"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
-frank vincent zappa
(12/21/40–12/4/93)
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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
-frank vincent zappa
(12/21/40–12/4/93)
Hear, hear!
R.I.P. :(
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - FZ
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frank zappa was a mother of invention
From Madam Wong's to Starwood
To the Whiskey on the Strip
You can hear the crashing, blasting strum
Of bands that come to be real hip
And get a record contract
From a talent scout some day
They'll sell their ass, their cocks and balls
They'll take the check 'n walk away
If they're lucky they'll get famous
For a week or two perhaps
They'll buy some ugly clothes to wear
And hope the business don't collapse
Before some stupid magazine
Decides they're really good
They're a Tinsel Town Rebellion Band
From downtown Hollywood
Tinsel Town Rebellion,
Tinsel Town Rebellion Band
It's a little bitty Tinsel Town Rebellion
A Tinsel Town Rebellion Band
They used to play all kinds of stuff
And some of it was nice
Some of it was musical
But then they took some guy's advice
To get a record deal, he said,
They would have to be more punk
Forget their chops and play real dumb
Or else they would be sunk
So off they go to S.I.R. to learn some stupid riffs
And practice all their poses
In between their powder sniffs
Chop a line now, snort it up now
And when they think they've got it
They launch a new career
Who gives a fuck if what they play
Is somewhat insincere
Tinsel Town Rebellion,
Tinsel Town Rebellion Band
A Tinsel Town Rebellion,
A Tinsel Town Rebellion Band
Did you know that in Tinsel Town the people down there
Think that substance is a bore
And if your New Wave group looks good
They'll hurry on back for more
Of leather groups and plastic groups
And groups that look real queer
The Tinsel Town aficionados
Come to see and not to hear
But then again this system works
As perfect as a dream
It works for all of those record company pricks
Who come to skim the cream
From the cesspools of excitement
Where Jim Morrison once stood
It's the Tinsel Town Rebellion
From downtown Hollywood
It's everybody happy?
Oh, never mind!
No problem
what's there to live for?
who needs the peace corps?
think I'll just drop out
I'll go to frisco buy a wig
And sleep on owsley's floor
I'll stay a week and get the crabs
And take a bus back home
I'm hippy and I'm trippy
I'm a gypsy on my own!
I'm really just a phony
(but forgive me cause I'm stoned)
Happy birthday, sir.
Such karmic perfection to be born on the solstice.
Happy Birthday Frankie
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Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system.
Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts.
Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute.
The '60s was really stupid ... It was a type of merchandising, Americans had this hideous weakness, they had this desire to be OK, fun guys and gals, and they haven't come to terms with the reality of the situation: we were not created equal.
Some people can do carpentry, some people can do mathematics, some people are brain surgeons and some people are winos and that's the way it is, and we're not all the same.
This concept of one world-ism, everything blended and smoothed out to this mediocre norm that everybody downgrades themselves to be is stupid. The '60s was merchandised to the public at large...
My pet theory about the '60s is that there is a sinister plot behind it...
The lessons learnt in the '60s about merchandising stupidity to the American public on a large scale have been used over and over again since that time.
bump.
Oh, and Captain Beefheart died 3 days ago.
RIP
Happy birthday Frank!!!!
"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre."
"No one looks good with brown lipstick on."
"If you want to get laid, go to college, if you want to get an education, go to the library."
back when I was in college a friend of mine painted an 8 foot high portrait of FZ on his apt wall. Gorgeous work too.
"The essence of Christianity is told to us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the Tree of Knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions."
"My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can."
Frank Zappa is one of my personal heroes, RIP.
cheers Frank!
There is no such thing as a dirty word. There is no word, nor any sound, that you can make with your mouth that is so powerful that it will condemn you to the lake of fire at the time when you hear it. ‘Dirty words’ is a fantasy manufactured by religious fanatics and government organizations to keep people stupid. Any word that gets the point across is a good word. If you wanna tell somebody to ‘get fucked,’ that’s the best way to tell him.”
Happy Birfday Frank where ever you are.
You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
Possibly the greatest guitar solo ever recorded.
Happy birthday
Hard to believe he died in 1993. RIP.
“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
"It isn't necessary to imagine a world ending in fire and ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
RIP, Frank.
Happy birthday and solstice
Primer mi carucha - Chevy 39 ....
CK
Thanks all you hoodlums!
Dont slack off, get that prostate checked regularly... shits killin me!!!
...she could even be pooorr
As long as she does it with four on the floor...
!Vapor lock!
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My python boots are too tight! RIP to FZ, what a great influence to question everything.
Whut? Never heard about his demise. Moar RIP.Quote:
Originally Posted by Core Shot
Got into Zappa the summer between public school and high school. RIP too.
Don van vliet.
Aka beefheart.
Lived his least decades in an airstream trailer in the Az desert
Oftentimes difficult music. But some great poetry. With music.
My 17yo has become an fz fan. There’s hope for future generations.
For Christmas my girlfriend gave me a velvety plush pair replete with, yes, cozy little footies! I have lived in them since!
I am become one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Yslrf2wgE