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Speaking of Zappa

ScottMP
ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
in THE MAIN WALL
I agree " One size fits all " is my favorite.

Did yo know that the guitar solo from Inca Roads was recorded live in Germany and then put into a studio recording off that song ? Frank was on the edge with studio work.

By the way that clip of Frank playing the bike was classic and shows where the old rumors come from. Wayne was close with the school talent show thing.

Lets make the water turn black.

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  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    Evelyn

    a modified dog, viewed the quivering edge of a special doily, drapped across the piano, with some supprise.

    In the darkened room where the chairs dismayed and the horrible curtains muffled the rain, she could hardly belive her eyes.

    A curious breeze, a garlic breath, which sounded like a snore. Somewhere near the Stienway or even from within, had the caused the doily fringe to waft and tremble in the gloom.

    Evelyn, a dog, having undergone further modification, pondered the significance of short person behavior in peddle depressed pan-chromatic resonance and other highly ambient domains.

    ARF .. She said

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  • S Ebels
    S Ebels Member Posts: 2,322
    Scott

    Go home, lay down and take your meds. It'll be OK in the morning pal.
  • Brad White_9
    Brad White_9 Member Posts: 2,440
    I think that

    the meds have been taken already, Steve.

    Have a nice trip, Scott. Say hi to Billy The Mountain for me. (With Ethel the tree growing off of his shoulder.)
  • S Ebels
    S Ebels Member Posts: 2,322
    Probably right Brad

    We did just indulge in a bit of rumination about the decade called the 70's and it probably gave poor Scott some kind of a relapse. :)
  • Jed_2
    Jed_2 Member Posts: 781
    Cozy Little Footies On Their Mind

    I might "wind up working in a gas station"

  • Steamhead (in transit)
    Steamhead (in transit) Member Posts: 6,688
    But

    we can jam at Joe's Garage...............

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  • Jed_2
    Jed_2 Member Posts: 781
    A message from Uncle Remus

    I can't wait till my Fro is full-grown
    I'll just throw 'way my Doo-Rag at home
    I'll take a drive to BEVERLY HILLS
    Just before dawn
    An' knock the little jockeys
    Off the rich people's lawn
    An' before they get up
    I'll be gone, I'll be gone
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    What

    Huh ?

    Oh Wow !

    O.K. all kidding aside, Thats the talent of Frank Zappa. After reading the post about music and the fact that, as Wayne said, His name always seems to come up, I decided to pull out some of my Cd's. Evelyn the dog is a quick little ditty that showed Franks mastery of the english language.

    You may not like or understand what he said but the man could used a thesaurus and dictionary like we do wrenchs and torch's. I had a college student friend who submitted Billy The Mountain to a creative writting class and got a A+. His teacher told him it was " Very Creative ".

    And the artificial stimulants ?? Did'nt even happen folks, Frank did'nt do drugs. He thought they destroyed the creative process and made you stupid, funny how other did'nt see that huh ?

    JCA let me read Franks autobiography while laid up with my bad knee early this year. His understanding of music composition and " pan-chromatic resonance " was way beyond other "Rock" musicians. Frank wrote symphonies and even addressed the American Association of composers, they did'nt like what he told them about thier jobs, pretty funny speach, wish I had it for you.

    Was Frank out there ? Damn Skippy.

    Pushing the envelope ? Always.

    Misunderstood ? Totally.

    If you've never gotten the joke, your missing a Alot of great stuff by a master of the language.

    I for one will miss him.

    Scott

    PS: Pajama people are boring me to pieces ! Seems like they are wasting my time.

    Oh and DON'T mess with the Zombie Woof.

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  • Supply House Rick
    Supply House Rick Member Posts: 1,399
    Maybe I'm Wrong but...

    I'm a little pimp with my hair gassed back
    Pair a khacki pants with my shoes shined black
    Got a little lady...walk the street
    Tellin' all the boys that she can't be beat
    Twenny dollah bill (I can set you straight)
    Meet me onna corner boy'n don't be late
    Man in a suite with bow-tie neck
    Wanna buy a grunt with a third party check
    Standin' onna porch of the Lido Hotel
    Floozies in the lobby love the way I sell:Hot Meat
    HOT RATS HOT ZITS HOT WRISTS intro into possibly Frank's greatest solo...

