Broken hearts are for assholes

Let's get this right up front.

Some of you are going to find this to be offensive.

Really offensive.

Remember that it is just words. If the words offend you please don't watch.

This is one of my favorite tunes from one of my favorite albums of the late 70s, Sheik Yerbouti (probable phonetic pronounciation "shake your bootie") by Frank Zappa. The album features recordings of live performances. The video featured here is from the same series of shows that produced the album but is not the performance that is heard on the album.

Previous albums by Frank and his previous group, the Mothers of Invention, included "We're Only in it for the Money", "Cruising With Ruben and the Jets", and "Weasels Ripped My Flesh".

In his personal life Frank was twice married. He fathered four children in the union with his second wife. Many or perhaps most are aware of the two most famous of those children, Moon Unit and Dweezil. The other two children are also exotically yclept, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen.

Please keep in mind, if you have gotten this far, that it WAS the late 70s. This video is a scene from the Frank Zappa movie, "Baby Snakes". This performance was filmed in 1977 at NYC's Palladium Theater.

I learned this from the comments to the video: For this performance Frank is playing what appears to be a Gibson SG. According to Dweezil it's actually not a Gibson. The guitar was custom made for Frank, he had a Gibson logo put on it.

Thanks and chapeau to Guitar Guy for identifying the drummer as Terry Bozzio and the short haired guitarist in the nice gray lady's skirted suit as Adrian Belew.

Further warning and this is absolutely my last one, many will find lots of this pretty offensive for the first three minutes but even for those who find the first three minutes offensive the performance goes somewhat off the charts offensive after the three minute mark.

Here we go then, the inimitable and absolutely totally and completely unreplaceable Frank Zappa:

In a bold salute to pain.

I knew you'd be surprised.