This post at TC morphed into a tableau for Zappa references which got me to thinking: “Hey, I can do that.” Maybe I can’t do much else, but I can definitely do that. So without further ado:
Here is Montana – with more to follow below the fold. Some dandy guitar work here …
Frank never took drugs or alcohol, but came up with stuff that I have yet to encounter a drug that would have allowed me to imagine – case in point: Dinah-Moe Humm (damn Over-Nite Sensation was a great album)
Joe’s Garage (sort of a VERY abbreviated version but very Frank-centric, so that is cool. It’s cool to see Frank.)
Watermelon In Easter Hay – one of the most beautiful songs ever, with Frank as maestro and lead guitar, five years before he died, and very good quality. Put on your headphones and crank it up. Enjoy.
On a lighter note: Bobby Brown
One your mother in law might appreciate – Baby Snakes
Flakes. Heh. This formed my attitude toward marketing from an early age.
Camarillo Brillo and Muffin Man from a 1979 performance, when Frank was still immortal (in my eyes).
Broken Hearts Are For Assholes. This song, more than any other single influence, is probably what got me through high school alive.
Finally, one of the last recorded interviews, a few months before he died, (3 years older than I am now) …
The unsurprisingly inane Today Show Interview – but extremely touching nonetheless, and with an edge when Frank talks about the non-diagnosis of his cancer.
Well, let this be the “finally” part. Frank on the Steve Allen Show. More here, and here, and here. He started off shaking things up on the big stage.
Tags: Zappa
“What American city did Grand Funk Railroad hail from ?”
Detroit
Marshall HS class of 1978.
Mountain, hint, the name of the group came from the size of this guitarist. Surely you are familiar with the song Mississippi Queen
leslie west.Nantucket Sleighride was even a better song.
Hint, Souther, Hillman and ???.
where dis they go after that? Souther, Hillman ,Fury Band
What Band did Eric Clapton wish he had been invited to join but was not ?
“What Band did Eric Clapton wish he had been invited to join but was not ?”
led zeppelin
Grand Funk, Flint, MI.
Richie Furay was the 2nd member of Buffalo Springfield to form Poco. Here’s some more trivia for those not native to this area. Poco used to do free concerts on the Mall every summer. The Beach Boys later began free concerts every 4th of July. These concerts came to an end when James Watt, Reagan’s Sec of the Interior felt the concert should have more universal appeal, and the Beach Boys drew crowds of undesirables. Watt brought in Wayne Newton.
“Which recording duo appeared on the pilot episode of Shindig! ?”
The Righteous Brothers..
G, just a guess, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers ? Clapton did one album with them..
W&L, ‘71
Oh, forgot Van Morrison – Them.
G-L-O-R-I-A…
Obama For President
Confiscate all guns from those under the age of 60.
Raise income taxes.
McGimsey for Chairman of the BOS
WOLVERINE FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!
I’d LOVE to have Mrs. Wolverine as First Lady.
Dan – I was one of those undesirables. Those were the days, coolers of beer on the mall in 90 degree heat….oh yeah, and the beach boys playing.
Wolverine, re “McGimsey for Chairman”, are you TRYING to precipitate heart attacks in middle aged people who have survived shovelling all this damned Global Warming?
Ahhhhh! My Inner Eye again!!!!
“What Band did Eric Clapton wish he had been invited to join but was not ?”
led zeppelin
No. It was the Band.
Anyone remember the greatest rock and roll movie ever made. The last Waltz ? The great guitar work with Clapton and Robbie Robertson playing together.
I have all of Robbie Robertson’s solo discs – they are all awesome, especially his Native American themed ones. Really good stuff. But boy was he an arrogant SOB in The Last Waltz! I couldn’t stand his attitude. Just saw Levon Helm on a show with Elvis Costello – great stuff!
cmac,
Yes, me too. But, we still have the Beach Boys, and what ever happened to Watt ?
I remember my parents telling me when I would put on a Beatles album, “five years from now, no one will have ever heard of them”. Great music lives forever.
