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RE:ZAPPA
Midifriedchicken clucks:
> You get an A+
Thanks for the GPA boost - best news my Mom has had all week!
I just ate 3 eggs, sorry...
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From: "greg williams" <gregorwilliams@comcast.net>
> Over twenty or so years, I have aquired an awe-inspiring collection of
Zappa
> on CD, cassette tape and records, including many rare items and bootlegs
>-
> at last count I had around eighty titles scattered around the house.
>
> For my loopers delight weekend assignment I chose to listen to a
>recently
> released live set from the early seventies called "Imaginary Diseases",
> released posthumously by his family cottage-industry with his son
>Dweezil
> producing - The Dweez is an amazing guitarist in his own right, check
>out
> some of the Zappa plays Zappa videos on youtube. Imaginary Diseases
>kicks
> serious amounts of gluteous, particulary the tracks "Been to Kansas City
in
> A Minor" - let that classically Zappaesque double-entendre seep in a
moment
> - and "D.C. Boogie" with not one but two stupendous Zappa solos. The
>title
> track is also an otherwise unreleased instrumental little gem.
>
> Uncle Frank was an American treasure; equal parts serious composer,
>social
> and political critic, and vaudevillian band leader. His productivity,
> intellect and wit are still unrivalled in modern music history.
Libertarian
> to the core, he fought his whole life against censorship, conformity,
> religion, timidity and stupidity - and had a whole heck of a lot of fun
> doing it! What an inspirational human.
>
> Thanks for the assignment.
>