Senator Danforth (R-Missouri)
Senator Hollings (D-South Carolina)
Senator Trible (R-Virginia)
Senator Hawkins (R-Florida)
Senator Exon (D-Nebraska)
Senator Gorton (R-Washington)
Senator Gore (D-Tennessee)
Tipper Gore
Reverend Jeff Ling
Fz
Spider Barbour voice
All-Night John Kilgore voice
Monica voice]
Chairman (John Danforth): The reason for this hearing is not to promote any legislation. Indeed, I don't know of any suggestion that any legislation be pa**ed. But to simply provide a forum for airing the issue itself, for ventilating the issue, for bringing it out in the public domain. Senator Hollings
Senator Hollings: I've had the opportunity to, ah, attend a, a showing, you might say, or presentation of, ah, this p**n rock, as they call it. In the test of p**nography, one of the things to look at is it, it does not have any redeeming social value. Ah, there could be an exception here, because having attended that pres, presentation, the redeeming social value I find that is inaudible. I have a hard time understanding it, then. Paul, since I traveled the country for 3 years, 'n they said they could not understand me. Maybe I could make a good rock star. I don't know. Heh But in all candor, I would tell you it's, it's outrageous filth. So, I'll be looking from this Senator's standpoint, not just to bring pressures but to try to see if there is some constitutional provisions to tax, or approach that can be used on the Congress to limit this outrageous filth
Chairman: Senator Trible
Senator Trible: Rape, incest, s**ual violence
Senator Hollings: It's outrageous filth
Senator Trible: Is like sandpaper to the soul Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Hollings: It's outrageous filth!
Senator Trible: Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
Senator Hawkins: Fire and chains and
Senator Hollings: It's outrageous filth!
Senator Hawkins: Other objectionable tools of gratification in some twisted mind
Johnny Guitar Watson: YEAH!
Senator Trible: Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Hollings: p**n Rock
Senator Trible: Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
Senator Hollings: Willy nilly over the air
?: (And hear it now hear it hear it )
Senator Hollings: If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
Senator Hawkins: Fire and chains and other objectionable
Senator Hollings: Rock p**n
Senator Hawkins: Tools of gratification in some twisted mind
Johnny Guitar Watson: YEAH!
Senator Trible: Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Hollings: p**n rock!
Senator Trible: Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Hollings: p**n rock!
Senator Trible: Rather the emotional damage
Senator Hollings: If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
Senator Hawkins: This issue is too hot not to cool down
Senator Trible: Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Trible: Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
Senator Hollings: p**n Rock
Senator Hollings: p**n Rock
Senator Hollings: p**n Rock
Burn! Burn !
Senator Hollings: Willy nilly over the air
Senator Hollings: Willy nilly over the air
Senator Hollings: Willy nilly over the air
Senator Hollings: Rock p**n rock p**n rock p**n
Senator Hawkins: This issue is too hot not to cool down
Senator Hawkins: Fire and chains and other objectionable tools of gratification in some twisted mind
Senator Hawkins: This issue is too hot not to cool down
Senator Hollings: p**n Rock
Senator Hollings: p**n Rock!
Senator Hollings: p**n Rock
Senator Hollings: p**n Rock!
Senator Hawkins: This issue is too
Spider: This must be the end of the world! All the people turning into pigs and ponies I can't let it happen to me!
Senator Exon: What is the reason for these hearings in front of the Commerce Committee?
FZ: Sex!
Well
FZ: Sex!
Senator Hawkins: Thank you. I think that statement tells the story to this committee
Rev. Jeff Ling: "Listen you little s*ut, do as you are told"
Senator Exon: What is the reason
FZ: Sex!
Senator Exon: For these hearings in front of the Commerce Committee?
FZ: Sex!
Underwear
FZ: Bondage!
Rev. Jeff Ling: Listen you little s*ut
Rev. Jeff Ling: Listen you little s*ut, do as you are told
FZ: Sex, and lots of it
Rev. Jeff Ling: Fixed her good
FZ: Sex! Sex! Sex! Sex!
Senator Hawkins: I would be interested to see what toys your kids ever had
FZ: Why would you be interested?
Senator Hawkins: Just as a point of interest in this
FZ: Well, come on over to the house. I'll show 'em to you Really!
Senator Hawkins: I I might do that
Senator Trible: Rape, incest, s**ual violence is like sandpaper to the soul
Senator Trible: Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Hollings: It's outrageous filth!
Senator Trible: Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
Senator Hawkins: Fire and chains and other
Senator Hollings: It's outrageous filth!
Senator Hawkins: Objectionable tools of gratification in some twisted minds
Johnny Guitar Watson: YEAH!
Senator Trible: Now the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Hollings: p**n rock
Senator Hollings: Willy nilly over the air
Senator Trible: Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
Senator Hawkins: Fire and chains and other
Senator Hollings: If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
Senator Hawkins: Objectionable tools of gratification in some twisted minds
Senator Trible: Now the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Johnny Guitar Watson: YEAH!