    *Zappa covered all genres of music sometimes in the same song. It always leads to him because he is the best*
  • Brad White_9
    Brad White_9 Member Posts: 2,440
    Elvis

    Never got this much love.
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    Elvis

    was'nt as talanted ( sorry I'll get it for that comment )

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  • Brad White_9
    Brad White_9 Member Posts: 2,440
    and

    for your spelling :)

    Sorry Scott. Tough Love. I just had to.

    EDIT: I am with you. His death, 29 years ago, was a good career move.
  • Paul Pollets
    Paul Pollets Member Posts: 3,665
    Zap

    one of my favorites...the autobiography was great...this man was way ahead of his time. I saw him live at the Cafe Wha when I was 15.

    Maybe we should move to Montana, Scott... and raise some dental floss??

    I live close to Montana!! :)

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  • Wayco Wayne_2
    Wayco Wayne_2 Member Posts: 2,479
    Phi Zappa Crappa

    The first time I saw a picture of Frank was the picture of him sitting on the John for the picture Phi Zappa Crappa. I guess it was something about Fratenity's??? At that time and age I thought he was weird and didn't hook into his art until later. I had a similar bad reaction to Joe Cocker. What's wrong with that guy jerking all over the place like that? Thank god for second chances and perhaps some growth in mind and culture. Scott I would like the name of the bio you read on Frank. (and watch out where the Huskys go) WW

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  • jackchips_2
    jackchips_2 Member Posts: 1,337
    Brad,

    Brad, Brad.

    First you knock low bidders (that's how I make my living), now Elvis.

    Blasphemy, that's what it is, blasphemy. You just "ain't nothing like a hound dog...."

    :-))

    Jack
  • Brad White_9
    Brad White_9 Member Posts: 2,440
    When, Jack

    Did I ever knock low-bidders -of your caliber? If ever I knocked low-bidders it is in the spirit of getting them to perform the work contracted. They cost me time and that costs money.

    So Jack, does this mean you will not 'love me tender'?

    :) Ed Sullivan Hip Wigglingly Yours,

    Brad
  • jackchips_2
    jackchips_2 Member Posts: 1,337
    In some post

    about electrical panels. We take these "knocks" very serious even when aimed at other trades.

    "Low bidders of your caliber", that is just "wunnerful, wunnerful" as Ed's buddy Lawrence would say.

    Compliments like that could probably get me fired which would be a welcome addition to my life style.

    Jack

    Ps. At your age, watch out you don't dislocate a hip. :-))
  • Brad White_9
    Brad White_9 Member Posts: 2,440
    I turn 49

    next month and can still Zydeco- et toi!
  • Plumdog_2
    Plumdog_2 Member Posts: 873
    I saw him at the Family Dog in Denver in '68.

    Been scared of weasels ever since.
  • Al Corelli_2
    Al Corelli_2 Member Posts: 395
    elvis and Frank

    elvis was a drug addict.

    Frank was a genius.

    Nanook a no nooooo!
    Watch out where the Huskies go.
    Dont you eat that yellow snow.

    I've seen him and Dweezil play at the Hartford Civic Center in the earliy eighties. I am still mesmerized.

    Best damn guitarist that ever lived.

    Gonna go listen right now.
    G'nite.

    1-888Pumpkin.

    There was an error rendering this rich post.

  • Steamhead (in transit)
    Steamhead (in transit) Member Posts: 6,688
    \"I once had a trusted employee....

    who wanted to get into the weasel-dust industry.... ran off with three million of my favorite dollars!"

    -FZ, just before Crockett and Tubbs pushed him into the water on "Miami Vice".

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  • Darin Cook_5
    Darin Cook_5 Member Posts: 298
    What happened to Scott???


