Chords for Frank Zappa - Andy Warhol's TV, Interview, 1983
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When Frank Zappa fan Richard Berlin heard that his idol was in town, he dropped everything
and got the next flight out of Boston just for this interview in the factory boardroom.
You rolling yet?
You on?
Oh, wonderful.
I'm a Zappa fan and probably not the most knowledgeable,
but I would imagine for a guy like you who probably has a cadre of super dedicated fans,
people who buy everything, [G] memorize everything,
[N] on your record, send away for the scores.
I know there are people like that, but I don't [E] personally know too many of them.
I know that they exist, but I'm not on [Db] close personal terms with them.
They just [N] report to a Los Angeles post office box on a regular basis
to get the first of whatever new coming out.
Well, that would be one aspect, [B] yeah.
And then there are other people who are like fetishes.
There's [N] one guy in Copenhagen named Oli, he's a school teacher,
and this man is very strange.
There are ones out there that are just too strange to want to know about.
Some of them I've seen and I had the occasion to speak with,
and they're really not very much fun because they're like CIA agents or FBI guys
that follow you around, you know, they want to smell where your feet were in the rug.
You walk into a hotel, they're sitting there with machinery
ready to capture some part of your aroma, and you take it away and go,
oh, what is this, you know, and scope it out.
That may be flattering to somebody, not to me.
It's very oppressive, you know, it's one of the reasons why I hate to even go to Denmark
because I know Oli is there waiting, waiting to stop teaching school,
to disappear to the hotel where I'm staying, to sit in the lobby all night long.
You know, it's like [Fm] horrible.
You are [Bb] what you is, and that's [Fm] all it is.
[Ab] A [Bb] foolish man from a middle class man's [Fm] life.
Started singing [Eb] the blues [Bb] because he thought it was man's [N] life.
I think it's the most natural thing in the world to make fun of stuff
because things are really stupid.
And so if you happen to be functioning in a musical format
and you think that a lot of things are stupid,
then some of that attitude is going to creep into your work as a musician.
If you happen to be a writer, it's going to show up in your book,
and if you happen to be a painter, it's going to be in your painting.
It's just a matter of attitude, and it just conveys.
It's [G] not that a person would set out to write satirical music.
It's [Abm] just if the music [N] contains any part of your personality,
and that personality goes in that direction, then it's going to come out in the music.
Is it fun for you to do?
To make fun of stuff?
Yeah.
Well, it's not [G] unpleasant.
You [N] see, what I'm trying to get at, it's not just a job.
When you write a song about you go after the Catholics,
or you go after the business school grads,
or the corporate executives, or the Jews, or the blacks, or anyone else,
as far as I can understand, you've gone after most all of those groups.
It's not a matter of going after somebody.
What you do is you state facts the same way you would a person.
The same way a reporter would.
And if those facts turn out to be something other than what you believe,
then you would perceive it as an attack.
If you already realize that what I'm saying is accurate,
and it's only reporting facts, [Db] it's not even funny.
It's just facts.
[B] Some people are shocked by certain
and got the next flight out of Boston just for this interview in the factory boardroom.
You rolling yet?
You on?
Oh, wonderful.
I'm a Zappa fan and probably not the most knowledgeable,
but I would imagine for a guy like you who probably has a cadre of super dedicated fans,
people who buy everything, [G] memorize everything,
[N] on your record, send away for the scores.
I know there are people like that, but I don't [E] personally know too many of them.
I know that they exist, but I'm not on [Db] close personal terms with them.
They just [N] report to a Los Angeles post office box on a regular basis
to get the first of whatever new coming out.
Well, that would be one aspect, [B] yeah.
And then there are other people who are like fetishes.
There's [N] one guy in Copenhagen named Oli, he's a school teacher,
and this man is very strange.
There are ones out there that are just too strange to want to know about.
Some of them I've seen and I had the occasion to speak with,
and they're really not very much fun because they're like CIA agents or FBI guys
that follow you around, you know, they want to smell where your feet were in the rug.
