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Are you able to say anything about the selection of Zappa alums to interview? For example, Terry Bozzio's insight into the Black Page would have been interesting, since it was written for him. (though of course Ruth's discussion was great!)

Hi Alex!

Watched the doc this weekend, and loved it! I've been a Zappa fan for decades (obviously), and even I learned some new stuff. Tremendous use of all the video footage!

Couple questions about choice of what to include in depth vs not:

1) I was kind of surprised that the jazz era (Wazoo/Roxy in particular) was sort of glossed over. Was this a conscious decision, or just the result of keeping the doc from being too too long?

2) Was there any discussion of spending time on Franks' use of Xenochrony? I feel like that's very much a Frank thing, and was really instrumental in his later work.

Thanks!

Well, we know he found "movies" that Frank made! ;)

Great answer, thanks!

I'm the one who made the original "Zappa made 'movies'" comment. My impression was that it was all home movie stuff that Alex happened to uncover while going through the vault, nothing "professional" (like Howie :P ).