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Blitzo
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Earth
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 25, 2006 - 05:43pm PT
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Seventeen of my favorites.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand, Man.....
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Jul 25, 2006 - 05:53pm PT
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separated at birth:
Zappa = Dean Potter
Locker style edit: what about Weasels Ripped my Flesh? Great cover art and great boulder problem in Humber.....
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Ben Rumsen
Social climber
No Name City ( and it sure ain't pretty )
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Jul 25, 2006 - 05:56pm PT
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My favorites were Uncle Meat and Weasels Ripped My Flesh, hee hee...... especially good to listen to on LSD !!!!
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 25, 2006 - 05:59pm PT
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What's LSD?
locker style edit:
The cover of Weasels is great! The album isn't one of his best.
"My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama" is excellent, though!
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Ben Rumsen
Social climber
No Name City ( and it sure ain't pretty )
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Jul 25, 2006 - 06:06pm PT
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" What's LSD? " -
OK, how'd all these 10 year olds get in here from MySpace.com??
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand, Man.....
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Jul 25, 2006 - 06:08pm PT
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mooch
Trad climber
Fresno
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Jul 25, 2006 - 06:09pm PT
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Moving to Montana soon....gonna be a dental floss tycoon.
Roll on Frank!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jul 25, 2006 - 06:11pm PT
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In his later years he both wrote and conducted classical music?
Lots of stories characterized him as running a tight ship.
His guitar playing sure reflected that disposition.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Jul 25, 2006 - 06:14pm PT
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You missed one of my favs...
"Robert Planet!"
"I am in this band no matter what you do up here on stage..."
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Ben Rumsen
Social climber
No Name City ( and it sure ain't pretty )
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Jul 25, 2006 - 06:21pm PT
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I liked Filmore East - pretty good. But how many of you took your parents to see the Frank Zappa movie 200 Motels at a theater in Hollywood while in high school? Ha - was that ever a scene.......
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 25, 2006 - 06:21pm PT
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No, I didn't miss any of them. I have over 100 in my collection!
I just thought I would stop at 17!
I also have several movies.
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Landgolier
climber
the flatness
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Jul 25, 2006 - 06:22pm PT
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Always thought he looked more like Bridwell (Zappa, that is)
Re: Zappa's tight ship
"Frank, how do you get the money to buy all these instruments?"
"Simple. I don't do coke."
Also, my girlfriend requests more PotterPorn™™, got anything else taped to the stall door at fish products HQ?
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 25, 2006 - 06:31pm PT
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Centerville....a real nice place to raise your kids up!
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
hither and yon
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Jul 25, 2006 - 06:43pm PT
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"Stevie's Spanking" rocks
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Buddha
climber
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Jul 25, 2006 - 06:50pm PT
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My dog's name is Zappa, he calls me "woof".
I know when i am dreaming because there's nothing there worth buying.
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno, CA
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Jul 25, 2006 - 06:53pm PT
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Wow! LSD is right!
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jul 25, 2006 - 06:55pm PT
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Friggin' great.
But no "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life"?
I wouldn't have been able to stop until I got at least to that one...
Hmm, now I'm Jonesin' for some Carolina Hardcore Ecstacy ...
And, I know that FZ didn't do dope, but that picture that Russ has of 'im, damn those eyes are pie'd.
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Ben Rumsen
Social climber
No Name City ( and it sure ain't pretty )
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Jul 25, 2006 - 07:06pm PT
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" Wow! LSD is right! " -
Ya, LSD and Zappa music make the perfect defense for when Rodger and Ron get pitons banned in the Valley and I go postal...............
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Richard Large
climber
where you least expect
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Jul 25, 2006 - 07:10pm PT
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I wish my dad had named me Dweasel.
A fun Zappa story (don't know if its true -- may be urban legend). Frank challenged a concert audience to a gross out contest. Some girl from the audience climbs up on stage, lifts her dress and plops a big dookie. So Frank walks over, picks it up and eats it.
Zapped!!
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 25, 2006 - 07:11pm PT
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The Best Band............
Got three covers for you!
I love his version of "Purple Haze"!
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Big Breasted Woman
Trad climber
The Brown Crack
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Jul 25, 2006 - 07:13pm PT
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"Pulled on her hair, got her legs in the air and asked if there were any cooties in there!"
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Voltzwgn
Trad climber
Sac CA
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Jul 25, 2006 - 07:18pm PT
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"the crux of the biscuit is the apostrophy"
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 25, 2006 - 07:27pm PT
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Apostrophy.
A different cover.
Don't you eat that yellow snow!
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 25, 2006 - 07:50pm PT
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Frank and Moon Zappa.
