We didn’t talk about sports much, though he did like a game of badminton,” says Zappa. “But I don’t think he’d be upset that I play golf. For my dad, the ultimate disgraceful pursuit would be becoming an A&R man at a record company, and the second-worst would have been a lawyer. Golf is harmless by comparison.”
Hehe – I’ve just pictured FZ playing badminton…
That is indeed a mildly surreal picture when you think of it…
Wasn’t there a photo from the seventies
of Frank playing ping-pong ?
I’m thinking it was in People mag.
“…a firebrand six-string virtuoso whose best-known album is entitled My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama…”
Hmph! Guess I missed that one.
Or maybe the golfing journalist just
pulled that one out of his ass.
OH…he was talking about DWEEZIL!
My bad.
Derp!
The trope of the late great composer, lunging boldly forward, valiantly questing after the illusive Shuttlecock w/ his skinny little racket-thing, has truly Gormed me … that’s one Very Unusual Meme there …
& i somehow get this corollary image of him using the aforementioned racket-thing 2 play Air-Guitar, 2 …
– yow, i guess truth still out-weirds fiction, eh?