Zappa

     A lot of people have never heard of Frank Zappa. He is probably one of the best guitar players that lived. His music is not at all mainstream. His lyrics are totally wild. Frank Zappa has hundreds of albums. First as Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Convention. Later as just Frank Zappa. He is considered an American composer. And compose he did. I do not think that anyone could call him a copycat.
     The period that I like is from 1974 to 1981. 1974's Apostrophe is a clasic. One that got him on AM and FM radio. "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow". With lyrics like "watch out where the Huskies go and don't you eat that yellw snow". Purely genius. I also like Zoot Alures, Sleep Dirt, Orchesral Favorites ( with the LA orchestra), Sheik Yerbouti, Joe's Garage vols. 1,2 and 3 and You Are What You Is. I beleive that you will find them very entertaining.
     Some of the langauge on the later albums wouldn't make the radio and shouldn't be played in the presence of minors. May be more suitable to personal listening with headphones! They reflect a veiw of life that most of us ignore. That we act kind of goofy. Pragmatic, politically incorrect, insightful and mostly if not all true. You see, most of of do not want to admit the truth. It will make you crack up laughing. Because we really are what you is.
     If you just want to try it out go to You Tube. Punch in Frank Zappa and you can get all the samples you want. I have these albums on vinyl. But have been able to replace them all on Ebay with legal CDs made by RYKO FZ. So they are legal copies.
     In college an elective class I took was Music Appreciation. The professor wanted us to bring in a song we liked. I listened to some of the tear jerking, disco, country, riding hme by youself stuff. I brought in FZ's "Broken Hearts Are For A__holes". Everybody cracked up laughing. The prof just looked at me. But I did get an A in that pretty much worthless class.