There isn't any record of Zappa holding on-stage gross out contests, but there was a rumor that he ate shit on stage in a contest with Alice Cooper, to which he had to say:

Actually, when Frusciante joined the Chili Peppers, they were his very favorite band at the time. He wouldn't have been as good as he was if he wasn't in the right band at the right time. I agree that the drugs hurt him bad, and Kiedis does hurt the band, but I just can't fathom how he lost that really wild…

I'm not sure I get what you're trying to say. What does that have to do with the fact that Frusciante abandoned a really gorgeous guitar style for something that was so much less in so many ways?

You have to understand that this was the late 80s, my friend. We were still coming off of the "Father knows best" Reagan years, so doing that kind of thing was actually very shocking at that time.

Agreed. Frusciante's outro on Sir Psycho Sexy goes stratospheric in a way the Chili Peppers haven't even touched since Blood Sugar. I couldn't believe it when I bought Californication and found out he had abandoned that beautiful psychedelic funk sound for a cheap grab at minimalist punk. It was the beginning of…

Their sheen of consummate professionalism really gives the songs a big boost.

It still boggles my mind that a band that was so exciting and subversive in the late 80s/early 90s could venture this far into easy listening and comfortably set up shop there.

Fair enough. I don't doubt that women are generally given fewer opportunities than men. However, a lot of people make weak arguments about it, and weak arguments don't help a cause. So of course I get a kick out of playing a game of "law school professor" and trying to poke holes in questionable assertions.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Slow it down there, chief! This is the A.V. Club! We do eye-grabbing headlines to parade our progressivism, not investigative journalism to see if those headlines make any sense!

So the men are taught to pitch? What art school did they go to?

Nice title, but I believe that the current term for "Used CD Store" is just "CD Store."

Not a good tagline. A better tagline would be "Gettin' fat like an Axl."

All the more fat jokes to go around!

Good answer!

Who left all this cheese sauce at the bottom of the pan?

You might give it new life by adding "Miss me yet?" and releasing it during this awful election year.

Yeah, but that hate inevitably translates into general targeting of anything you can say about him, especially once people find out he's sensitive about it. That's why you don't see "Fat Black Francis" memes, even though Frank Black has gotten a lot fatter than Axl.

He also can't take back 30 years of being a giant prick to his fans, which would have gone a long way toward winning him some sympathy.

Can I at least make fun of a narcissistic asshole for being fat? I mean, in addition to mocking him for being a narcissistic asshole?

Wow, I wasn't even aware that Fat Axl memes were a thing until now. Thanks for drawing my attention to them, Fat Axl!