
He genuinely seemed to like Jay, and they obviously had some nice positive history with each other, which is something you definitely can’t say about *all* of the people who interviewed Frank.
Who was the Tonight Show bandleader at that time? Sal Marquez was in the Tonight Show Band at one point. I remember when Jodie Foster called out to him, and said Sal was her trumpet teacher.
Frank was an absolutely brilliant man, and how interesting that he was speaking about the dismantling of The Berlin Wall, about a year before it actually occurred!! So sad that he died from Prostate Cancer at age 58...... the same age of Gerge Harrison's death...... :(. However, "Genius without being surrendered to Jesus" leads only to "Genius Despair...." Selah. (Think about it....). Ted Schempp, Nashville
Frank Vincent Zappa (Baltimore, Maryland; 21 de diciembre de 1940-Los Ángeles, California; 4 de diciembre de 1993) fue un compositor, guitarrista, cantante, productor discográfico y director de cine estadounidense. Con una carrera de más de treinta años, Zappa compuso rock, jazz, blues, electrónica, música artística y música concreta, entre otros. También trabajó como director de cine y de videoclips, y diseñó portadas de álbumes. Además, se encargó de la producción de los más de sesenta álbumes que grabó con The Mothers of Invention y en solitario.
@@Jack-nu4un Why not talk about his clothes? Frank's clothes were notoriously un-fashionable and thrown together. Here he was quite sleek. I don't know who was responsible for that.
@@mikekrause3671 More than most musicians and composers, it's not just about the music because he himself was such an enigmatic character, and it's fascinating looking at what made him tick.
Unless you have trouble sleeping and you can't count sheep so you have to do the next best thing....watch jay leno and your out like a light.@neiljohnson7914
"the people are not coming into the West side, there's unemployment there" Uh, well at least he knew that capitalism was better than communism however, apparently he did not think those enslaved by communism were aware of this fact.
@@martinlynch6764 I honestly do not know. I mean I cannot fathom anything beyond indifference. He's like sugar cookies. Sugar cookies are nobody's favorite cookie, but why would you hate them?
I miss Frank Zappa so much & the music industry is'nt the same since he passed away. Frank was a true musicial genius & a great guitarist too. The world needs Frank now more than ever.
this is why i love frank zappa!
WE who were old enough to appreciate Frank when Freak Out was released and saw him on many occasions afterward are very lucky. He's a true touchstone of ours. He created some of the most amazing music ever played and recorded. Thanks Frank!
Got any unique Zappa and co. stories by any chance? Did you attend any of Zappa's live performances? Would be an honor to hear anything at all 🙏🙏
@@CpLKaNeZA Yes. One memorable one is at Stanford on Homecoming Day 1980 something. We are all inside the auditorium, most of us on psychedelics and the infamous Stanford Marching Band could be heard playing outside the auditorium marching around the building. Soon, they came inside still playing..something..and stopped in front of the stage facing the audience. Slowly, some of Frank's band came onstage and started to play along with the Stanford Band..eventually the whole band came out...the place is going nuts. Then the Stanford band slowly left..still playing...and Frank's band continued to play an amazing evening of music. I'd love to hear a tape of that.
@@namcat53 they used to meet his plane all the time, when he came to town. playing 'joe's garage'
I got to see Frank 3 or 4 times but one was at a supper club, believe it or not, in Denver in the early 80s. A place called Turn Of The Century. I was about 18, I think. Sat at a table in this very small venue and ate and got my ass handed to me by FZ and his band at the time.
After the show it wasn't hard to find the backstage area, so l went there and there was like, one guy and his girlfriend...and everybody in Frank's band. So l am there and these guys are so fucking cool, especially Ray White and Ike Willis. I had to do Thing-Fish patois with Ike...obviously. I had to. And FZ comes out the stage door not too far away, and l asked him to come over so l could say hello. While brusquely walking away he said "You're already in capable hands", or something to that effect. A great, great night. Doing Thing-Fish-speak with Ike Willis is one happy moment.
"An' how menny y'all think my potato been bakin' too long? Raise yo' misable hain up!"
It is a shame Frank is gone. He would have been a great president.
Frank would have never done nothing like that
@@RedGarnett-n2p So you are saying he would have done something like that?
@@Rupert14 no I don't think Frank would have ever wanted to been the president and you do know he was an old-school Kennedy Democrat right
Thank your master for us.
I met Jay twice during the pre show taping of Tonight. A very nice guy.
