On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:17:00AM -0500, RickTaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On 01-Jul-2004 Joe Hartley wrote: > } RickTaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > } > } > by the way: > } > > } > http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story?id=6217364&pageid=rs.Home&pageregion= > } > single1 > } > } 40 albums??? O...M...G... > } > } I got to the point where I didn't need to buy any more FZ, because I > } really didn't need yet another version of The Torture Never Stops, but > } this sounds like something amazing. > > I'm surprised you found that at the bottom of all that mess. I'm not quite > sure how the "mess" got sent either. > > I used to be a Zappa junkie. :} I got thoroughly tired of his cynicism > {cynicim's boring in the first place.} about the time he did "Broadway the Hard > Way" {Apparently he did as well...} > > I still think his jazz and guitar stuff is absolutely brilliant. There's a lot > of brilliance interspersed throughout the earlier surreal stuff as well... > > ...Maybe Gershwin would be a better pairing than Parker. When Zappa found out he was dying of cancer, he spent most of his time in interviews telling everybody what a crappy guitar player he thought he was. I think he wanted people to focus more on his composition than his actual musicianship. Having seen him twice in concert myself (the tuba solo was amazing), such self-deprecation was unwarranted. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx
