Frank Zappa - Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk

[90-percent]

Run time: 07:28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcE2dq3YD0   Posted on YouTube: May 15, 2007 By YouTube Member: slarty7 Views on YouTube: 476017   Posted on DU: July 22, 2011 By DU Member: 90-percent Views on DU: 1278

 
Frank has been my hero for forty years now.

Not a particularly good tune, but, in our current times, do we have any people in public life that can really tell us the truth like Frank could?

It is my semi-serious contention that the BFEE CIA got a hold of the FIRST FIVE DOCTORS that misdiagnosed Frank's prostate cancer, and when it was finally inoperable, they let the SIXTH DOCTOR inform Frank of his dire health situation.

Ike (titties n beer shirt) told me last February that he got a call from Frank that his cancer was in remission and Frank wanted a 20th anniversary of 200 Motels Tour, including Flo and Eddie!

He was gone about 6 months later.

-90% jimmy

[Webster Green]

1. Good old Frank. He was surely never known for his restraint.

Really Frank? Seven and a half minutes? (and it seemed that wasn't quite the end). Bwahahaha!

That being said, he was a hero of mine as well. I love his stuff, and I love how he had their schemes all figured out (like Carlin), and wasn't afraid to let them know, and yes, this song is as timely as it was then, in fact...more so, as the shit keeps getting worse.

I first saw the original Mothers in Hollywood in 1966, tripping my brains out. Holy Shit! They were so fucking loud and awesome, I will never forget it. In '67, they settled into some theater in the East Village and played for a couple of weeks (maybe longer..for some strange reason, I can't remember exactly). We went to several of those performances. Fucking amazing! That was the last time I saw Frank live, but went on to see Flo and Eddie live many times, after really getting into their stuff on 'Just Another Band from LA'.

I met the original Mothers bass player Roy Estrada years later through my Little Feat friends. I was on the road with Lowell George, both with Little Feat and on his 'Thanks' I'll Eat It Here' tour, where he overdosed and died. I'm sure you are aware that Lowell played with the Mothers (Weasels Ripped My Flesh), but left the band when he showed Zappa some songs he had written, and Frank told him to go start his own band. He took Roy with him and started Little Feat.

Jeez, I'm going on and on. You got me going though. That's OK...Zappa posts usually sink quickly here. He's obviously not everyone's cup of tea. Glad to kick this and talk Zappa. I've alienated many a friend by trying to get them to listen to 'Thingfish' or something. Oh well, they didn't get my Laurie Anderson either. Fuck 'em!

:yourock:


-bushdoctor

[The Wielding Truth]

2. I saw the Mothers of Invention in concert when I was too naive to

digest their brutal sarcasm live. I knew Zappa was a genius and adored his mind and his albums. He put up the mirror and even though the reflection was not pretty the truth it shown was deeply enriching.

So sorry he's gone.In this song he again shows the true reflection of the ugly selfishness which thrives in the core of those who organize in greed and the betterment of themselves.

They titled themselves: the Republican Party, Teabaggers, Tea Party, Conservatives,Constitutionalists and they never really see their true reflection.

They have proven themselves by their acts to be anti-equality. That is anti democratic which is truthfully anti-Constitutional and anti-American.

[90-percent]

3. Thanks to you both

Nice to flush out some very hardcore zappaphiles here on DU!

Frank was an acquired taste for me. In my mid-teens I decided to take advantage of the music available at Stony Brook University - which was about three miles from my home. I think I walked to the Mothers late show in Oct 1971 and saw the Flo and Eddie Mothers.

Bought Just Another Band from LA and it stuck with me. Loved the versions of Dog Breath and CAll any Vegetable. Little did I know Franks role and singing in the Flo and Eddie Band was profoundly different than his other eras. Frank let Mark and Howie participate in the creative parts a lot more than bands from other eras.

I am thankful in this age of the internet that there is so much Frank material out there! I keep learning new pieces of the Conceptual Continuity to this day. For example - the real story behind Frank "taking over" metal shop. In actuality, he was protecting his younger brother Bobby, who was being sexually harassed by this shop teacher.

Frank was a classic thinker and so many of his thoughts and ideas remain valid to this day. Particularly his views on human nature. He thought things were hopeless, but he still went out and took on TPTB on their turf eyeball to eyeball, in the name of fighting injustice, greed, stupidity and un-Americanism. A Constitutional Fundamentalist!

-jim

[The Wielding Truth]

4. Here's to Frank.

:toast: :patriot: Truth is patriotic in a democracy.

[DeSwiss]

5. K&R

"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where
the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery..." ~Frank Zappa

- What Frank said, that's where we are now......