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The Block 
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One of the best Jazz/Rock artists IMO, but what's yours?
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triceratopsoil
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Posted: 08 Apr 2011 at 4:46pm |
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He has his moments.
My favourite Zappa thing is the 2 seconds of greasy double bass at the beginning of Little Umbrellas. |
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Posted: 08 Apr 2011 at 5:03pm |
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Personally I don't really know what my favorite Zappa thing is, though it might be my first listen to Apostrophe, or when I got infected with Frank Zappa...
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Posted: 08 Apr 2011 at 5:36pm |
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Love him, but I burnt myself out on his music years ago and am still trying to reclaim that magical time. These days, if I'm even in the mood, I can only listen to one album of his at a time before I have to move on.
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Posted: 08 Apr 2011 at 5:36pm |
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I'm a pretty huge Zappa fanatic. I love his early Mothers recordings, I love his solo stuff in the 70's, and I even moderately enjoy some his silly 80's albums. All around genius IMO.
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Posted: 18 Apr 2011 at 4:33pm |
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One of my all time favorite artists for sure. One Size Fits All is my favorite album by Zappa. Everything I love about him squeezed into that little package. For this site I give the tip to The Grand Wazoo. Wonderful album, my favorite of his trilogy of early jazz rock/fusion albums.
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Posted: 18 Apr 2011 at 4:37pm |
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the dude was a genius. both as composer and guitarist. but i just wish he would've stuck to instrumentals after the first few Mothers albums. the lyrics just kill so much of his music for me. either that, or only allow Captain Beefheart to sing for him.
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Posted: 18 Apr 2011 at 5:12pm |
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yknow, FZ has jazz and jazz/fusion moments ALL OVER his huge discography, but the albums that really focus on the jazz, i consider some of the best in the genre by any artist. For someone who didn't even like to TALK about jazz, he sure knew how to do it well and unique
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Posted: 18 Apr 2011 at 5:21pm |
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A legendary musician.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2011 at 12:49pm |
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A big Zappa fan myself, especially his mid seventies period, One Size Fits All being my favourite album of his.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2011 at 6:31pm |
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I have one of his double live albums on CD. It's wonderful.
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Posted: 19 Apr 2011 at 10:43pm |
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My first experience was The Grand Wazoo followed by Hot Rats and I was infected. Fantastic stuff. Since then I have collected a good cross section of Zappa/Mothers material. Currently oozing over Yellow Shark.
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Still got all his vinyls from the first up to "Zappa in New York" plus some bootlegs.
I've seen him twice, first at Hamburg 1974 and then at Hannover in 1976. This is from the Hannover-concert: http://www.ottosell.de/zappa/images/zappa-pudel.jpg image: Otto Sell Edited by Otto126 - 20 Apr 2011 at 4:42am |
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Posted: 20 Apr 2011 at 9:59am |
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I approach him with caution cos he can go from genius -
Zoot Allures - Zappa In New York -
to stupidity
- Joes Garage
However Zappa is definitely legendary and indispensable to the jazz fusion movement
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Posted: 15 Aug 2011 at 8:27pm |
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I always ahd the thought that Frank might have been more responsible for fusion that we give him credit for, although as mentioned above, there are times when one album is enough ... and I would suggest that the lyrics are the culprit here.
But if one can shut that off a bit, yeah, there is some seriously good music and the compositional ability is very good and way up and above a lot of folks that were known for "fusion", as this guy was fusing a lot more than just jazz and rock ... a heck of a lot more that we could handle, and still can't!
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Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 3:12am |
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Unfortunately he returned very quickly to an even worse kind of scatological and teenage lust humour as soon as Apostrophe until Joe's Garage
Yup, he sold lotsa records to zitty male kids in search of losing their virginity in the late 70's... I knowthis because I had a lot of schoolmates into Overnight Sheik's Garage era, mainly because of the texts and guitar heroics (hemerroids
 ) needless to say it didn't work well for them, because most girls hated Zappa and stayed clear of anyone who liked him . |
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....
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Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 5:34am |
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Who was he referring to when he said "Shut Up and Play Your Guitar"?
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Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 2:49pm |
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 , because it's a compilation of his "rare" live guitar solos all gathered ion one disc to make the male teenagers drool over his guitar on top of his smut!!!
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....
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Posted: 16 Aug 2011 at 3:01pm |
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Hi,
On Guy Guden's blog, there is one where he discusses Frank Zappa, and what had become of him. In the end, it would come back to hurt him, despite the great music, which he himself, sometimes, did not believe in. I think he was bored and that was one way for him to have some fun ... but yeah ... it does get nerve wrecking and boring after a while.
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