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A Young Frank Zappa Turns the Bicycle into a Musical Instrument on The Steve Allen Show (1963)

Frank Zappa bringing his own brand of offbeat music to the American airwaves in 1963. Only 22 years old and not yet famous, Zappa appeared on The Steve Allen Show and made music with some drumsticks, a bass bow, and two garden-variety bicycles — and nothing more.

Seán wrote:

A Young Frank Zappa Turns the Bicycle into a Musical Instrument on The Steve Allen Show (1963)

Frank Zappa bringing his own brand of offbeat music to the American airwaves in 1963. Only 22 years old and not yet famous, Zappa appeared on The Steve Allen Show and made music with some drumsticks, a bass bow, and two garden-variety bicycles — and nothing more.

http://www.openculture.com/2012/01/a_yo ... _1963.html

cybot wrote:

Seán wrote:

A Young Frank Zappa Turns the Bicycle into a Musical Instrument on The Steve Allen Show (1963)

Frank Zappa bringing his own brand of offbeat music to the American airwaves in 1963. Only 22 years old and not yet famous, Zappa appeared on The Steve Allen Show and made music with some drumsticks, a bass bow, and two garden-variety bicycles — and nothing more.

http://www.openculture.com/2012/01/a_yo ... _1963.html

Fantastic find Sean :) Thank you!

Seán wrote:

cybot wrote:
Fantastic find Sean :) Thank you!

It's very good and it is lovely to see how relaxed everybody is and how natural it was to have composers and musicians on a live show. You would never see anything like that now, certainly not in Ireland, it's all Louis Walsh yite instead.