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Originally Posted by Tobra
Frank Zappa lived right down the street from my aunt and uncle when he was a kid. Aunt Esther said he was a very nice, polite young man.
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Yes, by all accounts, polite to a fault even as a successful rock star. Interestingly, as bizarre as his stage persona was, and in spite of most folks' assumptions about him, as strait laced as they come. Vehemently anti-drug, to the point of throwing one Lowell George out of The Mothers of Invention for his drug use.
I'm as big of a fan as anyone, and even I will say that one of the reasons he never got more popular was because of his schtick - he was certainly no comedian, although he thought he was. Too deep, too irreverent, too laced with irony for most. If he would have just shut up and played his guitar I think he would have been much more popular than he was. But, then, it wouldn't have been Frank...
More of his guitar work, preceded by that schtick... Oh, and that's Captain Beefheart sitting there with him: