What's everyones opinion on Frank Zappa?

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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,722
    Appaz knarf evol
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,722
    Them or US has been in my cd player for a while now. 
    Give it a try. If you hate it give it a few more tries. Very thoughtful nonsense.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,371
    Dont eat the yellow snow.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,722
    great book
  • ZoSoTim
    ZoSoTim Posts: 1,281
    Frank Zappa for President
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    First of all, I don't understand the concept of hating any music. There's plenty of music I don't appreciate, some even that I find irritating, but I don't hate any of it.  Similar this this sentiment is my refusal to refer to any music as "bad music".  Music is music.  You either like it, are indifferent to it, or don't care for it.  It's not "bad".
    As far as Frank Zappa's music goes, I have split feelings.  I've never been particularly fond of Zappa's records- with or with Mothers of Invention.  Some of it I even find annoying.  But that said, in the early 70's, a friend of mine told me he had tickets to see Frank Zappa and The Mothers and asked me if I wanted to go (this was post-Invention.  This band was when Frank worked with Eddie and Leech.)  So I said sure, why not. Man, was I pleasantly surprised.  I like the live music and this band, and by this time Zappa had really honed his guitar skills and his playing simply knocked me out!  Great show.  So there it is.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,994
    The best Zappa interview I've ever seen is actually by a Pennsylvania State Trooper in 1981. Definitely worth listening to if you're a Zappa fan. 

    https://youtu.be/wwA9VQR_KCs?si=-rAvRhs83JFB0VvU
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden, 2024: Philly 2, 2025: Pittsburgh 1

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    http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,722
    ^^ohh. Great interview!!!! Love him just a little more. Funny. Awesome. Real. Will share it with my friends.
    He practiced music all the time. Isolated himself. Said it in that book I read. He also could be seen as a womanizer. But basically he did what he wanted and worked very hard. Didn't do drugs. Was against it.
    He got thrown in the slammer for a minute for making a recording of him having sex with someone.
    I need to explore his other music more.
    The ones I know Def are irritating intriguing sticks my eardrums just right. 
    Funny I went to a pizza place and there was frank zappa stuff all over the walls.
     Me: :wow who's the zappa fan?
    Him: I am
    Me: i won't hold it against you
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,722
    Never really sunk in that deep purple's smoke on the water....Frank Zappa and the Mothhhheeerrrs had the best place around...til some stupid with a flare gun, burned the place to the ground...

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,722
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WTuI3jgtWDE

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,722
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gdw7lFYdCw

  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,604
    I’ll go on spurts listen for a couple of days but I can’t just listen to him constantly 
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,408
    genius
     beyond me.
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,722
    josevolution said:
    I’ll go on spurts listen for a couple of days but I can’t just listen to him constantly 
    Definitely makes sense.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,722
    mickeyrat said:
    genius
     beyond me.
    You'll get it someday ;)

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,722
    If you go to above video. We'll worth a few minutes to go to 15:00. Woman is killer percussionist. Exceptional musicians. 
  • shecky
    shecky San Francisco Posts: 2,711
    Loujoe said:
    If you go to above video. We'll worth a few minutes to go to 15:00. Woman is killer percussionist. Exceptional musicians. 
    Yeah, that's Ruth Underwood. Besides being an insane percussionist in her own right, she was also married to Ian Underwood, the incredibly talented woodwind and keyboard player in Frank Zappa's The Mothers of Invention and also later bands. Talk about a "power couple"!

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