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Title: Zappa and Politics Post by: the captain on November 29, 2015, 01:35:15 PM Ahead of his time? Narcissistic nonsense? Interesting? Dull? Would he have been an eventual candidate? Office-holder? In what party, if any?
Title: Re: Zappa and Politics Post by: Douchepool on November 29, 2015, 03:33:31 PM Zappa's politics are very close to my own. Would he have run for office? Maybe, if he lived, but not as part of a major party.
Title: Re: Zappa and Politics Post by: Mike's Beard on November 29, 2015, 05:35:10 PM Frank would have made mincemeat out of the current crop of lefties.
The only thing I never agreed with him on was his complete opposition to albums containing warning stickers for explicit language content. I think he was totally deluding himself into thinking that he ever had a shot of getting into office of any kind, however. Title: Re: Zappa and Politics Post by: the professor on November 30, 2015, 08:59:52 AM He scorned Bush the elder (not Zappa's most insightful analysis but rather a generic liberal canard) and contrasted Bush's and Reagan's desire "to be remembered" to his own scorn for fame. I have visited Reagan's grave and Zappa's: one can do it on the same day for contrast. Zappa, a great Italian-American artist is a hero of mine; his grave (30 yards or so from Carl's) takes some looking for, but you can find it (it's unmarked).
Title: Re: Zappa and Politics Post by: JK on December 04, 2015, 03:26:42 PM Nothing political about this. It's a curiosity I came across while reading Linda Ronstadt's wiki page:
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