I was never really a Zappa fan, at least not musically. However, he was honest, innovative, uncompromising, intelligent, avant garde and pushed musical boundaries. The world is a better place with people like Frank Zappa in it.
Well you should try opening your ears & your mind. Zappa put out 62 lps between 1966 & 1993, his family released another 60+ lps after his death. He did many different styles of music. Frank Zappa was & will always be the only modern day musical genius
@@anthonycassillo5142 I didn’t say that I hadn’t heard any Zappa albums. I said I was not particularly a fan of his music. I believe that both my ears and my mind work well - but I appreciate your concern. The fact that he released so many albums means that he was prolific, nothing more. I’m glad that you’re a fan of his music. Enjoy.
@@matthewoconnell114 I'm with you, I was always a way bigger fan of his guitar playing than his compositions or his records, plus I always dug his great sense of wry humor, his unique perspectives, his amazing testimony before Congress amid the PMRC thing and just being an unafraid, unashamed musical genius and anomoly. Plus, I have him to thank for getting Steve Vai's career going, whom is another great player whom I admire their skill, abilities, demeanor and whatnot, just not a huge fan of his music either.
@@sgenetti77 I couldn’t agree more. It’s funny, because I thought I was complimenting him. :). Again, I can respect someone, understand their influence on music, and appreciate them as a person and still not really like their music that much. Like you said, I think Steve Vai is an amazing guitarist, so is Joe Satriani. But, I can’t make it through a full album of either of them - but again, that’s just me and my personal taste. I love Pink Floyd but there are a couple of albums, e.g. Ummagumma, that is hard to listen to and I haven’t even tried listening to since I was in high school. There are a lot of musicians who credit Frank Zappa as being an amazing influence on their music and some who argue he was a musical genius. I’m not in a position to argue with them. But, outside of a handful of songs, I didn’t really love his music. He himself, said that he didn’t really liked the Beatles and named only 3 songs of theirs that he liked. So, again, personal taste. I don’t think anyone questions the genius and certainly the influence of the Beatles.
Fascinating that Frank himself was very much straight edge when it came to drugs, yet advocated the rights of others to partake in them. Beyond all comedy and sardonics, definitely a man for individual freedoms.
Yes, but he's not the right leaning or Republican that people try to turn him into. As he said himself, he was "Fiscally conservative, socially liberal." He himself had tried cannabis, and said it wasn't for him, so he had an open mind, as well.
@@augustusbetucius2931 I laugh when todays right says he would support them because - Libertarianism. There were few things he so publicly despised as the religious right.
Nothing odd about it. If you ask Ian MacKaye I'm sure he'll say the same. There are actually many successful people in the history of rock who were teetotal: Patti Smith, Gene Simmons... plenty more, they just don't make a deal out of it.
@@traildoggy Absolutely - Jimmy Swaggart- just the tip 😁 on the best band you never heard in your life. He had not time for the religious right or indeed Republican politicians (Tipper Gore?). I wonder what he would have made/done to Trump.
During a gig at the The Rainbow Theatre in around 1976, he would not let up until the entire audience stood up and sang "the poodle bites, the poodle chews it".
My excitement at having experienced 3 live Zappa shows...wow! And that Dweezil is such a good boy! Seen his tribute to Dad 3x... Gives me faith not only in genetics, but in humanity.
Though I suspect frank would have *very* much not enjoyed being a politician. He deeply disliked politicans and dealt with his discomfort with them via music. Unfortunately you probably wouldnt do too well running for president with the promise "Im going to ignore all the other politicians and play badass guitar solos, also 3/4 of you voters are buffoons"
I remember my 2 daughters constantly playing Studio Tan over & over & laughing their heads off at Greggery Peccary! The girls in the steno pool laughing used to set them off laughing & it was repeated over & over & over especially the girl gushing after "is there any mail for me?" 😂😂
@11:14 The guys he's talking about are Mats Öberg and Morgan Ågren from the Swedish band Zappstitute. There are YT videos on the subject. One called "Mats & Morgan joins Zappa on-stage". I was there when it happened😎
THANK YOU ! Frank is sadly missed ! In solidarity with the fighters for peace, love, freedom, justice and truth, we express our feelings with music on our channel. Greetings from Germany, CLUB OF THE UNCENSORED POETS
Great video.like him or lump him,he's a brilliant musician and one of a kind.unlike other musicians,he is his own genre. You can't say that about anybody else.long live frank❤ 4:09
That was brilliant the way he described the guitar as an instrument of possibilities because mathematically there so many ways to play it compared to almost any other instrument! I never thought of the guitar like that and probably why I never really cared to learn how to play it even though I’ve always loved rock n’ roll because I’ve always been terrible at math!
