FZ:

[...] times I've had more impressions of the historical significance of the town. Like the first time we arrived and I saw the chemical plants and the graveyards and the grave stone makers and all the rest of that, I thought, "Now here is a town that really has something to say."

Rudi:

You know that I lost quite a lot of money 'cause when you said two years ago you'll never come to Europe with a rock band again, I was always saying, "If Frank says something then he sticks to it," and I was doing quite a lot of bets, and now I have to pay all the people the money back who were saying that you would come at the end some time.

FZ:

Well, you shouldn't gamble.

Rudi:

But what's the reason for you to, to come back to Europe?

FZ:

Yeah. Very simple. I changed my mind.

Narrator: [...]

Narrator: [...]

FZ:

Hello.

Tonight during the first two songs you'll be entertained by Austrian television and Hungarian television, as they scurry around the stage trying to figure out what the fuck we're going to do in the first two songs.

One, two, three . . .

FZ:

Well, let me give you an example of what happened in 1982, we did a very long [...German dub...] and come home losing $160,000, and your manager makes $250,000. There's something wrong.

Rudi:

[...German dub...] never ending story of record company episodes?

FZ:

Sure, I had to sue CBS now in the United States [...German dub...] all over the world. It works like this. Maybe it happens to you if you have a record contract. What they did was, they arbitrarily [...German dub...] contract not specify this. No place in the contract does it say "bin price." And by paying [...German dub...].

I have another suit that's just finished against the lawyer who represented me against Warner Bros. the first time, and against the accountant that I hired in that. That one's just settled. Okay? I've started two new suits. One against the promoter in Los Angeles, who didn't pay me for some work that we did there, and another one against the promoter in uh, Denver, Colorado, because he wrote me a bad check, and we're thinking about doing a third one against another promoter in Massachusetts, because he bounced a check. So, this is the real world, Rudi.

Rudi:

Is this what rock & roll is all about?

FZ:

That's right. It's about dishonest people trying to do things to artists. And I'm not the only one who have these things happening, but I'm one of the few that likely spend the money to go and fight it.

Rudi:

[...German dub...]

FZ:

[...German dub...] all those fundamentalist Christian religious fanatics.

Rudi:

Yeah?

FZ:

Yeah.

Rudi:

[...German dub...]

FZ:

That's what's happening in the United States right now [...German dub...] Ronald Reagan [...] those religious fanatics that put him in office, they're saying things like, "If you don't vote a certain way, you're against God." And I find [...German dub...] And this particular election is full of that kind of talk.

Rudi:

[...German dub...]

FZ:

[...German dub...] companies and people who own big chunks of stuff. And the government is just like uh, is just like a soap opera. It changes all the time. And mostly it changes for the worst and makes your life more complicated.

Rudi:

[...German dub...]

FZ:

[...German dub...] because if they have to choose between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale . . . I don't know. t's a pretty grim choice.

Narrator: [...]

FZ:

Well, actually, you know, the thing that disturbed me most about Francesco Zappa is that he doesn't have his picture on a little candy, like Mozart's got his picture on a candy. But, it just goes to show you that in every era there are some composers who have hits and some who don't. Okay? They're both working at the same time, and one of them winds up on a candy that you get when you go on the airplane and you come to Austria, the other one one paragraph in the back of a book someplace. [...German dub...] but you'll be the first people in 200 years to hear his music, 'cause it was totally lost, nobody ever performed it.

Narrator: [...]

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