Any Frank Zappa fans here?

[Tom Bomb]

HI HO SILVER!

 

[Andy Coconut]

Patrick O'Hearn would get arrested for domestic abuse if he beat up an upright bass like that nowadays!

Yes, Id imagine sforzando would appear in multiple bars in the bass transcription sheet.

 

[Andy Coconut]

Could be the best TalkBass thread ever.

So happy to see theres still a herd for an old dinosaur like me.

 

[Prog Fan]

Killer song...was the first song I HAD to sit down and practice until I could play it when I first started....the sheer joy of sloppily, hacking my way through for the first time successfully with friends in the basement has rarely been equalled since.... Music is the best....

We practiced in a garage, but can remember playing it over and over for a couple weeks until we could include it in our set. Still enjoy playing those riffs to this day.

 

[Andy Coconut]

We practiced in a garage, but can remember playing it over and over for a couple weeks until we could include it in our set. Still enjoy playing those riffs to this day.

Did the girls in the neighborhood all come over and dance around?

 

[Prog Fan]

Let us not forget this Great jam with Jack Bruce and Jim Gordon.

 

[Prog Fan]

Did the girls in the neighborhood all come over and dance around?

That wasn't a big dance tune. I always admired the people who gave it a shot, particularly since our version was about eight minutes long.

 

[Deleted member 165050]

Unfortunately a lot of my admiration was was tempered by Frank’s sarcasm, his antisocial personality, and his juvenile lyrics. Like many self-confessed geniuses, he worked overtime to make himself difficult to deal with and hard to like. Almost as if it were some sort of cruel joke. Or maybe a test.

There is a whole lot of that in his music. My favourite album is Overnight Sensation which is filled with adolescent lyrics, but the music and individual performances are stellar. In every interview I've seen with him he comes across as someone who found the whole of humanity ridiculous and couldn't take anything or anyone seriously, but he was a genius in my opinion (and there's not many people I would apply that word to!) and his constant mockery and challenge of social mores certainly worked in the 60s and 70s. Don't touch that dial...

 

[getrhythm]

Frank is my fave rave!
Like Matt Groening said, "Frank was my Elvis".
I saw him many times in NYC/NJ from 1970 onwards.
My friend and I presented him with a Varese LP at the start of the Carnegie Hall show...you hear him thank us on the recording ("It says Uncle Meat. Thanks for this.") Don't understand the U.M. remark though.).
Was thrilled to be at his induction to the RRHOF (in the press room, not the dining room) at the Waldorf-Astoria in '95.
And took some lessons from Scott Thunes in NYC in the mid '80s when I spotted his ad in the Village Voice.

 

[ProgressiveDoom]

Let us not forget this Great jam with Jack Bruce and Jim Gordon.

My favorite tune from that album

 

[ProgressiveDoom]

Quick, man! Cling tenaciously to my buttocks!

Powdered Toast Man!.

 

[ProgressiveDoom]

Hot Rats baby!!!!

Brilliant!

 

[Andy Coconut]

Frank is my fave rave!
Like Matt Groening said, "Frank was my Elvis".
I saw him many times in NYC/NJ from 1970 onwards.
My friend and I presented him with a Varese LP at the start of the Carnegie Hall show...you hear him thank us on the recording ("It says Uncle Meat. Thanks for this.") Don't understand the U.M. remark though.).
Was thrilled to be at his induction to the RRHOF (in the press room, not the dining room) at the Waldorf-Astoria in '95.
And took some lessons from Scott Thunes in NYC in the mid '80s when I spotted his ad in the Village Voice.

Cool Beans! Only got to see him from afar. How was Mr Thunes as a teacher?

 

[ProgressiveDoom]

I got to see Zappa Plays Zappa and the last song of the show was Black Napkins and as the band played on there was a huge live visual above the drummer of Frank soloing through it complete with the audio from Franks performance. He played with the band note for note as if he were there. As a man there are some things that are hard to admit publicly but I will say I was an emotional mess watching that take place, my eyes were swollen up and tears kept squeezing out wherever there was a breach between eyeball and lid and I prayed my friend who sat beside me wouldnt look over at me. That was serious, that right there was the effect of the power of music.

 

[getrhythm]

Cool Beans! Only got to see him from afar. How was Mr Thunes as a teacher?

Way too serious for a hobbyist like me, but a very cool dude. He was MIA for a lesson we had scheduled that I showed up for (in Manhattan) and made it up to me by taking a looooong subway ride to my apartment in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn to make good on it.

 

[ProgressiveDoom]

Used to play a cover version of "Magic Fingers" in the early 70's. It was always a band and crowd favorite. Sounded great with our sax player doing the main riffs on baritone.

C'mon now seriously!, just how much groovier can you get?. That is waaay groovydrool Also one of my favorite songs.

 

[2112]

Seeing as my first two posts either offended someone or broke the forum rules, ..

The unmitigated audacity!

 

[JJR58]

I did have the honor of meeting the man twice. Short lived, but, won't ever forget it. It was my brother he really took to.
Mr. Zappa was a good man.

 

[4001]

Because of this thread, I have started listening to the ENTIRE FZ catalog beginning with "Freak Out" in 1966.
I'm on to "Absolutely Free" now. I'm going to try to listen to at least two albums per day. Thanks for creating this thread.
It helps me keep my mind off of my broken hand.

 

[Andy Coconut]

Because of this thread, I have started listening to the ENTIRE FZ catalog beginning with "Freak Out" in 1966.
I'm on to "Absolutely Free" now. I'm going to try to listen to at least two albums per day. Thanks for creating this thread.
It helps me keep my mind off of my broken hand.

Happy listening!