frank zappa

[blixa]

does anyone have any interesting facts about frank zappa? i'm making a book about zappa for someone who is a huge fan so i want to have obscure facts about him that he may perhaps not know about (i know how that sounds!)

also if there are any cool quotes by other (also obscure) people about him. that would be cool too.

[indychinoluv]

Wow. Wicked.

Quote wise. There are a million websites with a million Quotes cause Frank was very outspoken and was just plain awesome.

Try
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/frank_zappa.html

http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/zappa.htm

Facts (all from wiki)
In 1967, paleontologist Leo P. Plas, Jr. identified an extinct mollusc in Nevada and named it Amaurotoma zappa with the motivation that, "The specific name, zappa, honors Frank Zappa".
In the 1980s, biologist Ed Murdy named a genus of gobiid fishes of New Guinea Zappa, with a species named Zappa confluentus.
Biologist Ferdinando Boero named a Californian jellyfish Phialella zappai (1987), noting that he had "pleasure in naming this species after the modern music composer".
Belgian biologists Bosmans and Bosselaers discovered in the early 1980s a Cameroonese spider, which they in 1994 named Pachygnatha zappa because "the ventral side of the abdomen of the female of this species strikingly resembles the artist's legendary moustache".
A gene of the bacterium Proteus mirabilis that causes urinary tract infections was in 1995 named zapA by three biologists from Maryland. In their scientific article, they "especially thank the late Frank Zappa for inspiration and assistance with genetic nomenclature".
In the late 1990s, American paleontologists Marc Salak and Halard L. Lescinsky discovered a metazoan fossil, and named it Spygori zappania to honor "the late Frank Zappa ... whose mission paralleled that of the earliest paleontologists: to challenge conventional and traditional beliefs when such beliefs lacked roots in logic and reason".

He also either directed or produced some porn at some stage. He was arrested for it.

[roflestiltskin]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=interesting+facts+about+frank+zappa

[blixa]

thank you!

and thanks for googling it for me, steven.

[Fireal1222]

frank zappa never did any drugs, which is pretty cool, considering his music if pretty far out there. if you are going to listen to a frank zappa album, i recommend "apostrophe".

here are a few of my favorite frank zappa videos.
Frank Zappa - Black Napkins Oct.28, 1976

FRANK ZAPPA - muffin man - Live 1977