Zappa Street |
Post Reply |
Author | ||
chopper
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Essex, UK Status: Offline Points: 20030 |
Topic: Zappa Street Posted: September 27 2005 at 07:59 |
|
"A street in Berlin is to be named after US rock legend Frank Zappa." From The Sun today. |
||
Ricochet
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 27 2005 Location: Nauru Status: Offline Points: 46301 |
Posted: September 27 2005 at 08:02 | |
|
||
|
||
Manunkind
Forum Senior Member Joined: February 02 2005 Location: Poland Status: Offline Points: 2373 |
Posted: September 27 2005 at 13:35 | |
I think this is also Zappa's opinion of it. |
||
"In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun
|
||
S Lang
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 01 2005 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 441 |
Posted: October 02 2005 at 15:51 | |
Zappa Street? Why not a park, an oval, kindergarten, railway station, a cemetery, or a suburb...? Some lesser mortals have been honoured by public places wearing their names. In Europe, his achievements on many levels are recognized with outmost respect and he was even to be appointed Special Cultural Advisor by Vaclav Havel, the then Chechoslovak President, until a Mr. G. Bush(Sr) treatened to cancel all support to the new Republic. In Budapest (Hungary) there is a Zappa Museum! I named my first home in memory of Zappa, who died at the time of the construction. So there... |
||
Dick Heath
Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12815 |
Posted: October 03 2005 at 07:29 | |
I doubt it after reading the last few chapters of Barry Miles excellent biography Frank Zappa. |
||
S Lang
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 01 2005 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 441 |
Posted: October 09 2005 at 04:49 | |
A thread on Zappa had five inputs so far - that's including the original post and also my response - in that many days?????? What's the Archives are made up of? Shame, shame, shame! (Or rather a sad reflection about people opting to ignore one of the greatest humanitarians - who happened to be one of the most noteable composers and musicians of the Century?) He even coached Stevie Vai. Now that's probably going to raise the level of interest... Yes? No? Eh, never mind, after all Vai seems to have learned little while he was on the payroll. We are addressing an issue - or perhaps not - about one of the very few icons. The lack of interest is a telltale sign of ignorance, or perhaps a sign of the times? The man deserves much more recognition than this! Edited by S Lang |
||
goose
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 20 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 4097 |
Posted: October 09 2005 at 09:06 | |
How many things can we say about this specific topic?!
|
||
The Miracle
Prog Reviewer Joined: May 29 2005 Location: hell Status: Offline Points: 28427 |
Posted: October 09 2005 at 17:21 | |
He deserves it
|
||
krusty
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 27 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1777 |
Posted: October 09 2005 at 17:28 | |
Zappa's also had the following things named after him
After his death an internet email campaign to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center led to an asteroid being named in his honor: 3834 Zappafrank, the asteroid having been discovered by Czech astronomers. [1] [2] Since then other things have been named in his honor including: another asteroid (16745 Zappa), a gene (ZapA gene of Proteus mirabilis, a microbe that causes urinary tract infections [3]), a goby fish (Zappa confluentus [4] ), a jellyfish (Phialella zappa which was actually named by Nando!), an extinct mollusc (Amauratoma zappa), and a spider with an abdominal mark supposedly resembling Zappa's mustache (Pachygnatha zappa [5]). In 1995 a series of Intel PC motherboards were named after him.
|
||
Post Reply | |
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |