Frank Zappa - It was 20 years ago today - Progressive Rock Music Forum

...amazing, we have been spoilt by all these musical geniuses of our time, 20 years already, blinked.

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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.

Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
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We never die really when we live so intensely.

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".

Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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To hell with when he died. Happy Zappa birthday. Big smile

"The biggest threat to America isn't moving America towards communism, it is moving America towards a fascist theocracy."

Edited by Slartibartfast - December 21 2013 at 04:16

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

"I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird."

Rest easy Frank.

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken

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!

Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...