BAM
USA
1978 January
No. 26
Rebel Without Applause
Interview by Michael Snyder, story by Blair Jackson, pp
30-31, 33, 35-37
Orlando and Disney World. Don't you love
to confront that back home in Southern California? Orange County?
Right-wing madness?
There's right-wing madness everywhere. There's
tons of it down in the lobby. What are you gonna do? Cower in
the corner? Those people should go fuck themselves. (read
more)
Source: slime.oofytv.set
Los Angeles – Frank Zappa sits leaning
over the mixing board, yellow pencil in hand, studying
a typed lyric sheet. Wearing a grey, shapeless shirt,
grey pants, purple socks and brown loafers, he looks
like a pleasantly absorbed research scientist in the
midst of a fascinating experiment. It's approaching
midnight, but in the shadowy confines of Village Recording
Studios, that means very little to the group of musicians
at work. (read
more)
Source: The Waldo Scrapbooks
My love/hate relationship with Frank
Zappa’s music goes back more than fifteen years and
seems to break down about this way: Love His Music –
20 percent of the time; Think His Music Is At Least
Engaging – 20 percents; Can’t Fathom It, Much as I Try
– 15 percent; Think What He Is Doing is Puerile, Pretentious
and Useless – 15 percent. (read
more)
Source: Mother People #18
Richard McCaffrey has been Chief Photographer
for BAM in California since 1976. Originally
a commercial lens ace in Rhode Island, Richard found
the world of rock and roll more conducive to his style.
Here are some of his favorite images. (Clockwise from
right) David Byrne, Blues Brothers Dan Aykroyd and John
Belushi, Frank Zappa, David Bowie and Debbie Harry.
Source: Fulvio Fiore
1987 January 16
Vol. 13 No. 2 Issue 249
Interview From Hell
By Bill Forman, 6 pp 16-18, 20, 22, 24
"Okay," he obliges, "I'm wearing
a yellow shirt, I'm wearing some baggy Japanese pants, I'm
wearing Reebok black tennis shoes and argyle socks which are
light blue, light yellow, light pink and lavender. I'm sitting
in a grey chair in my recording studio. My dog – one of my dogs,
Doggus, is sleeping over in the corner. It's 11:07 at night,
and I just finished a meeting with a lawyer and three people
from Virgin Records. The crew has just left, and when I get
finished talking with you, I'll get to work on the digital editing
for a little while and then I got four more interviews that
start at 4:00 in the morning." (read
more)
