Zappa

00:40:06,708 --> 00:40:08,536 of a parody of theSgt. Pepper cover. 776 00:40:09,102 --> 00:40:11,670 That was at a time when it was very, very unfashionable 777 00:40:11,844 --> 00:40:14,063 to be a businessman or even to have any contact 778 00:40:14,237 --> 00:40:15,717 to the world of commerce. 779 00:40:16,283 --> 00:40:18,328 I mean, people were living in a dream world. 780 00:40:18,503 --> 00:40:20,069 How did they expect to earn a living 781 00:40:20,243 --> 00:40:23,333 doing their music if they didn't have some idea 782 00:40:23,508 --> 00:40:24,987 that the people who were distributing it 783 00:40:25,161 --> 00:40:26,946 were only there to steal from them? 784 00:40:28,338 --> 00:40:31,559 Most of the artists that I knew were too busy getting ripped. 785 00:40:33,039 --> 00:40:34,823 If you just got high and went out 786 00:40:34,997 --> 00:40:38,174 and did your groovy music and, you know, then there were 787 00:40:38,348 --> 00:40:40,786 business people who took care of that other stuff. 788 00:40:47,836 --> 00:40:49,969 It's time for a revolution but probably not in the terms 789 00:40:50,143 --> 00:40:51,536 that people imagine it. 790 00:40:53,407 --> 00:40:55,365 The thing that's wrong today is that the... the people 791 00:40:55,540 --> 00:40:59,108 who are in control of the media and the government 792 00:40:59,282 --> 00:41:01,937 and, you know, things that... that run the lives 793 00:41:02,111 --> 00:41:04,244 of the average person in the street, 794 00:41:04,766 --> 00:41:06,028 they aren't doing a good job of it 795 00:41:06,202 --> 00:41:07,726 'cause they don't really care. 796 00:41:08,204 --> 00:41:09,858 Man: Why don't you run for president? 797 00:41:10,032 --> 00:41:11,817 I thought about it a number of times before. 798 00:41:11,991 --> 00:41:14,167 And then the thing that always holds me back 799 00:41:14,384 --> 00:41:16,952 is that what would it feel like to actually be the president, 800 00:41:17,126 --> 00:41:19,215 you know, and have to stay in Washington DC 801 00:41:19,389 --> 00:41:22,480 in a house for four years? That'd be pretty grim. 802 00:41:22,915 --> 00:41:27,441 - [singers vocalizing] - [tambourine playing] 803 00:41:33,403 --> 00:41:37,973 Zappa: A lot of what we do is designed to annoy people 804 00:41:38,147 --> 00:41:40,498 to the point where they might, just for a second, 805 00:41:40,672 --> 00:41:42,587 question enough of their environment 806 00:41:42,761 --> 00:41:44,110 to do something about it. 807 00:41:47,679 --> 00:41:49,332 As long as they don't feel their environment, 808 00:41:49,507 --> 00:41:50,943 they don't worry about it. 809 00:41:51,117 --> 00:41:53,249 They're not going to do anything to change it. 810 00:41:53,423 --> 00:41:54,903 And something's got to be done 811 00:41:55,077 --> 00:41:58,211 before America scarfs up the world and shits on it. 812 00:41:58,472 --> 00:42:01,170 ♪ We are the other people We are the other people ♪ 813 00:42:01,344 --> 00:42:04,260 ♪ We are the other people You're the other people too ♪ 814 00:42:05,523 --> 00:42:07,046 ♪ Found a way to get to you ♪ 815 00:42:08,090 --> 00:42:10,789 ♪ We are the other people We are the other people ♪ 816 00:42:10,963 --> 00:42:13,879 ♪ We are the other people You're the other people too ♪ 817 00:42:15,271 --> 00:42:16,969 ♪ Found a way to get to you ♪ 818 00:42:18,405 --> 00:42:20,799 ♪ Do you think that I love you... ♪ 819 00:42:21,060 --> 00:42:22,757 Zappa: I wasn't in the United States 820 00:42:22,931 --> 00:42:25,151 when Moon was born. I was on the road. 821 00:42:25,325 --> 00:42:26,892 As I walked out the door to get on the bus, 822 00:42:27,066 --> 00:42:30,548 I said, "Well, if it's a girl, name it Moon, 823 00:42:30,722 --> 00:42:32,027 and if it's a boy, name it Motorhead." 824 00:42:34,769 --> 00:42:39,295 ["Final Hymn" from Stravinsky's The Firebirdplays] 825 00:43:42,228 --> 00:43:44,143 Reporter: In California, actor Ronald Reagan 826 00:43:44,317 --> 00:43:46,058 and Mrs. Reagan arrive to cast their votes 827 00:43:46,232 --> 00:43:47,929 in the state's primary election. 828 00:43:48,321 --> 00:43:50,584 He's the Republican nominee for governor. 829 00:43:50,758 --> 00:43:52,891 It's his first political contest. 830 00:43:57,635 --> 00:44:00,246 Gail: Reagan was the governor of California. 831 00:44:01,116 --> 00:44:06,687 And there was a freak contingent starting in LA at the time. 832 00:44:07,253 --> 00:44:11,605 And in those days, if you had long hair in this town 833 00:44:11,953 --> 00:44:13,476 and you were driving a car, 834 00:44:13,651 --> 00:44:15,522 it was such an infrequent occurrence 835 00:44:16,131 --> 00:44:18,046 that people would actually wave to each other. 836 00:44:18,307 --> 00:44:20,570 That's how... what a tigh-- what a small 837 00:44:20,745 --> 00:44:22,616 and tight community it was. 838 00:44:23,965 --> 00:44:25,706 Pamela: Well, Frank was considered 839 00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,274 by everyone on the strip and al