Z/PAC

"Franks anti-censorship collection of mental ammo" distributed from 1986 onwards and probably updated several times. "Here is the package we have prepared to assist you in any local effort you care to initiate in opposition the THE WIVES OF BIG BROTHER and their dangerous program."

I have Z/PAC version from 1987 on 30 Letter size papers. Below is a description of a 1986 version on 31 half-size papers. Maybe there was even a 1992 version on 56 Letter size papers.

Z/PAC 1987

Main part – 12 pages

  1. Opening Letter by Frank Zappa (½ page)
  2. Opening Address by Gail Zappa (½ p)
  3. Letter to the President by Frank Zappa (2 p)
  4. Frank Zappa: Statement to Congress September 19, 1985 (2½ p)
  5. It's Not Over Yet, Folks by Frank Zappa (½ p)
  6. Sympathy For The Devil by Dave Marsh – The Village Voice (2 p)
  7. PMRC fund-raising letter (2 p)
  8. Hollings Considering Bill Aimed At Rock Music Lyrics by Henry Schipper – Daily Variety 10-24-85 (¼ p)
  9. L.A. Mayor Blasts Ratings by Sam Sutherland – Billboard 10-19-85 (¼ p)
  10. Danny Goldberg's Letter to Frank Zappa (½ p)
  11. Zappa Takes on the U.S.Senate in 'Porn Wars' by Rip Rense – Los Angeles Times 10-24-1985 (1 p)

Freedom Village brochure – 7 pages + 1 page of clippings

  1. Letter by Fletcher A. Brothers (½ page)
  2. Plan of Action (1 page)
  3. Lyrics to Current "Murder Music" Songs (6½ p)
  4. History of Rock & Roll: Major Influence Chart (½ p)
  5. one page of clippings including S.J. RES. 39 Joint Resolution 'To designate October 26, 1985 as "Mule Appreciation Day"'

Updates – 10 pages

  1. Different clippings dated from February 12, 1986 to June 20, 1987. Pages are numbered from 'Update 1' to 'Update 10'.

From the 1986 version some content was deleted:

Z/PAC 1987 scans

Z/PAC 1992 (?)

In addition to these pages I have another collection of Update pages (only Update pages and not all of them, no pages from other parts) numbered between 11 to 26 and including clippings from June 26, 1987 to June 4, 1992.

And Cashbox guest editorial – An Open Letter To The Music Industry was included again.

Z/PAC 1992 scans

Z/PAC 1986

This is the Z-Pac description by rev_a_west @ eBay :

1985 / 1986 – FRANK ZAPPA'S FAMOUS Z-PAC – CONTAINS FRANKS OPENING LETTER OF TO PREPARE ANYBODY IN ANY LOCAL EFFORT TO INITIATE OPPOSITION OF THE WIVES OF BIG BROTHER. [KNOWN BACK THEN AS THE PARENTS MUSIC RESOURCE CENTER – P.M.R.C.]. A COPY OF THE 4 PAGE LETTER THAT FRANK SENT TO THE PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN ON AUGUST 29TH 1985 [MUST READING] THE STATEMENT THAT FRANK ZAPPA GAVE TO CONGRESS ON SEPTEMBER 19TH 1985 – MANY ARTICLES OF THOSE TIMES ABOUT THE P.M.R.C.'S CENSORSHIP EFFORTS, FRANK ZAPPA'S FIGHT AGAINST THE P.M.R.C. AND ALL OTHER MUSIC CENSORSHIP EFFORTS INCLUDING THE STATE OF MARYLAND'S RECORD OBSCENITY HEARINGS AND WHICH FRANK ALSO ATTENDED AND TESTIFIED – OTHER ARTICLES THAT DEAL WITH MUSIC CENSORSHIP INCLUDING A REPRINT OF SOME OF THE STUFF THAT'S IN THE FREEDOM VILLAGE BROCHURE {BUT NOT ALL OF IT} – THE P.M.R.C. MEMBERSHIP FORM – S.J. RES. 29 WHICH IS A RESOLUTION PASSED BY THE SENATE OF THE U.S.A. MAKING OCTOBER 26TH 1985 "MULE APPRECIATION DAY" YEAH REALLY, – A LETTER BY GAIL ZAPPA ABOUT THE WIVES OF BIG BROTHER  WITH AN 818 – PUMPKIN LETTER HEAD AND MANY ARTICLES WHICH FEATURE FRANK ZAPPA AND HIS FIGHT AGAINST THE MOTHERS OF PREVENTION AND MANY OTHER VERY INTERESTING ARTICLES – 31 PAGES IF YOU COUNT ALL OF THEM FRONT AND BACK.

