Cool post. I'm a huge Zappa fan. Interestingly, Zappa works his game like he works his art -- by defying convention and making things potentially uncomfortable.
He would break up his pop songs with avant garde sections and his classical compositions with dissonance or outright noise (or even talking, as on Lumpy Gravy). Even "The Real Frank Zappa Book" plays with the conventions of print, making liberal use of bold and italics.
Here, he turns the interview into a circus full of sexual innuendo. Actually, he totally controls the frame, since there is barely any interview. Since they're talking about the impending release of the Thing-Fish album, this must have been 1983 and he'd have been around age 42.
He would break up his pop songs with avant garde sections and his classical compositions with dissonance or outright noise (or even talking, as on Lumpy Gravy). Even "The Real Frank Zappa Book" plays with the conventions of print, making liberal use of bold and italics.
Here, he turns the interview into a circus full of sexual innuendo. Actually, he totally controls the frame, since there is barely any interview. Since they're talking about the impending release of the Thing-Fish album, this must have been 1983 and he'd have been around age 42.