Ok I've got to start a Frank Zappa thread. Love him or hate him the guy was a genius.
My favorite song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBRbSqeCmyU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ_wSiUW2lM&feature=related

Whoops! Sorry....:eyes:....I ummm.....must have taken a wrong turn at the Zeppelin thread and wound up in here!:eek5: I don't like it.....not at all! I thought it was a thread about Swimmer?!

Ok I've got to start a Frank Zappa thread. Love him or hate him the guy was a genius.
My favorite song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBRbSqeCmyU&feature=related

And I am so glad you did.I agree Zappa was a genius and while I was never a huge fan, I allways saw him as a jazz musician in the truest form.

Here you go Eddy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhLuiSyhFFw&feature=related

another. "He was delighted as it stiffened and ripped right thru his sock"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owVF97pZFFs&feature=related

She was buns up kneeling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMpoRggs9s4&feature=related

A true musician and sad he went so young. worth a listen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDYzuwG-gOE&feature=related

One of my favorite videos,

King Kong, 1968

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p6yUvQBXSY

Jean Luc Ponty has an album out with that music on it, named King Kong. It's great. Luv the tune America drinks and goes home and music for electric violin and low budget orchestra. Classic stuff. He played with Frank on an album or two. A great talent on his own. ah, I will have to look on you tube for some JLP

Damn you, Moriarty...:hihi:

Got King Kong and some other JLP on vinyl - gotta get me one of those USB turntables...

Zappa was a genius, period. Listening to him again on Youtube reminds me of he easily he could go from rock to jazz to classical idioms. I think his eccentricity - which I liked - was what kept him from being more widely appreciated.

Boy that interview was painful to watch...:hs:

Zappa was before his time musically in many ways, and the sentiment behind his quirky lyrics was always dead on the nuts.

His song Trouble Coming Every Day keeps going thru my head a lot lately - great lyrics, pretty relevant today. I can't do more than 30 minutes max anymore of news TV and end up turning on music instead. Although the lyrics were written in the '60's, not a whole lot has changed:

Frank zappa (lead guitar, vocals)
Lowell george (guitar, vocals)
Roy estrada (bass)
Don preston (keyboards)
Buzz gardner (trumpet)
Ian underwood (alto saxophone)
Bunk gardner (tenor saxophone)
Motorhead sherwood (baritone saxophone)
Jimmy carl black (drums)
Arthur tripp (drums)

Well I'm about to get up sick
From watchin my t.v.
Been checkin' out the news
Until my eyeballs fail to see
I mean to say that every day
Is just another rotten mess
And when it's gonna change, my friend
Is anybody's guess
So I'm watching and I'm waiting
Hopin' for the best
Even think I go to praying
Every time I hear them sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' everyday
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Wednesday I watched the riot
I've seen the cops out on the street
Watch them throwing rocks and stuff and choking in the heat
Listen to reports
About the whiskey passin' round
Seen the smoke and fire
And the market burnin' down
Watched while everybody on his street would take a turn
They stomp and smash and bash and crash and slash and bust 'n burn
And I'm watching and I'm waitin hopin' for the best
Even think I go to prayin'
Every time I hear em sayin'
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' every day
No way to delay
That trouble comin' everyday

You can cool it
You can heat it
Cause baby I don't need it
Take your TV tube and eat it
And all that phony stuff on sports
And all those unconfirmed reports
You know I watch that rotten box
Until my head begin to hurt
From checkin' out the way
The newsmen say they get the dirt
Before the guys on channel so and so
And further they assert
That any show they litter up
They bring you news if it comes up
They say that if the place blows up
They will be the first to tell
Cause the boys they got downtown
Working hard and doin swell
And if anybody gets the news
Before it hits the streets
They say that no one blabs it faster
Their coverage can't be beat
And if another woman driver
Gets machine gunned from her seat
They'll send some joker with a camera
And youll see it all complete

So I'm watching and I'm waiting
Hopin for the best
Even think I go to praying
Every time I hear them saying
That there's no way to delay
That trouble comin' everyday
No way to delay
That trouble comin' every day

Well I've seen the fires burnin'
And the local people turnin'
All the merchants and the shops
Who use to sell their brooms and mops
And every other household item
Watch the mob just turn and bite em
And they say it serve them right
Because a few of them are white
And it's the same across the nation
Black and white discrimination
Yell and you can understand me
And all that other crap they hand me
In the papers and t.v.
And all that mass stupidity
That seems to grow more everyday
This time of year some %$%$%$%$%$%$%$ say
He wants to go and do you in
Cause the color of your skin
Just don't appeal to him
No matter if it's black or white
Because he's out for blood tonight


Man, gotta get a USB turntable and convert all my Zappa vinyl -

Hey, BTW, Paul - I thought you'd start this thread the very first week...:hihi:

I did. I got to rejuvenate it every so often. Franks got plenty to keep it alive for a long time

I need a dental flose fix!!