Your life is a piece of time that you have an opportunity to decorate with your talents and passions. This is life's rich pageant. I am in awe of Frank's beautiful mind as a composer.
Fucking GENIUS! I wish he was on the ballad. Zappa for President! LOVE YOU Frank! "It's called rational thinking..." That is something people don't do today. Period
I saw him in Munich and besides me stood a guy with the elephant syndrom ( a huge large head) and he had a joint in his hand. I looked at him and he offered me a smoke. I did and we had a lot of fun watching Frank Zappa and his incredible band. I think it was Chad Wakerman who played naked over the complete concert behind his drumset. What a gig.
Watching Frank now is blowing my mind, as back in the day I didn't listen to him, though I really liked Apostrophe. Listening to him now I see just how witty he was and astute.
This is what I love about him as a guitar player/composer/conductor, he never repeated himself, no generic guitar solos just to wank off, always aiming to keep the performance fresh & spontaneous for to surprise (and to provoke) the audience, the antithesis of what many of those pimped up music industry clowns (full of cuties who can sing via autotune and dance and look nice) are doin' nowadays (but also back in the days)....after seeing Zappa in 79 I went to Al DIMeola in Concert, of course it was cool to see all that great musicians, Anthony Jackson, Jan Hammer, Mingo Lewis, young Simon Phillips who dropped in for Steve Gadd but listening to the concert was like hearing the album but much louder :D - no big surprises, not much impro.....well, Zappa was a very rare breed - indeed :)
Really respected Frank Zappa as long as I was aware of him. He could come across grumpy sometimes but that's just a smart person being frustrated because they don't understand why no one gets it. Really wished he had survived because I would be very interested in what he would think of our current world.
He was a contradiction, like most of us. He was a true family man, yet he was a serial adulterer. He was kind, funny, and yet mean and deadly serious. I just appreciate his overall Frankness.
I asked Frank a bunch of questions at a pre-concert press call in '78 in Glasgow and every one was answered in a thoughtful, rational and, yes, a slightly sarcastic way that simply oozed intelligence and independent thinking. A friend of mine who knew shorthand took down his answers and I wrote them up in the student newspaper. The finished piece sounded like an interview with a philosopher-sociologist-psychologist.
He mentioned only 3 Beatles song I like the two Lennon experimental songs u am the walrus, strawberry Field forever.and the banging guitar riff of paper writer which till today is untouchable
Such a pleasure listening to FZ. Anyone that can express themselves cogently and intelligently is a pleasure. However, in the entertainment industry, of which I would include professional football/soccer, that seems rare. Frank Zappa was a great communicator. I would separate this from his music which was never to my taste. That's just my problem! But as a conversationalist and communicator he was second to none.
3:47 was maybe true back then but not anymore. and on the whole 'it's there to getting lonely people together in an environment where they can sort of make friends with each other', i think it has that potential but now again today it's not like that. I've been so depressed trying to find a place with fun music to dance at and meet random people (i go to philosophy meetings or book clubs but those are not the places where you find 'random people', they generally are a rather strong type, but i'm interested in the whole spectrum of humanity). I dream that discos would be the only thing of salute to me but it never comes and I hate discos and djs as a result
Zappa was one of the SANEST people who ever lived. Nothing mad about him at all. 'I liked it a lot, nobody had to explain it to me' heard in 1993 completed my life's understanding at the age of 25. All explained!
I love the John Lennon anecdote. Lennon's obviously the kind of guy who breaks the ice by mildly insulting people to see how they react. If you can't handle me taking the piss, we're not going to get on. Frank clearly took it in his stride.
Zappa's genius wasn't mad. He was just a genius plain and simple. Most of the popular or famous musicians we have now, and for some time, can't even touch what Zappa was capable of, not even a fraction of it.
I think his band was expected to "punch a clock" by playing his compositions as accurately as possible, in quite an orchestral manner. Don't think they would have been kept around if they simply played what they felt at any given moment.
He is easily influenced by things he hates. Back then, there were so many things to hate about music - pure genius emanates from my real rock hero: Frank Zappa was my pure resonance to all music he was one of a kind and beyond
you can tell that he just wanted to blurt out something like "and they don't like me because I'm an Arab" The way he danced around that when he was talking about how people perceive him based on his looks
Doing anything simply to be famous never made any sense to me! I never really cared how famous a musician or actor but how good of a musician or an actor they were! But wanting to do those things just because they have a better chance of making you famous than most professions has always seemed insane to me!
