FRANK ZAPPA Pop! Vinyl Figure

Frank Zappa spent fifty-odd years being aggressively, pathologically himself, and somehow that made him one of the most influential figures in recorded music. The mustache was just a bonus.

The Funko Pop format is a strange vessel for a man who once released an album called Weasels Ripped My Flesh and testified before the US Senate about the dangers of lyric stickers, but there is something fitting about it too. Zappa was always interested in the collision of high and low, the orchestral sitting next to the deliberately stupid, the jazz fusion bleeding into the doo-wop parody. A plastic collectible figure feels like something he would have approved of, begrudgingly, while also commissioning a twelve-tone piece about it. For the shelf of anyone who takes their alternative credentials seriously and their pop culture lightly.

Standard Funko Pop! vinyl figure. Suitable for display, collecting, or placing judgmentally near your record collection.