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Post by Amster on Sept 14, 2020 20:13:24 GMT -7
I mean have you really looked at that album cover?
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Post by GBK2point0 on Sept 15, 2020 6:05:30 GMT -7
I have apostrophe on vinyl. I really want overnite sensation.
I like zappa, he is great musician who surrounds himself around great musicians but he's not someone I actively listen too.
Smoking DMT abd listening to Jazz From Hell was a weird experience.
I'll listen to his work from the 60s and 70s but the 80s stuff isn't really for me.
Also Brent>>>>>>>>>>Keith.
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Post by Vibyl on Oct 29, 2020 10:51:05 GMT -7
Check it out SwiFFA!
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Post by autophil74 on Oct 29, 2020 11:02:13 GMT -7
I'd watch that
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Post by Vibyl on Feb 16, 2021 10:17:58 GMT -7
This is good and interesting about these OG boys
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Post by Don Swifty on Feb 18, 2021 9:47:37 GMT -7
Thanks for that, vibyl. Wasn´t aware of that MSG story till now.
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Post by Vibyl on Feb 18, 2021 10:22:19 GMT -7
Narrators were extremely off character and cracker-like...lol...but it was a good story
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Post by Vibyl on Oct 4, 2021 16:35:12 GMT -7
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Post by Vibyl on Oct 4, 2021 16:47:26 GMT -7
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Post by Don Swifty on Oct 4, 2021 21:12:21 GMT -7
That was interesting hearing how he wasn't into having any women in his band, considering he had the immensely talented Ruth Underwood playing with him as early as '69 and then he added her to his band fairly soon after he ditched the second version of the Mothers (The "Vaudeville" Flo & Eddie years). Zappa obviously loved her in the band and she was with him for years - AFIK longer than anyone else who he hired in the early 70's.
Ruth and George Duke (to me) are most of what makes those peak 73 and 74 years so good. She was a huge part of his sound. I love Ruthie Ruthie.
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Post by Don Swifty on Oct 4, 2021 21:18:58 GMT -7
Zappa was into commenting on fads/trends. And as a bonus, this song features Ruth.
[Narrator:]
Every morning, GREGGERY drives his little red Volkswagen to the ugly part of town where they keep the Government Buildings.
[Greggery:]
Voodn, Voodn!
Boy it's so hard to find a place to park around here!
Voo-voo-voo-nya-hoon
[Narrator:]
GREGGERY PECCARY takes the elevator up to the eighty-third floor of a grim, gray, evil-looking building with a sign on the front reading: 'BIG SWIFTY & ASSOCIATES, TREND-MONGERS'.
And what, might you ask, is a TREND MONGER? Well, a TREND MONGER is a person who dreams up a TREND (like 'The Twist' -or 'Flower Power'), and spreads it throughout the land, using all the frightening little skills that Science has made available!
And so it was, one fateful morning, GREGGERY PECCARY made his way through the Steno Pool...
[Greggery:]
Hi Mildred!
Hello Gladys!
WANDA!
[Narrator:]
Yes, from the moment they laid eyes on him, all the girls in the BIG SWIFTY Steno Pool KNEW... here was a nocturnal, gregarious wild swine ON HIS WAY UP... a PECCARY of Destiny, Adventure and ROMANCE...
[Greggery:]
Is there any mail for me?
[Stenographers:]
SWIFTY'S!
THIS IS BIG SWIFTY'S!
AT BIG SWIFTY'S WE ALL KNOW-OW-OW
(WO-WO)
YOU'LL GO
FOR ANY GIMMICK OR GIZMO!
[Greggery:]
WOULDN'T YOU RATHER BE INVOLVED
IN A SERIES OF COLORFUL
TIME-WASTING TRENDS?
[Narrator:]
AIR HOCKEY... biff... dush-h-h!
[Stenographers:]
LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA
YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP
[Greggery:]
IS YOUR WIFE SNORING BY THE SINK?
[Stenographers:]
LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA
YOUP YOUP YOUP YOUP
[Greggery:]
AIN'T YOUR LIFE BORING, DON'TCHA THINK?
[Stenographers:]
YOUP YOUP YOUP-YOUP-YOUP YOUP YOUP
[Greggery:]
LIFE IS SO MUCH BETTER
WHEN THERE'S SOME LITTLE SOMETHING
TO DO!
