Blog:Do you think Tony Palmer deserves a page?

"...Tony Palmer had all but disowned his involvement in the whole project and began bad-mouthing it in the popular press, even apparently claiming at one stage that he'd unsuccessfully attempted to have his name removed from the credits (a claim which Zappa later dismissed as a shameful and barefaced lie during an appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test on November 16, 1971, insisting that Palmer's contract specified "very strongly that he get plenty of credit on the film!").''"

"On November 7 1971, Tony Palmer seized a final opportunity to kick the whole project in the nuts with a barbed review of the soundtrack LP in his 'pop' column in the Observer, insisting that it was tied with 'one of the worst films in the entire history of the cinema'. Confronted by Sounds a few weeks later with Palmer's review, Zappa opined 'That's quite a distinction. But then he's such a controversial little rascal.'"

"Palmer seemed pretty keen to use the opportunity to debunk a whole lot of other apparent myths concerning the making of the film, to the extent of writing a long essay dealing with each of them, one by one (the text would eventually be reused in the accompanying DVD booklet). It should be said however that, more often than not, Palmer's attempts at indignantly swatting aside the more exaggerated biographical accounts while substituting his own 'truthful take on events', don't quite tally with some of the historical (and contemporaneous) evidence available. Certainly, the final line of the essay, to wit, 'So, forty years on, I'm proud to be associated with the film, proud to have known Frank Zappa, and proud to have stayed his friend, in spite of all the rubbish that (mostly) others have written about what 'really' happened.' would have sounded particularly droll for anyone who remembered his published 1971 opinions on the matter!"

"''As it currently stands, the Voiceprint DVD only really serves as a final insult to 200 Motels."

- From the SOTCAA page for the infamous Voiceprint DVD of 200 Motels from 2009, which Palmer was seemingly responsible for.