Synopses & Reviews
Review
Vanity Fair An autobiography of mostly hilarious stories...fireside war tales from the big bad days of the rockin' sixties...primer of the sonic avant-garde, the book bashes favorite Zappa targets and dashes a few myths about the man.
Review
The New York Post This book belongs in every home.
Synopsis
From Simon & Schuster, the brash and outrageously funny autobiography of music legend Frank Zappa The Real Frank Zappa Bookis the real story of how he became the state of the art in weirdness, as only he can tell it: wild rock 'n' roll road stories, confrontations with bureaucratic idiocy, and more.
Table of Contents
ContentsIntroduction Book? What Book?
1 How Weird Am I, Anyway?
2 There Goes the Neighborhood
3 An Alternative to College
4 Are We Having a Good Time Yet?
5 The Log Cabin
6 Send In the Clowns
7 Drool, Britannia
8 All About Music
9 A Chapter for My Dad
10 The One You've Been Waiting For
11 Sticks & Stones
12 America Drinks and Goes Marching
13 All About Schmucks
14 Marriage (as a Dada Concept)
15 "Porn Wars"
16 Church and State
17 Practical Conservatism
18 Failure
19 The Last Word