Mr F Zappa on Great Lives R4

[eighthobstruction]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l97r

[eighthobstruction]

...all music faded after one bar....

[Serial_Apologist]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001l97r

My eagle eye skipped over this item, so thanks eighth. Pete Lemer (THE Pete Lemer) posted this early 60s excerpt on Facebook from an American telly show featuring an Italian Mod Zappa demonstrating, half seriously I believe, what can be done musically with a bicycle. This would possibly have been an American equivalent of Morecombe & Wise except for being much funnier, an indication of the relative decline of American TV entertainment culture in comparison with ours meanwhile descending to much the same level of inaneness it largely always was.

https://www.facebook.com/DrumTalkTV/videos/1401122597091114

[Bryn]

My eagle eye skipped over this item, so thanks eighth. Pete Lemer (THE Pete Lemer) posted this early 60s excerpt on Facebook from an American telly show featuring an Italian Mod Zappa demonstrating, half seriously I believe, what can be done musically with a bicycle. This would possibly have been an American equivalent of Morecombe & Wise except for being much funnier, an indication of the relative decline of American TV entertainment culture in comparison with ours meanwhile descending to much the same level of inaneness it largely always was.

https://www.facebook.com/DrumTalkTV/...01122597091114

Also a hint of the influence of the likes of John Cage on FVZ.

[johncorrigan]

BBC 4 is airing the documentary 'Zappa' at midnight tonight, snooker permitting, I suppose.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010rl8

[Bryn]

BBC 4 is airing the documentary 'Zappa' at midnight tonight, snooker permitting, I suppose.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010rl8

A repeat from around 18 months ago. To get it with a few extras: