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In Reply to: RE: Frank Zappa explains the decline of the music biz posted by LWR on October 27, 2009 at 09:53:58
LMAO! That was hilarious. I love how they bleeped masturbation & ass. Frank was a prophet. Everything he warned about has come true. I bet most people would never guess he was a Conservative. Boy does the GOP ever need him now.
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He certainly wasn't afraid to take Democrats to task when he felt they deserved it, but everything I ever heard or read by him eviscerated the republican party and everything they stood for.
He stated in an interview that he was a Conservative . I miss quoted him.
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bleep
which has segued into Libertarian. In a way.
The so-called modern "liberal" is not really a liberal at all.
Liberal is derived from liberty and the modern liberal seems to want way too much government interference in our lives (not so sure if they want the same interference in their own lives, especially when it comes to paying taxes) to be able to refer to themselves as lovers of liberty.
Zappa had many political blind spots. He seemed to have little understanding of Eastern Europe's Soviet domination; his infamous questioning of Vaclev Havel made him a buffoon. But on many other subjects he seemed to understand that one must guard their liberty for there is always some entity that wants to tell you what to do instead of leaving you alone to do what you think is best.
Of course, there is slowly evolving the perfection of non-thinking, what were once citizens are becoming, for all intents and purposes, subjects. Once a subject it is near impossible to return to being a citizen.
Have a nice day,
Rick McInnis
As Frank was never big on government of any ilk, but he quite clearly viewed the religious right as the biggest threat to a free society. Listen to his targets on Broadway the Hardway, which was his most overtly political album.
I've told this story a couple of times here at AA but...
It was in, like 1991. A music video of his was being edited in the place that I worked. We ran into each other in the kitchen and he said hello and we started talking. I mentioned that all the malathion spraying going on was creeping me out (there was some pest they were trying to get rid of at the time in L.A. and 6 helicopters in formation would fly by spraying this insecticide. I was telling him about racing to get into my apartment before the spray hit me and...), he said..."You don't need to worry about that. You need to worry about the people with fish's on their cars."
Prophet indeed.
"The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
LMAO! That's great. He had the balls to tell it like it is. We should have listened.
was when he went up against Tipper Gore in front of Congress over censorship of music. He nailed her to her chair.
The first time I saw him, Lenny Bruce opened for him, this was shortly before LB overdosed. We had taken some Owsley acid and Lenny took us pretty far out there....then Frank came on and it was a ride thru interstellar space. A master of the musical joke and he owned time and melody. Truly one of the magnificent concerts I have been to and a mind that, these days, is very much missed.
A friend and I interviewed him on the college station, KTUH, at the U of Hawaii in Manoa Valley, Oahu in 1977 or so. He was as articulate and poignant as anyone I ever met. Exceedingly witty and a kind man, he gave us several tickets to his show which we gave out over the air, I would have loved to spend a week or so traveling with him and absorbing his output.
Yes, and another thing I think most people would not believe, he didn't do drugs. If a member of his band was caught doing them, they were fired. Learned this from a Terry Bozzio interview.
he refused to smoke one in the studio with us, I hd forgotten about that.
Cool Cat, I am going thru his music I now have on 500 gig hd, Ark from 1968,Zappa& Beefheart,Any way the wind blows,Apostrophe,Cheap Thrills,Chunga's Revenge& more. It's really interesting, previously I only owned Apostrophe. What a great guitarist!
Vista Ultimate 32bit/Diamond XS Dac/ Sterovox coaxial line in to Insignia Amp/Cambridge SoundWorks& Infinity RS 1001 Speakers
his playing seems to raise more goosebumps per minute than many other guitarists who get more acclaim (worship). He ventured thru sleeps dark and silent gate way too young, he was still vibrant, inventive and his music still contained that twisted logic and impossible leaps that made it so damn compelling.Not to mention the amazing talent that he corralled into in bands over the years. Here are two of those talents that being Zappateers made FZ's stuff even more insanely delicious! Adrian Belew and Flo & Eddie
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