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	Frank Zappa's 200 Motels Q&A by Co de Kloet
		FZ: 200 MOTELS is a SURREALISTIC DOCUMENTARY, but it might also be helpful to think of the overall "shape" of the film in the same way you might think of the "shape" of a piece of orchestra music, with leitmotifs, harmonic transpositions, slightly altered repetitions, cadences, atonal areas, counterpoint, polyrhythmic textures, onomatopoeic imitations, etc.
		200 MOTELS is the first full-length feature film to use this system, and some of the new optical effects made possible by this electronic technique are bound to attract the curiosity of adventurous film makers.
		200 MOTELS was shot in seven days, with video editing for 11 days, followed by refinements in the 35mm stage (at the usual film-handling work rate) of 3 months, sandwiched in between several concert tours.
	home.online.no /~corneliu/200motels.htm (1001 words)

	Frank Zappa: 200 Motels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Finally, via a licensing deal with MGM, Rykodisc is proud to announce the release of 200 MOTELS, the last vacancy in one of the most intricate, diverse and demented bodies of work in recording history.
		200 MOTELS, originally a United Artists (now a division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.) release features performances by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and narrator Theodore Bikel.
		200 Motels was the first feature film to be shot entirely on videotape and transferred to film; principal photography was completed in only seven eight-hour days at Pinewood Studios outside London.
	www.rykodisc.com /RykoInternal/Features/195/200 (338 words)

	200 Motels
		So when listening to the Rykodisc 200 Motels compact disc you are listening, for good or for bad, to an exact copy of this 1971 2-track stereo master which Zappa delivered to United Artists.
		From David G: I don't think 200 Motels is compressed nearly as much as Pat says (nor, for that matter, is it as compressed as many of Zappa's own remasters).
		Since 200 Motels was unavailable on CD for so long, several bootleg CDs have been issued.
	www.lukpac.org /~handmade/patio/vinylvscds/200motels.html (3313 words)

	Holland Festival 200 Motels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was given carte blanche to study and rearrange the many recordings, transcriptions and directions for 200 Motels left by Zappa.
		The film 200 Motels (1972) is a travelogue of the experiences of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention while on tour.
		A new motel meant ’another tuna sandwich, but from a different caterer.’ The film takes a surrealistic look at life on the road.
	www.geocities.com /pdoelder.geo/200motels.html (501 words)

	SAPAAN: Vol. 2 Fall 2003 - Frank Zappa's 200 Motels and the Theater of the Absurd by Peter Evans
		200 Motels provides us with an opportunity to codify the connection between Zappa's music and the Theatre of the Absurd, since its production relies upon theatrical elements, such as scripted dialogue, staging and characterizations, which links it to the works of playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Arthur Adamov and others.
		While the Theatre of the Absurd philosophically believed that the atrocities of World War II brought about the "sense of senselessness'' of human life, as described previously, the reference to Auschwitz in 200 Motels contributes to the "sense of senselessness'' of the orchestral musicians life and relates 200 Motels to the Absurdist oeuvre.
		This scene mirrors the way the score of 200 Motels was first written, while on the road with inspiration from secretly tape-recorded snippets from the band members' conversations in motel rooms on past tours.
	www.sapaan.com /vol2/evans.htm (4925 words)

	200 Motels VHS
		FZ's first movie, 200 Motels, is supposedly about "life on the road" as seen from the perspective of a touring rock n roll band like the Mothers of Invention.
		As a longtime Zappa fan, I'd owned the soundtrack to "200 Motels" for a decade or so before I ever had the chance to view the film itself.
		Now, I always considered "200 Motels" one of Frank's weakest recorded efforts, but figured given proper visual and narrative context I'd be able to give the effort a fair chance.
	www.supermantv.net /630196392X/200_Motels.html (479 words)

	200 Motels
		It's only motel was a dump, the sort of place where only one letter of the neon sign still lights up.
		There were 17 motels in Lordsburg and all except 2 had big signs saying 'American owned'.
		The motel lady told me that drive-by shootings were big in Texas.
	www.clarence.ndirect.co.uk /biketheworld/usa.htm (2002 words)

	200 Motels (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		200 Motels was shot in seven days and after only five days of rehearsal; Pamela Miller commented 'the movie seemed to be over in seconds because Frank was using videotape.' It was filmed on four silmutaneously running video cameras.
		As 200 Motels was shot direct to video, using the same ratio as standard TV, there's no need for letter-boxing.
		Now I'm not saying that this is what happened on the 200 Motels tracks because I've never heard the multi-track masters, I thought I'd let you know that FZ often did things that were contrary to conventional wisdom (as if I'd have to remind any of you).
	www.globalia.net.cob-web.org:8888 /donlope/fz/videography/200_Motels.html (3897 words)

