| 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 |
| passed. 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 porn rock, as they call it. |
| In the test of pornography, 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, sexual 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: Porn 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 porn |
| 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: Porn rock! |
| Senator Trible: Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may |
| not be cataclysmic |
| Senator Hollings: Porn 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: Porn Rock |
| Senator Hollings: Porn Rock |
| Senator Hollings: Porn 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 porn rock porn rock porn |
| 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: Porn Rock |
| Senator Hollings: Porn Rock! |
| Senator Hollings: Porn Rock |
| Senator Hollings: Porn 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 slut, 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 slut |
| Rev. Jeff Ling: Listen you little slut, 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, sexual 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: Porn 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: Porn 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, Porn Rock! |
| Senator Hollings: Rock porn |
| 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 FUCK 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! Thass 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 anal 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 slut, 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 anal 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! |