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[Updated June 21, 2011: Photographer Eddie Caraeff says:
[Larry certainly was crazy!
[I think Frank was just making a PG rated gesture w/ his hand, however that was many, many years ago.
[Not sure you know that my Grandmother is featured next to him on his album cover. Not in person, since he was too nuts for that,I made a life size cardboard cut-out of Grandma Goldie which he stood next to outside in my backyard. I still lived with my parents when I started working with Frank at age 17.]
The New York Times published this photo at the top with its obituary of Larry “Wild Man” Fischer and I got to wondering: What IS going on with Franz Zappa’s right hand? Is his index finger really longer than his middle finger? So I tracked down the photo on the left, which is cropped from an image of him playing the guitar.
Hm. I think we have what NASA would call “an anomaly.”
You don’t suppose Zappa was making “a rude gesture,” do you?
Ed Caraeff is credited as the photographer, so I emailed just to see. I’ll let you know what I hear.
Photo: Frank Zappa and Larry “Wild Man” Fischer Credit: Ed Caraeff
According to the Post, a traveling photographer used a camera that took four pictures at once. One copy was destroyed in a fire, leaving two others that have not been found.]
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