About this episode

The episode explores the history and components of Frank Zappa's radio project, The Impossible Concert.

Folks, more than ten years before there was the YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE series, there was THE IMPOSSIBLE CONCERT, a project put together by Frank for radio broadcast that was the prototype for the Stage series. In this hysterical, historical episode, Vaultmeister Joe takes Scott and Bill through the history of this project, we uncover some of its component pieces and speculate on others, and have a spiffnificent time! Get on down, y'all!

People in this episode

Hosts: Scott, Bill

Topics covered

• Frank Zappa
• radio broadcast
• music history
• concerts
• comedy

Keywords

• Frank Zappa
• Impossible Concert
• music
• radio
• comedy
• history

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON STAGE ANYMORE, THE IMPOSSIBLE CONCERT

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