“To rebel in our house, I always said, I’d have to become an accountant or a lawyer.” — Dweezil Zappa
Tag: Zappadan
Bummernacht
It was 20 years ago today … and no, I’m not talking Sgt. Pepper here.
“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
— Frank Zappa, Dec. 21, 1940-Dec. 4, 1993
Hey, do you think he was channeling Larry’s wife?
Revised Music for Guitar and Low-Budget Orchestra
Meanwhile, over at the Denver alt-weekly Westword Dweezil Zappa discusses his father’s music and the difficulty of playing it live with only six musicians, which to me feels like trying to write “War and Peace” by beating a Linotype with a feather duster.
Yellow Snow Suite (B&W Noo Joisey Edition)
Hey, what the hell — I resisted temptation as long as I could, what with snow on the ground and everything (some of it is certain to be yellow by now).
And when I stumbled across this live, black-and-white performance of “Yellow Snow” and “St. Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast,” recorded in 1978 in Passaic, N.J., well, it was all over save the shouting. I was overcome by Excentrifugal Forz.
BummerNacht: Stairway to Heaven
More Zappadan bloggery:
• Zen Comix, “Franktasia: John Jacob Dingleberry Shlitz.”
• Darkblack, “The Druid of Chrome.”
• Adventures Into the Well-Known, “I Wish Motorhead Would Come Back.”
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