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Thread #97393   Message #1915958
Posted By: GUEST
21-Dec-06 - 02:34 PM
Thread Name: Frank Zappa's birthday (1940-1993)
Subject: RE: Frank Zappa's birthday (21 December 1940)
Yes I agree about Apostrophe. Probably ranks as my most played amongst the Zappa stuff I have, and I have a lot. Also from a girly perspective boy does he look hot on that cover or what?????!

Although One Size FitsAll runs a close second. Wouldn't you just love to play Inca Roads to an approaching alien craft. I love the whole sound of that.

Then there are gems like City of Tiny Lites and even Billy the Mountain that jump out from other albums to bite your ears off and demand you not only listen but you concentrate too!

Saw him many times at Hammersmith Odeon and at the festival at Knebworth in '78. What a line up..The Tubes, Peter Gabriel, Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Boomtown Rats at their earliest and not a drop of rain all day.

He was probably the most mesmerising stage performer I have been lucky enough to see, he seemed to control the whole show from a flick of the hand and manage to puff on a Winston at the same time.