Frank Zappa Posted Wed Sep 6 13:03:24 BST 2000 by TJ

And he hasn't been mentioned at all, apart from one of The Corpses rightly praising Sheik Yerbouti.

He's also fantastic, and "Hot Rats" is my favourite album.

The spin-off/side projects, notably Wildman Fischer and Captain Beefheart, also merit attention.

Once more, discuss.


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Posted By Bent Halo on Wed Sep 6 14:41:17 BST 2000:

A rock photographer I know gave me some tapes of The Edgar Broughton Band's unreleased sessions with FZ. The thing is, there were two tapes. One was the Zappa production and the other, the released re-recording.

Now I can't stand to listen to them, but would anyone know more on which album this is? They're not even labelled.


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Posted By TJ on Wed Sep 6 14:50:18 BST 2000:

Unrelated but similar - does anyone know which version of Kevin Ayers' 'Singing A Song In The Morning' features Syd Barrett, and which doesn't?

My guess is that the single version is the Barrett-less one, but that's _just_ a guess...


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Posted By subbes on Wed Sep 6 22:17:33 BST 2000:

Anyone know what Moon-Unit is doing now?


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Posted By Ailie on Thu Sep 7 09:52:03 BST 2000:

She's writing.

She did a talk (series of talks?) at the Edinburgh Book Festival and was in every newspaper magazine supplement, up here.

Dunno whether she's any good, but there seems to be plenty of hype.


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Posted By Gnortsmr Alien (work it out) on Sat Sep 9 01:20:39 BST 2000:

I thought Zappa really stitched poor old Miin Unit up in the name department.
Why couldn't he have given her a sensible name like Lunar Excursion Module?


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Posted By Jon on Mon Sep 11 11:24:00 BST 2000:

He called his son Dweezil, so I reckon the daughter got off lightly.

She was on Festival Of Fun trying to launch a stand-up career at Montreal a few years back.


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Posted By Auntie Potatoes (geddit?) on Tue Sep 12 01:13:13 BST 2000:

Personally I never thought Frank Zappa was as good after he left Europe, stopped writing novels and changed his name from Franz Kafka.


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