I liked ZAPPA , then got to love the music an person as i became more interested in his world ,,, theirs no other like him an dont want 2 see a copy cat either, i am completely shirted of tattoos, an chosen FRANK ZAPPA for my back piece, i wear it with pride an respect ! Thank you FRANK for what you have given us intelligently , musicly , an freedom of speech!!!
Q: Who are your Guitar heroes? A: “Well, today my favorite would be Allan Holdsworth. But when I started playing, I liked Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, Clarence Gatemouth Brown and Guitar Slim.”
the beginning of his dialog here shows clearly how he measured his songs n tunes with his fellow musicians n his own guitar n vocals. he created the most absurd music, e.g. dont fuck with mountains, dont fuck around. tghen on to really serious rock n jazz sounds that are clearly masterpieces. the albums that feature it are Chungas revenge, hot rats, grand wazoo, apostrophe
BRILLIANCE!! PURE GENIUS & a Stickler for Good Grooming!! George Duke said it best. "I can only Imagine what Frank would be doing, had he lived for today.." I understand his "Hatred". So many have criticized Zappa's work. yet his EXTREMELY Talented Bandmates Sing Nothing but Praise for him. When I hear the Criticism, I say; "Look here, Brother. Who you jivin' with that Cosmic Debris??"
I was never really a Zappa fan, at least not musically. However, he was honest, innovative, uncompromising, intelligent, avant garde and pushed musical boundaries. The world is a better place with people like Frank Zappa in it.
Well you should try opening your ears & your mind. Zappa put out 62 lps between 1966 & 1993, his family released another 60+ lps after his death. He did many different styles of music. Frank Zappa was & will always be the only modern day musical genius
@@anthonycassillo5142 I didn’t say that I hadn’t heard any Zappa albums. I said I was not particularly a fan of his music. I believe that both my ears and my mind work well - but I appreciate your concern. The fact that he released so many albums means that he was prolific, nothing more. I’m glad that you’re a fan of his music. Enjoy.
@@matthewoconnell114 His music is fun, funny, enjoyable, experimental, and on different horizons, give "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" a listen sometime.
@@matthewoconnell114 I'm with you, I was always a way bigger fan of his guitar playing than his compositions or his records, plus I always dug his great sense of wry humor, his unique perspectives, his amazing testimony before Congress amid the PMRC thing and just being an unafraid, unashamed musical genius and anomoly. Plus, I have him to thank for getting Steve Vai's career going, whom is another great player whom I admire their skill, abilities, demeanor and whatnot, just not a huge fan of his music either.
@@sgenetti77 I couldn’t agree more. It’s funny, because I thought I was complimenting him. :). Again, I can respect someone, understand their influence on music, and appreciate them as a person and still not really like their music that much. Like you said, I think Steve Vai is an amazing guitarist, so is Joe Satriani. But, I can’t make it through a full album of either of them - but again, that’s just me and my personal taste. I love Pink Floyd but there are a couple of albums, e.g. Ummagumma, that is hard to listen to and I haven’t even tried listening to since I was in high school. There are a lot of musicians who credit Frank Zappa as being an amazing influence on their music and some who argue he was a musical genius. I’m not in a position to argue with them. But, outside of a handful of songs, I didn’t really love his music. He himself, said that he didn’t really liked the Beatles and named only 3 songs of theirs that he liked. So, again, personal taste. I don’t think anyone questions the genius and certainly the influence of the Beatles.
We miss you Frank, still listening to your music!
Does anybody here remember Frank Zappa ...
Me also. Seen Dweezl a few time chip of the old block
And that ladies & gentlemen is 12 minutes of honesty and intelligence....2 rare commodities today....Massive respect for Frank....
Fascinating that Frank himself was very much straight edge when it came to drugs, yet advocated the rights of others to partake in them. Beyond all comedy and sardonics, definitely a man for individual freedoms.
Yes, but he's not the right leaning or Republican that people try to turn him into. As he said himself, he was "Fiscally conservative, socially liberal." He himself had tried cannabis, and said it wasn't for him, so he had an open mind, as well.
@@augustusbetucius2931 I laugh when todays right says he would support them because - Libertarianism. There were few things he so publicly despised as the religious right.
Nothing odd about it. If you ask Ian MacKaye I'm sure he'll say the same.
