Chairman John Danforth:
The reason for this hearing is not to promote any legislation. Indeed, I don't know of any suggestion that any legislation be passed. But to simply provide a forum for airing the issue itself, for ventilating the issue, for bringing it out in the public domain. Senator Hollings

Senator Hollings:
I've had the opportunity to, ah, attend a, a showing, you might say, or presentation of, ah, this porn rock, as they call it. In the test of pornography, one of the things to look at is it, it does not have any redeeming social value. Ah, there could be an exception here, because having attended that pres, presentation, the redeeming social value I find that is inaudible. I have a hard time understanding it, then. Paul, since I traveled the country for 3 years, 'n they said they could not understand me. Maybe I could make a good rock star; I don't know. Heh . . . But in all candor, I would tell you it's, it's outrageous filth. So, I'll be looking from this Senator's standpoint, not just to bring pressures but to try to see if there is some constitutional provisions to tax, or approach that can be used on the Congress to limit this outrageous filth

Chairman:
Senator Trible

Senator Trible:
Rape, incest, sexual violence
Senator Hollings:
It's outrageous filth
Senator Trible:
Is like sandpaper to the soul . . . Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Hollings:
It's outrageous filth!
Senator Trible:
Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
Senator Hawkins:
Fire and chains and
Senator Hollings:
It's outrageous filth!
Senator Hawkins:
Other . . . objectionable . . . tools of gratification in some twisted mind
Johnny Guitar Watson:
YEAH!
Senator Trible:
Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Hollings:
Porn Rock
Senator Trible:
Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
Senator Hollings:
Willy nilly over the air
Senator Trible:
The mere announcement of this heari . . . censorship
Senator Hollings:
If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
Senator Hawkins:
Fire and chains and . . . other . . . objectionable
Senator Hollings:
Rock porn
Senator Hawkins:
Tools of gratification in some twisted mind
Johnny Guitar Watson:
YEAH!
Senator Trible:
Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Hollings:
Porn rock!
Senator Trible:
Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Hollings:
Porn rock!
Senator Trible:
Rather the emotional damage
Senator Hollings:
If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
Senator Hawkins:
This issue is too hot not to cool down
Senator Trible:
Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
Senator Hollings:
Porn Rock
Porn Rock
Porn Rock
Senator Hawkins:
Burn! Burn . . . !
Senator Hollings: Willy nilly over the air
Willy nilly over the air
Willy nilly over the air
Rock porn . . . rock porn . . . rock porn
Senator Hawkins:
This issue is too hot not to cool down
Fire and chains and . . . other . . . objectionable . . . tools of gratification in some twisted mind
This issue is too hot not to cool down
Senator Hollings:
Porn Rock
Porn Rock!
Porn Rock
Porn Rock!
Senator Hawkins:
This issue is too
Spider:
This must be the end of the world! All the people turning into pigs and ponies . . . I can't let it happen to me!

Senator Exon:
What is the reason for these hearings in front of the Commerce Committee?
Frank Zappa:
Sex!
Senator Hawkins:
Well
Frank Zappa:
Sex!
Senator Hawkins:
Thank you. I think that statement tells the story to this committee
Rev. Jeff Ling:
"Listen you little slut, do as you are told"
Senator Exon:
What is the reason
Frank Zappa:
Sex!
Senator Exon:
For these hearings in front of the Commerce Committee?
Frank Zappa:
Sex!
Underwear
Frank Zappa:
Bondage!
Rev. Jeff Ling:
Listen you little slut
Listen you little slut, do as you are told
Frank Zappa:
Sex, and lots of it
Rev. Jeff Ling:
Fixed her good
Frank Zappa:
Sex! Sex! Sex! Sex!
Senator Hawkins:
I'd be interested to see what toys your kids ever had
Frank Zappa:
Why would you be interested?
Senator Hawkins: Just as a point of interest in this
Frank Zappa:
Well, come on over to the house. I'll show 'em to you . . . Really!
Senator Hawkins:
I . . . I might do that

