Addendum: I found one of the whole shows I attended on Youtube!
Addendum: I found one of the whole shows I attended on Youtube!
"If I ever needed to hunt in a tuxedo, then this would be the rifle I'd take." - okie john
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." - Michel De Montaigne
I had to go look up what "clams" meant in this context.Originally Posted by Lex Luthier
I was definitely thinking of something else...
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Me being an asshole:
While you were attending Zappa shows, I had not even been conceived. You're welcome.
My youngest daughter is older *and* taller than you. You're also welcome.I had to go look up what "clams" meant in this context.
I was definitely thinking of something else...
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Me being an asshole:
While you were attending Zappa shows, I had not even been conceived. You're welcome.
Clams are bad or sour notes. Zappa himself might apply a scatological definition...
"If I ever needed to hunt in a tuxedo, then this would be the rifle I'd take." - okie john
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." - Michel De Montaigne
Who you jiving with that cosmic debris?
Anecdote time:My youngest daughter is older *and* taller than you. You're also welcome.
Both my undergrad and master's advisors are 6'4". One time I was walking to lunch with them, after having known each of them for 3-4 years. And their gigantic legs meant I was having to pick up the pace to keep. Suddenly, my undergrad advisor stops and turns and looks back at me and just blurts out, "I never realized you were so short."
"I make up for it with an enormous presence."
To which my MS advisor starts snorting and says, "I'll say. No one ever wonders where you're at."
My PhD Advisor once described me to someone at a conference, "He's sort of short with black hair. But you won't really notice he is short when you talk to him, because that's just not who or how he is." And the young woman he sent to talk to me said and I quote, "Pardon me, but holy shit was your advisor right in his description of you."
I don't know what all that means. But I think it means the only time people notice I'm short is when I can't reach stuff on the high shelf.
Or another definition. That's neither here nor there nor anywhere.Clams are bad or sour notes. Zappa himself might apply a scatological definition...
He did stop a song so that George Duke could go back and play a note he missed.My youngest daughter is older *and* taller than you. You're also welcome.
Clams are bad or sour notes. Zappa himself might apply a scatological definition...
"You win 100% of the fights you avoid. If you're not there when it happens, you don't lose." - William Aprill
"I've owned a guitar for 31 years and that sure hasn't made me a musician, let alone an expert. It's made me a guy who owns a guitar."- BBI
Please tell me that y’all have read his autobiography:
https://www.amazon.com/Real-Frank-Za.../dp/0671705725
Parts of that book had me howling with laughter. Mrs Totem, too.
Yeah, well, those of us who were really into Zappa and The Mothers of Invention even as far back as the mid-60s would spin the final track on our LP of We're Only In It for the Money backward, in order to hear the expurgated (f-word) lyrics in unexpurgated form!
Can't do that with CDs.
"Therefore, since the world has still... Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure, Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure,
I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good." -- A.E. Housman
Likewise, at MSG in NYC.
I've been listening to him since the early 90s via osmosis. Zappa played non stop in the kitchen of a resturant I worked at for 7 years. I love me some Joe's Garage (Widespread Panic do a great cover). But honestly I never really got him or the Mothers. But man, as a Dead Head I love the way he mocked the hippies. He was a foil to San Francisco and Laurel canyon.
A true genius taken too soon.
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