There are actually many successful people in the history of rock who were teetotal: Patti Smith, Gene Simmons... plenty more, they just don't make a deal out of it.
@@traildoggy Absolutely - Jimmy Swaggart- just the tip 😁 on the best band you never heard in your life. He had not time for the religious right or indeed Republican politicians (Tipper Gore?). I wonder what he would have made/done to Trump.
@@bobklee2397 Well, Tipper was likely a Democrat since she was married to Al Gore, but you are spot on with the rest 100%.
A period of time to decorate. What a great sentiment. Truly a genius man. That should apply to everything that we do in life.
Zappa made my life better.
This man had stellar intelligence, and was instrumental in getting Eskimoes to stop eating yellow snow. For that I salute you, sir.
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ITS A SHAME WE LOST THIS MAN. HE WAS A GREAT ONE
We lost him to cigarettes. He was a heavy smoker most of his life. Anti-drug YET heavy smoker.
There is so much gold in what Frank said. Still feel inspired after 43 years.
Feeling inspired after one day bruther
Man O man...I wish Zappa was around in these times...R.I.P. Frank.
He would have a lot to say - remember in Titties and Beer, the references to "Milhous Nixon and Agnew too"?
Dude, SO DO I. I still tear up at times...and it's been almost 30 years.
Inimitable, sadly missed, musical genius and original artist...Frankly❤
"What a great attitude. That's neat."
I love that.
way to go Frank, your the greatest. Thanks for everything ❤❤☮☮☯☯
Gold , a Great Musician and a misunderstood Genius.
Seen him 20+ times he was amazing. Just so friggn original!
Frank - always the genius...
I witnessed Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown at a blues festival in Old Town Sacramento. Very cool to hear him
I will never forget or stop missing Frank Zappa. I could listen to him speak all day.
He was a true original. Life just opened that other door for him way too soon. We need people like him for balance.
Fabulous! I’m a huge Zappa fan . Really appreciate this 🙏
During a gig at the The Rainbow Theatre in around 1976, he would not let up until the entire audience stood up and sang "the poodle bites, the poodle chews it".
I really miss that man. A lot. His music AND his mind.
Miss you, Genius.
Thank you for posting this. It shows the side of Frank that I found really interesting. What a complicated man, and a great musician!
There will NEVER be another person like Frank. I wish he was my Dad.
To any sceptic abut this genius, this should be mandatory
My excitement at having experienced 3 live Zappa shows...wow! And that Dweezil is such a good boy! Seen his tribute to Dad 3x... Gives me faith not only in genetics, but in humanity.
Not a wasted word. . . . . . . . .
zappa wasn't just smart, he was dangerously smart, and i would have voted for him.
The same thing that killed him, Reagan survived. Lennon was killed not long after Reagan"s election. I'm sure that's a bunch of coincidence.
Though I suspect frank would have *very* much not enjoyed being a politician. He deeply disliked politicans and dealt with his discomfort with them via music. Unfortunately you probably wouldnt do too well running for president with the promise "Im going to ignore all the other politicians and play badass guitar solos, also 3/4 of you voters are buffoons"
Love Zappa!
I remember my 2 daughters constantly playing Studio Tan over & over & laughing their heads off at Greggery Peccary! The girls in the steno pool laughing used to set them off laughing & it was repeated over & over & over especially the girl gushing after "is there any mail for me?" 😂😂
@11:14
The guys he's talking about are Mats Öberg and Morgan Ågren
from the Swedish band Zappstitute.
There are YT videos on the subject.
One called "Mats & Morgan joins Zappa on-stage".
I was there when it happened😎
The title of this video is modest and descriptive. No BS nor Click bait. Rare find these days. Rare as Zappa's Genius.
My all time favorite guitarist
ALL HAIL FRANK ZAPPA 🙌
THANK YOU ! Frank is sadly missed !
In solidarity with the fighters for peace, love, freedom, justice and truth, we express our feelings with music on our channel.
Greetings from Germany, CLUB OF THE UNCENSORED POETS
Great video.like him or lump him,he's a brilliant musician and one of a kind.unlike other musicians,he is his own genre. You can't say that about anybody else.long live frank❤ 4:09
Whether or not you realize it, we'll always need Frank Zappa. I wish here were here now.
For many years klassic music has been my favorite occupation. Zappa showed me the way. I might have got there anyway, but probably years later.