Senator Trible:
Rape, incest, sexual violence . . . is like sandpaper to the soul
Senator Trible:
Now, the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Hollings:
T's outrageous filth!
Senator Trible:
Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
Senator Hawkins:
Fire and chains and . . . other
Senator Hollings:
It's outrageous filth!
Senator Hawkins:
Objectionable . . . tools of gratification in some twisted minds
Johnny Guitar Watson:
YEAH!
Senator Trible:
Now the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Hollings:
Porn rock
Willy nilly over the air
Senator Trible:
Rather the emotional damage is more subtle
Senator Hawkins:
Fire and chains and . . . other
Senator Hollings:
If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
Senator Hawkins:
Objectionable . . . tools of gratification in some twisted minds
Senator Trible:
Now the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Johnny Guitar Watson:
YEAH!
Senator Hollings:
Something that we have got to give some kind of attention to
Senator Trible:
The mere announcement of this hearing led to cries of censorship
Now the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Hollings:
Porn Rock
Senator Trible:
Now the effects of such lyrics on a well adjusted child may not be cataclysmic
Senator Hollings:
If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, I would
Senator Trible:
Rather the emotional damage
Chairman:
Thank you very much, Mr. Zappa. You understand that the, the, ah, previous witnesses were not asking for legislation. And I, I don't know, I can't speak for Senator Hollings, but I think that the prevailing view here is that nobody is asking for legislation. The question is just focusing on what a lot of people perceived to be a problem, and you have indicated that you at least understand that there is another point of view

Senator Hollings:
Willy nilly over the air
Willy nilly over the air
Willy nilly over the air

Chairman:
Senator Gore

Senator Gore:
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I found your statement very interesting and, ah, let me say although I disagree with some of the statements that you make and have made on other occasions, I have been a fan of your music, believe it or not. And I, I, ah, respect you as a true original and a tremendously talented musician

Spider:
Ooh, wait a minute!

Senator Hollings:
Maybe I could make a good rock-star, I don't know
Rev. Jeff Ling:
Come with . . . come with . . . come with daddy!
Senator Hollings:
Maybe I could make a good rock-star, I don't know
Rev. Jeff Ling:
Come with . . . come with daddy!
Senator Hollings:
Maybe I could make a good rock-star, I don't know
Rev. Jeff Ling: Come with . . . come with . . . come with daddy!

Spider:
They don't even understand their own music . . . of course nobody does, but
John:
They don't, they don't even know what they're doing
Spider:
No!
John:
I've, I've seen 'em a couple of times
Spider:
Did . . . did you see their uniforms?
John:
Unbelievable!
Monica:
Which ones? They, the red ones?
John:
All those rhinestones over their rings and things like that
Monica:
Do you know what I
John:
Gold lamé hoof-covers . . . Unbelievable!

Senator Hollings:
Maybe I could make a good rock-star
Maybe I could make a good rock-star
Rev. Jeff Ling:
Gonna drive my love inside you
Etc
Senator Hollings:
It's outrageous filth
It's outrageous filth
Rev. Jeff Ling:
Come with daddy!
Etc., etc
Senator Hollings:
Rock, rock, Porn Rock!
Rock porn
Etc
Willy nilly over the air

Senator Hollings:
An' I think your suggestion is a good one. If you print those words, that would go a long way to satisfying everyone's objections, I
Frank Zappa:
All we have to do is find out how it is going to be paid for

Senator Hawkins:
This issue is too hot not to cool down
Senator Hawkins:
Pyromania. Burn the building! Burn! Burn! Burn! No question. Burn the building! Burn! Burn! Burn!
Senator Trible:
The mere announcement of this hearing led to cries of censorship
Johnny Guitar Watson:
YEAH!
Senator Trible:
Not the self-appointed guardians of the national morality, as some would suggest
Senator Hollings:
If I could find some way constitutionally to do away with it I would
Within the constrictions of free speech
Willy nilly over the air
Senator Hawkins:
This issue is too hot not to cool down
Senator Hollings:
So, I'll be looking from this Senator's standpoint, not just to bring pressures but to try to see if there is some constitutional provisions to tax, or approach that can be used on the Congress to limit this outrageous filth
Johnny Guitar Watson:
YEAH!

