Posted on 07/08/2016 9:45:24 AM PDT by Borges
This album is still one I listen to regularly after....how many decades now...
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He did go to the doctor, but it was misdiagnosed, and it was too late before it was properly diagnosed.
“He’s only about the most talented improvisational guitarist that’s ever been.”
Many years ago I knew a professional musician - a flautist. While she was in college - and already a very respected musician - Zappa was brought in to “conduct” the university symphony orchestra. She said it was one of the worst musical experiences of her life because Zappa so clearly had no idea what he was doing.
Zappa was overrated. I could never understand why people thought he was so great. It’s like saying Basquiat was a great artist. It makes no sense and no one has any proof Zappa was a great musician. No great compositions. No memorable songs that any average person knows or that even critics outside of rock music respect.
Well, Frank’s musical hero was Varese, not Beethoven, so it probably wasn’t the best idea to have him conduct a symphony orchestra.
Kyle is an unfinished dwarf someone was breeding.
“If you got sufficiently high, and I’m not talking weed here, Zappa’s music faded into the background and the lyrics started broadcasting to you personally. It was like another brain connection.”
So you have to be seriously intoxicated to the point of feeling like you’re having an out of body experience to get something out of his music? That’s some really crappy music then.
Frank was as anti-drug as it gets.
Got just 4 words for ya:
I got stuck on his Fillmore East album, but I’ve always loved Freak Out.
Frank was as anti-drug as it gets.
I saw Zappa in about 1979 at Cobo Arena in Detroit, just off the the right hand side of the stage, on the riser. He was more of the band conductor rather than strictly a guitar player for the concert, but when he plugged in and turned up his guitar and started playing, the sound pretty much overwhelmed the acoustics of the hall. BTW, I can recite the lyrics of “Yellow Snow” verbatim from my weed-toking, hippy days in Detroit.
The guitar solo on the song Willie the Pimp is one of my all time favorites.
“Frank was as anti-drug as it gets.”
That, and the fact that he instilled the same philosophy in his kids, is a great point in his favor.
You, sir, are an ass. Don’t come here and hijack our Zapoa respect thread just because a friend told you something negative about him. You have no idea what you are talking about. Go back to your #NeverTrump box.
I can see how talented Zappa was. I found the guy obnoxious, and his music painful, but he was quite talented. Just not my cup of tea.
Mr. America, walk on by
Your schools that do not teach
Mr. America, walk on by
The minds that won’t be reached
Mr. America try to hide
The emptiness that’s you inside
But once you find that the way you lied
And all the corny tricks you tried
Will not forestall the rising tide
Of hungry freaks, daddy
They won’t go for no more
Great mid-western hardware store
Philosophy that turns away
From those who aren’t afraid to say what’s on their minds
The left behinds of the Great Society
Hungry freaks, daddy
Mr. America, walk on by
Your supermarket dream
Mr. America, walk on by
The liquor store supreme
Mr. America try to hide
The product of your savage pride
The useful minds that it denied
The day you shrugged and stepped aside
You saw their clothes and then you cried
“Those hungry freaks, daddy”
They won’t go for no more
Great mid-western hardware store
Philosophy that turns away
From those who aren’t afraid to say what’s on their minds
The left behinds of the Great Society
You, my FRiend, are a serious Zappa Fan.
Great stuff. My first three albums were BST II, LZ II, and Abbey Road. I think In-a-gadda-da-vida was the fourth, but everybody had to have that one. I didn't have to buy Zappa, my buddy had it and I more or less lived over there anyway ;-)
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