The PMRC’s demands are the equivalent of treating dandruff by decapitation.

For a man who is mostly known for sitting on a toilet, FZ wasn't crazy, he wasn't stupid, he was justs a very particular person with a very focused vision of how his life and those around him should be lived. For someone like myself who having only really listened to FZ

for the first time in this class, the music can be a little overwhelming and downright baffling at times. Obviously, almost everyone has heard of Frank Zappa, I was mostly familiar with him for his work against the PMRC and never really a fan of his music. I'm still not a fan of his music, but I have a much clearer vision of what kind of man he was.

He was never one to shy away from any question in an interview, no topic was taboo. He was very honest and forthcoming with his philosophies and opinions. As a band leader, he maintained a hierarchy among his bands, setting himself up at the top. He was charismatic enough to be able to get some of the best musicians of his time to play his way out compositions, while at the same time, completely at ease working them to their wits ends and firing them when he deemed necessary. FZ always looked upon music as an avenue to make money, playing in cover bands to pay his bills, always trying to sneak in his own compositions.

As a perfectionist and workaholic, when the opportunities presented themselves to make grand records, he took every inch and dollar he was able to get to create the vision that he saw and heard in his mind. In Lumpy Gravy, we can see the level of his control, when, "Most of the spoken word blocks were recorded in the same manner: 2 microphones were set up under a grand piano, over which a heavy drape was hung. Various people hanging around the studio were asked to go under the piano and have conversations that were directed by Zappa through headphones." I find this to be at odds with what he fought so hard against with the PMRC. Granted, it's not exactly the same thing, but it's still about control, which Zappa had to have absolute dominance of in his own life.

Zappa as an entrepeneur, had a vision of a product. Whether it was his own music, or the music and artistic direction and aesthetic of The GTO's or Alice Cooper,

FZ always put his spin on whatever he was involved with.

His personality alienated him from a lot of people, while at the same time he was wholeheartedly embraced by large numbers of people. The 'weirdness' of Zappa, appealed to many people who regarded him as a leader of a counter culture movement that he actually abhorred, namely, the drugs and the laisser-faire attitude of revolution in the sixties. His legacy lives on it people like Saulius Paukstys