 

OK FOLKS, THIS NEXT BROCHURE THAT'S INCLUDED IS THE OPPOSING VIEW FROM THE INFAMOUS PASTOR FLETCHER A. BROTHERS FOUNDER – DIRECTOR OF THE INFAMOUS BRAINWASHING AND CONCENTRATION CAMP FOR SOME VERY UNLUCKY KIDS THAT WERE SENT THERE BECAUSE THEIR LIVES WERE RUINED BY ROCK & ROLL MURDER MUSIC. THIS SCHOOL / TORTURE CAMP WAS LOCATED IN LAKEMONT, NEW YORK AND WAS CALLED "FREEDOM VILLAGE, U.S. A." {I HEARD THAT THEY WOULD CHAIN PEOPLE TO A WALL IN A ROOM AND MAKE THEM LISTEN TO DONNIE & MARIE MUSIC ALL DAY AS PUNISHMENT.}

SO HOW DID I GET THIS BROCHURE? BACK IN 1985, I, THE REV. A. WEST WAS JUST A LONG HAIR FRANK ZAPPA LOVING PERVERT WHO ALSO HAPPENED TO LIVE NEAR THE SUBURBS OF WASHINGTON, D.C. SO OF COURSE WHEN I HEARD THAT FRANK WAS GOING TO TESTIFY IN THE SENATE I WENT DOWN THERE NEAR THE CAPITOL IN SOME HOPE TO SEE FRANK, MAYBE GET AN AUTOGRAPH [ETC.]. WELL I GOT DOWN THERE TOO LATE AND WAS TOLD BY SOME PEOPLE THAT I KNEW FRANK HAD ALREADY LEFT. I NEVER DID GET TO SEE FRANK BUT A GUY THAT I LATER MET AND GOT TO KNOW, A CAMERAMAN FROM THE EARLY DAYS OF CNN ACTUALLY GOT FRANK'S AUTOGRAPH AND I LATER OBTAINED IT FROM HIM. {BUT THAT'S ANOTHER STORY.} ANYWAY, THERE WERE MANY PROTEST TYPE OF GROUPS STILL HANGING AROUND AND ONE OF THEM WAS FROM FREEDOM VILLAGE. THEY WERE HANDING OUT COPIES OF THIS BROCHURE. SO I WANTED TO GET ONE BUT THE PROBLEM COULD HAVE BEEN THAT I HAD SOME VERY LONG HAIR AT THE TIME AND THE DILLWEEDS THAT WERE HANDING OUT THESE BROCHURES DIDN'T LIKE ME TOO MUCH. {MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE I WAS LAUGHING AND SHOUTING OBSCENITIES AT THEM FROM ACROSS THE STREET?}. BUT ALSO BACK IN 1985 MY SISTER WAS A DISPATCHER FOR A COURIER COMPANY IN WASHINGTON, D.C. THAT EMPLOYED BICYCLE MESSENGERS AND I HAPPENED TO SEE ONE OF THEM HANGING AROUND DOWN THERE SO I ASKED HIM IF HE COULD GET ONE OF THOSE BROCHURES FOR ME. HE SAID " NO PROBLEM " AND AS HE DROVE BY ONE OF THESE FREEDOM VILLAGE GUYS ON HIS BIKE HE JUST GRABBED ONE OF THOSE BROCHURES AND KEPT ON GOING. THE VERY LAST PAGE OF THIS BROCHURE WHERE THE SPECIAL TAPE OFFER FOR THE " WHAT'S WRONG WITH ROCK? " AUDIO CASSETTE OR VHS OR BETA TAPE AD IS LOCATED {DAMN, I SHOULD HAVE SENT IN SOME MONEY AS I'D HAVE LOVED TO HEAR AND SEE THIS STUFF] ONE CORNER IS MISSING WHERE I THINK THAT CORNER GOT RIPPED WHEN THE GUY ON THE BIKE GRABBED IT. ANYWAY, THERE'S NOT TOO MUCH MISSING IN THAT CORNER AND FRANK REPRINTED A SMALLER VERSION OF THAT VERY AD IN HIS Z-PAC SO YOU CAN STILL READ THE LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION THAT'S MISSING. 

 