[Narrator:]
Does it matter that this waste of time is what makes a LIFE for you? Hmmmmm?
[Greggery:]
I must plummet boldly forward to my ultra-avant laminated, simulated replica-mahogany desk, with the strategically-placed, imported, very hip water pipe, and the latest edition of the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG, and rack my agile mind for a spectacular new TREND, thereby rejuvenating our limping economy, and providing for bored & miserable people everywhere some great new 'THING' to identify with!
[Stenographers:]
WE HAVE GOT THE LITTLE ANSWERS
TO THE THINGS
THAT MIGHT BE BOTHERING YOU!
[Greggery:]
WE HAVE GOT YOUR LITTLE TOYS!
[Stenographers:]
(WE'RE BUSY MAKIN' 'EM!)
BUSY MAKIN' 'EM,
WE'RE BUSY MAKIN' 'EM
[Greggery:]
BUSY MAKIN' EM
[Stenographers:]
JUST FOR YOU!
Yoo-hoo-hoo!
[Greggery:]
Highly efficient, Miss Snodgrass!
[Narrator:]
And with that, GREGGERY turned and strode nonchalantly into his dinky little office with the desk and the catalog and the very hip water pipe, and proceeded, with a vigor and determination known only to piglets of a similarly diminutive proportion, to single-handedly invent THE CALENDAR!
With his eyes rolled heaven-ward, and his little shiny pig-hoofs on the desk, GREGGERY ponders the question of ETERNITY (and fractional divisions thereof), as mysterious ANGELIC VOICES sing to him from a great distance, providing the necessary clues for the construction of this thrilling new TREND!
[Angelic Voices:]
SUNDAY
[Greggery:]
Sunday?
WOW!
SUNDAY, SATURDAY... TUESDAY THROUGH
'MONDAY - MONDAY'!
SUNDAY, SATURDAY
[Narrator:]
And thus THE CALENDAR, in all of its colorful disguises was presented to the bored & miserable people everywhere!
GREGGERY issued a memo on it, whereupon the entire contents of the Steno Pool identified with it STRENUOUSLY, and WORSHIPPED IT as a WAY OF LIFE, and took their little pills by it, and went back 'n forth from work by it, and paid their rent by it, and before long they were even having BIRTHDAY PARTIES IN THE OFFICE by it, because NOW, AT LAST, GREGGERY PECCARY's exciting new invention had made it possible for everyone to find out HOW OLD THEY WERE!
[Greggery:]
What hath GOD wrought?
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Post by Vibyl on Oct 4, 2021 23:09:53 GMT -7
Yea, the first comment on the YT video was that he was trolling the shit out of that reporter....His tone was extremely different than I have heard when he's talking about his music...I agree.
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Post by deadphishbiscuits on Oct 5, 2021 2:33:44 GMT -7
Zappa probably been a lot cooler, If he did what Grizzle calls zappa-ing out
Hel nibble some booms and drink wine, and it get s him all...zappa-ey
Dig a bunch of his tunes
Still think it'd been cooler if he was a little weird weird of ya catch grizzles drift
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Post by Don Swifty on Oct 11, 2021 8:04:06 GMT -7
When I was first introduced to Zappa/Mothers I listened to the Ruben & the Jets album once, thought this is something my dad would've listened to as a teenager/early 20's, and never bothered listening to it again. Wasn't my tempo as a teenager in the early 80's. Now I fucking love it. It's kind of like if The Mothers did the Phish Halloween show costume concept. Ray Collins has such a great voice that's made for these songs.   www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nr69Qfh41ru958pLfKrhIM_q3u2mIoJLE |
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Post by Vibyl on Jan 5, 2023 3:08:37 GMT -7
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Post by flyinghellphish on Jan 5, 2023 8:02:19 GMT -7
that was fantastic. Then it went into a cool twilight zone about a jockey…that was some good acting. |
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Post by Vibyl on Dec 22, 2023 6:16:43 GMT -7
Hey yo, this guy shared a shitton of Zappa stuff...200 motels and some other video stuff if you want drive link... |
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Post by bear on Mar 10, 2024 3:34:18 GMT -7
On The Monkees show
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Post by flyinghellphish on Mar 10, 2024 8:08:49 GMT -7
that was the first time i had heard of Zappa |
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Post by higs on Mar 10, 2024 9:49:33 GMT -7
I listened to Hot Rats last night.
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