Can you be a fan of Frank Zappa but
not his music?
Frank Zappa said this once in a TV interview,
calling out, with usual Zappa-ian disdain, the fickle audiences who had once so
embraced his group The Mothers Of Invention, but were now indifferent to—even
openly hostile toward—his more experimental solo career. It was a typical Zappa
gripe, blaming ...
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That Time Frank Zappa Jammed with
Pink Floyd
For five days in October 1969, Amougies, Belgium, played
host to the Actuel Festival, an open-air music fest. Acts included Pink Floyd,
Yes, Ten Years ...
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Frank Zappa is considered to be one of the most influential rock musicians of the late twentieth century. Between the start of his career in the late fifties and his death in 1993 he recorded and rele.. In 1965, Ray Collins asked Zappa to take over as guitarist in local R&B band the Soul Giants, following a fight between Collins and the group's original guitarist. Zappa accepted, and soon assumed.. On September 19, 1985, Frank Zappa testified before the United States Senate Commerce, Technology, and Transportation committee, attacking the Parents Music Resource Center or PMRC, a music organizati.. |
Thursday, 23 November 2017
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