It were always others who called me that.
The chapter "How Weird Am I, Anyway?" has Zappa debunking his reputation for being eccentric.too and was more knowledgeable about their music than he showed to the outside world. Despite these claims recent research has proven that Zappa did often listen to pre-20th century composers like Johann Sebastian Bach, Henry Purcell, Richard Wagner. In that regard it's not much different from mainstream pop music nowadays, only with record producers forbidding artists to make songs that clash with their conventional tastes. In this book he goes into more detail and explains that most classical music from previous centuries was written to please some king, duke or abbott who forced composers to make everything sound according to their wishes. Classical Music Is Boring: Zappa often expressed the notion that to him most classical music before the 20th century was boring.Call-Back and Continuity Nod: Two chapters are named after tracks from Zappa's albums, namely "America Drinks and Goes Marching", titled after "America Drinks And Goes Home" from Absolutely Free and "Porn Wars" from Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention.Bowdlerize: Zappa tells an anecdote from high school where he doesn't tell the name of the woman involved in it, but writes this instead:.People who want to read more about Zappa's life would be better off reading an actual biography. Former Mother member Don Preston and author Barry Miles have also doubted some of the stuff Zappa presents as ''facts''. Biography: It's an autobiography, but at the same time everything is told in a sarcastical tone and Zappa spends more pages telling his personal opinions about subjects than revealing much about his private life.Zappa also tells an anecdote about the time he met a very drunk John Wayne.
The Real Frank Zappa Book is Frank Zappa's autobiography, published in 1989.
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