	Amazon.com: 200 Motels: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD]: Music: Frank Zappa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As always, the Zappa of 200 Motels sometimes confuses the profound with the obscene, but with every passing year, he seems more likely to take his place alongside the great American modernist Charles Ives, another composer whose work was every bit as commercially troubled and artistically misunderstood.
		On this album, the 200 Motels Finale is preceded by a song called "Strictly Genteel" which is sung by actor Theodore Bikel.
		200 Motels is the center piece of the Flo & Eddie era -- in fact, the raison d'etre for the band.
	www.amazon.com /200-Motels-Original-Soundtrack-Enhanced/dp/B0000009SB (2222 words)

	Rock Climbing Forums: Climbing Information: Regional Discussions: Approach to "200 Motels" in Rattlesnake ...
		My climbing partner and I hiked up to "200 Motels" and "Taken for Granite" this past weekeng.
		A small group of us did 200 motels a few months ago, and it took us about 90min to get to and 60min to get back (mostly downhill).
		The trail up to the crack was hard to find, and thus it's easy to overshoot and go too far, however the wall is visible as you hike up along the wash.
	www.rockclimbing.com /cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1313219 (260 words)

	Channel4.com - SlashMusic - 200 Motels
		Finally released on a pair of CDs in 1997 (26 years after it's initial release on vinyl), 200 MOTELS is the soundtrack to Frank Zappa's wacky 1971 motion picture of the same name, which starred Ringo Starr and Keith Moon, among others.
		Although it enjoyed success as a "midnight movie" in the '70s/early '80s, 200 MOTELS is a difficult movie to comprehend, since the storyline is very abstract (some have hinted that it was made up on the spot!).
		But even when his music is difficult to understand, Zappa includes many interesting twists and turns, and the soundtrack for 200 MOTELS is no different.
	www.channel4.com /music/music-core/album.jsp?albumId=293384 (227 words)

	Ground and Sky review - Frank Zappa - 200 Motels
		We get to see a surreal, stylized version of what it's like to be in a rock band on the road, as they visit small towns, redneck bars, and of course, 200 motels.
		The mere human mind boggles at the philosophical implications as Frank Zappa's 200 Motels is unleashed in the totality of its pagan splendor, its primordial fury, star studded cast and everything!".
		Anyway, the project was inspired by Frank's experiences touring with his band, as well as by his desire at the time to arrange orchestral music for an orchestra instead of for a rock band, which he had already been doing.
	www.progreviews.com /reviews/display.php?rev=fz-200m (1546 words)

	200 Motels
		Ringo was very much the nice fellow himself during the filming of "200 Motels." Hanging out in the pub at Pinewood with the lot of us, like one of the guys.
		Tony actually uses some of the same visual effects from 200 motels during the musical portions of the documentary.
		True or False: "200 Motels" was premiered at an old folks home, possibly in Baltimore, with Frank in attendance.
	globalia.net /donlope/fz/videography/200_Motels.html (3897 words)

	TIME.com: Reservations Required -- Nov. 29, 1971 -- Page 1
		"That is what 200 Motels is all about." It would be foolhardy to take Zappa at his word, of course.
		If it can really be said to be "about" anything, 200 Motels is about the effect it has on the audience, which is not always pleasant and is occasionally exasperating and even disconcerting.
		Another part takes place in a cavernous recording studio, where Zappa can fleetingly be seen leading the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of his composition 200 Motels, which is made up of equal parts of Spike Jones, John Cage and Buddy Holly.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,877451,00.html (541 words)

	200 Motels (1971) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Oh, and guys out there, I wouldn't recommend showing this to your girlfriend unless she is a big Zappa fan.
		By all means, I do NOT recommend planning a romantic evening with a girl with standard pop culture tastes that is bookended by playing her samples of your Magma and King Crimson collection and then ending with a screening of 200 Motels, not even as an experiment.
		Trust me, I have tried this (once) and the results were not good.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0066732 (467 words)

	Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ispirato da questa visitazione notturna mi accingo a parlarvi un po' di 200 Motels, vorticoso pasticcio musical-cinematografico sublimemente trash realizzato nel 1971 dal mai abbastanza lodato Frank Zappa.
		Tanto basterebbe in altri contesti ad aprire un dibattito sul "chi prima" e "chi dopo", ma nell'economia di 200 Motels e' talmente grande la quantita' di carne messa al fuoco da Zappa da relegare un tale primato tecnologico al rango di mera curiosita'.
		Un sorprendente Ringo Starr gigioneggia per tutto il film camuffato da Frank Zappa nella parte di Larry il nano, sinistro emissario di Zappa stesso incaricato di spiare e reprimere i moti di ribellione dei musicisti stressati dall'alienante vagabondare di citta' in citta', di palcoscenico in palcoscenico, di motel in motel.
	www.capitantrash.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Deposito/14/zappa.htm (584 words)

	200 Motels - Moviefone
		Understanding 200 MOTELS 200 Motels is not just a movie.
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	movies.aol.com /movie/200-motels/1078328/main (155 words)