You walk into a hotel, they're sitting there with machinery
ready to capture some part of your aroma, and you take it away and go,
oh, what is this, you know, and scope it out.
That may be flattering to somebody, not to me.
It's very oppressive, you know, it's one of the reasons why I hate to even go to Denmark
because I know Oli is there waiting, waiting to stop teaching school,
to disappear to the hotel where I'm staying, to sit in the lobby all night long.
You know, it's like [Fm] horrible.
You are [Bb] what you is, and that's [Fm] all it is.
[Ab] A [Bb] foolish man from a middle class man's [Fm] life.
Started singing [Eb] the blues [Bb] because he thought it was man's [N] life.
I think it's the most natural thing in the world to make fun of stuff
because things are really stupid.
And so if you happen to be functioning in a musical format
and you think that a lot of things are stupid,
then some of that attitude is going to creep into your work as a musician.
If you happen to be a writer, it's going to show up in your book,
and if you happen to be a painter, it's going to be in your painting.
It's just a matter of attitude, and it just conveys.
It's [G] not that a person would set out to write satirical music.
It's [Abm] just if the music [N] contains any part of your personality,
and that personality goes in that direction, then it's going to come out in the music.
Is it fun for you to do?
To make fun of stuff?
Yeah.
Well, it's not [G] unpleasant.
You [N] see, what I'm trying to get at, it's not just a job.
When you write a song about you go after the Catholics,
or you go after the business school grads,
or the corporate executives, or the Jews, or the blacks, or anyone else,
as far as I can understand, you've gone after most all of those groups.
It's not a matter of going after somebody.
What you do is you state facts the same way you would a person.
The same way a reporter would.
And if those facts turn out to be something other than what you believe,
then you would perceive it as an attack.
If you already realize that what I'm saying is accurate,
and it's only reporting facts, [Db] it's not even funny.
It's just facts.
[B] Some people are shocked by certain
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_ When Frank Zappa fan Richard Berlin heard that his idol was in town, he dropped everything
and got the next flight out of Boston just for this interview in the factory boardroom.
You rolling yet?
You on?
Oh, wonderful.
I'm a Zappa fan and probably not the most knowledgeable,
but I would imagine for a guy like you who probably has a cadre of super dedicated fans,
people who buy everything, [G] memorize everything,
[N] on your record, send away for the scores.
I know there are people like that, but I don't [E] personally know too many of them.
I know that they exist, but I'm not on [Db] close personal terms with them.
They just [N] report to a Los Angeles post office box on a regular basis
to get the first of whatever new coming out.
Well, that would be one aspect, [B] yeah.
And then there are other people who are like fetishes.
There's [N] one guy in _ Copenhagen named Oli, he's a school teacher,
and this man is very strange.
There are ones out there that are just too strange to want to know about.
Some of them I've seen and I had the occasion to speak with,
and they're really not very much fun because they're like CIA agents or FBI guys
that follow you around, you know, they want to smell where your feet were in the rug.
You walk into a hotel, they're sitting there with machinery
ready to capture some part of your aroma, and you take it away and go,
oh, what is this, you know, and scope it out.
That may be flattering to somebody, not to me.
It's very oppressive, you know, it's one of the reasons why I hate to even go to Denmark
because I know Oli is there waiting, waiting to stop teaching school,
to disappear to the hotel where I'm staying, to sit in the lobby all night long.
You know, it's like [Fm] horrible.
You are [Bb] what you is, and that's [Fm] all it is.
[Ab] A [Bb] foolish man from a middle class man's [Fm] life.
Started singing [Eb] the blues [Bb] because he thought it was man's [N] life.
I think it's the most natural thing in the world to make fun of stuff
because things are really stupid.
And so if you happen to be functioning in a musical format
and you think that a lot of things are stupid,
then some of that attitude is going to creep into your work as a musician.
