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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Crazy Birthday, Frank.
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Hi,
 
At 63, I know who the artists are that I enjoy listening and it doesn't matter when they were dead or alive.
 
I can not put on "Cheap Thrills" and not get a tear or two in my eyes!
 
I can not put on "When the Music is Over", and not get a tear in my eyes!
 
I can not listen to "Echoes" and not be thrilled by several moments!
 
I can not listen to "Yeti" and not fly away with the guitar!
 
And by the time you see 200 Motels, you will realize that you will NEVER EVER AGAIN, see anything so crazy and different in your life, even in the early MTV days ... but it doesn't matter to you when it was 1968 and today is 2013 almost 2014 and all you see is ugly badly out of focus television stuff, that you don't think makes for good imagery ... it was one of the first times EVER that video was used, and the next year, they used similar technologies for 2001 and everyone thought it was genius!
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20 years since he passed on. Man I feel old. Anyway, Happy B-Day FZ.
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"I never set out to be weird.  It was always other people who called me weird."

Rest easy Frank.
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Happy Birthday Frank.
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To hell with when he died.  Happy Zappa birthday. Big smile





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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

I've always had some Zappa LP's in my collection since my late-teens, but only in the last few years I expanded my Zappa to 31. I find the weakest album out of what I have is '200 Motels' - but I still rate that with 3 stars. 
 
That album belongs in another time and place, and it was a serious satire on a lot of things, that I am not sure that all of us can appreciate, and we end up just commenting on "PDimension" or thinking ... wtf ... when Theodore Bikel comes on at the end.
 
I kinda think of this film as the Ken Russell of rock music and rock film. But as a satirical piece, both visual and in words, it is second to very few works out there, but something that we can not imagine or conceive because we're used to having the story told for us in kindergarten style, not in other ways! For example, we have to have lyrics telling us what it is about.
 
It actually reminds me in parts of a day in front of the television, and the parallels with another LA funny group, The Firesign Theater, would be inevitable as they were both the "underground".
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Hi,
 
I think I saw that ZpZ is passing through and doing "Roxy and Elsewhere".
 
It's a nice double album and excellent concert, but when I saw ZpZ they were so poor and Return to Forever made them sound like a garage band, that I got totally disgusted!  It was also sad/bad that he mentioned Chick Corea as a guest (King Kong) and left behind Jean Luc Ponty that also played on a few FZ albums!


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We never die really when we live so intensely. 
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Points: 15926 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2013 at 21:51
Just imagine the volume of material from Frank by now, had he stuck around. 200 years from now they'll still be in awe from Zappa !! Bless his soul.
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Points: 166183 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 06 2013 at 20:07
Damn. 20 years already.

I only wish I was old enough/aware of Zappa when he was alive. The only positive I see is that there is a large amount of unreleased material that is slowly leaking out. Still though...what a world it would be if he didn't leave the Earth.

RIP Frank.
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I've always had some Zappa LP's in my collection since my late-teens, but only in the last few years I expanded my Zappa to 31. I find the weakest album out of what I have is '200 Motels' - but I still rate that with 3 stars.
Random thought - I absolutely adore the 'Orchestral Favorites' version of 'Duke Of Prunes'.
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...amazing, we have been spoilt by all these musical geniuses of our time, 20 years already, blinked.
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Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Even ignoring what music he would have made, I've always wondered what his opinions on things like the internet, smartphones, 9/11 and the NSA would be.


Not to mention George W Bush...

There've been so many times over the last 20 years I could imagine Zappa in an argument with God, demanding "oh go on... just one more album!!"

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Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Even ignoring what music he would have made, I've always wondered what his opinions on things like the internet, smartphones, 9/11 and the NSA would be.

I remember being so upset in the wake of 9/11 and it's subsequent events (The Patriot Act, Afghan/Iraq invasions, etc) that FZ wasn't here to provide a critical voice or narrative to the insanity around us.  It's the only time I've really felt a loss and missed someone that I never actually met. 
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***EDIT*** Woops, I thought I posted in the "Who IS Frank Zappa" thread.


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I am gross and perverted I'm obsessed 'n deranged I have existed for years But very little has changed I'm the tool of the Government And industry too For I am destined to rule And regulate you I may be vile and pernicious But you can't look away I make you think I'm delicious With the stuff that I say I'm the best you can get Have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozin' out From the internet. RIP Uncle Frank.


Edited by proggman - December 05 2013 at 15:38
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