[Bandaneira]

John Kerry could go for the Frank Zappa approach of political campaigning...

I remember borrowing an album from the school library when I was about 15 and was just starting to get into rock music. I picked the album because it had such a way out, cartoon-like cover. It was Frank Zappa's "Weasel's Eat my Flesh" or something like that. One of the tracks was seven minutes of the same note, played really loud at a live concert somewhere. When the "song" finished, the crowd went wild. Must have been a lot of recreational pharmaceuticals consumed there.

I have never listened to another Frank Zappa record since.

[LS]

Zappa was a wild one. He was a phenomenal musician who would write intricate pieces, ruthlessly practice his musicians, then put them on stage and secretly switch the order of the songs at every musician's stand, so that when they started, each was playing a different song.

[zeugma]

I have never listened to another Frank Zappa record since.

To your great loss. Some of his stuff was noise, and purposely so, but he was a truely inspired guitarist and composer IMO.