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Classic DVD Review: Frank Zappa | Baby Snakes & Does Humour Belong In Music?

Two of the iconiclastic icon's long-unavailable live sets make a digital return.

This came out in 2003 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Zappaphiles rejoice: Two of the iconoclastic genius’s long-unavailable videos are finally back in circulation. Of the pair, 1979’s Baby Snakes — 140 minutes of magnificent live performances, backstage absurdity and claymation dementia — is the hands-down favourite. But the 1984 concert video Does Humour Belong In Music?, while tame by comparison, is still essential for completists.