Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
DVD
Review
by Kam Williams
Reverential
Rockumentary Revisits Career of Late Rock Icon
Frank
Zappa (1940-1993) is best remembered as the front man and lead
guitarist of the Mothers of Invention, the avant-garde rock band that
started developing a dedicated cult following in 1966 with the
release of its debut album, "Freak Out!" The group's
irreverent, anti-establishment anthems satirizing the status quo
resonated with the emerging Hippie Generation's counter-cultural
attitudes.
The long
hair and rebel image overshadowed Frank's roots as a classical
virtuoso influenced by such 20th Century greats as Edgar Varese and
Igor Stravinsky. He began composing chamber music at the age of 14
and didn't write his first rock song with lyrics until after he
turned 21.
Even after
finding fame, Frank remained desperate to be taken seriously as an
artist. Consequently, he quite obviously became quite frustrated
over the course of his career by the constraints imposed by his
packaging as a hippie rock idol.
An
inveterate iconoclast, he was also very outspoken on subjects ranging
from politics to drugs to the music business. And he often confounded
journalists with his surprising stances on prevailing social issues.
For example, he was extremely anti-drugs in an era when many of his
fans and contemporaries were experimenting with marijuana, LSD and
other so-called recreational narcotics.
In terms of
his record company, he hated the fact that MGM had the nerve to
censor his tunes without his permission. He further observed that, in
general, "Musicians are regarded as useless adjuncts of society,
unless you write a Coca-Cola jingle."
A free
speech advocate, he felt that "Dirty words are a fantasy
manufactured by government fanatics and religious organizations to
keep people stupid." Just as suspicious of the Left and the
Right, he asserted that "Any sort of political ideology that
doesn't take into account people's differences is Fascistic."
Eat That
Question is a reverential rockumentary directed by Germany's Thorsten
Schutte. The informative film contains reams of archival footage
featuring its loquacious subject expounding his personal philosophy.
The intriguing biopic includes some performances, too, but the
cerebral production proves far more fascinating when focusing on what
made the man tick than on his music.
A riveting
retrospective plumbing the depths of the brilliant mind of a
Renaissance man underappreciated in his own time.
Excellent (4
stars)
Rated R for
profanity, sexual references and brief nudity
Running time: 93 minutes
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