FROM STRAIGHT TO BIZARRE

• from straight to bizarre
  (2012, dvd, uk, chrome dreams)

Chrome Dreams made another Zappa-related release available. "From Straight To Bizarre" takes a look at Zappa's and Herb Cohen's Straight and Bizarre labels. The DVD offers interviews with participating artists and with Zappa biographers: Billy James, Ben Watson, Essra Mohawk, Pamela Des Barres, Kim Fowley, Jerry Lawson (of Persuasions fame), Jeff Simmons, John French, Bill Harkleroad, ...
And there's, of course, also a nice collections of video fragments: The Mothers, Beefheart, Wild Man, Alice Cooper, The GTO's, Essra Mohawk,...