I saw FZ at least 3 times in Atlanta during the ‘70s a great guitar player. It seemed that he would find a person somewhere who was dummer than a stump and then make fun and ridicule that person for the amusement of the audience. So this was a drive in restaurant in LA. The enema bandit. The penguin in bondage boing ba boing. Frank seemed to have an attitude of contempt for every day life, life that everyone had to bother with. And by showing contempt, it made every one feel a little bit better by realizing that there were people who were also less than perfectly spectacular.
But Zappa to many behind the Iron Curtain, was a symbol of Freedom.
One of the most prominent Czech bands of that time was “Plastic People of the Universe”, who took their name from a Mothers of Invention song, they were regularly harassed by the Communist authorities.
Zappa and Vaclev Havel became good friends later in Frank’s life as the former Czechoslovakia won its’ freedom.