Frank Zappa.

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July 6, 2007· Filed Under People 

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One of the people, Howard Wright, who posted a comment on my entry about traffic fines in Italy, and the infamous, now, invisible Pisa restricted traffic zone, is a guitarist and has a nice site with lots of guitary info.  One this site he mentions his favourite guitarists, and among them is the late Frank Zappa.  Now, I have always known about this guy, but, for some reason, I had never really heard his music.

At the moment, I’m listening to Zappa’s ‘You are what you is’ album, which I bought yesterday, as a direct result of reading up on Zappa on Howard’s site.  Cheers Howard! Mighty good stuff Zappa’s music is too, I reckon, especially, if you are like me, a closet Hendrix.

Zappa was one heck of a versatile musician and his music is highly original.  I like music I can get into, and I can get into Zappa’s stuff very easily.  He’s one of those artists in whose music you notice something a little different every time you listen, if you can understand what I’m trying to get at.

So zap on down over an on-line music store near you and have a listen, although you’ll need quite a long except to really appreciate how good this guy is/was.

Of course, if you hate his stuff, that’s cool too.  Each to his own.

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2 Responses to “Frank Zappa.”

  1. Gege Bau said on February 26th, 2008 10:57 am

    Zappa was a hero. So much so, that one of my dogs’ name is Zappa!

    I always liked the guy, but when I heard his reply to Tipper Gore’s ragging about parental guidance labels on album covers, I knew I was head-over-the-heels in love.

  2. AlexR said on March 2nd, 2008 9:12 pm

    Hi Gege’

    I see you’ve been excavating again!

    And yes, Zappa was quite a guy, as well as being one heck of a musician.

    Interesting to hear that you are a fan too…

    Kind regards,

    Alex

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