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interviewed Zappa. There is no claim to atheism in any interview the Zappa that I have ever read. In fact, in 1984, during a radio interview with Frank Zappa (the first half - the 2nd half was with Ernest
Borgnine), one of the callers stated "Are you an atheist, Frank? I am ..... " and started into some diatribe that the interview MC tried to curtail. Frank's words were, " ... Well, I wouldn't say that." In the same interview, a woman called in and wanted to ask Gail Zappa what it was like being married to him. Frank said hold on, I'll get her, and Gail responded briefly " ... it's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it." I cannot remember that far back what network this was - it was the era of the "Night Flight" rock late-nite tv show, if that, and the Gail Zappa interlude, can help any Zappa-fanatic find it in their personal recordings. I used to have it on cassette, long gone now. He had major issues with organized religion in any form, and was not outwardly "spiritual" - and even a song such as
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Negative ... Poodle Play" nor "No Commercial Potential." I think we need to be careful with biographers who are not using direct quotes by Frank, or someone very in-the-know - fellow musicians giving their rap about him is not proof. My PERSONAL impression from that radio interview was he had a sort of nebulous idea of "something" out there, but for him, ceremony and so forth were not part of how he would address a supreme being.
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Gail, or his children as witnesses, biographers are writing about themselves in this regard, in my opinion. We could keep Kaylan's quote, but should state he claimed, or according to, rather than accept it as a fact. To my knowledge, during Zappa's lifetime, only two books in
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He wasn't an atheist in any meaningful sense of the word. Calling Zappa an atheist is like saying Gandhi was a poor basketball player. It's maybe literally true in some sense but it's not meaningful or helpful. It's not meaningful or helpful because Zappa was not interested in metaphysical issues. He
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Could we get a time stamp on that? I don't want to sit through the whole thing. (I'm skeptical that this could be used as a reference -- I don't know if they're flat forbidden by our rules, but videos make very poor references because 1) they're not available to people who are reading a hard copy or
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He had a low tolerance for nonsense, was no prude, and was sometimes sardonic, but that doesn't make him an atheist. I'd like to see a clear quote from him saying that he was a committed materialist or didn't believe in God, deities, a supernatural plane, spiritual life separate from the material
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is not necessarily atheist - it's just very critical of people taking religious writings to violent extremes, and also shows a cynic's view of a diety. As was stated in a previous discussion, his "The Real Frank Zappa Book" does not specifically address this, neither does any article I have that
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Watson's book (Poodle Play) has a memo from Zappa where he refers to God as "energy" but in the context of making music ... Perhaps it would be better to list him as agnostic? But in any event, the bold statement about him being an atheist should go, I think. Without direct quotes from Zappa, or
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premiered in New York. ... It also contained several extraordinary sequences of clay animation by Bruce
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I checked the archives, saw some discussion on this. Anyway, there are two cites - one of which is merely quoting Howard Kaylan, and is him making a statement with no background to it and Frank is not here to dispute it. The other is Nugent's book, which I haven't read, but I don't think he
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world, or that sort of thing, and not just an off-the-cuff remark but something showing that he'd given the matter at least a bit of thought (if someone said "Thank Christ I bought my condo before the market bubble" we don't write that that person was a
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Canadian anon ip that recently tried to edit the article to the effect that Zappa was not an atheist, please cite the interview you refer to? Also, did that interview include Gail Sloatman Zappa during a short part of it? Thanks.
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who otherwise can't view videos, 2) they're not searchable, 3) in the case of YouTube anybody can upload a (fake) video (although that's not likely to be the case here). But even if not usable as a reference it's certainly sufficient to
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