An opinionated autodidact of the first water, a fierce battler both against censorship of rock lyrics and for teen-age voting, an admirer of Varese, Webern and Stravinsky who has had his own uncompromisingly modern music conducted by Zubin Mehta and Pierre Boulez, Zappa loves to mock convention in the best, most deliberately chaotic Dada style.Įxpecting this man to write a decorous, orthodox book is like expecting Manners the Butler to burp in public. Z, is both surprising and contradictory.Ĭertainly Frank Zappa, eminence grise of the Mothers of Invention, is the unlikeliest rock star this country-or any other one, for that matter-has produced. Is “The Real Frank Zappa Book” really a book? Can an author who starts out by saying, “I don’t want to write a book, but I’m going to do it anyway,” who grudgingly admits that “I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy,” be counted on to produce anything worth reading? The answer, as nearly everything else about the protean Mr.
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