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| By Request: What is your favourite Frank Zappa Song?
Posted: 10/27/2007 9:12:44 PM |  TG Christy you are an  2Luv.
I never liked Frank Zappa. The Huskies song ... whatever. The song I remember the most had to do with,"Manuel the gardener..." and "Gonzo the lead guitar player..." and even a 'Bad Boy' like me cannot repeat the 'lyrics'.
My encounter with Frank happened just before his death.
I was sailing Newport Harbor in a tiny boat and pulled into the community dock near the "Fun Zone" on Balboa Peninsula so my SO could go pee. This guy walked up as I was trying to keep the boat from crashing on the dock from boat wakes.
He said,"Aren't you Ronnie Van Zandt?" I said, "No, who the f*ck are you?" I looked at him and I was looking into the sun so all I could see was a silhouette.
He said,"Well I ain't Frank Zappa!" A Duffy(electric) boat pulled up, he stepped in an sure as sh*t is WAS Frank! Swear to God!
I learned of his death like less than a month later!
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| By Request: What is your favourite Frank Zappa Song?
Posted: 10/29/2007 9:13:57 PM | GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY...! It's like a 267-way tie for first place! Much shorter list would be the few that AREN'T off-the-scope awesome! But, gun to my head, I'd go with "King Kong." It's one of the most compellingly sticky, Escher-esque lil' jazz riffs ever discovered - makes "Take Five" sound like "Mary Had a Little Lamb." And, hey...you get a girlfriend likes FZ, hang on 'er, pal!
I was trained as a musician (now in recovery) & very early on Frank baffled & challenged & delighted me. (Frenobulax? Dennil floss? What the ...?) The best thing about Big Z is, his stuff is infinitely durable, as listenable 25 or 30 years later as it was the day it was laid down. A true musical genious...thank you, Mr. Zappa! You left us far too soon. (Note: if you dig Zappa jazz like Wazoo, Studio Tan & Waka Jawaka , check Don Ellis, esp. 'Tears of Joy' & 'Live at Fillmore.') | |
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| By Request: What is your favourite Frank Zappa Song?
Posted: 10/31/2007 5:03:34 PM |
Mominatrix: christy2luv: Who the heck is Frank Zappa? Oh, you need to be sent back to the center for re-education. she's under 40 and probably didn't do much acid...... give her some slack. | |
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| By Request: What is your favourite Frank Zappa Song?
Posted: 2/13/2009 2:54:19 PM | i'd sing it under my breath, while sitting at my desk, waiting patiently for my 16th b'day to arrive.
brown shoes don't make it,
quit school, why fake it?
cause brown shoes don't make it,
i only wish we could have heard what he'd have had to say during the bush administration | |
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| By Request: What is your favourite Frank Zappa Song?
Posted: 9/3/2009 1:24:24 PM | Given the immense quantity of material available, how can one choose just one? He did every style. There is a bunker filled with unreleased material that is still being catalogued.
How about everything from his concert movie, "Does humor belong in music?"
And the entirety of "Man from Utopia". The first 3 songs from that album were "Cocaine decisions", "Dangerous kitchen", and "Jazz discharge party hats".
There isn't a bad cut on "Apostrophe/Overnight sensations", home of Dinah Moe Humm, Zombie woof, Yellow Snow, St Alphonzo, et al.
Crap.
Now I've gotta go see one of my concert dvd's, or I'll be on a Frank jones all evening.
They sniffed every little morsel, It was Albequerque, New Mexico!
 
There aren't enough emoticons for Frank.
He is seriously missed. | |
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