Frank Zappa "Freeman Report" Part 1 of 5 October 26, 1981

This is a long interview with Frank Zappa from October 26, 1981. This interview only aired once as far as I know and ironically, Zappa was playing his last concerts at "The Palladium" in New York City. Covered in this interview is Frank's negative experiences with the stage hands unions. One of the reasons Frank never played the Palladium after November 1, 1981 was due to excessive stage hand union costs associated with doing concerts at that venue. The first thing I noted while editing this video is how relaxed Frank is and how good Sandi Freeman was at asking Frank open ended questions and then allowing Frank to answer. It is the only interview I have ever watched with Frank where he has a decent interviewer and he is relaxed enough to get out of his "Frank Zappa" persona. Too bad he did not do more interviews like this. For such a long interview it has few commercial breaks. This is a 5 part interview. I am sorry for the poor video quality. But even "back in the day" when I was heavily into trading video NOBODY had a better quality copy of this interview. NOBODY. For a long time I thought this interview was lost in my tape vault, fortunately, I found it. Enjoy this little piece of FZ interview history.