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Just wanted to take this opportunity to acknowledge 2 awesome albums from 2 awesome composers.

-Frank Zappa's "Jazz From Hell"-
Amazing album all programmed on the synclavier. All I can say - crazy programming chops - 10 years before Aphex Twin. I spent an entire summer listening to it when starting out as an electronica kid. Gotta have it!

-Wendy Carlos "Switched on Bach"-
Some of the coolest sounding stuff ever. All Bach tunes programmed on a Moog modular. Really brings out the ultraviolence in me!

yes wendy s bach is ..great but listen to -her -his -sonic seasonings....a super athmo master work..the rain in spring is fantastic..orginal CBS s67267---.greeting from berlin

i love zappa, he did almost everything before anyone.

he was one of the first to do comedy based pop music...

i love sheikh yerbooty! and you cant do that onstage anymore.

also he first did hip hop/trip hop with the grooves on "the torture never stops"

too boil Zappa's musical accomplishments down to just those two things is to diminish all he did for Music.

Zappa was not only one of the finest, most exacting composers of our time, he was also, likely one of the most important American composers in history.

His opera's and orchestral works are world reknowned, and are performed by major orchestras fairly regularly. The opera's less frequently, but they still get performed.

His rock show was equally as intricate, and was written out almost note for note, minus cadenzas and solos.

Zappa also really added a sense of "I really just dont give a fuck" to his music, while still making the statement, "this is everything that is important to me".

Then count in the fact that he was an outspoken supporter of the First Amendment, and a patriots politician. Easily one of the most wellspoken artists to ever represent the side of commonsense in recent years.

computo wrote:too boil Zappa's musical accomplishments down to just those two things is to diminish all he did for Music.

Zappa was not only one of the finest, most exacting composers of our time, he was also, likely one of the most important American composers in history.

His opera's and orchestral works are world reknowned, and are performed by major orchestras fairly regularly. The opera's less frequently, but they still get performed.

His rock show was equally as intricate, and was written out almost note for note, minus cadenzas and solos.

Zappa also really added a sense of "I really just dont give a fuck" to his music, while still making the statement, "this is everything that is important to me".

Then count in the fact that he was an outspoken supporter of the First Amendment, and a patriots politician. Easily one of the most wellspoken artists to ever represent the side of commonsense in recent years.

well said,

Weren't his albums banned in Romania during the communist regime? It seems to me that I read somewhere once that Zappa reccords became an underground commodity, a symbol of disobedience - and eventually, he was named a state hero or something after the fall of Ceausescu?

Zappa...true genius !

Wanna hear the best live-band ever?
" you can't do that on stage anymore #2 - the helsinki concert "
sheer perfection....

M. Bréqs wrote:Weren't his albums banned in Romania during the communist regime? It seems to me that I read somewhere once that Zappa reccords became an underground commodity, a symbol of disobedience - and eventually, he was named a state hero or something after the fall of Ceausescu?

perhaps you are thinking of the Czech "velvet revolution", he was named as the US trade representative by Havel's Czech government!

Zappa's band in on tour again, tix for the SF show go on sale this weekend, I think it's the last show of the tour. It's Dweezil filling in and the WHOLE lineup including Vai.

I don't know his music that well but you can't deny his genious.

This is a video of Zappa on Crossfire (3-28-86), he was so ahead of his time, he called it, FASCIST THEOCRACY. A must see video:
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2658805?htv=12

lets not leave out tangerine dream

speaking of Zappa, I just found this classic claymation video on youtube ahh nostalgia...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YhPksR7gS6I

DeadlyKungFu wrote:Zappa's band in on tour again, tix for the SF show go on sale this weekend, I think it's the last show of the tour. It's Dweezil filling in and the WHOLE lineup including Vai.

I don't know his music that well but you can't deny his genious.

This is a video of Zappa on Crossfire (3-28-86), he was so ahead of his time, he called it, FASCIST THEOCRACY. A must see video:
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2658805?htv=12

I owe you one. Amazing.

Great clip!

we miss you Frank !

zappa, Biggie, ODB and tupac are all smokin blunts together on a desert island somewhere...

Yeah, yeah, I know Zappa didnt do ANY drugs...but come on, if you were on a secret desert island with those three, you'd start smoking too.