Frank Zappa's nieuwe elpee zou de titel "Fred Zeplinnn" krijgen. Toen de plaat echter al helemaal klaar was overleed plotseling Led Zeppelin's drummer John Bonham. Het woordgrapje was toen niet leuk meer en Frank besloot op de valreep een andere titel aan z'n plaat te geven. Het werd "Crush All Boxes". Dat slaat op een al geruime tijd durende vete tussen hem en zijn vroegere platenmaatschappij, Warner Bros. Deze maatschappij wil achteraf nog geld proberen te maken uit de al lang ontbonden samenwerking met de oude meester. Het was de bedoeling om een aantal dozen (boxes) met verzamelplaten van ouder werk uit te brengen. En daar is Zappa het helemaal niet mee eens.
English translation (originally posted by Aad, with some further corrections):
Frank Zappa's new album was to be called "Fred Zeplinnn." However, after the record was completely finished, John Bonham, Led Zeppelin's drummer, suddenly died. Then the pun wasn't funny anymore, and Frank decided at the last moment to rename his recording. It became "Crush All Boxes," which refers to a feud that has existed for a while now between him and his previous recording company, Warner Bros. This company wants to still make money out of a cooperation with the old master that was terminated a long time ago. They were planning on releasing a number of boxes containing previously released stuff. And Zappa doesn't agree on that.
On the Fall Tour 80 booklet, it is printed "CRUSH ALL BOXES" on the back cover, and one of the official T-shirts of the tour read:
FRANK ZAPPA · TOUR 80
CRUSH ALL BOXES
ON
Barking Pumpkin Records
"Crush all boxes" is one of those notices you see around the business end of buildings --- "The white zone is for loading and unloading only" would belong to the same class of utterance.
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