I met him to but in my case he called me the n word even tho I’m Mexican
Jay Leno was probably the only guy that made Zappa smile and grin on live television. I've barely seen Zappa smile.
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You’re so full of it, it’s not funny.
Stop pretending that you’re into Frank Zappa.
@@nkmcfrln He smiled on all the talk shows I ever saw him on. And on the Steve Allen show with his "Bicycle"
I like how Leno introduced Frank - a national treasure.
story behind that... inside joke.
Wish he was around now....man with balls
Wow, talk about prescient. The following year the wall did come down.
I had to look it up. The Brandenburg Gate opened in December 1989, while the wall was physically demolished in 1990.
@@marrrtin 9 November 1989 is the crucial date. I have a piece of the wall on my desk
@@NickDuvet neat!
You wanna talk about prescient? Dan Rowan on Laugh-In in the News if the Future segment predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall would happen in 1989. Google it if you think I'm kidding.
Frank was like, "ix-nay on the 'end of the European tour'"!
Absurdly ahead of his time. He predicted the Berlin Wall fall
I miss Frank
You can count me in that bunch.
..everyone does..Carlin and Frank would be so disappointed..and rippin' new ones daily..
@@latexsolarbeef4990 Can you imagine a Zappa/Carlin presidential ticket? Not so far-fetched here in 2023....
Aside from their being dead, of course.
Frank's idea was actually very good.
Imagine how beautiful the peace pyramid would have been!
@@francisjo3 the wall fell the next year and he was almost correct.. Caterpillar and Komatsu construction equipment tore it down...and the art community turned wall remains into art and sold it at a premium. The Scorpions made millions off a song about it. Capitalism used the falling of the Berlin wall to make profit
that's kind of brilliant
Frank Zappa was a true national treasure. And, he was right about the Berlin Wall coming down, and the political pageantry surrounding it. The wall came down on November 9, 1989, one year and four months after this interview. How else would he have known, if he was not involved?
FZ’s wall idea happened, for the most part.
Amazing. How did he know
seventeen months later the Berlin Wall fell
He knew before we did, in our stupidity
Mid 80s he was talking about nefarious biolabs.
Man, the size of Leno's head.
"Please, don't blame Conan."
More like a container for a head. 🥴😝
Tall hair
His was the inspiration for Easter Island!
@@David-dg5ty Pisser, that is funny bro.
Thanks again. This is great.
You're welcome.
Thanks for watching.
Not to nitpick but technically speaking it was still Johnny Carson's show. Jay was guest-hosting. Enlightening vid.
I don’t care about the haters, as a Howard stern die hard, I still think Jay is still pretty cool and chats with Frank pretty well. Jays easy to mock. That’s all it is. He’s still pretty good at what he does
I agree. I'm not a huge Jay Leno fan, but he was undeniably skilled and talented. Zappa is a tough interview.
Agreed.
“The new left is the new right.” Heh…
"and their beards have all grown longer overnight"
Not a bad appearance.
I hadn’t seen it until now.
The good ol days
Yes indeed.
In 10 years you'll look back and think of this moment and say those were the good old days . This moment now is the only good one there is, the old days are gone forever and the new days are never promised
Zappa was true genius.
God loves Frank Zappa. Maybe?😊
Id give my pinky toe to have have frankie alive with us.
“Prolific, that’s a big word”
Bizarre how so many celebrities who call out our social construct in our society, especially comedians and rock stars, pass away too young.
Frank was a genius one of a kind
He smoked 60 cigarettes a day for most of his life
@@lucasoheyze4597yeah, there’s zero conspiracy here, lol. Nobody who smoked as much as Frank is gonna get away without cancer at some point in their life (and I say that as a huge huge fan.)
@@TundieRice Yes he was saying it's just like a vegetable
But the tobacco industry kept their lying secret far too long
American cigarettes are the worst with all chemicals they put in
just like their food too
Ironically not lung cancer. prostate cancer...
So that’s how the wall came to come down
I wish I could hear what the audience member said at the end of the show when Jay is announcing upcoming guests, right before he says Connie chung. He plays it off but I wonder...
The audience member says "Connie Chung" right before Jay does. He obviously knew who would be on the following night.
James Douglas Muir Leno (New Rochelle, 28 de abril de 1950), conocido como Jay Leno, es un presentador de televisión y humorista satírico estadounidense. Fue el presentador del histórico programa The Tonight Show de la cadena NBC, entre 1992 y 2014, sucediendo en el puesto a Johnny Carson y entregándole el puesto a Jimmy Fallon. Tiene en su haber un Premio Emmy.
