You Look Sweet upon the Seat of a Bicycle (1963). Frank Zappa

Let the conciousness revolution era begin, circa 1963:

We believed that self-expression took precedence over self-control—even if we still assumed that big institutions would continue to cohere and function without much difficulty.

And they said the avant-garde can't be fun... (YouTube videos via American Street):

Comments

[richard friedman]

Unbelievable!
It's not clear who was putting whom on.

The amazing thing is that I met Frank, briefly, four years later, in 1967 in NYC. And he sure didn't look like THAT!

Amazing!

[Robert Gable]

I'm surprised to have never heard of this television appearance before; I agree it's astounding.