Chords for Zappa on Zappa

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[G] _ _ _ Hello.
Frank Zappa's first movie, 200 Motels, has its first British showing in London tomorrow.
So we're devoting [Ab] all of tonight's edition to Zappa and the [G] various facets of his career.
It won't be a definitive statement, but we hope it'll give you some different angles on the man, the music, and the movie.
Yeah, well, I do have my secret, so_
Yeah, hello, my name is Frank Zappa.
I'm doing a television show.
It has something to do with a concert at Wembley, which is one of the ugliest sounding rooms that a musician can ever be forced [Gm] to play in.
[Ab] And we're taping this [Gm] backstage, [Ab] right after the [G] soundtrack on the second day.
Unconventional behavior, or at least an unconventional image for it, is something that's more than usually been associated over the years with the figure of Frank Zappa.
Founder and moving spirit of the 60s rock band, The Mothers of Invention,
Zappa is perhaps most famous, some would say notorious, for a style of musical satire involving lavatorial expletives and outrageous happenings.
[Eb] Did you want to [G] be a rock star?
Well, I'm not a rock star.
_ _ _ That's really the wrong word for me.
Yeah, I know.
But did you want to be a rock star?
No.
There's nothing to aspire to.
_ _ See, in order to be a rock star, one must be cute.
And, you know, [Ab] I'm a realistic guy.
I shave this face every day.
I [Gm] know what kind of a deficit I've [D] got.
There's no way.
[Gm] Herman and the Hermits, you know, that's a [Bb] rock star.
_ As you started to kiss me, something [Eb] new suddenly hit [Ebm] me.
The world, [Bb] oh, but it's always [F] happening, the same sort of thing [Bb] to others too.
_ [Ebm] Something is [Bb] happening to me, and I only [F] hope the same thing is [Bb] happening to you. _ _
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_ _ _ [Bb] That's good.
Well, let's take the first percussion track, we'll have the [Gm] violins, all right?
We'll take that.
Adjust this one for violins.
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] You want more violins?
Yeah, I think [Bb] so.
And it's a good thing we're computerized to do this, because manual violins are very, very [Gm] time consuming.
And with labor costs the way they are, it's expensive for a point like [Em] this.
When I [G] started writing music, I was about 14, and I didn't write a rock and roll song until I was in my 20s.
All the music that I'd written in the early days was either chamber music or [Db] orchestral music, and I couldn't get any of [A] it played.
I would send it out, [Ab] and they would send it back.
So if you write music, one of the reasons [G] you write it is because you want to hear it.
It doesn't do you any good on paper.
So the only way to hear it was to hire people to play it.
And that's what I've been doing for 23 years, hiring people to [Dbm] play it.
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[E] _ _ [A] _ had some interesting [E] things to say [Gbm] about France in [G]
your songs before.
Well, I've never been much of a diplomat. _
[Ab] There have been experiences that we've [G] encountered in France that have been less than satisfactory.
And of course, I have the same kinds of [Ab] stories, maybe even worse, about [Dbm] your [Bm] fair country.
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[A] When I first [G] came over here, just like any other tourist, I thought it was really cute.
[E] But you keep coming [Bm] back, and the more you learn and the more stuff [Dbm] happens to you,
[A] you begin to realize it's not [Ab] cute at all.
It can actually be [G] very unpleasant.
The list of unpleasantries that have occurred to me include being [Abm] assaulted by some person from the [G] audience at the Rainbow [Bb] Theater in [G] 1971,
[Fm] [G] which caused me to spend a year in a wheelchair. _ _ _
And [Ab] then, of course, a lawsuit [G] against the Royal Albert Hall because they had breached the contract.
As far as anyone here can remember, this is the first time anything of this sort has ever happened at the Albert Hall.
Five thousand or so fans had booked for the Frank Zappa concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Then the Albert Hall management got a copy of his script from his agents who'd hired the hall.
It was the whole trend and the whole thing was not Albert Hall material.
I'd rather not say any more about it than that.
Was it blasphemous?
Was it sexual? _
You could say it was connected with sex, yes.
The reasons for the project being banned from the Albert Hall are beyond my comprehension.
I don't understand people who get upset over words like brassiere.
That's too far out for me.
Meanwhile, we close tonight with a track from Frank Zappa's finest album for a couple of years, The Grand Mizzou.
And this is Cletus, Aretis, Aritis.
Bye-bye.
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