Senator zapped by Zappa
NZPA-AP. Seattle When the rock musician, Frank Zappa, appeared before the United States Senate Commerce Committee to testify against censoring records that contain explicit lyrics, he clashed with Senator Slade Gorton of Washington.
But now the Republican Senator is making his rock debut on Zappa’s latest album — albeit unwittingly. Senator Gorton, told Zappa, after the performer’s Senate testimony: “I found your statement to be boorish, incredibly and insensibly insulting. You could manage to give the First Amendment a bad name if I felt you had the slightest understanding of it, which I do not.”
His remarks are repeated on the album, “Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention,” in distorted voices, with snorting and laughing as Zappa’s response.
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