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I got ahold of him
last night. I talked to him.
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And I said, "If you could
tell the kids one thing"...
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At some point, I'm gonna bring him here,
and he's gonna talk to you kids.
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'Cause maybe you'll listen to him.
You know what I'm sayin'?
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'Cause he only played, you know,
in the Zappa band and... is awesome.
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And he said this.
I swear to God. Verbatim.
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When he performs, he realizes
that those people out in the audience...
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could have sat home
and watched TV that night.
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But they came to see you,
and they deserve a show.
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And not a plaid-shirt-
and-baseball-hat-and-jeans...
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we're-just-three-guys-playing-
three-chords-up-here show.
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'Cause that shit sucks.
And it has no staying power.
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Okay? But a real show.
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He said the best way to have
the audience love what you do...
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is you love it and let it show.
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And I'm not tellin' you this.
Napoleon Murphy-Brock's tellin' you this.
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You went to see Zappa
back in the day, he's gonna...
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You buy your ticket, he's goin' out
and gonna put on three hours...
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and you're not gonna be bored
for one second.
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That's what I'm tryin'
to teach you guys to do.
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I'm tryin' to teach you guys to be way
above any of that stuff that's there now.
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You know my dream, right?
Rolling Stone magazine, 2007.
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Where did all these bands come from?
And they start tracing people back to me.
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And all of a sudden there's this
new movement of significant music.
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As an educational tool,
it's ended up being perfect.
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I'll cast a kid. I'll say here, you are
assigned to the hardest Zappa song ever.
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Then, when they don't have it
after a couple of weeks...
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I'll say, "What are you doing?
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What are you doing? Are you watching TV?
Go practice your song. "
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So, never do I indicate,
"You shouldn't be doin' this. "
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So they think,
"I can do this if I just practice. "
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And then they do practice.
And then they can do it.
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So the next thing you know,
we're playing Zappa tunes...
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with saxophones and xylophones...
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and vocal harmonies,
and, forget what the question was.
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I think after you listen
to music like Frank Zappa...
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and you play it, and you've like,
"Yes. I can master that song. "
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And then you listen to, like, 311,
you're like, that's such a simple song.
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It's really an honor
to be a part of something like that.
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And I'm so excited that Paul is actually
putting this out there and saying...