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Frank
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=ZBRbS...eature=related |
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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?!
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Here you go Eddy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhLui...eature=related |
another. "He was delighted as it stiffened and ripped right thru his sock"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owVF9...eature=related |
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A true musician and sad he went so young. worth a listen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDYzu...eature=related |
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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
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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
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I need a dental flose fix!!
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raising it up....waxing it down
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your poodle bites, your poodle chews it:D
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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=G52Rw...ext=1&index=50 |
another great one with Jean Luc ponty on fiddle, great band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkcOQ...0EF4E&index=51 |
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so many Frank's so little time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmQpr...eature=related |
last one tonite. Dinah- Moe Hum
" and some bovine perspiration on her upper lip area" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRwGq...eature=related |
sorry, one more for Tagger. Hope you are takin a look eddy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDQFC...eature=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=4uv3i...eature=related |
Go to the basement STOPPPP~~
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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_H...eature=related |
:rollem:
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new you were lookin, open up that steel trap
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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=aDQE8...eature=related |
Napoleon Murphy Brock was a great find for Zappa .. I always loved Ruth Underwood on percussion ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LszJ9...eature=related |
You and my brother would get along famously.This guy's Zappa collection is mind boggling.
My brother has some truly obscure stuff. |
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