Dans, the SS (the ones who are still alive) are still local. One of them lives over in Kentlands, in the Republik of Md.
Every once in awhile he straps on his guitar and does a jam session.
Screw the 60 and the 70’s. *0’s hairbands and Hammerjack’s. That’s what I’m talkin’ about.
Sorry, Barb. Just thought I’d try a little shock therapy. These people seem to have been lost to us through some kind of strange Zappa virus which traps you in reverse time travel to your youth. Definitely a sign of ageing. Even the Monk got infected — almost as if he had snorted some of Bobby Fontaine’s contaminated well water. Meanwhile, the darn house is burning down, as Nancy Pelosi sneaks around with reconciliation re the health care reform bills and the BOS is looking at possible property tax hikes to smooth the Hatrick road.
Next shock tactic: I’m looking for a photoshopped group portrait of the Board of Supervisors in the buff. If that extreme measure doesn’t work, I’ll have to have the Loudoun Independent break a story on how Joe shared that summer in his backyard tent with Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dorn, with an audio version of “Rules for Radicals” on the 8-track. After that? Well, there are still the guys in white coats, I suppose. But I won’t go that far until I’ve figured out a way to sneak some threads into NVTH under the authorship of somebody named Zimzo.
Oh man Wolv, you are bringing me down. We can’t all be in military form at 1 in the morning. Don’t you ever just put some Que Sera Sera on the ol’ reel to reel and hang out on the couch?
Sorry, Joe. When you’ve seen as much water go under the bridge as I have, you’ll realize how the hours start to fly faster and faster and and the overall timespan gets shorter and shorter. And one thing you cannot do is get near a couch. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
You should try undergoing the trials I am being subjected to over here. Seems like, about every ten minutes, Mrs. Wolverine comes into the computer room and starts hollaring about something that fool Biden or somebody else in D.C. said. When I told her the subject of the day was Frank Zappa, she threw up her hands, rolled her eyes, and snarled: “The country is going to Hell in a handbasket. What’s next for you people? The history of hip-hop?!!!”
Mrs. Wolv obviously has the Navy bearing that I have not yet mastered. I needs me some downtime once in a while, if only rarely at scattered moments. If it makes any difference, I am EXTREMELY intense during most daylight hours. Almost intolerable, in fact.
Please tell her that for me, would you?
Message passed. Just pulling your leg, Joe. We know you’re working. I must say though that I’ve never ever seen the missus this intense about anything in the 40 plus years we’ve been hooked up together. Sometimes I think she has the makings of a one-woman “tea party” all by herself.
Believe me, I am as motivated as I have ever been.
Wolverine, my legs are too sore from a week’s shovelling at my age to be pulled that hard, ESPECIALLY if the denouement is that you REALLY want a photoshopped picture of the BoS nude.
Both my inner eyes are now shockblind, thank you!
rotflmao!
That Photoshop job sounds like the first circle of Purgatory to me. I may deserve it but do not think I am up to it yet.
Crap! See what you miss when you get called out to work every night and then have to find time to make mama’s anniversary a success? I knew the answer to all the trivia questions; I didn’t know that BlackOut was a Vienna boy; before Tyson’s Corner there was the Crystal Pistol bar and a GEM store; the pits was also a Pagan MC hangout and a dangerous place to be at night (unless, of course, you were on the in. I will explain no further). Nostalgia-isn’t it great?
Wolve, I looked for you on the geriatric blog site but all I could find is that you are an alumnus going on 50 years. HA! Ramrod my ass! Oh, that didn’t come out right, did it? Neither did that. I’m stopping while I’m behind. DAMN! Did it again!
“when you get called out to work every night ”
ACT, The rumor was that you have been sitting on the couch holding a plate of bon-bons for momma while she watches Olympic figure skating..
ACT, did mama enjoy those chocolate-covered turnips for the anniversary dinner?
I forgot Robin Trower.
One of the best Blues albums in the last 15 years was.,, Robin Trower Blues ? don’t quote me on the title. I have the CD I just need to find it.
G, 20th Century Blues ?