HERE'S WHAT IS CONTAINED IN THE AMAZING FREEDOM VILLAGE BROCHURE: A COVER LETTER TITLED " WHAT'S WRONG WITH ROCK MUSIC? " WITH THE INFAMOUS FREEDOM VILLAGE LETTERHEAD. WHY WE ARE HERE IS THE TITLE OF THE NEXT PAGE. ANSWER: " TO HELP STOP MURDER MUSIC " THE NEXT PAGE IS TITLED " ROCK MUSIC: A VICTIM'S STORY ". DID YOU KNOW THAT IF YOU LISTEN TO ROCK MUSIC THAT SUDDENLY YOU'LL WANT SEX, DRUGS AND YOU'LL EVENTUALLY START TO LOVE THE DEVIL? {LIKING GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T COUNT}. NEXT IS THE " MEET 1985 FREEDOM ACADEMY GRADUATING CLASS!! ". THE PHOTOS OF THOSE POOR VICTIMS AND THEIR BEFORE AND TODAY STORIES. ALL BRAINWASHED LIKE THEIR PARENTS PAID FOR THEM TO BE AND ALL HAD BEEN SUBJECTED TO HELEN REDDY LISTENING TORTURE. POOR INNOCENT VICTIMS OF THE INFAMOUS FREEDOM VILLAGE CONCENTRATION CAMP. {2 PAGES OF 7 PEOPLE AND THEIR STORIES, YOU'LL WANNA BURN YOUR RECORD COLLECTION WHEN YOU HEAR THIS STUFF I'M SURE]. NEXT IS THE INFAMOUS " HISTORY OF ROCK & ROLL MAJOR INFLUENCE CHART " AND WHAT MESSAGE THAT ALL OF THAT MUSIC HAD. NEXT WE HAVE A STATEMENT FROM PASTOR FLETCHER A. BROTHERS AND THE FOLLOWING PAGES WHICH NAME THE GROUPS THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEMISE OF OUR YOUTH AND THE CRIMES THAT THESE MUSICIANS AND BANDS ARE GUILTY OF. {YOU GOTTA READ THIS!!}.

 

THE BANDS AND MUSICIANS MENTIONED ARE: AC/DC, AEROSMITH, THE BEATLES, THE BEE GEES, PAT BENATAR, BLACK OAK ARKANSAS, BLACK SABBATH, BLUE OYSTER CULT, BLONDIE, DAVID BOWIE, SAVOY BROWN, JACKSON BROWNE, BOY GEORGE, ERIC CLAPTON, ALICE COOPER, WAYNE COUNTRY [WHO THE HELL IS THIS GUY?], DEEP PURPLE, JOHN DENVER {YEAH, HE IS A SELF PROCLAIMED MESSIAH AND WORSHIPS EGYPTIAN GODS], DR. JOHN, RONNIE JAMES DIO [NO WAY MAN], DURAN DURAN, THE EAGLES, ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA, FLEETWOOD MAC, THE GRATEFUL DEAD, DARYL HALL, GEORGE HARRISON, GRIM REAPER, HEART [I ALWAYS KNEW THAT THOSE WILSON SISTERS MUST BE UP TO NO GOOD], JIMI HENDRIX, IRON MAIDEN, MICHAEL JACKSON, MICK JAGGER, JEFFERSON STARSHIP, BILLY JOEL, ELTON JOHN, JANIC JOPLIN, JUDAS PRIEST, KISS, THE KNACK, KROKUS, CINDY LAUPER, LED ZEPPELIN, MADONNA, PAUL McCARTNEY, MALCOM McCLAREN, JOHN McLAUGHLIN [YOU GOTTA BE KIDDIN' ME PASTOR], MEAT LOAF, MELLE MEL, MOODY BLUES, MOTLEY CRUE, NAZARETH, NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE, STEVIE NICKS, TED NUGENT [IF TED HAD FOUND OUT THAT THESE DILLWEEDS PUT HIM ON THEIR LIST HE WOULD HAVE SHOT AND EATEN THEM FOR LUNCH, WHERE WERE YOU TED?], OHIO PLAYERS, OZZY OSBOURNE {REALLY?}, PINK FLOYD, PRINCE, QUEEN, RATT, THE ROLLING STONES, LINDA RONSTADT [YEAH, SHE HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE DEVIL FOR SURE], RUSH, SANTANA, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, ROD STEWART, STYX, DONNA SUMMERS, TWISTED SISTER, JETHRO TULL, TINA TURNER, THE UNDISPUTED TRUTH, URIAH HEEP, VAN HALEN, THE VILLAGE PEOPLE, W.A.S.P., WHITE WITCH, THE WHO, STEVIE WONDER AND YES.

 

THERE'S A PARAGRAPH OR MORE ABOUT EACH OF THESE MENTIONED BANDS AND ARTISTS TELLING YOU WHAT THEIR SINS HAVE BEEN AND OF COURSE WHY THEIR MUSIC NEEDS TO BE AVOIDED. I AGREE ABOUT LINDA RONSTADT {THE DEVIL SENT HER TO ANNOY MANKIND FOR SURE}, BUT THERE'S NO MENTION ANYWHERE AT ALL ABOUT FRANK ZAPPA. {I ALWAYS KNEW HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DEVIL.}  THIS BROCHURE IS 19 ONE SIDED PAGES AND IS A PHOTOCOPY AS IS THE Z-PAC. THEY WERE ALL XEROX COPIES ANYWAY.

Z/PAC 1986 scans