	200 Motels - Frank Zappa - Song Listings
		The movie's story was not easy to follow, and neither is the record (not that plot was ever a big focus of the production).
		Wide Screen Erupts [200 Motels Promotional Radio Spots][*][Take]
		Frank Zappa's 200 Motels [200 Motels Promotional Radio Spots][*][Take]
	www.mp3.com /albums/86099/summary.html (1093 words)

	200 Motels News
		200 Motels News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		S Best Bet: One of the most famous rock groupies is in Austin tonight, not to find another conquest, but to introduce a screening of Frank Zappa's movie "200 Motels," in which she stars, at the Alamo Downtown.
		Save for an unexpected pair of top-40 hits in "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" and "Valley Girl," Frank Zappa didn't make much of a dent in the mainstream in his quarter century as a recorded artist.
	www.topix.net /movies/200-motels (219 words)

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		After taking a month off due to Kim breaking her arm, 200 Motels are ready and raring to gig again!!
		200 Motels are currently numbers 29, 31 and 32 in Triple J Unearthed's overall chart and are nos 10-12 on the rock chart!
		The EP was launched to a packed room on October 27 at the Jade Monkey, supported by the fabulous Winter's Lament and Former Child Stars.
	www.musicsa.com.au /artists/200motels (384 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : 200 Motels : Main
		A truly bizarre head movie, 200 Motels claims to be about life on the road for the touring musician.
		One of the first feature-length movies to be shot on videotape and tr...
		Less a movie than a purposely crude series of musical vignettes and inside jokes for die-hard fans, Frank Zappa informs viewers in the opening scene that "Touring can make you crazy, ladies and gentlemen, and that is what 200 Motels is all about." The rest of the plot-less production is filled with more self-reflexive reminders,...
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/77806/moviemain.jhtml (171 words)

	200 Motels (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		If you'd just been lowered down here on TV by a wire connected to a brown leather harness, forced by a crazy person to insert a mysterious, imported lamp into the reproductive-rep-rep-rep into-into the rep-rep-reproductive orifice of a lady harpist and you were a dwarf.
		Ahmet Ertegun used this towel as a bathmat six weeks ago at a rancid motel in Orlando, Florida, with the highest MILDEW rating of any commercial lodging facility within the territorial limits of the United States, naturally excluding tropical possessions.
		Dick Barber David Alexander Dear Tommy, 200 MOTELS I would be grateful if you would ensure that all meals, bar bills and orders for coffee, etc., are, from this date forwards, to be paid for by the person ordering them.
	www.globalia.net.cob-web.org:8888 /donlope/fz/videos/200_Motels.html (5558 words)

	Frank Zappa--200 Motels
		The listener travels with the band across America via the seediest motels in the world, burned out from the road, hungry for sex and drugs, and bored with Frank's shenanigans (like secretly recording the members of the band in their hotel rooms and using it for new material).
		Frank was so disgusted with the red tape and politics that accompanied the making of the film that he never sought to write another one.
		That he could pull it off with so much to do and so little time and money was one thing; that everyone involved could do the same was a miracle.
	www.penduluminc.com /MM/February/rev029809.html (361 words)

	SwapThing.com - 200
		This reproduction 11" x 17" Masterprint Poster - German Style A is from the 1971 movie "200 Motels"....
		This reproduction 11" x 17" Masterprint Poster - Style A is from the 1971 movie "200 Motels".
		This reproduction 11" x 17" Masterprint Poster - Style A is from the 1999 movie "200 Cigarettes".
	www.swapthing.com /search/tagSearch/200 (114 words)

	200 Motels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Special material by Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman, and Jeff Simmons
		Directed and written by Tony Palmer and Zappa.
		This page was last modified 06:03, 28 December 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/200_Motels (1014 words)

	Frank Zappa - 200 Motels (1971) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Meanwhile, the devil tries to tempt members of the band, some members leave for exciting new solo careers, and other members compete for the attention of groupies.
		My theory is that by this point the musicians have finally gone crazy, so this section isn't supposed to make sense.
		write-up, I mentioned that Zappa should have used the version of Holiday in Berlin that had lyrics somewhere in 200 Motels.
	home.epix.net /~eichler/reviews/zappa/200motel.htm (1076 words)

	Amazon.com: 200 Motels: Video: Dick Barber,Theodore Bikel,Jimmy Carl Black,George Duke,Aynsley Dunbar,Janet ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Though there are a handful of memorable moments - most notable, perhaps, being Jimmy Carl Black ("the Indian of the group") as Lonesome Cowboy Bert - the work as a whole adds up to one long, unholy and self-indulgent piece of lime horse pucky.
		While this factoid accounts for its over-saturated and nausea-inducing color scheme, it does little to explain its total lack of focus, melody, character or narrative flow.
		Forget death metal or honky-tonk; if I were to pick an artistic piece by which to do myself in, "200 Motels" would surely top the list.
	www.amazon.com /200-Motels-Dick-Barber/dp/630196392X (1789 words)

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