apethink:

A video of Frank Zappa interviewed in 1989 on “CBS This Morning”, in which he discusses the synclavier, raising children, and listening to music. You may note that the time is 8:50 am eastern, and that Frank is in a bath robe and giving curt answers, since it was 5:50 am in Los Angeles.

Curt answers? I think Zappa showed remarkable patience. That interviewer (Harry Smith) was about as ignorant of his subject as an ignorant person can be of a subject he quite transparently doesn’t give two shits about.

“What’s it like working with real artists?”
“Name some musicians you admire who are less obscure than yourself.” (Zappa names a more obscure one, probably on purpose)
“Do you like Philip Glass? Even though you once hooked a stuffed giraffe up to an industrial whipped cream dispenser and blew its ass out with a cherry bomb onstage I’m going to ask you if you’re into minimalism, because that’s something I’ve heard of.”

Somehow I doubt he’d have asked Philip Glass whether he was a “good father.”

And after the interview, the jackass actually takes out his cigarette lighter and waves it around “like they used to do at the end of rock concerts.” What a condescending douche.

How utterly unfair that Frank Zappa is dead yet Harry Smith is still embarrassing himself on television.