raising it up....waxing it down

your poodle bites, your poodle chews it:D

With a Pair of heavy-duty
Zircon-encrusted tweezers in my hand

another goodie , not for the faint of heart. LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G52RwyW_xFA&feature=PlayList&p=E4B6AA542590EF4E&playnext=1&index=50

another great one with Jean Luc ponty on fiddle, great band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkcOQMnbL0c&feature=PlayList&p=E4B6AA542590EF4E&index=51

Dirty Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6HRAEabk70&feature=related

so many Frank's so little time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmQpriVgOQc&feature=related

last one tonite. Dinah- Moe Hum

" and some bovine perspiration on her upper lip area"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRwGqf2glDs&feature=related

sorry, one more for Tagger. Hope you are takin a look eddy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDQFCCjlJww&feature=related

I can't stop. Hang in there and get thru the swedish mc and dig the music as this band he had then is primo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uv3ia0cFWI&feature=related

Go to the basement STOPPPP~~

last one. Awesome rendition of Montana. All the swedish 1973 you tubes are fantastic. WOW great stuff, even Lawrence would like it if he gave it a chance and opened up his mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_i_HVBD9ks&feature=related

:rollem:

new you were lookin, open up that steel trap

I was first introduced to Frank Zappa's music in 1971 .. The white album with the pencil on the front . This Album was a live album at the Filmore East with Flo and Eddie from the turtles . I myself had been playing drums seriously for about 5 yrs. and was in a band . Self taught,, I had just learned that there was something other than 4/4 time , the common time your heart beats to.. 7/8 ? 5/8? what is that ,., One of my favirote albums is Lumpy Gravy wich is the total swing of the Zappa pendulum . Everyone playing in different times and keys . Not for everyone I know . I thank Frank Zappa for keeping my sanity though the Disco era.. I enjoyed Zappa everytime he came to Boston .. The Orpeum or the Music Hall were jammed packed with Berkley students so I knew I wasn't insane .... Thanks Dweezill for keeping the music alive .. I think the attraction for me is the music is so friggin hard to play .. Steve Vai appears in this percussion melay ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDQE82ElyJg&feature=related

Napoleon Murphy Brock was a great find for Zappa .. I always loved Ruth Underwood on percussion ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LszJ9sM3bbk&feature=related

You and my brother would get along famously.This guy's Zappa collection is mind boggling.

My brother has some truly obscure stuff.

I did. I got to rejuvenate it every so often. Franks got plenty to keep it alive for a long time

Yup, just went back and saw the date - right around Thanksgiving -

Another gifted musician gone way too soon - man, you hear some of that stuff and realize how far ahead of the curve he was.

Hey, I vote to keep it going - whether you-know-who likes it or not...:hihi:

Who knows, ya might make a convert outta him...

LOL. Never happen, he is one stubborn Lawrence, but that's OK I'll still fish with him.

I thought this thread was about Sinatra:devil2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owVF97pZFFs&feature=related

missed this thread!
My fav - black napkins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzqoflT70b4

I think I would have to go with Inca Roads. If you want to see something amazing, grab a copy of the DVD Rock School (no not
School of Rock), and watch a twelve year old blow everybodies mind at Zappanel in Germany. Most of the crowd is just slack jaw in awe.

missed this thread!
My fav - black napkins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzqoflT70b4

here is another fantastic version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uv3ia0cFWI&feature=related

missed this thread!
My fav - black napkins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzqoflT70b4

here is another fantastic version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roo6crueL1k&feature=related

choice memory was:

Smother my daughter in chocolate syrup
And strap her on again, oh baby!
Smother that girl in chocolate syrup
And strap her on again
She's a teen-age baby and she turns me on
I'd like to make her do a nasty on the White House lawn
Gonna smother that girl in chocolate syrup -
And boogie till the cows come home

Time to go home - Madge is on the phone
Gotta meet the Gurney's
And a dozen grey attorneys
TV dinner by the pool
I'm so glad I finished school
Life is such a ball
I run the world from City Hall!
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~ ol' bigfish wont budge
i'm so glad he's not fudge
cuz then i'd have to eat him
:jump:

Saw him live at the Hippodrome in Paris in the late 70s. He was also very popular outside this country.

DZ

Hey Dennis I remember you told me about that at one of the plugfest. Must have been awesome. I will bet you Frank was more popular outside the US than inside. He had a very strong following all over Europe. There is even a memorial to him in Vilnius, Lithuanian, which is funny as my wife is 100% Lithuanian. I guess that is why we hit it off. BTW she is not a Frank fan:chatter

http://www.travelpod.com/travel-photo/susan_g/overland_-_05/1125132180/dscn0611.jpg/tpod.html

BTW if anyone is interested here is quit the collection of Frank interviews. I have only read a few but the High Times one is great

http://home.online.no/~corneliu/interviews.htm

Hey Dennis I remember you told me about that at one of the plugfest. Must have been awesome. I will bet you Frank was more popular outside the US than inside. He had a very strong following all over Europe. There is even a memorial to him in Vilnius, Lithuanian, which is funny as my wife is 100% Lithuanian. I guess that is why we hit it off. BTW she is not a Frank fan:chatter

http://www.travelpod.com/travel-photo/susan_g/overland_-_05/1125132180/dscn0611.jpg/tpod.html


that's interesting considering shes a big beatle's fan :cool: