On 11/8/2014 7:45 AM, nablusoss1008 wrote:
Hot Rats, one of my all time favorite albums. The fellow was a genius
but published too much of his enormous production.
The interesting thing about Frank Zappa is that he was not a hippie - he
called himself a freak, and in fact he was the
On 11/8/2014 8:04 AM, fleetwood_macnche...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Ha-ha! So true - My fave zappa tune of all time is Peaches En Regalia.
Always enjoyed his album covers too.
GUAMBO was an act of love, and for those of you who couldn't get in,
this is, in part, what the Great
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.
200 motels! I think he released the soundtrack to that, and I bought a copy - I
was too young to completely *get* Zappa when I first heard him, but I
recognized him as so original, and dramatic, it kept up my interest, until he
made more sense.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,
When I returned from a summer gig in Butte, Montana in 1966, friends in
the school of music at the UofW played me the Mothers album. When I
joined the folk rock group a little later on at the end of the first
rehearsal played it for them and then had them just play anything that
came to mind.
