We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.
Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do.
And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.
I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.
We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious.
But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.
I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.
When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.
