Frank Zappa's JOE'S GARAGE: Classic or Dud?

bus driver told me today that zappa played paris and challenged audience members to out gross him, resulting in one taking a shit on stage and zappa pretending to spoon it. etc.

I had forgotten about this urban legend. It's from the same file as the "Rock Star X had his stomach pumped and it was full of semen!" story and the "Alice Cooper (later Marilyn Manson) threw a bunch of puppies into the audience and said he wouldn't start the concert until people had stomped them all to death!" story. Schoolyard classics.

"Waka/Jawaka" now. The first track has some good guitar playing but lasts about a week - I kept thinking it was going to fade out! The rest of it is dull as hell. I'd rather listen to "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" tbh.

bus driver told me today that zappa played paris and challenged audience members to out gross him, resulting in one taking a shit on stage and zappa pretending to spoon it. etc. etc. man zappa was so terrible in many ways

― Ross

man i love fifty year old urban legends that _still_ circulate. as far as i can tell zappa wrote his book pretty much exclusively to say that those urban legends are false. didn't work!

lol and i read that book years back, shame on me

cannot believe people still tell that one. I once, as a child, heard a variation that it was alice cooper who took said dump and that zappa's response was to eat it.

yeah he was like "you hear what he did in Paris?"

he then told me apparently a legit story where he saw Zappa in the early 70s, and Frank ate grapes for a hour until thousands left and then Frank said to the crowd "you're my true fans"

my favorite was that Ozzy Osborne would pass a bucket around the crowd and the audience would spit in it then he would drink all the spit

hey man did you hear what frank zappa did in paris in the early '70s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxUTfoXfXsw

pretty cool actually

God knows what people get out of this.

There's a gorgeous bit of pedal steel guitar playing by Sneaky Pete on the second side of Waka/Jawaka, and the final track on The Grand Wazoo, 'Blessed Relief', might be Zappa's prettiest tune.

That's all I got.

OTM on the pedal steel, pity about the song though.

he then told me apparently a legit story where he saw Zappa in the early 70s, and Frank ate grapes for a hour until thousands left and then Frank said to the crowd "you're my true fans"

he's done the album equivalent of this so many times I can't help but think this one might be true

he's done the album equivalent of this so many times I can't help but think this one might be true

The question is, did he learn the trick from Neil Young, or vice versa?