Reply #3: ahhhh the 88 tour! [View All]

[90-percent]

That tour was magic for me, because he had not toured for four years. I went to the first show of the tour in Albany and it was a spiritual experience for me. There was a 60 minutes crew there, possibly because frank had the league of women voters at all his shows to get people to register to vote! they never aired any zappa show, however. I think righties do not allow the league of women voters to do voter registrations anymore. just another piece of their Rovian anti-democracy tactics they have been so effective at for the last thirty years.

I also went to 5 or 6 other shows, culminating in the Nassau Coliseum Show, which had Dweezil playing onstage with his dad. Moon was there, too. Got to meet Eric Buxton, a super fan that did Ike's monologue for "Jesus thinks you're a jerk"

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/frank+zappa/jesus+thinks+youre+a+jerk_20056591.html. monologue starts at "Imagine if you will" accompanied by the Twilight Zone theme.

I got to meet and chat with Ike Willis at a show in Teaneck NJ last Feb. He told me Frank went to FOUR DOCTORS for his prostate. It was the fifth one that found it, too late. Ike got a call from Frank mid 1993 "Hey, Ike, I think I'm gonna beat this. I want to out a 20th anniversary of 200 motels tour and get Flo and Eddie." 6 months later he was taken from us.

I think what he said above about kids is really spot on given the popular uprisings this year in the middle east.

-90% Jimmy