The guitar player in my small town first band played with Zappa. Also a
Seattle bass player friend, Jeff Simmons, played with Zappa and when he
quit Zappa made a movie around it called "200 Motels" (definitely rated
Not for Buck). It was also one of the very first movies all done with
video. When I saw Zappa's show in Spokane in 1971 and headed for the
rest room before the show who should come out but Zappa himself.
On 11/08/2014 06:04 AM, [email protected] [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
Ha-ha! So true - My fave zappa tune of all time is Peaches En Regalia.
Always enjoyed his album covers too.
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote :
Hot Rats, one of my all time favorite albums. The fellow was a genius
but published too much of his enormous production.
---In [email protected], <punditster@...> wrote :
Frank Zappa lived in a log cabin formerly owned by cowboy actor Tom
Mix on thid lot 1966 to 1968, when he left because too any weirdos
were dropping in (not including John Mayall, who lived with Zappa when
he first came to the U.S.).
*The L.A. Musical History Tour*
by Art Fein
Faber and Faber, 1990
p. 134
Other titles of interest:
*Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark
Heart Of The Hippie Dream*
by David McGowan
Headpress, 2014
*Freak out! My life with Frank Zappa:*
http://www.dweezilzappaworld.com/groups/1963466
>
On 11/7/2014 11:08 AM, Bhairitu noozguru@...
<mailto:noozguru@...> [FairfieldLife] wrote:
>
...youmight have liked reading the link to the rather extensive
history of Laurel Canyon.
>
/Almost anyone who had any aspiration to being a singer and/or
song writer passed through Laurel Canyon and the old Tom Mix Log
Cabin. ///One of the strangest in the strange cast of characters
in Laurel Canyon in 1967 was Frank Zappa. He rented the log cabin
after we moved out - the strange part is that he was formerly in
the military and he neither drank nor smoked - Frank was not a
hippie - he was a "freak."
/
Laurel Canyon Blvd. and Lookout Mountain Road, CA
/>
After all you were there.
>
/Hotel Laurel Canyon://
//
//"A strange cast of characters congregated in the Hollywood
Hills where lots of rock bands seemed to be emerging into the
spotlight at the same time. Countless rumors have materialized
about what was really going there. Some people interpret the song
"Hotel California" to be about the excesses of the Rock and Roll
lifestyle, and as Don Henley put it, 'The underbelly of the
American Dream'..." //
//
//http://iamaphoney.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html/
