Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!dsr
From: dsr@uvacs.UUCP (Dana S. Richards)
Newsgroups: net.music,net.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Frank Zappa and Rock Music
Message-ID: <410@uvacs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 09:51:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: uvacs.410
Posted: Tue Apr 29 09:51:57 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 3-May-86 02:00:17 EDT
References: <709@sftig.UUCP> <911@vortex.UUCP> <3102@sjuvax.UUCP>
Organization: U.Va. CS dept.  Charlottesville, VA
Lines: 22
Xref: linus net.music:12580 net.misc:8178


>      ...waitasecond!!! Is Frank Zappa really intent on swaying peoples'
>      views on this PRMC scene??? You gotta be kiddin'!! I thought he
>      went to those hearings just to cut up and mess around and generally
>      expose them for the farce that they really were.I didn't believe he
>      was actually going to make himself a "spokesman for the cause" or
>      anything mindless like that!!!...
> 
>      ...Say it ain't so!!!!...
> 
>                                        Larry Palena

It is so.
I believe it was Mencken who said "One horselaugh is worth a thousand
syllogisms."  Frank has for a very long time used satire to make his
point, sometimes in very irritating ways.
But you should never assume that he is aloof; and this PRMC thing
has a direct impact on his ability to make and distribute his music.

I don't feel he went to the hearings to "cut up". He was very
deliberate and prepared. He did make some remarks, though, that
struck the congressmen as out of place, which undercut his message.