Carolyn Dean & Bob Neveritt | 40 Years in the Wilderness, 1984

Frank Zappa performs at the Metro Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the night Ronald Reagan was re-elected, November 6, 1984.

Attendees: Art McKay, Bob, SkyGoddess Sue, Greg Skinner, and Garrett Deane.

Steve Jamieson, Bob’s original colleague in the Frank Zappa cult of the ’60s, was sitting on the other side of the Center.

Bob was the only person standing and air-guitaring in the whole Center.

Garrett and Bob celebrating the fact they witnessed Frank Zappa’s awesome guitar solos.

SkyGoddess Sue and Garrett, acoustically sated.

These three pictures were taken by SkyGoddess Sue at the Halifax Citadel Hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on November 7, 1984.

Frank Zappa had played the night before at the Halifax Metro Centre, the night Ronald Reagan was re-elected.

This was one of the most important conversations for Zappa in the 1980s.

I had sent him a collection of recordings by Mae Brussell in August, 1984, and we are here discussing the importance of her information (Zappa had listened to them a few months before).

When Zappa was preparing to address Congress at the PMRC Senate Hearing on Rock Lyrics on September 19, 1985, he called Mae Brussell.

In the course of a long phone call, Mae gave the “goods” on all the politicians that he would be addressing.

Thanks to what Mae told him, he was able to walk into the hearing with great confidence – nobody was going to “mess” with him with the information he had on their “skeletons in the closet”.

In gratitude for how Mae had helped him, Zappa gave Mae a brand new computer a few months later.

Frank Zappa, Part One – interviewed by Howard Stern, late 1987
(start at 7:49 and end at 19:00)

Frank Zappa, Part Two – interviewed by Howard Stern, late 1987
(start at 21:50 and end at 28:41)