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Voltzwgn
Trad climber
Sac CA
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Jul 25, 2006 - 08:18pm PT
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Here's one of Frank I always liked
I wish I had one of him with his Richard Nixon mask doing "Slime from the Video" saw him doing that at Winterland from the seats above and behind the stage. You can see the crowd as the perfomer does it was wild........ You could also see what an ass Beefheart was but he had the crowd ready to pop when Frank strolled on stage and kicked back on his stool before cutting loose.
Slime from the video
I am gross and perverted
I’m obsessed ’n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little had changed
I am 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 am the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I am the slime oozin’ out
From your tv set
You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don’t need you
Don’t go for help...no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold
That’s right, folks..
Don’t touch that dial
Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin’ along on your livin’room floor
I am the slime from your video
Can’t stop the slime, people, lookit me go
EDIT - added words to slime from the video
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grover
Social climber
Akanada
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Jul 25, 2006 - 08:40pm PT
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Ram it, ram it, ram it, up yer poopchu.....
Killer thread Rev.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jul 25, 2006 - 08:42pm PT
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Blitzo, man those Moon pics rock.
Also, I've never seen the BBYNHIYL cover with a picture of the band (fist of the two). My CD cover art is black where yours has the picture.
"I pushed and I pulled and I used my thumb..."
"Nothing is what you get with your _" {fill in the blank!}
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Voltzwgn
Trad climber
Sac CA
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Jul 25, 2006 - 08:46pm PT
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one of the low budget albums
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Jul 25, 2006 - 09:11pm PT
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My python boot is too tight
I couldn't get it off last night
A week wnt by and now it's July
I finally got it off and my girlfriend, she cried...
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand, Man.....
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Jul 25, 2006 - 09:16pm PT
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Mama stroked his dinger
Daddy got a stinky finger
In those days of long ago
Later in the evening
She'd complain
They'd refrain
He'd go home and hone his bone
A tragic case maybe
But also true
I'm sure you know
But that's the way it goes sometimes
You just might find yourself in the clutches of some
Wild Love
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 25, 2006 - 09:49pm PT
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Cheap thrills
In the back of my car
Cheap thrills
How fine they are
Cheap Thrills
Up and down my spine
I need it I need it
Cuz it feels so fine
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aldude
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Monument Manor
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Jul 25, 2006 - 10:41pm PT
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" Been drinkin all night till my eyes turned red
Stumbled in the gutter and I busted my head "
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cintune
climber
Penn's Woods
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Jul 25, 2006 - 11:10pm PT
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Some people like cupcakes better.
I for one care less for them.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Jul 25, 2006 - 11:28pm PT
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"Couldn' say where sh'e comin' from
but I just met a lady named Dinah mo hum."
-" My dog's name is Zappa, he calls me "woof". "
---Are you a Zombie?
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Buddha
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Jul 26, 2006 - 12:10am PT
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Hey Jay-DOH,
Quote from an interview with Zappa himself.
The interviewer said " so you are Zappa" ( a statement Frank took to be full of preconceptions)
FZ responded "My dog's name is Zappa, he calls me Woof. And you may too."
A little quick with the trigger there huh Jay??
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jul 26, 2006 - 12:59am PT
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Don Preston and Ian Underwood really made The Mothers.
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Elcapinyoazz
Mountain climber
Anchorage, Alaska
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Jul 26, 2006 - 02:01am PT
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Would you punks just SHUT UP N PLAY YER GUITAR!?
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jul 26, 2006 - 02:06am PT
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"Well she looked at me and she raised a thumb,
said get down the road you bum de bum bum..."
Followed by the sounds of an imaginary guitar solo...
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 26, 2006 - 02:23am PT
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Some less common CDs.
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spud
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Jul 26, 2006 - 08:53am PT
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I have had the honor of attending three Zappa concerts. In the mid to late 70's I participated in Zappa concerts in Salt Lake City and Boise. It's hard to say which one topped the charts as the most extreme and audacious. 'schrooms better that LSD.
In the early eighties I attended a rather sedate Zappa concert in Seattle featuring classical music--purely instrumental--yet still stunning. Once again, 'shrooms as opposed to LSD.
When my daughter was in kindergarten in Seattle in the early eighties the teachers were astounded that she could recite the lyrics to Suzy Creamcheese. It's a good thing it also happened to be a very liberal private school! What an education money can buy!
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Jul 26, 2006 - 09:03am PT
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used to be my one and only, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But, my favorite lyrics were from 'Let's Make the Water Turn Black."(because I had the sheet music for the song, andplayed it over and over and over....).
Selling lamps and chair
To San Berdino squares....
