Sexy Intellectual and MVD Visual will release the DVD Frank Zappa "The Freak Out List", April 20, 2010."...When an artist, regardless of his significance, lists his favorite musicians and performers it is usually met with little fanfare, as over time the names mentioned are almost certainly going to change. But when Frank Zappa did likewise, and actually published a record of his most important influences on the inside cover of his debut album, it became a road map to the music he was to make over the following forty years. Even in the early 1990s, when asked about his most-loved composer's, musicians and artists, he would repeat names from this, by then legendary, index..."
"The Freak Out List" puts Zappa under the microscope, featuring rare footage of Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, plus archive film and exclusive interviews with The Mothers Of Invention's Ian Underwood, Don Preston and George Duke, interviews with 1950's 'Doo Wop' legends The Cadillacs, contributions from Zappa biographers Ben Watson and Greg Russo, Edgar Varese biographer Alan Clayson, experimental modern music historian Professor David Nicholls, soul and R'n'B expert Robert Pruter and a whole lot more.
The DVD also features numerous rare photographs, news archive and radio spots...
