Insights on the genius of Frank Zappa you won’t find anywhere else.
There are many podcasts out there that you can engage to make you smarter. And just like you listen to Zappa to expand your auditory imagination beyond the mainstream, you listen to BOB to take your intelligence beyond the popular body of knowledge.
Bob’s work is like one 50,000-hour-long podcast–the most colossal oral work of all times. No more than two degrees of separation away from any influential figure or event of the past 100 years, and able to recall dates and facts with surgical accuracy, Bob is the Homer of the electric age.
This channel combines BOB and Zappa to take your Zappa knowledge to another level!
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These three pictures were taken by SkyGoddess Sue at the Halifax Citadel Hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on November 7, 1984.
Frank Zappa had played the night before at the Halifax Metro Centre, the night Ronald Reagan was re-elected.
This was one of the most important conversations for Zappa in the 1980s.
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I (Bob Dobbs) had sent him a collection of recordings by Mae Brussell in August, 1984, and we are here discussing the importance of her information (Zappa had listened to them a few months before).
When Zappa was preparing to address Congress at the PMRC Senate Hearing on Rock Lyrics on September 19, 1985, he called Mae Brussell.
In the course of a long phone call, Mae gave the “goods” on all the politicians that he would be addressing.
Thanks to what Mae told him, he was able to walk into the hearing with great confidence – nobody was going to “mess” with him with the information he had on their “skeletons in the closet”.
In gratitude for how Mae had helped him, Zappa gave Mae a brand new computer a few months later.