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Tuesday, August 02, 2011

music

it was a fateful day when i stumbled across my first frank zappa album.
it would have been a saturday. it would have happened in south harrow in a record store called selanby – a place that had a mix of new and second-hand records and tapes. i would have been flicking through the used records, there was no order to them just line upon line of used records. i can’t remember which album it was that took my fancy – it might have been ‘chunga’s revenge’ or it might have been ‘one size fits all’ or possibly ‘over nite sensation’. whichever one it was it was most likely that i was drawn to it by the cal schenkel cover. i may have been aware of zappa because of something i had read in sounds or melody maker. it may have just been a whim.
it was love at first play.
if i had to pick just one musician to be my all time favourite then i think it would be frank zappa.
he is a greater guitarist with songs ranging from the amusing little ditty through to the complex orchestral pieces. he was happy to shock; no target out of reach. he would utilise brute force humour or scathing satire. he surrounded himself with top class musicians able to play some of his more outlandish compositions.
i was lucky enough to see zappa in concert a couple of times.
i missed out on his last tour of england thanks to an argument with my ex, i lost it and she ensured that i would feel bad if i went. i didn’t. he never came back.
so sit back and enjoy these two tracks but don’t worry as i am sure we will come back to zappa before the end of the month.




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