On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:17:00AM -0500, RickTaylor(a)Speakeasy.Net wrote:
On 01-Jul-2004 Joe Hartley wrote:
} RickTaylor(a)speakeasy.net wrote:
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} > by the way:
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http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story?id=6217364&pageid=rs.Home&pa…
} > single1
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} 40 albums??? O...M...G...
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} I got to the point where I didn't need to buy any more FZ, because I
} really didn't need yet another version of The Torture Never Stops, but
} this sounds like something amazing.
I'm surprised you found that at the bottom of all that mess. I'm not quite
sure how the "mess" got sent either.
I used to be a Zappa junkie. :} I got thoroughly tired of his cynicism
{cynicim's boring in the first place.} about the time he did "Broadway the Hard
Way" {Apparently he did as well...}
I still think his jazz and guitar stuff is absolutely brilliant. There's a lot
of brilliance interspersed throughout the earlier surreal stuff as well...
...Maybe Gershwin would be a better pairing than Parker.
When Zappa found out he was dying of cancer, he spent most of his time in
interviews telling everybody what a crappy guitar player he thought he was.
I think he wanted people to focus more on his composition than his actual
musicianship. Having seen him twice in concert myself (the tuba solo was
amazing), such self-deprecation was unwarranted.
--
Jack Bowling
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