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Frank Zappa / The Blue Light / Re:The Crux Of The Biscuit
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on: July 02, 2005, 12:00:06 AM
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I always thought it meant that the points at the end of Milk Bones look like apostrophes...
... which they do.
The deep, hidden meanings in Zappa songs were often neither deep nor hidden. Sometimes, all you needed to figure them out was a dog. |
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Frank Zappa / Strictly Critique / Re:Official site: Information might not be knowledge, but it would certainly hel
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on: February 20, 2005, 01:33:59 PM
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Thank you thank you! Now for my next number......
doon doon
do do do
doon doon
do do do
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NAME THAT TUNE! hint: it's in 7/4
Wow. When I saw that, I thought my cell phone was ringing (that's my exact ringtone, right there).
I hope Barry doesn't mind his site being temporarily inundated by a few of us Treacherous Cretins From The Other Side. We may take the concept of Enforced Recreation a bit too seriously, but really we're not bad people...
...well, most of us, anyway. |
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Frank Zappa / Strictly Critique / Re:Official site: Information might not be knowledge, but it would certainly hel
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on: February 19, 2005, 12:29:47 PM
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Yes: it would be nice if zappa.com was geared more toward information about one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century.
Unfortunately, Gail seems to see zappa.com more as an e-commerce site. As long as the shopping carts work, she appears content.
But every cloud has a silver lining. Gail's apparent disinterest in documenting the details of Frank's life has an extra side benefit: it opens the door for others to do so. As a result, we can have sites like The Zappa Patio, The Zappateers, United-Mutations, Jon Naurin's FZShows site:
and yes, KillUglyRadio. |
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Frank Zappa / Strictly Critique / Re:Zappa Ringtones
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on: October 09, 2004, 03:58:12 AM
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My cell phone plays the opening bars to "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow." I programmed it myself.
I get a lot of "wait-I-know-that-but-I'm-not-sure-what-it-is" looks... |
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Frank Zappa / Strictly Critique / Re:Thing Fish
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on: October 09, 2004, 03:51:19 AM
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Frank never performed Thing-Fish live. During the '84 tour he performed selected pieces from it (for example, I saw Ike Willis and Napoleon Murphy Brock do "The Evil Prince" at the Santa Cruz Civic).
But as far as I know, the first and only full stage production of Thing-Fish was about a year ago in London.
Broadway the Hard Way... |
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The White Zone / The Phoebe Snow Chill Out Room / Re:5% bitchin...
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on: September 28, 2003, 01:36:55 AM
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Good grief ! I must try harder !! ( and just who the f*** does he think he's jivin' with that cosmic debris ? ) Wrap those newspapers round your heads guys 
Holy fuck... |
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The White Zone / The Phoebe Snow Chill Out Room / Re:Picture Association
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on: September 28, 2003, 01:19:58 AM
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You're advocating a thing called "leeching". I disapprove of that. As we speak, there are several people leeching the images on my site for their own purpose (on the zappa.com forums, individual sites). Each time that image is loaded, they don't pay for the bandwidth: I do. Leeching is for sissies. Get some webspace for your own self already and stop leeching mine. Gee, I feel better now.
Yeah, I bet you feel better now. Just don't read what you typed, and perhaps you'll continue to feel better.
If you're worried about people stealing your graphics, lock them. If you're worried about people stealing your bandwidth, get a better ISP. If you're just whining for the sake of whining, good luck to you.
Seriously: who's the sissy here? |
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The White Zone / Ugly Radio / Re:Funniest/Ugliest/Most Stupid/Most Profound Album Title
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on: September 28, 2003, 01:00:01 AM
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Back in 1983 - during the MX missile craze - I was in a band called The Eggplant Society. That year we did a Christmas album called "Merry MX." It featured a medley of missile-related Christmas songs, such as "We Wish You a Merry MX," "Silo Night," and a half-French/half-English version of "The Little Drummer Boy:"
"c'est soire ze bombs fell, boom boom-boom, boom boom."
I'd say it qualifies as funny, ugly, stupid and profound..... |
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The White Zone / Ugly Radio / Re:Ugly Rumors
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on: September 28, 2003, 12:40:56 AM
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Apparently, Ringo had quit the band before that as well. Sometime during 1965 or '66 - while the Beatles were on tour - his appendix decided it didn't like him anymore. While he was out, the Beatles replaced him with another drummer (whose name I don't remember, but it wasn't Stuart Sutcliffe).
It seems the rest of the band got along famously with the new drummer, and Ringo suddenly felt thoroughly unloved. So he quit the band, and came back only after Lennon and Harrison basically begged him to come back.
When I saw the topic "Ugly Rumors," I immediately assumed it was about the Grateful Dead. If you hold the back cover of "The Grateful Dead At the Mars Hotel" up to a mirror, you see that it says "ugly rumors." The ugly rumor in question was that the Grateful Dead had broken up after the death of Ron McKernon (aka Pigpen). In fact, the Grateful Dead didn't break up until the death of Jerry Garcia, twenty years later.... |
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Frank Zappa / In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky / Re:Your Favorite Album Covers
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on: September 28, 2003, 12:02:21 AM
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Unfortunately, jewel boxes don't do justice to cover art. You gotta get LP versions of all Frank's albums through Thing-Fish, just to appreciate the covers.
One Size fits All, Overnite-Sensation, The Grand Wazoo and Tinseltown Rebellion just don't look right in their CD versions. |
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