Frank had a good time with Jay.
He seemed in good spirits despite "The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life" was on the verge of disintegrating.
Still sad they didn't make it to the west coast.
He genuinely seemed to like Jay, and they obviously had some nice positive history with each other, which is something you definitely can’t say about *all* of the people who interviewed Frank.
Zappa considered running for prez. He’d have been great if only president was a real job and not a selected puppet frontman CEO for a corporation
Frank looking like Groucho Marx
no, no he's not
Who was the Tonight Show bandleader at that time? Sal Marquez was in the Tonight Show Band at one point. I remember when Jodie Foster called out to him, and said Sal was her trumpet teacher.
I just realised tha muffin´man only think the muffin is only the PRINCE of foods ?!?!? what would be king and queen ???
Frank was an absolutely brilliant man, and how interesting that he was speaking about the dismantling of The Berlin Wall, about a year before it actually occurred!! So sad that he died from Prostate Cancer at age 58...... the same age of Gerge Harrison's death...... :(. However, "Genius without being surrendered to Jesus" leads only to "Genius Despair...." Selah. (Think about it....). Ted Schempp, Nashville
he was 52.
He was 52
Jay Leno is the biggest mystery in the whole history of TV. WTF?!?!
the mystery man comes over, and he fidgets around a bit
Least funny comedian ever, terrible host, terrible interviewer
@@Frankincensedjb123 imagine ever conceivably referring to Jay Leno as an "interviewer."
Zappa on Johnny Carson was so much better
@@playdiscgolf1546 this is Johnny Carson Jay Leno is filling in as a guest
Wow how prescient Frank. Still waiting on that "peace" thing tho. 🙄
Don't be cute; neither me nor you nor nobody with half a brain is waiting for that hippie shit.
Frank Vincent Zappa (Baltimore, Maryland; 21 de diciembre de 1940-Los Ángeles, California; 4 de diciembre de 1993) fue un compositor, guitarrista, cantante, productor discográfico y director de cine estadounidense. Con una carrera de más de treinta años, Zappa compuso rock, jazz, blues, electrónica, música artística y música concreta, entre otros. También trabajó como director de cine y de videoclips, y diseñó portadas de álbumes. Además, se encargó de la producción de los más de sesenta álbumes que grabó con The Mothers of Invention y en solitario.
You cut out the Marble Champions?
Sorry....was just after the Frank content. Maybe it will surface at some point.
Love Mr. Zappa but I have zero clue how Leno had work for as long as he did. What a schmuck!
He’s a walking caricature lol
To be frank, ....'80s Frank wasn't as cool as '60s ',70s Frank ,( i mean the clothes ! ...yikes!) but hes still the master of music !
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What the fuck are you talking about his clothes for??
I agree with you. This was just before his illness became apparent.
@@Jack-nu4un Why not talk about his clothes? Frank's clothes were notoriously un-fashionable and thrown together. Here he was quite sleek. I don't know who was responsible for that.
@@paulinebutcherbird yeah he wasn't about fashion for sure, but who's cares, it's the music athat mattered
@@mikekrause3671 More than most musicians and composers, it's not just about the music because he himself was such an enigmatic character, and it's fascinating looking at what made him tick.
I can see why Leno was picked to host the tonight show in 1992. He's absolutely a comedic gem.
.......well, that's YOUR opinion.
@@colinwilliams553 And obviously the opinion of millions of people, because starting in 1995 he was the number one talk show for many years.
Unless you have trouble sleeping and you can't count sheep so you have to do the next best thing....watch jay leno and your out like a light.@neiljohnson7914
I never thought he was funny but I don't fit in with the millions who loved the Leni show.
"the people are not coming into the West side, there's unemployment there"
Uh, well at least he knew that capitalism was better than communism however, apparently he did not think those enslaved by communism were aware of this fact.
Why do so many people hate Jay Leno?
You just asked a loaded question.
@@martinlynch6764 I honestly do not know. I mean I cannot fathom anything beyond indifference. He's like sugar cookies. Sugar cookies are nobody's favorite cookie, but why would you hate them?
@@MrDaledark sugar cookies are palatable; he is the epitome of the “network stiff” kind of comedian.
I dunno...ask Conan.
He owes conan absolutely nothing
Leno sucks we want johnny👀
Thought that was leon redbone.