Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme (2013)
Overview
Frank Zappa: A Token of his Extreme is the 1974 television special recorded at Kcet in Hollywood that was produced by Zappa and aired only in France and Switzerland. The program, as thoroughly tweezed and produced by Zappa for his own Honker Home Video label, includes the following musical performances by Zappa and his band: T”he Dog Breath Variations/ Uncle Meat,” “Montana,” “Florentine Pogen,” “Stink-Foot,” “Pygmy Twylyte,” “Room Service,” “Inca Roads,” “Oh No,” Son of Orange County,” “More Trouble Every Day” and “A Token of My Extreme.” In the words of Zappa himself as he said it on The Mike Douglas Show in 1976, “This is put together with my own money and my own time and it’s been offered to television networks and to syndication and it has been steadfastly rejected by the American television industry.
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| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 1.013 |
Directed By
Dick Darley
Crew
Frank Zappa
Bruce Bickford
Kerry McNabb
Frank Zappa
Ed Libov
Herb Cohen
Dick Barber
Mort Libov
Dick Darley
TOP CAST
Frank Zappa
Himself
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Himself
George Duke
Himself
Chester Thompson
Himself
Ruth Underwood
Herself
Tom Fowler
Himself
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