TODAY I LEARNED: The song “smoke on the water”, is about Frank Zappa?
Never would’ve thought 🤯
JPWhoo · 36-40, M
Um, he’s mentioned in the lyrics, yeah.
Lostpoet · M
Are you sure it wasn't Willey Nelson?
Rabscuttle · 41-45
Additional fun fact: Frank complained about the "Parental advisory- explicit lyrics" warning label, likening it to "Using a guillotine to treat dandruff". In response, they hit his next album with the label.
Perhaps you doubt that. Perhaps you think I'm exaggerating; that they gave it that label because they truly thought that the lyrics WERE obscene. But no. That album- Jazz From Hell, if you're wondering- did NOT have explicit lyrics, because it didn't have ANY lyrics; it's instrumental.
Perhaps you doubt that. Perhaps you think I'm exaggerating; that they gave it that label because they truly thought that the lyrics WERE obscene. But no. That album- Jazz From Hell, if you're wondering- did NOT have explicit lyrics, because it didn't have ANY lyrics; it's instrumental.
Nimbus · M
Not FZ specifically but a fan attending his concert fired a flare gun that burnt down the casino and the destruction of Frank's equipment.
It's about some stupid with a flare gun.