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To: Gasshog
I haven’t actually seen Alice Cooper since 1970. They were bleeding edge radicals.

Sounds like the AC band when they were on Zappas label

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At the risk of furthering a "slide," I've been thinking about Alice's comment in an interview I saw a few years ago where he bragged he and his band were "the stake through the heart of the flower children."

I thought it was an interesting comment at the time, particularly since he said it with such a wistful expression.

Now, having read McGowan's "Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon" and his position that Zappa, who utterly loathed hippy culture then ascendent, was part of a covert military op to influence popular music, Cooper's comment makes a lot more sense. In fact, he may have confirmed McGowan's theory.

The hippy, flower children and their lifestyle had gone far enough and needed to go. Zappa, central figure in the Laurel Canyon "scene," signs Cooper to one of his record labels and in short order, they are.

Not that anyone needs further proof that Zappa was an unusual person and arguably a genius, here's a clip of him from 1963 on the Steve Allen Show playing a bicycle.

910 posted on 08/16/2022 6:18:03 AM PDT by Oratam (Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...)
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To: Oratam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72G17JV0j2E


951 posted on 08/16/2022 7:36:58 AM PDT by HippyLoggerBiker (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. )
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To: Oratam

Thanks I had never seen that video, nor even heard of it.

Very funny


1,016 posted on 08/16/2022 10:36:13 AM PDT by Gasshog
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To: Oratam

Cool link. I do not believe that I have ever seen Zappa without his trademark facial hair.

I first heard him while browsing in a record store in Boston around 1971 or so. He was different. I actually went to a concert a couple of years or so later when his ‘Grand Wazoo’ album was new. He put me to sleep.

Years later I saw his name in Germany a number of times. He was very popular there.


1,027 posted on 08/16/2022 10:52:53 AM PDT by Radix
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To: Oratam; Chuckster; Gasshog

Didjaknow Vincent Damon Furnier is a damn fine golfer?


1,127 posted on 08/16/2022 2:16:33 PM PDT by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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