    " He used to cut my grass, he was a very nice boy"





    Darin




  • Steamhead (in transit)
    Steamhead (in transit) Member Posts: 6,688
    He became a Dancing Fool

    "I don't know much about dancin', 's why I wrote this song,


    One of my legs is shorter than the other and both my feet's too long,


    'Course now right along with 'em, I got no natural rhythm,


    But I go dancin' every night, hoping one day I'll get it right-


    I'm a- Dancing Foooooool!
    I'm a- Dancing Foooooool!
    I'm a- Dancing Foooooool!"


    Still laugh when I hear that.

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  • Robert O'Connor_12
    Robert O'Connor_12 Member Posts: 728
    FZ

    Then he shut the fu#@ing door....SLAM!

    Soon the room was filling with flies.

    HELP ME!

    HELP ME!


    StudabakerHawk Yeah! Yeah!


    Robert O'Connor/NJ
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    Scotts still here

    He's got that Camarillo Brillo

    Flamin out along his head

    I mean his Mendocino Bean-o

    By where some bugs had made it red.



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  • Gene_3
    Gene_3 Member Posts: 289
    San'berdino

    She lives in mojave in a winnebago
    His name is bobby, he looks like a potato

    Shes in love with a boy
    from the rodeo
    Who pulls the rope on the chute
    When they let those suckers go

    Hes a slobber'in drunk at the Palomino
    They give him thirty days in San Berdino

    Well theres forty-four men
    Stashed away in tank C
    An there's only one shower
    But it dont apply to bobby

    You may think they're
    Dumb an lonely
    But you're wrong
    cause their love is strong
    Stacked-up hair
    An a cheap little ring
    They dont care
    cause it dont mean a thing

    Looka there...
    They dont care

    da do de do dede dadada, da do de do de de doo, wackohoo
    da do de do dede dadada, da do de do de de doo, wackohoo
    da do de do dede dadada, da do de do de de doo, wackohoo etc

    Best-est way that
    They can feel-o
    Out on the highway
    Rollin a wheel-o
    He's her tootsie
    Shes for real-o
    Trailer park heaven
    Its a real good deal-o
    Real good deal-o
    Real good deal-o
    Real good deal-o
    yo, ehh, yayayayayaya yeaaahhh

    The rest of their lives
    In san berdino
    Gonna spend the rest of their lives
    In san berdino
    The rest of their lives
    In san berdino
    Come on with me
    Come on with me
    Come on with me
    Down in san berdino
    Just 60 miles, 60 miles
    Down the san berdino freeway
    They got some dark green air
    An you can choke all day
    a,he Thats right!
    Gonna spend the rest of their lives
    Rest of their lives
    Rest of their lives

    Say now
    Aint talkin bout fontana
    Aint talkin bout uh uh
    Aint talkin bout uh uh
    Aint talkin bout uh uh
    Aint talkin bout the redlands, no no
    Zulch is the auto works
    Im telling you
    Thats where they take
    All the cars that they hurt
    Come on and lets all go down to san berdino
    Ooo-ooo
    Ooo-ooo
    Ooo-ooo
    Lets-a go down down down
    Down in san berdino
    Wouldja blieve it
    San berdino
    San berdino
    (got to call it)
    San berdino
    (cmere)
    San berdino
    Etc., etc., etc.
    The rest of their lives
    In san berdino

    Oh bobby, Im sorry you gotta head like a potato
    I really am

    yes I am, are U?
  • Guy_6
    Guy_6 Member Posts: 450
    Zappa

    Something tells me that a few here began their careers working out of a VW Microbus....Not that there's anything wrong with that.
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    Gene

    you beat me. I thought I was good with Evelyn.

    See Steve, I'm not the only one.

    HEY, I got an idea Lets all go down to Saint Alphonso's pancake breakfast ( where I stole the margerine )

    Scott

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  • Gene_3
    Gene_3 Member Posts: 289
    I used to ride with my father

    in his Corvair van, how's that??

    me thinks ONE SIZE FITS ALL is Zappa best album but I am also partial to BONGO FURY

    now for something we hope you'll really like, a nice story about aliens....or is it??


