Word: zappa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This movie is about how touring on the road with a rock and roll band will make you crazy."--Frank Zappa's only line of dialogue in 200 Motels. "That was the most awful boring piece of shit I ever saw."--A Friend...
...Motels is the first movie by the well-known and somewhat demented Los Angeles rock star and composer Frank Zappa. It is also a record album that purports to be the soundtrack to the film, but only sometimes intersects with the movie in a rather disordered way. Taken together, they are either Zappa's view of modern America or else just another scheme he has contrived to waste the time and money of America's youth. In either case, the film has alienated me from my friends and given me a minor case of dandruff...
...really liked 200 Motels. It is clearly the work of a depraved and cynical (not to mention greedy) mind. Zappa's bizarre perspective so thoroughly permeates the film that most of my friends (who decidedly hated it) think me a bit depraved for liking...
...single. "It Don't Come Easy," was unexpectedly as good as anything the ex-Beatles have done since their split, but he seems at present to be abandoning his singing career and returning to drumming and acting. (You can catch him starring as Larry the Dwarf in Frank Zappa's new film, 200 Motels, which should be coming to Boston soon...
There was time for one more poke at the world of rock as the Mothers plunged into "Happy Together," the old Turtles hit, played Zappa style. The audience was rolling in the aisles, begging for it not to end...but it did. Zappa politely thanked everyone for coming to the concert, and then left...