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hat incident was very strange to me. First of all the tour schedule was printed on a box of matches. Second, on the day before the fire, in the middle of my solo on ‘King Kong’, someone ran out on the stage and issued a fire warning. On the next night, in the middle of my solo on ‘King Kong’, some one threw a firecracker up to the ceiling, which was covered with dry palm leaves, and started the fire. While that was happening Zappa¹s sewer backed up in his LA home and the entire basement studio was flooded with piss and shit.
Hilarious, but not nearly as hilarious as
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We were sitting there watching Frank Zappa play and suddenly someone had one of those flare guns and decided to let it off. It set the roof on fire. Frank turned around and said, "Now everybody calm down." He then threw down his guitar and jumped out the window. It was quite funny. He wanted to be the first one out. We then had about 15 minutes before the place was gutted, which was frightening. If memory serves when Frank told the story he was more like a traffic cop and made sure all the kids got out first. Ritchie never took drugs, but did tend to drink so maybe his recollection of Zappa leaping out a window is blurred, so the question is: what really happened? Did Zappa throw down his guitar (SG?) and leap out the window while Blackmore sat calmly and observed as the place burned down or is this like the Kurosawa film Rashamon, where everyone remembers things somewhat differently?
....except that we do have a bootleg of that concert where, yes, Zappa is calmly telling everyone not to panic and to leave in an orderly fashion. Man, Zappa must have been a real dick to get everyone hating him so much......
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