    INCA ROADS

    Did a vehicle
    Come from somewhere out there
    Just to land in the andes?
    Was it round
    And did it have
    A motorrrr
    Or was it
    Something
    Different?????

    {damn this pot sure is good,whose is that?, well why don't ya sharpen his hand??? HUH? little round ball, dumb wack can't do nuthin, woah mutha mary & joseph}

    Did a ve-hi-cle
    Did a vehicle
    Did a vehicle
    Fly along the mountains
    And find a place to park itself, park it seeeelllllffff

    PARK IT, PARK IT

    Or did someone
    Build a place
    To leave a space
    For such a vehicle to land

    { INSERT ZAPPAS BEST GUITAR SOLO HERE }

    Did a vehicle
    Come from somewhere out there
    Did a vehicle
    Come from somewhere out there
    Did the indians, first on the bill
    Carve up the hill

    Did a booger-bear
    Come from somewhere out there
    Just to land in the andes?
    Was she round
    And did she have a motor
    Or was she something different

    Guacamole queen
    Guacamole queen
    Guacamole queen
    Guacamole queen
    At the armadillo in austin texas, her aura,
    Or did someone build a place
    Or leave a space for chesters thing to land
    (chesters thing... ON RUTH!)
    Did a booger-beer
    Come from somewhere out there
    Did a booger-bear
    Come from somewhere out there
    Did the indians, first on the bill
    Carve up her hill
    On ruth
    On ruth........quackquack
    THAT'S RUTH!
  • Gene_3
    Gene_3 Member Posts: 289
    200 YEARS have gone kaput

    While were at it, we have a sort of a cowboy song wed like to do for ya. this is a song that deals with the rapidly approaching 200th birthday of the united states of america, ladies and gentl
    This is a song that warns you in advance, that next year, everybody is gonna try and sell you things that maybe you shouldnt ought to buy, and not only that, theyve been planning it for years
    Name of this song is (pardon me), poofters froth, wyoming, plans ahead.

    Poofters froth, wyoming,
    March eleven sixty-seven
    Take a letter, miss abetter
    As our pigeons will be homin.

    To our jobbers in dakota
    And to merwyn, minnesota
    This is merely just a note about
    Performance to our quota

    Well, weve all come out to show dem,
    And the elks have helped us
    Load em
    Little packets full of jackets
    Little rackets, little rackets

    Little poofter-cloth appointments
    Little pofters froth anointments
    Little hoods, little goods
    Little doo-dads from the woods

    The entire stock is shipping
    Oh our shod is hardly slipping
    To the markets of the world
    Our wrinkled pennants are unfurled!

    T-shirt racks, rubber snacks,
    Poster rolls with matching tacks
    Yes, a special beer for sports
    (and paper cups that hold two quarts)

    {insert phenominal harmonica solo by Capt Beefheart here }

    Everything a nation needs
    For making hoopla while it feeds
    The trash compactors, small reactors,
    Mowers, blowers, throwers & the glowers:

    This is buy-cent-any-all salute(hyulk!)
    Two hundred years have gone ka-poot!
    Ah but we have been astute!
    Signed: anon. - wyoooo. galoooooooooooooooooot!
  • Howard Emerson
    Howard Emerson Member Posts: 111


    Hi Scott,
    Thought you might enjoy some REALLY OLD footage of Frank from pre-fame days:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEmgyM9rWLA

    Regards,
    HE
    http://www.howardemerson.com/
  • Steamhead (in transit)
    Steamhead (in transit) Member Posts: 6,688
    It also has

    FZ on "Crossfire", with some guy from the alleged newspaper called The Washington Times proving that "it is better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt".

    Hey Frank- we miss ya!

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  • Fred Campbell
    Fred Campbell Member Posts: 80
    Frank

    He was so ethereal. And here we are, "Trudging across the Tundra, Mile after Mile".....it just don't seem right!

    God Bless FZ
  • Supply House Rick
    Supply House Rick Member Posts: 1,399
    Hot Rats

    And Overnight Sensation, would also be right up there with One Size Fit's All. It's amazing this thread won't die. Love live the genius Zappa music...

    The Muffin Man
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