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cintune
climber
Penn's Woods
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Jul 26, 2006 - 11:58am PT
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What's New In Baltimore? Saw the band in at Painter's Mill sometime in early 80s, with Steve Vai, scored a backstage pass but not a crew slut in sight. Great food, though. At intermission the band went to their dressing rooms for "massages." Or so I was told.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 26, 2006 - 12:34pm PT
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If you like Zappa, you MUST hear this!
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OW
Trad climber
Patagonia
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Jul 26, 2006 - 05:07pm PT
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Speaking of attending Zappa concerts... My first was in '69(?) the second in '70 or '71 in St. Louis, before Frank got tossed into the orchestra pit in London. Many Zappa freaks think this was his best era but if so, we caught the band in off-nights both times. There were flourishes, but I don't think everyone was getting along well. The next show I saw was when he was touring the Grand Wazoo album some time around '72 or 73. Absolutely incredible show. Some where in there I saw the band when Jean Luc Ponty was playing with Frank and it was probably the best balance of humor and musicianship I witnessed For the next dozen albums or so I saw every tour at least once, some twice or three times. The Zoot Allures band was absolutely killer. Sheik Yerbouty was downright nasty and I was lovin' it!
I'd just moved west when Joe's Garage was released and it was another band so tight you could bust a nut. I saw the Shut Up and Play Your Guitar show in Boulder - some dude was dressed up as an egg and his arms stuck out through holes in the shell. He kept rubbing the shell as a form of applause and Frank seemed to like that. The Steve Vai years were pretty good but after he left the live shows seemed to really be wearing on Frank. The bands were exceptional, the live sound was great but Franks looked unhappy - like bitchier than normal. Bob Stone saw me around so much he got to know my face and he let me into a bunch of sound checks. He'd even ask what I thought of the sound! Imagine that.
Around this time, the rumors of cancer began. I saw his last rock tour in Rochester (I think) a little ways north of Detroit. I'm not surprised he cut that tour short because the band was on autopilot and Frank disciplined them on stage, something I'd never seen in the 50 or so shows I'd been to. Still have all of my Zappa vinyl and keep thinking I should sell some of it on ebay and maybe I could retire. I probably have 20 of the LPs as promos., 3 or 4 copies of each regular release and way too many CDs. It's a sickness. I really miss Frank.
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OW
Trad climber
Patagonia
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Jul 26, 2006 - 05:39pm PT
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>Remember Zappa died at age 45 of prostate cancer!
Frank was 53 when he died, but point well taken. I'm surprised Frank didn't write a song about being sure to have your prostate checked by a female doctor...
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sandsnow
Social climber
SoCal
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Jul 26, 2006 - 06:26pm PT
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Just when Sheik Yerbouti came out I had a job where our boss was a real a-hole. As my boss was talking to me in the parking lot, my friend drives up with the song cued and lyrics blaring “Your an a-hole, you’re an a-hole”
Classic moment and my boss didn’t even catch it. It was all I could do to keep from bustin’ out laughing. I can’t remember the song title at the moment.
“Don’t fool yourself girl, it’s goin’ right up your p**pchute!”
As far as eating sh!t on stage, Frank debunked that in his autobiography. He did state that the closest he ever came to eating sh!t was the buffet at the Holiday Inn somewhere in South Carolina
If you ever see his autobiography for sale; grab it. It is a fantastic read about Frank himself and the other musicians he works with and encounters. It may be out of print. I read it when published at least ten or twelve years ago.
“Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?”
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 26, 2006 - 06:40pm PT
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Was it this book?
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Hardly Visible
climber
Port Angeles
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Jul 26, 2006 - 06:44pm PT
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Now how many of you folks think my potato has been baking too long? Raise your miserable hand up.
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Voltzwgn
Trad climber
Sac CA
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Jul 26, 2006 - 06:48pm PT
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The Jean Luc stuff is great and I've got more than a few of Ponty's CD too. OW, I miss Frank too, so many listened to the funny words and never heard the social commentary much less throw out the words and listen to the music. It's like you mention Frank and people say "don't eat the yellow snow". A catchy little phrase that nice people can say and snicker at and think it's so out there ........if they could only hear what he was really saying.
I haven't brought any of Frank's music in a long while is the family trust releasing stuff worth listening to these day's?
Rock, Jazz, Classical he could make it all come to life.
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Jul 26, 2006 - 07:27pm PT
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Strange! I never heard of any of the above. They all look a little weird.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 26, 2006 - 10:18pm PT
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If you LOVE Zappa, don't overlook "The Muffin Men"!
Here's a couple of their albums.
They are quite rare and could cost $60-$100 or more, per CD.
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sandsnow
Social climber
SoCal
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Jul 27, 2006 - 01:33am PT
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Blitzo
Yeah, that's it. Great book. I wish I had not let someone borrow it, who let someone else borrow, only to never get it back.
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