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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 18:56 | ||||
Can't he take care of himself?
Take care, June. |
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KoS
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 18:57 | ||||
That was cheap, James.
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 18:58 | ||||
Why? Are you a photoshop master? |
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horsewithteeth11
Prog Reviewer Joined: January 09 2008 Location: Kentucky Status: Offline Points: 24598 |
Posted: January 14 2009 at 18:58 | ||||
See ya June.
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JayDee
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 19:03 | ||||
Just noticed this one. Fits your screenname perfectly. |
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KoS
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 19:04 | ||||
Funny, I see only the baboon portion.
So, naturally, I only think of a baboon's ass. |
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Queen By-Tor
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 19:15 | ||||
David had better credit me for finding that avvy
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 19:54 | ||||
I'm watching a film called Keane with Damian Lewis in (but he's English... why's he playing an American?). Quite good actually. It's an Independent film.
I was wondering if Mike had seen it? Plus I'm drinking beer. Yey! Edited by James - January 14 2009 at 19:54 |
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Petrovsk Mizinski
Prog Reviewer Joined: December 24 2007 Location: Ukraine Status: Offline Points: 25210 |
Posted: January 14 2009 at 20:17 | ||||
zappa for prog rock
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 20:28 | ||||
Oh do shut up.
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June
Forum Senior Member Joined: November 03 2008 Location: Montreal Status: Offline Points: 6521 |
Posted: January 14 2009 at 20:33 | ||||
Well, he's a male, ain't he?
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Petrovsk Mizinski
Prog Reviewer Joined: December 24 2007 Location: Ukraine Status: Offline Points: 25210 |
Posted: January 14 2009 at 20:35 | ||||
I don't get the Eclectic teams decision for a no vote.
I'm pretty sure Avant Garde music existed before Zappa had even started going to elementary school, so what's this "FATHER OF AVANT" business then? |
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Padraic
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 20:44 | ||||
NaturalScience has arrived! Let the celebration commence!!
Hi. |
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VanderGraafKommandöh
Prog Reviewer Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Malaria Status: Offline Points: 89372 |
Posted: January 14 2009 at 20:44 | ||||
Exactly my feelings, Harry.
Although the guys in Samla Mammas Manna were influenced by Zappa, I am pretty sure they were also influenced by the likes of Stravinsky, Beethoven, Shostakovich and many others. Henry Cow were certainly influenced by chamber music. Also in 1966 a band named AMM released a very minimalist album called AMMMusic. It's certainly avant-garde. So before Zappa there was avant-garde music. Charles Ives is another. |
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 20:45 | ||||
And besides, his music fits Eclectic like a glove.
It does. Nobody can argue that. Seriously. |
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Padraic
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 20:46 | ||||
Here's a dumb question - the most avant stuff FZ did was with Mothers, right? Wasn't that all in the late 60s though? I thought that was considered "proto" around here. That's why I don't like calling Zappa a founder of avant - he was like "proto-RIO" - a major influence on the true founders like SMM.
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 20:48 | ||||
Wikipedia says (and yes I realise Wikipedia as a source is frowned upon):
In his teens, he acquired a taste for percussion-based avant-garde composers like Edgard Varèse, and 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands—he later switched to electric guitar. He was an autodidact composer and performer, and his diverse musical influences led him to create music that was often impossible to categorize. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. His later albums shared this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the fundamental format was one of rock, jazz or classical. |
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Petrovsk Mizinski
Prog Reviewer Joined: December 24 2007 Location: Ukraine Status: Offline Points: 25210 |
Posted: January 14 2009 at 20:50 | ||||
As far as I see it, Zappa wasn't even the 'father of avant' anyway so I don't see where the Eclectic guys are getting there information from, but just served to make it more acceptable among a bigger audience perhaps.
I own only 8 Zappa albums, and I know at least 3 of them have nothing to do with Avant what so ever, and the rest I just think sound more like they work out as Eclectic rather than Avant, because well, they just don't sound THAT avant to me. |
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 20:52 | ||||
Zappa grew up influenced by avant-garde composers such as Varèse, Igor Stravinsky and Anton Webern
Well what do you know... those same composers also influenced Univers Zéro and Cartoon/PFS. They're the ones I know for sure. So they're the fore-fathers, not Zappa. |
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Petrovsk Mizinski
Prog Reviewer Joined: December 24 2007 Location: Ukraine Status: Offline Points: 25210 |
Posted: January 14 2009 at 20:54 | ||||
Well, that proves my point entirely, that Zappa never was and isn't, the Father of Avant.
As far as I see it, the Eclectic teams argument in favor of him staying in Avant because of his so called status of "father of avant" is about as strong as a ant trying to knock down a body builder. |
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