What Are You Listening To?
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Wavels
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I love Yellow Shark.
Zappa was, and is very much misunderstood by most people.
He had zero tolerance for drug use by his band members. He did not do drugs, except for nicotine and alcohol..
He was an extremely stern taskmaster, he would only hire the best of the best to play in his band. His auditions are legendary, he made players sweat bullets to get the job.
Zappa is the primary reason that I became interested in different types of music, most notably jazz and classical.
Thanks Frank.
panhead
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Same here , FZ & King Crimson lead me to discover tons of music , before the internet I'd take the names of their musicians to the record store & research the catalogs .
After seeing the Mothers 1st incarnation I was a follower of the band , after seeing the 2nd incarnation of the Mothers with George Duke & Jean Luc Ponty I became a hard core Mother head & bought all the fusion jazz I could get my hands on .
You look at genius like Zappa , Robert Fripp , Duke , Bozzio , Stanley Clark , John McLaughlin etc & wonder wtf has happened to highly skilled musicians within main stream music , now it's all about good looks vs musicianship .
I gotta go with my son to look at why one of our rental houses roof is leaking & when I get back I'll post a video I think you'd like of an absolutely beautiful and highly talented female jazz artist I've been digging alot lately .
Blue Wizard
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Mr. Bongwater
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panhead
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When Dweezil played this song their wasnt a dry eye in the house , i would think from the lyrics relating to his fathers death , you can see in his face he's crying while playing the song & remembering his father is killing him , me & my wife both cried along with many others , such a beautiful guitar solo only Frank coulda wrote .
From the song .
In a world ran by The Central Scrutinizer all music is illegal .
He starts to feel depressed now & he knows the end is near , he goes back to his ugly little room & quietly dreams his last guitar solo .
From the song .
In a world ran by The Central Scrutinizer all music is illegal .
He starts to feel depressed now & he knows the end is near , he goes back to his ugly little room & quietly dreams his last guitar solo .
Wavels
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Yes indeed, Kind Sir, you possess impeccably good taste in music.
I forget where I read an article extolling the virtues of young Ms. Spaulding, but I went right out and bought her most recent album at the time. This was sometime in 2010.
I enjoyed it very much and told friends about it. Well, in 2011 she won the Grammy award for best new artist. I was well ahead of the curve and felt sufficiently smug.
I posted two of her videos in this thread...page #433 and post # 8645.
If not for Frank Z., I do not think that I would have cultivated an interest in non rock-pop music many years ago.
Thanks Frank!
Wavels
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Well, good stuff for sure. I saw Zappa in 1975 at the Capital Theater in Passiac NJ.
That was the last so-called rock concert that I ever attended. Elvin Bishop was on the bill also...hahaha...
George Duke, Jean Luc-Ponty, Ruth Underwood, Napoleon Murphy Brock, the Fowler Bros. Wow...what a band. Mesmerizing performance.
At the time, largely because of Zappa I was becoming interested in various types of fusion...Weather Report, Return to Forever, The Crusaders, Michael Frank, Lee Ritenouer, Larry Carlton, Miles Davis, Larry Coryell, John McLaughlin and many more.
Zappa changed my musical life, and after a few more years I found myself listening to classical music more and more...Berlioz, Stravinsky, Chopin, Varese, Copeland, Mozart, Beethoven, Mussorgsky,
Shostakovitch and many more.
Thank you Frank, you have enriched my musical life.