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| From | "Gene Good" <javagene@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: What's new in the last 24 hours of your CD life? |
| Date | Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:21:13 +0000 |
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Great little read there.Zappa has always and will continue to fascinate
me.Is that info from a book on him.If so,which one.Would love to read more.
Gene
>From: Ken Kase <kenkase@nighttimes.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: Audities <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: What's new in the last 24 hours of your CD life?
>Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:17:34 -0500
>
>On 8/17/05 10:58 AM, "Holmes Online" <bholmes_fm@msn.com> wrote:
>
> > Zappa's WERE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY
>
>
>Nothing wrong with that, although it was virtually custom designed to
>irritate pop lovers. Zappa was one of the few people in rock who was able
>to
>see the ridiculousness of hippie subculture and say something about it
>without losing his own street credibility.
>
>The Sgt. Pepper cover parody is a masterpiece. There's a famous story about
>FZ calling to ask Paul McCartney for permission to parody the cover and
>McCartney passed the buck to Sir Joe at EMI, although it was OK with Macca.
>Zappa found this perplexing, as he thought that The Beatles should be the
>ones who gave permission for such things. I think they got the OK, but
>Verve/MGM released the parody in reverse so that the gatefold photo is
>actually on the outside. Thus, the concept was basically ruined.
>
>A lot of people thought FZ was full of venom for the Beatles, but he
>wasn't.
>He regarded them as a very good commercial group and even performed with
>John & Yoko at the Fillmore in 1971--the recording of which led to another
>controversy. But that's another story...
>
>--Ken
>
>
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