That was brilliant the way he described the guitar as an instrument of possibilities because mathematically there so many ways to play it compared to almost any other instrument! I never thought of the guitar like that and probably why I never really cared to learn how to play it even though I’ve always loved rock n’ roll because I’ve always been terrible at math!
Alan Holdsworth is Amazing. Frank Zappa is as well. And I ❤ IT.😊
Allan Holdsworth is at the apex of every guitar player and composer list that ever existed. He's since returned back to his original planet.
There is nobody in the music business like Frank Zappa these days and the world is a lesser place for it.
He had his idea, original, comical, observant, str8 arrow and still comes across as a out there guy. Amazing music
Your life is a piece of time that you have an opportunity to decorate with your talents and passions. This is life's rich pageant.
I am in awe of Frank's beautiful mind as a composer.
No One. Like. Frank. Zappa. ! A Musical. Genius. !
Fascinating man.
Never knew Matthew McConaghey as a MTV interviewer, lol- but love the stash
"It's called rational thinking." 💥
Fucking GENIUS! I wish he was on the ballad. Zappa for President! LOVE YOU Frank! "It's called rational thinking..." That is something people don't do today. Period
ballot?
I saw him in Munich and besides me stood a guy with the elephant syndrom ( a huge large head) and he had a joint in his hand. I looked at him and he offered me a smoke. I did and we had a lot of fun watching Frank Zappa and his incredible band. I think it was Chad Wakerman who played naked over the complete concert behind his drumset. What a gig.
"It's there if you like it. If you don't like it, there's all those other names on the list."
Zappa is, was, and always will be #1
🎶It wasn't very large🎶
🎶There was just enough room🎶
🎶To cram the drums🎶
🎶In the corner over by the dodge🎶
ah!! that Stratocaster witta whammy bar
He's the man.
Well done, Roger! 😊
Sadly missed, words of great wisdom ❤
Watching Frank now is blowing my mind, as back in the day I didn't listen to him, though I really liked Apostrophe. Listening to him now I see just how witty he was and astute.
I was never a fan until I saw this dude on Letterman thought to myself I like this guy he reminds me a lot of myself
This is what I love about him as a guitar player/composer/conductor, he never repeated himself, no generic guitar solos just to wank off, always aiming to keep the performance fresh & spontaneous for to surprise (and to provoke) the audience, the antithesis of what many of those pimped up music industry clowns (full of cuties who can sing via autotune and dance and look nice) are doin' nowadays (but also back in the days)....after seeing Zappa in 79 I went to Al DIMeola in Concert, of course it was cool to see all that great musicians, Anthony Jackson, Jan Hammer, Mingo Lewis, young Simon Phillips who dropped in for Steve Gadd but listening to the concert was like hearing the album but much louder :D - no big surprises, not much impro.....well, Zappa was a very rare breed - indeed :)
Thanks for this. I always wondered if he wrote his solos out. That warp speed stuff sounded like too much to notate.
Great video
Really respected Frank Zappa as long as I was aware of him.
He could come across grumpy sometimes but that's just a smart person being frustrated because they don't understand why no one gets it.
Really wished he had survived because I would be very interested in what he would think of our current world.
He was a contradiction, like most of us. He was a true family man, yet he was a serial adulterer. He was kind, funny, and yet mean and deadly serious. I just appreciate his overall Frankness.
Zappa's music takes me to a place no other artist does....
His music will live forever
I asked Frank a bunch of questions at a pre-concert press call in '78 in Glasgow and every one was answered in a thoughtful, rational and, yes, a slightly sarcastic way that simply oozed intelligence and independent thinking. A friend of mine who knew shorthand took down his answers and I wrote them up in the student newspaper. The finished piece sounded like an interview with a philosopher-sociologist-psychologist.
Anything but mad. He was one of most sane people involved in rock music.
Frank, for over 50 years still makes laugh my ass off
His music always cheers me up.
Orson Wells did this a lot. Questioning the questionnaire it can come off as startling, but it is also a trope.
He mentioned only 3 Beatles song I like the two Lennon experimental songs u am the walrus, strawberry Field forever.and the banging guitar riff of paper writer which till today is untouchable
He's genius, definitely NOT mad.
Such a pleasure listening to FZ. Anyone that can express themselves cogently and intelligently is a pleasure. However, in the entertainment industry, of which I would include professional football/soccer, that seems rare. Frank Zappa was a great communicator. I would separate this from his music which was never to my taste. That's just my problem! But as a conversationalist and communicator he was second to none.
