Re: [IRCA] Frank Zappa

["chris and anne" <tantwo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't you all be saying anything bad about the late Warren Zevon. After all, 
he was just an excitable boy !!  CRJ  K2FO  SC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Hawkins" <downsized99@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Frank Zappa


> That would be another Z guy named Warren Zevon, not to be confused with 
> Dr. Z from Florida.  His post will be the next for me to read on the 
> topic, and I can't wait!
>
>  Mike
>
> Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> --- Michael Hawkins wrote:
>
>> Probably the easiest (but maybe not the best) analogy to describe
>> Frank Zappa would be asking you to remember the first time you saw
>> Little Richard and remember the comments you most likely made about
>> how "different" he was. Step that up by about 5 notches, put him in
>> the psychedelic timeframe, and make sure that you include both
>> appearance and music when you consider the strangeness, and you have
>> Frank Zappa.
>>
>> He was an excellent musician though few ever really noticed. He
>> wanted to be different, and he did it well. There was a lot of shock
>> value to his music and he plowed through what many considered
>> acceptable or objectionable, and he spared no expense with on-stage
>> theatrics. Because he was a musical wizard, he was able to do it for
>> more than 20 years before he died of cancer.
>>
>> You either liked him or hated him. I'd venture a guess that you
>> would have hated him with a passion (to put it mildly).
>>
>
>
> Frank Zappa first came to prominence with this group, The Mothers of
> Invention in the early 1960's. You might have heard some of his hits
> such as "Werewolves of London" or "Send Lawyers, Guns & Money" in the
> 1970's. But I'd agree with Mike as to your probable reaction.
>
>
>
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