Today would have been Frank Zappa'a 70th birthday! Imagine what he'd have been doing had he lived............... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFIMWRXWY90]YouTube - Frank Zappa - Muffin Man[/ame]
Imagine how would have felt when Moon turned 13.... "only 13 and she knows how to nasty"! But I think in spite of it all, the kids might have turned out alright. I loved Frank and the MOI, one of my favorite bands starting in the early 60's...
Hardly drugs: if you exclude cigarettes, he was not a drug taker, and if you read his book, he was a moderate conservative. How bout them apples. I once met Adrian Belew, who guitared for him in the late 70s (listen for his hilarious impression of Bob Dylan on either Joe's Garage or Sheik Yebouti, I forget). Adrian said that he had the personal and musical discipline of a Monk.
On the song Flakes from Sheik Yebouti. Starts at about the 1:20 mark [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IudPPlBmJs4]YouTube - Frank Zappa - Flakes[/ame]
I've met Frank many times over the years as well as Ike Willis, Napoleon Murphy Brook, Mike Keneally, and Don Preston, they always had good things to say about Frank. At the last Zappa Plays Zappa show I got Dweezil to sign my RDNZL plate from the MINI!