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Topic: Remembering Frank Zappa
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Tangento
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Member # 117
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posted December 04, 2003 01:47
    
At the stroke of midnight wherever you are, it will
mark 10 years since Frank Zappa 'left the building'.
(more specifically, at 7:01 PM Pacific Time - December
4th) Obviously this is no cause for any kind of
celebration, but it is a perfect opportunity to
remember him and the last day he was alive. Personally, I think everyone on the planet should at
least listen to "Watermelon In Easter Hay" today at
some point, if to at least remind us that there was a
hell of a lot more to this guy than his outrageous
lyrics. The Yellow Shark and Civilization Phaze III
would also serve that purpose pretty well. Let's all take a minute & give it up for FZ. http://www.tangento.net/ -------------------- "You have the option to drill additional holes in the label,
causing the record to rotate off the side of the turntable" -Tom Ellard - Severed Heads
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Underbrain
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posted December 04, 2003 02:39
Its hard to believe its been ten years already.I cried when Frank died. Thanks Tangento. -ub Theres loads of Zappa bit torrents flowing at http://www.sharingthegroove.org for bootleg minded zappaphiles. -------------------- The future is here, and how.
\m/_ VOIVOD _\m/
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schroeder
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posted December 04, 2003 06:23
Damn, 10 years already.Frank was a musical genius, and although I have to be in the right frame of mind to listen to most of his work, you'd have to be a complete idiot not to realize his huge impact and influence on music. A TRUE LEGEND NP: Watermelon In Easter Hay -------------------- yawn
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AngelRat
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posted December 04, 2003 15:25
My first introduction to FZ was when I was about 5 years old. My dad kept on playing his records each day. At that time I didn't have any idea what it was all about but somehow this strange man and his music fascinated me. When I got older the humor and complexity in his music appealed to me more and more and when I was 18 or 19 years old I had become a huge Zappa fanatic. Year: 1993. At the end of that year came that huge shock: Zappa was no more. I locked myself in my room and listened to his records for the rest of the day.Now, exactly 10 years later I'm here writing this and listening to 'Uncle Meat'. Let us Zappa fanatics keep his spirit alive by enjoying his music and over-all genius. Thanks Tangento for reminding us all.  -------------------- "Appearing like Ra"
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KnickerZohnonnof
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posted December 04, 2003 21:04
Don't forget Thing Fish...Warped doesn't even begin to describe this little gem.10 years already. Seems like only yesterday. Even now his music is still relevant. Many so-called talented musicians should take a closer look at this man and his legacy. Most of them would find they aren't even fit to lick his boots. Hail Frank Zappa, the World sorely misses you. -------------------- Hail Santa...
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Tangento
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Member # 117
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posted December 04, 2003 21:16
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Originally posted by AngelRat:
Thanks Tangento for reminding us all.
Thanks to you for the killer pic! Very nice.
Also very nice to see that we have some true Zappa fans here. -------------------- "You have the option to drill additional holes in the label,
causing the record to rotate off the side of the turntable" -Tom Ellard - Severed Heads
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El Indio
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posted December 06, 2003 04:41
You know, waaay back in the early eighties I had a strange meeting with a very familiar looking dude. It was the late spring of umm, err 1984 and I was working part time at a booth for the annual Coast Arts Fair in Courtenay, on Duh Island when... Perhaps I should first give youse a quick background about the Coast Arts Fair. Back in the early seventies an amazing phenomena started happening in Courtenay. A big arts and crafts show would happen each spring and was called the Renaissance Fair. What would happen is that a large group of hippies, long hairs, freaks, and partiers of all types would invade the Comox Valley in their converted school buses, old milk vans, 50's and 60's era old beat up pickup trucks with homemade campers (which always seemed to feature a wood stove with chimney), and take up residence at Lewis Park where they would setup a bunch of tents, string up a bunch of old black or orange tarps, and set up underneath a bunch of arts and crafts booths, stages, and the like, and then for a week or so, start indulging in this 24 hour a day orgy of booze, drugs, music, sex, and arts and crafts. To tell an honest truth I could never give an appropriate explanation of this event except to say that it was quite organic! Back in the seventies I was but a young lad and to take a tour of this spectacle just blew my mind! I have had some interesting Renaissance Fair experiences myself. I especially loved eating the space cookies which was available at one booth! Basically it was a simple chocolate oatmeal cookie recipe which also contained these two essential ingrediants: hash and opium! Mmm!!!  