zap! zap! zap! ... zappa!

[b i o n i c]

im late to the game. frank zappa is a god.

i started watching his interviews a few months ago, and just a few nights ago i stayed up till daylight watching more. i watched hours and hours of him talking before i ever listened to one of his songs. then i started reading lyrics without listening to his music (i have hardly ever payed attention to lyrics).

im so blown away by this person, i just wanted to say so.

this frank (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p6yUvQBXSY) zappa! that frank (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc) zappa! those frank (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNJy-OgCzB0) zappas! a couple of years before he died he was named "special ambassador to the west on trade, culture and tourism" in czechoslovakia ... whatttttt?

discuss, or if you're gonna ignore the thread, at least click some of those links if ya dont know... so ya know

: ZZZZZZZZZAPPPPPAAA!

[jabumbo]

i saw apart of a set by "zappa plays zappa" last summer and it was pretty rad. i don't know a whole lot of his tunes outside of the "greatest hits" type of stuff but i do enjoy it on occasion.


he was certainly a compelling character, to say the least

[b i o n i c]

beyond his music, frank zappa the person alone was amazing, check out the second link. or any of the other interviews out there

[b i o n i c]

and yes im a little embarassed to just now be discovering him

[mickill]

You should be ashamed of yourself.

[mickill]

I'm a fan, but he doesn't make much of an argument in that Crossfire debate. I'm not an advocate of censorship, but I'm pretty sure that people like Hitler influenced a lot of people with "just words". He's a lot more articulate in his songs.

[mickill]

Oh, I didn't get as far as the other guy bringing up Hitler. Maybe it was too early to play the Hitler card anyway.

[b i o n i c]

yeah that part made me think, the hitler thing - you're right. im mostly in awe of his convictions and how willing he was to be honest at all costs, integrity. im still digesting a lot of it. im having a hard time articulating it, music aside. someone help me out rrgh

who was the guy on the left? he seems equally in awe during the whole thing

[b i o n i c]

interviewed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KBmQqO-v4s) by a pennsylvania state trooper. ha

[yeahwho]

not a huge fan, but when he was with the mothers of invention they made the album "absolutely free" with the song "brown shoes don't make it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Shoes_Don%27t_Make_It)" and I consider that song to be a masterpiece, sonically the production is still on the edge.

Plus the mothers of invention made my all time favorite album cover/title (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasels_Ripped_My_Flesh).

after this period his music seemed to sort of be random and noodling to me, not nearly as good imo as his early years, i can hardly stomach apostrophe (') it just sounds bad and uninventive when i know he was trrying to do the opposite of that.

[mate_spawn_die]

this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%27re_Only_In_It_For_The_Money)

[Videodrome]

im a little embarassed to just now be discovering him

it took this thread for me to jump on. actually it took that first interview you posted. good stuff.

[b i o n i c]

^ im glad you checked it out ^

this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOz7aSJO2qo) is really "interesting"..

this
this frank (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p6yUvQBXSY) zappa! that frank (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc) zappa! those frank (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNJy-OgCzB0) zappas! a couple of years before he died he was named "special ambassador to the west on trade, culture and tourism" in czechoslovakia ... whatttttt?
makes a little more sense now

[fucktopgirl]

I growed up with Zappa in the background because my parents were that cool!!!

[b i o n i c]

what happened to you then?

the canadians don't understand our sovereignty over frank zappa!

[b i o n i c]

my parents were really kind of not too cool about some music, they led me to believe he was like some devil crap

[fucktopgirl]

^ Mine were cool,:D all the good stuff from the 60-70 and beginning of 80.

My dad stop his discovering of music there tho :p He still have his turntable and listen to his vinyls, he must have like 300 to 500 .