{"id":3191,"date":"2011-10-11T06:36:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T13:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/10\/she-was-a-strait-laced-english-typist-he-was-a-sexually-incontinent-rock-innovator\/"},"modified":"2011-10-17T06:45:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T13:45:17","slug":"she-was-a-strait-laced-english-typist-he-was-a-sexually-incontinent-rock-innovator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/11\/she-was-a-strait-laced-english-typist-he-was-a-sexually-incontinent-rock-innovator\/","title":{"rendered":"“She was a strait-laced English typist. He was a sexually incontinent rock innovator.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Frank Zappa, his groupies and me<\/h1>\n

She was a strait-laced English typist. He was a sexually incontinent rock innovator. So why on earth did Pauline Butcher become Frank Zappa’s secretary?<\/em><\/p>\n

Deborah Orr<\/a>
\nMonday 3 October 2011 14.59 EDT<\/p>\n

\"Pauline<\/p>\n

Pauline Butcher with Frank Zappa backstage in Anaheim in 1968 Photograph: Plexus Books<\/em><\/p>\n

One single incident serves as a perfect illustration of just what an extraordinarily unusual and charismatic person the US musician\u00a0Frank Zappa<\/a>, who died in 1993, must have been. In 1968, a year that saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, a man turned up on the doorstep at the Log Cabin, the ramshackle, open-all-hours-to-all-comers crash pad in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, that Zappa and numerous other weird people called home. “My name is Raven. I brought you a present,” this stranger announced, handing to Zappa a transparent bag, apparently filled with blood, before pointing a revolver at his chest.<\/p>\n

Calmly, Zappa cajoled and manipulated Raven into walking with him, and numerous spectators, including Zappa’s 24-year-old English secretary, to a nearby lake. He then persuaded everyone present to start throwing things into the water, including Raven, who threw in his gun. The secretary, Pauline Butcher, threw in a twig, which “floated on the algae” causing her to look round “apologetically”. After that, Zappa, shoved the bag of blood back into Raven’s hand, saying: “You must leave now.” Raven did. Immediately exhorted by the many witnesses to call the police, Zappa refused. Why? “Because if I call the police, the police will arrest him and he’ll go to jail and no one deserves to go to jail.”<\/p>\n

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