Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Frank Zappa on Crossfire

I was looking for some Zappa tunes on YouTube and came across the video below of Frank Zappa in a 1986 installment of CNN's Crossfire. The topic is censorship (specifically the censorship of the evil that is rock n' roll). Frank doesn't seem especially comfortable in this setting, but he does an admirable job of defending free speech and is quite cool-headed in dealing with the wingnut they threw him into the ring with. If you've got 20 minutes, it's worth watching.



Did you watch it all? Not bad, eh? Here's your reward:



Was that too mellow? Try this one:

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