If you happen to be a writer, it's going to show up in your book,
and if you happen to be a painter, it's going to be in your painting.
It's just a matter of attitude, and it just conveys.
It's [G] not that a person would set out to write satirical music.
It's [Abm] just if the music [N] contains any part of your personality,
and that personality goes in that direction, then it's going to come out in the music.
Is it fun for you to do?
To make fun of stuff?
Yeah. _ _
_ Well, it's not [G] unpleasant.
You [N] see, what I'm trying to get at, it's not just a job.
When you write a song about you go after the Catholics,
or you go after the business school grads,
or the corporate executives, or the Jews, or the blacks, or anyone else,
as far as I can understand, you've gone after most all of those groups.
It's not a matter of going after somebody.
What you do is you state facts the same way you would a person.
The same way a reporter would.
And if those facts turn out to be something other than what you believe,
then you would perceive it as an attack.
If you already realize that what I'm saying is accurate,
and it's only reporting facts, [Db] it's not even funny.
It's just facts.
[B] Some people are shocked by certain
and got the next flight out of Boston just for this interview in the factory boardroom.
You rolling yet?
You on?
Oh, wonderful.
I'm a Zappa fan and probably not the most knowledgeable,
but I would imagine for a guy like you who probably has a cadre of super dedicated fans,
people who buy everything, [G] memorize everything,
[N] on your record, send away for the scores.
I know there are people like that, but I don't [E] personally know too many of them.
I know that they exist, but I'm not on [Db] close personal terms with them.
They just [N] report to a Los Angeles post office box on a regular basis
to get the first of whatever new coming out.
Well, that would be one aspect, [B] yeah.
And then there are other people who are like fetishes.
There's [N] one guy in _ Copenhagen named Oli, he's a school teacher,
and this man is very strange.
There are ones out there that are just too strange to want to know about.
Some of them I've seen and I had the occasion to speak with,
and they're really not very much fun because they're like CIA agents or FBI guys
that follow you around, you know, they want to smell where your feet were in the rug.
You walk into a hotel, they're sitting there with machinery
ready to capture some part of your aroma, and you take it away and go,
oh, what is this, you know, and scope it out.
That may be flattering to somebody, not to me.
It's very oppressive, you know, it's one of the reasons why I hate to even go to Denmark
because I know Oli is there waiting, waiting to stop teaching school,
to disappear to the hotel where I'm staying, to sit in the lobby all night long.
You know, it's like [Fm] horrible.
You are [Bb] what you is, and that's [Fm] all it is.
[Ab] A [Bb] foolish man from a middle class man's [Fm] life.
Started singing [Eb] the blues [Bb] because he thought it was man's [N] life.
I think it's the most natural thing in the world to make fun of stuff
because things are really stupid.
And so if you happen to be functioning in a musical format
and you think that a lot of things are stupid,
then some of that attitude is going to creep into your work as a musician.
If you happen to be a writer, it's going to show up in your book,
and if you happen to be a painter, it's going to be in your painting.
It's just a matter of attitude, and it just conveys.
It's [G] not that a person would set out to write satirical music.
It's [Abm] just if the music [N] contains any part of your personality,
and that personality goes in that direction, then it's going to come out in the music.
Is it fun for you to do?
To make fun of stuff?
Yeah. _ _
_ Well, it's not [G] unpleasant.
You [N] see, what I'm trying to get at, it's not just a job.
When you write a song about you go after the Catholics,
or you go after the business school grads,
or the corporate executives, or the Jews, or the blacks, or anyone else,
as far as I can understand, you've gone after most all of those groups.
It's not a matter of going after somebody.
What you do is you state facts the same way you would a person.
The same way a reporter would.
And if those facts turn out to be something other than what you believe,
then you would perceive it as an attack.
If you already realize that what I'm saying is accurate,
and it's only reporting facts, [Db] it's not even funny.
It's just facts.
[B] Some people are shocked by certain