Zappa Returns! [stereophile.com]
ZapRatz
By John Swenson • November, 2008
http://www.stereophile.com/musicrecordings/1108zap/
Frank Zappa was well known for a lot of things—his sharp satiric wit,
his virtuoso guitar improvisations, his excellence as a bandleader,
his fearlessness in combating hostile political forces and crooked
record-industry executives. But Zappa is all too rarely given credit
for his status as one of the most creative musical imaginations of the
20th century, regardless of genre.
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Martin Gregorie
> Zappa Returns!
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Thanks for posting that: a good read.
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poldie
> Zappa Returns!
>
> By John Swenson • November, 2008
> http://www.stereophile.com/musicrecordings/1108zap/
>
> Frank Zappa was well known for a lot of things—his sharp satiric wit,
> his virtuoso guitar improvisations, his excellence as a bandleader,
> his fearlessness in combating hostile political forces and crooked
> record-industry executives. But Zappa is all too rarely given credit
> for his status as one of the most creative musical imaginations of the
> 20th century, regardless of genre.
>
>
> [Remainder of lengthy article begins at]
> http://www.stereophile.com/musicrecordings/1108zap/
>
>
"He left hundreds of unperformed compositions behind after his death"
Presumably the majority of this is all the Synclavier pieces he
mentioned in interviews, which we'll never hear, although we WILL be
able to buy full price CD copies of live concerts from cassette tape and
recordings of rehearsals and so on - that is if Gail can fit it in
around all the legal threats she seems to enjoy spending her time on at
the moment.
Gary
"He wrote screenplays and operas, Broadway show treatments, and
unusual scenarios for live rock-concert performances."
[all of which were really...BAD, well except for the concert
performances, and I don't really know what is meant there. Play for
120 minutes without stopping? That was pretty cool.].