Senator Hollings: Something that we have got to give some kind of attention to
Senator Trible: The mere announcement of this hearing led to cries of censorship
Senator Trible: Now the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Hollings: p**n Rock
Senator Trible: Now the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Hollings: If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
Senator Trible: Rather the emotional damage
Chairman: Thank you very much, Mr. Zappa. You understand that the, the, ah, previous witnesses were not asking for legislation. And I, I don't know, I can't speak for Senator Hollings, but I think that the prevailing view here is that nobody is asking for legislation. The question is just focusing on what a lot of people perceived to be a problem, and you have indicated that you at least understand that there is another point of view
Senator Hollings: Willy nilly over the air
Senator Hollings: Willy nilly over the air
Senator Hollings: Willy nilly over the air
Chairman: Senator Gore
Senator Gore: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I found your statement very interesting and, ah, let me say although I disagree with some of the statements that you make and have made on other occasions, I have been a fan of your music, believe it or not. And I, I, ah, respect you as a true original and a tremendously talented musician
Spider: Ooh, wait a minute!
Senator Hollings: Maybe I could make a good rock-star, I don't know
Rev. Jeff Ling: Come with come with come with daddy!
Senator Hollings: Maybe I could make a good rock-star, I don't know
Rev. Jeff Ling: Come with come with daddy!
Senator Hollings: Maybe I could make a good rock-star, I don't know
Rev. Jeff Ling: Come with come with come with daddy!
Spider: They don't even understand their own music of course nobody does, but
John: They don't, they don't even know what they're doing
Spider: No!
John: I've, I've seen 'em a couple of times
Spider: Did did you see their uniforms?
John: Unbelievable!
Monica: Which ones? They, the red ones?
John: All those rhinestones over their rings and things like that
Monica: Do you know what I
John: Gold lame hoof-covers Unbelievable!
Senator Hollings: Maybe I could make a good rock-star
Senator Hollings: Maybe I could make a good rock-star
Rev. Jeff Ling: Gonna drive my love inside you
Etc
Senator Hollings: It's outrageous filth
Senator Hollings: It's outrageous filth
Rev. Jeff Ling: Come with daddy!
Etc., etc
Senator Hollings: Rock, rock, p**n Rock!
Senator Hollings: Rock p**n
Etc
Senator Hollings: Willy nilly over the air
Senator Hollings: An' I think your suggestion is a good one. If you print those words, that would go a long way to satisfying everyone's objections, I
FZ: All we have to do is find out how it is going to be paid for
Pyromania
No questions
Burn the building!
Burn! Burn! Burn!
Johnny Guitar Watson: YEAH!
Senator Hollings: If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it I would
Senator Hollings: Willy nilly over the air
Senator Hawkins: This issue is too hot not to cool down
Senator Hollings: So, I'll be looking from this Senator's standpoint, not just to bring pressures but to try to see if there is some constitutional provisions to tax, or approach that can be used on the Congress to limit this outrageous filth
Johnny Guitar Watson: YEAH!
Thing-Fish:
We'll get back to de wimp and his low-budget conceptium of personal freedom in just a moment. But foist, welcome to: WHAT DE fu*k GWINE ON HERE? (A celebratium o' de American way o' life!) I see some o' y'all be FROWNIN' 'cause mebbe y'think what I's tellin' ya' is a LIE! Am I right? Les' jes' have a test How many o' you nice folks think I knows what I's talkin' 'bout? RAISE Y'HAIN UP! Uh-huh! An' how many thinks my potato been bakin' too long? RAISE YO MIZZABLE HAIN UP! Uh-huh! Now how many you folks is CONVINCED de gubnint be totally 'UNCONCERNED' wit de proliferatium o' UNDESIRABLE TENANTS in de CONDOMINIUM o' LIFE? An' how many folks believe THEY number won't come up, next time de breeze blow fum de Easterly directium? Les' face it, peoples! Ugly as I mights be, I AM YO' FUTCHUM! Ain't that right, SISTER OB'DEWLLA? Hmm hmm! Oh, oh yeah! Tha** right!
Chairman: Senator Gorton
Senator Gorton: Mr. Zappa, I, ah, am astounded at the courtesy and soft-voiced nature of the comments of my friend, the Senator from Tennessee. I can only say that I found your statement to be boorish, ah, incredibly and insensitively insulting to the people that were here previously; that you could manage to give the first amendment of the Constitution of the United States a bad name, if I felt that you had the slightest understanding of it, which I do not. You do not have the slightest understanding of the difference between Government action and private action, and you have certainly destroyed any case you might otherwise have had with this Senator. Thank you, Mr. Chairman
FZ: Is this private action?
Rev. Jeff Ling: Degradation. Humiliation. Thrusting, shoving. Animals humping
Senator Hawkins?: There's no absolute right to free speech
FZ: I don't think this is constitutional
Tipper Gore: A voluntary labeling is not censorship
Rev. Jeff Ling: Bend up and smell my an*l vapor
Tipper Gore: A voluntary voluntary voluntary
Tipper Gore: A voluntary labeling is not censorship
Rev. Jeff Ling: Degradation humiliation
Well
Rev. Jeff Ling: Gonna drive my love inside of you
Well
FZ: Is this private action?
Senator Hawkins: In chains
Rev. Jeff Ling: Listen you little s*ut, do as you are told
Senator Hawkins?: There's no absolute right
Senator Hawkins?: There's no absolute right
Well
Well
Rev. Jeff Ling: Dressed in leather bondage, masks
Well
Rev. Jeff Ling: Bend up and smell my an*l vapor
There's no There's no
Chairman: Mr. Zappa, thank you very much for your testimony
FZ: Thank you
Chairman: Next witness is John Denver
Senator Hollings?: We haven't got 'em whipped on this one yet. You got a bear by the tail here, uh? Jeezis!