3:47 was maybe true back then but not anymore. and on the whole 'it's there to getting lonely people together in an environment where they can sort of make friends with each other', i think it has that potential but now again today it's not like that. I've been so depressed trying to find a place with fun music to dance at and meet random people (i go to philosophy meetings or book clubs but those are not the places where you find 'random people', they generally are a rather strong type, but i'm interested in the whole spectrum of humanity). I dream that discos would be the only thing of salute to me but it never comes and I hate discos and djs as a result
Great
When I first heard 'Peaches an regalia ' --I was struck--literally 'Zapped'!
It was the first I heard.
Still one of my favorites. Right up there with Bach, but better!
@@augustusbetucius2931 Imagine the duel, Grand Wazoo style, keyboard v guitar.
@@jill-ti7oe Peaches en Regalia was the very first piece of music by Frank Zappa that I listened to, also.
genius 👏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻
Hell yeah!
frank zappa was a prophet of his time 🙌
Zappa was one of the SANEST people who ever lived. Nothing mad about him at all. 'I liked it a lot, nobody had to explain it to me' heard in 1993 completed my life's understanding at the age of 25. All explained!
I have days of Frank recordings. Rare shit.
I love the John Lennon anecdote. Lennon's obviously the kind of guy who breaks the ice by mildly insulting people to see how they react. If you can't handle me taking the piss, we're not going to get on. Frank clearly took it in his stride.
Seen Frank and the Mothers of Invention in the 70s. Great show.
did you ever catch any of their stay at the Garrick Theater in NYC?
they would play two sets on Friday and Saturday nights one summer
Zappa's genius wasn't mad. He was just a genius plain and simple. Most of the popular or famous musicians we have now, and for some time, can't even touch what Zappa was capable of, not even a fraction of it.
I think his band was expected to "punch a clock" by playing his compositions as accurately as possible, in quite an orchestral manner. Don't think they would have been kept around if they simply played what they felt at any given moment.
Interesting point. I guess they were given solo breaks too.
Genius!
Such an interesting guy to listen to.
my trailblazing musical hero, and the only tattoo ive ever had (his moustache and imperial goatee)!
Arf! Arf! Arf! 😊
He spent seem like he is a madman. He is articulate
Pure genius.
He is easily influenced by things he hates. Back then, there were so many things to hate about music - pure genius emanates from my real rock hero: Frank Zappa was my pure resonance to all music he was one of a kind and beyond
I saw him so many times live. It always was great. Espacialy in Munich Olympiahalle| Arena. He played like nobody played before.
R. I. P.
Genius.
you can tell that he just wanted to blurt out something like "and they don't like me because I'm an Arab" The way he danced around that when he was talking about how people perceive him based on his looks
That's Frank,,,,,
If you don't like it,you wont!
As a life long Zappa Fan the next step onward and upward has to be Talking Heads. Now Freak out on that.
You just mentioned my two favorite all-time performers in one sentence. Thank you
I’m freakin’ out
He sounds like Rust Cohle giving interviews about music.
",I like the News"""funniest shit in
Doing anything simply to be famous never made any sense to me! I never really cared how famous a musician or actor but how good of a musician or an actor they were! But wanting to do those things just because they have a better chance of making you famous than most professions has always seemed insane to me!
I liked ZAPPA , then got to love the music an person as i became more interested in his world ,,, theirs no other like him an dont want 2 see a copy cat either, i am completely shirted of tattoos, an chosen FRANK ZAPPA for my back piece, i wear it with pride an respect ! Thank you FRANK for what you have given us intelligently , musicly , an freedom of speech!!!
Q: Who are your Guitar heroes?
A: “Well, today my favorite would be Allan Holdsworth. But when I started playing, I liked Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, Clarence Gatemouth Brown and Guitar Slim.”
the beginning of his dialog here shows clearly how he measured his songs n tunes with his fellow musicians n his own guitar n vocals. he created the most absurd music, e.g. dont fuck with mountains, dont fuck around. tghen on to really serious rock n jazz sounds that are clearly masterpieces. the albums that feature it are Chungas revenge, hot rats, grand wazoo, apostrophe
BRILLIANCE!! PURE GENIUS & a Stickler for Good Grooming!!
George Duke said it best. "I can only Imagine what Frank would be doing, had he lived for today.."
I understand his "Hatred".
So many have criticized Zappa's work. yet his EXTREMELY Talented Bandmates Sing Nothing but Praise for him.
When I hear the Criticism, I say; "Look here, Brother. Who you jivin' with that Cosmic Debris??"
Its called rational thinking , you get em Zapp