The 'Easter' bit in the title is as good an excuse as any for posting this clip of Frank Zappa performing (yet another) great solo, this one from his 1979 rock opera Joe's Garage.
Even if you're not a Zappaholic, Joe's Garage is still worth your time. Many of the themes Zappa weaves into his music are as topical now as ever: outlawing music, the inspiration for which came apparently from the Iranian Revolution (which in 1979 did just that, among many other things), is not far from similar practices favoured today e.g. by the ever-progressive Taleban.
Best of all is the First Church of Appliantology and its latent 'appliance-fetishist' leader, L. Ron Hoover - Zappa's parody of Ron Hubbard and his dodgy (to put it most mildly) Church of Scientology. Though, come to think of it, given that the opera unequivocally criticises standard McCarthyite techniques, I suspect that the choice of name, i.e. Hoover, was a double entendre, alluding not only to Hubbard but also to Edgar J. Hoover, notorious master of the FBI during McCarthy's witch-hunts of Communists and anyone marginally on the Left.
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