Tornado Alley (PROG)

[F6]

sortagreen -- if anything I should thank chunga1 for prompting me to go through the exercise -- while (of course) I'd heard of Zappa many times and knew he was a musician of some note, and had even played in groups with guys from Berklee ( http://www.berklee.edu/ ) who revered him, but somehow or other I'd just never actually listened to him, let alone looked at things he'd said

fascinating guy -- including on religion (e.g. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=32483865 and http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=32639759 -- . . .) -- that 'tree of knowledge' point in particular resonating with me -- came to me originally as I was working through the notion that this god gives us free will and then damns us if we dare use it to choose to do anything other than just blindly believe, worship and obey -- the original sin of Adam and Eve having been to exercise their free wills to choose to eat the apple -- from the tree -- of . . . -- that's about as point-blank a nutshell of the whole deal, its above all anti-rational and controlling character and purpose, as there could possibly be, right there plain as day at the very core of its own creation myth

an interview:

Zappa Interview Today Show 1993
One of Frank's last interviews, conducted by NBC's Jamie Gangel for the Today Show.