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In Reply to: Re: "Where's that dynamo coming from"! Awesome FZ song. posted by kenster on December 19, 2005 at 17:56:08:
''Just goes to show that FZ had everybody's interest in mind and not using the available talent to further his own career''I had been following Zappa's career for a good while, bought most of his stuff, went to the shows, and read everything I could on him. And as much as I still adore his music, I believe the exact contrary.
When Zappa passed away, Tommy Mars said that, putting together his own band, he was following his ex-boss's advice to "go for the hungry". I am convinced that Zappa was an opportunistic and precisely did used the available talent of anyone who was around to further his own scope (and career obviously). Just a quick overview of the directions his music took precisely when specific key members were in the band should be edifying enough. This doesn't - as long as I don't have any proofs that he went as far as stealing away actual ''written'' material from these members, and I have never seen any - really diminish AFAIAC the masterful music and recordings creator I believe Zappa was. And a lot of those people (I am not referring to George Duke or Jean-Luc Ponty here) WERE the "hungry ones" and certainly benefited from being in such a ''popular'' vehicle as the Mothers (and the band later simply dubbed as "Zappa"), touring regularly and eveything.
So I'd say it was more a symbiosis than anything else.
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- Re: I humbly believe a little "tone-down" is in order here... - ParloFax 05:16:16 12/20/05 (3)
- Re: I humbly believe a little "tone-down" is in order here... - Fred J 05:58:44 12/20/05 (2)
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