Frank Zappa
On this day in 1995, a Lithuanian Frank Zappa fan club unveiled a monument to the eccentric rock innovator in Vilnius, the capital city of the Republic of Lithuania.
Says Saulius Paukstys, the president of the fan club and the man behind the monument:
“Okay, so Zappa never visited Lithuania and had absolutely no connection with the country, but as far as I was concerned, this was a test of our new-found freedom. Lithuania had just proclaimed itself to be a democratic country. I wanted to test it and see if I would be able to realize my ideas.”
Read on: http://www.balticsworldwide.com/news/features/zappa.htm