Eventually the City of Courtenay became sufficiently freaked out about these orgies that a clamp down started to happen in the early eighties. By 1984, the Renaissance Fair was revamped and watered down as the Coast Arts Fair but this did not mean that some of the shenanigans did not still happen. Everything was a little more clandestine but there was still a bunch of interesting arts and crafts booths set up as well as a couple of stages for performances. Getting back to the original story, I was working at this one booth and was totally spaced out - I had dropped some acid the night before at a party and was still trying to come down - when I happened to glance off and into the distance and witnessed this strange looking fellow kind of wondering around by himself and checking out everything. This fellow stopped all of a sudden, turned, and looked at me. For a few brief moments we kind of eyed each other up and then he walked away and into the crowd. By 1984, the Coast Arts Fair was pretty well dead - it had become kind of mainstream, and this basically turned off a bunch of people. This strange fellow seemed to have that attitude given the way he was looking around at everything... I can't prove it or anything or perhaps it was some sort of Blue Mandela hallucination but I like to believe that this dude was him, himself - Frank Zappa!!! I'm sure that this was the type of event that he would have liked to checkout - especially the original Renaissance Fairs - but by 1984 one would have to start looking harder to find these types of experiences... I have always liked listening to alot of music by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. My crazy friend from Hornby Island named Albert Savoy used to live on his parent's fish boat in the Courtenay Slough around '83 and '84, and a bunch of our friends and I would always drop by Albert's boat to basically drink beer, smoke copious amounts of pot (Mostly homegrown bud, Columbian, black hash, red Leb, some Cambodian, and on special occasions Denman Island Purple Bud Indica!) - we used to literally hotbox the boat - and listen to music. Albert used to constantly play Joe's Garage! Hilarious! I still have Joe's Garage as well as that Strictly Commercial C.D.. I used to also listen to Weasels Ripped My Flesh and The Man from Utopia. Probably my all time favorite song is "Peaches en Regalia" though I really like "I'm the Slime" and "Dirty Love"... Dem were da daze!!! -------------------- When the chime ends, pickup your gun. Try and shoot me Coronel... Just try...
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schroeder
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posted December 07, 2003 05:50
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Originally posted by nuclear delusion:
Hmmmm, I know next to NILL about Frank Zappa and his music. Upon reading all the praise and trusting the like-minded sensibilities (or lack there-of) of my fellow VoivodFans printed here-in, I WILL without a blairing doubt check this out. 
Zappa is NOT for the faint hearted. It takes a very open mind to listen to most of his music, and he's all over the place as far as his music goes. jazz, classical, bebop, rock, bizarre, strange, ... you name it, he's done it. But even with all the diversity in his songs, you still know it's Zappa. You can't judge Zappa from listening to one cd... he's a aquired taste. -------------------- yawn
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Tangento
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posted December 07, 2003 07:35
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Originally posted by nuclear delusion:
...Thanks, Schroeder. The diversity is what interests me. Is he diverse on single albums as well, or do you mean each album is different? I'm sure you mean the latter...I'm more interested in the strange / bizarre aspect to start out, any suggestions in that vein?
If I may step in for just a moment: I have compiled a Zappa discography with the uninitiated, aspiring Zappa-freak like you (and me) in mind. Easy to navigate with a wide variety of opinions and reviews for each and every album: http://www.tangento.net/prezappa.html Dive in man, and if you're feeling really ballsy, take Civilization Phaze III for a few spins around the block. This was Zappa's 'magnum opus' of a Synclavier composition, worked on feverishly right up until his death. In addition, there is certainly plenty of music to discover; 63 albums and counting, due to the wealth of unreleased material contained in the vast Zappa Family Basement Vault. I hope you enjoy the journey. -------------------- "You have the option to drill additional holes in the label,
causing the record to rotate off the side of the turntable" -Tom Ellard - Severed Heads
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Juan87
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posted December 12, 2003 23:12
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Originally posted by Tangento:
If I may step in for just a moment: I have compiled a Zappa discography with the uninitiated, aspiring Zappa-freak like you (and me) in mind. Easy to navigate with a wide variety of opinions and reviews for each and every album: http://www.tangento.net/prezappa.html Dive in man, and if you're feeling really ballsy, take Civilization Phaze III for a few spins around the block. This was Zappa's 'magnum opus' of a Synclavier composition, worked on feverishly right up until his death. In addition, there is certainly plenty of music to discover; 63 albums and counting, due to the wealth of unreleased material contained in the vast Zappa Family Basement Vault. I hope you enjoy the journey.
Hey Tangento, thanks for making it easy for me! I will check out that link soon enough here. I'm sure I'll make an easy convert to Zappism, I'm a sucker for the bizarre and quirky art forms. -------------------- 
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posted December 05, 2003 05:54
posted December 08, 2003 10:04
Is there a better love song, than that one?
