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   toncuz68@gmail.com to Mark LoPresti   
   Re: FZ on "The Tonight Show" circa 1987-   
   16 Jan 18 12:16:03   
   
   Yes...I have it. I like to show people how Reagan stole credit.   
      
   On Friday, October 27, 2000 at 9:16:22 PM UTC-4, Mark LoPresti wrote:   
   > Anyone have a copy of FZ on "The Tonight Show" in which he outlined a plan to   
   > tear down the Berlin Wall while "performing music conducive to the sounds of   
   > demolition". He talked of phoning Russian officials to see about tearing down   
   > The Wall while also staging a concert, but he never received a call back. I'm   
   > certain that I saw this appearance of his well in advance of the actual   
   demise   
   > of The Wall and communism itself.   
   >   
   > Classic sounding FZ to be sure, but some friends of mine at work claim that   
   I'm   
   > mixing my Zappa with my Pink Floyd.   
   >   
   > FWIW, I think that the Russians *did* call Frank back, but got Pink Floyd's   
   > number by mistake!   
   >   
   > Any info. would be very much appreciated!   
   >   
   >                              Mark LoPresti, Buffalo NY   
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   > and never smarten-up a chump." - W.C. Fields   
      
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