Vilnius, Lithuania
Posted on 12/18/2015 9:51:43 AM PST by Eddie01
SHORTLY after his death from prostate cancer in 1993, the musician and sometime film director Frank Zappa was honored by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Centre which named an asteroid after him.
The citation announcing the naming of 3834 Zappafrank appeared in the Minor Planet Circular and noted that “Zappa was an eclectic, self-trained artist and composer with incredible energy and a biting witâ€.
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In high school he was a drummer in his first band but gradually he moved on to guitar. It was one of several instruments he would go on to master. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 22 in their all-time top 100 guitarists.
Zappa was a self-taught musician who took his inspiration not just from the rock’n’roll that was so prevalent around him growing up but also from jazz and classical music.
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Just...Don’t eat the yellow snow!
Dyna-mo-hummmmm!
“...who could have imagined, that they would freak out in Minnesota...”
(chorus) “miniminiminiminimini-sota”
“...who could have imagined, that they would freak out in D.C....”
(chorus) “AC DC, bop bop bop; AC DC mum mum mum mum mum mum mum”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5-RUCrWAqk
THE-ZAP playing a bicycle wheel on the “Tonight Show”.
The musicality is so-so but his discussion is quite fun (he appears to hold Steve Allen in low-position).
Good stuff!
“Moving to Montana soon, gonna be a dental floss tycoon”
‘Yippie-yi-yo-ki-yay ‘
Saw him 5 times. He was astounding.
RIP Mr. Zappa.
L
So I grabbed her hair
Got her legs in the air
And Asked
“Do you have any cooties in there?”
Steve Allen show, Frank Zappa Playing music on a Bicycle 1963
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9P2V0_p6vE
He was brilliant.
GMTAO
There’s not gonna be another one like him.
Saw him in Muskegan, MI in the 80’s. Discovered him in the late 70’s.
Remarkable the catalog of great music he produced.
“For You” off Rubin and the Jets was our wedding song. ;)
Yes, I had a whole shelf of Zappa LPs, and later, a whole shelf of Zappa CDs.
Uncle Reemus is another great song off Apostrophe imho
Vilnius, Lithuania
“What’s the ugliest part of your body
What’s the ugliest part of your body
Some say your nose, some say your toes
But I think it’s your mind
I think it’s your mind”
Billy was a mountain.
L
Ethel was a tree growing off of his shoulder.
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