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Tell us how you got involved in 200 Motels Uh, it was very strange actually A call came from the office, the Apple office at the time That, uh, Frank Zappa had this idea And he wanted to come and present it to me So I thought, "Oh, great," 'cause, you know I'd heard Frank's music, you know You know, in a very musical way, it was pretty wacky actually And, uh, so I invited Frank to, to my house Where he, he came with a, a huge, um, score And he laid this huge score out and he said, uh "You know, I've got this idea, I wanna make this movie, and hеre's the score" And I thought, "Why arе you showing me the score? I cannot read music But because of that, I will do the movie" So that's how it happened and he was very, uh, very straight So he told me he wanted me to play him 'Cause he just wanted to be, like, the musician in it, so Also it was, like, you know, pretty strange Like, the Ringo playing Frank, and then Frank being a musician So it was, it was a nice premise and I hung out with musicians So that was always a good deal It was, it was filmed in a very short period of time under fairly chaotic circumstances It was, uh, filmed very fast And a lot of it, though there was the outline and some script I mean, sometimes, you just made it up, um And, you know, I was like the devil Frank And I would take the band when they were ordering food or whatever, you know, talking And then Frank'd write a song about it and force them to play it and sing it Which was fun So, it was a really nice experience for me In many ways, it was a kind of a send up of the whole pop star scene (It was) Did that appeal, did that appeal to you? (It does) And, uh, you couldn't get a bigger pop star than me at the time What was it like working with him? It was good, you know, uh Everyone had that image at the time Frank was like this drug fiend and You know, we all know now and I knew then that, uh It's not something Frank got involved with at all He just, uh, just his image came across like "Oh, god, he's gotta be on drugs," you know? And, uh, that was it Can you remember seeing the film and did it— I did see the film Oh yeah, it was good, you know, it was good and it— Again, because it was fast and we did it and it was just a film Uh, you know, it wasn't, wasn't pretentious, you know? Like, "Oh, we're making this movie" Like some rock 'n' roll movies started to get in the end It was good It's nearly as good as Greece's Palace Anyway, that's it really, I mean what else can I say? It was a really nice experience, uh Frank was an incredible musician and that's the end of it