Thing-Fish:
We'll get back to de wimp and his low-budget conceptium of personal freedom in just a moment. But foist, welcome to: WHAT DE FUCK GWINE ON HERE? (A celebratium o' de American way o' life!) I see some o' y'all be FROWNIN' . . . cause mebbe y'think what I's tellin' ya' is a LIE! Am I right? Les' jes' have a test . . . How many o' you nice folks think I knows what I's talkin' 'bout? RAISE Y'HAIN UP! Uh-huh! An' how many thinks my potato been bakin' too long? RAISE YO MIZZABLE HAIN UP! Uh-huh! Now . . . how many you folks is CONVINCED de gubnint be totally 'UNCONCERNED' wit de proliferatium o' UNDESIRABLE TENANTS in de CONDOMINIUM o' LIFE? An' how many folks believe THEY number won't come up, next time de breeze blow fum de Easterly directium? Les' face it, peoples! Ugly as I mights be, I AM YO' FUTCHUM! Ain't that right, SISTER OB'DEWLLA? Hmm hmm! Oh, oh yeah! Thass right!

Chairman: Senator Gorton
Senator Gorton: Mr. Zappa, I, ah, am astounded at the courtesy and soft-voiced nature of the comments of my friend, the Senator from Tennessee. I can only say that I found your statement to be boorish, ah, incredibly and insensitively insulting to the people that were here previously; that you could manage to give the first amendment of the Constitution of the United States a bad name, if I felt that you had the slightest understanding of it, which I do not. You do not have the slightest understanding of the difference between Government action and private action, and you have certainly destroyed any case you might otherwise have had with this Senator. Thank you, Mr. Chairman
Frank Zappa:
Is this private action?

Rev. Jeff Ling:
Degradation. Humiliation. Thrusting, shoving. Animals humping
Senator Hawkins:
There's no absolute right to free speech
Frank Zappa:
I don't think this is constitutional
Tipper Gore:
A voluntary labeling is not censorship
Rev. Jeff Ling:
Bend up and smell my anal vapor
Tipper Gore:
A voluntary . . . voluntary . . . voluntary . . . A voluntary labeling is not censorship

Rev. Jeff Ling:
Degradation . . . humiliation . . . thrusting
Senator Hawkins:
Well
Ref. Jeff Ling:
Whips in their hands
Senator Hawkins:
I'd be interested to see what toys your kids ever had
Rev. Jeff Ling:
Gonna drive my love inside of you
Senator Hawkins:
Well
Frank Zappa:
Is this private action?
Rev. Jeff Ling:
In chains
Senator Hawkins:
Well
Rev. Jeff Ling:
Listen you little slut, do as you are told
Senator Hawkins:
There's no absolute right
There's no absolute right
Rev. Jeff Ling:
My apologies
Senator Hawkins:
There's no absolute right
Rev. Jeff Ling:
Whips in their hands
Senator Hawkins:
Well
Frank Zappa:
Ladies, how dare you?
Senator Hawkins:
Well
Rev. Jeff Ling:
Dressed in leather bondage masks
Senator Hawkins:
Well
Rev. Jeff Ling:
Brutal erotica
Senator Hollings:
You and I would differ on what's ignorance and educated
Frank Zappa:
Bondage!
Rev. Jeff Ling:
Bend up and smell my anal vapor
Senator Hawkins:
There's no . . . There's no
Rev. Jeff Ling:
Come with daddy!

Chairman:
Mr. Zappa, thank you very much for your testimony
Frank Zappa:
Thank you
Chairman:
Next witness is John Denver
Senator Hollings:
We haven't got 'em whipped on this one yet. You got a bear by the tail here, uh? Jeezis!