8/9 was named Zappa Day when Zappa Plays Zappa was in town last year at the Rams Head. Awesome show by the way. I've seen them three times. They'll be through the area again this year.

I'd gladly display the monument in my front yard along Bellona Avenue. Maybe they could display it in the MICA area and have Zappa Plays Zappa at Artscape. That would be cool.

Great Idea. Maybe Dwezil and Co can come back a play a set when the bust gets put up. And I thought Philly's Hall & Oats Day was pretty cool. Ours is better!. Yea us!

But I don't think it should be displayed in a large area. You should have to look for it. Kind like the music. It was always there but you had to really get into it to find it. That's just my opinion. MICA would be cool or near some crazy-ass sculptures around town.

The BSO might be up for that. If you've seen http://www.bsomusic.org/main.taf?p=1,17" rel="nofollow">their summer schedule, it includes Zeppelin, the Dead, and a night devoted to music from video games.

I was at the 1995 unveiling in Vilnius, Lithuania.

I have to say that the people behind this, The Zappa Club of Lithuania were/are an extra-ordinary bunch of artists and poets. They managed to get this iconic monument installed in a better place than they possibly hoped, after the original location at the outskirts of Vilnius was blackballed, There are a few appalling sculptural depictions of FZ in the world, but this one that I hope the people of Baltimore take willingly is a masterpiece, by a fine master craftman..working from his medieval studio, just like an alchemist.

See my photos and story on the Zappa forum (google my username: diplomaticpermissiondeepi)

Best Wishes

Deepinder Cheema, Birmingham ENGLAND.

Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar!

All props to Willie Don, but a Frank Zappa sculpture would be a real Freak Out! and more exciting than Hizzoner, at least to this music fan. I agree with DB it should be somewhere you have to look for it, just like the music (park it in Joe's Garage, perhaps?). Consider the hipster factor, as well as the tourism angle. I'd rather have it here than move it to Montana soon (gonna be a dental floss tycoon...)

And every year on his birthday, we could all gather and Sheik Yerbouti!

This is a disgusting idea. I hope the good people of Baltimore come to their senses and ban this statue. Frank Zappa set a terrible example for children and deserves nothing but out contempt, not this sycophantic worship of a drugged out has been.

Zappa was always an outspoken advocate against drug use and never did hard drugs (in his bio he claimed he tried pot a handful of times; other have claimed he didn't even know what hash was when he saw it).

He was also arguably the pre-eminent modern composer of the latter half of the 20th century. And he was an original thinker and iconoclast.

Baltimore would do well to honor this man!

Not to pile on, but I'm not sure it makes sense use the phrase "has-been" to refer to someone who's dead. Is Mencken a "has-been" because he hasn't written anything in a few years?

I've never been a superfan of Frank Zappa like some of the folks here, but I do appreciate his music and his marvelous way of turning a phrase, mixing the mundane with the profane and giving it a catchy pop hook besides.

He'd probably appreciate placing it somewhere on The Block, but even though Park Heights isn't what it used to be, installing it there could be the first step in a revitalization effort.